Rubbishing allegations that the Congress "sold" the state unit to the Trinamool Congress, a party leader said that forging an alliance in West Bengal was necessary to do away with the impression that the Congress was shy of ousting the Left Front.

The proscribed Ulfa on Thursday claimed to have reorganised its armed wing by dismantling existing battalions and bringing all cadres under 'mobile military headquarters'.

Upset by the CPI(M)’s persistent charge that she was spending black money in the elections, Trinamul Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday launched a counter attack. “How have they accumulated crores. Certainly not by selling coupons. My party does not even have `5 crores. Where did they got crores of rupees from?” she

The high turnout of voters (83.75 per cent) in the first phase of Assembly election in Bengal is being viewed by both the ruling CPI(M) and the Trinamul Congress as a good omen. Encouraged by the huge turnout, Trinamul Congress chief Mamata Banerjee had on Monday said that a tsunami of change had swept across North Bengal.

Chhatradhar Mahato, the jailed leader of the Maoist-backed People’s Committee Against Police Atrocities (PCPA), filed his nomination papers on Tuesday as an Independent from the Jhargram Assembly constituency in the Maoist-hit West Midnapore.

After spending a night at the hospital during his one-day jail custody, Subhrangshu Roy, the Trinamul Congress candidate from Bijpur and son of Union minister of state for shipping Mukul Roy, was granted interim bail by the Barrackpore court on Tuesday. He was produced before additional chief judicial magistrate R.B. Adhikary who let him go after he furnished an interim personal bail bond of `50,000.

Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday had a word of praise for Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee even as she questioned the use of central funds by the state's Left Front government.

On the eve of UPA chairperson and Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s rally in Murshidabad, party district president Adhir Chowdhury openly campaigned for the rebel Congress candidates on Tuesday.

Madurai collector and district election officer U. Sagayam has not made any specific recommendation to the Election Commission on the issue of countermanding the election to the Madurai (west) Assembly constituency in his three-page report regarding the cash-for-vote allegations.

Wearing strings of carrots and sporting a weird haircut known locally as the “Ghazni hair”, Shivanand Yadav walked door to door to ask people to vote for him on the carrot symbol assigned to him. In Ekdanga panchayat of Barh near Patna, Mr Yadav hopes to turn lucky in the panchayat polls that he has lost twice earlier.