Barely a day before the third phase of the Assembly elections, Trinamul Congress general secretary Mukul Roy filed two defamation suits against heavyweight CPI(M) central committee member Gautam Deb on Tuesday for accusing Trinamul Congress chief and railway minister Mamata Banerjee, Mr Roy and their party of pumping

The third phase of the Assembly elections in West Bengal will be held in 75 constituencies in Kolkata, North 24 Parganas and South 24 Parganas on Wednesday with around 1.45 crore voters deciding the fate of 479 contesting candidates. Like the earlier two phases, this time also the Election Commission (EC) is determined to

Over 18 per cent polling was recorded in the first two hours of voting in 75 constituencies in Kolkata and its neighbouring North and South 24-Parganas districts of West Bengal today.

"The turnou

Thirty-four per cent of the electorate on Wednesday cast their votes till 11 am in 75 seats in the metropolis and adjoining North and South 24 Parganas districts, which went to polls in the crucial th

Be it 'detective Feluda' or the 'prince of Calcutta', celebrities from the world of culture, sports and literature milled at the city's polling booths to cast their vote on Wednesday.

Some took time

Union home minister P. Chidambaram on Sunday launched a scathing attack against West Bengal’s Left Front government, saying West Bengal was the “worst-governed” state in India. The minister, in the state to campaign for Congress candidates, said the Buddhadeb Bhattach-arjee government was to blame for all ills

Taking cognisance of the reports that the political parties had continued their publicity through advertisements in electronic and print media during the no-campaign period before the first and second phase of the Assembly polls in the state, the Election Commission (EC) on Monday asked the political parties to stop airing and publishing those advertisements or otherwise face punishment.

Ridiculing chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee’s appeal to the people to vote for the formation of the eighth Left Front government in the state, Trinamul Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Monday said why would the people give him one more chance. “They have already ruled for 35 years. Why will the people elect them again.

Launching a scathing attack against the Left Front government, Union home minister P. Chidambaram on Monday said that West Bengal was the “worst governed” state. Mr Chidambaram, who was in the state to campaign for Congress candidates, blamed the Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee government for all the ills plaguing the state particularly for the “extremely bad” law and order and “precarious” financial situation.

Shocked with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s “gloomy” picture of Bengal where he said that “it was passing through an overall barren time under the Left regime,” chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee