CPI(M) general secretary Prakash Karat on Thursday said that the WikiLeaks report revealed that the US wants the Trinamul Congress to come to power in Bengal and Mamata Banerjee to become the chief minister. He asked Ms Banerjee to clear her stand.

On a day when senior BJP leader L.K. Advani and BJP president Nitin Gadkari were touring the state seeking votes for their party candidates, Trinamul Congress chief Mamata Banerjee intensified attack against the saffron party. Apparently apprehending that the BJP would divide the anti-Left vote, Ms Banerjee called upon the people to

Royal Challengers Bangalore captain Daniel Vettori won the toss and opted to bowl against Kolkata Knight Riders in their Indian Premier LEague (IPL) match at the Eden Gardens here on Friday.

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.

He had summarily been expelled for not following the diktat of the Red Book, nevertheless former Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee’s love for the Lefts has not diminished yet.

Indicating that her party was coming to power in Bengal, Trinamul Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday predicted that the fate of the CPI(M)-led Left Front government will be sealed by the time the third phase of the Assembly elections are over, and they would not have to wait till the sixth phase of the polls.

Kolkata Knight Riders would be looking to put their shock defeat against Kochi Tuskers behind and get their act together quickly when they take on Royal Challengers Bengaluru in their IPL clash at the Eden Gardens here on Friday.

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.