Taking a jib at Trinamul Congress chief Mamata Banerjee’s “honesty”, state housing minister Gautam Deb on Saturday alleged that the “party she heads pumping in black money worth `100 crores in the Assembly polls to oust the Left Front from power.” He has also accused Trinamul Congress leader and Central minister Mukul Roy as the “main player of this fishy money game”.

The wealth of West Bengal legislators recontesting the assembly polls has increased at an 'alarming rate' and, in one case, by an astonishing 86,030 per cent, according to a study by an election watch

Kolkata Knight Riders captain Gautam Gambhir won the toss and elected to bat against Rajasthan Royals in an Indian Premier League match on Sunday.

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Kolkata Knight Riders: Gautam Gambhir (cap

The Bengal line finally prevailed over CPI(M) general secretary Prakash Karat’s diktat of not hobnobbing with any expelled leader, more so if it happens to be former Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee. In what appears to be a departure from the Communist Red Book, party politburo member Sitaram Yechury on Friday rallied behind

Chief minister Buddhadeb Bhttacharjee on Friday rued his mistake of “allowing” the agitation staged by Trinamul Congress chief Mamata Banerjee outside the Tata Motors’ factory at Singur which brought the business to a standstill for at least 26 days, and ultimately led to the exit of Tatas from Singur.

Launching a scathing against the ruling Left Front, Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Friday said there has been little development in the past 34 years. “The Left Front government is ruling the state for 34 years and it projects itself as the messiah of the poor and the marginalised but it had failed to serve even their cause. Where is that development, the progress and prosperity which the communists had been persistently promising?” she asked.

Is the “no love-lost relationship” between CPI(M) general secretary Prakash Karat and Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee-led Bengal lobby not over? It seems so as party central committee member and state housing minister Gautam Deb, going against the diktat of Mr Karat, has proposed expelled party leader Somnath Chatterjee to address a poll rally in his constituency Dum Dum on April 24.

The North 24 Parganas district police has launched a manhunt for Subhranshu Roy, the son of Union minister of state for shipping Mukul Roy. State chief electoral officer Sunil Gupta on Thursday said that the district magistrate (DM) of North 24 Parganas informed him that the superintendent of police (SP) and the additional SP were monitoring the raids in search of Mr Roy.

A Trinamool Congress candidate here is hogging the limelight by distributing leaflets that boast of a pat on the back from US President Barack Obama for his efforts at organising environment-friendly

Desperately searching for some issue to turn into a poll plank, the Left Front has grabbed the 2011 Census report with both hands as a Godsend. Last week when the census report 2011 of Bengal was offi