Complimenting West Bengal government for being extremely cooperative, Chief Election Commissioner S.Y.

West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Wednesday ruled out arrest or harassment of Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjeee before the upcoming Assembly elections in connection with a 17-year-old case.

The Trinamul Congress on Friday unilaterally announced the names of candidates for 228 constituencies after a fortnight-long tug-of-war over seat-sharing for the West Bengal Assembly polls, leaving 64

Trinamul Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee complained on Friday that she had waited 18 days for the Congress to come to an understanding on seat-sharing for the West Bengal Assembly polls but the latte

Black vehicle exhaust fumes choking the atmosphere, water sources getting clogged with debris, including of idols, deforestation.

Is the bonhomie between the allies — Congress and Trinamul Congress — already over? Or is it a prelude to the break-up of the honeymoon period between the two?

After receiving a “positive message” from the Congress high command, Trinamul Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Thursday kept the door open for the alliance by not unilaterally announcing her party candidates’ list, as she had threatened to do.

The CPI(M) used to describe indiscipline, intra-party feud and open demonstration of disagreement with party leadership as vices of the bourgeois parties. It seems that these vices are now creeping into a regimented party like the CPI(M).

THEY ARE striving to strike the proverbial balance between progress and tradition. For many Muslim women in India, as they keep pace with changing times, it is vital to stay in sync with their roots.

The Election Commission on Thursday selected R.K. Pachnanda as the new commissioner of Kolkata Police from a list of three IPS officers and referred his name to the West Bengal government.