AICC general secretary and Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s political secretary Ahmed Patel called up Trinamul Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday evening and requested her to defer her decision on seat-sharing till March 21 when Mrs Gandhi is supposed to return from her UK trip. “Didi informed him that it was

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.

Contrary to expectations, the much-awaited talks between Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee and Trinamul Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee here over a seat-sharing deal for the coming Assembly elections failed to produce results late on Tuesday evening.

Encouraged by her successful experiment in the Lok Sabha polls, Mamata Banerjee is again lining up a motley group of film stars, singers, artists and writers for nomination for the coming Assembly election.

South Africa's top-order may not have fired but skipper Graeme Smith is happy that the middle-order made up for it in the Proteas' comprehensive win over Ireland that sealed their quarter-final spot in the ongoing World Cup here.

The upcoming six-phase Assembly election in West Bengal is not going to be just a routine electoral contest between the CPI(M)-led Left Front and the Trinamul Congress-Congress alliance: it will be a battle royale. This crucial election is likely to seal the fate of ruling CPI(M) and bring the 34-year long Left Front rule to an end.

In an unprecedented move, the ruling Left Front dropped over half of its sitting MLAs, including nine ministers, from its list of candidates for the coming Assembly elections in West Bengal.

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) veteran and Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley on Saturday lashed out at the Trinamul Congress (TMC), saying it cannot escape the sins of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government as it was an important partner in the regime.

Reversing its line of contour in the manifesto from “G-to-C” (government-to-citizen) to “C-to-G” (citizen-to-government), the Left Front this time will stress more on civic (amenities) issues and less on development projects.

The BJP has sought a "definitive statement" from the government on the release of Pune-based stud farm owner Hasan Ali by a Mumbai special court on Friday.