Peeved with the state Congress leadership’s “intransigence” on seat-sharing negotiations, Trinamul Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee has asked her partymen to be ready to go it alone in the crucial Assembly polls in West Bengal if the Congress does not fall in line.

Is it a fatigue of power or simply a sense of foreboding? These are the questions cropping up in the inner circle of the ruling CPI(M), ahead of the crucial Assembly polls, after at least four heavyweight sitting MLAs (including three Cabinet ministers) have expressed their reluctance to contest this time.

The inquiry report into the alleged violation of the model code of conduct (MCC) against West Bengal finance minister Asim Dasgupta may land him in trouble.
It has been learnt that the cryptic observation of state chief secretary Samar Ghosh on the file says: “His intention was not good and he left the office at around 8.45 pm only after he was told to do so.”

West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Tuesday said that the Trinamul Congress made enormous electoral gains in the last few elections cashing in on the mistakes and misdeeds of a section of ruling CPI(M) leaders and cadres. “How did the Trinamul Congress get so much vote in the last Lok Sabha and municipality elections? Actually, people were alienated by the behaviour and attitude of some of our partymen,” he said.

A Trinamul Congress activist tried to commit suicide by setting himself ablaze in front of party chief and railway minister Mamata Banerjee’s residence at Kalighat after failing to get a job in the ra

The ruling CPI(M) and the Opposition Trinamul Congress which are desperately wooing Muslim voters are likely to field a record number of Muslim candidates in the coming Assembly elections.

Determined not to give any extra space and scope to the Opposition in general and steal a march over the Trinamul Congress in particular in the run up to the Assembly election, the ruling CPI(M) has d

A senior Army officer, in the rank of Brigadier, was strongly reprimanded by the Indian Army after a disciplinary probe found him guilty of indulging himself in an “improper” relation with the wife of

It is now official: Ms Mamata Banerjee will be chief minister of West Bengal if the Trinamul Congress-Congress alliance comes to power in the Assembly polls in April-May, though she herself will not be a candidate in these elections.

Heeding the advice of late Jyoti Basu, the CPI(M) has decided to approach not only known supporters but also those who have deserted the party. The ruling party is planning to set up a 10-member team for each of the 294 Assembly constituencies which will go to polls. The responsibility of the teams will be to go from door to door to