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Mamata Banerjee, unseating the 34-year-old Left Front regime in the state but has been accused of appeasing minorities by the BJP-RSS, which emerged as the main opposition in West Bengal. (Photo: File | PTI)

To stop BJP, minorities likely to go with TMC in Bengal

ccording to Union Home Ministry data released in 2018, communal violence increased sharply since 2015 in West Bengal.

17 Mar 2019 4:09 PM

She said the outgoing TMC lawmakers whose names do not figure in the list will be drafted for party work. (Photo: ANI | Twitter)

10 sitting MLAs dropped as Trinamool releases list for 2019 elections

Banerjee said TMC would also contest seats in Odisha, Assam, Jharkhand, Bihar and Andaman.

12 Mar 2019 4:22 PM

TMC president alleged that BJP wants to create a 'war hysteria' ahead of the Lok Sabha polls.' (Photo: Twitter)

Govt keen on playing politics over Pulwama in LS polls: Mamata

Banerjee vowed to oust the 'dictatorial Narendra Modi government' from power in the upcoming general election.

25 Feb 2019 2:53 PM

Rajeev Kumar came under CBI's scanner for his suspected role in tampering evidence in the multi-crore Saradha chit fund scam. (Photo: PTI)

IPS officer Rajeev Kumar appointed as ADG of criminal investigation department

Anuj Sharma, an IPS officer of 1991 batch, who was the ADG (Law & Order), has replaced Kumar as the new Kolkata Police Commissioner.

19 Feb 2019 2:44 PM

A bilateral meeting with the IJMA will be held on February 21, and another tripartite meeting on either February 22 or February 25, officials said. (Photo: File | PTI)

Tripartite meeting fails to end Bengal's jute sector impasse

The meeting was presided over by the state's Labour Minister Moloy Ghatak, officials of IJMA and trade union representatives.

19 Feb 2019 10:06 AM

Singh said, 'Maybe this is an abusive remark towards 'Jhansi ki Rani.' She can be a Putana (demon), who has destroyed the whole West Bengal. She can become Kim Jong-un, who can kill those who speak against her.' (Photo: File)

Mamata Banerjee not Jhansi Ki Rani, but Kim Jong-un of North Korea: Giriraj Singh

In the In Lok Sabha on Thursday, TMC leader Dinesh Trivedi called Banerjee as today's 'Jhansi ki Rani'.

08 Feb 2019 4:10 PM

Mamata Banerjee also hit out at the BJP leader Mukul Roy who left the Trinamool Congress to join BJP last year. (Photo: PTI)

I was also denied permission to stay in guest house at Maharashtra, Bihar : Mamata

Mamta targetes BJP by saying that those who join BJP ranks are shielded by the party from investigating agencies like CBI and ED.

05 Feb 2019 4:40 PM

Making a statement in Lok Sabha on the prevailing situation in Kolkata, Singh described the action against the CBI probe team, which went to question Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar, as "unprecedented" and a threat to the federal political system of the country. (Photo: ANI)

Kolkata Police-CBI face-off: There may be constitutional breakdown in WB, says Singh

An all-out war broke out between the Centre and the Bengal govt on Sunday over the CBI's attempt to question the Kolkata Police chief

04 Feb 2019 1:41 PM

The BJP has accused the Trinamool chief of unleashing ‘terror’ in the state and called her ‘Talibani Didi.’ (Photo: PTI)

BJP workers will not be cowed down: Vijayvargiya on violence at Shah's rally in Bengal

At Shah's rally in East Midnapore on Tuesday, vehicles for ferrying people were vandalised by miscreants, lobbed with stones and torched.

30 Jan 2019 11:05 AM

TMC is organising the rally to gather support for a pan-India, strong and united, anti-BJP front. (Photo: ANI | File)

Left to skip TMC rally on Jan 19

This comes a day after the announcement that leader of Congress in Lok Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge will represent the party in rally.

16 Jan 2019 7:11 PM

‘A film has been released suddenly ahead of the elections...Accidental PM! Everyone is accidental PM. I fail to understand the meaning of accidental PM,’ said CM Mamata Banerjee. (Photo: ANI | Twitter)

Mamata accuses BJP of drama over ‘The Accidental Prime Minister’

Describing PM Modi as ‘Gabbar Singh’ the Trinamool Congress chief Mamata bantered that he neither smiles nor can speak well.

11 Jan 2019 7:46 PM

Trinamool Congress president and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. (Photo: File | ANI)

TMC expels 2 parliamentarians for 'anti-party' activities

Trinamool secretary general Partha Chatterjee announced decision of expelling Saumitra Khan and Anupam Hazra.

09 Jan 2019 7:21 PM

Both the state Congress and CPI(M) leadership are hopeful that a ‘possible solution’ will come up when CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury meets Gandhi this month. (Photo: File)

Bengal Cong divided over whether to go alone or with CPI(M) in 2019 LS polls

‘Fighting alone in Bengal means a four-cornered fight which, in turn, will help the TMC. We can never allow that,’ Cong secy Sarkar said.

02 Jan 2019 2:12 PM

10 central intelligence agencies are now empowered under the Information Technology Act, 2000, for computer interception and analysis. (Representational Image | File)

TMC gives notice in RS to discuss MHA notification on mass surveillance

Opposition parties had cornered the central government over order by terming move ‘an attempt to convert India into a surveillance state.’

28 Dec 2018 12:05 PM

Speaking in Lok Sabha before moving the resolution, Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said the triple talaq bill, which seeks imprisonment for Muslim men accused of instant divorce, is not about politics but empowerment and justice for women. (Photo: File | Screengrab LSTV)

Triple talaq bill about justice: Govt as Oppn seeks bill be sent to Parl panel

Opposing the bill, Congress MP said real purpose of the bill was not to empower Muslim women but to 'penalise' Muslim men.

27 Dec 2018 4:51 PM

'My efforts for non-BJP, non-Congress alliance will continue,' TRS president and Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao said. (Photo: ANI)

Very shortly will come out with concrete plan: KCR after meeting Mamata

After meeting his West Bengal counterpart Mamata Banerjee, KCR asserted that the dialogue for a Federal Front will continue.

24 Dec 2018 6:58 PM

Senior Congress leader and former Union Minister Anand Sharma termed it as an attempt to convert India into a surveillance state. (Photo: ANI)

'Undemocratic, unacceptable': Oppn on MHA's surveillance directive

Centre authorised select security, intelligence agencies for purposes of interception, monitoring, decryption any information in computer.

21 Dec 2018 4:55 PM

BJP's income for the year came down by nearly Rs 7 crore as compared to Rs 1,034.27 crore total income it had declared in 2016-17. (Representational Image)

BJP declares Rs 1,000 cr income, here are details of other parties

Income and expenditure of Congress is not known as it is yet to submit audited reports to Election Commission.

18 Dec 2018 10:43 AM

Motorbike borne assailants attacked three persons including the driver of a vehicle when they were at a petrol pump in Joynagar on Thursday evening. (Photo: ANI)

CID takes over investigation into gunning down of three TMC activists

Incident happened in Joynagar, in South 24 Parganas district on Thursday.

14 Dec 2018 5:30 PM

'The entire West Bengal administration is working for the ruling TMC,' BJP President Amit Shah said. (Photo: ANI)

Nobody can stop BJP from carrying out 'rath yatras' in Bengal: Amit Shah

'BJP committed to change in West Bengal. The 'yatras' have not been cancelled, just postponed,' Amit Shah said

07 Dec 2018 3:19 PM

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