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West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (Photo: Twitter | PMO India)

The perils of Aadhaar: Modi & Didi eye 2019

Mamata Banerjee has inserted herself into the political space that Mr Modi created by his digitally created visions of a...

1 Nov 2017 2:58 AM IST

Beginning April 1, people living in rural areas need to have Aadhaar under MGNREGS that mandates 100 days work for a household annually.

Go slow on Aadhaar, let SC take final call

Banerjee has every right to seek constitutional remedy under Article 32 as an individual.

1 Nov 2017 2:45 AM IST

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee inaugurates Goddess Durga Puja pandal on the occasion of Mahalaya, in Kolkata. (Photo: PTI)

Bengal CM composes theme song for a community Durga Puja

The song is being played at the 'Suruchi Sangha' puja, a popular puja in Kolkata and winner of multiple awards.

28 Sept 2017 9:24 AM IST

Partha Chatterjee will still be a kid' to me, says estranged Mukul...

Mr Mukul Roy however kept it secret about why he quit the party and would resgion from the parliamentarian's post.

27 Sept 2017 4:51 AM IST

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee addresses a press conference at Nabanna (State Secretariat) in Kolkata on Saturday. (Photo: PTI)

In Bengal, politics over Durga Puja will misfire

The BJP's practised strategy of polarising society on communal lines for electoral gain, however, might not work in...

27 Sept 2017 3:18 AM IST

Senior Trinamul Congress leader and Rajya Sabha MP Mukul Roy after announcing his resignation from the party in Kolkata. (Photo: PTI)

Mukul Roy quits party, to resign as MP soon

Mamata Banerjee's party suspended Mukul Roy for six years on grounds of his indiscipline.

26 Sept 2017 7:22 AM IST

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee inaugurates Goddess Durga Puja pandal on the occasion of Mahalaya, in Kolkata. (Photo: PTI)

Defeating demons in the battle for Bengal

The State's function is to maintain peace, law and order and enable worshippers to do what they do as part of their...

26 Sept 2017 1:46 AM IST

Mukul Roy had visited Delhi last week and met a few senior BJP leaders in the national capital. (Photo: PTI)

Mamata loyalist Mukul Roy quits Trinamool, party suspends him for 6...

MP Mukul Roy had visited Delhi last week and met a few senior BJP leaders in the national capital.

25 Sept 2017 11:31 AM IST

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee exchanges greetings with elderly women on the occasion of Durga Puja during her visit to an old age home in Kolkata on Sunday. (Photo: PTI)

CM Mamata gets controversial doc model in pandal replaced

President of the Service Doctors' Forum, an organisation of the medical practitioners, Sajal Biswas expressed his...

25 Sept 2017 6:54 AM IST

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee addresses a press conference at Nabanna (State Secretariat) in Kolkata on Saturday. (Photo: PTI)

West Bengal govt will foil attempts to divide people, says Mamata...

Inaugurating a Durga puja here, she said Bengal is not a place for conflicts.

24 Sept 2017 7:05 AM IST

It has been made mandatory that the puja committee organisers would have to take permission from the police for idol immersions on October 1, according to sources. (Photo: DC)

Police permit needed for idol immersion on Muharram: Mamata

The Calcutta High Court on Thursday had allowed immersion of Durga idols in West Bengal on all days including Muharram.

22 Sept 2017 8:07 PM IST

Saying that West Bengal has never supported division among people, TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee went on to accuse the Centre of doing so. (Photo: PTI)

Appeasement charge is an insult, says Mamata Banerjee

Without naming any party, Ms Banerjee alleged that some people were spreading canards.

22 Sept 2017 3:29 AM IST