Keen to defend the ground that BJP gained in West Bengal in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls with an unprecedented 18 of 42 parliamentary seats, the party leadership has already planned its moves for the 2024 contest with at least three Union ministers...

Kolkata: The Central Bureau of Investigation last week arrested Trinamool Congress leader Anubrata Mondal in connection with the cross-border cattle smuggling case. The arrest comes after Mondal, a prominent TMC leader skipped several summons...

Kolkata: Former Union minister Babul Supriyo, agricultural expert Pradip Majumdar and six other Trinamool Congress (TMC) legislators took oath as West Bengal ministers last week after chief minister Mamata Banerjee carried out a major reshuffle...

Bengal reported 1,113 new Covid-19 infections, 2,410 recoveries and seven deaths. Currently, there are 16, 699 active cases in the state, including 16,229 in home isolation and 430 in hospitals, according to the state bulletin. 

Kolkata: West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee on Monday warned her cabinet colleagues against “disrespecting the party in any manner” before making a public announcement that there would be a cabinet reshuffle on Wednesday. A few minutes before the...

Seven people from Ghusuri in West Bengal’s Howrah, who had consumed liquor, died prompting locals to ransack the outlet and beat up the owner before handing him over to the cops. It is not clear whether they had drunk hooch (which is illicit),...

Kolkata: A court in Kolkata remanded West Bengal commerce and industries minister Partha Chatterjee to two-day interim custody of the Enforcement Directorate (ED). The court also directed ED to present Chatterjee at a special PMLA court at the...

President Ram Nath Kovind has accepted the resignation of West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar, who has been nominated as the vice president candidate by the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), a Rashtrapati Bhavan communique said on Sunday.