TMC stands for 'terror, mafia, corruption': Nadda

Kolkata: Launching a frontal attack on the Mamata Banerjee-led regime in Bengal, BJP national president J P Nadda said that the time has come to bid farewell to the jungle raj of the TMC, which stands for ’Terror, Mafia, Corruption’.

Encroachment row: Didi gives Amartya Sen land deed

Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee on Monday handed over land record documents of Nobel laureate Amartya Sen’s residence in Santiniketan to the celebrated economist, dismissing the claims of the current Visva-Bharati dispensation that he was illegally...

Rescuers retrieved eight more bodies at the landslide site in Manipur’s Noney district, taking the death toll in the tragedy to 29. A massive landslide had struck Noney last week. Among the bodies recovered, five are of soldiers of the Territorial...

Senior TMC leader Mukul Roy submitted his resignation as chairman of Public Accounts Committee in West Bengal Assembly to Speaker Biman Banerjee citing ill health. Roy, who won the Krishnanagar Uttar constituency in Nadia district on a BJP ticket...

Burdwan: Hours after Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Rout was summoned by the Enforcement Directorate, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday alleged that the BJP-led government is using the central agencies against people who are "speaking...

Assam reeled under devastating floods caused by incessant rain affecting nearly 31,00,000 people in 32 districts, while eight more people lost their lives taking the toll to 63, officials said. A total of 18,94,000 people were affected in 28...

Rujira Banerjee, wife of Abhishek Banerjee, was questioned by the CBI in connection with a coal smuggling case.  According to sources, the central intelligence has received some new information in the coal smuggling case.

A 28-year-old Kolkata police constable, on his first day of duty outside the Bangladesh deputy high commission near Park Circus, opened indiscriminate fire from his SLR, killing a 28-year-old woman and injuring three others.



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