Kolkata Police imposes Section 144 for 60 days to avoid 'violent demonstrations'
May 25, 2024, at 04:12 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: The Kolkata Police on Friday announced the imposition of Section 144 preventing the assembly of five or more people in the city for 60 days starting from May 28 to avoid "violent demonstrations".
Sadhus hit Kolkata streets in protest against Mamata Banerjee's attack on Kartik Maharaj
May 25, 2024, at 03:55 am
Kolkata/IBNS: In protest against Mamata Banerjee's remarks slamming Kartik Maharaj, a monk in the charitable organisation Bharat Sevashram Sangha, whom she accused of acting on the behest of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) during the ongoing Lok Sabha elections, several sadhus hit the streets of Kolkata on Friday.
Supreme Court hears plea seeking direction to ECI to disclose voter turnout data
May 24, 2024, at 08:31 pm
New Delhi/IBNS: The Supreme Court is on Friday hearing a plea seeking direction to the Election Commission of India (ECI) to disclose the voter turnout data, media reports said.
Mamata Banerjee says 'I am in INDIA alliance, it's coming to power'
May 24, 2024, at 05:34 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday reiterated that she will continue to be in the INDIA alliance, which the Trinamool Congress supremo claims is coming to power ousting the Modi government.
Analysis: Calcutta HC's cancellation of Mamata govt OBC list reignites Muslim vote bank debate
May 24, 2024, at 05:45 am
When the Calcutta High Court said on Wednesday that the Muslim community was treated as a "commodity for political ends" by the West Bengal government which classified 77 classes of Muslims as backward between 2010 and 2012, it triggered a debate on appeasement and vote bank politics vis-a-vis social uplift of the real backward people.
May 24, 2024, at 01:15 am
Nandigram (West Bengal): Ahead of the sixth and penultimate phase of polling for the Lok Sabha election in West Bengal on May 25, reports of violence have emerged from East Medinipur district's Nandigram, where the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) alleged that its several workers were attacked by members of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) last night, media reported.
May 23, 2024, at 06:34 pm
New Delhi/IBNS: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national president Jagat Prakash Nadda has accused the Trinamool Congress government in West Bengal of appeasement politics and promoting Muslim League's agenda, weaponising the Calcutta High Court's order scrapping OBC certificates issued after 2010.
May 23, 2024, at 03:46 am
Kolkata/IBNS: After the Calcutta High Court cancelled all Other Backward Classes (OBC) certificates issued in West Bengal after 2010, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Wednesday said she "will not accept" the order, which will "take away the rights granted to the Tapashili community".
May 21, 2024, at 08:08 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: The Election Commission of India (ECI) has barred Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)'s candidate from Tamluk Lok Sabha constituency in West Bengal, former Calcutta High Court judge Abhijit Ganguly, from campaigning for 24 hours, media reports said.
Afraid of a riot: Mithun Chakraborty on Mamata Banerjee's attack on Kartik Maharaj
May 21, 2024, at 07:29 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: Veteran actor-politician Mithun Chakraborty on Tuesday expressed his fear of a "riot" triggered by the scathing remarks by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Kartik Maharaj, a monk from charitable organisation Bharat Sevashram Sangha.
May 21, 2024, at 04:17 pm
Miscreants barged into the premises of the Ramakrishna Mission in West Bengal’s Jalpaiguri district and threatened monks and other staff of the religious institute to leave the place.
May 20, 2024, at 07:36 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday repeated her attacks on Kartik Maharaj, a monk in charitable organisation Bharat Sevashram Sangha, whom she accused of acting against the ruling TMC during the ongoing Lok Sabha elections.
Narendra Modi slams Mamata Banerjee over her alleged remarks against ISKCON, Ramakrishna Mission,BSS
May 20, 2024, at 06:29 am
Ahead of the fifth phase of the Lok Sabha polls, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday slammed West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for her alleged threat to Hindu religious organisations like ISKCON, Ramakrishna Mission, and Bharat Sevashram Sangh.
May 18, 2024, at 07:43 pm
New Delhi/IBNS: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge has said his colleague Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury will be axed if he doesn't follow the high command's decision, in response to the party's alliance with West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and her Trinamool Congress.
PM Modi taunts Akhilesh Yadav over Mamata Banerjee's 'outside support to INDIA' announcement
May 17, 2024, at 07:07 pm
Lucknow/IBNS: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday took a potshot at Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav over West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's announcement of giving an outside support to the INDIA bloc.
May 17, 2024, at 04:56 am
A day after Mamata Banerjee announced support for the INDIA bloc from outside to form a government at the Centre, the Bengal Chief Minister Thursday said she is very much a part of the alliance, which was 'her brainchild' and that she was the one to give it a name.
I will take revenge: Mamata Banerjee recounting her 'Nandigram defeat'
May 16, 2024, at 08:24 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: Despite the Trinamool Congress (TMC)'s landslide victory in the 2021 assembly elections, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was defeated by BJP's Suvendu Adhikari by close to 2,000 votes.
Lok Sabha polls: Mamata Banerjee announces she will support INDIA bloc from outside
May 15, 2024, at 11:14 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: Months after distancing herself from the INDIA bloc, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday announced her support to the anti-BJP front from outside if it comes to power.
Mamata Banerjee offers to cook for PM Modi after fish consumption furor, receives flak from BJP
May 15, 2024, at 06:16 am
Kolkata/IBNS: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has courted a fresh controversy as she took a swipe at Narendra Modi's outrage over video footage of RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav enjoying fish, and offered to cook for the Prime Minister.
May 10, 2024, at 08:37 pm
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday welcomed interim bail granted to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and said it is helpful in the context of the current elections.
On sexual harassment charges, Bengal Guv decides to show CCTV footage to public but 'not CM or cops'
May 09, 2024, at 05:13 am
Kolkata/IBNS: Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose, who is facing sexual harassment allegations, Wednesday declared that he would allow the public to see the video footage of the concerned day "but not Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee or her police".
Lok Sabha elections: TMC seeks voter turnout report of phase 1 and 2 from CEC
May 07, 2024, at 08:29 pm
New Delhi/Kolkata/IBNS: The Trinamool Congress (TMC) has requested the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) to provide the voter turnout report for phase 1 and 2 in the Lok Sabha elections, media reports said.
Modi 'enjoys' himself dancing in humourous poll video, BJP takes swipe at Mamata
May 07, 2024, at 07:19 pm
New Delhi/Kolkata/IBNS: Amid the serious, often toxic, political discourse, internet memes and humorous videos involving political leaders provide some comic relief to the high pitched elections in the country.
May 07, 2024, at 05:15 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose has slammed Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who cited the molestation charge brought against him by a female staff working at Raj Bhavan, media reports said.
Kolkata Police demands Mamata Banerjee meme creator's identity, warns of legal action otherwise
May 07, 2024, at 06:33 am
Kolkata/IBNS: The Kolkata Police has taken a stern note over a meme on Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and demanded that the makers reveal their names and addresses.
'AI-generated': BJP leader claims after 'sting video' shows him claiming no rapes in Sandeshkhali
May 05, 2024, at 05:56 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: The political scenario in West Bengal has been thrown into major turmoil with a purported video showing a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader admitting that no rapes or sexual harassment had taken place in Sandeshkhali and women were convinced to file such complaints at the directions of Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari.
May 04, 2024, at 09:00 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: A viral video showing a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader claiming the Sandeshkhali incident, where Trinamool Congress (TMC) leaders in Sandeshkhali including strongman, Sheikh Shahjahan, were accused of land grabbing and sexual abuse, was orchestrated, triggering a fresh faceoff between the two largest parties of West Bengal.
Mamata Banerjee attacks PM Modi, Bengal Guv over sexual harassment charges by Raj Bhavan staff
May 04, 2024, at 03:59 am
Kolkata/IBNS: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Friday hit out at Narendra Modi and said that while he had a lot to say during the Sandeshkhali issue, the Prime Minister kept quiet over the sexual harassment charges levelled against Governor CV Ananda Bose despite being in the state when the allegations were made.
Mamata Banerjee questions EC's revised poll figures, says 'How did this go up?'
May 02, 2024, at 06:22 am
Kolkata/IBNS: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Wednesday flagged a discrepancy in voting figures issued by the Election Commission on Tuesday evening, four days after the Phase 2 pollings.
Mamata Banerjee slips while boarding helicopter in Durgapur, suffers minor injury
Apr 27, 2024, at 09:21 pm
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was injured on Saturday when she slipped and fell inside a helicopter in Durgapur.