Tripura TMC chief Pijush Kanti Biswas quits party
Jul 26, 2023, at 12:36 am
Agartala: In a setback for Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress, the party’s Tripura chief Pijush Kanti Biswas stepped down from the post and quit the primary membership of the party, media reports said.
Bengal BJP MLA Bishnu Pada Ray dies of cardiac arrest, PM Narendra Modi mourns
Jul 25, 2023, at 10:10 pm
Kolkata: BJP Legislator from Dhupguri Assembly constituency in North Bengal Bishnu Pada Ray breathed his last due to cardiac arrest here on Tuesday.
Amid Manipur horror, BJP alleges two tribal women stripped naked, tortured in Bengal's Malda
Jul 22, 2023, at 09:49 pm
Kolkata: Amid outrage over a recent viral video where two women were seen paraded naked by a mob in strife-hit Manipur, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Saturday alleged that two tribal women were stripped naked and tortured in West Bengal's Malda region recently.
Jul 21, 2023, at 11:02 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: In her last Martyrs' Day rally ahead of 2024 General Elections, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday peddled the newly formed anti-Modi national alliance 'INDIA' to oust the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) claiming she is not in the race for prime ministership.
Jul 21, 2023, at 10:19 pm
Kolkata: Kolkata Police on Friday arrested a drunk person while he was attempting to enter the high-security cordon near the lane of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's residence at Kalighat.
TMC's Martyrs' Day rally: Police intercept one armed person outside Mamata's residence
Jul 21, 2023, at 06:18 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: The Kolkata Police has intercepted one armed person near West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's residence in the city ahead of Trinamool Congress' Martyrs' Day rally.
Mamata's last Martyrs' Day rally ahead of 2024 General Elections today
Jul 21, 2023, at 06:09 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: Days after the sweep in the panchayat polls, West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee will hold the Martyrs' Day rally, which will be the last before the next General Elections, on Friday.
Mamata Banerjee expresses outrage at Manipur horror video, calls it 'act of barbarism'
Jul 21, 2023, at 02:46 am
Kolkata/IBNS/UNI: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday expressed outrage at the horrific video from Manipur showing the brutal treatment of two women by a mob.
'INDIA' is ready to take BJP head-on: Mamata Banerjee after Bengaluru meet
Jul 20, 2023, at 05:00 am
Kolkata/IBNS/UNI: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Wednesday said the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has been 'shivering with fear' since the time they came to know about the Opposition alliance.
'NDA, BJP, can you challenge I-N-D-I-A.?' Mamata Banerjee after Oppositions' meet
Jul 19, 2023, at 03:15 am
Kolkata/IBNS: As top Opposition leaders agreed to form I-N-D-I-A ((Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance) to take on the mighty Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the general elections scheduled next year, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who is one of the key faces of the newly formed front, challenged the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) after the strategic meeting ended.
Jul 18, 2023, at 06:27 am
New Delhi: Top leaders of 26 Opposition parties have gathered in Bengaluru to decide the strategies of the front that will take on the mighty Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the Lok Sabha elections next year. The formal talks will take place on Tuesday from 11 am to 4 pm.
Opposition parties' second meeting in Bengaluru from today to chalk out 'anti-Modi' front
Jul 17, 2023, at 07:18 pm
Bengaluru/IBNS: With less than a year to go for the next General Elections, 24 opposition parties will on Monday meet, the second in recent times, here to chalk out strategies and create a bloc to prevent Prime Minister Narendra Modi from returning to power for the third consecutive term in 2024.
Given freehand to state police to probe violence in Panchayat polls: West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee
Jul 13, 2023, at 03:33 am
Kolkata: As West Bengal witnessed a blood bath in the recently concluded Panchayat elections, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday said she has given full powers to the state police to find the culprits behind the violence, media reports.
Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress sweeps Bengal Panchayat elections, BJP ranks distant second
Jul 12, 2023, at 07:09 am
Kolkata/IBNS: After days of sporadic violence, West Bengal's ruling Trinamool Congress swept the state's all three-tier Panchayat elections as results kept pouring in from several districts till late Tuesday night amid tight security of central forces and the state police.
Mamata Banerjee's TMC heading for victory in violence-hit West Bengal Panchayat polls
Jul 11, 2023, at 11:58 pm
Kolkata: CM Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress (TMC) is heading for a massive victory in all three-tier Panchayat elections as results are pouring in from several districts as the ruling party secured wins in 14,767 gram panchayat (GP) seats, followed by main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) that clinched 3,344 seats, according to the State Election Commission on Tuesday.
Bengal panchayat poll violence claims 14 lives, Oppn blasts Mamata govt
Jul 09, 2023, at 03:13 am
Kolkata/IBNS: At least 14 people were killed and many others were injured in a widespread violence that dominated the three-tier panchayat elections in West Bengal, which is infamous for political clashes for decades, on Saturday.
'BJP is virus, Trinamool, Mamata its vaccine': Abhishek Banerjee in Bengal panchayat poll campaign
Jul 06, 2023, at 05:25 pm
Baidyapur/UNI: Hitting out at the BJP, Trinamool Congress national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Wednesday said just as Corona is a virus, and Covishield its vaccine, similarly, BJP is the virus, and Trinamool and Mamata Banerjee its vaccine.
Mamata Banerjee undergoes MRI after injury following helicopter emergency landing in North Bengal
Jun 28, 2023, at 02:56 am
Kolkata/IBNS/UNI: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Tuesday underwent an MRI after she got hurt following emergency landing of her helicopter at an Army base on Sevoke Road in North Bengal owing to sudden inclement weather.
Mamata Banerjee's chopper makes emergency landing in north Bengal due to inclement weather
Jun 27, 2023, at 08:19 pm
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's helicopter made an emergency landing in north Bengal on Tuesday due to bad weather, media reports said.
Mamata Banerjee tries her hand at preparing dumplings in North Bengal
Jun 27, 2023, at 06:22 am
Cooch Behar/IBNS: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who is on a visit to North Bengal ahead of the coming Panchayat election, Monday stopped at a local tea shop in Chalsa and tried her hand at preparing dumplings as well as brewing tea.
Panchayat polls: BSF trashes Mamata Banerjee's charges of 'intimidating' voters in border areas
Jun 27, 2023, at 05:29 am
Kolkata/IBNS: Kickstarting her campaigning for the upcoming panchayat polls for the first time, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Monday accused the Border Security Force (BSF) of scaring voters in the bordering areas of the state and asked police to keep a strict vigil on them.
Mamata to kickstart Bengal panchayat poll campaign from Cooch Behar today
Jun 26, 2023, at 05:21 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will kickstart her campaign for the upcoming panchayat elections from the state's northern part, a sticky ground for the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC).
Opposition parties reach 'consensus' to fight 2024 polls together at mega Patna meet
Jun 24, 2023, at 01:39 am
Patna/IBNS: Sixteen non-BJP political parties, who met in Patna on Friday, claimed they have arrived at a consensus to contest the coming Lok Sabha polls together to defeat the saffron party, whose rule according to them "was not in the interest of the people of India".
Nitish Kumar hosts rainbow opposition camp in Patna in search for 'defeat Modi' formula
Jun 23, 2023, at 08:01 pm
Patna/IBNS: Bihar Chief Minister and Janata Dal (United) chief Nitish Kumar is hosting here a mega meeting of opposition leaders, who are often at the loggerheads with each other in respective states, in a bid to strategise for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi will seek a third straight term.
Top opposition leaders arrive in Patna for mega anti-BJP parties' meeting tomorrow
Jun 23, 2023, at 04:54 am
Patna/IBNS/UNI: In a major step towards forging national-level unity to counter the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, top opposition leaders including Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his West Bengal counterpart Mamata Banerjee arrived here on Thursday, on the eve of the meeting of anti-BJP parties.
Mamata Banerjee meets Nitish Kumar, Lalu Prasad, Tejashwi in Patna ahead of mega Oppositions' meet
Jun 23, 2023, at 02:40 am
Kolkata/IBNS/UNI: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Thursday met Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar in Patna ahead of the grand opposition meeting.
Jun 22, 2023, at 06:08 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: In an apparent discomfort for Trinamool Congress, noted writer-turned politician and MLA, Manoranjan Byapari, quit two posts of the ruling party ahead of the high-octane violence-marred panchayat elections in West Bengal.
'Shocked': Mamata Banerjee slams Bengal Guv for declaring June 20 as state's Foundation Day
Jun 20, 2023, at 06:47 am
Kolkata/IBNS: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Monday lashed out at Governor CV Ananda Bose for his decision to mark June 20 as the state's Foundation Day.
Abhishek Banerjee's 2-month-long mass outreach campaign concludes in Bengal
Jun 17, 2023, at 02:14 am
Kolkata/IBNS: Trinamool Congress National General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee's two-month-long "Jono Sanjog Yatra" ahead of the three-tier Panchayat election concluded at Kakdwip in Bengal's South 24 Parganas on Friday.
Bengal Panchayat polls: Mamata Banerjee denies all allegations of violence against TMC
Jun 16, 2023, at 02:46 am
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday denied allegations of violence to block Opposition candidates from filing nomination papers in the Panchayat polls.