Bengal election result: TMC’s Firhad Hakim leading in Kolkata Port
May 02, 2021, at 03:42 pm
Kolkata/UNI: TMC’s Firhad Hakim is leading in Kolkata Port with a margin of 6,300 votes.
Apr 30, 2021, at 04:07 am
New Delhi/Kolkata/IBNS: Four of seven exit polls conducted by various agencies in India have predicted Mamata Banerjee-led powerful regional satrap Trinamool Congress (TMC)'s return to power in West Bengal with the country's ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) emerging as a strong opposition to reckon with.
Apr 29, 2021, at 08:17 pm
Murshidabad/WB/IBNS: A CPI-M activist died and two others were seriously injured after a car in the convoy of Trinamool Congress (TMC) candidate Jafikul Islam allegedly knocked them down at Sahabajpur area in Murshidabad's Domkal on Wednesday midnight, hours before the eighth and final phase of Bengal assembly polls.
Apr 29, 2021, at 12:14 am
Kolkata/IBNS: Nandita Sinha, wife of Trinamool Congress (TMC)'s Khardaha candidate Kajal Sinha, who had succumbed to Covid-19 days ago, on Wednesday registered a complaint of culpable homicide with Khardah Police Station in North 24 Parganas against Deputy Election Commissioner Sudeep Jain and other officials of the poll body, reports said.
Former Bengal minister Upen Biswas resigns from TMC
Apr 28, 2021, at 11:37 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: A day before the eighth and final phase of West Bengal assembly poll, ex-CBI Additional Director and former state minister, Upendra Nath Biswas, on Wednesday resigned from the Trinamool Congress (TMC) party showing 'personal reasons', reports said.
Bengal polls: ECI traces out TMC leader Anubrata Mondal, puts him under surveillance again
Apr 28, 2021, at 10:53 pm
Birbhum/West Bengal/IBNS: Nearly two hours after Trinamool Congress (TMC)'s Birbhum district president Anubrata Mondal went out of the Election Commission of India (ECI)'s 'eyes', local machineries of the poll body on Wednesday afternoon found the TMC strongman at Tarapith and put him under strict surveillance again, officials said.
Bengal polls: TMC's Anubrata Mondal escapes from ECI's surveillance
Apr 28, 2021, at 07:15 pm
Birbhum/West Bengal/IBNS: A day after the Election Commission of India (ECI) put Trinamool Congress (TMC)'s Birbhum district president Anubrata Mondal under strict surveillance, the ruling party strongman went out of the ECI's 'eyes', officials said on Wednesday.
Bengal polls: ECI puts TMC's Birbhum president Anubrata Mondal under surveillance
Apr 27, 2021, at 11:33 pm
New Delhi/IBNS: Two days ahead of the eighth and final phase of West Bengal assembly polls, the Election Commission of India (ECI) on Tuesday ordered to put Trinamool Congress (TMC)'s Birbhum president Anubrata Mondal under surveillance to ensure free and fair elections in the district, officials said.
Apr 27, 2021, at 02:51 am
New Delhi/IBNS: Amid some stray incidents of violence, the seventh phase of West Bengal Assembly polls concluded on Monday with an overall voters' turnout of 75.06 per cent till 5 PM.
Apr 23, 2021, at 02:43 am
Kolkata/IBNS: Voting for the sixth phase of the high-voltage West Bengal Assembly Election concluded on Thursday with an overall 79 per cent turnout till 5 PM in four districts of the state.
Bengal: TMC leader Firhad Hakim caught abusing BJP, CISF in viral video
Apr 20, 2021, at 10:00 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: In another new low in the West Bengal politics, Trinamool Congress (TMC) candidate from Kolkata Port, Firhad Hakim, was heard abusing the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) in a video, which went viral on social media.
Bengal Polls: Mamata decides not to campaign in Kolkata except on Apr 26 amid Covid-19 spike
Apr 19, 2021, at 01:55 am
Kolkata/IBNS: Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee on Sunday announced she won't be campaigning in the ongoing West Bengal assembly polls in Kolkata amid the spike in Covid-19 cases across the country including the eastern state.
West Bengal votes in fifth phase amid Covid-19 scare as BJP-TMC electoral fight intensifies
Apr 18, 2021, at 02:19 am
Kolkata/IBNS: India's one of the most populous states, West Bengal, on Saturday voted in the fifth phase of assembly elections as the fierce contest between the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its tough opposition force Trinamool Congress (TMC) are engaged into a fierce electoral battle amid the massive spike in Covid-19 cases.
Apr 17, 2021, at 09:13 pm
Asansol/UNI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday slammed TMC supremo Mamata Banejree's leaked audio-tape conversations, in which she allegedly had planned to take out rally with dead bodies of Sitalkuchi, and said her politics was not limited to just "protests, but it has crossed a dangerous limit of vengeance".
Apr 17, 2021, at 04:43 am
New Delhi/IBNS: The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Friday served a show-cause notice to Trinamool Congress (TMC) candidate Sujata Mondal over her 'disparaging' comments against the Schedule Caste community in an interview to a TV channel, officials said.
BJP releases alleged Mamata tape asking candidate to frame SP, IC, Commandant in Sitalkuchi firing
Apr 17, 2021, at 01:24 am
Kolkata/IBNS: The West Bengal unit of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday released an audio tape, purportedly of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, where she was heard instructing her Trinamool Congress (TMC) candidate from Cooch Behar's Sitalkuchi after the firing to not let the families of the victims claim the bodies till there was a rally with the dead. The alleged tape quoted the CM saying that from the central force commandant to the Superintendent of Police and the IC, all had to be framed.
Bengal: EC to meet all parties over Covid-19 situation amid ongoing polls
Apr 16, 2021, at 05:12 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: India's poll body will on Friday meet 10 political parties participating in the high-octane assembly elections in West Bengal amid the spike in Covid-19 cases.
Mamata Banerjee calls off dharna against EC ban on her Bengal poll campaign
Apr 13, 2021, at 09:07 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has called off her over three-hour long dharna against the Election Commission's ban on her poll campaign for 24 hours.
Mamata Banerjee begins dharna in protest against EC ban on Bengal poll campaign
Apr 13, 2021, at 05:56 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday began her dharna near Gandhi statue in downtown Kolkata in protest against the Election Commission (EC)'s ban on her campaign for 24 hours.
Bengal: Mamata's dharna today in protest against EC ban on her poll campaign
Apr 13, 2021, at 04:48 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will on Tuesday sit on a dharna in downtown Kolkata in protest against the Election Commission (EC)'s ban on her campaign for 24 hours.
Bengal polls: ECI bans Mamata Banerjee from campaigning for 24 hours starting 8 pm tonight
Apr 13, 2021, at 02:38 am
New Delhi/IBNS: The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Monday imposed a 24-hour campaign ban on West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for allegedly demanding votes on communal ground and directing women to 'gherao' (restrain) the Central armed paramilitary forces (CAPF) during the poll, officials said.
BJP touched 100 seats in four phases of Bengal polls: PM Modi
Apr 12, 2021, at 06:53 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: Boosting the confidence of his party workers, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has touched 100 seats in the four of eight phases of ongoing West Bengal assembly elections.
BJP's double engine govt to give new political ambience to Bengal: Modi
Apr 11, 2021, at 06:55 am
Krishnanagar/UNI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said BJP's double engine government in Bengal will give a new political ambience to the state.
Apr 11, 2021, at 04:35 am
New Delhi/IBNS: Issuing a statement on Saturday night, the Election Commission of India (ECI) said that the firing by the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) outside a polling station in Sitalkuchi in West Bengal's Cooch Behar was absolutely necessary at that moment as the mob had attempted snatching jawans' rifles during the violence.
Bengal polls: At least four shot dead allegedly by CAPF in Cooch Behar, ECI seeks report
Apr 10, 2021, at 08:21 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: At least four people were killed and several others were injured as Central paramilitary force personnel allegedly fired bullets outside polling booth no. 126 at Jorepatki area under Sitalkuchi Assembly Constituency in Cooch Behar district of northern West Bengal on Saturday, reports said.
Prashant Kishor's audio tape on BJP's Bengal prospects goes viral, TMC caught off-guard
Apr 10, 2021, at 05:37 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: In what could dampen the Trinamool Congress (TMC)'s electoral spirit apparently, an audio tape where West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's political aide Prashant Kishor was heard speaking about the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)'s prospects in the ongoing state polls went viral on Saturday.
Tension erupts in Kolkata as TMC, BJP workers clash, media personnel attacked
Apr 09, 2021, at 06:37 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: Several media personnel were reportedly attacked during a political clash that broke out between the workers of the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in south Kolkata's Chetla area on Thursday late night.
Apr 08, 2021, at 03:24 am
New Delhi/Kolkata/IBNS: The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Wednesday slapped a notice on West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee over an alleged violation of the Model Code of Conduct (MCC) in her speech during a poll campaign where she had urged the minority community to vote for her party, officials said.
BJP West Bengal chief Dilip Ghosh's convoy attacked allegedly by TMC in Cooch Behar
Apr 08, 2021, at 01:14 am
Cooch Behar/West Bengal/IBNS: West Bengal BJP president Dilip Ghosh alleged that his convoy was attacked by Trinamool Congress (TMC) workers in Sitalkuchi in Cooch Behar district of northern West Bengal on Wednesday evening.
Apr 07, 2021, at 03:45 am
New Delhi/IBNS: Polling across 475 assembly constituencies in four states and one union territory of Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, Assam and West Bengal were conducted on Tuesday amid high vigil and live monitoring as well as webcasting of more than 50 pct booths.