Aug 08, 2023, at 06:47 am
New Delhi/IBNS: Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar Monday slammed Trinamool Congress member Derek O'Brien and accused him of doing "theatrics" in the House to gain publicity during a heated debate on the Delhi services bill.
Aug 03, 2023, at 06:04 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday refrained from making any comment on the allegation of corruption brought against actress and Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP from West Bengal's Basirhat, Nussrat Jahan.
Financial fraud case: Nussrat Jahan denies wrongdoing a day after ED receives complaint against her
Aug 02, 2023, at 09:34 pm
Bengali film actress and Trinamool Congress MP Nusrat Jahan on Wednesday denied allegations of fraud levelled against her which is related to a 'shady' financial entity.
ED receives complaint against Tollywood actress-MP Nussrat Jahan in alleged financial fraud case
Aug 02, 2023, at 03:42 am
Kolkata/IBNS: Tollywood actress and Trinamool Congress MP Nussrat Jahan is once again back in headlines with the Enforcement Directorate (ED) receiving a complaint against her in connection with an alleged fraud related to a 'shady' financial entity.
Bengal: Newly elected TMC panchayat member lynched to death
Jul 29, 2023, at 06:39 pm
Kolkata/UNI: Newly elected Trinamool Congress panchayat member Moimur Gharami, alias Moyna, was lynched to death after a gunshot from the miscreants missed the target, which hit his companion, in front of his house at Magrahat in West Bengal's South 24 Parganas district, police said on Saturday.
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.
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.
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.
'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.
TMC's five-member fact-finding delegation visiting Manipur
Jul 19, 2023, at 05:02 pm
Kolkata/UNI: The Trinamool Congress is sending a five-member fact-finding delegation to Manipur on Wednesday.
Narendra Modi rattled, BJP perplexed by Opposition alliance: TMC
Jul 19, 2023, at 04:58 pm
Kolkata/UNI: The Trinamool Congress has said that the saffron outfit is scrambling to infuse life into a "moribund" NDA as it is "visibly perplexed" by the formidable strength of the newly formed Opposition alliance INDIA.
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 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 polls: Counting underway, Suvendu Adhikari flays TMC for obstruction
Jul 11, 2023, at 05:00 pm
Kolkata/UNI: West Bengal's Leader of the Opposition Suvendu Adhikari on Tuesday accused the ruling Trinamool Congress activists of making one last "desperate attempt" to "steal" the Panchayat elections by "obstructing" the agents and candidates of BJP and other opposition political parties from entering the counting halls.
Jul 11, 2023, at 05:21 am
New Delhi/IBNS: In a huge setback, the Supreme Court on Monday refused to interfere with the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and Enforcement Directorate (ED) probe against TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee in connection with the West Bengal teachers' recruitment scam.
TMC announces candidates for Rajya Sabha elections
Jul 10, 2023, at 08:08 pm
Kolkata/UNI: Trinamool Congress has announced the candidature of Derek O'Brien, Dola Sen, Sukhendu Sekhar Ray, Samirul Islam, Prakash Chik Baraik and Saket Gokhale for the upcoming Rajya Sabha elections.
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.
Violence mars Bengal panchayat polls in absence of central forces in most booths
Jul 08, 2023, at 06:04 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: In almost a continuation of what was witnessed before the polls over the last one month, clashes and violence marred the key West Bengal three-tier panchayat elections, which will be a litmus test for all parties ahead of the 2024 General Elections, being held on Saturday.
Bengal panchayat poll: Three party workers killed during polling, claims TMC
Jul 08, 2023, at 04:26 pm
Kolkata/UNI: West Bengal's ruling Trinamool Congress on Saturday alleged that three of its workers were murdered and two left wounded from gunshots in Domkol during the polling for the three-tier Panchayat election.
'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.
Bengal jobs scam: TMC leader Saayoni Ghosh snubs ED's second summon to join poll campaign
Jul 05, 2023, at 06:54 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: Trinamool Congress youth president Saayoni Ghosh on Wednesday snubbed the second summon served by the Enforcement Directorate in connection with the West Bengal teacher recruitment scam.
Bengal: Guv rushes to remote Basanti where TMC supporter is killed in poll-related violence
Jul 03, 2023, at 07:03 pm
Kolkata/UNI: Hours after alighting from a long-distance train on Monday morning from violence-riddled Cooch Behar, West Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose rushed to remote Basanti in South 24 Parganas to meet the survivors of a TMC supporter, who was murdered in clashes related to three-tier July 8 Panchayat election.
Jul 01, 2023, at 05:11 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: After being quizzed for 11 hours by the Enforcement Directorate, Trinamool Congress youth president and Bengali actress Saayoni Ghosh on Friday said she was ready for even a 12-hour questioning for the sake of a probe into the West Bengal teacher recruitment scam.
Jul 01, 2023, at 04:02 am
Kolkata/IBNS/UNI: The Enforcement Directorate's grilling of actress-turned-Trinamool Chhatra Parishad (TMCP) state president Saayoni Ghosh at the CGO Complex in Salt Lake, in relation to the teachers' recruitment scam in the West Bengal Government- aided schools and purchase of a flat, still continues even after nine hours on Friday.
Calcutta HC says appointments of VCs to state-run universities by Bengal Guv valid
Jun 29, 2023, at 05:54 am
Kolkata/IBNS/UNI: A division bench of Calcutta High Court on Wednesday pronounced that there is legality in the orders, issued by West Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose, appointing interim vice-chancellors in 11 state-sponsored universities across the state.
PIL filed in Calcutta HC challenging appointment of Bengal Election Commissioner Rajiva Sinha
Jun 27, 2023, at 03:24 am
Kolkata/IBNS: A Public Interest Litigation (PIL) was on Monday filed in Calcutta High Court challenging the appointment of West Bengal Election Commissioner Rajiva Sinha, court media reports said.
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).
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.
Jun 20, 2023, at 04:37 am
Kolkata/IBNS: Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose has set up a "peace room" at the Governor's House with helplines for those affected by violence during the panchayat polls.