New Delhi : The result for 6,944 candidates in 690 seats that will be known when the counting of votes in five states will be conducted on Thursday but also the future political course in the run-up to 2024 Lok Sabha elections as several parties are waiting with bated breath for the outcome. The counting will […]

Kolkata: Trinamool Congress MLA Tamonash Ghosh, 60, has died in a hospital in West Bengal. He had tested positive for coronavirus last month. The three-time MLA from Falta assembly constituency in South 24 Parganas district was admitted to hospital after he tested positive for the disease. He had several pre-complications, they said. “Very, very sad. […]

New Delhi: BJP has faced more adversities in independent India as compared to what Congress would have during the British rule, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said today and lamented that every effort of his party was seen in “bad light”. Asserting that BJP has made more sacrifices than any other party, Modi, who laid the […]

Bangalore : West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday offered to hold a grand funeral of the legendary singer in Kolkata, but Manna Dey’s daughter and other relatives ignored the offer. Mamata’s representative and Trinamool Congress MP Kalyan Banerjee reached the home of the music maestro to pay tributes to the singer. Manna Dey […]

Mumbai : West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee yesterday met top industrialists, including RIL chairman Mukesh Ambani and Tata Consultancy Services chairman N Chandrasekaran, here and said the state was more investment friendly now with a “good work culture”.    The Chief Minister spoke to reporters after an hour-long closed door meeting with about 40 top […]

New Delhi: Three top BJP leaders dined on Thursday night at the 7 Race Course Road residence of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who is making efforts to ensure that the winter session of Parliament is not lost to the standoff between the government and the opposition over the Foreign Direct Investment or FDI in multi-brand […]

New Delhi: Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee, who withdrew support from the UPA after FDI in retail was cleared last month, is on the warpath again. She has been pushing for a no trust motion and appealing to other UPA constituents to quit the alliance. The DMK has refused while the Samajwadi Party is buying […]

Kolkata: The six Congress ministers in the Mamata Banerjee government in West Bengal would resign on Saturday and withdraw support to it. The Congress ministers would seek an appointment with the chief minister today to submit their resignations and also meet Governor MK Narayanan to withdraw support. “The WBPCC would meet at 11:30 am today. […]

New Delhi: The Trinamool Congress is all set to pull out of Congress-led United Progressive Alliance Government after its 72-hour deadline to rollback diesel price hike, remove the cap on subsidised LPG cylinders and disallow foreign direct investment (FDI) in multi-brand retail ends on Tuesday evening. Trinamool Congress supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata […]

Darjeeling : At least ten people were killed and 50 injured when an old wooden footbridge over a spring gave way when a Gorkha Janmukti Morcha meeting was going on near Bijanbari, nearly 30 km away from Darjeeling, on Saturday evening. Darjeeling District Magistrate Soumitra Mohan said ten persons were killed and several others were […]