Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has labelled the killing of four people in central force firing at Cooch Behar "a genocide" and said the victims were "sprayed with bullets in the chest and neck". "This is genocide. They have fired just like a fire spray. They should have fired below the wait. But they have fired | Read more|
Bengal and Assam began voting today in the first phase of Assembly elections for each state. Voting is taking place in 30 seats in Bengal and 47 in Assam. In Bengal, the ruling Trinamool and the opposition BJP - who have waged an often vicious campaign over the past few weeks - will each be eager to make a strong start | Read more|
Twenty-two-year-old climate activist Disha Ravi, whose arrest last month earned the Delhi Police one of its most embarrassing judicial rebukes in recent times and triggered an international outcry about the crackdown on dissent in India, released her first statement on Saturday. | Read more|
One of the key battles for democracy in the country will be fought in West Bengal, poll strategist Prashant Kishor said on Saturday, referring to the assembly elections starting March 27. He also shared the Trinamool Congress's main slogan - "Bengal only wants its own daughter" - on Twitter. Mr Kishor's company, I-PAC, | Read more|
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will today visit the poll-bound states of West Bengal and Assam, the second time in a little over two weeks. He was in Kolkata on January 23 to mark Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's birth anniversary, Parakram Diwas, and on the same day visited Sibsagar district to hand out land ownership title | Read more|
The Trinamool Congress today hit out at the BJP and its supporters for tom-tomming the budgetary allocation this year for railway projects in West Bengal, coming especially in the run up the state assembly polls. The party said these proclamations do not consider the number of projects shelved over the years and all th | Read more|
VK Sasikala, expelled AIADMK leader and a close aide of former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa, has been released after spending four years in a Bengaluru jail in a corruption case. She will, however, remain in a hospital in the city as she is being treated for Covid. | Read more|
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today released ₹ 18,000 crore to over nine crore farmer families under the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN) programme. With the push of a button, PM Modi enabled the transfer of money at an event that the ruling BJP has made into a big exercise amid the protest by farmers agai | Read more|
The parent of a TikTok copycat from India has raised more than $100 million from investors including Alphabet Inc's Google and Microsoft, months after the Chinese-owned short-video app was banned in the country. | Read more|
Election strategist Prashant Kishor, the hate figure for rebels leaving Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, threw a dare today at the BJP after its record acquisition of Trinamool defectors during Amit Shah's weekend visit to the state. | Read more|
Union Home Minister Amit Shah welcomed high-profile Trinamool Congress rebel Suvendu Adhikari to the BJP on Saturday at a mega rally in West Bengal's Midnapore, sparing no shot at Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. | Read more|
Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar, condemning Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's comments after an attack on BJP chief JP Nadda's convoy, asked her to withdraw them and warned today: "Madam, please don't play with fire". | Read more|
West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar today submitted his report on law and order in Bengal, sought by Home Minister Amit Shah hours after an attack on party chief JP Nadda's convoy on Thursday. The Home Ministry has summoned the state's Chief Secretary and police chief on Monday. | Read more|
As per news report of NDTV, the BJP's new internal reshuffle has not gone down too well with all troops. Rahul Sinha, one of the longest serving leaders of the party in West Bengal, could not contain his resentment on Saturday at being replaced as a national general secretary by a former Trinamool Congress MP while ano | Read more|
Bengaluru Violence: Protesters set around two dozen cars on fire and surrounded a Congress MLA's house in the Karnataka capital. | Read more|