West Bengal

April 06, 2021

Polling begins in five states including Tamil Nadu, West Bengal

The stage is set for one of the busiest day of the ongoing election season with all the five states/UT – West Bengal, Kerala, Assam, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry – going to polls on April 6.

April 01, 2021
Second phase polls: 80.53 per cent turnout in Bengal, 73.03 per cent in Assam

Six hours into polling for the 30 assembly constituencies in the second phase in Bengal, the Election Commission reported 38.23 per cent voter turnout.
March 27, 2021
Heavy polling in West Bengal, Assam in phase 1

Polls are being be held in 30 of the 294 constituencies of West Bengal and 47 of the 126 in Assam which together have 1.54 crore eligible voters who can exercise their franchise on Saturday.
March 27, 2021
To wintry Siliguri, through the grand Bengal highways

The umpteen curves, the distance and the altitude; try not to let your mind calculate it all. Just let your gaze wander through all the picturesque beauty around.
March 14, 2021
CPM fields firebrand scholar, former JNUSU president Aishe Ghosh to retain Jamuria

The president of JNU Students’ Union, Ghosh was in the midst of a strike when the party asked her to contest from Jamuria in West Bengal’s Paschim Bardhaman district
March 13, 2021
Former union minister Yashwant Sinha joins TMC, says democracy is in peril

Sinha, who served in the cabinet of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, had quit the saffron party in 2018 after having serious differences with the present party leadership.
March 11, 2021
TMC memorandum over Mamata injuries 'full of insinuations', EC responds

It is completely incorrect to suggest that the Election Commission has taken over the law and order machinery in the state in the name of conducting elections and appropriated the whole governance structure, the poll panel said.

West Bengal

Polling begins in five states including Tamil Nadu, West Bengal

Second phase polls: 80.53 per cent turnout in Bengal, 73.03 per cent in Assam

Heavy polling in West Bengal, Assam in phase 1

To wintry Siliguri, through the grand Bengal highways

CPM fields firebrand scholar, former JNUSU president Aishe Ghosh to retain Jamuria

Former union minister Yashwant Sinha joins TMC, says democracy is in peril

TMC memorandum over Mamata injuries 'full of insinuations', EC responds

Mamata sustained severe injuries on ankle, shoulder and neck, says doctor

Nine, including four firemen, killed in Kolkata Railway building fire

PwC bid for Bengal govt project under a cloud over Swapna hiring muddle