Bengal

New Delhi: The Election Commission (EC) will announce the schedule for Assembly elections in West Bengal, Puducherry, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Assam at 4.30 pm on Friday. Meanwhile, leaders from different political parties including Prime…

Kolkata: Determined to open her account in Malda district, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday went all out to woo the tribal voters. Speaking at a workers’ rally, she said she had been visiting the district since the time…

New Delhi: With Bengal going to polls in just over two months from now, the state featured prominently in the Union Budget presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday. Sitharaman read out her Budget speech wearing a ‘laal…

Kolkata: The All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen (AIMIM) on Sunday announced appointment of eight observers for the Assembly election in West Bengal. A letter, signed by Syed Ahmed Pasha Quadri, AIMIM general secretary and MLA…

Kolkata: The Left Front and the Congress took out rallies across the state to express their solidarity with the protesting farmers in the national capital on Tuesday. New Delhi on Tuesday turned into a battle field as the agitating farmers…

Kolkata: The convoy of BJP national president JP Nadda was allegedly attacked with stones and bricks while on its way to Diamond Harbour near Kolkata on Thursday. Several cars in the convoy, including that of BJP national general secretary…

Kolkata: The candidates, who had cleared the primary TET examination in 2014, on Friday staged a demonstration in front of the West Bengal Board of Primary Education office, here in protest against the state government for seeking…

Kolkata: A BJP MLA, Debendra Nath Roy, was found dead under mysterious circumstances in West Bengal’s Uttar Dinajpur district on Monday morning. According to sources, Roy had gone out of his house after some people called him around 1 am…