Bengal Governor fears for his safety with state police guards in Raj Bhavan

June 21, 2024

West Bengal Governor C.V. Ananda Bose on Thursday said that he was apprehending a threat to his security because of the presence of the current contingent of Kolkata Police posted at Raj Bhavan in Kolkata. Bose accused the police of unauthorised surveillance on his movements and staff, allegedly with political...

Bengal Guv slams TMC govt for curbs on violence victims

June 15, 2024

West Bengal Governor C.V. Ananda Bose on Friday slammed the Mamata Banerjee Government and the police for stopping post-poll violence victims from meeting him. The Bharatiya Janata Party has levelled allegations of post-poll violence against the Trinamool Congress, which the State’s ruling party has denied. After going to Maheshwari Bhavan...

Job scam: Calcutta HC asks ED to shed lax attitude

June 13, 2024

Concerned over the slow pace of investigation into the school jobs scam in West Bengal, the Calcutta High Court on Tuesday cautioned the Enforcement Directorate’s officers against adopting a “lax attitude” while probing the multi-tier recruitment scam A single bench of Justice Amrita Sinha told Deputy Solicitor-General Dhiraj Trivedi, who...

Measly MoS posts reveal BJP’s anti-Bengal stance, says TMC

June 11, 2024

The scanty representation of Bengal in the Modi 3.0 government has triggered heartburn among BJP workers and leaders in the atate. At the same time, it has given arch-rivals Trinamool Congress the opportunity to deride the BJP’s Central leadership and to claim that the measly two posts of Ministers of...

Trinamool’s unfancied win against BJP big guns

June 5, 2024

The Lok Sabha elections in West Bengal have thrown up unexpected results. While the Trinamool Congress has won 29 seats, the BJP managed to win 12, and the Congress got one seat. But the figures hid many embarrassments. Well-known BJP leaders like Union Ministers of State Nisith Adhikari and Subhas...

I.N.D.I.A. won, Modi lost: Mamata

June 5, 2024

After the Trinamool Congress won 29 seats in West Bengal, while the BJP won 12, significantly down from its 2019 tally of 18 seats, West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee today expressed her happiness with the BJP not getting a simple majority in the Lok Sabha...

Bengal Police helping TCM rig counting, alleges BJP

June 4, 2024

A day before the votes for the Lok Sabha elections are counted, the West Bengal unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party today alleged that the State police was trying its best to undermine the vote counting process in order to give an unfair advantage to the Trinamool Congress. Senior BJP...

Entire poll machinery working for Abhishek, alleges BJP

June 1, 2024

Less than 24 hours before the Lok Sabha polls, Abhijit Das, the BJP candidate taking on Trinamool Congress number two, Abhishek Banerjee, in the Diamond Harbour Lok Sabha seat, has alleged that the entire poll machinery was working overtime for the Trinamool leader. He alleged that the Trinamool Congress had...

Mamata retraces Modi’s roadshow route

May 30, 2024

A day after Prime Minister Naren dra Modi’s massive roadshow for the BJP in Kolkata from Shyambazar 5-point crossing to the house of Swami Vivekananda in Simla Street, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Ba nerjee on Wednesday walked the same stretch to campaign for her Trinamool Congress candidate in the...

Violent protests rock poll-bound Nandigram after BJP worker’s murder

May 24, 2024

Barely 48 hours before Nandigram in East Medinipur district in West Bengal votes in the sixth phase of Lok Sabha elections, a murder of a female BJP worker and injuries suffered by at least seven other karyakartas in an alleged attack by Trinamool Congress cadre, led to widespread violence. The...