Mar 20, 2019 Frustrated by low voter turnout in Uttar Kolkata LS constituency, the EC has decided to prod the Bengalis with, well, something quintessentially Bengali: iconic filmmaker Satyajit Ray.
Jul 17, 2019 On September 21, 2007, Calcutta was jolted by the fate of 29-year-old Rizwan, who had fallen in love with Priyanka Todi, 23, the daughter of a rich hosiery businessman.
Jul 11, 2019 This comes just a day after eight other TMC councillors of the Halisahar municipality rejoined the Mamata Banerjee-led party, saying they had been forced to join hands with the BJP.
Jun 26, 2019 Travellers from Calcutta are taking the hop to Kunming and thence to the Chinese showpieces of Xi’an, Shanghai and Beijing
Jun 20, 2019 In Topkeybara, Red Pandas, only about 2,500 adults left in the wild, are finding a safe habitat to remain alive and furring
Jun 18, 2019 The Teesta river is flowing above the danger mark after the cloudburst, officials in Sikkim capital Gangtok said.
Jun 14, 2019 Junior doctors in West Bengal are on strike since Tuesday demanding better security at workplace after two of their colleagues were attacked at the NRS Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata.
Jun 12, 2019 Prem Singh Tamang went to jail in 2017 for embezzlement of funds and since then, he took Pawan Chamling head on. Tamang's party Sikkim Krantikari Morcha beat Chamling's Sikkim Democratic Front narrowly in the Assembly elections
Jun 13, 2019 Eight-year-old Debosmita Ghosh has spinal muscular atrophy —a rare genetic, life-threatening neuromuscular disease.
Jun 13, 2019 The assault left an intern severely injured, resulting in a strike that has spread to almost all state-run medical colleges and hospitals.
Jun 12, 2019 Even as political parties are busy extracting political mileage out of the virtual shutdown, thousands of patients and their family members who have travelled from remote parts of rural Bengal, are facing a harrowing time.
Jun 11, 2019 Senior BJP leader Mukul Roy’s recent statement has kicked up a storm in the Darjeeling region in north Bengal.
Jun 10, 2019 Having replaced the Left and Congress as the main challengers to Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress, the BJP is gearing up for the next Assembly polls in the state which are scheduled for 2021.
Jun 05, 2019 Mamata Banerjee's desperate rejection of the Hindutva slogan 'Jai Shri Ram' could be used by the BJP-RSS to deepen communal divide in West Bengal
May 25, 2019 Bhutia, who as India’s legendary footballer, took more than two decades to chart his meteoritic rise to stardom, was on May 23 felled by the voters of Sikkim.
May 25, 2019 Pawan Chamling’s run as India’s longest-serving chief minister has ended, his dreams of a record sixth term dissipating by the thinnest of margins.
May 24, 2019 Chamling’s “invincibility” was put to test on April 11, 2019 when the Himalayan state went for simultaneous Assembly and Lok Sabha polls.
May 23, 2019 The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has steamrolled the Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress bastion as trends of counting of votes indicate.
May 20, 2019 Trinamool Congress chief and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee might have put up a brave front and scoffed at the exit polls—which indicate a strong BJP performance in Bengal—but the picture on the ground tells a different tale.
May 16, 2019 Both the Trinamool Congress and BJP have angrily blamed each other for the violence that erupted as workers of both sides fought pitched battles on the streets of the central Calcutta neighbourhood during Shah’s roadshow on Tuesday evening.
May 11, 2019 Whether her kneejerk reactions to the mildest of criticism arise out the insecurities of a woman politician out to claim her space in a world full of uncertainties and dominated by male politicians, or a deliberate attempt at nipping the slightest of dissent in the bud, is something the chief minister needs to ask herself
May 11, 2019 Ghosh, a former management student of Harvard, once called Banerjee “Ma Jangalmahal er Ma” ( mother, mother of jangal mahal) and “mother” Banerjee very often would tell others, including her party’s then second-in-command-Mukul Roy, now with the BJP—“what a good girl Bharati was”.
May 01, 2019 Often called the greenest chief minister of India, Pawan Chamling is to Sikkim politics what Bhaichung Bhutia is to Indian football. Chamling's Sikkim Democratic Front has ruled the roost in the picturesque North-Eastern State and doesn't look like stopping.
Apr 24, 2019 Socialist Unity Centre of India (SUCI) thrived when the Left Front government ruled West Bengal. They not only shielded underground comrades, the art of simple living, high thinking in a community was honed in SUCI centres.
Apr 23, 2019 The Left’s failure to adapt to new socio-political dynamics, an utter lack of any introspection, misplaced priorities and inability to either retain old base or capture a new one has contributed to the Left being relegated to the periphery of Bengal politics.