West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee addresses the media, in Paschim Bardhaman district.
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People listen to the virtual address of Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the last two phases of election campaigning during the ongoing West Bengal assembly polls, at Bolpur in Bir...
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People stand in a queue to cast their votes during 6th phase of West Bengal Assembly Polls, in Burdwan.
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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee during an election campaign rally in support of party candidates for the Assembly Polls, in Malda district.
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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee during an election campaign rally in support of party candidates for the Assembly Polls in Asansol district.
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Union Home Minister and BJP leader Amit Shah during an election campaign rally in support of party candidates for the West Bengal Assembly Polls at Buniadpur in South Dinajpur d...
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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee during an election campaign rally in support of party candidates for the Assembly Polls at Tapan in South Dinajpur district.
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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee arrives in a helicopter for an election campaign rally in support of party candidates for the Assembly Polls at Tapan in South Dinajpur d...
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BJP supporters from Gazole constituency during an election campaign for West Bengal Assembly Polls in Malda district.
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Voters show their fingers marked with indelible ink after casting their votes at a polling station during the 6th phase of West Bengal Assembly Elections at Khardaha constituency o...
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Voters show their fingers marked with indelible ink after casting their votes at a polling station during the 6th phase of West Bengal Assembly Elections at Khardaha constituency o...
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Voters stand in a queue to cast their votes at a polling station during the 6th phase of West Bengal Assembly Elections at Khardaha constituency of North 24 Paragana District.
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Voters stand a queue at a polling station during the sixth phase of West Bengal Assembly elections, of Barrackpur assembly seat in North 24 Parganas district.
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People show their voter cards as they wait in a queue to cast votes at a polling station, during the 6th phase of Assembly elections at Krishnanagar, in Nadia.
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TMC MP Satabdi Roy during a rally in support of party candidates for the West Bengal Assembly Polls, in Malda district.
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WB CM Mamata Banerjee during an election campaign rally for State Assembly Polls, in Dakshin Dinajpur disttrict.
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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee during an election campaign rally in support of party candidates for the Assembly polls, at Balurghat in South Dinajpur district.
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Polling officials check Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) and other materials at a distribution centre, on the eve of sixth phase of West Bengal Assembly Polls, in Krishnagar, Nadi...
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Devotees perform rituals on the occasion of Ram Navami at a ancient Ram Mandir at Uttarpara in Hooghly District.
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Devotees perform rituals on the occasion of Ram Navami at a ancient Ram Mandir at Uttarpara in Hooghly District.
In the past two weeks, two candidates have died after testing positive for Covid-19, while more than a dozen candidates have tested positive for the coronavirus infection.
Prashant Kishor said PM Modi is using 'bluff & bluster to claim victory' and when the situation improves he will 'return with Bhakt army to take credit'.
Attacking the BJP, West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee said that the Centre’s decision to ship Covid-19 vaccines to other countries has resulted in the depletion of India’s vaccine reserves.
With the second wave of the pandemic sweeping across the country, the Centre on Monday announced that everyone above 18 years will be able to avail the Covid-19 vaccine from May 1.
Urging people of Bengal to not panic over rising Covid-19 infections, Mamata Banerjee said that the state government is taking ‘every possible measure’ to check the spread of the virus.
The TMC supremo said she would shorten her speeches at campaign in different parts of the state to around 20 minutes or so from the usual time of about one hour.
Firing, corpses, a ban by the EC and a tweet storm…never a dull moment in the ongoing West Bengal elections. Analysts think this volatile turn will help the TMC.
This is where Mamata, in 2007, went right into the eye of the storm and mastered the furies. She returns again for a rematch—against a renegade satrap.
Ostentatious celebration of Durga Puja in Calcutta is traced back to the early 1700s when Bengal’s zamindars outdid each other in displaying their influence, power and wealth by spending large sums of money in festivities.
If religion was an issue in largely “secular” West Bengal, it was years of allegation against the ruling parties by Opposition that they are engaged in “appeasement” of a particular community.
Indeed when the former Lok Sabha speaker, Somnath Chatterjee, was expelled from the CPI(M) in 2008, it was almost unthinkable considering the position the veteran politician enjoyed in his party which he joined in 1968.
The more immediate source of tension in Calcutta currently is the possibility that the forty lakh people who were declared illegal by the neighbouring state could try to flee Assam and enter the city as refugees.
Over decades, hundreds and thousands of people had descended on the tiny cafeteria which he ran in a corner of a college campus – Calcutta’s Jadavpur University.
Mountaineer Chhanda Gayen wouldn’t have got permanently lost on her 2014 expedition if she were fitted with a transceiver. That sums up the utility of ham radios for individuals in moments of crisis, which is where certain teams have found a niche.