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Senior officials visit area where Mamata Banerjee was allegedly attacked

Senior district officials visited the area in Nandigram where West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was allegedly attacked while campaigning for the upcoming assembly elections

West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee stable; doctors to conduct more tests

Banerjee, who is undergoing treatment at a state-run hospital following the alleged attack on her in Nandigram is "stable" now

WB Assembly polls: TMC defers manifesto release after 'attack' on Mamata

Trinamool Congress has deferred its manifesto release scheduled for today following an alleged attack on party chief and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee

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Mamata faces off against former disciple-turned-defector Adhikari in a very different contest in Nandigram. It's not land acquisition but an ego clash that has acquired, tragically, communal overtones

Bengal: BJP fields actor Hiran Chatterjee from Kharagpur Sadar

The BJP on Wednesday named Bengali actor Hiran Chatterjee, who recently joined the party, as its candidate from Kharagpur Sadar assembly seat,

Bengal minister Bachchu Hansda, MLA Gouri Sankar Dutta join BJP

This came after being denied nominations for the assembly polls by the Trinamool Congress

WB polls: Siliguri shop comes up with BJP, Congress, TMC-themed sweets

Ahead of the upcoming Assembly elections in West Bengal, a sweet shop in Siliguri has designed political party symbols on sweets

WB coal scam: SC to hear plea challenging order allowing CBI to investigate

The SC will hear a plea challenging the Calcutta HC's order which allowed the CBI to investigate a case of alleged illegal mining and transportation of coal in West Bengal, without the State's consent

Multiple villages in West Bengal suffer acute water crisis, unemployment

More than 400 families of Kurmi Mahato, the Other Backward Class (OBC) community residing at Kalshi Bhanga have to trudge at least a kilometre to get drinking water

Elderly man dies after Covid vaccine shot in Bengal, family lodge complaint

A senior citizen in West Bengal's Dhupguri area died allegedly after being administered the Covishield vaccine, prompting his family members to lodge a police complaint, an official said on Tuesday.

West Bengal polls: Divisive politics won't work in Nandigram, says Mamata

Coming down hard on those calling her an outsider in Nandigram, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on Tuesday for them people "coming from Gujarat" are insiders. Addressing booth-level TMC workers a day ahead of filing her nomination for the seat, Banerjee said people who had "sold their souls to outsiders from Gujarat" are insulting the Nandigram movement by playing the communal card. Banerjee is pitted against her former confidante Suvendu Adhikari, who joined the BJP some time ago, in the high-profile seat. Without naming Adhikari even once, Banerjee said she had made up her mind to contest either from the Singur or Nandigram--the two cradles of anti-land acquisition movement-- that catapulted her to power in 2011. She said she decided to contest from Nandigram because of overwhelming response of the people. "I have heard some people are calling me an outsider in Nandigram. I am amazed. I was born and brought up in the neighbouring Birbhum district, a

Supreme Court stays arrest warrant of BJP leader Bharati Ghosh

The Supreme Court on Tuesday stayed the arrest warrant issued against BJP leader and former IPS officer Bharati Ghosh

Mamata Banerjee betrayed the people of Bengal, says PM Narendra Modi

He also accused her of nepotism by choosing to play the limited role of bua (aunt) to her bhatija (nephew) instead of becoming Didi (elder sister) to the people

Early Gujarat polls likely if BJP wins in West Bengal, says minister

A Gujarat minister on Sunday claimed Assembly polls in the state could be brought forward from late 2022 if the BJP wins in West Bengal

West Bengal Assembly polls: Mamata releases TMC list for 291 seats

CM will contest from Nandigram; state FM dropped

MP, West Bengal lead India's land record digitisation drive: NCAER study

Ladakh, J&K, Sikkim and a few other North-Eastern states have a long way forward

Shiv Sena not to contest Bengal polls, stands in solidarity with Mamata

Udhhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena party has decided not to contest the West Bengal Assembly polls

BJP CEC meets to finalise party candidates for Assam, West Bengal

The BJP's central election committee (CEC) met on Thursday to finalise party candidates for the initial phases of assembly polls in West Bengal and Assam

Bengal's borrowing rises 4% to Rs 49,000 crore till Feb amid pandemic

The market borrowing by West Bengal in the 11 months of the current fiscal rose by four per cent

Cong forms screening panels for TN, WB, Kerala and Puducherry polls

Senior leader Digvijaya Singh was named the panel head for Tamil Nadu and Puducherry