Kolkata

>The full bench, led by Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora, will arrive in the state on Wednesday night on a two-day visit. On Thursday, they will be holding meetings with Chief Electoral Officer Ariz Aftab and Additional Director-General (Law and Or...

The roadshow, which commenced at Tollygunge tram depot, was set to culminate at Rashbehari Avenue often referred to as the backyard of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.

Around 21,000 beneficiaries were supposed to be vaccinated at 207 centres across the state on the first day, but 16,500 people got the vaccine till about 6 pm when the process concluded.

West Bengal has witnessed political turmoil and frequent clashes between the ruling TMC and challenger BJP over the last couple of years.

The Congress proposed that the TMC should merge with it instead to put up a united fight against the BJP.

Adhikari claimed that he has been the subject of spiteful aggression launched by TMC since he left the party and joined the BJP in December.

He said the ruling TMC government will be "surprised" to know that more than 23 lakh farmers from Bengal have applied online to the scheme and accused the government of halting the verification process.

The 11-team I-League will played behind closed doors in four venues in Kolkata and Kalyani.

The chief minister further added that she would want the farmers of the state to get all possible help, in addition to the assistance being doled out by her government.

In a mail to Sudipta Bhattacharya, who is the president of the Visva Bharati Faculty Association, the Nobel laureate said the phone call that the varsity authorities claim was made by him is "tantalisingly untrue" and that he had spoken to Chakraborty a f...

The BJP has set a target of 200+ seats in West Bengal with senior leader and Union home minister Amit Shah kicking off the campaign with a recent visit to the state.

In a mail to the media on Friday, Sen also referred to a big yawn between the culture espoused in Santiniketan and that of the VC, apparently "empowered" by the government at the Centre.

West Bengal Education Minister Partha Chatterjee said the class 10 (Madhyamik) exams will be held first and the class 12 (Ucchya Madhyamik) examinations after that.

Drawing more TMC leaders, apart from Suvendu, a few months ahead of the 2021 assembly polls is the BJP’s plan to propagate the idea that the Trinamool is a sinking ship and the voters only have one option, to vote for the saffron party.

A defiant Kanishka Panda said that he feels "relieved" with the party's decision as he had been under serious stress over the past few days despite "speaking the truth".

In videos widely circulated on social media, the Krishnanagar MP can be seen gesticulating to a person to leave the venue of the meeting in Nadia district on Sunday, after he had introduced himself as a reporter.