Shah likely to visit city this month, set roadmap for polls
With the 2026 West Bengal Assembly elections in sight, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has begun its preparations to strengthen its foothold in the state.
With the 2026 West Bengal Assembly elections in sight, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has begun its preparations to strengthen its foothold in the state.
Calcutta High Court on Wednesday directed Kolkata Police to register an FIR based on the complaint filed by Indranuj Roy, the student of Jadavpur University (JU) during the ruckus within the university campus on 1 March after being hit allegedly by the vehicle of education minister Bratya Basu.
Students across multiple universities and colleges, including Jadavpur University and the University of Calcutta, took to the streets in protest.
Following Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s instructions, Trinamul Congress (TMC) leaders, including MP and MLAs, have begun scrutinising electoral rolls in their respective areas in Cooch Behar.
The Trinamul Congress has issued show cause notices to four sitting councillors for anti-party activities and directed to reply within seven days of Raghunathpur Municipality in Purulia district.
Madhuparna Thakur, Trinamul Congress candidate for Bagdah Assembly by-election filed her nomination today.
Mukherjee, who quit the Congress and joined Mamata Banerjee-led TMC in 2021, also alleged that the party’s work culture did not match with that of the Congress.
A poor couple, Sanatan Majhi and his wife Mamata from Pundhahit village, under Kumarganj gram panchayat in Goghat earned their livelihood by fish farming.
A secretariat member of the CPM's West Burdwan district committee joined the Trinamul Congress, accompanied by 1,200 CPM cadres in the presence of two ministers at the district TMC office, this afternoon.
A four-member Central fact-finding team of the BJP will reach West Bengal on Sunday evening to review the situation in certain parts of the state in the wake of reports of post-poll violence that started since the results of the Lok Sabha elections were announced on June 4.
