Bangla pride vs ‘Hindi-Hindu-Hindustani’: In West Bengal, a new Trinamool front to counter the BJP?

Garga Chatterjee, the ‘quasi-spokesperson’ of the ruling party, has started a ‘new type of non-partisan nationalist political organisation’.

Aritra Bhattacharya

· Jun 17, 2018 · 09:00 am

West Bengal: Trinamool Congress worker shot dead in Howrah district

The party has blamed the Bharatiya Janata Party for the incident.

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· Jun 05, 2018 · 12:00 pm

West Bengal: ‘BJP worker’ found dead in Purulia district on Saturday committed suicide, say police

BJP workers rejected the autopsy report and called his death a ‘political murder’.

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· Jun 03, 2018 · 02:55 pm

West Bengal: BJP worker found dead in Purulia district, Amit Shah blames Trinamool

A message scrawled on 20-year-old Trilochan Mahato’s T-shirt said he had been murdered for working for the saffron party.

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· May 30, 2018 · 09:45 pm

Bengal panchayat polls: Former MLA arrested after independent candidate’s supporter is shot dead

Former Bhangar legislator Arabul Islam is facing an independent candidate in the May 14 elections.

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· May 12, 2018 · 10:55 am

Mass walkovers, BJP-CPI(M) alliances and four other bizarre things about the Bengal panchayat polls

The pre-poll violence has got to a point where 34% of all seats have no Opposition candidates, reducing the exercise to a near farce.

Shoaib Daniyal

· May 12, 2018 · 10:30 am

There is a plan to assassinate me, claims Mamata Banerjee

The West Bengal chief minister alleged that contract killers had even made a recce of her home, but refused to disclose the conspirators’ names.

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· May 12, 2018 · 08:18 am

West Bengal: Former Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee steps down from CPI(M) state committee

The party unveiled a new 80-member team that does not have any leader above the age of 75, except Left Front Chairperson Biman Bose.

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· Mar 09, 2018 · 09:47 am

What explains the BJP’s U-turn on the Gorkhaland issue?

The party has earlier supported the demand. But now, driven by electoral compulsions in West Bengal, the party is washing its hands of the matter.

Shoaib Daniyal

· Jun 29, 2017 · 12:30 pm

Gorkhaland agitation: As tourists stay away, commerce in Siliguri takes a hit

The city is a key transit node for tourists to the hill stations of Darjeeling, Kalimpong and Gangtok.

Shoaib Daniyal

· Jun 20, 2017 · 07:30 am

Reviving Gorkhaland: How language identity and ethnic strife is driving violence in Darjeeling

The Trinamool's aggressive wooing of minority groups in the hills is further catalysing the issue.

Shoaib Daniyal

· Jun 13, 2017 · 07:30 am

Babul Supriyo gets six-week stay on arrest warrant against him in a case of ‘outraging modesty’

The BJP MP had moved the Calcutta High Court against a lower court order after TMC MLA Mahua Moitra had accused him of mocking her during a televised debate.

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· Mar 20, 2017 · 02:48 pm