Moideepa Banerjie

For days, "tolabaj bhaipo" or extortionist nephew has been a BJP punch line in its campaign against West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee ahead of the state elections. On Sunday, her nephew Abhishek Banerjee took the "tolabaj" bull by the horns.

Bypolls will be held in three assembly segments in West Bengal today, exactly six months after the BJP pulled off a shock result in the Lok Sabha elections in the state.

Crude bomb explosions were heard till late on Monday night in the troubled pockets of Bhatpara and Kakinada in north Kolkata, which comes under Barrackpore Lok Sabha constituency.

The Dhaka Police first revoked permission for the event where noted writer Arundhati Roy was to speak in the city on Tuesday and, later, when organisers moved it to another venue, allegedly tried to scuttle it.

Two owners of a chit fund company were arrested by CBI in Kolkata on Wednesday, after five hours of interrogation. Basudev Bagchi and his son Avik Bagchi of Prayag Group of Companies were arrested for collecting nearly Rs 2,862 crore from mostly poor people in the state by making fraudulent promises of very high returns, a statement by the agency r...

The Saradha Group collapse, which destroyed the savings of lakhs of poor investors in West Bengal, has also hit the state's biggest passion - football.

For days, "tolabaj bhaipo" or extortionist nephew has been a BJP punch line in its campaign against West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee ahead of the state elections. On Sunday, her nephew Abhishek Banerjee took the "tolabaj" bull by the horns.

Bypolls will be held in three assembly segments in West Bengal today, exactly six months after the BJP pulled off a shock result in the Lok Sabha elections in the state.

Crude bomb explosions were heard till late on Monday night in the troubled pockets of Bhatpara and Kakinada in north Kolkata, which comes under Barrackpore Lok Sabha constituency.

The Dhaka Police first revoked permission for the event where noted writer Arundhati Roy was to speak in the city on Tuesday and, later, when organisers moved it to another venue, allegedly tried to scuttle it.

Two owners of a chit fund company were arrested by CBI in Kolkata on Wednesday, after five hours of interrogation. Basudev Bagchi and his son Avik Bagchi of Prayag Group of Companies were arrested for collecting nearly Rs 2,862 crore from mostly poor people in the state by making fraudulent promises of very high returns, a statement by the agency r...

The Saradha Group collapse, which destroyed the savings of lakhs of poor investors in West Bengal, has also hit the state's biggest passion - football.