Bengal

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee drew parallels between the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Taliban.

It has come to light that Prashant Kishor, who helped Mamata Banerjee and Trinamool, retain power in the recent West Bengal Assembly polls, had registered himself in Bhabanipur, where the Chief Minister is contesting the legislative bypoll.

The deep depression over the Bay of Bengal intensified into Cyclone ''Gulab'' on Saturday and an ''orange'' alert has been issued for north Andhra Pradesh and adjoining south Odisha coasts, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday said the Centre had disallowed her attendance at a global peace meet in Rome, where she was the only invitee from the country, "out of jealousy".

Slamming the Centre over its assertion that PM-CARES was not a government fund, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday stated complete transparency should be maintained in the transactions made with the money collected by the trust.

The NIA has named Trinamool Congress member Chhatradhar Mahato and 12 others in its chargesheet in the 2009 Rajdhani Express hostage case, an official of the investigating agency said on Friday.

New Bengal BJP chief Sukanta Majumdar and two other party leaders were charged by the police in a case filed over their protest with a body of a party worker near Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's home in Kolkata yesterday.

Former Farakka MLA Mainul Haque, who recently quit the Congress, joined the Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Thursday at a public meeting in poll-bound Samserganj constituency of West Bengal's Murshidabad district.

Amid a series of defections from the BJP to the Trinamool Congress in West Bengal, the national general secretary of the state's ruling party, Abhishek Banerjee, said if his organisation keeps its door ajar, the BJP will collapse in no time.

A person was arrested from West Bengal's Birbhum district for allegedly spreading communally sensitive messages and obscene materials through WhatsApp groups, police said on Thursday.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested the former account officer of a Rifle Factory at Ishapore in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas on charges of duping a company with several crores of rupees five years ago, the police said.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday said contesting from Bhabanipur is her destiny and slammed the BJP for bringing in outsiders to the state to create disturbances during the September 30 by-poll in the seat.

A BJP leader of West Bengal, who lost the assembly election from a seat in South 24 Parganas district and was allegedly assaulted by Trinamool Congress workers in May, died at a hospital on Wednesday, his family members said.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday called the BJP a "jumla party" and said she won't let the Centre "divide the country" and "make India like Taliban".

Trinamool Congress legislator Madan Mitra, known for his social media presence, has come up with a music video that tries to capture the flavour of two eagerly awaited events for West Bengal -- Durga Puja and the Bhabanipur bypoll

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee drew parallels between the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Taliban.

It has come to light that Prashant Kishor, who helped Mamata Banerjee and Trinamool, retain power in the recent West Bengal Assembly polls, had registered himself in Bhabanipur, where the Chief Minister is contesting the legislative bypoll.

The deep depression over the Bay of Bengal intensified into Cyclone ''Gulab'' on Saturday and an ''orange'' alert has been issued for north Andhra Pradesh and adjoining south Odisha coasts, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday said the Centre had disallowed her attendance at a global peace meet in Rome, where she was the only invitee from the country, "out of jealousy".

Slamming the Centre over its assertion that PM-CARES was not a government fund, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday stated complete transparency should be maintained in the transactions made with the money collected by the trust.

The NIA has named Trinamool Congress member Chhatradhar Mahato and 12 others in its chargesheet in the 2009 Rajdhani Express hostage case, an official of the investigating agency said on Friday.

New Bengal BJP chief Sukanta Majumdar and two other party leaders were charged by the police in a case filed over their protest with a body of a party worker near Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's home in Kolkata yesterday.

Former Farakka MLA Mainul Haque, who recently quit the Congress, joined the Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Thursday at a public meeting in poll-bound Samserganj constituency of West Bengal's Murshidabad district.

Amid a series of defections from the BJP to the Trinamool Congress in West Bengal, the national general secretary of the state's ruling party, Abhishek Banerjee, said if his organisation keeps its door ajar, the BJP will collapse in no time.

A person was arrested from West Bengal's Birbhum district for allegedly spreading communally sensitive messages and obscene materials through WhatsApp groups, police said on Thursday.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested the former account officer of a Rifle Factory at Ishapore in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas on charges of duping a company with several crores of rupees five years ago, the police said.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday said contesting from Bhabanipur is her destiny and slammed the BJP for bringing in outsiders to the state to create disturbances during the September 30 by-poll in the seat.

A BJP leader of West Bengal, who lost the assembly election from a seat in South 24 Parganas district and was allegedly assaulted by Trinamool Congress workers in May, died at a hospital on Wednesday, his family members said.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday called the BJP a "jumla party" and said she won't let the Centre "divide the country" and "make India like Taliban".

Trinamool Congress legislator Madan Mitra, known for his social media presence, has come up with a music video that tries to capture the flavour of two eagerly awaited events for West Bengal -- Durga Puja and the Bhabanipur bypoll