Bengal Congress

Senior Trinamool Congress MP Saugata Roy today stirred up a controversy by saying that his party will not accept the use of violence and muscle by its candidates during the upcoming civic polls in Bengal.

The Congress will work with West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's party to ensure opposition unity despite their differences, Leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge told NDTV this afternoon.

Former Meghalaya Chief Minister Mukul Sangma, along with 11 of the 17 Congress MLAs in the state, joined the Trinamool Congress in a huge coup for West Bengal's ruling party in the northeast.

A war of words broke out between the Congress and the Trinamool Congress on Wednesday after West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee invited Prime Minister Narendra Modi to inaugurate a global business meet to be hosted by her government, with the

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who met Prime Minister Narendra Modi today, indicated that expansion plans are underway for her party - Trinamool Congress, with trips to PM Modi's constituency Varanasi and Mumbai already planned.

In expansion mode ever since it fought off the BJP assault in the Bengal Assembly elections, the Trinamool Congress today shifted gears in its acquisition of political leaders and made three new additions to the party from across the country.

Kirti Azad Joins TMC: Expelled JDU leader Pavan Varma joined the Trinamool Congress in Delhi this evening in the presence of Mamata Banerjee, in a move that marks the Bengal Chief Minister's first foray into Bihar.

Supreme Court expressed hope that West Bengal Assembly Speaker Biman Banerjee will take a decision on disqualification plea of Mukul Roy as a member of House on claim that he has defected to Trinamool Congress after being elected on a BJP ticket.

Members of a contractual teachers' association had in August allegedly consumed poison while demonstrating before the state education department headquarters in Salt Lake.

Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury said Rahul Gandhi and other Congress leaders had gone to the farmers' panchayat at Jantar Mantar.

Trinamool Congress Party leader Luizinho Faleiro on Thursday said Goa does not need to ape Gujarat or Bengal to solve its problems.

BJP president J P Nadda today said West Bengal has become synonymous with corruption, bloodshed and anarchy under the Trinamool Congress rule, prompting a sharp reaction from the state's Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.

Kolkata city sessions court on Tuesday granted interim bail to West Bengal Transport Minister Firhad Hakim, Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader MLA Madan Mitra, and Ex-Mayor Sovan Chatterjee in the Narada scam on the bond of Rs. 20,000.

A 35-year-old man was found dead in West Bengal's Purba Medinipur district, police said on Monday.

Nearly seven months after joining the BJP, popular Bengali film actress Srabanti Chatterjee announced in a tweet today that she was "severing all ties" with the party. The actor cited the BJP's "lack of initiative and sincerity to further the cause o

Senior Trinamool Congress MP Saugata Roy today stirred up a controversy by saying that his party will not accept the use of violence and muscle by its candidates during the upcoming civic polls in Bengal.

The Congress will work with West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's party to ensure opposition unity despite their differences, Leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge told NDTV this afternoon.

Former Meghalaya Chief Minister Mukul Sangma, along with 11 of the 17 Congress MLAs in the state, joined the Trinamool Congress in a huge coup for West Bengal's ruling party in the northeast.

A war of words broke out between the Congress and the Trinamool Congress on Wednesday after West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee invited Prime Minister Narendra Modi to inaugurate a global business meet to be hosted by her government, with the

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who met Prime Minister Narendra Modi today, indicated that expansion plans are underway for her party - Trinamool Congress, with trips to PM Modi's constituency Varanasi and Mumbai already planned.

In expansion mode ever since it fought off the BJP assault in the Bengal Assembly elections, the Trinamool Congress today shifted gears in its acquisition of political leaders and made three new additions to the party from across the country.

Kirti Azad Joins TMC: Expelled JDU leader Pavan Varma joined the Trinamool Congress in Delhi this evening in the presence of Mamata Banerjee, in a move that marks the Bengal Chief Minister's first foray into Bihar.

Supreme Court expressed hope that West Bengal Assembly Speaker Biman Banerjee will take a decision on disqualification plea of Mukul Roy as a member of House on claim that he has defected to Trinamool Congress after being elected on a BJP ticket.

Members of a contractual teachers' association had in August allegedly consumed poison while demonstrating before the state education department headquarters in Salt Lake.

Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury said Rahul Gandhi and other Congress leaders had gone to the farmers' panchayat at Jantar Mantar.

Trinamool Congress Party leader Luizinho Faleiro on Thursday said Goa does not need to ape Gujarat or Bengal to solve its problems.

BJP president J P Nadda today said West Bengal has become synonymous with corruption, bloodshed and anarchy under the Trinamool Congress rule, prompting a sharp reaction from the state's Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.

Kolkata city sessions court on Tuesday granted interim bail to West Bengal Transport Minister Firhad Hakim, Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader MLA Madan Mitra, and Ex-Mayor Sovan Chatterjee in the Narada scam on the bond of Rs. 20,000.

A 35-year-old man was found dead in West Bengal's Purba Medinipur district, police said on Monday.

Nearly seven months after joining the BJP, popular Bengali film actress Srabanti Chatterjee announced in a tweet today that she was "severing all ties" with the party. The actor cited the BJP's "lack of initiative and sincerity to further the cause o