Calcutta High Court Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay - who confirmed his resignation - has said he will join the Bharatiya Janata Party, possibly on March 7. 

Kolkata: The Bengal government has refused to hand over custody of Sheikh Shahjahan - the former Trinamool strongman accused of extortion, land grab, and sexual assault in Bengal's Sandeshkhali - to the CBI despite a Calcutta High Court's order...

Arambag (Hooghly): Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched BJP’s Lok Sabha campaign in Bengal from Hooghly’s Arambag, using Sandeshkhali as a metaphor for every alleged wrong in the state, and telling women and Muslims that CM Mamata Banerjee’s...

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, who was scheduled to fly to Delhi on Monday to attend a meeting on 'One Nation One Election' on Tuesday, cancelled her trip at the last moment citing the state budget. 

Kolkata: The Budget session of the Bengal Assembly started on Monday without the conventional speech by governor C V Ananda Bose amid apprehensions of a fresh round of confrontation between the Mamata Banerjee government and Raj Bhavan.

Union home minister Amit Shah virtually flagged off BJP’s campaign for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls in Kolkata last week, harping on the Centre’s resolve to implement provisions of the contentious Citizenship (Amendment) Act, saying “Hindu refugees”...

Responding to the recommendation of West Bengal for inclusion of 87 castes in the central OBC list, the National Commission for Backward Classes has asked the state to produce the status of these communities going back to the Imperial Gazetteer,...

After the parliamentary panel's investigation, the Trinamool Congress (TMC) stated that it would make an "appropriate decision" regarding the cash-for-query charges against party MP Mahua Moitra.

Over 250 academics have written to President Droupadi Murmu protesting a Visva-Bharati student’s suspension over a social media post supporting Amartya Sen in the Nobel laureate’s land row with the varsity. Murmu is also the visitor of the central...

Kolkata: Union home minister Amit Shah said that he would “keep coming back to Bengal” to fight against corruption and “bring change” to the state. The minister, who came to Kolkata on a brief visit to inaugurate the Santosh Mitra Square puja,...