TMC stands for 'terror, mafia, corruption': Nadda

Kolkata: Launching a frontal attack on the Mamata Banerjee-led regime in Bengal, BJP national president J P Nadda said that the time has come to bid farewell to the jungle raj of the TMC, which stands for ’Terror, Mafia, Corruption’.

Encroachment row: Didi gives Amartya Sen land deed

Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee on Monday handed over land record documents of Nobel laureate Amartya Sen’s residence in Santiniketan to the celebrated economist, dismissing the claims of the current Visva-Bharati dispensation that he was illegally...

Despite the suspension of Congress MLAs Charles Marngar and Gabriel Wahlang for alleged anti-party activities, the two, along with Celestine Lyngdoh, officially joined the National People's Party (NPP)

The Bharatiya Janata Party has swept the three-tier Panchayat elections in Tripura, winning 97 per cent of the seats, officials said. The party won 71 per cent of the seats uncontested.

Bengal prisons minister Akhil Giri resigned from state cabinet amid intense pressure from both within Trinamool Congress and external quarters following his insulting outburst against forest ranger Manisha Shaw, calling her “beyadob” (discourteous)...



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