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The focus of the Assembly elections in four states and a Union territory has centred around West Bengal and the big question is whether the BJP under PM Modi will breach the final barrier, as it were, for the right-wing saffron party. (AP/Bikas Das)

Modi accuses Mamata of encouraging' Maoist violence

Modi asserted that countdown for the TMC removal from power had begun as BJP already reached the doorstep of its manzil...

19 March 2021 8:03 AM IST

If the women voters of West Bengal and Tamil Nadu vote the way they have voted in the past, it would give an edge to these two parties in the respective states. (Representational Photo: PTI)

Sanjay Kumar | Women voters to play critical role in Bengal & TN...

Women voters are turning out to vote in large numbers both in the Lok Sabha and Assembly elections

18 March 2021 4:41 AM IST

Sharing her plans in the video, Ms Banerjee, whose her party postponed its manifesto release which was earlier scheduled during the day, vowed to bounce back in her poll campaign. (Photo: PTI)

Didi shifts blame on her car; wants to return in poll campaign, even...

Her fresh narrative came after many local residents, who witnessed the accident at Birulia of Nandigram, punctured her...

12 March 2021 4:49 AM IST

Rattled by Ms Banerjees complaint, the Election Commission has sought a report about the serious security breach from the district administration. (Photo:PTI)

Didi claims 'attack' on her in Nandigram, admitted to hospital with...

Mamata Banerjee with injuries on her legs and forehead, was later brought to Kolkata in a Green Corridor and was...

11 March 2021 4:39 AM IST

Chief Minister of West Bengal Mamata Banerjee (C) along with Indian supporters of All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) take part in a protest rally against the rise in prices of petroleum products, in Siliguri on March 7, 2021 ahead of the upcoming West Bengals legislative assembly elections. (Photo: AFP)

Didi: Why hike fuel prices?

Says people want to know answers before they cast their vote in polls

8 March 2021 2:04 AM IST

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. (PTI)

Shikha Mukerjee | Mamata's long game: Women's status in Bengal is...

If Narendra Modi and his 56-inch chest is the epitome of male power, the barely 60-inch frame of Ms Banerjee is the...

7 March 2021 11:55 PM IST

Mr Chakraborty had resigned as a parliamentarian citing health issues in December 2016 and stayed away from politics after his name surfaced in the multi-crore Saradha chit fund scam. By arrangement

Bollywood actors Mithun Chakraborty, Akshay Kumar likely to share...

BJP sources indicated that Mithun da may join the saffron party in Mr Modi's presence and may well become its chief...

7 March 2021 8:32 AM IST

The first list of 57 names, which came a day ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modis first election rally in the state, also has names of former Indian cricketer Ashoke Dinda and ex-IPS officer Bharati Ghosh. (Twitter)

BJP releases first list of candidates for West Bengal Assembly polls

Suvendu Adhikari, a former prot©g© and close confidante of TMC supremo and CM Mamata Banerjee, will take on the latter...

7 March 2021 8:29 AM IST

Indian paramilitary soldiers stand guard near a polling booth as voters wait to cast their votes during the fifth phase of West Bengal state elections in Newtown Rajarhat, North 24 Parganas district, India, Saturday, April 17, 2021. (AP)

Sanjay Kumar | Bengal lesson: Drawbacks of a multi-phase state...

Was planning an eight-phase poll spread over a month, and during a pandemic too boot, wrong, after all?

20 April 2021 11:55 PM IST

When Didi needs funds, she doesnt waste a moment on these fine people she goes straight to those who have the requisite lolly the Marwaris of Kolkata. (PTI)

Didi cuts rally time, BJP for mini meets

BJP declared that it would not hold big poll campaign rallies in the state; public meetings with not more than 500...

20 April 2021 8:43 AM IST

Polling for the sixth, seventh and the eighth phase will be held on April 22, April 26 and April 29, respectively. (Representational Photo: ANI)

EC rules out clubbing poll phases

Mamata Banerjee on Thursday evening also appealed to the EC to club the remaining phases of the polls into one

16 April 2021 1:22 AM IST

Mamata wraps up dharna after EC acts against 3 BJP leaders

Mamata wraps up dharna after EC acts against 3 BJP leaders

The EC ordered campaign ban against 3 BJP leaders -- Rahul Sinha, Midnapore MP Dilip Ghosh Nandigram candidate Suvendu...

14 April 2021 12:56 AM IST