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AA Edit | WB Lesson: In Future, EC Can’t Keep Real Voters Out

AA Edit | WB Lesson: In Future, EC Can’t Keep Real Voters Out

The Election Commission has failed itself, the people of West Bengal, the Constitution and the very idea of electoral...

28 April 2026 11:11 PM IST

Bengali Actor Switches to TMC from BJP

Bengali Actor Switches to TMC from BJP

Actor calls BJP stint a mistake, says inspired by Mamata Banerjee’s leadership

26 Dec 2025 7:30 PM IST

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee addresses a press conference at Nabanna (State Secretariat) in Kolkata on Saturday. (Photo: PTI)

A rough year ahead for Mamata Banerjee

Mamata is a freedom-loving individual who is always looking for expansion of her horizons.

1 Oct 2017 11:13 PM IST

PM Modi inaugurates first ever optical fibre cable project for Andaman and Nicobar Islands. (PTI Photo)

Modi going to Bengal for Netaji's birth anniversary

Ahead of Mr Modi's visit, home minister Amit Shah will also visit the state on January 12, the birth anniversary of...

31 Dec 2020 11:29 AM IST

Taking on Union Home Minister Amit Shah over his promise to implement the seventh pay commission for West Bengal government employees, Banerjee questioned the rise in petrol, diesel and cooking gas prices. (Photo: PTI)

Mamata calls herself big donkey for not recognising true face of...

The West Bengal chief minister said she will get the allegations investigated once she is voted to power

22 March 2021 12:31 AM IST

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

It was only under Lal Krishna Advani, and then especially under Narendra Modi, that the BJP became the mass-based electoral force it has become, from the cadre-based party that was the Jan Sangh. (Photo: PTI)

Aakar Patel | BJP has never spelt out what parivartan' it hopes to...

The Jan Sangh said that it would repeal preventive detention laws which it said were absolutely in contradiction to...

16 March 2021 4:14 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

The Supreme Court Thursday termed as Â‘totally impermissible the demand by Department of Telecom for dues of Rs 4 lakh crore. (PTI Photo)

SC rejects plea challenging EC's decision to hold WB Assembly polls in...

The plea had sought the SC's direction to prevent the EC from conducting 8-phase polls in W Bengal, alleging that it...

9 March 2021 1:05 PM 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

Is it realistic that the BJP will get 60 per cent of the 70 per cent Hindu votes in West Bengal? It would appear, as yet, difficult. (Photo: PTI)

Shikha Mukerjee | Despite Modi's push, BJP yet to reach tipping point

The need for a saturation campaign by Modi is one way of acknowledging that Mamata is a far stronger opponent than the...

12 April 2021 12:35 AM IST

Adhir Ranjan calculated move, however, has raised eyebrows of the Left and ISF which see the Trinamul and the BJP as common enemies in the poll battle. (Photo: PTI)

Congress offers support to Mamata Banerjee if 22 TMC candidates pull...

WB Congress chief Adhir Ranjan, made the conditional offer to the TMC chief in wake of her open letter to UPA...

5 April 2021 4:48 AM IST