The BJP leadership has claimed that the charges are concocted and its supporters were framed for resisting sale of sand collected illegally from the bed of the Ajoy river. read more

The violence was reported from Birbhum, Jalpaiguri, Cooch Behar, West Midnapore, and South 24 Parganas districts. read more

Anupam Hazra, the BJP’s Lok Sabha candidate in Jadavpur Lok Sabha constituency in the city where polling would be held on May 19, called on Anubrata Mondal, the TMC’s Birbhum district president, at the latter’s party office. read more

The poll watchdog deployed additional forces to cover around 98% of all booths in the battleground eastern state but violence broke out as soon as polls opened at 7am on Monday with the ruling TMC and the opposition BJP and Congress trading charges of... read more

The opposition, such as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress, complained of violence by the ruling Trinamool Congress, who they said tried to prevent voters from going to the polling stations to exercise their franchise. read more

No political leader in post-Independence Bengal has been kept under such surveillance in not one but two successive elections, EC officials said. read more

Birbhum district has two seats, both of which were won by the TMC in 2014. From Bolpur constituency, TMC candidate Anupam Hazra (who joined the BJP this year) won by 2,36,114 votes. In Birbhum seat, the ruling party won by 67,263 votes. read more

Taking a dig at the opposition, he said, anybody whose party is contesting even 20-25 seats, wants to become the prime minister. read more

Rajesh Kumar replaced Anuj Sharma as the commissioner of Kolkata Police. read more

The Lok Sabha seat, located in Birbhum district known for Baul folk singers and numerous cultural fairs, was reserved for Scheduled Caste members from 1962 to 2004 but was declared a free seat from 2009. read more

The blast took place at Minatun Mollah’s house around 8pm in Paikuni village of Dharampur area of Illambazar, about 168km to the north of state capital Kolkata. read more

On December 22, a divisional bench of the Calcutta High Court had put on hold the order by a single-judge bench allowing the party to hold three rath yatras in the state. The BJP had planned to flag-off its first rally from the temple town of Tarapith... read more

Last week, a divisional bench of the Calcutta High Court had stayed the order by a single-judge bench allowing the party to hold its rath yatras. The BJP had planned to flag-off its first rally from the temple town of Tarapith in Birbhum district. read more

According to local residents, headmen of the village branded the man a witch and ordered that he be killed. Subsequently, the punishment was reduced to his fingers being cut off. read more

“We are yet to receive any written complaint. But we are looking into the matter,” police said, adding that efforts were on to trace the culprits. read more