Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee also alleged that Assam government has kept over a thousand people in detention camps to prevent protests against the citizens’ registry. read more

Former Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee, who died on Monday, was draped in the flag of Mohun Bagan, India’s oldest football club of which he was a member for about half a century. read more

While the CPI(M) politburo referred to late Somnath Chatterjee as a veteran parliamentarian, eminent lawyer, former Speaker and ten-time member of the Lok Sabha, the Bengal unit referred to him as a “comrade” and “former central committee member and... read more

A ‘bhadralok’ who combined the best traditions of the educated middle class and Left politics of West Bengal, say people. read more

Somnath Chatterjee, a former Lok Sabha Speaker, died of a heart attack on Monday morning at a private hospital. He was put on a ventilator on Friday. read more

Monuments across cities like Kolkata, Pune, Jaipur, Kanpur, Ahmedabad, Mumbai and Delhi took on a golden hue and were bathed in gold-coloured light in the evening as Akshay Kumar promoted his new film, Gold, based on independent India’s its first gold... read more

Eighty-nine-year-old Somnath Chatterjee, who is suffering from a kidney-related ailment, was admitted to the hospital on Tuesday. read more

BJP and the Left had earlier branded Hindu Samhati as the ‘Trinamool’s Hindutva wing’. read more

The West Bengal government has agreed to downsize the project, take precautionary measures, adequately compensate landowners and even compensate the loss of lives and property caused by vandalism of the ruling party’s local leadership, said the agit... read more

Viraj Madappa, cheered on by hordes of teenaged fans as he finished the $350,000 event on 16 under par, became the youngest Indian to claim an Asian Tour title. read more

With two World Cup gold medals and one silver in World Cup Final, Abhishek Verma is the top medal prospect in these Asian Games beginning August 18. These Games though will have no individual events. He will be competing in team event and a mixed pair... read more

By 1947, India were already a hockey powerhouse having been Olympic champions thrice in 1928, 1932 and 1936 when the team comprised mostly Army men and Anglo-Indians, playing as a British colony. No Games were held in 1940 and 1944 because of World War... read more

The long-time Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader Somnath Chatterjee’s condition turned critical on Sunday morning. read more

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Amit Shah arrived in Kolkata on Saturday morning to a musical welcome and noisy protests ahead of a public meeting to boost the saffron party’s footprint in West Bengal in the run-up to the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. Amit Shah asks crowds gathered if they are bothered by the presence of infiltrators. “Are you worried or not? NRC helps prevent infiltration,” says Shah. (HT Correspondent )read more

Trinamool Congress said the party will opt for legal action against BJP president Amit Shah if he doesn’t issue an apology in the next 24 hours. read more