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    West Bengal Election 2026 News

    Why 20 Trinamool leaders joining a party with no MPs is a constitutional puzzle

    Why 20 Trinamool leaders joining a party with no MPs is a constitutional puzzle
    India News
    Updated 128 days ago

    What is forged signature scandal rocking TMC, Mamata after Bengal poll defeat?

    TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee walks towards the residence of party MP Kalyan Banerjee, at Kalighat in Kolkata.
    India News
    Updated 141 days ago

    Bengal repoll: How TMC's Jahangir Khan, who withdrew, also got votes in Falta

    Jahangir Khan, 41, announced on May 19 that he was backing out of the May 21 repoll.
    India News
    Updated 150 days ago

    Falta repolling today: Double security measures, TMC's Jahangir Khan out of race

    Trinamool Congress (TMC) candidate Jahangir Khan withdrew from the Falta repoll contest on Tuesday.
    India News
    Updated 154 days ago

    Don’t slaughter cows on Eid, urge Bengal's Muslim clerics

    Maulana Shafique Qasmi, the Imam of Kolkata’s Nakhoda Masjid, said Muslims should not offer cows for Qurbani. (Getty file photo)
    Cities
    Updated 155 days ago

    Why Jahangir Khan from Mamata's party backed out before repoll in Bengal's Falta

    In a statement after the withdrawal by Jahangir Khan, seen here during poll campaign with TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee, the party said it was his “personal decision".
    India News
    Updated 155 days ago

    TMC's Jahangir Khan cites CM Adhikari’s promise, withdraws from Falta re-poll

    TMC candidate Jahangir Khan.
    India News
    Updated 155 days ago

    File separate pleas on SIR’s impact on West Bengal polls: SC tells TMC

    The court said ECI’s objections would be considered once the fresh applications are filed.
    India News
    Published 163 days ago

    Bengal poll chief becomes new BJP govt’s top bureaucrat, TMC slams appoinment

    Outgoing West Bengal chief secretary Dushyant Nariala welcomes Manoj Kumar Agarwal as he takes over as chief secretary
    India News
    Updated 163 days ago

    TMC's ‘2%, 15%’ reminder in SC plea: ‘SIR deletions higher than BJP win margin’

    A man dismantles an election billboard bearing a portrait of Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee after the party lost the assembly elections, in Kolkata.
    India News
    Updated 163 days ago

    Congress, Left parties reject Mamata Banerjee’s offer for anti-BJP alliance

    Mamata Banerjee released a video message urging opposition parties to unite against the BJP. (REUTERS)
    India News
    Published 164 days ago

    Trinamool ex-spokesman is apologising to UP IPS officer Ajay Sharma. Here's why

    Riju Dutta issued an apology on X for IPS Ajay Pal Sharma, who had been sent as an "observer" in the Bengal elections.
    India News
    Updated 164 days ago

    Suvendu Adhikari sworn in as Bengal’s first BJP CM

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi warmly hugged chief minister of West Bengal Suvendu Adhikari after swearing-in ceremony at Brigade Parade Ground in Kolkata, India, on Saturday, May 9, 2026.
    India News
    Updated 165 days ago

    With a pick of five, BJP carefully assembled its first cabinet in West Bengal

    Nisith Pramanik was with the TMC until 2019, when he defected to the BJP and won the Cooch Behar Lok Sabha seat.
    India News
    Published 165 days ago

    ‘We’ll fight the battle': Mamata urges Oppn to form ‘joint platform’ against BJP

    Mamata Banerjee also alleged that the state government suddenly withdrew the cellular services she enjoyed as a CM.
    India News
    Updated 165 days ago

    Suvendu Adhikari’s rise as Bengal CM lands on Bangladesh's front pages

    Newly elected Chief Minister of West Bengal Suvendu Adhikari takes an oath during his swearing-in ceremony in Kolkata on May 9, 2026.
    India News
    Updated 165 days ago

    Jangalmahal's tribal leader to BJP's Bengal cabinet: All about Kshudiram Tudu

    BJP MLA Kshudiram Tudu takes the oath as a West Bengal cabinet minister during the swearing-in ceremony, at Brigade Parade Ground in Kolkata.
    India News
    Updated 165 days ago

    Who is Agnimitra Paul, the only woman in BJP's first-ever Bengal cabinet

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi with BJP leader Agnimitra Paul, second left, during a rally, at Brigade Parade Ground in Kolkata.
    India News
    Updated 166 days ago

    Agnimitra, Dilip Ghosh: List of BJP leaders who took oath as Bengal ministers

    Here is the full list of BJP ministers who took the oath of office as the next government of West Bengal.
    India News
    Updated 166 days ago

    Suvendu Adhikari is the new Bengal CM, BJP's first in the state

    Suvendu Adhikari is the first BJP chief minister of Bengal.
    India News
    Updated 166 days ago

    WB assembly dissolved after Mamata's 'won't resign' stance, TMC plans counter

    Outgoing West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, leader of Trinamool Congress (TMC), speaks during a press conference
    India News
    Updated 167 days ago

    ‘Bengal has never believed in culture of hatred’: Dev urges people to stay alert

    Dev has issued a statement after videos of him went viral on social media.
    Entertainment
    Updated 167 days ago

    ‘Didi, you have not lost’: Akhilesh Yadav backs Mamata, TMC after poll debacle

    **EDS: THIRD PARTY IMAGE** In this image posted on May 7, 2026, Outgoing West Bengal Chief Minister and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee and Samajwadi Party President Akhilesh Yadav during a meeting, in Kolkata. (@AITCofficial/X via PTI Photo) (PTI05_07_2026_000205B)
    India News
    Updated 167 days ago

    ‘He was busy over oath ceremony’: Murdered Suvendu aide's grieving family

    Chandranath Rath's unconsolable younger brother Dev Kumar said that he had no enmity with anyone. His mother asked for life sentence for the accused
    India News
    Published 167 days ago

    Mystery car, fake plates, ambush: Inside the killing of Suvendu Adhikari aide

    Bengal BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari's aide Chandranath Rath was shot dead late Wednesday in North 24 Parganas
    India News
    Updated 167 days ago

    Ex-IAF employee to Adhikari's ‘Mr dependable’ PA, who was Chandranath Rath?

    Chandranath Rath wasn't a regular PA. He once served in the Indian Air Force before he became one of Suvendu Adhikari's most trusted political associates.
    India News
    Updated 167 days ago

    ‘Killing planned over 3-4 days’: What we know on Suvendu Adhikari PA murder

    BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari’s aide Chandranath Rath shot dead in West Bengal’s Madhyamgram
    India News
    Updated 168 days ago

    Suvendu Adhikari shares key details in PA's ‘cold-blooded murder’

    BJP winning candidate of Bhabanipur and Nandigram constituency Suvendu Adhikari arrives at BJP West Bengal office
    India News
    Published 168 days ago

    TMC, BJP demand ‘strong action’ after Suvendu Adhikari's PA shot near Kolkata

    Security beefed up after BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari's personal assistant Chandranath Rath was shot at from close range
    India News
    Updated 168 days ago

    Suvendu Adhikari's aide shot dead in Bengal's North 24 Paraganas

    Rath played a key role in Adhikari’s election management both in Nandigram and Bhabanipur. Adhikari won both the seats.
    India News
    Updated 168 days ago
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