West Bengal Assembly Elections 2016
Bengal second round Left-Cong's best bet
EC working on BJP's instructions, says Mamata
"Even if Modi, BJP, Congress and CPI(M) join hands I am not afraid of them.You can unleash CBI and ED if you want.Everyday you people are insulting us.
EC faces big test on West Bengal Phase II polls todayThe EC action, the unending violence (nine deaths till Saturday), the spate of complaints (2,872 on the first two polling days) seem to have upstaged the political battle.
Collapsed flyover takes the sheen off Mamata's poriborton plank in Kolkata
Campaign rush in poll season leads to windfall at Durgapur airportBengal's sleepy greenfield airport near Durgapur has sprung to life with jet-setting VIP politicians flying in and out in the high noon of poll season. The airport has already earned an additional Rs Suri MLA won’t vote
Suri's Trinamool MLA Swapan Kanti Ghosh has decided not to vote on Sunday. "I see no point in going to Suri to cast my vote when political violence is going on even under EC watch. I do not want any
Fear of violence looms on poll-eveBengal is on a powder-keg and the Election Commission on tenterhooks.
Traffic to get likely to be affected for PM visit PM visit: Brace for traffic chaosSome roads in central Kolkata, particularly the stretch between RCTC (Race Course) and Shahid Minar, are may remain blocked for some time on Sunday evening for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's rally in Siliguri model faces biggest test on home turf
Asok Bhattacharya's Siliguri model that helped shape the Congress-CPM jote will be put to test in its home turf when Bengal goes to the polls in the second phase on Sunday. Birbhum SP, three OCs transferred by election commission
Suri/ The Election Commission on Thursday transferred Birbhum SP Mukesh Kumar and inspectors-in-charge Debashis Ghosh (Labhpur), Sanjay Srivastav (Mayureswar) and Jawhar Jyoti Ray (Bolpur) just 48 Ethics panel in no hurry to wrap up Narada probe
The Lok Sabha ethics committee probing the role of five Narada-stung Trinamool MPs is in no hurry to wrap up the investigation, disclosed BJP MP Arjun Ram Meghawal, who is one of the members of the No more Singur moment for Bengal's intellectuals
Ambikesh Mahapatra, Chemistry professor at Jadavpur University who was jailed by the Mamata government in 2012 for circulating satirical cartoons about the chief minister, is campaigning in Behala
Reading the signs of Bengal's job distress
Siliguri Model's real test is in its cradle
5 years on, TMC's brain bank takes a beatingTMC may have failed to co-opt Leftist intellectuals but there's a new crop of young thinkers on social media who enthusiastically support Mamata and feel that budhijeebis who attack her are elitist
Transfers won't change anything: Didi takes on ECThe chief minister's relentless tirade against the EC continues. In back-to-back meetings in Nadia on Friday, she said regardless of how many officers the EC transfers, "nothing will change".
The 23 seats in Bengal CPM's never lost since 1977 hold key to its comeback runAlong with another 32 assembly seats it lost for the first time since 1977 in 2011, these 23 remain pivotal for the Left's fortunes and it is banking on them to recover lost ground.
EC show-causes Mamata for poll code violation; 'couldn't care less', says CMMamata Banerjee responded characteristically, dismissing the "Poila Baishakh gift"."Bochhorer pratham din amay show-cause korechhe, unishe May manush oder show-cause kore debe. Take action, EC warns DGP
Just weeks from retirement, Bengal DGP GMP Reddy perhaps wasn't prepared for a day like this.First, the Election Commission brought forward his scheduled meeting from 2.30pm to 11.30am on Thursday. Siliguri model faces biggest test on home turf
Asok Bhattacharya's Siliguri model that helped shape the Congress-CPM jote will be put to test in its home turf when Bengal goes to the polls in the second phase on Sunday. Intellectuals, opposition demand removal of CEO
A group of intellectuals, including poet Sankha Ghosh, former Supreme Court Justice Asok Ganguly, theatre personality Kaushik Sen and social activist Miratun Nahar, under the banner ‘Save Democracy' Transgender cries poll scare tactics
April 14 (IANS) Threatened of "dire consequences" by "Trinamool goons", the first transgender to contest polls from Bengal under the Lok Janshakti Party, did not file their nomination. Bobby Halder Goons kill BJP supporter
A 29-year-old BJP supporter, Mantulal Guha was allegedly killed by some Trinamool supporters at Raidanga under Coke Oven police station in Durgapur on Wednesday night.
Mamata dares EC on showcause notice for violating model code of conduct"It has been brought to our notice that she made a promise of creation of Asansol district and also made certain other utterances, for which the showcause has been issued," Chief Election Commissioner 185 seconds of fear, and you felt every moment of the shudder
Has lightning struck twice? The fear went through the mind of hundreds of residents who live near the collapsed Vivekananda Road flyover as they rushed to the street the moment they felt a tremor on Show time in Bengal: Can CPM-Cong help people cast their votes?
The apprehensions of voters and the larger public, tracking the progress of the polls is evident.
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