As indicated by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, Trinamool Comgress will send an eight member delegation to Assam to monitor the process to update the National Register of Citizens (NRC). Six of the eight members are MPs. Following the publication of the draft NRC, it came to light that more than 40 lakh people are left out of the […]
» Read moreFormer Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee (88) has been admitted to the critical care unit of a private hospital in Kolkata following a brain clot. Sources in the Belle Vue clinic said a hemorrhagic stroke resulted in the medium-sized clot and his condition was not unstable but improving. He was admitted to the hospital on Monday for speech and motion […]
» Read moreA party office of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) was attacked in Kolkata while a party office of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was targeted in West Bengal Jhargram district. The attacks were reported late on Tuesday evening. CPI (M) supporters said that the attack at Surya Sen Street, party office in Kolkata occurred when supporters Students’ Federation of India […]
» Read moreLok Sabha MP from Odisha’s Kendrapara constituency, Baijayant Panda, resigned from the Biju Janata Dal on Monday. Mr. Panda, who is the vice-president of IMFA, a ferro alloy producer, was suspended from the primary membership of the BJD for “anti-party” activities on January 24. The dissident MP, who remained a Rajya Sabha member of the BJD from 2000 to 2006 […]
» Read moreIn a development that is likely to have far-reaching political implications, both at the national and State level, Trinamool Congress chairperson and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday announced her party’s support to the Congress’ Rajya Sabha nominee Abhishek Manu Singhvi. Ms. Banerjee made the announcement hours after State Congress president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury said that Mr. Singhvi […]
» Read moreBiju Janata Dal (BJD) MP from Kendrapara, Baijayant Panda, was on Wednesday suspended from the primary membership of the party for “anti-party” activities. Mr. Panda, who is the vice-president of IMFA, India’s largest, fully integrated producer of ferro alloys, was suspended from the party with immediate effect by Chief Minster and BJD president Naveen Patnaik. IMFA is engaged in mining, […]
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