The welfare schemes of the government, particularly Lakshmir Bhandar, have had a major impact on the electoral outcome. IMAGE: Trinanool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee shows a victory sign after......
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday reappointed her nephew Abhishek Banerjee as Trinamool Congress national general secretary as she constituted the new office-bearers' team,......
Ironically, the BJP, which seeks to unseat the TMC from power, has taken a leaf out of Mamata Banerjee's strategy of soliciting tinsel town's support towards causes and fielding actors in......
Against the backdrop of the Lok Sabha results, a much larger scale of desertion was anticipated from the TMC.'It seems, people don't believe that the ship is sinking.'Ishita Ayan Dutt reports.......
The Calcutta high court on Thursday stayed the Centre's notice asking a Polish student to leave India for allegedly participating in a protest rally against the Citizenship Amendment Act in......
In power, Mamata Banerjee has tried to bury the ghost of the past, but it might still be work-in-progress. Big-ticket and eye-grabbing (in terms of investment size) projects are still few and......
The populist measures Mamata Banerjee took in the last five years helped her win the elections; some fear that this could set the tone of her government for the next five years, says Ishita Ayan......
'No other actor in India was as lucky as me,' Soumitra Chatterjee tells Indrani Roy/ Rediff.com The brilliant actor Soumitra Chatterjee turns 80 today, January 19. On this occasion, we......
At last the Bengal film industry may see the rise of a director, who can take on the legendary Satyajit Ray.The person in question is none other Sandip Ray, Ray's only child and a filmmaker in his......
Will filmmaker Sandip Ray's Feluda, the brilliant sleuth -- Sherlock Holmes of Bengal that his father Satyajit Ray created-- be listening to Chinese songs in Hong Kong? Foxed? Don't be. The movie......
Like father like son, goes the adage. But Sandip Ray has big boots to fill. His father was the legendary filmmaker and Bengali author Satyajit Ray, who wouldhave been 84 on Monday, May 2.Having......
If the Big B were to believe Black by Sanjay Leela Bhansali will take Bollywood films several notches higher, one certainly gets curious about the film's making.Since the film has a period feel to......