TC-Cong alliance is coming to power in WB: Somnath

Expelled Communist Party of India-Marxist leader and former Lok Sabha Speaker said on Friday the trends indicated that the Trinamool Congress-Congress alliance was coming to power in West Bengal.......

BJD-BJP Alliance: Wishful Thinking

Although the BJP has never been ballistic about the BJD and Narendra Modi has avoided being critical of Naveen Patnaik, the BJP is optimistic that the party can improve its electoral fortunes in......

Mamata reappoints nephew Abhishek as TMC gen secy; Sinha in, O'Brien out

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,......

In Bengal, the signs were evident

"If the Left is not decimated, it will be a surprise," India's best-known quiz master-turned-Trinamool Congress spokesperson Derek O'Brien had told rediff.com before the six-phase West Bengal......

'The Singur Bill will mess up things in Bengal'

Housing minister in the previous West Bengal government, Gautam Deb, is credited with creating New Town in Rajarhat or Jyoti Basu Nagar, a planned township spread over 7,000 acres in West Bengal,......

Bengal scraps IT township project after land row

The West Bengal governmenton Mondayscrapped the ambitious information technologyproject on the outskirts of Kolkata, where IT majors like Wipro and Infosys were supposed to set up their......

Bengal seeks partners for housing complexes

The West Bengal government plans to enter into joint venture partnership with private real estate developers to promote LIG and MIG housing complexes in New Town near Rajarhat. Speaking to the......

CPM, Trinamool in soup as land scam rocks Bengal

The Vedic Village scandal is now threatening to snowball into a major land scam involving both the ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist and the Opposition TMC leaders, who were instrumental into......