West Bengal

West Bengal

A woman checks the temperature of a voter before he casts his vote at a polling booth during the first phase of the West Bengal state election in Purulia district, India, March 27, 2021. Reuters/Rupak De Chowdhuri

India begins voting in two eastern states in key test for Modi

Modi and his home minister Amit Shah campaigned aggressively for their Bharatiya Janata Party in West Bengal, luring local politicians away from the Trinamool Congress (TMC) party, whose firebrand...

File photo of Indian Home Minister Amit Shah. Photo: HT

Trinamool leader slams Amit Shah, says Bengalis share border, soul with Bangladesh

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi gestures as he addresses a public meeting at Jerenga Pathar in Assam, India, on Jan. 23. BIJU BORO/AFP/GETTY IMAGES/Foreign Policy

Didi will be 'shown the door' on 2 May: Modi takes jibe at Mamata

Bengal’s outcome will shape national politics, for a TMC win will serve as a check on the BJP’s centralising tendencies while a BJP win will give it renewed political legitimacy to push through its ideological and governance agenda. Photo: Hindustan Times

Bengal’s politics has changed, forever

Representational Image. Photo: Collected

Bengal minister not target of blast, suspect sleuths; JMB under scanner

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks at a rally for the upcoming state elections in New Delhi on February 3. Photo: Money Sharma/AFP via Getty Images via Foreign Policy

'Only BJP can bring real change in Bengal': Modi tears into Mamata govt

Sajjan Kumar. illustration: TBS

In Bengal, the salience of Jai Shri Ram

Nobel laureate Amartya Sen. File Photo: Collected

Amartya Sen asks Visva-Bharati to withdraw land grabbing allegation

Labourers work at the construction site of a residential building on the outskirts of Kolkata, India, July 5, 2019/ Reuters

MNREGA payments went to Bangladeshis; Bengal TMC panchayat leader under scanner

Nobel laureate Amartya Sen. File Photo: Collected

Amartya Sen 'touched' by Mamata Banerjee's support on land controversy

Photo: NDTV

A bright yellow turtle spotted in India 

West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee. Photo: The Indian Express

India plans to take back stranded citizens from Bangladesh

Most of them are either unskilled or semi-skilled labourers (Representational). Photo: NDTV

2,680 Indians stranded in Bangladesh, let them in: Centre to Bengal