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Bengal Assembly passes Bill allowing transfer of university employees across state-run universities
September 11, 2026 2:40 am
Legislation empowers Chancellor to transfer teaching, non-teaching staff for ‘administrative reasons’; second Bill that brings provident funds of 21 state universities under one law also passed
Two TMCs make a less-than-whole Opposition in West Bengal Assembly
June 28, 2026 11:28 am
Mamata’s loyalists and the rebels spent the first half of the inaugural Session swiping at each other, with BJP watching from the sidelines
Inside two of India’s oldest legislatures, a legacy of reforms
June 14, 2026 7:18 am
When the newly elected MLAs from Tamil Nadu and West Bengal meet for their Budget sessions, in two of the country’s oldest state legislatures, the people of their states would hope that their public representatives stick to the original mandate of these institutions — to make laws for the “peace and good government.
Minutes after CM Suvendu’s claim on ‘forged’ signatures, TMC expels MLAs Ritabrata Bandyopadhyay, Sandipan Saha
June 02, 2026 2:55 am
The decision was announced minutes after Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari told media persons in Nabanna that these two MLAs had complained that signatures of TMC MLAs were forged to show support for the TMC Leader of Opposition and Chief Whip.
First-time MLA Rathindra Basu set to become West Bengal Speaker
May 15, 2026 4:03 am
A Chartered Accountant by profession, Rathindra Basu debuts in the Assembly by defeating Trinamool's Abhijit De Bhowmik in Cooch Behar South.
‘For my daughter and for justice’: R G Kar victim’s mother channels grief into poll battle against TMC
April 01, 2026 2:27 am
The BJP candidate from Panihati in North 24 Parganas district says she does not want “any mother to go through what I have”, up against veteran TMC leader Nirmal Ghosh’s son Tirthankar.
It’s official! Round 2 of Mamata-Suvendu clash in Bhabanipur this election
March 18, 2026 5:58 am
TMC fields Adhikari’s former aide against him in Nandigram.
‘Under adjudication’: Why lakhs of voters in Bengal are in a race against time
March 16, 2026 8:32 am
For now, the 60 lakh electors have been kept off the electoral rolls and can only hope for a decision in their favour to make it to the rolls in time to cast their votes.
How Mamata govt is offsetting spending hike in cash transfer schemes for women
February 09, 2026 9:22 am
Government’s own Gender and Child Budget document shows massive drops in the revised allocation for women specific schemes
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