The CBI scanned the call log details of the two mobile phones used by Sheikh.

In 2021, the BJP promised to implement their demand for Indian citizenship if it won the Assembly elections.

A week after the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) took over the probe into the January 5 attack on Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials in Sandeshkhali, the agency on Monday arrested three persons who are close associates of suspended Trinamool Congress leader Shahjahan Sheikh. The CBI took into custody Jiauddin Mollah (Molla), panchayat pradhan of the […]

'My agnipariksha' says Sujata Mondal, the TMC candidate from Bishnupur. In 2019, she won Bishnupur for her then husband Saumitra Khan after Calcutta HC barred him from entering the seat

Pathan, born in Baroda to a Gujarati Pathan family in 1982, earned his first India cap in 2007 after his younger brother Irfan.

Before the 2019 Lok Sabha election, he joined the BJP and defeated Dinesh Trivedi in a closely-fought contest but later joined TMC again.'

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee is likely to announce nominees for all 42 Lok Sabha seats in the state, party leaders said.

The ongoing raids are part of the ED's probe to track the flow of money in the multi-crore scam.

The PM will inaugurate multiple projects of railway line electrification that would benefit the people of northern West Bengal and nearby areas, an official statement said.

The Salt Lake sub-station, boasting a capacity of 2x50 MVA, is poised to significantly augment power supply to the Metro Rail's East-West Line, encompassing Sector I, Sector II, Sector III, and Salt Lake Stadium.

According to the police, in a complaint filed on Tuesday, the girl alleged that the accused persons had spiked her drink and then sexually assaulted her

Sandeshkhali in North 24 Parganas district had been at the centre of protests in February after local residents went on rampage accusing local Trinamool Congress leader Shahjahan Sheikh and his aides of sexual harassment and land grab, and demanding their arrest.

An accused in several cases of sexual harassment and land grab in Sandeshkhali, Sheikh was arrested on February 29 after being on the run for 55 days.

Speaks out against party colleague Tapas Roy joining BJP: ‘He got scared by ED raids’.

He is being seen as a potential BJP candidate from Kolkata Uttar Lok Sabha constituency.

More men than women among the state’s registered voters, but 17 of 42 LS seats saw a greater turnout percentage for women than men in 2019; in Basirhat, under which Sandeshkhali falls, the turnout for men was far more

In its order, the HC had directed that the custody of Sheikh, the suspended Trinamool Congress leader who was arrested by the West Bengal Police on February 29 in connection with the attack on the ED team, be handed over to the CBI by 4.30 pm on Tuesday.

The Election Commission said it has instructed district magistrates and superintendents of police in West Bengal to ensure a “level playing field” and show “zero tolerance to any violence”.

While women are a crucial constituency for the BJP and part of its poll push nationally, they are also central to the TMC’s plans to thwart Modi who is all set to return to Bengal on Wednesday.

In Kalimpong, the maximum and minimum temperatures were 21 and 14 degrees Celsius, respectively.

In the Assembly elections, Banerjee lost from Nandigram to Adhikari by a margin of 1,956 votes. A case was filed in the Calcutta High Court against the election results from the constituency. The matter is still pending in the court.

The local residents went on rampage demanding the arrest of TMC leader Shahjahan Sheikh. After being on the run for 55 days, Sheikh was arrested on Thursday.

The 13-member team's visit comes amid the political firestorm over the Sandeshkhali issue and the BJP's allegations that there are around 16 lakh false/duplicate names in the voters' list of the state.

He will also launch the Kavi Subhash-Hemanta Mukhopadhyay metro section of the Kavi Subhash-Airport line and the Taratala-Majerhat section, which is a part of the Joka-Esplanade line, the release said.