The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has intensified its attack on Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee after a party candidate abruptly withdrew from the re-poll in Bengal's Falta, a Diamond Harbour constituency considered Banerjee’s political stronghold.
In a major move with significant political and social implications, the BJP government led by Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Tuesday regularised 66 communities that were part of West Bengal’s OBC reservation list before 2010.
An official posted at the Indian High Commission in Chattogram, Bangladesh, was found dead inside the mission premises on Tuesday morning, prompting an investigation.
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Chennai/IBNS: Actor-politician Khushbu Sundar has backed Vijay as the next Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu amid intense political activity over government formation, media reports said.
Kolkata/IBNS: The suspense over who will succeed Mamata Banerjee is expected to end soon as Union Home Minister Amit Shah arrived in Kolkata on Friday to chair a crucial BJP meeting to select the next Chief Minister of West Bengal.
India's Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and the Indian Air Force (IAF) successfully conducted the maiden flight-trial of Tactical Advanced Range Augmentation (TARA) weapon off the coast of Odisha on May 7, 2026, at a time when the country marked the first anniversary of Operation Sindoor.
Chennai/IBNS: The stalemate over government formation in Tamil Nadu continues amid rapid political realignments and alliance negotiations in the complex post-election scenario, media reports said.
For over a decade, the stretch of Harish Mukherjee Road in south Kolkata existed in a kind of enforced silence. Residents who lived there knew the ritual well — the pre-dawn route sanitisations, the plainclothes police fanning out before a convoy passed, and the barricades that turned a public road into a private corridor.
