Author: Md Nasimuddin
With less than a year left for the Assembly Election in West Bengal, the Election Commission (EC) has directed the Mamata Banerjee government to “delink” the office of Chief Electoral Officer (West Bengal) from its home department, create a election department with financial autonomy and fill up the vacant posts under it.
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday announced a new programme titled “Amader Para, Amader Somadhan” aimed at resolving minor local issues in villages across the state.
Iconic Communist and former Chief Minister of Kerala VS Achuthanandan has passed away. He was undergoing treatment at a private hospital in the capital, following a cardiac attack on June 23rd morning. He was earlier incapacitated following a stroke in 2019.
The Congress on Tuesday (July 22, 2025) claimed that there are “far deeper reasons” for Jagdeep Dhankhar’s resignation as the Vice-President than the health reasons cited by him, and said his resignation speaks highly of him but poorly of those who got him elected to the post.
West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday launched a scathing attack on the Bharatiya Janata Party-led central government during the Trinamool Congress’ annual Martyrs’ Day rally in Kolkata, vowing to continue her fight until the BJP is removed from power at the Centre.
The Government is open to discussing all issues in Parliament, including Operation Sindoor, it said in an all-party meeting held on the eve of the monsoon session, which begins on Monday (July 21, 2025).
The Parliament panel report on new Income Tax Bill, 2025, which would replace the six-decade old Income Tax Act, is scheduled to be tabled in the Lok Sabha on Monday.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit West Bengal on Friday, where he will address a BJP rally in Durgapur, besides laying the foundation stone and inauguration of multiple development projects worth over Rs 5000 crore.
The high court on Thursday asked the state administration to ensure traffic movement was not “disturbed” because of the Trinamool Congress’s Martyrs’ Day rally on July 21.
Raising the instances of targeting of migrant workers from West Bengal in the Bharatiya Janata Party-ruled states, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday (July 16, 2025) hit the streets in Kolkata and said protests would rage across the country if Bengalis continued to be harassed.