West Bengal

In a major setback for the Mamata Banerjee government, the five-judge Supreme Court bench of Acting Chief Justice Rajesh Bindal and Justices IP Mukerji, Harish Tandon, Soumen Sen and Subrata Talukdar on Thursday ordered a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the alleged cases of murder and crimes against women during the violence that followed the elections in West Bengal.

It is not a secret that Congress (interim) president Sonia Gandhi wants a broad-based alliance with Trinamool Congress (TMC) for the forthcoming elections. The bonhomie has been given the official stamp of approval. Even in the last elections – despite Adhir Chowdhury’s somewhat unfavourable comments....

The Supreme Court on Tuesday deferred hearing in a petition filed by Anup Majhi, main accused in the West Bengal Coal scam case, to August 25.

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Trinamool MPs - Derek O'Brien, Sukhendu Sekhar Roy and Mahua Moitra wrote a letter to PM Modi, in whic they demanded to remove Solicitor General Tushar Mehta from his post over his alleged meeting with BJP MLA Subhendu Adhikari. Mehta says he didn't meet Bengal BJP leader

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has launched a student credit card scheme to make Bengal’s youth self-reliant and said the scheme will benefit Bengal students to obtain more than Rs 10 lakh loan with an annual simple interest.

Human and Civil Rights Activist, Sangita Chakraborty files a plea in Supreme Court seeking directions to the Central and state government to detect, detain and deport illegal Rohingya and Bangladeshi infiltrators.

The Supreme Court has annulled the Calcutta High Court’s order to not accept the affidavit of the state in the Narada bribery case. It has allowed Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, the West Bengal government, and state law minister Moloy Ghatak to file their applications before the high court.

Supreme Court asks Mamat...