The mysterious death of CPI(M) MLA Mostafa Bin Qasem took a new turn Wednesday when his family refused to accept that he had jumped to his death at the MLAs’ Hostel on Kyd Street, and alleged foul play.

The direction of the EC to the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to probe the alleged expenditure violation by the Trinamul Congress in the Assembly elections has pushed the party onto the backfoot ahead of the remaining three phases of the six-phase polls.

Barely a day before the third phase of the Assembly elections, Trinamul Congress general secretary Mukul Roy filed two defamation suits against heavyweight CPI(M) central committee member Gautam Deb on Tuesday for accusing Trinamul Congress chief and railway minister Mamata Banerjee, Mr Roy and their party of pumping

Describing former CPI(M) MP Anil Basu’s outrageous and obscene remarks about her as “unfortunate”, Trinamul Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Sunday said that language exposes the identity and charact

A fast-track court in Kolkata on Thursday ordered to frame industrialist Ashok Todi, his brother Pradip, their relative Anil Saraogi and their middleman Syed Mohiuddin, alias Pappu, for trial on abetment to suicide, criminal intimidation and criminal conspiracy charges for allegedly driving computer graphics teacher Rizwanur Rehman to end his life.

Chhatradhar Mahato, the jailed leader of the Maoist-backed People’s Committee Against Police Atrocities (PCPA), filed his nomination papers on Tuesday as an Independent from the Jhargram Assembly constituency in the Maoist-hit West Midnapore.

The Barrackpore court on Monday rejected the bail plea of Trinamul Congress candidate from Bijpur Subhrangshu Roy and remanded him in jail custody for a day. The accused will be produced at the court on Tuesday again.

In dramatic turn of events, son of Union minister of state for shipping Mukul Roy and Trinamul Congress candidate from Bijpur Assembly constituency Subhrangshu Roy was arrested by the North 24 Pargana

A Trinamul Congress activist tried to commit suicide by setting himself ablaze in front of party chief and railway minister Mamata Banerjee’s residence at Kalighat after failing to get a job in the ra

A senior Army officer, in the rank of Brigadier, was strongly reprimanded by the Indian Army after a disciplinary probe found him guilty of indulging himself in an “improper” relation with the wife of