A script that eventually turned out to be a blockbuster for the Trinamul Congress as noted thespian Bratya Basu and National Award-winning actor Debashree Roy turned out to be the “giant killers”.

Preparations for celebrations began at Trinamul Congress chief Mamata Banerjee’s Harish Chatterjee Street residence even before the polling had begun. Such was the confidence of the party supporters about the victory that a large number of youth, including women with green abir in one hand and party flag in the other, started pouring in immediately after the sunrise.

Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee’s son Abhijit Mukherjee has achieved a major feat by winning his maiden election. He wrested the Nalhati Assembly constituency in Birbhum district from the Left Front after 43 years by trouncing the Forward Bloc candidate Deepak Chatterjee by over 15,000 votes.

Manish Gupta, who was West Bengal home secretary in January 1993 when the police had dragged out Ms Mamata Banerjee, then a Youth Congress leader, from the Writers’ Buildings, has become the giant killer in the 2011 Assembly polls by defeating chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee at Jadavpur by 16,684 votes, that too as Ms Banerjee’s nominee.

It is currently a million dollar question. Not only within rail Bhavan but outside it as well. Who will occupy the coveted rail mantri (railway minister’s) seat) once Mamata Banerjee demits office?

The former top cop, 66-year-old H.D. Safwi, an avid reader, who also loves his golf, was handpicked by Mamata Banerjee for the Assembly elections to contest from Uluberia East constituency in Howrah.

A blamegame has started within the Left as the Marxist citadel finally fell at the hands of its arch rival Trinamul Congress on Friday. The CPI(M) central leadership pinned the blame on the Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee-led Left Front government saying that the “mistakes’’ committed in Nandigram and Singur and other “local’’ factors led to the

With both the ruling Congress and Opposition confident of forming the next government in Assam, the Election Commission of India has completed preparation for a free and fair counting of votes for 126 constituencies at 48 counting centres across the state. Disclosing that three-tier security arrangements have been made to ensure

On the eve of the announcement of results of the most crucial Assembly election of her political career, Trinamul Congress chief Mamata Banerjee was a picture of calm. Just opposite was the demeanour of CPI(M) state secretary and Left Front chairman Biman Bose. He was agitated and angry.

In December 1992, Mamata Banerjee, who was then a junior minister in Narsimha Rao government was humiliated, dragged by her hair and then thrown out of the Writers’ Buildings. She had gone to meet the then chief minister Jyoti Basu to seek justice for a deaf and mute girl Deepali Basak who was raped allegedly by a CPI(M) cadre in a Nadia village.