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  BJP complains to EC about Mamata, Trinamool against Modi

  India | May 06, 2014 7:31 IST

  Kolkata: Continuing their bitter poll wrangling, the BJP and the Trinamool Congress Monday moved the EC with complaints against each others' top leaders even as West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee demanded the arrest

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  Apologise or face action: Trinamool to Modi

  Politics | April 28, 2014 20:48 IST

  Kolkata: The Trinamool Congress Monday sought an apology from BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, threatening to file a defamation suit over his raising questions about Mamata Banerjee's painting allegedly being sold for Rs.1.8 crore.The

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  Trinamool MP's 'development for votes' speech under scanner

  Politics | April 27, 2014 20:04 IST

  Kolkata: The Election Commission Sunday said it had sought a report from the Birbhum district magistrate on Trinamool Congress MP and Bengali actress Satabdi Roy's address at a rally, where she said that priority for

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  Trinamool's Dev has assets of over Rs.15 crore

  India | April 22, 2014 12:24 IST

  Kolkata: Bengali movie superstar and Trinamool Congress candidate from West Bengal's Ghatal seat, Dev alias Deepak Adhikari, has declared assets of over Rs.15 crore.Dev whose annual income for the year 2013-14 stood in excess of

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  BJP, Congress trying to get Trinamool as an ally: Left Front

  India | March 26, 2014 6:47 IST

  Kolkata : West Bengal's opposition Left Front Tuesday claimed that the central leaderships of both the Congress and the BJP were making efforts to draw the Trinamool Congress as an ally.In an appeal to the

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  Trinamool manifesto focuses on roti, kapda and makaan

  India | March 23, 2014 8:41 IST

  Kolkata: Moving from the slogan of 'Ma Mati Manush (Mother, land and people)' to 'roti kapda aur makaan (food, dress and shelter), the Trinamool Congress on  Saturday released its manifesto for the upcoming Lok Sabha

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  Deploy paramilitary forces in hills for polls: Trinamool

  India | March 11, 2014 8:30 IST

  Kolkata:  Taken aback by the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha's decision to support a BJP candidate for the Darjeeling Lok Sabha seat, West Bengal's ruling Trinamool Congress Monday demanded deployment of paramilitary personnel in the hills to

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  Trinamool to oppose Telangana Bill in Parliament

  India | February 10, 2014 12:35 IST

  Kolkata: Trinamool Congress today said it would oppose in Parliament the Telangana Bill seeking to bifurcate Andhra Pradesh."We are for united India and our party will oppose the Telangana Bill in Parliament," party spokesperson Derek

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  Social media amused as Disco joins BJP, Dancer goes to Trinamool

  Politics | February 06, 2014 6:50 IST

  New Delhi: Music director Bappi Lahiri joining the BJP, days after Disco Dancer Mithun Chakraborty booked his Rajya Sabha seat on a Trinamool Congress ticket has kept the social media buzzing with comments, some snide,

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  Trinamool sweeps civic polls in West Bengal

  India | November 26, 2013 8:04 IST

  Kolkata: Riding a pro-Mamata Banerjee wave in West Bengal, the ruling Trinamool Congress yesterday scored a resounding victory in the civic elections, winning four out of five municipal bodies, including the prestigious Howrah Municipal Corporation.It

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  We will go it alone in next polls: Trinamool

  Politics | September 08, 2013 20:22 IST

  Kolkata: A day after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh kept open the possibilities of a re-alliance with Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress, the party Sunday said it would prefer to fight the next general elections alone.Trinamool Rajya

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  Trinamool sweeps Bengal panchayat polls, LF out of reckoning

  Politics | July 30, 2013 6:43 IST

  Kolkata, July 30:  West Bengal's ruling Trinamool Congress marched towards a massive victory in the rural polls, regarded as a curtain raiser to the next general elections and the biggest test of Chief Minister Mamata

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  Trinamool boycotts poll meet, Mamata wants to take revenge

  India | July 06, 2013 22:50 IST

  Kolkata, July 6: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Saturday accused the State Election Commission of taking decisions at its "whims and fancies" and vowed to take revenge "democratically", hours after her Trinamool Congress boycotted

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  Trinamool terrorising party workers: CPI-M

  Politics | June 02, 2013 6:52 IST

  Kolkata, June 2: Accusing West Bengal's ruling Trinamool Congress of terrorising opposition party workers and voters on the eve of the Howrah Lok Sabha by-poll, the CPI-M candidate Saturday asked the Election Commission to ensure

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  Ready to contest high court verdict up to apex court: Trinamool

  Politics | May 12, 2013 8:00 IST

  Kolkata, May 12: Further hardening its stand on the Calcutta High Court verdict upholding the primacy of the State Election Commission in holding the panchayat polls, the West Bengal government Saturday said it was ready

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  Now Trinamool drags CPI-M into coal scam

  Politics | May 07, 2013 7:46 IST

  Kolkata, May 7: In the wake of the opposition's demand for a CBI probe into the multi-crore-rupee Saradha Group chit fund scandal, the ruling Trinamool Congress in West Bengal Monday accused the CPI-M of involvement

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  Chit fund scam: Buddhadeb doubts Trinamool wants truth to emerge

  India | April 29, 2013 7:28 IST

  Kolkata, April 29:  Expressing doubt whether West Bengal's Trinamool Congress government intended to dig out the truth in the chit fund scam, CPI-M leader Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee yesterday said the facts could be unsettling for the

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  Trinamool all set to expand base in northeast

  India | April 19, 2013 13:59 IST

  Aizawl, April 19: The Trinamool Congress (TMC), led by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, is expanding its base in the northeastern region. The party set up a unit Friday in the Congress-ruled Mizoram.The TMC

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  CPI(M) asks Trinamool to stop violence in West Bengal

  Politics | April 10, 2013 17:15 IST

  New Delhi, Apr 10: A day after the heckling of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee by Left protestors, CPI(M) today asked Trinamool Congress to immediately stop the "widespread violence" against it across West Bengal while condemning

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  CCTV footage suggests SFI leader's death an accident: Trinamool

  India | April 03, 2013 23:24 IST

  Kolkata, Apr 3 :  Claiming that the police had no role in the death of SFI student Sudipta Gupta, Trinamool Congress MP Derek O'Brien said today that CCTV footage suggested that it was an accident.“Let