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A young girl kisses the poster of Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee for her emphatic win in the West Bengal assembly elections in Birbhum district on Saturday.
PTI A young girl kisses the poster of Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee for her emphatic win in the West Bengal assembly elections in Birbhum district on Saturday.

‘Unconditional support for Trinamool-led government'

The WBPCC leadership said the question of the Congress joining the government would be decided after detailed discussions with the party's high command. The Congress has won 42 seats in the election. »

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Congress yet to take a decision

Party strategists feel it makes more sense to support the government from outside »      1 comment

Arrogance, corruption led to isolation in West Bengal, says Bardhan

A day after electoral debacle in West Bengal, the Communist Party of India felt that arrogance and corruption among the cadre and leaders at certain levels resulted in the Left Front becoming is... »      7 comments

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‘Left will strive for early recovery'

Expressing this conviction, Forward Bloc general secretary Debabrata Biswas said that the Left Front victory in 1977 and its defeat in 2011 will both be treated henceforth as "historical events." »

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Mamata Banerjee addressing the media in front of her house in Kolkata on Friday. Photo: Arunangsu Roy Chowdhury

Mamata invites Congress, SUCI to join her govt

Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee, all set to take over the reins of power in West Bengal, on Friday requested party allies Congress and Socialist Unity Centre of India (SUCI), to join her g... »

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M.S. Shanmugam, Thanjavur District Collector explaining the counting process in the Electronic Voting Machine to the counting officers in Thanjavur on Monday. Counting of votes for Assembly election is scheduled on May 13. Photo: M. Srinath
New Delhi, May 9, 2011

287 more observers deployed for counting

With just a few days left for the counting of votes polled in the Assembly elections in Assam, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and West Bengal and Puducherry, the Election Commission has appointed 287 mo... »
KOLKATA, May 7, 2011

One person held for sending SMS on EVM hacking

One person was arrested from West Bengal's Bankura district late on Friday for allegedly sending SMSes to a local Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader in which he offered to hack electr... »
A BSF jawan stands guard while voters exercise their franchise at a polling station in Burdwan during the fourth phase of the West Bengal Assembly elections. File photo: Sushanta Patronobish
Kolkata, May 7, 2011

83 p.c. vote in West Bengal phase-V

Barring stray incidents, polling peaceful; thunderstorm delays voting in Bardhaman and Purulia »
KOLKATA, May 5, 2011

Left Front alleges ‘paid news'

The Left Front in West Bengal has taken strong exception to a news item on the front page of Wednesday's edition of a Bengali daily that gives a list of probable Ministers in a Trinamool Congress-l... »
Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee
KOLKATA, May 5, 2011

West Bengal on way to forming eighth Left Front government: Buddhadeb

The people of West Bengal are well on their way to forming the eighth Left Front government in the State, Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee said here on Wednesday.Four phases of the on... »
People listen to Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee during her election rally at Jhargram in West Midnapore, ahead of the sixth phase of Assembly polls, on Friday.
Kolkata, May 8, 2011

Campaigning ends in West Bengal

700 companies of Central police forces being deployed in Maoist-hit region »
Midnapore/Bankura (West Bengal), May 7, 2011

10 people arrested for making fake EVMs in Bankura, Midnapore

Ten persons were arrested in Bankura and West Midnapore districts today for making fake Electronic Voting Machines (EVM).While six persons were arrested from Raghunathpur area of Bankura di... »
A file photo of West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee. Photo: Special Arrangement.
Kolkata, May 6, 2011

Buddhadeb to Chidambaram: put your house in order

Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Friday asked Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram to set his house in order before offering advice on the law and order situation in the State. <... »
KOLKATA, May 5, 2011

‘Anyone opposing CPI(M) is described as Maoist'

What the CPI(M) could not do in 35 years we will try to achieve over the next five years: Mamata »
The residents of Singur in Hooghly district flash their voter ID card at a polling booth on the fourth phase of the Assembly election in West Bengal on Tuesday. Photo: Arunangsu Roy Chowdhury
New Delhi, May 3, 2011

West Bengal polls phase-4 largely peaceful

Barring reports of minor trouble, the fourth phase of the West Bengal Assembly elections involving 63 Assembly constituencies on Tuesday was largely peaceful. The average voter turn... »
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The penultimate leg of the multi-phased West Bengal Assembly elections was held in 38 constituencies on May 7, 2011.
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With the elections coming to an end in Tamil Nadu and Kerala, the focus now shifts to the more challenging West Bengal Assembly polls

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