Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), under Asansol organisation district of Rahr Bangla, has officially unveiled two new, futuristic state-of-the-art party offices in Durgapur city in West Burdwan district on Thursday named as ‘Janatar Karyalay’.
Samajwadi Party National President Akhilesh Yadav said here on Thursday that the people are the real power in a democracy but the BJP is destroying democratic values and tampering with the democratic process.
With a deep fiscal scar left by the previous regime, the state transport department is exploring options to stay afloat and bring the financial accounts to positive at the earliest.
The rebellion by six MPs of the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena is not only a betrayal of Uddhav Thackeray and his Shiv Sena, but also an attack against the Congress-led Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) opposition, Maharashtra State Congress Committee President Harshwardhan Sapkal said here on Wednesday.
Samajwadi Party (SP) National President Akhilesh Yadav said on Wednesday that to fight the BJP, a team must be brave, and those who are afraid cannot work together.
With the New Year ushering in the crucial Assembly election year, the political temperature in North Bengal has begun to rise. Sensing the high electoral stakes, both the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the ruling Trinamul Congress (TMC) have stepped up political mobilisation across the region, signalling the onset of an early and intense campaign battle for 2026.
The issue of online harassment took centre stage in Kolkata on Friday, as leading members of the Bengali film industry approached the police, even as BJP leader Dilip Ghosh and his wife Rinku Majumdar Ghosh lodged a separate cyber complaint over defamatory social media posts targeting their personal life.
Titled 'Lok Sabha Elections 2024 - Evaluation of endline survey of KAP (Knowledge, Attitude and Practice) of Citizens', the exercise was conducted by the Grassroots Research and Advocacy Movement, Bengaluru, an NGO, under supervision from the Karnataka Monitoring and Evaluation Authority, Department of Planning, Programme Monitoring and Statistics, Government of Karnataka.
Decoding the SP’ s new concept of building a “quasi-cadre” party around the “PDA” formula. PDA is an acronym coined by Akhilesh Yadav for ‘Picchde, Dalit, Alpsankhyak’ (backwards, Dalits and minorities) in the state; “quasi-cadre” party is built on “interpersonal relation and appeal of top leader along with hierarchical structure.”
A man died on Thursday after suffering a heart attack on 27 December shortly after returning from a hearing related to the Election Commission of India's Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process, the police said.
