For Mamata, Bhabanipur bypoll is a dry run for LS elections

Naturally, the West Bengal chief minister is not leaving anything to chance, reports Ishita Ayan Dutt. After the high-octane assembly elections in West Bengal, a by-poll would have gone unnoticed.......

Assembly elections 2021: The RESULTS

After over 24 hours, the final numbers are in. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress scored an emphatic win in the keenly watched West Bengal assembly elections, M K......

Mamata playing politics with the dead: Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday claimed that the Trinamool Congress has been broken in the first four phases of elections, and asserted that Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and her......

Parties show lukewarm response to Mamata's anti-BJP front bid

While the leadership of the biggest Opposition party, the Congress, has not reacted, even non-Congress and (now) anti-BJP parties like the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) have voiced no view on......

Centre-Bengal ties may hold key to investments

Though the mandate is seen largely an outcome of Banerjee’s welfare schemes, she has promised to industrialise at a faster pace, or so read the manifesto. Congratulations to the Tigress of......

TMC or BJP, big-ticket projects still a pipedream for Bengal

In power, Mamata Banerjee has tried to bury the ghost of the past, but it might still be work-in-progress. Big-ticket and eye-grabbing (in terms of investment size) projects are still few and......

How Banerjee-Duflo's economic theory is relevant for India

For Duflo and Banerjee, an important part of their work has been ensuring that the agency of the “beneficiaries” -- usually, in developing countries like India, poorer individuals -- is......

Meet the ex-banker who will look after Modicare

For the past five months, ever since he was appointed the Ayushman CEO, Indu Bhushan, a former bureaucrat, has made Nirman Bhawan his second home, working nine to nine with his “dedicated......

The Best Indian Films of 2018

Sreehari Nair picks his top 10 movies of 2018. There are no 'progressive' films on this list because, as I see it, for a film-maker with a good college education or a decent liberal arts education,......

'I am waiting for the truth to come out'

Rahul Raj Singh, the late Prayusha Banerjee’s boyfriend, who has been accused of abetment to suicide and is currently out on anticipatory bail, says he is waiting for the truth to be......

Rakhi Sawant's solution to stopping suicides: Remove ceiling fans, use AC!

Everyone has his/her own views on TV actor Prayusha's suicide but none as ridiculous as Rakhi Sawant. IMAGE: Rakhi Sawant poses with a small ceiling fan. Photograph: Sahil Salvi Balika Vadhu......

Pratyusha's boyfriend booked for abetment of suicide

The boyfriend of television actress Pratyusha Banerjee was on Tuesday booked for abetment of her suicide last week and also slapped with the charges of criminal intimidation, police said. TV......