The West Bengal Assembly election is expected around April-May next year, after Bihar votes for a new government this year-end.

In a fresh embarrassment to the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) in West Bengal, Lok Sabha MP Kalyan Banerjee on Saturday called party colleague Mahua Moitra "below standard" and a "waste of time".

A section of protestors taking part in a march to the West Bengal secretariat 'Nabanna' to mark the completion of one year of the brutal rape and murder of an on-duty doctor inside the state-run RG Kar hospital reached Santragachi in Howrah district.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday led a massive protest rally in Jhargram, condemning the alleged attacks on Bengali-speaking migrants outside the state.

'The Bengal Files', the newest film from Vivek Agnihotri - whose past offerings include the controversial 'The Kashmir Files' - has kicked up a row even before its release.

A day after Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee elevated her nephew Abhishek Banerjee as the parliamentary party leader in the Lok Sabha, the Trinamool MP held a virtual meeting of all party leaders from district to the organisational fronts.

A churning in Bengal's ruling Trinamool Congress is in progress ahead of next year's assembly election in the state.

Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee put her house in order today after a verbal battle between Trinamool MPs Kalyan Banerjee and Mohua Moitra made headlines, with words like "pig" and "anti-women" being bandied about.

The BJP has ramped up attacks on Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee after she claimed Delhi Police referred to the Bengali language as the "Bangladeshi national language", and slammed the cops for an "anti-national and unconstitutional" action.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamta Banerjee on Sunday lashed out at the Delhi Police for referring to the Bengali language as "Bangladeshi national language" in a purported letter, alleging that it was "insulting, anti-national and unconstitutional".

Just hours after the Delhi Police issued a statement calling a video shared by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee "baseless and fabricated", the Trinamool Congress brought the migrant family seen in the video to the party office in Kolkata.

The BJP's Soumendu Adhikari - brother of Leader of the Opposition in Bengal assembly Suvendu Adhikari -- has filed a complaint with the Delhi Police, accusing Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee of spreading fake news on social media.

The Delhi Police on Monday called a video shared by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on social media, alleging that a Bengali-speaking woman and her child were assaulted in the national capital for speaking their language, "fabricated".

Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has alleged that Bengalis are facing "atrocities" outside Bengal -- especially in BJP-ruled states -- and urged them to "come back".

West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee has exhorted her party members to continue the "movement" against the detention of Bengali-speaking migrant workers in other states. But will that be enough to bring in votes?

The Calcutta High Court interim stay on notifications issued by the West Bengal government - with regard to reservations for Other Backward Classes, or OBCs - was "surprising" and "prima facie erroneous", the Supreme Court said Monday morning.

The father of the RG Kar rape and murder victim accused Kolkata Police of tampering with evidence and failing to act in his daughter's case, while reacting to the Aparajita Women and Child (West Bengal Criminal Laws Amendment) Bill.

BJP MP Jagannath Sarkar on Friday reacted to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's recent remarks, emphasising Prime Minister Narendra Modi's commitment to promoting the Bengali language.

The row over the Bengali language surfaced after Mamata Banerjee and the Trinamool Congress raised the issue during the 'Shahid Dibas' (Martyrs' Day) celebrations on July 21.

Ahead of elections in the state, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has announced a new government initiative -- 'Amar Para, Amar Samadhan' (Our locality, our solution).

Today, party workers and supporters reached Kolkata's Dharamtala to listen to Ms Banerjee. With elections scheduled early next year, the Trinamool Congress' pitch was louder and more pointed.

The Supreme Court was hearing a plea for criminal contempt against Mamata Banerjee for her remarks on the verdict in the teachers' recruitment scam case.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today launched a fresh attack on Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, claiming the BJP-led Assam government is threatening citizens who want to coexist by respecting all languages.

PM Narendra Modi on Friday tore into the Trinamool Congress, accusing it of risking Bengal's identity and national security by promoting infiltration for vote-bank politics, and asserted that only the BJP genuinely stands for Bengali 'asmita'.