A senior corporate executive was found murdered in Kolkata on Sunday night inside an unoccupied residential building owned by him, police said today.

A laser light show at a Kolkata Durga Puja pandal modelled on Dubai's Burj Khalifa was stopped today after the pandal started drawing huge crowds.

Mamata Banerjee won a resounding victory in the bypoll from Kolkata, which was crucial for her to continue as the Chief Minister following the defeat at Nandigram. She won with a record margin of 58,832 votes over her BJP rival.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has claimed the "man-made" flood in the southern part of the state has been caused due to the discharge of water from dams in Jharkhand without information.

West Bengal's Covid curbs have been extended till the end of next month. However, the state government today announced easing of the restrictions for Durga Puja celebrations between October 10 and October 20.

The Bhabanipur bypoll, where West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is a contestant, won't be cancelled and will be held on Thursday, the Calcutta High Court ruled today.

The Trinamool Congress's backhanded thank you note for the BJP's Locket Chatterjee earned the party an equally sardonic reply from the MP on Monday as the fight for Mamata Banerjee's closely watched by-election contest heated up.

The man in a vest and lungi who was savagely attacked at Dholpur village in Assam on Thursday - shot, thrashed and stomped upon to death - has been identified at Moinul Haque, a 30-years-old father of two children and caretaker of two elderly parents

New Bengal BJP chief Sukanta Majumdar and two other party leaders were charged by the police in a case filed over their protest with a body of a party worker near Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's home in Kolkata yesterday.

Two civilians were killed and nine policemen injured on Thursday when an anti-encroachment drive in Assam's Darrang district blew up into a brutal clash between the police and people protesting eviction.

Two days after BJP MP Babul Supriyo joined the Trinamool, the boss of BJP's Bengal unit Dilip Ghosh - known for frequent controversial comments - has been replaced.

Bollywood singer-turned-BJP politician Babul Supriyo had a "musical meeting" today with West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, whose party, the Trinamool Congress, he joined on Saturday.

Trinamool has nominated Sushmita Dev, a former aide of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, to the Rajya Sabha less than a month after she switched loyalties. The DMK has left no seats for the Congress, naming two of its own for the October 4 bypolls.

Bengal's ruling Trinamool Congress on Tuesday refuted a BJP poll complaint - that Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had failed to disclose five police cases against her while filing nomination papers for the crucial September 30 Bhabanipur bypoll.

Bombs were hurled at Bengal BJP MP Arjun Singh's house today, a day after the National Investigation Agency ordered a probe into the attack of September 8.

Mamta Banerjee's political rivals filed their nomination papers today for the September 30 by-elections to Bhabanipur that the chief minister is fighting to find a place in the West Bengal assembly.

Trinamool MP Abhishek Banerjee has received a fresh summons from the Enforcement Directorate to appear for questioning in connection with a money laundering case linked to the alleged coal mine scam in Bengal.

The BJP said Priyanka Tibrewal, a 41-year-old lawyer at the Calcutta High Court, will contest against Mamata Banerjee in the September 30 Bhabanipur bypolls, calling her "fearless" after many party leaders reportedly refused to take on the challenge.

Trinamool Congress MP Nusrat Jahan, in her first public outing since she had a baby last month, firmly shut down questions on the father, declaring that she is "ready to face questions" coming her way.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee kicked off her election campaign for the Bhabanipur Assembly constituency with a low-key meeting of party workers.

Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, a day after saying that his party would challenge Mamata Banerjee in Bhabanipur, today reversed the stand. He said the High Command had decided against even campaigning the West Bengal Chief Minister.

West Bengal Chief Secretary HK Dwivedi today announced Rs 50,000 each to the state's 36,000-odd Durga Puja Pandals, almost 2,500 of which are in capital Kolkata alone. Although Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee avoided announcing it, the BJP cried foul.

A school teacher and her 14-year-old son were found murdered in Kolkata on Monday. Their bodies were discovered by her husband in their flat in a multi-storey building in Behala Parnashree area of the city.

Suvendu Adhikari, former Mamata Banerjee ally who went on to become the West Bengal Leader of Opposition, today got a huge relief from the Calcutta High Court. It stayed three cases against him and barred his arrest in connection with one of them.