Mamata Banerjee's unprecedented coup in Meghalaya -- the joining of 12 of 17 Congress MLAs led by Mukul Sangma late last evening -- started with a meeting between election strategist Prashant Kishor and the senior Congress leader.

The Tripura civic elections began at 7 am today amid claims by the opposition Communist Party of India (Marxist), or CPI(M), and the Trinamool Congress that workers of the ruling BJP are going around on motorcycles and intimidating their candidates.

Former Meghalaya Chief Minister Mukul Sangma, along with 11 of the 17 Congress MLAs in the state, joined the Trinamool Congress in a huge coup for West Bengal's ruling party in the northeast.

In expansion mode ever since it fought off the BJP assault in the Bengal Assembly elections, the Trinamool Congress today shifted gears in its acquisition of political leaders and made three new additions to the party from across the country.

Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee arrives in New Delhi to push forward her agenda for opposition unity.

Trinamool Congress alleged "mayhem" in BJP-ruled Tripura on Sunday as its leader, actor Sayoni Ghosh, was arrested by the police and accused of attempt to murder. Alleging repeated instances of violence, the party decided to take the matter to Delhi.

The winning streak of Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee looks set to continue through the by-polls, where her Trinamool Congress is on track to wrest two seats won by the BJP in the April-May state polls. The party is ahead in all four seats.

Rajib Banerjee, a minister in the Mamta Banerjee government who had left Trinamool Congress and the Bengal Assembly in January, dramatically clutching a photograph of the chief minister close to his heart, is back in the Trinamool Congress today.

The Trinamool Congress and the Goa Forward Party (GFP) are in talks - GFP chief Vijay Sardesai met Trinamool boss and Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today - over a deal to fight next year's Assembly election together.

Rahul Gandhi's Goa visit comes days after Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee started her three-day visit to campaign for her party in the state.

Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday slammed the Congress for making PM Modi (and the BJP) "more powerful" by acting as the party's publicist, and appeared to rule out any possibility of an alliance with the GOP before Goa polls.

Fake social media accounts are being used to spread fake news and communally sensitive rumours, including pictures of burning/damaged mosque, following Tuesday's violence in Tripura, the state police said, adding the situation is "absolutely normal".

Two days before Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's Goa visit to kick off the Trinamool Congress campaign for the 2022 assembly polls, the party hiked pressure on the state's BJP government.

The centre has pulled up the West Bengal government for the rise in number of COVID-19 cases in Kolkata following huge crowds on the streets during the Durga Puja celebrations earlier this month.

The COVID-19 numbers are on the rise in Kolkata since the end of Durga Puja festivities and now the graph is rising so sharply, civic authorities are reopening safe houses and quarantine centres on Monday for patients who need to isolate.

In a breakthrough in the double murder case that has rocked Kolkata since Sunday, the police Wednesday arrested a 42-year-old woman after she confessed to conspiracy in crime. Her son, who is believed to be a key suspect, is absconding.

Several places in Darjeeling, Kalimpong, and Sikkim got over 200 mm of rainfall in the last 24 hours. Gajoledoba in Jalpaiguri which got nearly 350 mm of rainfall was the worst hit.

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.