BJP supporters celebrate majority in the West Bengal Assembly elections in Kolkata on Monday. (ANI photo) West Bengal has turned saffron. Mamata Banerjee‘s 15-year rule has ended and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is all set to form its first government in the state.So, what contributed to this decisive political shift in the state’s electoral landscape?…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi (ANI photo) NEW DELHI: What was once a distant ambition for BJP has turned into a defining milestone. With its breakthrough victory in West Bengal in 2026, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has completed a symbolic arc in eastern India, stretching across Bihar (Anga), Bengal (Banga), and Odisha (Kalinga).The win is…
Supreme Court (File Image) NEW DELHI: Castigating Orissa high court and judiciary for imposing “clean police station bail conditions” on tribal and Dalit villagers arrested in cases of violent protest against Vedanta’s bauxite mining in Rayagada and Kalahandi, Supreme Court Monday quashed these conditions, terming them “abhorrent, cruel, degrading and unknown to law”.The HC, while…
Thiruvananthapuram: The Congress in Kerala is entering a crucial phase following the United Democratic Front’s (UDF) sweeping victory in the Assembly elections, with the party now tasked with choosing its chief ministerial candidate amid competing claims from senior functionaries.The tussle surfaced even before results, with senior Congress figures openly debating the chief minister’s post after…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to test the validity of the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Act, 2026, as a bunch of petitions challenged the constitutionality of the new provisions annulling self-perceived gender identity of persons and stripping trans men and trans masculine identities of statutory recognition.Senior advocate A M Singhvi,…
NEW DELHI: Rajya Sabha member Raghav Chadha on Tuesday launched a sharp attack on his former party, the Aam Aadmi Party, alleging misuse of Punjab’s state machinery to target MPs who recently defected to the Bharatiya Janata Party.Chadha, who was part of a delegation that met Droupadi Murmu, accused the AAP-led Punjab government of engaging…
File photo of Rahul Gandhi NEW DELHI: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday cautioned party colleagues and other oppostion leaders against celebrating the Trinamool Congress’s defeat in West Bengal, framing the election outcome as a larger threat to Indian democracy. Without taking names, Rahul Gandhi said, “Some in the Congress, and others, are gloating about…
Thiruvananthapuram: BJP made a historic stride by winning three seats and the party was quick to say it was symbolic as it had won the same number of seats in West Bengal in 2016. The victory could be seen as a stamp of approval to state president Rajeev Chandrasekhar’s strategy to focus more on development…
NEW DELHI: The big fish in Bengal lies stranded, as a surging BJP tide has left Mamata “Didi” ashore. The saffron wave didn’t just arrive, it crashed through West Bengal with force, splintering what once seemed an unshakeable bastion.The state that long stood as Didi’s fortress has delivered a staggering 206 seats to the BJP,…
In a sweeping and symbolic mandate, BJP on Monday stormed to power in West Bengal, winning 206 seats to secure a more than two-thirds majority and bringing an end to the Trinamool Congress’s 15-year rule.The scale of the victory, marked by chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s defeat in Bhabanipur to BJP’s Suvendu Adhikari, has firmly positioned…
