Politics

Affirming her candidature from the high profile Nandigram seat, Banerjee will vacate her traditional Bhowanipore seat in Kolkata, as she threw a challenge to her protege-turned-rival Suvendu Adhikari, who crossed over to the BJP in December.

Nandigram is considered as a strong bastion of rebel TMC leader Suvendu Adhikari (now in BJP) and Mamata’s announcement to contest from this region is being seen as her direct challenge to the Adhikari family.

More than 260 refugees who were vetted, approved and booked to come to the United States have had their flights canceled by the State Department over the past two weeks because they do not qualify under restrictions imposed by former President Donald Trum...

Interest rates keep marching higher, and Wall Street keeps shaking because of it.

BJP national president JP Nadda and Union Home Minister Amit Shah will hold about 30 rallies each, besides micromanaging the entire Assembly election in Bengal.

The U.S. Naval Academy is developing plans to begin vaccinating midshipmen this month so students can deploy to ships and with Navy teams as part of their training this summer, Vice Adm. Sean Buck told Congress Tuesday.

An independent ethics body says there is "substantial reason to believe that Republican Rep. Steven Palazzo of Mississippi abused his office by misspending campaign funds, doing favors for his brother and enlisting staff for political and personal errands...

The central BJP leadership and President JP Nadda has selectively picked up Malda for mega public shows in recent past through rallies and ‘parivartan yatras’.

The Left Front on Monday said that it was working with alliance partners Congress and Abbas Siddiqui-led ISF to iron out the differences over seat-sharing for the assembly elections in West Bengal. Left Front chairman Biman Bose said talks will be held...

"This election will show the same thing that only a person who truly represents the Tamil people can be a chief minister of Tamil Nadu," he said addressing the huge crowd in Nagercoil, in the southern Kanyakumari district. "Tamil Nadu chief minister (K Pa...

The White House seemed reluctant Thursday to pursue a Senate procedural power play to preserve Democrats' bid to hike the minimum wage, as lawmakers awaited a decision by the chamber's parliamentarian that could determine the proposal's fate.

GameStop Corp shares more than doubled in afternoon trading on Wednesday, surprising those who thought the video game retailer's stock price would stabilize after recent hearings in the U.S. Congress into the fierce rally and steep dive that upended Wall...

Between deep wounds to the labor market and weak inflation, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell delivered a simple message to investors fixated on rising U.S. bond yields and price risks: watch the data, and don't expect any changes in monetary policy unt...

Nandigram is one of the crucial seats for Mamata because she came to power in 2011 riding the waves of anti-land acquisition movements in Nandigram and Singur.

The challenge of VK Sasikala staking claim to the legacy of J Jayalalithaa is keeping the AIADMK on its toes. Things could get standoffish on Wednesday, the day of the AIADMK icon's 73rd birth anniversary.

A South African commission, which was set up to probe the allegations of state corruption against Jacob Zuma, has sought two-year jail term for the former president for contempt of court. The move by the Commission of Inquiry into State Capture on Monday...