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News Reports

Pro-TMC Bengali newspaper owned by Rose Valley abuses tribals and Gorkhas for voting for BJP, calls them ‘Corrupt Hill Dwellers’

OpIndia Staff - 27 May, 2019

Bengali newspaper owned by Rose Valley group says hill dwellers took development money from Mamata but voted for BJP

Politics

BJP workers killed in Amethi, Barrackpore, Indore after BJP registered an unprecedented victory in Lok Sabha elections

OpIndia Staff - 27 May, 2019

In all three the Lok Sabha constituencies where the BJP workers were killed, Indore, Amethi and Barrackpore, BJP registered a historic win

News Reports

CBI issues lookout notice against ex-Kolkata top cop Rajeev Kumar in Saradha Chit Fund scam

OpIndia Staff - 26 May, 2019

The Supreme Court on Friday, May 24, rejected Kumar’s request for extending protection to him from being arrested

Politics

Mamata Banerjee’s meltdown, alleges involvement of ‘foreign hand’ in BJP winning Lok Sabha elections

OpIndia Staff - 26 May, 2019

Mamata Banerjee had 'offered' to resign as West Bengal chief minister to concentrate on reviving the party but her TMC colleagues begged her not to

Crime

Another BJP worker shot dead in West Bengal, party blames TMC

OpIndia Staff - 25 May, 2019

The victim, 25-year-old Shantu Ghosh had defected from the Trinamool Congress recently and had joined the BJP.

Politics

Riding high on 2019 win, BJP MP claims the TMC will be reduced to 60 seats in West Bengal assembly polls

OpIndia Staff - 25 May, 2019

In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the BJP gave the TMC a tough fight by managing to win 18 seats, a massive improvement from the 2014 polls where they won only 2 seats.

Politics

Election 2019 Results: 21 seats where NOTA polled more votes than the winning margin

Aditya (reviewero) - 25 May, 2019

We look at data on NOTA in the 2019 Lok Sabha Election. In which seats did NOTA really make a difference?

Opinions

The story of BJP’s rise and rise in West Bengal: The story starts not in 2019 but 2017 Ram Navami

K Bhattacharjee - 24 May, 2019

History may remember the 23rd of May, 2019 as the day when the future of Bengal Politics changed forever. However, it was on the 5th of April, 2017, on the auspicious day of Ram Navami that the seeds of it were sown.

Crime