Adhir Chowdhury, a name connected to West Bengal politics for more than three decades, is contesting the Assembly elections from the Baharampur constituency, a place widely known as his electoral ‘fort’. Chowdhury, one of the tallest Congress leaders in West Bengal’s history, started his journey in electoral politics exactly 30 years ago, in the 1996…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has become the longest-serving head of government in Indian history, surpassing a record that had stood in the name of former Sikkim Chief Minister Pawan Kumar Chamling for years. On Sunday (22 March), PM Modi’s cumulative tally of days in office, spanning his tenure as Chief Minister of Gujarat and subsequently…
Veteran politician and former railway minister Mukul Roy died of cardiac arrest at a private hospital here on Monday, his family said. He was 71. Roy breathed his last at 1.30 am at the private hospital, his son Subhranshu Roy said, adding that he had been in a coma for the last several days. Roy…
C-Voter has conducted a ‘Mood of the Nation’ (MOTN) survey on which party will form the government if Lok Sabha elections are held in the country today. If the survey is to be believed, the seats of BJP led NDA will increase to 352. Only BJP can get 287 seats. At the same time, India…
