Trinamool Congress MPs are aware of the massive backlash that local party leaders are facing in West Bengal. Public fury, erosion of support and an enabling BJP is reportedly making over 20 TMC MPs ditch Mamata Banerjee and side with the NDA.
For nearly five decades, Lakshadweep was one of India's few territories where alcohol sales were largely prohibited. Around 97% of the population is Muslim. The Centre is now changing that, bringing a regulated licencing system as part of a broader push to boost tourism.
Expelled TMC MLA Ritabrata Banerjee might have claimed to have the support of at least 60 MLAs, but efforts to put down the rebellion are already underway. TMC matriarch Mamata Banerjee is personally calling up rebel TMC MLAs and her aides are reaching out to Muslim leaders. Why are rebel MLAs reconsidering their support for Ritabrata?
It's all quiet on the Tollywood front. The Trinamool Congress's usually vocal, star-studded line-up of celebrity MPs and MLAs, who owe their seats to Mamata Banerjee's patronage, have either gone deafeningly silent or distanced themselves from the party as the TMC faces its worst existential crisis.
The TMC's internal turmoil has delighted many in the BJP. But others in the party worry that if the Mamata Banerjee-founded party collapses entirely, the BJP might end up facing the rapidly reviving CPI(M)-led Left Front. Then there could be the Left-Congress combine too.
Once celebrated as the Left's blue-eyed boy, Ritabrata Banerjee was in 2018 welcomed into the Trinamool Congress fold. Today, he stands at the centre of a rebellion that could see TMC founder Mamata Banerjee lose control of her party. All about Ritabrata, who could end up being Bengal's Eknath Shinde.
People are mocking Trinamool Congress leader Abhishek Banerjee and have brought protests to his doorsteps. Here's why the anger, even from TMC leaders, seems mostly directed at bhaipo (nephew), and not at party chief Mamata Banerjee.
The police in West Bengal have paraded at least three TMC-linked strongmen in undergarments through the streets after their arrests. Akash Singh, a don from Howrah, had his head and face shaven too. The parades come amid a police crackdown and amid the TMC's allegations of legal and moral breach.
Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar, Trinamool Congress's Barasat MP and Mamata Banerjee's longtime ally, has resigned from her party post. Ghosh Dastidar blamed misgovernance within the TMC and the I-PAC for TMC's washout. Her resignation and subsequent attack by TMC's Kalyan Banerjee reveal the storm brewing within the party.
Between the US-Iran war and the fracturing of ties between the UAE and Pakistan, the Pakistani Shia diaspora in the Emirate has become the grass trampled underfoot. Thousands of Shia Pakistanis face deportation, even as a Sunni-majority UAE faces unprovoked attacks from a Shia Iran and Islamabad's mediation bid.
From promising an electric crematorium for the BJP's last rites to watching his own empire collapse, Abhishek Banerjee's Diamond Harbour fortress has fallen. In Falta, the BJP has won a commanding victory in the repoll following the surrender of Trinamool Congress's strongman and self-proclaimed Pushpa, Jahangir Khan.
The cockroach is known for being difficult to eliminate. Following the massive online traction for India's Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), several similar satirical accounts have now emerged in Pakistan. One of them, the Cockroach Awami Party, is presenting itself as an alternative to mainstream Pakistani political parties.
In just 38 months, China built the world's largest railway station in Chongqing, a sprawling megacity strategically developed under Mao Zedong's Third Front campaign. Beijing could make the unthinkable possible due to a robot revolution.
As global energy shocks have exposed India's import vulnerabilities, New Delhi is betting big on coal gasification to turn its vast domestic reserves into fuels, fertilisers and chemicals. India has coal reserves that can last 200 years. The Modi government this week approved a Rs 37,500-crore scheme to promote gasification projects.
After the Trinamool Congress's defeat in the West Bengal Assembly election, several party leaders have attacked consultancy firm I-PAC, alleging it hijacked and sabotaged its electoral campaign. A former TMC spokesperson even claimed that former CM Mamata Banerjee's defence of I-PAC during ED raids, could land her in jail.
One of the crucial factors in the BJP's historic 2026 victory in West Bengal polls has been the silent Left supporters who backed it. Repelled by the TMC and lacking any viable alternative, scores of Left supporters voted for the BJP in the 2026 polls. The strategy of the CPI(M) supporters is similar to the one used by MMA fighters.
Women, the force behind Mamata Banerjee, seem to have deserted the Trinamool Congress for the BJP. The RG Kar rape and murder hit society's conscience and no amount of dole would repair the hurt. That's evident in the results of the West Bengal Assembly election on Monday.
There is a wide rift in the BRICS, of which India is a founding member, due to the war in the Middle East. There was no joint statement after the recent meeting in New Delhi that was described as "very tense". India as the BRICS president will have to do a tight rope walk ahead of the crucial summit in September.
A measles outbreak in Bangladesh has killed over 250 people, mostly children. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has flagged a cross-border risk of transmission. Though India should be on alert, its high immunisation coverage might limit any major spillover impact.
The BJP has transformed Mamata Banerjee's safest constituency into West Bengal's most-watched contest in the 2026 West Bengal Assembly election. With Suvendu Adhikari as the challenger, caste surveys and door-to-door campaign, the Trinamool Congress chief faces the most serious test on her turf yet.
