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Saturday, April 20, 2024
TopicWest Bengal bypolls

Topic: West Bengal bypolls

Mamata takes over minority affairs portfolio weeks after Sagardighi bypoll defeat

Incumbent Ghulam Rabbani moved to horticulture department. On 2 March, TMC suffered a major setback after CPI(Marxist)-backed Congress candidate Bayron Biswas defeated TMC’s Debashish Banerjee.

Sagardighi bypoll: A Bengal MLA for Congress, a ‘warning sign’ for TMC ahead of panchayat polls

With Left-backed Congress candidate Bayron Biswas's win, Congress will now finally have an MLA in state assembly. Mamata says Congress, BJP, CPI(M) 'are together'.

As Modi govt ministers lead BJP campaign on Mamata’s turf Bhabanipur, CPM wages ‘lonely’ battle

Mamata Banerjee, who represented Bhabanipur in 2011 and 2016, is up against BJP's Priyanka Tibrewal and the CPI(M)'s Shrijeeb Biswas in the 30 September bypoll.

Cornering Mamata Banerjee in 2021 assembly polls won’t be easy. BJP lacks a pan-Bengal face

If the question, “If not Modi, who?” worked for the BJP in the 2019 Lok Sabha election, then “If not Didi, who?” may come to haunt it in West Bengal in 2021.

Not NRC, but Bengal’s Congress-Left floating votes defeated BJP in bypolls

BJP may have been beaten by Trinamool Congress in the bypolls, but the party need not worry as numbers show that its vote-share is still intact.

On Camera

Iran-Israel conflict will now be shaped by 3H—Houthis, Hamas, Hezbollah

Israel's response to Iran's retaliatory attack was relatively small and also downplayed by Tehran. But there are factors that could jeopardise this perceived reprieve.

CBDT signs record 125 Advance Pricing Agreements, 31% more than last year

The 125 APAs include 86 Unilateral APAs (UAPAs) and 39 Bilateral APAs (BAPAs). The total number of APAs since the start of the APA programme has risen to 641, with 506 UAPAs and 135 BAPAs.

Vice Admiral Dinesh Kumar Tripathi to take over as Chief of the Naval Staff

He has been the chief of personnel and the flag officer commanding-in-chief, Western Naval Command, in the rank of vice admiral.

These 6 states are key for Modi’s ‘400 paar’ target. They’re also where Opposition can stop him

While this contest looks so predictable in large swathes of our political landscape, it is also more keenly contested than 2019 in some states.