Voting for civic body bypolls comes weeks after Trinamool leader Partha Chatterjee was arrested along with his aide Arpita Mukherjee.

Apart from Asansol, polling is being held in Bongaon as well, which comes under the North 24-Parganas district.

Ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) rubbished charges that a real estate agent involved in the attack is close to its local leaders

Mamata Banerjee said that government holidays for the annual autumnal festival will commence from September 30 and continue till October 10.

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee urged people to make the September 1 rally as colourful as possible to mark the beginning of the one-month-long Durga Puja celebrations

Simultaneously, the Calcutta high court summoned Mondal’s daughter Sukanya on Thursday in connection with the teachers’ recruitment scam

The hoardings come even as multiple senior TMC leaders are under the scanner of government agencies for alleged corruption on a host of issues.

A state minister said rules of behaviour were on Thursday discussed at the first Cabinet meeting after Banerjee reshuffled her council of ministers following former minister Partha Chatterjee’s arrest

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