Observers say communal tensions between Hindus and Muslims in India's West Bengal state are being used for political leverage by rival parties.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday slammed the Mamata Banerjee government in West Bengal and said the state “needs freedom from politics of violence, appeasement, riots and corruption ...

In West Bengal it also brought the violence close, creating local political economies in which access to government jobs and other local resources are contested both at the ballot and in the streets.

A pall of gloom has descended on the Ruhr of Bengal. Since the Honourable Supreme Court upheld Calcutta High Court’s earlier decision to invalidate 2016’s SSC panel, more than 500 teachers and ...

BJP has posted images of broken idols from a West Bengal village, alleging temple desecration. The party claims villagers discovered the damaged idols at night.

OBC quota deadlock dominates politics in West Bengal; new list an appeasement move, says BJP West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee says“backwardness”was the only benchmark to decide OBC category.

Pahalgam killings spark fresh wave of polarisation and communal politics in Bengal “One form of fundamentalism breeds another. We must not let martyrdom be used as fuel for hatred,” said CPI ...

Bengal is on high alert for Ram Navami celebrations, with maximum security deployed across the state. The BJP plans to celebrate with fervor, while the TMC government urges peace.

A newly built temple dedicated to Lord Jagannath in the coastal town of Digha in West Bengal has become the centre of a political flashpoint between Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's government and ...

Suvendu Adhikari alleges that over 400 Hindus in Dhulian, Murshidabad, were forced to flee their homes due to communal unrest, blaming the Trinamool Congress's appeasement politics for emboldening ...

West Bengal: Over 400 Hindus Flee Murshidabad Amid Waqf Act Violence, BJP's Suvendu Adhikari Blames TMC’s Appeasement Politics Leader of the Opposition Suvendu Adhikari, in a post on his X ...

Tensions over an amendment expanding Indian government control over Muslim religious properties has spiralled into violence in India's West Bengal state. Since April 11, at least three ...