Deepa Dasmunsi

Veteran Congress leader Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi dies at 72: Former Union minister was in coma since 2008

Veteran Congress leader and former All India Football Federation President Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi passed away on Monday at the age of 72.

Kolkata flyover tragedy: Rahul Gandhi makes visit to crash site, meets victims

Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Saturday visited the city's Posta area where an under-construction flyover collapse killed 24 people and later met the injured in a hospital

WB: Raigunj to witness battle between Deepa Dasmunsi and her brother

An unfulfilled dream of former Union minister Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi, bedridden for the past six years, of setting up an AIIMS-like hospital here continues to dominate the election contest here between his wife and his brother in this constituency that has been a Congress stronghold since 1999.

LS elections: Campaigning ends for 7th phase, 117 seats to go to polls

Campaigning for the Lok Sabha election on Tuesday ended across 11 states and one union territory where 179 million voters are eligible to decide the political fate of over 2,000 candidates in 117 seats.

West Bengal: Few women candidates in Lok Sabha poll list

While the candidate list for the 42 Lok Sabha seats announced by the Trinamool Congress has 11 women, the Left Front list has only six.