Mamata Banerjee
A cow runs through high tide water at the Digha beach on the Bay of Bengal coast as Cyclone Yaas intensifies in West Bengal state, India, Wednesday, May 26, 2021. Heavy rain and a high tide lashed parts of India's eastern coast as the cyclone pushed ashore Wednesday in an area where more than 1.1 million people have evacuated amid a devastating coronavirus surge. (AP Photo/Ashim Paul)
Cyclone lashes India, Bangladesh; 6 dead, 1.1M evacuated

By Ashok Sharma And Julhas Alam May. 25, 2021 09:53 PM EDT

Supporters of Trinamool Congress party chief Mamata Banerjee holding an earlier photograph of her celebrate early lead for the party in the West Bengal state elections in Kolkata, India, Sunday, May 2, 2021. (AP Photo/Ashim Paul)
Impact of devastating Indian virus surge spreads to politics

By Krutika Pathi May. 03, 2021 02:28 AM EDT

Election officials sit wearing masks and face shields during the counting of votes of Assam state assembly election in Gauhati, India, Sunday, May 2, 2021. With Indian hospitals struggling to secure a steady supply of oxygen, and more COVID-19 patients dying amid the shortages, a court in New Delhi said it would start punishing government officials for failing to deliver the life-saving items. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)
Indian leader's party takes electoral hit amid virus surge

By Ashok Sharma May. 02, 2021 08:34 AM EDT

An Indian paramilitary person walks past people standing in queue to cast their votes in a polling station during the third phase of assembly election in Gauhati, India, Tuesday, April 6, 2021. Voters in four Indian states and a union territory are casting their ballots, in elections seen as a test for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government which is battling the latest surge in coronavirus cases. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)
Indian states vote amid latest surge in coronavirus cases

Apr. 06, 2021 03:51 AM EDT

Voters stand in a queue to cast their votes during the first phase of elections in West Bengal state in Pirakata, India, Saturday, March 27, 2021. Voting began Saturday in two key Indian states with sizeable minority Muslim populations posing a tough test for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s popularity amid a months-long farmers’ protest and the economy plunging with millions of people losing jobs because of the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Bikas Das)
Modi's party seeks big win as 2 key Indian states vote

By Ashok Sharma Mar. 27, 2021 12:07 AM EDT

FILE - In this March 7, 2021, file photo, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses a public rally ahead of West Bengal state elections in Kolkata, India. Modi and his Hindu nationalist party are making a serious bid for electoral victories in three states that have sizeable minority Muslim population. (AP Photo/Bikas Das, File)
India's PM Modi faces big electoral test in Muslim areas

By Ashok Sharma Mar. 26, 2021 12:05 AM EDT

FILE- In this May 3, 2012 file photo, Bengali language film actor Soumitra Chatterjee, center, gestures after receiving the Dadasahab Phalke Award for the year 2011, as Indian Vice President Hamid Ansari, right, and Indian Minister for Information and Broadcasting Ambika Soni look on, during the 59th National Film Awards in New Delhi, India. Chatterjee, the legendary Indian actor with more than 200 movies to his name and famed for his work with Oscar-winning director Satyajit Ray, has died. He was 85. (AP Photo/ Manish Swarup, File)
Soumitra Chatterjee, legend of Indian cinema, dies at 85

By Sheikh Saaliq Nov. 15, 2020 04:07 AM EST

Motorists make their way through damaged cables and a tree branch fallen in the middle of a road after Cyclone Amphan hit the region in Kolkata, India, Thursday, May 21, 2020. People forgot about social distancing and crammed themselves into government shelters, minutes before Cyclone Amphan crashed in West Bengal. The cyclone killed dozens of people and the coronavirus nine in this region, one of India’s poorer states. Even before the cyclone, its pandemic response was lagging; the state has one of the highest fatality rates from COVID-19 in India. With an economy crippled by India’s eight-week lockdown, and health care systems sapped by the virus, authorities must tackle both COVID-19 and the cyclone’s aftermath.(AP Photo/Bikas Das)
India struggles with twin challenges of cyclone and pandemic

By Aniruddha Ghosal May. 22, 2020 06:29 AM EDT

Wide areas of coastal India and Bangladesh are flooded and millions of people are without power after Cyclone Amphan struck the region.;
Recovery begins after storm ravages Indian, Bangladesh coast

By Sheikh Saaliq May. 22, 2020 04:11 AM EDT

An Indian man carries drinking water from a nearby source and walks past trees fallen after Cyclone Amphan hit the region in Kolkata, India, Thursday, May 21, 2020. A powerful cyclone ripped through densely populated coastal India and Bangladesh, blowing off roofs and whipping up waves that swallowed embankments and bridges and left entire villages without access to fresh water, electricity and communications. (AP Photo/Bikas Das)
Deadly cyclone cuts destructive path in India and Bangladesh

By Sheikh Saaliq And Julhas Alam May. 21, 2020 12:01 AM EDT

A man covers himself with a plastic sheet and walks in the rain ahead of Cyclone Amphan landfall, at Bhadrak district, in the eastern Indian state of Orissa, Wednesday, May 20, 2020. A strong cyclone blew heavy rains and strong winds into coastal India and Bangladesh on Wednesday after more than 2.6 million people were moved to shelters in a frantic evacuation made more challenging by coronavirus. (AP Photo)
Cyclone batters India and Bangladesh coasts, millions flee

By Aniruddha Ghosal And Julhas Alam May. 20, 2020 04:16 AM EDT