Kolkata: A 19-year-old was allegedly abducted from Tiljala and assaulted by a group of young men before being rescued from a secluded area in Beleghata in the early hours of Thursday, police said.The victim, Areeb Ali, was initially admitted ...
20 March 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Brace for spells of thundershowers in the next two days, with the Met office predicting enhanced thunderstorm activities between Friday and Saturday in Kolkata along with various other districts across Bengal. Met officials said a combination of moisture ...
20 March 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A traffic timing and peak-hour vehicular movement analysis conducted by the Bidhannagar Police has shown significant improvement in vehicular flow and vehicular speed along the road to airport on VIP Road following a series of experimental changes in ...
20 March 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 38-year-old Trinamool booth president was found dead on Thursday morning, with his wrists severed and signs of acid burns on his face, at Haroa-Bhangar Road in Minakhan, North 24 Parganas.Police said Kazi Masiur Rahman was a resident ...
20 March 2026 Times of IndiaKharagpur: IIT Kharagpur has issued a notice revoking permission for feeding stray dogs inside the campus. The notice also asked the nodal officer (security) to ensure that stray dogs do not enter and inhabit the campus.IIT-Kgp, in Oct, had ...
20 March 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A newborn declared dead by a private nursing home was found alive hours later just as her family was preparing for her burial in Swarupnagar, North 24 Parganas on Thursday afternoon. The incident has triggered allegations of medical ...
20 March 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Calcutta HC on Thursday refused bail to Sk Shahjahan and his brother Sk Alamgir in a CBI case over the attack on ED officers during a raid at Shajahan's Sandeshkhali residence, calling them "influential persons of the locality ...
20 March 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: An almost five-fold spike in auto LPG sale in the city over the past 10 days, coinciding with the curtailment of several autorickshaw routes, has raised red flags among oil marketing companies (OMCs), which suspect illegal diversion of ...
20 March 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 36-year-old man allegedly committed suicide at Baduria in North 24-Parganas on Thursday after his name was placed under the "adjudication" category in the final electoral rolls. The first supplementary voter list under the SIR process is likely ...
20 March 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Senior Congress neta Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Thursday said he is set to return to legislative politics in Bengal after nearly three decades, expressing his wish to contest from the Beharampore assembly seat, subject to approval from the ...
20 March 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A local Diamond Harbour court has convicted an extortionist and sentenced him to life imprisonment after connecting the dots through CCTV footage in an attempt-to-murder case reported on March 5, 2023. The accused, Rejajul Laskar alias Choto Matal, ...
20 March 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Observing that the "sword of litigation" hanging over a convict's head for nearly 15 years itself amounts to a form of punishment, the Calcutta High Court reduced the one-year sentence of a man from Joypur — convicted of ...
20 March 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Akash Dey (16) from Coochbehar was rushed to a Kolkata hospital a few days before his Madhyamik board examination. Doctors found complete heart blockage, uncommon at such a young age. Five days after a life-saving pacemaker implantation, the ...
20 March 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Cashing in on the current LPG crisis, a cylinder sale racket has emerged, with commercial cylinders being sold at exorbitant prices. Owners of roadside eateries, especially those in the central business district, are paying Rs 3,000 or more ...
20 March 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Long queues at LPG fuel stations have meant that autos that usually operate six days a week are now able to run for only four days. Autos that have a full tank can operate for two days without ...
20 March 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: JU has written to the higher education department, urging it to sanction Rs 21 crore towards a maintenance grant to restore and sustain functioning of laboratories, hostel facilities, teaching-learning processes. A source said, "The university is facing a ...
20 March 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Days after 930 senior resident doctors were given postings at various govt hospitals in the state, 17 have refused to join. They were allowed to exit the bond that made three years of posting mandatory at govt facilities, ...
20 March 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Having passed the first-weekend challenge of operating with dwindling LPG stock and new electric cooking gadgets with flying colours, city restaurants have been emboldened to consider retaining some of the electric cookware if it proves to be economically ...
20 March 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Communities across the city are ushering in a new year with prayers and traditional food. From Ugadi, Gudi Padwa, and Navreh to Cheti Chand and Sajibu Cheiraoba, the celebrations reflect Kolkata's cultural vibrancy. Families from Andhra Pradesh, Telangana ...
20 March 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: With elections just over a month away, hospitals across Kolkata are bracing for a blood supply shortage, since donation camps, which are the principal source of blood, are set to be discontinued as local clubs and voluntary organisations ...
20 March 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Ward 77 of Bhowanipore constituency — long considered Trinamool Congress's electoral bulwark — emerged as the primary talking point during a recent closed-door strategy meeting.Senior functionaries and councillors, who attended the meeting on Thursday, acknowledged that the minority-dominated ...
20 March 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Before the announced publication of supplementary list by Saturday, voters placed under adjudication in the city have started calling up their BLOs and enquiring how to check their names.Till Thursday night, 25 lakh cases have been cleared. EC ...
20 March 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The mother of the RG Kar victim on Thursday claimed that she is set to contest the assembly elections as a BJP candidate from the Panihati constituency to "secure justice for her daughter's murder and to fight for ...
20 March 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Daily commuters across Kolkata and its southern and eastern fringes are paying up to three times their usual fares as auto operators have started abruptly truncating routes to cope with fuel shortages linked to the ongoing West Asia ...
19 March 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: With West Bengal heading to the polls, Tollywood’s political cinema is trading traditional class analysis for a gritty look at individual agency and systemic failure. While masters including Satyajit Ray, Mrinal Sen, Ritwik Ghatak, Buddhadeb Dasgupta, Utpalendu Chakraborty, ...
19 March 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The EC on Wednesday directed the state's top police officials to immediately deploy central forces in any area where the law-and-order situation deteriorates. In a review meeting with Bengal DGP, CP Kolkata, ADG (law and order), IG CRPF ...
19 March 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA:Trinamool has fielded twotime councillor Vijay Upadhyay from Jorasanko for the April 29 assembly election, replacing sitting MLA Vivek Gupta in one of Kolkata’s most closely watched constituencies.Party leaders called the move strategic, in a seat where BJP has ...
19 March 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Trinamool Congress’s list of candidates for the assembly poll has only 25% nominees who are senior citizens, marking a significant deviation from the norm in a country where gerontocracy thrives in politics. In 2021, 42.4% of the party’s ...
19 March 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Upholding the ‘past experience' criterion by the chief electoral officer (CEO) of Bengal for awarding tender for surveillance systems for live web streaming and CCTVs in counting centres, the Calcutta High Court on Tuesday held that courts cannot ...
19 March 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: BJP had the highest earnings between 2014-15 and 2023-24 — more than twice the total funds collected by all remaining national parties combined — followed by Congress and Trinamool, according to an Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) report.The ...
19 March 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The founder of Aam Janata Unnayan Party, Humayun Kabir on Wednesday announced a fresh list of candidates ahead of the Assembly elections and clarified the two seats from which he will contest.Kabir declared that he will enter the ...
19 March 2026 Times of IndiaJalpaiguri: Within 48 hours of the Election Commission (EC) declaring Bengal polls, Alipurduar police seized Rs 2.75 lakh cash from a couple travelling in an Assam registered car on Wednesday afternoon.According to norms, individuals are not allowed to carry ...
19 March 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Trinamool on Wednesday lodged a complaint with the Election Commission against former party national vice-president Dilip Ghosh, alleging that he threatened Trinamool netas, workers and the public.The party said Ghosh, referring to the recent incident at state minister ...
19 March 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Green activists and residents in the city protested after a mango tree was axed near the Dhakuria flyover. They demanded a probe. A campaign was started under the banner of an organization called ‘Each One Plant One.'According to ...
19 March 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The West Asia war seems to have had its effect on Kolkata's only Jewish bakery, the 123-year-old Nahoum and Sons in New Market, which downed shutters on Wednesday, unable to sustain operations due to the ongoing LPG crisis. ...
19 March 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Five years on, the battleground has shifted from a largely rural setting to a fully urban constituency. Yet the Bhowanipore contest — between chief minister Mamata Banerjee and leader of opposition Suvendu Adhikari — remains as unpredictable as ...
19 March 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Fresh details emerging from the probe into the arrest of US national Aaron Van Dyke have revealed that he was detained at Kolkata airport for nearly two days before being formally handed over to the National Investigation Agency ...
19 March 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The West Bengal Clinical Establishment Regulatory Commission has barred a private hospital in Barrackpore from admitting new patients pending a probe against the hospital. According to a complaint by Soumik Majumder, his wife was admitted the hospital between ...
19 March 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Disaster Management Group (DMG) of Kolkata Police is set for a major overhaul. This time the focus is on its water wing that carries out rescues and recoveries in the Hooghly but often faces multiple challenges, most ...
19 March 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Gold ornaments worth nearly Rs 70 lakhs, reported missing from a Kestopur apartment on Monday, have been recovered within 24 hours. Police arrested the house help, Mandira Halder (26) in connection with the theft.During interrogation, she allegedly confessed ...
19 March 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Kolkata: A 24-year-old woman, six months pregnant, was allegedly murdered by her husband in Sodepur, with her body wrapped in plastic and hidden under a bed, sparking shock in the area.Police recovered the body on Wednesday evening and ...
19 March 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Kolkata Cyber Police arrested three persons who duped a senior citizen of Rs 3 crore through digital arrest fraud and seized six SIM boxes and 130 active SIM cards, which were all embedded in a wired system that ...
19 March 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata/Chinsurah: North 24 Parganas and Hooghly have emerged as the districts with the most new faces on the Trinamool Congress candidate list.In North 24 Parganas, the party denied tickets to MLAs in six of the seven assembly constituencies along ...
19 March 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Oil marketing companies have asked LPG distributors in Bengal to submit detailed data on priority and non-priority commercial custom-ers and their consumption patterns. The move comes amid concerns over supply disruptions, prompting Indian Oil Corporation (IOC), the state-level ...
19 March 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Calcutta University will allow affiliated colleges offering PG programmes to enjoy academic autonomy. Representatives from these colleges will soon be included in the PG Board of Studies as well.The move comes after Asutosh Ghosh took charge as CU ...
19 March 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Sobhandeb Chattopadhyay, 82, will create history if he wins the Ballygunge seat this time. He is set to become the only Bengal MLA to win a record 10th consecutive term.An octogenarian and one of Mamata Banerjee's closest associates, ...
19 March 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The EC on Wednesday said that minister Shashi Panja's name had been cleared from the ‘Under Adjudication' list, and her name will be included on the supplementary list. Panja, who is recontesting from Shyampukur, was among the notable ...
19 March 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Trinamool Congress released its entire list of 291 candidates for next month’s assembly election in one go on Tuesday, keeping the party’s founder and mascot — CM Mamata Banerjee — at her home constituency of Bhowanipore.Banerjee, who started ...
18 March 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Darjeeling Tea Association (DTA) has sought intervention of chief minister Mamata Banerjee for resumption of gas supply to tea estates.Incidentally, the production of first flush tea has just started and the tea factories require gas for processing of ...
18 March 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The Election Commission has appointed the maximum number of observers for Bengal among the four poll-bound states and the Union Territory of Puducherry.The 478 observers — across general, police and expenditure categories — would be stationed in their ...
18 March 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bengal's former home secretary J P Meena, who was replaced by Sanghamitra Ghosh on Sunday, has been posted by the Election Commission (EC) as an observer in Tamil Nadu. According to an EC note, he will oversee the ...
18 March 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Election Commission on Tuesday ordered yet another round of large-scale transfers of senior police officers in Bengal, shifting as many as 12 superintendents, four commissioners and the additional DGs in charge of north and south Bengal, prompting CM ...
18 March 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The battle between the state CM and the assembly’s opposition leader will now shift from Nandigram to Bhowanipore.Trinamool Congress on Tuesday said Mamata Banerjee will be re-contesting from the seat, which will go to polls in the second ...
18 March 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: MLA and BJP candidate for the upcoming assembly elections from Moyna, Ashok Dinda has moved the Calcutta High Court seeking details of the criminal cases pending against him. Appearing before the single-judge bench of justice Saugata Bhattacharyya on ...
18 March 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Two back to back nor'westers on Sunday and Monday that uprooted over 40 full-grown trees, nearly all of them in south Kolkata, is yet another pointer to the peril of rampant concretisation and depletion of the water table ...
18 March 2026 Times of IndiaKalyani: Tension erupted at the state-run College of Medicine and Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Hospital, Kalyani, on Monday night following a clash between junior doctors and a patient's family, leaving at least five injured. While the patient's family alleged that ...
18 March 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Colon cancer, which was once considered a disease of the elderly, is now rising among younger adults at an alarming rate. Doctors in the city said that they are detecting the cancer in an increasing number of patients ...
18 March 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Sushil Poddar, president of the Confederation of West Bengal Trade Association (CWBTA), has been elected as the chairperson of the West Bengal Traders' Welfare Board (WBTWB). Chief minister Mamata Banerjee had tweeted about the formation of this welfare ...
18 March 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation handed over the Deshbandhu Park swimming pool in north Kolkata to the Bengal Amateur Swimming Association (BASA), giving the association a dedicated pool for its swimmers.Set up in 1938, BASA produced several ace swimmers ...
18 March 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Trinamool Congress has signalled a clear preference for long-serving young party workers in its latest ticket distribution, rewarding those who have been building the organisation at the grassroots level and in public outreach.Among those fielded are party IT ...
18 March 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The EC is planning to arrange for transport for electors aged 85 years and above as well as those with a minimum 40% disability (PwD) to reach polling stations and cast their votes. These arrangements will be provisional ...
18 March 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The KMC parks dept that is known for its efficiency for clearing trees that topple on the road took 14 hours to clear a Rudrapalash tree whose trunk split in two during the squall on Monday evening and ...
18 March 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bengal BJP on Tuesday pointed at ‘tainted candidates' on Trinamool's list while taking a dig at the dearth of eligible candidates in the party.BJP's Bengal co-incharge Amit Malviya took to his X handle to point at Paresh Adhikari, ...
18 March 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The late-night intense nor'wester, accompanied by squally wind on Monday night, pulled Tuesday's minimum temperature down by five notches below the normal mark. The day temperature too dipped on Tuesday by 3.6 notches below normal. The Met officials ...
18 March 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Restaurateurs are again breathing easy. Dishes that had gone off the menu are back. Some restaurants that had drastically reduced operation hours have relaxed the timing a bit.The commercial LPG crisis that was threatening to derail the food ...
18 March 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: On-and-off supply of auto-LPG has left a yawning gap between the demand and supply, adversely hitting auto operations in the city. Auto gas shortage, triggered in part by the ongoing conflict in West Asia, has disrupted Kolkata's auto-rickshaw ...
18 March 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Seventy-four MLAs were dropped and 15 of them were shifted from their existing seats in the list of candidates announced by Trinamool Congress on Tuesday, retaining 135 out of its 209 MLAs.Among those dropped are big names like ...
18 March 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bengal BJP on Tuesday pointed at ‘tainted candidates' on Trinamool's list while taking a dig at the dearth of eligible candidates in the party.BJP's Bengal co-incharge Amit Malviya took to his X handle to point at Paresh Adhikari, ...
18 March 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Election Commission has asked for the setting up of voter assistance booths (VABs) near polling booths, and a team of booth-level officers (BLOs) will be deputed there to help the voters reach their respective stations to exercise ...
18 March 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Amid SIR uncertainty, parties have put their faith in the hands of trusted old hands for the 2026 assembly elections.The prominence of this move lies in the candidature list announced by Trinamool Congress (TMC), Left Front and Bharatiya ...
18 March 2026 Times of IndiaNandigram: Trinamool Congress nominated ex-BJP panchayat chief Pabitra Kar as its candidate for Nandigram in the 2026 assembly election, setting up a contest against Suvendu Adhikari. This happened a few hours after Adhikari's campaign coordinator for the high-voltage 2021 ...
18 March 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Around 3.6 lakh voters in Kolkata whose electoral status is under judicial scrutiny have just over three weeks to find out if they will be eligible to vote in the upcoming Bengal assembly elections. The clarification is expected ...
17 March 2026 Times of IndiaMIDNAPORE: Septuagenarian Yeasin Pathan, who received the Kabir Award from the President of India in 1994 for preserving ancient Hindu temples and promoting communal harmony, announced on social media that he might boycott the vote because the names of ...
17 March 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Doctors in the Netherlands dismissed a 36-year-old Dutch citizen’s unrelenting headache and bouts of vomiting as his body’s reaction to 2 opposite weather conditions in quick succession. This was in mid-January, upon his return home to biting European ...
17 March 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The first Monday after the LPG supply disruption exposed the extent of the fuel crisis in Kolkata, with panic refuelling by auto drivers and domestic consumers leading to long queues outside LPG dispensing stations. Autos were yet to ...
17 March 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bhangar strongman Arabul Islam, whose ties with Trinamool have become increasingly estranged, visited Furfura Sharif on Monday—home to Indian Secular Front (ISF) MLA Nawsad Siddiqui—and openly aired his dissatisfaction with the party.Arabul said he was repeatedly expelled from ...
17 March 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Nabanna will pay DA (dearness allowance) arrears to state employees in multiple phases, according to a finance department notification. The arrears, covering the period from April 2008 to Dec 2019, were announced by chief minister Mamata Banerjee on ...
17 March 2026 Times of IndiaJalpaiguri: Around 9,500 former enclave-dwellers who became Indian citizens on Aug 1, 2015, face another hurdle — voter rolls released on Feb 28 following Special Intensive Revision (SIR) have marked them "under adjudication."With barely a month before assembly polls, ...
17 March 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Bengal CEO has directed the ADG (legal) to submit a report on poll-related violence during the 2021 Bengal Legislative Assembly election and the 2024 general election.In a letter dated March 15, the CEO sought a list of ...
17 March 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Hours after the assembly poll dates were announced and the model code of conduct came into force, Election Commission initiated an overhaul of Bengal's top bureaucracy and police brass on Sunday night and Monday morning, changing the chief ...
17 March 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: BJP neta Suvendu Adhikari will contest from Bhowanipore, CM Mamata Banerjee's home turf, as well as Nandigram in the upcoming assembly elections. Dilip Ghosh has been fielded in Kharagpur Sadar, a preferred seat for the BJP veteran. Soumitra ...
17 March 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Around 50% of the slightly more than 60 lakh cases marked as ‘Under Adjudication' in the electoral roll are expected to be disposed of within the next seven days, Bengal chief electoral officer Manoj Agarwal said. He added ...
17 March 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The EC is all set to deploy 2,000-2,500 companies of central forces in each of the two-phase elections in Bengal to ensure peaceful and violence-free voting, Bengal CEO Manoj Agarwal said on Monday. The EC has also decided ...
17 March 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Pushed to migrate to electrical gadgets and coal, wood-fuelled chullahs, serving time went up at several restaurants. Serving time is set to rise by 25% at Songhai-Manthan and MS Bar & Lounge in central Kolkata, which began its ...
17 March 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: After coal, kerosene remains one of the most widely used traditional fuels for households across eastern India, following the fuel crisis triggered by the West Asia conflict. However, rising prices and supply constraints pushed kerosene into a thriving ...
17 March 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The lunch rush in several of Kolkata's busiest office districts — from Dalhousie and Camac Street to Park Street and Salt Lake — is beginning to look very different as a worsening LPG shortage forces eateries and food ...
17 March 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Oil marketing companies tightened LPG booking norms as global energy disruptions triggered by the ongoing West Asia conflict continue to affect fuel supply chains in India. Under the revised instructions, LPG distributors in the state were asked not ...
17 March 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata/Malda/Murshidabad: While Trinamool Congress is expected to announce its candidate list any day now, several MLAs — including state cabinet minister Shashi Panja — whose names figure in the judicial adjudication list remain anxious over their electoral status. They ...
17 March 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Members of the transgender (TG) and queer communities, and gender rights activists in West Bengal came down heavily on the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Bill, 2026, introduced in the Lok Sabha on March 13. Various organisations ...
17 March 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Four Left leaders — Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya, Dipsita Dhar, Minakshi Mukherjee and Kalatan Dasgupta — who were the faces of the protests in the 2024 RG Kar rape and murder case, were fielded for the assembly elections from ...
17 March 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Nearly a decade after a Dinhata man was convicted of immolating his wife, Calcutta HC on Monday acquitted him, discrediting the victim's dying declaration over procedural lapses such as not reading it over or explaining it to her.The ...
17 March 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Jadavpur University will conduct independent BTech counselling after the JEE results are published from this academic season to attract bright students and minimise administrative delays, the Executive Council (EC), the highest decision-making body of JU, decided on Sunday. ...
17 March 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The nor'wester season is on in the city with Kolkata's first brush with a squall on Monday night. Thunder, lighting, rain accompanied by gusty wind swept across the city, minutes after the Met office issued a red alert ...
17 March 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: During Ramzan, Zakaria Street off Rabindra Sarani and its surrounding lanes draw large crowds — not only for their landmarks and food stalls but also for a growing number of heritage walks that are becoming a seasonal attraction ...
17 March 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Jadavpur University on Sunday decided to suspend a fourth-year chemical engineering student from his ongoing eighth semester, including attending classes and appearing for exams, and has debarred him from entering campus and hostel premises following an incident of ...
17 March 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A day after singer Shilajit complained of overreaction by cops who had asked him to get off the stage during a performance at Central Park in Salt Lake, Bidhannagar Police has registered a complaint against the main organiser ...
17 March 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Motorsports in the country is set to get a fillip after a recent meeting between sports minister Dr Mansukh Mandaviya and Federation of Motor Sports Clubs of India (FMSCI) president Arindam Ghosh along with its council members Vicky ...
17 March 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Within hours of the EC announcing the poll schedule on Sunday, Bengal BJP president Samik Bhattacharya promised Rs 3,000 per month to women under the Annapurna Yojana, apart from implementing the special package of Rs 5,700 crore for ...
16 March 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The CPM will move the Supreme Court against possible disenfranchisement of the voters who were put under the adjudicated list during the Special Intensive Revision of the electoral roll. The party, which already moved the Apex court against ...
16 March 2026 Times of IndiaBengal elections, post-2011, have always been keenly fought though the result may not have reflected that. But the factors at play this season make the 2026 edition very different from the 2016 and the 2021 polls, again irrespective of ...
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