Howrah: Cops on Tuesday found a concealed luxury flat hidden inside a four-storey building during a raid on the Shibpur home of Trinamool neta Shamim Ahmed, alias Baare. Locals said the raid also unearthed a teak bed with gold ...
13 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Appearing for the NEET-UG, again, especially at a time when they were waiting for the results, was not an easy task, complained candidates after the National Test Agency on Tuesday cancelled the entrance test to medical courses held ...
13 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: From royal lakeside weddings in Udaipur to tying the knot in a heritage fort in Jaipur to celebrating the D-day on a beach in Goa to offbeat destinations like Jim Corbett National Park and the backwaters in Alleppey ...
13 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: East Bengal women defended their IWL crown in style, beating Nita FA 2-0 on Tuesday to seal the deal with two rounds to go. Hours before the match at the East Bengal ground, Anthony Andrews' holders were assured ...
13 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Big Two look to be heading for this Sunday's potential title-decider in the season's abridged Indian Super League after failing to produce the right performance for the right game. A day after East Bengal FC appeared to ...
13 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The CBI on Tuesday took over the probe into the murder of Chandranath Rath, Suvendu Adhikari's PA, who was shot dead near his Madhyamgram home on May 6.The state SIT, comprising officers from Bengal STF, CID and Barasat ...
13 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The driver and conductor of a private bus plying on route 234 (Belgharia-Golf Green) allegedly assaulted the owner of a two-wheeler after ramming the victim's scooter at the Mullick Bazar crossing on Monday afternoon. The incident left the ...
13 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The state's new BJP govt's decision to offer free rides to women on state buses has received a warm response, but many hoped that the new regime would also solve the chronic shortages of state buses that are ...
13 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: To prevent the entry of heavy vehicles, on the newly set-up Bailey bridge which connects Salt Lake and VIP Road near Dakshindari, Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA) has installed height bars on both the approach ends according to ...
13 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A Calcutta High Court division bench on Tuesday released multiple cases related to the RG Kar rape and murder, citing "heavy roster". During the hearing, the bench remarked that there would be a judicial commission formed by the ...
13 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Shibpur MLA Rudranil Ghosh spoke to chief minister Suvendu Adhikari on Monday and discussed ways to rein in hooligan raj in Tollywood. The actor – who was the biggest casualty of Tollywood's ban culture, having been dropped unceremoniously ...
13 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A day after CM Suvendu Adhikari held his first meeting with senior cops to outline the new govt's law-and-order priorities, religious leaders and community organisers across faiths responded supportively to the govt's new directives on loudspeakers and road ...
13 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Chief minister Suvendu Adhikari has instructed top cops, including commissioner of Kolkata Police Ajay Nand, to ensure that former CM of Bengal and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee continues to receive the same level of security as before. ...
13 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Immediately after taking charge of the sports and youth welfare dept on Tuesday, minister Nishith Pramanik ordered a fresh probe into the Messi fiasco at Salt Lake Stadium on Dec 13 that triggered chaos, vandalism and allegations of ...
13 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Biswa Bangla logo has been removed from the tower at trade ground Milan Mela that was rechristened Biswa Bangla Mela Prangan by the erstwhile Mamata Banerjee govt.West Bengal Trade Promotion Organisation managing director Vandana Yadav said the ...
13 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: CM Suvendu Adhikari on Monday announced that his govt has initiated the process of transferring land to Union ministry of home affairs (MHA) for the Border Security Force (BSF) to fence unfenced stretches of the India-Bangladesh border following ...
12 May 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Five days after the murder of Suvendu Adhikari aide Chandranath Rath outside his Madhyamgram residence, Bengal Police arrested three persons, including an alleged sharpshooter picked up from Uttar Pradesh, even as the accused’s lawyer claimed CCTV footage showed ...
12 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The new BJP govt in Bengal will work in coordination with the party and the administration won't be run from the party office, state president Samik Bhattacharya said on Monday.After meeting CM Suvendu Adhikari at his residence in ...
12 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: At least 25 shops — 13 owned by Hindus and 12 by Muslims — were gutted in a fire at Hijli under Talpati Ghat Coastal police station in East Midnapore late on Sunday night, with police suspecting an ...
12 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: CM Suvendu Adhikari on Monday said his govt's top priority was delivering justice for families of 321 BJP workers killed in political violence.Addressing reporters at Nabanna after his maiden cabinet meeting, Adhikari said, "We remember with deep respect ...
12 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Tata Starbucks, the equal joint venture between Starbucks Coffee Company and Tata Consumer Products, has launched eastern India's first coffee reserve in Kolkata as part of its strategy to expand business in the region. The Mumbai-based company is ...
12 May 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The state govt on Monday downgraded the security cover of Diamond Harbour MP Abhishek Banerjee. He will no longer receive Z+ category protection following a security review conducted by the Directorate of Security. Officials said he would now ...
12 May 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: In its first cabinet meeting on Monday, BJP govt in Bengal distributed portfolios to five ministers who took oath with CM Suvendu Adhikari on Saturday.Dilip Ghosh will hold three portfolios — panchayat and rural development, animal resource development ...
12 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Following Bengal govt's first cabinet meeting on Monday, CM Suvendu Adhikari announced the rollout of all central schemes, including Ayushman Bharat, Beti Bachao Beti Padhao, Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima and PM Vishwakarma, in the state, without discontinuing the ...
12 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bengal chief electoral officer Manoj Agarwal, who oversaw the Special Intensive Revision and the recent assembly polls in the state, was appointed chief secretary on Monday. He will replace EC-appointed chief secretary Dushyant Nariala, who has been posted ...
12 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: MP Birla Group flagship Birla Corporation Ltd has witnessed a 14.8% jump in net profit to Rs 295 crore in the fourth quarter of this fiscal from Rs 257 crore during the same period last fiscal. The company's ...
12 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Former Bengal fire services minister Sujit Bose was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate on Monday night in connection with the alleged municipality recruitment scam after more than 10 hours of questioning at the CGO Complex.The agency confirmed the ...
12 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: New CM Suvendu Adhikari may stay in one of the quarters on the Lok Bhavan premises, amid heightened security considerations, sources in the administration said. This is in addition to the Soujanya complex in Alipore, which is also ...
12 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The new state govt on Monday approved the immediate rollout of the long-delayed census exercise in the state and formally initiating implementation of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita.Announcing the decisions after the cabinet meeting ...
12 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Images of Syama Prasad Mookerjee, Aurobindo Ghosh, Bankim Chandra Chattapadhyay, Maa Sarada, Ramakrishna Paramahansa and Swami Vivekananda were installed in the Jadavpur University VC's office on Monday. A photograph of Rabindranath Tagore has been retained in the room.Around ...
12 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Five days after the murder of Chandranath Rath, the personal assistant of Suvendu Adhikari, by gunmen, barely 170 metres from his Madhyamgram residence, the Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the case and camping in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar ...
12 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A joint operation between the Haryana and Kolkata Police led to the arrest of a young man in south Kolkata's Bansdroni area for his alleged involvement in a massive "digital arrest" extortion racket.The suspect, Rahul Roy, was apprehended ...
12 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The newly sworn-in BJP govt in Bengal, led by chief minister Suvendu Adhikari, raised the upper age limit for entry into state jobs from 40 to 45 years at its first cabinet meeting on Monday. The decision, announced ...
12 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The launch of Ayushman Bharat in Bengal on Monday sent hospitals scurrying to draw out a blueprint for a smooth transition into the new scheme, even as the facilities remained unclear if Swasthya Sathi — the universal health ...
12 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: State women and child development and social welfare minister Agnimitra Paul on Monday announced all women would be able to travel free on govt buses from June 1. This was on BJP's manifesto for the election."Women in Bengal ...
12 May 2026 Times of IndiaThe new state govt is set to take up one of the state's most politically sensitive employee issues next week, with chief minister Suvendu Adhikari on Monday announcing that the cabinet will discuss DA arrears and the implementation of ...
12 May 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The BJP govt on Monday directed police to ensure loudspeaker sound does not travel beyond religious precincts and that prayer congregations do not block roads and cause inconvenience to the public, except on special occasions.These were among the ...
12 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The launch of Ayushman Bharat in Bengal on Monday sent hospitals scurrying to draw out a blueprint for a smooth transition into the new scheme, even as the facilities remained unclear if Swasthya Sathi — the universal health ...
12 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The title race in this season's abridged ISL is set for another shift in momentum in the business end of the tournament.After back-to-back wins on the road, East Bengal FC's title charge hit a snag when they were ...
12 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Chief minister Suvendu Adhikari's announcement on Monday, confirming that the existing social welfare schemes would continue, alleviated anxiety among more than 2 crore Lakshmir Bhandar beneficiaries, who were worried whether the monthly financial aid would still be credited ...
12 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Mohun Bagan SG coach Sergio Lobera is not going to take Inter Kashi for granted when the two square off at the Salt Lake Stadium on Tuesday as the struggling debutants prepare to finish the remainder of the ...
12 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Wife's plea before the Port Blair circuit bench of the Calcutta High Court led to the quashing of two Pocso cases against her husband for having sexual relations with her when she was a minor. The division bench ...
11 May 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The saffron tsunami in the Bengal assembly elections, which swept BJP to office for the first time in the state, resulted in the party getting a lead in as many as 102 of the 144 wards of Kolkata ...
11 May 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Chief minister Suvendu Adhikari and his five cabinet colleagues will have their first meeting around noon on Monday at Nabanna and take up implementation of Ayushman Bharat, a Centre-funded health insurance scheme, in Bengal and plugging of 569km ...
11 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Calcutta High Court on May 8 ruled that Vodafone cannot offer songs as caller tunes or ringtones solely under agreements with sound recording companies and must also obtain permission from the Indian Performing Right Society Ltd (IPRS), ...
11 May 2026 Times of IndiaAsansol: Daily worship resumed at Asansol's Bastin Bazar Durga Mandir on Sunday — Mother's Day — fulfilling a poll promise made during the campaign, including by PM Narendra Modi, to reopen the 75-year-old temple that had been closed for ...
11 May 2026 Times of IndiaKhejuri/Hooghly: Trinamool on Sunday blamed BJP for the death of a party worker in Hooghly and an incident of arson in East Midnapore's Hooghly in which 60 shops were set on fire. BJP denied the allegations.Sharing a picture of ...
11 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A multi-state manhunt is underway as a special investigation team (SIT) claimed to have made a technical breakthrough that shifted the needle of the probe to Jharkhand, even as cops are questioning three men in UP's Badaun with ...
11 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A woman in her late 20s reportedly jumped to her death from the third floor of a building near City Centre II in Rajarhat on Sunday afternoon. The deceased, a resident of Barasat, worked at a spa operating ...
11 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) report on Accidents and Suicides in India 2024 has found that Kolkata has witnessed a jump of 10% in accidents from 2023 to 2024. While a total of 1,129 accidents were reported ...
11 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 48-year-old manager employed in a sandal manufacturing unit in Beniapukur and his employer have allegedly been swindled of Rs 31.2 lakh by a woman who befriended the manager on a popular matrimonial portal.The Kolkata Police registered a ...
11 May 2026 Times of IndiaDwaipayan.Ghosh@timesofindia.comKolkata: The Kolkata Police have launched a probe into the abandonment of a two-day-oldboy at Ladies' Park on CIT Road, an incident that has triggered concern in the area.The matter came to light after a 45-year-old woman was spotted ...
11 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 55-year-old man from Baruipur has got back the use of his left hand, albeit without the thumb, after a surgery at state-run NRS Medical College and Hospital. Diagnosed with a rare tumour caused by an infection, that, ...
11 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata/Kharagpur: Newly sworn-in state minister Dilip Ghosh on Sunday said the thrust will be on rebuilding the state, especially law and order, along with education and health sectors. Out on his morning walk at New Town, Ghosh, who holds ...
11 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A day after the swearing-in ceremony, BJP MLAs Agnimitra Paul, Dilip Ghosh and Tapas Roy on Sunday sought to debunk the party's alleged aversion to non-veg food by holding a ‘fish festival' in several parts of the city, ...
11 May 2026 Times of IndiaDwaipayan.Ghosh@timesofindia.comKolkata: The Kolkata Police have launched a probe into the abandonment of a two-day-oldboy at Ladies' Park on CIT Road, an incident that has triggered concern in the area.The matter came to light after a 45-year-old woman was spotted ...
11 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Calcutta University is set to begin postgraduate admissions from Monday, ahead of the undergraduate sixth-semester exams. Students will have to choose if they want to quit or continue. The university has made entrance test mandatory for every student ...
11 May 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: On May 9, restaurants and tea stalls across parts of Kolkata’s Metiabruz remained glued to television screens broadcasting the swearing-in of Suvendu Adhikari as West Bengal’s first BJP chief minister.For many in the state’s Muslim community, the moment ...
11 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Suvendu Adhikari, the first chief minister of a BJP govt in Bengal, may soon change his Kolkata address from his Chinar Park flat to the Soujanya complex in Alipore.Sources indicated on Sunday that the electrical wing of state ...
11 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: City hospitals are ready for a switch to Ayushman Bharat scheme or a transition of the existing Swasthya Sathi into the former, as per the govt's direction. A Swasthya Bhavan meeting on Friday took up the issue, raising ...
11 May 2026 Times of IndiaContai: "A CM has to weigh his words. So talk less, work more. I am a CM for all," chief minister Suvendu Adhikari told a group of supporters at the Nandakumar crossing after midnight, while returning to Shantikunj for ...
11 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Kolkata Police has been grappling with a fresh challenge since the past week — controlling fake news. While it initially started with fake circulars, beginning with "restrictions" on certain areas of the city, the latest fakes doing the ...
11 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The investigation into the murder of Chandranath Rath, personal assistant to Suvendu Adhikari, has expanded into Uttar Pradesh, with a Bengal SIT-CID team pursuing technical leads in Badaun and Sambhal.The team reached Badaun late Friday night after mobile ...
10 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Forty-eight hours after he was relieved by the EC as the special observer on May 7, retired IAS officer Subrata Gupta was on Saturday appointed adviser to chief minister Suvendu Adhikari. The appointment order came within hours after ...
10 May 2026 Times of IndiaJhargram/Kolkata: The crisp rustle of puffed rice, the sharp scent of mustard oil and green chillies, and the familiar clang of steel containers became as much a part of Bengal's political transition on Saturday as the oath-taking ceremony itself.From ...
10 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The hallowed halls of the Bengal Legislative Assembly witnessed a symbolic and literal power shift on Saturday. In a move that local observers are calling the ultimate ‘Kissa Kursi Ka', the furniture that once defined the previous administration ...
10 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Hours after Suvendu Adhikari took oath as Bengal's new chief minister on Saturday, security around his residence in Chinar Park was dramatically intensified, transforming the once-quiet residential stretch into a tightly guarded high-security zone. Till Friday, there was ...
10 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Kolkata airport has witnessed an unprecedented number of flights in just over a fortnight starting from the election campaign hitting a fever pitch between the first and second phase of elections in Bengal and Saturday's oath-taking ceremony that ...
10 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: As former fashion designer-turned-politician Agnimitra Paul took oath as the lone woman minister in the first BJP govt in West Bengal on Saturday, an emotional moment unfolded quietly in the crowd as her parents watched from afar with ...
10 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Trinamool chairperson and former chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday exhorted all non-BJP parties in Bengal, including Left and ultra-Left, to join hands with TMC against the saffron party. Mamata said she was "personally willing" to talk to ...
10 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: With Suvendu Adhikari being sworn in as the ninth chief minister — also the first CM of Bengal under BJP, the change of power in the state was officially updated in his social media bio on Saturday. Amid ...
10 May 2026 Times of IndiaBongaon: Ashok Kirtania, the two-time Bongaon Uttar (North) MLA, inducted into the Bengal cabinet, is the only minister from the Matua community who is not a member of the Thakurbari household. From the Thakurbari family, Union minister of state ...
10 May 2026 Times of IndiaCONTAI: “ Yes, we are his guardians but only at home. Outside, the people of Bengal are his guardians, now,” Sisir Adhikari, Suvendu Adhikari’s father, himself a former junior Union minister, told reporters on Saturday after watching his son ...
10 May 2026 Times of IndiaPolitical strategist and predictor Vimal Singh on Bengal results and the road aheadYou called the Bengal and Assam elections right. While Assam’s result was more or less certain, Bengal on-ground situation was very fluid. As a political strategist, what ...
10 May 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Forty-eight hours after he was relieved by the EC as the special observer on May 7, retired IAS officer Subrata Gupta was on Saturday appointed adviser to chief minister Suvendu Adhikari. The appointment order came within hours after ...
10 May 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Chief minister Suvendu Adhikari on Saturday asked supporters to stop raising 'Jai Shri Ram' slogans at Jorasanko Thakurbari, saying that as CM he now "belongs to everyone"."Eta political kochkochir somoy na (this is not the time for political ...
10 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Brigade Parade Ground, long seen as the stage for Bengal's shifting political tides — from the Left's sea of red to the Trinamool Congress's green dominance — turned decisively saffron on Saturday as the BJP formed its ...
10 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The first Bengal BJP cabinet, sworn in on Saturday, includes a Brahmin from coastal Midnapore, an OBC and a Santhal from Jangalmahal, a woman from the industrial belt, a Rajbongshi from north Bengal and a Matua from the ...
10 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bangaliyana took centre stage on the very first day of the new BJP govt in Bengal as CM Suvendu Adhikari sought to project his administration as a custodian of Bengal's cultural identity and heritage, marking a sharp shift ...
10 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Suvendu Adhikari was on Friday unanimously elected the BJP legislative party leader at a meeting of newly elected MLAs in the presence of Union home minister Amit Shah, paving the way for him to become Bengal's ninth chief ...
9 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A homemaker, left disabled from an accident, kept at Apollo Multispeciality Hospitals for nearly four years without payment of bills, which crossed Rs 1 crore, was directed by the Calcutta High Court on Friday to be released without ...
9 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Calcutta High Court on Friday upheld the maintainability of a PIL alleging Forest Rights Act violations in the Great Nicobar infrastructure project and observed that "the tribal population in Andaman and Nicobar Islands is a very vulnerable tribal ...
9 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Calcutta High Court on Friday upheld the maintainability of a PIL alleging Forest Rights Act violations in the Great Nicobar infrastructure project and observed that "the tribal population in Andaman and Nicobar Islands is a very vulnerable tribal ...
9 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bata India is targeting 3,000 retail outlets within three years, having crossed the 2,000-store milestone in late April — a first for any footwear company in the country, ahead of rivals such as Adidas, Nike, Metro and Khadim's. ...
9 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: One-hundred and thirty-one students made it to the Top 10 list of Madhyamik this year—the highest in recent years—with Avirup Bhadra from Sarada Vidyamandir (Raiganj) High School bagging the first position with 698 marks (99.7%). Madhyamik results were ...
9 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Be it financial constraints or severe health issues, nothing could stop these youngsters from scoring high in Madhyamik, paving the way for their journey towards realising their career dreams.Jodhpur Park Boy's School Arnab Naskar was a regular youngster ...
9 May 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: In a first at Kolkata airport, the Prime Minister will land in the city along with defence minister Rajnath Singh and nearly two dozen chief ministers of various states on Saturday morning in what will mark the busiest ...
9 May 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Montu Mondal, a 33-year-old driver from Banikantha Nagar in Barasat, was travelling in the SUV with Suvedu Adhikari’s close aide Chandranath Rath and driver Buddhadeb Bera when the killers attacked.Mondal is the only one who escaped unhurt.Over 48 ...
9 May 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Extensive security arrangements have been made across Kolkata ahead of the new government’s swearing-in ceremony at Brigade Parade Ground on Saturday, which is expected to be attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and chief ministers from several BJP-ruled ...
9 May 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The Bengal administration has begun preparations for the implementation of the Centre’s flagship health insurance scheme, Ayushman Bharat, in the state ahead of the swearing-in of the new BJP govt on Saturday.A high-level meeting was held on Friday ...
9 May 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: In a historic political shift in West Bengal, BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari is set to take oath as the state’s first BJP chief minister at Brigade Parade Ground in Kolkata on Saturday, marking the end of the Trinamool ...
9 May 2026 Times of IndiaCONTAI: Nestled in Contai's Korkuli Para, barely 600 metres from the central bus stand, lies 'Shantikunj'. The lane leading to the house has now gained a new identity: The residence of Bengal's CM-designate.In a first in five decades, a ...
9 May 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Writers' Buildings and several other govt offices in the city turned orange after dusk on Friday ahead of the inaugural day of the first-ever BJP govt to be sworn into office in Bengal. The illumination trials were held ...
9 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: As preparations gather pace for the BJP cabinet's swearing-in on Saturday, lotus and jhalmuri—the first, the party symbol and the latter turned into a prominent motif during the campaign—witness an unexpected sales rise.Traders and vendors said demand had ...
9 May 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The Brigade Parade Ground is set to don a carnivalesque look on Saturday, the day Bengal's first BJP chief minister takes his oath. As party functionaries and workers get cracking on the preparations, massive waterproof, hangar tents are ...
9 May 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Following the BJP's landmark victory in the Bengal assembly elections, the Kolkata Police's official X (formerly Twitter) handle has undergone a symbolic digital shift. The account has reportedly now unfollowed former chief minister Mamata Banerjee, Trinamool national general ...
9 May 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Suvendu Adhikari was on Friday unanimously elected the BJP legislative party leader at a meeting of newly elected MLAs in the presence of Union home minister Amit Shah, paving the way for him to become Bengal's ninth chief ...
9 May 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The investigation into the Wednesday night murder of Chandranath Rath, chief minister-designate Suvendu Adhikari's aide, has expanded to include surveillance of alleged contract killers from other states, including Uttar Pradesh and Odisha.Sources said a team of investigators left ...
9 May 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Police stations in border districts of West Bengal intensified surveillance and searches as cops suspect the involvement of professional shooters from neighbouring states in the killing of BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari's close aide Chandranath Rath, news agency PTI ...
8 May 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: A late-night shooting in Madhyamgram, on the outskirts of Kolkata, left Suvendu Adhikari’s aide Chandranath Rath critically injured before he later succumbed to his wounds, with witnesses recalling how he was still breathing moments after the attack but ...
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