KOLKATA: Patients enrolled in Swasthya Sathi, the outgoing Mamata Banerjee govt's flagship universal health insurance scheme offering Rs 5 lakh annual coverage, are being refused admission or turned away from several private hospitals across Kolkata as the facilities wait ...
8 May 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: BJP MLA Shankar Ghosh was speaking to Chandranath Rath about upcoming party programmes when the call suddenly went silent on Wednesday night, moments before Rath was gunned down in a meticulously planned attack near his Madhyamgram home.“I was ...
8 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: After the swearing-in ceremony on Saturday, the first BJP chief minister of Bengal will make a symbolic trip to Writers' Buildings, which has served as the seat of power for over 200 years, before heading to Vidhan Sabha, ...
8 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: FMCG major Emami Ltd has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire a 60% stake in IncNut Digital for a cash consideration of Rs 321 crore. The company is engaged in the personalised beauty and personal care segment ...
8 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A local court in Bankura on Wednesday sentenced four members of a family to life imprisonment for the murder of a retired teacher and his son in Dec 2023, special public prosecutor Bivas Chatterjee said.The convicts — Pintu ...
8 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: "Didi, you have not lost," said Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav to Trinamool chief Mamata Banerjee while visiting her Kalighat residence on Thursday and accused BJP and the Election Commission of orchestrating a "multi-layered mafia-style" electoral manipulation in ...
8 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Former Chief Justice of Calcutta High Court, Justice TS Sivagnanam, on Thursday resigned from the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) tribunal on personal grounds. After clearing 1,777 appeals over 22 days and rejecting none, Justice Sivagnanam said at its ...
8 May 2026 Times of IndiaChandipur (East Midnapore): Hasirani Rath, the 65-year-old mother of Chandranath Rath — Suvendu Adhikari's aide who was shot dead by bike-borne assailants late Wednesday night — alleged on Thursday that her son was killed as revenge for Adhikari's performance ...
8 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A day after Suvendu Adhikari's aide Chandranath Rath was shot dead, Bengal BJP seniors on Thursday appealed for calm and restraint.Calling the killing heartbreaking, a distraught Suvendu Adhikari, who reached Barasat medical college on Thursday night, said: "Politicians ...
8 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Trinamool on Thursday demanded a court-monitored CBI investigation into the killing of Suvendu Adhikari's aide Chandranath Rath, while firmly denying any involvement in the murder.In a late-night statement on Wednesday, the party condemned "the brutal murder of Chandranath ...
8 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Calcutta High Court on Thursday refused West Bengal Industrial Development Corporation's (WBIDC) prayer for an unconditional stay of an arbitration award in favour of Tata Motors over the Singur land dispute.The court directed WBIDC to file an undertaking, ...
8 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Trinamool's former MLA from Barrackpore, filmmaker Raj Chakraborty, announced on Thursday that he is quitting politics.Chakraborty's statement comes in the wake of former ministers and TMC functionaries publicly turning on the leadership, blaming organisational arrogance and grassroots disconnect ...
8 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: With Trinamool voted out of office, several private hospitals have slammed the brakes on admission of patients enrolled under Swasthya Sathi, a flagship scheme of the Mamata Banerjee govt that offers universal health insurance with an annual coverage ...
8 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: "The onus to prove religious persecution as reason for migrating from Bangladesh to India lies on the infiltrator and not state," Calcutta High Court on May 6 held, refusing to quash case against a 27-year-old Hindu woman from ...
8 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Spells of showers since morning on Thursday kept the city cool. Brace for more rain in the next few days as the Met office has predicted thunderstorm activities in the city as well as many other parts of ...
8 May 2026 Times of IndiaSiliguri/Barasat: Siliguri police on Wednesday night detained a vehicle owner in north Bengal for questioning in connection with the murder of Chandranath Rath, the personal assistant of Suvendu Adhikari, after investigators found that the vehicle used in the crime ...
8 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: BJP has sent out 1,000 special invites for VVIPs — that include judges, industrialists, writers, actors and other important members of the society — to attend the swearing-in on Saturday. That apart, 9,000 other invites are being sent ...
8 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Members of West Bengal University Karmachari Parishad held a gathering at Aurobindo Bhavan, the administrative building of Jadavpur University (JU), on Wednesday to celebrate the victory of BJP in the Assembly elections. The members said there was "a ...
8 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: There was tension in Topsia on Tuesday night after residents claimed some miscreants had foul-mouthed several of the local women. The two-and-a-half-hour stand-off led to former state minister and newly elected Kasba MLA Javed Ahmed Khan rushing to ...
8 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Multiple changes — some administrative and others violent takeovers — in outgoing CM Mamata Banerjee's Kalighat neighbourhood reflect the current upheaval in Bengal politics. Cops have removed all peripheral security from outside her home and from around Trinamool ...
8 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The city police have flagged multiple fake posts on its social media between Wednesday and Thursday amid a surge of politically charged misinformation, and issued a series of warnings against such posts, urging citizens to rely only on ...
8 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The dismantling of all three hawkers' union offices around New Market marked the transition of hawkers from the Trinamool fold to BJP, and the return of full-fledged hawking in the shopping zone on Thursday.While the bulldozing of the ...
8 May 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Fresh CCTV footage has surfaced in the chilling murder of BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari’s close aide Chandranath Rath, capturing two helmeted suspects fleeing on a motorcycle minutes after the deadly shooting near Madhyamgram on Wednesday night.The 49-second footage, ...
7 May 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The murder of Chandranath Rath, a close aide of BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari, sparked a political confrontation in West Bengal on Thursday, with the BJP accusing the ruling TMC of fostering “lawlessness” in the state. The Mamata Banerjee-led ...
7 May 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Chandranath Rath, the close aide of BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari who was shot dead in North 24 Parganas district on Wednesday night, had emerged as one of the key backroom figures behind the BJP’s fiercest political offensive against ...
7 May 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Five BJP supporters were allegedly injured in a bomb attack in Panihati area of West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district, police said on Thursday. The incident took place late on Wednesday night, just hours after Chandranath Rath, a ...
7 May 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Bullet marks on a black Scorpio, blood-stained seats and cartridge shells strewn across a road near Madhyamgram have become the focus of an intense investigation into the killing of BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari’s aide Chandranath Rath, with police ...
7 May 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: A Special Investigation Team (SIT) headed by the IG CID has been formed to probe the killing of Chandranath Rath, the close aide of BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari who was shot dead in North 24 Parganas on Wednesday ...
7 May 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: With Chandranath Rath’s bullet-riddled body lying outside the hospital and grieving BJP workers erupting in anger and disbelief, senior BJP leader and newly-elected Kharagpur MLA Dilip Ghosh launched a blistering attack on the state police and the outgoing ...
7 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Bengal BJP, which temporarily put a suspension on induction of new members, said on Wednesday that they will drive out each of the new inductees or "neo-BJPs". On Tuesday night, the BJP brass in New Delhi sent ...
7 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The founder of St. Mary's School on Ripon Street, Father Aloysius Patrick Carvalho, breathed his last on Wednesday at 9.15 am at St Xavier's College, Kolkata. He was 96 years old. His funeral mass will be held at ...
7 May 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Siliguri mayor Goutam Deb has indicated that he may step down and rent out part of his house. The move follows his crushing defeat to BJP’s Shankar Ghosh by 73,192 votes.Siliguri is a major urban constituency in Darjeeling ...
7 May 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Chandranath Rath, the close aide of BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari who was shot dead in a brazen attack in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district, had served nearly two decades in the Indian Air Force before becoming Suvendu’s ...
7 May 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: More chilling details have emerged in the killing of Bengal BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari’s close aide Chandranath Rath, who was chased, trapped and shot dead by bike-borne assailants near Kolkata airport late Wednesday night. Rath, who had served ...
7 May 2026 Times of IndiaNEW DELHI: A fake number plate, Glock 47X pistols, multiple bike-borne professional shooters, and a point-blank ambush near Kolkata airport — chilling new details have emerged in the killing of BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari’s close aide Chandranath Rath, as ...
7 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: No bulldozers will be allowed in any processions, both DGP SN Gupta and Kolkata Police commissioner Ajay Nand asserted on Wednesday. "Even the owners of these payloaders have been warned against renting them out. If they do, they ...
7 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Hundreds of stalls lining the pavements around New Market sprang back to life after two days of anxiety and silence, as hawkers returned to Bertram Street, Humayun Place, Hogg Street, Chowringhee Place, Lindsay Street and Grand Arcade following ...
7 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Lives in minority pockets across Kolkata changed overnight after the election results, with bike gangs riding through Muslim neighbourhoods and letting out "Jai Shri Ram" slogans.In South Tangra, the situation turned extremely volatile on Tuesday night when a ...
7 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Three cops and two CRPF jawans were injured while trying to stop a clash between Trinamool and BJP supporters in Sandeshkhali on Tuesday night over the control of a ‘bheri' (pisciculture pond). The OC of Nazat PS, two ...
7 May 2026 Times of IndiaNandigram: Amid slogans demanding the chief ministerial post for him, Suvendu Adhikari held his first public meeting in Nandigram since elections on Thursday. As locals cheered for him, slogans of "Suvenduda apni Nandigramer, Suvenduda CM (You belong to Nandigram, ...
7 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Seventy-one of the 80 newly elected Trinamool MLAs attended a meeting convened by party chief Mamata Banerjee at her Kalighat residence on Wednesday, where she alleged that functionaries within her own party had "sabotaged" the assembly election, contributing ...
7 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A payloader — that can be rented for around Rs 8,000-10,000 for four hours — became the centre of a political storm after it was allegedly used to demolish a Trinamool Congress-affiliated hawker union office during a BJP ...
7 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A promoter, Tapas Naskar, (39) with a lengthy criminal record, was hacked to death on Tuesday night in Kolkata's Entally area, sparking concerns over a violent gang rivalry tied to the local construction business. Naskar was reportedly attacked ...
7 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Bengal model against diabetes in children, currently deployed in 15 districts across the state, will soon be replicated in other states across the county. The health ministry has included diabetes mellitus in children in the national health ...
7 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Former state chief secretaries, Alapan Bandyopadhyay and Hari Krishna Dwivedi, resigned from their positions as chief advisors to Mamata Banerjee following BJP's sweeping mandate in the elections. Manoj Pant, another former chief secretary of Bengal, also resigned as ...
7 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The state's rail network is set for a major boost as the Centre approves projects, worth Rs 895.3 crore, aimed at upgrading the North-South Metro infrastructure and rebuilding an ageing bridge.Of the fund, Rs 671.7 crore is set ...
7 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: With allegations against him flying thick and fast after Trinamool's drubbing, Swarup Biswas on Wednesday said that his term as the head of Federation of Cine Technicians & Workers of Eastern India had ended in Dec 2025. Allegations ...
7 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Senior PWD officials on Wednesday stepped up preparations to shift the state secretariat to the historic Writers' Buildings as the incoming BJP govt is apparently unwilling to work from Nabanna.The urgency of the move was underlined by a ...
7 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The BJP's decision to hold the oath-taking ceremony at Kolkata's Brigade Parade Ground on May 9 carries a political message rooted in history, symbolism and reflects on the change of guard in the state. The carefully chosen space ...
7 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Vivek Agnihotri's ‘The Bengal Files' will be released in the state this Friday. The film ran into trouble in Bengal when it was released in Sept last year.Soon after BJP's win, Agnihotri posted on X about how his ...
7 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: With allegations against him flying thick and fast after Trinamool's drubbing, Swarup Biswas on Wednesday said that his term as the head of Federation of Cine Technicians & Workers of Eastern India had ended in Dec 2025. Allegations ...
7 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: As the EC on Wednesday handed over a list of elected MLAs to governor R N Ravi for the Bengal Legislative Assembly to be convened, legal experts indicated Ravi might seek the President's nod to be the state's ...
7 May 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The ink on the election results was barely dry when seven Tollywood producers shot an email to the EIMPA secretary. Citing a paralysed industry and a shifting political tide, the producers have demanded a four-section emergency meeting within ...
6 May 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Though his party, Trinamool Congress, was defeated, Sobhandeb Chattopadhyay, 82, won the Ballygunge seat, scripting history, becoming the only Bengal MLA set to serve his 10th consecutive term.This octogenarian Trinamool MLA is one of Mamata Banerjee’s closest associates ...
6 May 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Post-poll violence continued to rock parts of West Bengal with a clash between rival Trinamool Congress (TMC) groups in North 24 Parganas’ Sandeshkhali leaving five security personnel injured, while a BJP worker and a TMC worker were killed ...
6 May 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: A video from West Bengal has gone viral on social media showing a woman, who identified herself as a Trinamool Congress (TMC) worker, accusing BJP workers of assaulting her during a political clash. In the video, the woman ...
6 May 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA/NEW DELHI: Alleging “unusually high” battery levels in EVMs and calling the election a “fixed match”, West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday refused to accept the assembly poll verdict, asserting that her party had secured a “moral victory” ...
6 May 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The city saw two post-poll deaths in the last 24 hours as a Trinamool Congress poll agent was found dead at his doorstep in Beleghata and another BJP worker killed in New Town's Baligari after a scuffle with ...
6 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The ‘bhadralok' neighbourhoods of Kolkata North and South decisively flipped and voted out the Trinamool govt. For over a decade, these very urban localities were considered impenetrable fortresses of the Trinamool. But the election results revealed a metropolitan ...
6 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Voters living in high-rises and gated communities quietly reshaped the electoral map of Bengal, emerging as a decisive factor in the BJP's surge in Kolkata.In Bhowanipore, long considered a Trinamool bastion, residents of high-rise on Park Street, Theatre ...
6 May 2026 Times of IndiaSuri: A flex put up at the entrance of Kankalitala temple in Bolpur on Monday evening declared that only Hindus would be allowed to offer puja at the shrine, one of Birbhum's five Shakti Peethas. The banner was installed ...
6 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Exide Industries reported a marginal rise in Q4 net profit to Rs 312 crore from Rs 255 crore a year ago, while revenue increased from Rs 4,159 crore to Rs 4,551 crore.The company's MD and CEO Avik Roy ...
6 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Any BJP worker with a party flag seen resorting to vandalism will be expelled, BJP president Samik Bhattacharya said on Tuesday, stressing that BJP has closed its doors to any fresh induction."At some places, people carried the BJP ...
6 May 2026 Times of IndiaNew Delhi/Kolkata: The new BJP govt is likely to take oath on May 9 — Panchishe Baishakh, the birth anniversary of Bengali polymath Rabindra Nath Tagore — with Union home minister Amit Shah, who scripted the massive win, set ...
6 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata/New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has issued a Look Out Circular (LOC) against Kolkata Police Deputy Commissioner (Special Branch) Shantanu Sinha Biswas to prevent him from leaving the country after he failed to join a money laundering probe ...
6 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bengal's leading industrialists and chambers on Tuesday welcomed the poll verdict and said the same party in office, in both the state and at Centre, after five decades may usher in a new dawn for industrialisation.Ambuja Neotia Group ...
6 May 2026 Times of IndiaHowrah/Suri/Jalpaiguri: Post-poll violence claimed its first two lives in Bengal within hours of the announcement of election result as clashes erupted between BJP and Trinamool supporters across various districts. The deaths were reported from Howrah and Birbhum.In Howrah's Udaynarayanpur, ...
6 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A wave of saffron swept across Kolkata's transit hubs on Tuesday as auto-rickshaw operators, sensing a seismic shift in the political landscape, beat a hasty retreat from recent fare hikes and swapped Trinamool Congress banners for BJP flags.The ...
6 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Hundreds of hawker stalls on roads and pavements around New Market, including Bertram Street, Humayun Place, Hogg Street, Chowringhee Place, Lindsay Street and Grand Arcade, were shut for the second successive day as hawkers tried to gauge the ...
6 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Metro and railway officials are making a list of projects that can either be fast-tracked or started after years of waiting, now that there will be the same govt at the Centre and state.The lack of cooperation from ...
6 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata/Howrah: BJP made significant gains in the Barrackpore and Howrah industrial belts, with results shaped largely by economic grievances linked to industrial decline and factory closures.In Barrackpore, Bhatpara, Noapara, Jagaddal, Naihati and Bijpur, BJP's performance marked one of the ...
5 May 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Kalita Majhi, a 37-year-old domestic help turned politician, has scripted an extraordinary electoral journey by winning the Ausgram Assembly seat in West Bengal on a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ticket. She secured 1,07,692 votes, defeating her nearest rival ...
5 May 2026 Times of IndiaAn upcoming music-led showcase on May 17 will bring together a roster of independent artists to mark the launch of “The Man On The Moon,” a new track rooted in genre-fluid sound and visual storytelling. The lineup features performances ...
5 May 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Didi, built her politics on grit long before power ever came within reach.Born on January 5, 1955, she had no political lineage to fall back on. At 9, she lost her father. Her journey began in the ranks ...
5 May 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The oath-taking ceremony of the new chief minister of West Bengal will take place on May 9, BJP State president Samik Bhattacharya told news agency ANI.After terming the Bengal poll results a “historic victory”, Prime Minister Narendra Modi ...
5 May 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Trinamool Congress's traditional grip on Kolkata was shattered on Monday as a wave of anti-incumbency tore through its urban fortress, leaving a trail of high-profile electoral casualties that included party chief Mamata Banerjee and several ministers.In a staggering ...
5 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata/Nandigram: For Suvendu Adhikari, the architect of the 2021 giant-slaying of Mamata Banerjee, Nandigram has once again proven that "Dada's backyard" remains impregnable.Hours after the election results confirmed his second consecutive victory from this high-stakes battlefield, BJP insiders said ...
5 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Claiming that she had been defeated by force, Mamata Banerjee alleged that the election process was manipulated and votes were looted by the BJP. She said she had also been assaulted, but asserted that they would return again. ...
5 May 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: BJP has gained in seats that have seen sizeable SIR deletions, irrespective of whether the quantum was higher than 25,000 people or lower.There were 169 assembly constituencies that went to the polls after the deletion of more than ...
5 May 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Bengal’s voters have decided to hand over the reins of governance to BJP, effecting a seismic change in state politics whose aftershocks will be felt way beyond the state’s borders.The Trinamool Congress fortress in Bengal crumbled under the ...
5 May 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: After terming the Bengal poll results a “historic victory”, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to hold meetings in New Delhi on Tuesday and Wednesday with Union home minister Amit Shah, BJP national president Nitin Nabin, and the ...
5 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: After a gap of five years, CPM and Congress will re-enter the assembly, with BJP taking the treasury benches and Trinamool in opposition.CPM, with a vote share of 4.45%, won Murshidabad's Domkal. Congress, with a 3% vote share, ...
5 May 2026 Times of IndiaA seismic political shift in Bengal brought the Mamata Banerjee era in the state to an end on Monday, robbing the three-time chief minister of a historic fourth term - had Trinamool won, she would have become India's longest-serving ...
5 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The BJP candidate from Panihati assembly constituency, mother of the RG Kar rape-and-murder victim, emerged a clear winner on Monday, polling 87,977 votes. She led from the very first round of counting and her margin grew as counting ...
5 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Minority voting in Bengal's Muslim-dominated districts moved away from the long-assumed pattern of near- total consolidation behind Trinamool, reshaping electoral calculations in a state where Muslim voters influence 143 of 294 assembly seats. In Murshidabad, Malda and parts ...
5 May 2026 Times of IndiaTamluk/Darjeeling/Jalpaiguri/Purulia/Jhargram: The BJP has delivered a sweeping blow to the Trinamool Congress across eight districts of Bengal, tightening its grip over large parts of north Bengal and Jangalmahal while scripting a total rout in East Midnapore, where it won ...
5 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Despite discontent within the Matua community over large-scale deletions from the electoral roll under SIR, and the subsequent issue of citizenship certificates under CAA, BJP retained its foothold in Bongaon and Nadia. The party also captured the Matua-dominated ...
5 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Suvendu Adhikari on Monday helped decimate a party, which his father Sisir Adhikari—the family patriarch—had helped form.Once Mamata Banerjee's trusted lieutenant, who worked with her to end the Left's 34-year term in office, Suvendu worked against her for ...
5 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A Trinamool stronghold for the last 15 years, the anti-incumbency wave swept out the Trinamool from Bidhannagar and Rajarhat Gopalpur this time, creating a massive upset across the townships of Salt Lake and areas off VIP Road.Sharadwat Mukherjee ...
5 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Fifteen years after she stormed Writers' Buildings, scripting history as Bengal's first woman chief minister, Mamata Banerjee on Sunday missed another brush with history — to be the country's longest-serving woman chief minister.Banerjee changed Bengal politics in 2011, ...
5 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The BJP's "outsider" tag in West Bengal, which had already weakened over the past one and a half years, ostensibly withered away as Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union home minister Amit Shah started campaigning for their party ...
5 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Like Bengal, Tollywood is also facing the seismic political shifts. Former minister and Tollygunje candidate Aroop Biswas, who along with his brother Swarup, held sway over Tollywood was defeated by actor Papia Adhikary. Among the victorious candidates from ...
5 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The 2026 Bengal assembly election exposed a sharp political rupture: women turned out in higher numbers than men, yet the Trinamool Congress failed to convert that participation into support.The BJP's tactical U-turn in Bengal — promising to double ...
5 May 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: An uncharacteristic silence descended upon the otherwise bustling arteries of central and north Kolkata on Monday. As the television screens across the state flashed saffron, signalling a historic and decisive victory for the Bharatiya Janata Party, the vibrant ...
5 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Non-industrialisation, joblessness and often unchecked corruption triumphed over cultural-culinary fears on Monday.Trinamool Congress went to polls with party chief Mamata Banerjee framing the contest as a battle for Bengali identity against a hostile central govt. Tactics included how ...
5 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Throughout the campaign, Mamata Banerjee leaned on her 2021 playbook, famously asserting that she was the ‘sole candidate' in all 294 seats. This time, however, the strategy backfired. The gap between the leadership's high-octane rhetoric and the grim ...
5 May 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Early counting trends from the assembly elections in Kerala have shown the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) taking a significant latest lead, in latest trends raising the prospect of a return to power in the state.Initial two hours ...
4 May 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Early trends show a strong lead for the BJP in the West Bengal Assembly election, chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday called on Trinamool Congress (TMC) candidates and agents to remain at counting centres and stay alert.In a ...
4 May 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA : On vibrant, neon-lit corners of Park Street, a 24year-old moves through the evening rush carrying a cluster of brightly coloured balloons to sell. Neha Khatoon is a familiar face to many regular visitors to the area, but ...
4 May 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Panihati in West Bengal has emerged as one of the most closely watched battlegrounds, with BJP candidate and RG Kar rape-and-murder victim’s mother leading in the early rounds of counting.The contest has drawn statewide attention, pitting BJP against ...
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