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  • At 97.74%, Bhangar tops turnout list

    Kolkata: The second phase of Bengal assembly polls witnessed 92.9% turnout, with Bhangar in South 24 Parganas recording the highest at 97.74%. With 93.19% turnout in the first phase, Bengal clocked about 93% turnout over the two phases of ...

    4 May 2026 Times of India
    Party cadres spend quiet weekend, wait for voters’ cue and focus on final-day plan

    Kolkata: It was a busy Sunday for the political party workers — especially the counting agents — hours before the counting of votes began across Bengal. For the Trinamool Congress, there was a big checklist. Those in Rashbehari and ...

    4 May 2026 Times of India
    ‘Will our jobs be hit?’ State, central officials in HC over SIR fears

    Kolkata: Deletions by SIR have not just robbed 27 lakh of their voting rights but also sent many govt employees with names deleted into a frenzy. An assistant teacher, a Maharatna undertaking AGM, a medical professional and an insurance ...

    4 May 2026 Times of India
    Puja, prep and poise mark candidates’ final Sunday before high-stakes verdict day

    Kolkata: From offering pujas to spending hours with their counting agents and dropping in for a quick adda with party workers, candidates tried to keep their calm ahead of Monday's poll verdicts. Debasish Kumar, Trinamool's Rash Behari candidate, spent ...

    4 May 2026 Times of India
    Have nerves? Come fight in Falta: Abhishek dares ‘godfathers’ of BJP

    Kolkata: Trinamool national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee threw a sweeping challenge to BJP bigwigs to contest the Falta assembly segment repoll after the Election Commission countermanded the April 29 Falta polls and ordered a repoll on May 21 across ...

    4 May 2026 Times of India
    ‘Win doesn’t mean revenge’: Samik urges peace ahead of count

    Kolkata: Bengal BJP president Samik Bhattacharya on Sunday appealed to both BJP and Trinamool workers to resist provocation and violence ahead of Monday's counting, saying political differences must not translate into vengeance."Our primary objective is to change Bengal's political ...

    4 May 2026 Times of India
    West Bengal polls: Breath held amid TMC-BJP brag & swag battle

    KOLKATA: Bengal’s voters will get to know today which way their neighbours voted as the result of a highly fractious seven-week electoral battle starts trickling in this morning.This election has been remarkable for the unusual silence of a large ...

    4 May 2026 Times of India
    In last-min push, Mamata holds Bhowanipore meet

    Kolkata: With Bhowanipore in focus, CM Mamata Banerjee on Sunday met eight KMC councillors, party ward presidents, her chief election agent, along with several Trinamool netas to work out the last-minute details for counting day.The meeting at Mamata's Kalighat ...

    4 May 2026 Times of India
    Mothabari case: NIA summons TMC nominee’s counting agent

    Malda: NIA summoned TMC's Sujapur candidate Sabina Yeasmin's counting agent on Saturday, two days ahead of election results in Bengal, as part of its investigation into the Mothabari incident where judicial officers were gheraoed for hours during the SIR ...

    4 May 2026 Times of India
    No union control, auto fares go berserk as fuel price soars past 89

    Krishnendu.Bandopadhyay@timesofindia.comKolkata: The city's last-mile connectivity has been pushed into a state of absolute "anarchy" this week as auto-rickshaw fares surged to arbitrary highs following a record spike in auto LPG prices. With the fuel now retailing at an unprecedented ...

    4 May 2026 Times of India
    Midnight horror: Woman dials 100, cops launch manhunt for 2 bikers

    Kolkata: Park Street police have launched a manhunt for two men on a motorcycle who allegedly stalked and molested a woman early on Thursday. The duo targeted the victim twice, escalating from verbal abuse and obscene gestures to physical ...

    4 May 2026 Times of India
    At work or off, one eye will track Bengal’s future today

    Kolkata: Whether at work or working from home, people will have one eye glued to the election scoreboard as the nail-biting electoral season ends with counting on Monday.Unlike previous polls that revolved around a single dominant issue and relatively ...

    4 May 2026 Times of India
    Hours before counting, 1,000 VVPAT slips recovered from Madhyamgram roadside

    Kolkata: Just hours before vote counting, over 1,000 VVPAT (Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail) slips belonging to the Noapara assembly constituency were recovered from a roadside drain at Madhyamgram near Duttapukur in North 24 Parganas on Sunday afternoon.The incident ...

    4 May 2026 Times of India
    Darjeeling roo ts for legacy, luxury & craft: The tea that wants to be a Champagne

    When custodians of the Comité Interprofessionnel du vin de Champagne (CIVC) arrived in India for the first time, it marked a strategic convergence between two of the most well-known origin stories. On the misty slopes of Darjeeling, where India’s ...

    3 May 2026 Times of India
    27 L ornaments, 1.1 L cash stolen from Lake Town homes

    Kolkata: Two separate burglary cases were reported in Lake Town on May 1, raising concerns over a possible pattern of targeted break-ins in residential pockets during temporary absences of occupants, police said.In the first incident, a complaint lodged by ...

    3 May 2026 Times of India
    7,268 of 7,492 centenarians cast their vote, boosted elector count

    Kolkata: Bengal's centenarian voters turned out in striking numbers in the two-phase Assembly polls, with 7,268 out of the 7,492 electors aged 100 years or above casting their votes. The centenarian voter turnout was nearly 97%, said additional CEO ...

    3 May 2026 Times of India
    4 girls flee with 16k to watch BTS concert

    Kolkata: Four 15-year-old schoolgirls, who fled from home on April 21, have been rescued from Old Delhi Railway Station by a special team from the Bidhannagar Police Commissionerate. Cops said they left in a bid to travel to South ...

    3 May 2026 Times of India
    Exit polls to manipulate stock market, Trinamool winning 200+ seats: West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee

    KOLKATA: CM Mamata Banerjee on Saturday trashed exit poll results, saying they were conducted to "manipulate the stock market," and told party colleagues — including counting agents — in a virtual address that Trinamool "is winning and winning by ...

    3 May 2026 Times of India
    ‘Rivalry should end now’: Suvendu calls for peace ahead of counting

    Kolkata: Bengal leader of opposition Suvendu Adhikari on Friday night called on all political parties to maintain peace ahead of the May 4 counting, urging them to accept the people's mandate and avoid a repeat of the post-poll violence ...

    3 May 2026 Times of India
    EC scraps Falta election citing irregularities, repoll ordered on May 21, counting on May 24

    Kolkata/Falta: On Monday, Bengal's electoral fate will be decided on the basis of 293 seats as the Election Commission on Saturday countermanded the elections held in Falta assembly constituency citing "electoral offences and subversion of the democratic process during ...

    3 May 2026 Times of India
    Sr citizen duped of 9.6 L in KYC fraud

    Kolkata: A 67-year-old Salt Lake resident was allegedly duped of Rs 9.6 lakh in an online banking fraud after being tricked into sharing his credentials on the pretext of a KYC update, police said on Thursday.The complainant, a resident ...

    3 May 2026 Times of India
    176-day EC duty finally ends for BLOs but no release order yet

    Kolkata: Booth-level officers finally got a breather from their "out of syllabus" work, after slogging for 176 days ever since the SIR exercise was rolled out. But BLOs pointed out that they were yet to receive their ‘release order' ...

    3 May 2026 Times of India
    Repolling at 15 booths: At 86.9%, voter turnout dips below original state, dist rate

    Diamond Harbour/Kolkata: Fifteen booths in South 24 Parganas that went for a repoll on Saturday logged a turnout of 86.9%, substantially lower than the record-breaking 92.94% clocked over the two phases of polling in Bengal.Eleven of these booths were ...

    3 May 2026 Times of India
    Salt Lake residents get property tax bills

    Kolkata: The Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has started sending property tax bills across households in Salt Lake for the year 2026-27. Taxpayers will get a 5% tax rebate, excluding the arrear dues, if tax is paid within the due ...

    3 May 2026 Times of India
    One dies in accident; another drowns

    Kolkata: A man was run over by a private bus on Prince Anwar Shah Road near a mall on Friday around 11 am. The pedestrian, Amar Kumar Ghosh (65), a resident of Pratapaditya Road at Tollygunge, sustained multiple injuries, ...

    3 May 2026 Times of India
    For 72 hours, no-go zone 200m from 7 counting centres in city

    Kolkata: The city has been placed under an unprecedented security lockdown ahead of the May 4 counting, with sweeping prohibitory orders and multi-layered deployment of forces across all strongroom locations following escalating tensions and allegations of breaches by rival ...

    3 May 2026 Times of India
    48 hrs before counting, EC appoints 165 more observers

    Kolkata: Within hours of the Supreme Court hearing, the EC on Saturday deployed 165 additional counting observers across Bengal, just 48 hours before the vote counting on Monday. All these officers, who will be stationed at strongrooms with multiple ...

    3 May 2026 Times of India
    Eyeball-to-eyeball TMC-BJP confrontation at strongrooms

    Kolkata: Lax security and blacked out CCTV footage at EVM strongrooms led to multiple complaints by both Trinamool and BJP across Bengal on Saturday. Tension flared at the Barasat Government College on Saturday morning after the CCTV monitoring display ...

    3 May 2026 Times of India
    50kmph thunderstorm, showers lash Kolkata, pull down mercury

    Kolkata: The city and its adjoining districts were lashed by a thunderstorm on Saturday evening that struck with a wind speed of 50 kmph. It was followed by an intense rain that lasted for an hour, followed by a ...

    3 May 2026 Times of India
    Birth anniv spotlight: Ray’s mastery with non-actors

    Kolkata: At the Nandan screening of the restored ‘Pratidwandi', organised by the Society for the Preservation of Satyajit Ray Archives to mark the legend's 105th birth anniversary, a strand of conversation between Sandip Ray, Tinnu Anand and Dhritiman Chaterji ...

    3 May 2026 Times of India
    EC suspends Kalighat OC after INSAS rifle post

    Kolkata: Kalighat PS OC Goutam Das, appointed by EC on Apr 25, was suspended on Saturday for his post with a now-deleted photograph of himself in uniform aiming an INSAS assault rifle following protests from the Trinamool Congress. The ...

    3 May 2026 Times of India
    Civic recruitment scam: ED sends fresh summons to Sujit Bose

    Kolkata: The Enforcement Directorate has sent summons to state fire minister and Trinamool candidate from Bidhannagar, Sujit Bose, again on Saturday after he was questioned for nearly nine hours on Friday. He was asked to appear before the agency ...

    3 May 2026 Times of India
    Vote-day & result-day gap: Kolkata turns to adda sessions, tries to read its own mind

    Kolkata: The long gap between the poll day and the result day, along with a long weekend, has made Kolkata do what it does the best and loves the most — discussing politics over beverages, food and addas.With polling ...

    3 May 2026 Times of India
    Gunfire and street fights reported from parts of Kolkata as TMC-BJP trade blame after polls

    KOLKATA: After a relatively peaceful day of voting, Kolkata and its northern industrial fringe witnessed incidents of violence with TMC and BJP trading allegations of attacks, firing and reprisals.In Bhatpara, TMC functionary Tapas Das was shot twice and critically ...

    1 May 2026 Times of India
    'Money, muscle and weapons': Mamata Banerjee on night vigil as TMC, BJP face-off reaches strongrooms

    KOLKATA: Bengal’s battle for ballots progressed into a war of nerves over EVM safety late on Thursday as CM Mamata Banerjee camped at Sakhawat Memorial High School, where EVMs from her constituency, Bhowanipore, are being stored.A few kilometres away, ...

    1 May 2026 Times of India
    Ahead of Satyajit Ray’s 105th birth anniversary, actors recall working with the legend

    KOLKATA: Ahead of Ray’s 105th birth anniversary, some of his actors and crew recalled their experience of working with the legend at an event on Monday, organised by the British Deputy High Commission and the UK’s Bengali diaspora. “It’s ...

    1 May 2026 Times of India
    100 out of 100 for 7 ISC students in Bengal, 2,718 score above 95%

    Kolkata: Seven youngsters from Bengal secured a perfect score—400 out of 400—in ISC as CISCE announced class 12 board exam results on Thursday. Besides the ‘Super Seven', 4,237 out of the 28,791 students, who appeared for the test from ...

    1 May 2026 Times of India
    No hurdle high enough to stop these achievers

    Kolkata: Poverty to severe health issues, no challenge could deter these students who overcame all hurdles to score well in ICSE and ISC exams, turning their results into tales of grit and determination.Uday Vir Yaduka of DPS Newtown School, ...

    1 May 2026 Times of India
    Mothabari: NIA court rejects bail pleas of 52 accused

    Kolkata: An NIA court in Kolkata on Thursday rejected the bail pleas of 52 accused in Malda's Mothabari case and ordered that all of them, including main accused Mofakkarul Islam, remain in judicial custody till May 13.The case relates ...

    1 May 2026 Times of India
    BJP trains cadre to run counting day op with ‘clockwork precision’

    Kolkata: Bengal BJP has launched back-to-back workshops to train party workers ahead of counting day on May 4, with Union home minister Amit Shah calling state netas to assess preparedness and Bengal BJP minder Sunil Bansal holding meetings with ...

    1 May 2026 Times of India
    A dozen 499s reflect ICSE shift to critical thinking

    Kolkata: Writing to-the-point answers and becoming accustomed to application-based, critical-thinking questions reflected in ICSE results, highlighted several school heads after CISCE declared its class 10 boards results on Thursday. This year, the pass percentage stood at 99.18, a 0.04% ...

    1 May 2026 Times of India
    Flag issues in 48 hrs, IIT head tells students after 2 deaths in 10 days

    Kolkata: Flag any academic or non-academic issue within 48 hours through a special email response window so that an action plan can be created within seven days to address the problem as much as possible: this was the advice ...

    1 May 2026 Times of India
    No holiday on day after poll for MLA-hopefuls across constituencies

    Kolkata: The frenetic pace of campaigning may have concluded on polling day, but for candidates, the day after offered little scope for pause. Ac-ross constituencies, MLA-hopefuls slipped into a different rhythm on Thursday, marked by review meetings, damage assessment ...

    1 May 2026 Times of India
    Tolly candidates take a break, watch movies after poll hustle, set for May 4 ‘big picture’

    Kolkata: Trinamool candidate Bratya Basu watch Sofia Coppola's ‘Lost in Translation' on Thursday while BJP's Agnimitra Paul watched ‘Assi' on an OTT platform on Wednesday, right after polling for Bengal's two-phase elections got over. With the hectic poll schedule ...

    1 May 2026 Times of India
    Restored ‘Pratidwandi’ screening today for Ray birth anniversary

    Kolkata: The Society for the Preservation of Satyajit Ray Archives will screen the restored print of ‘Pratidwandi' at Nandan on May 1, a day before the maestro's birth anniversary. The cult film, restored in 4K by the National Film ...

    1 May 2026 Times of India
    Nor’westers give Kol 2nd wettest April day in 15 yrs

    Kolkata: A series of nor'westers through Wednesday night gave the city its second wettest April day in around 15 years. While the Met office did not rule out a few more spells of thundershower, albeit of less intensity, in ...

    1 May 2026 Times of India
    Fewer Metro ops today

    Kolkata: Metro will operate 244 services (122 Up + 122 Dn) instead of the usual 272 services on Blue Line on May Day on Friday. Timings of the first and last services of all lines will remain unchanged.Green Line ...

    1 May 2026 Times of India
    After V-Day, focus shifts from poll booths to EVM strong rooms

    Kolkata: Sixty uniformed men, drawn from CAPF and Kolkata Police, are doing the rounds of each of the 22 strong rooms in Kolkata across the seven counting centres in the city. In all, the city's strong rooms will see ...

    1 May 2026 Times of India
    Bagdogra flight crosses border, lands in Dhaka

    Kolkata: Thunderstorms that raged across south and north Bengal on Wednesday evening forced the diversion of a domestic flight to an international airport. This was an unusual move as domestic flights were usually diverted to another Indian airport in ...

    1 May 2026 Times of India
    KMC chairperson targets civic commissioner

    Kolkata: Kolkata Municipal Corporation chairperson Mala Roy on Thursday came down heavily on a section of senior officials who were marked absent at the KMC House. The civic authority decided to hold the monthly meeting on the last day ...

    1 May 2026 Times of India
    Scurry to return after votefills up flights, trains from Kol

    Kolkata: After voting, professionals and migrant workers are scrambling back to work, driving up demand for outbound flights and keeping fares elevated through the weekend.Earlier this week, a surge in last-minute travel to Kolkata had already sent airfares and ...

    1 May 2026 Times of India
    Hours after poll ends, war over turf control breaks in and around city

    Kolkata: Two Trinamool functionaries are battling for their lives in Behala and Bhatpara after being attacked by BJP workers on Wednesday night, a charge which the BJP denied. Two brothers, both RSS workers in Behala, were also injured in ...

    1 May 2026 Times of India
    Brewing adda, music & memories of Tagore over tea

    A cultural evening, Cha-Chakra, is set to recreate the intimate world of Rabindranath Tagore through the simple yet profound ritual of tea. The programme draws from Tagore’s deep association with tea as a space for reflection, creativity, and meaningful ...

    30 April 2026 Times of India
    Abhishek slams EC for excesses, Farooq, Aaditya second TMC neta

    Srinagar/Kolkata: Lending support to Trinamool national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee's charge that the only thing left to be deployed in Bengal for elections were naval warships and Rafale fighter jets, netas like former J&K CM Farooq Abdullah and Aaditya ...

    30 April 2026 Times of India
    Record voter turnout fires up both TMC & BJP camps

    Kolkata/Lucknow: Bengal's record turnout left both Trinamool and BJP claiming the mandate on Wednesday, with CM Mamata Banerjee predicting a two-thirds majority for Trinamool and PM Narendra Modi expressing confidence that BJP will form govt in the state for ...

    30 April 2026 Times of India
    SIR-deleted citizens watch neighbours vote

    Kolkata: "Even if my name is restored in the electoral roll later, shall I remain alive to cast my vote next time?" asked septuagenarian cancer survivor Rita Bhattacharjee, a resident of Genexx Valley in Joka, whose name was struck ...

    30 April 2026 Times of India
    ‘Duare vote’, a first for many residents, passes off peacefully at hsg complexes

    Kolkata: Polling booths a few steps down, gated communities woke up to ‘Duare vote' on Wednesday when the state went to poll in its second phase. For a majority of residents, it was the first time that they got ...

    30 April 2026 Times of India
    85-year-old fails to vote after 45-min attempt

    Kolkata: An 85-year-old voter who conscientiously voted in all previous elections was denied the opportunity to do so on technical grounds on Wednesday despite her name being there on the voter list. Anuradha Dasgupta, who lives in Bansdroni under ...

    30 April 2026 Times of India
    Thunderstorm lashes city; roads flooded, flights diverted

    Kolkata: An intense thunderstorm lashed the city for around two hours on Wednesday evening, flooding various areas. The nor'wester pulled the mercury down by six degrees. Eight flights, including two international flights, were diverted and several arrivals and departures ...

    30 April 2026 Times of India
    Driven by SIR fear, citizens brave rain, sun to reach booths

    Kolkata: Come rain or shine, voters on Wednesday did not seem bothered by the weather, the sense of unease following the SIR exercise apparently being a stronger motive. Picnic Garden resident Gouri Routh, who was released from hospital two ...

    30 April 2026 Times of India
    ‘Pushed by jawan’, 82-year-old dies

    An 82-year-old man, Purnachandra Dolui, died after he was allegedly pushed by a CAPF jawan at a booth in Udaynarayanpur in Howrah on Wednesday. The jawan was detained, voting was suspended and later, an FIR was registered. Udaynarayanpur TMC ...

    30 April 2026 Times of India
    Bengal-style poll heat and dust visit VIP seat's posh paras in do-or-die Trinamool-BJP battle

    KOLKATA: Bhowanipore, long known for its quiet polling days and indifferent turnout among its affluent voters, witnessed an unusually charged election on Wednesday, as high drama, heavy security presence and an energised electorate reshaped the constituency's voting culture.The upscale ...

    30 April 2026 Times of India
    Lungi plaint against CAPF

    Gaighata: A controversy erupted during polling in the Gaighata Assembly constituency in North 24-Parganas after central forces personnel prevented several elderly men from entering a booth allegedly for wearing lungi, prompting charges of harassment and raising questions on the ...

    30 April 2026 Times of India
    Vote-shy Kol catches up with Bengal, almost

    Kolkata: Kolkata, which traditionally registers a low turnout, voted almost on a par with the rest of Bengal on Wednesday. The EC data shows that till 9 pm, Kolkata recorded over 88.4 polling percentage, while the figure was 60.2%, ...

    30 April 2026 Times of India
    VIP treatment for 104-yr-old who fought SIR & won

    Jamalpur (East Burdwan): Sk Ibrahim, the 104-year-old who has cast his vote in every election since Independence, kept his date with democracy on Wednesday as well. However, the EC had initially placed his name under adjudication on the final ...

    30 April 2026 Times of India
    Matua belt votes under twin shadows of SIR and CAA

    Bongaon: Contrasting scenes marked the second phase of the assembly elections across the Matua heartland in Bongaon on Wednesday, where a family contest unfolded alongside voter discontent over exclusions from the roll.At the centre of attention was the face-off ...

    30 April 2026 Times of India
    SIR divides families across Kolkata: Chosen few celebrate vote as lakhs mourn deletion

    Kolkata: The special intensive revision (SIR) of the electoral roll left several families across the city divided on poll day — while a chosen few had the privilege to press their button of choice on the EVM, lakhs mourned ...

    30 April 2026 Times of India
    Access to polling booths: Mixed bag for the disabled

    Kolkata: For electors with disabilities, polling arrangements in Kolkata during the second phase drew mixed reactions. While some praised the EC efforts to improve accessibility, others flagged missing ramps at several booths, making entry difficult for wheelchair users.Disability rights ...

    30 April 2026 Times of India
    A game of chess, a vote with the family: Netas’ poll-day playbook

    Kolkata: Trinamool and BJP heavyweight candidates spent their day crisscrossing their assembly segments, addressing complaints, and some even protesting as they refused to cede ground to their opponents.Mayor Firhad Hakim performed a delicate balancing act between his own Kolkata ...

    30 April 2026 Times of India
    ‘Taped’ EVM takes centre stage over ‘Singham-Pushpa’ war

    Kolkata: Falta in South 24 Parganas woke up on the polling day under the shadow of a face-off that never came. One man moved relentlessly across the constituency while the other stayed stationed in a single room, monitoring every ...

    30 April 2026 Times of India
    In her first poll battle, R G Kar victim’s mom caught in ‘influencing-voters’ row

    Panihati: For the RG Kar rape-and-murder victim's mother, her first poll day as a candidate was marked by tension, confrontations and complaints from multiple quarters.Controversies trailed the poll debutante all day, from allegations for trying to influence people standing ...

    30 April 2026 Times of India
    Showing their (inked) fingers: Kolkata’s 1st-time voters make their moment count

    Kolkata: A strong sense of political awareness and civic duty brought large numbers of first-time voters out of their daily routines and into queues at polling stations across the city on Wednesday. For many, it was not just about ...

    30 April 2026 Times of India
    Plaint after Setu road rage case, defamation

    Kolkata: The Hastings Police started a criminal case involving charges of defamation, criminal intimidation and wrongful restraint after a road-rage incident on Vidyasagar Setu on April 24. The case was registered on Sunday.According to the complainant, an advocate, a ...

    29 April 2026 Times of India
    West Bengal polls: Tribunals clear 1,468 names, delete 6 for 2nd phase poll

    KOLKATA: Bengal’s SIR tribunals have cleared 1,468 citizens to vote in the second phase of the assembly elections, taking the total number of cleared voters to 1,607 across the two polling phases in the state (139 people had their ...

    29 April 2026 Times of India
    BJP focus on manning every election booth

    Kolkata: Barely 12 hours before the polls, BJP's war room, often described as a "high-tech nerve centre" of the party's election machinery, looked noisier than ever, with the core unit and a group of strategists busy analysing field reports, ...

    29 April 2026 Times of India
    ‘Fair and Lovely babua’: Mahua Moitra takes swipe at ‘Singham’ IPS officer Ajay Pal Sharma

    KOLKATA: A political bubble burst during the West Bengal polls after Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra shared archived videos purportedly showing a man dancing at a nightclub.Moitra shared a couple of videos on X showing a man grooving to ...

    29 April 2026 Times of India
    West Bengal polls: Violence, vandalism reported during early hours of voting

    KOLKATA: Incidents of violence and vandalism were reported from parts of West Bengal in the early hours of voting in the second phase of the assembly elections on Wednesday, police said. According to news agency PTI, the incidents were ...

    29 April 2026 Times of India
    Kol, 6 districts go to vote with 2.3 lakh central boots, 38,000 more state cops on ground

    Kolkata: Over 2.3 lakh CAPF, 38,297 Bengal police personnel, 142 general observers, 95 police observers and 100 expenditure observers, and the National Investigation Agency (NIA) have thrown an unprecedented security blanket in seven poll-bound districts, including Kolkata, ahead of ...

    29 April 2026 Times of India
    TMC MP’s video on UP ‘encounter specialist’ spices up ‘Singham’-‘Pushpa’ war hrs before polls

    Kolkata: A ‘Singham' versus ‘Pushpa' rivalry played out at Falta, around 40km from Kolkata, on Tuesday.On Monday, IPS officer and DIG Ajay Pal Sharma — an ‘encounter specialist' popularly known as ‘Singham' on his home turf in UP, visited ...

    29 April 2026 Times of India
    No unnecessary drama near booth: TMC deputes cool heads

    Kolkata: Banking on discipline over confrontation, Trinamool has put in place a tightly managed booth strategy ahead of Wednesday's polling, relying on seasoned hands as polling agents while directing party workers to maximise turnout without triggering flashpoints.Through a series ...

    29 April 2026 Times of India
    IIT boy hangs self, family gets death news in scheduled msg

    Kolkata/Kharagpur: "I am dying, my body will be in the room. I've left the security number. Call them to take my body from the room." A fourth-year IIT Kharagpur engineering student's chilling message to his family, informing them of ...

    29 April 2026 Times of India
    In Singur, agri roots & job dreams divide generations

    Singur: As the morning mist settles over lush green patches of Hooghly, the rhythmic sound of tillers in Singur is punctuated by the loud, competing echoes of campaign microphones. As this historic semi-rural constituency — once at the centre ...

    29 April 2026 Times of India
    Out of fear shadow, Sandeshkhali hopes to vote in peace

    Sandeshkhali: During the June 2024 Lok Sabha elections, Sandeshkhali dominated political discourse and grabbed national attention. The riverine island emerged as a major political flashpoint, with BJP seeking to turn the tide against Trinamool by riding on protests over ...

    29 April 2026 Times of India
    Tollywood plans to make insurance must for films

    Kolkata: Mandatory insurance for all Bengali films and a model code of conduct for shooting units are set to be key measures of Tollywood's proposed Standard Operating Procedure (SOP), following the death of actor Rahul Banerjee during a serial ...

    29 April 2026 Times of India
    ‘Preventive detentions, arrests only if essential’

    Kolkata: Reminding the Election Commission of a citizen's fundamental right to liberty, the Calcutta High Court on Tuesday asked it not to resort to preventive detention and arrests unless essential and only when done legally.Disposing of a writ petition ...

    29 April 2026 Times of India
    Thundershower relief likely on poll day: Met

    Kolkata: The city is likely to get intensified thunderstorm activities on Wednesday, the day of the polls. The IMD has issued an orange alert for Kolkata, where the showers are expected to be accompanied by lightning and gusty wind. ...

    29 April 2026 Times of India
    Cab driver held for abducting woman

    Kolkata: A 35-year-old woman, the wife of a senior advocate, was allegedly abducted and criminally intimidated by an app cabby on Sunday. The woman was reportedly driven off and her husband left behind at a central Kolkata bus stand, ...

    29 April 2026 Times of India
    4 sniffer dogs on duty after Gwalior stint

    Kolkata: As the city votes on Wednesday, the Kolkata Police Dog Squad has already deployed its newest members — Ina, Tina, Snoopy and Moon — to secure the city's high-stakes political landscape. The four labradors, recently designated as "explosive ...

    29 April 2026 Times of India
    Burdwan homes go without help as maid gets BJP ticket

    Guskara: For the family members of Platilal Patra, 37-year-old Kalita Majhi is not merely a house help who has been working in their home for over two decades. "She is like our daughter, and she addresses me as Baba," ...

    29 April 2026 Times of India
    Doctor flies in from Paris to vote

    Kolkata: A physician who lives in Paris but visits Kolkata with his family at least once a year, has flown down to vote on Wednesday. A firm believer in the paradox ‘change is the only constant', he voted for ...

    29 April 2026 Times of India
    Repeat tragedy: On poll booth job but cannot vote

    Kolkata: As the sun beat down, Munsi Rezaul Karim boarded a Khanakul-bound bus on Tuesday, armed with an appointment letter from EC, assigning him to Booth 140A at Basantapur Prathamik Vidyalaya as the third polling officer.What would have been ...

    29 April 2026 Times of India
    What was our crime, why can’t we vote, ask Indians deleted by SIR

    Kolkata: Several Indian citizens living in the city for generations had knocked on the door of the tribunal appellate authority when the SIR, conducted by the Election Commission, struck their names off the electoral roll. A judicial scrutiny later, ...

    29 April 2026 Times of India
    In red-light areas, 1,360 pushed out of poll roll

    Kolkata: Of 4,200 residents of Sonagachhi, Asia's largest red-light district, 1,300 were deleted from the poll roll, bolstering the argument that a large number of socially and economically deprived women failed to make the SIR cut.During judicial adjudication, cases ...

    29 April 2026 Times of India
    55 Missionaries of Charity nuns get back voting right

    Kolkata: Nearly 55 nuns in the Missionaries of Charity (MC), an order formed by Saint Teresa of Calcutta and headquartered in Kolkata, have been included in the supplementary list published on Tuesday after the tribunal cleared their cases. The ...

    29 April 2026 Times of India
    Bigger responsibility now: Cleared voters

    Kolkata: Lucky electors, whose appeals for restoration of their voting rights were cleared by the tribunals, felt they had a "much bigger responsibility" now as they could finally be able to vote despite the initial hurdles. In the previous ...

    29 April 2026 Times of India
    100-metre radius rule closes down eateries, city counts losses

    Kolkata: After liquor, Election Commission has asked eateries that are within 100 metres of polling booth to stay closed. However, the 100-metre rule would vary from constituency to constituency. This has resulted in closure of more than 400 prominent ...

    29 April 2026 Times of India
    Housing complexes in & around Kolkata get ready to host vote

    Kolkata: Central forces moved into residential complexes across the city on the eve of polling, taking charge of booths set up inside community halls — part of a first-time experiment that will see 57 gated complexes hosting polling stations ...

    29 April 2026 Times of India
    CAPF visits Firhad house at midnight

    Kolkata: Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) jawans led by a commandant knocked on the doors of Kolkata mayor Firhad Hakim well past Monday midnight to have an interaction with him relating to the second-phase poll scheduled on Wednesday. The ...

    29 April 2026 Times of India
    Shut down your brain and shoot from the heart: Remembering Raghu Rai

    A different India emerged through Raghu Rai’s eyes – one veiled in morning mist, rising from heat and dust, flowing with rivers, dancing toward immersion. So it was with the people he photographed. His camera became an invisible presence ...

    28 April 2026 Times of India
    Met spies rain, gusty wind tomorrow

    Kolkata: The city's weather is expected to be less harsh on Wednesday when the city goes to the polls. The daytime mercury is likely to stay significantly below the normal mark. The weather office has issued a rain alert ...

    28 April 2026 Times of India
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