Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday unveiled a set of “six guarantees” for Bengal, drawing a detailed rebuttal from Trinamool, which issued a “seven-point reality check” on the BJP’s claims.Addressing a rally in Haldia in Purba Medinipur district, Modi ...
10 April 2026 TelegraphThe Trinamool on Thursday shared a video of a person resembling the Aam Janata Unnayan Party leader Humayun Kabir demanding Rs.1,000 crore from the BJP for the Bengal Assembly polls in lieu of support post-elections.“BJP can get around 100 ...
10 April 2026 TelegraphPrime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday slammed the Mamata Banerjee government in West Bengal for its alleged misrule and appealed to voters to oust the TMC from power in the upcoming assembly polls.Addressing a gathering in Haldia, the backyard ...
10 April 2026 TelegraphTwo complaints have been filed against Shankar Ghosh, the incumbent BJP MLA of Siliguri and the party’s repeat candidate and a Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha leader, over alleged misconduct on April 5 and 6.According to police sources, the Trinamool ...
10 April 2026 TelegraphThe Election Commission on Wednesday removed Anurag Yadav, the general observer of the Cooch Behar South Assembly seat, during a virtual meeting with 294 observers posted across as many Assembly constituencies in Bengal.Sources said chief election commissioner Gyanesh Kumar ...
9 April 2026 TelegraphThe Supreme Court has ruled that a candidate from a community that enjoys reservations in government jobs can be appointed to a post in the administration in the unreserved category based on merit, even if there is an eligible ...
9 April 2026 TelegraphThe Trinamool Congress on Wednesday managed to get under the skin of the Election Commission at a meeting where the party complained about the alleged deployment of biased officers in Bengal, prompting the poll panel to take the rare ...
9 April 2026 TelegraphWhat's in a name? Apparently, a lot in the Karandighi and Rajganj Assembly seats, where multiple candidates with identical names are contesting the polls.In Karandighi, North Dinajpur, three Independents have filed nominations with names identical to those of the ...
9 April 2026 TelegraphBJP national president Nitin Nabin on Wednesday played the Bangladeshi infiltrator card at a public meeting in Alipurduar and simultaneously promised a "better life" to the region's tea population.“(Chief minister) Mamata Banerjee rushed to the Supreme Court to save ...
9 April 2026 TelegraphMamata Banerjee on Wednesday hit out at the BJP-Election Commission "got-up game" of the special intensive revision (SIR) process, vowing to move court again to challenge the mass deletions, and questioned the very purpose of establishing tribunals to hear ...
9 April 2026 TelegraphThe percentage of Muslims removed after adjudication from the revised electoral rolls of Bhabanipur is double the community’s share of the segment’s population, a study has shown.Bhabanipur, represented by Mamata Banerjee in the Assembly, is the hottest seat in ...
9 April 2026 TelegraphOver 57 per cent of the 90.82 lakh names removed from the Bengal voter list after the SIR drive are from 10 districts bordering Bangladesh and more than 70 per cent of these people are Muslims, district-wise data made ...
9 April 2026 TelegraphAn escort vehicle of senior Congress leader and former MP Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury was damaged after being hit by a sand-laden truck in West Bengal's Murshidabad district on Wednesday evening, police said.Chowdhury, who is contesting the Assembly polls from ...
9 April 2026 TelegraphMamata Banerjee chose to walk from her Harish Chatterjee Street home to Alipore Survey Building to file her nomination as the Trinamool candidate from Bhabanipur on Wednesday. Hundreds of supporters followed her on foot. They had started gathering at ...
9 April 2026 TelegraphThe Election Commission on Wednesday decided to deploy an additional 150 companies of central forces in Bengal for the Assembly polls, raising the total deployment to 2,550 companies. Officers in the state police directorate said this was the highest ...
9 April 2026 TelegraphCalcutta University has announced that a candidate will be admitted to the undergraduate honours programme for BA and BSc based on the marks of the best four subjects and the marks obtained in the “subject/related subject” in the board ...
9 April 2026 TelegraphThe Election Commission has announced a set of guidelines for all jails in the state, including daily tracking of mobile jammers and cancellation of paroles for inmates till May 6, sources said.“All mobile jammers and signal jammers installed in ...
9 April 2026 TelegraphThe alleged kingpin of the Saradha scam that shook the state 13 years ago obtained bail in possibly the last case pending against him on Wednesday. Lawyers in Calcutta High Court said Sudipta Sen, the owner of the chit ...
9 April 2026 TelegraphIn the city’s two election districts, 64% of voters under adjudication were deleted in Calcutta North, compared with 36% in Calcutta South, data shared by Election Commission sources showed.The stark difference in deletion rates between the two parts of ...
9 April 2026 TelegraphA time-tested system was dismantled in one fell swoop by the Election Commission, a veteran rights activist said at a protest meeting against the SIR on Wednesday.“The presumption of citizenship is a basic tenet. An election model had been ...
9 April 2026 TelegraphInitially, voters were seeking guidance to fill out the complicated SIR enumeration form.Now, they have anxious queries about what happens if their names are deleted from the electoral rolls despite appealing to the tribunals.Metro spoke to a lawyer who ...
9 April 2026 TelegraphMany people who struggle to make ends meet are now desperately seeking legal help after their names were removed from the electoral rolls.The exclusion of these daily wage earners has created deep uncertainty, leaving many unsure of what steps ...
9 April 2026 TelegraphThe Calcutta High Court on Wednesday granted conditional bail to multi-crore Saradha ponzi scam accused Sudipta Sen in the last two of the 300-odd criminal cases against him, paving the way for his release from jail after 13 years.A ...
8 April 2026 TelegraphMore than 40 per cent of voters deleted in Bhabanipur after adjudication as part of the special intensive revision of electoral rolls are Muslims though the community makes up only 20.1 per cent of the population in Bengal chief ...
8 April 2026 TelegraphThe Congress on Tuesday unveiled its manifesto for the Assembly elections, promising a sweeping overhaul of the state’s socio-economic framework through a series of welfare-driven and development-oriented measures.Releasing the document, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge underscored the urgent need to ...
8 April 2026 TelegraphA four-member delegation from the Trinamool Congress will meet the Election Commission on Wednesday morning amid a face-off between the party and the poll body over the deletion of names from the voter list as part of the special ...
8 April 2026 TelegraphInner conflicts have emerged within the BJP in South Dinajpur as rebel leaders have filed nominations as Independent candidates in Gangarampur and Balurghat Assembly constituencies.In Gangarampur, local BJP leader Chittaranjan Barman filed his nomination as an Independent on Monday, ...
8 April 2026 TelegraphThe district education department of North Dinajpur and the administration have served show-cause notices to the authorities of a state-aided high school in the district for cancelling an examination without prior notice because of a public meeting organised by ...
8 April 2026 TelegraphAround 1,000 tourists remain stranded at Lachen since the road cave-in near the Tarum Chu bridge in north Sikkim on Sunday.The connectivity between Chungthang and Lachen has been completely cut off, and continuous snowfall along the alternative route through ...
8 April 2026 TelegraphChief Minister Mamata Banerjee has congratulated Sanjita Oraon, a tribal athlete from Naxalbari block of the Siliguri subdivision, for winning a gold medal at the inaugural Khelo India Tribal Games 2026 in Chhattisgarh.Sanjita, 23, clinched the gold medal in ...
8 April 2026 TelegraphTrinamool Congress leader Abhishek Banerjee on Tuesday tried to stoke the sentiments of the Rajbanshi community as he addressed three public meetings in the northern districts of Cooch Behar, Alipurduar and Jalpaiguri.“The Prime Minister visited Cooch Behar and addressed ...
8 April 2026 TelegraphMamata Banerjee on Tuesday said the BJP and the Election Commission had an unholy nexus to disenfranchise millions of legitimate Indian citizens from Bengal selectively through special intensive revision (SIR).Framing the April 23-29 Assembly polls as a visceral fight ...
8 April 2026 TelegraphMamata Banerjee on Tuesday accused the BJP-led central government of orchestrating “selective disenfranchisement” by targeting vulnerable communities, particularly the Matuas and minorities, through large-scale deletions from electoral rolls.Addressing back-to-back rallies at Chakdaha in Nadia and Bongaon in North 24-Parganas, ...
8 April 2026 TelegraphPolitical tensions in Siliguri escalated once again on Tuesday following fresh allegations of poster defacement against the BJP by the Trinamool Congress.Gautam Deb, a senior Trinamool leader and the party’s candidate from the Siliguri Assembly constituency, has accused the ...
8 April 2026 TelegraphOver 46 lakh people have been struck off the electoral rolls in the seven districts with high Muslim concentration, accounting for over half of the 90 lakh voters declared ineligible across Bengal.Apart from Malda, Murshidabad and North Dinajpur, there ...
8 April 2026 TelegraphAs many as 90.82 lakh names have been shorn off the post-SIR Bengal voter list with 27.16 lakh of the 60 lakh people under adjudication being deleted, according to Election Commission sources.The post-SIR electoral roll now stands at 6.77 ...
8 April 2026 TelegraphThe Enforcement Directorate searched the premises of Kolkata-based realty company Merlin Group and its promoters on Wednesday as part of a money laundering investigation, officials said. About seven premises linked to the group and its promoters, Sushil Mohta and ...
8 April 2026 TelegraphA Calcuttan who had travelled to more than 50 countries on his Indian passport learnt on Tuesday morning that he was no longer an Indian voter.Imran Zaki, 58, a successful businessman and social worker, said he was scared and ...
8 April 2026 TelegraphA division bench of the high court, comprising Justice Rajarshi Bharadwaj and Justice Uday Kumar, on Tuesday pulled up both the state police and the CBI for the “exorbitant delay” in completing the probe and trial against Saradha group ...
8 April 2026 TelegraphSt Xavier’s College on Park Street has informed students that those exiting the four-year undergraduate programme after the third year in July will be awarded a “graduate with major” degree.An honours degree will be awarded to students who complete ...
8 April 2026 TelegraphThe work to bridge the gap on the upcoming New Garia–Airport Metro corridor (Orange Line) at the Chingrighata crossing will be carried out in two phases — from May 15 to 17 and again between May 22 and 24, ...
8 April 2026 TelegraphAn IndiGo aircraft was damaged after an unmanned vehicle hit the plane which was standing at the parking bay on Tuesday evening.Airport officials said the Airbus A320 aircraft was scheduled to fly to Guwahati and was waiting for passengers ...
8 April 2026 TelegraphThe high court on Tuesday constituted a committee of three former judges to decide procedures for the appellate tribunals that will hear appeals from voters removed from the electoral rolls.Sources said former Chief Justice of Calcutta High Court T.S. ...
8 April 2026 TelegraphA flurry of activity marked the campus of a central institute near IIM Joka on Tuesday afternoon. Men ferried chairs up and down staircases, two others were setting up LAN ports to connect devices across the network, while a ...
8 April 2026 TelegraphThousands of voters whose names were struck off the electoral rolls queued up on Tuesday to submit offline appeals at the Alipore Survey building and the office of South 24 Parganas’ district magistrate, with some travelling for hours and ...
8 April 2026 TelegraphThe Election Commission has directed poll officials to operate through WhatsApp groups for “seamless coordination” in the run-up to and on polling days.Separate WhatsApp groups will be created comprising police observers, divisional deputy commissioners, assistant commissioners, CAPF commandants and ...
8 April 2026 TelegraphAll police stations under Kolkata Police have been directed by the Election Commission to register cases in cognisable offences on the same day, failing which the officer responsible for refusal or delay could face suspension, sources in the poll ...
8 April 2026 TelegraphAn exercise billed as corrective has led to exclusions on a scale the country has never seen.The special intensive revision of electoral rolls in poll-bound Bengal has removed close to 91 lakh names, or nearly 12% of the state’s ...
8 April 2026 TelegraphActors and technicians at the Tollygunge studios decided to resume work after a day’s strike, but said none of them would immediately take up assignments with the production house involved in the shoot where actor Rahul Arunoday Banerjee died.At ...
8 April 2026 TelegraphBiswajeet Poddar, also known as Sona Pappu, who is absconding from the Kolkata Police and the Enforcement Directorate, has claimed the BJP was fielding Rakesh Singh from the Kolkata Port area.“I have come with breaking news. Criminal Rakesh Singh, ...
8 April 2026 TelegraphOver 27 lakh voters were found ineligible by the Election Commission at the end of the deadline for the adjudication process in Bengal, which will vote in Assembly elections on April 23 and 29.A district-wise list of eligible and ...
8 April 2026 TelegraphCongress candidate from Malatipur in Malda district, Mausam Noor, has demanded that the Election Commission settle the voter list first and then conduct the Assembly polls in Bengal.A recorded video message of Noor was played at a meeting organised ...
8 April 2026 TelegraphA girl was shot dead by a distant relative in the Islampur subdivision of North Dinajpur district late on Sunday for allegedly helping his daughter to elope with a youth.The police have arrested Abdul Aziz and initiated an investigation.A ...
8 April 2026 TelegraphThe Darjeeling Himalayan Railway (DHR) reported a significant rise in passenger footfall and revenue generation in the 2025–2026 fiscal year in comparison to the 2024- 2025 financial year. According to official sources, DHR recorded a passenger footfall of ...
8 April 2026 TelegraphA new association of tourist transport operators, the North Bengal Tourist Transport Operators Association (NBTTOA), was launched in Siliguri on Monday to address the pressing concerns of the sector.Its representatives addressed a news meet on Monday to outline key ...
8 April 2026 TelegraphWhat began as a protest anthem against Nepal’s monarchy in 1979 resurfaced in the streets of Darjeeling and Kurseong on Monday, with the strains of "Gaun Gaun Bata Utha (Rise Up From Every Village)" stirring political and cultural memories.In ...
8 April 2026 TelegraphSwapna Barman, the heptathlete and Asian Games gold medallist fielded by the Trinamool Congress from the Rajganj Assembly seat of Jalpaiguri district, filed her nomination on Monday.“Today was the last day of nomination, and thankfully, I could file it. ...
8 April 2026 TelegraphThe Congress leadership in Malda experienced both relief and concern on the final day of nomination filing for the first phase of the Assembly elections scheduled for April 23.In an important development for the party, Mottakin Alam, a former ...
8 April 2026 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday made a surprise attack on her Tamil Nadu counterpart M.K. Stalin, accusing him of being in a tacit understanding with the saffron camp.Stalin is not only a key constituent of the anti-BJP INDIA ...
8 April 2026 TelegraphCalcutta University has deferred its undergraduate first-semester theory exams scheduled after April 13.The decision follows reports from several affiliated colleges that they are unable to host exams, as their campuses have been requisitioned to accommodate central security forces deployed ...
8 April 2026 TelegraphSiliguri mayor Gautam Deb, the Trinamool candidate contesting from the Siliguri Assembly seat, and Shankar Ghosh, the BJP's sitting MLA who his party has again fielded from the seat, got into a war of words on Monday.Deb alleged that ...
7 April 2026 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday lambasted Prime Minister Narendra Modi and demanded his immediate resignation for his conspicuous silence on a recent threat from the Pakistan government to target Calcutta.As the political temperature in Bengal rises this election ...
7 April 2026 TelegraphTrinamool Congress leader Abhishek Banerjee on Monday appealed to the electors of Malda and Murshidabad, two districts dominated by Muslims, to ensure that their votes are not divided — a plea made in the backdrop of the contest by ...
7 April 2026 TelegraphThe Alipurduar district administration has rolled out a series of special measures to ensure smooth polling in remote and forest-fringe areas, where connectivity gaps and wildlife threats pose unique challenges.With the Election Commission mandating webcasting in all booths, authorities ...
7 April 2026 TelegraphThe Election Commission on Monday furnished in the Supreme Court videos purportedly showing Mamata Banerjee and other Trinamool leaders telling voters they would be beaten up by the central forces deployed by the top court.After a brief look, an ...
7 April 2026 TelegraphThe Supreme Court on Monday declined to entertain the Bengal government’s plea to direct the 19 appellate tribunals to pass interim orders allowing at least certain categories of excluded voters to vote, saying “we do not want to rush ...
7 April 2026 TelegraphPakistan defence minister Khawaja Asif’s remark about targeting Kolkata has found its way into West Bengal’s election campaign, giving the Trinamool Congress an opening to question the BJP on national security.With less than two weeks left for the first ...
7 April 2026 TelegraphThe Supreme Court on Monday asked the 88-year-old grandson of artist Nandalal Bose to approach the Appellate Tribunal after his name was deleted from the voters' list during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in poll-bound West ...
7 April 2026 TelegraphThe Supreme Court of India on Monday ordered verified voters’ names added to supplementary electoral rolls “by tonight” in poll-bound Bengal, warning over the Malda gherao episode that if state machinery fails, “we will see what can be done”.A ...
7 April 2026 TelegraphAround 900 judicial officers have decided 52 lakh objections filed by voters during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral roll in West Bengal between February 23 and April 2, data shows.The cases relate to voters objecting to ...
7 April 2026 TelegraphTo ensure peaceful polling in West Bengal, the EC has decided to deploy 3,000 armed police personnel from other states, mostly from Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Madhya Pradesh, supplementing the already substantial presence of central forces for the first ...
7 April 2026 TelegraphMamata Banerjee, for the last 15 years that she has helmed Bengal, has triumphed against all political odds in successive poll battles.Ten years ago, the Trinamool chief went to polls under the cloud of the multi-crore chit-fund scam and ...
7 April 2026 TelegraphPrime Minister Narendra Modi was on Monday targeted by West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, who questioned his silence over a reported statement from Pakistan and called for his resignation.Addressing election rallies in Nadia and Purba Bardhaman districts, Mamata ...
7 April 2026 TelegraphCometh the election, cometh the violence in West Bengal; 2026 is no exception. Bengal’s tryst with poll violence spans from the 1950s to the present, with the ruling party – whichever one is in power – breaking the backs ...
7 April 2026 TelegraphAn FIR has been registered against Trinamool Congress candidate for Behala Paschim, Ratna Chattopadhyay, over alleged vandalism in south Kolkata’s Parnasree area, with police launching a probe and the Election Commission seeking a report.The case was lodged on April ...
7 April 2026 TelegraphVisiting each home at least thrice, separate meetings with the communities and large rallies closer to the day of polling — that is the Trinamool Congress campaign plan for Bhabanipur in a nutshell.Party insiders said the objective was to ...
7 April 2026 TelegraphAn FIR was drawn against Ratna Chatterjee, the Trinamool candidate from Behala West, while six party activists were arrested after a BJP leader lodged a complaint alleging that they vandalised the election office of its candidate Indranil Khan in ...
7 April 2026 TelegraphSouth Point High School issued a circular on Monday, warning parents that unregulated social media use creates distractions, harms academic focus and exposes students to inappropriate content.The circular from the principal urged parents to prioritise offline hobbies and mindful ...
7 April 2026 TelegraphBehala College, which gained autonomous status last year, will admit students at the undergraduate level independently from the 2026-27 academic year, stepping away from the state-run centralised admission portal.The college could not admit students independently last year because undergraduate ...
7 April 2026 TelegraphA fourth of the electorate. Ninety-five per cent of deleted voters.A study has flagged an alarming disproportionality between the Muslim share of the electorate and the community’s share among deleted voters in Nandigram, the East Midnapore Assembly seat represented ...
7 April 2026 TelegraphThe shoot for around 30 TV serials is set to halt when an indefinite cease-work in Tollygunge begins on Tuesday.The decision came after a Sunday meeting of senior actors and representatives of the technicians’ federation. The artistes’ forum and ...
7 April 2026 TelegraphThe Calcutta University vice-chancellor said he would write to the UGC soon, informing it that the varsity has no objection to Loreto College’s plea for autonomy.Any application by a college seeking autonomy requires the affiliating university to provide a ...
7 April 2026 TelegraphThe uncertainty and frustration over the controversial SIR came to the fore in a rally in the heart of the city on Monday.Many participants voiced concern over their electoral status and the lack of clarity surrounding the process.Suja Uddin ...
7 April 2026 TelegraphMetro services on the North-South (Blue) Line were disrupted in Kolkata on Monday after an attempted suicide at Mahatma Gandhi Road Metro Station around 11:35am. The individual reportedly jumped onto the track of a Dum Dum-bound train, prompting an ...
7 April 2026 TelegraphParents are often reluctant to apply for the Unique Disability Identity (UDID) card for their children due to fears of stigmatisation and labelling, according to those working with individuals with disabilities.The card, however, is a tool that provides access ...
7 April 2026 TelegraphThe state primary education board will publish a merit list this week to appoint 793 special educators in government-aided primary schools.Special educators possess the expertise to teach differently abled children.The Supreme Court last year directed states to appoint special ...
7 April 2026 TelegraphSocial media may be entertaining, but it is not always a reliable source of health-related information.Such information must be backed by medical evidence. Blindly following social media health updates may lead to detrimental health outcomes. On many occasions, it ...
7 April 2026 TelegraphApplique dresses, kantha-stitched shrugs, crochet hairbands, and much more were on display at a spring fair last month.The work of women from a village near Santiniketan and girls from the streets in and around Southern Avenue was showcased.Everything on ...
7 April 2026 TelegraphOver ₹37 lakh in cash was seized from a car that was intercepted at Netaji Nagar on Sunday morning after the driver failed to clarify the origin of the money..The search and seizure was made by a team of ...
7 April 2026 TelegraphA wet spell brought relief from the hot and humid conditions that had persisted for much of last week.The Met office issued an enhanced thunderstorm alert for Bengal from April 5 to 9.Calcuttans woke up to a cloudy sky ...
7 April 2026 TelegraphNames struck off the electoral roll are not errors but a “sinister plan” to render legitimate Indian citizens, residents of Bengal, strangers in their own land, said Mamata Banerjee on Sunday.Drafting a narrative of “democratic revenge”, the chief minister ...
6 April 2026 TelegraphBJP workers and supporters, angered by the nomination of Taraknath Chatterjee as the party’s candidate for the Krishnanagar North Assembly constituency in Nadia district, staged a demonstration in front of the party’s district office on Saturday night and locked ...
6 April 2026 TelegraphNarendra Modi said on Sunday that the April 1 hostage situation in Malda’s Mothabari resulted from the “Maha Jungle Raj” established by Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress, where judicial officers and constitutional bodies are not safe.The communal overtones of his ...
6 April 2026 TelegraphSabuj Mancha, a forum of 65 non-government organisations, along with the Himalayan Nature and Adventure Foundation (HNAAF), has appealed to political parties to highlight key environmental concerns while campaigning for the Assembly elections.The forum urged all political parties and ...
6 April 2026 TelegraphUla, a small town in Bengal near Ranaghat in Nadia, also known as Birnagar, is the 10th most air-polluted city in the world in 2025, according to a global report released on Sunday.The World Air Quality Report 2025, published ...
6 April 2026 TelegraphAt least 100 tourists are currently stranded in Lachen, north Sikkim, after a road collapse near the Tarum Chu bridge on Sunday forced authorities to suspend traffic.The Mangan district administration said the route has been temporarily closed because of ...
6 April 2026 TelegraphEminent cardiologist and Padma Shri award recipient Dr Mani Chhetri has died at his residence here at the age of 106.Family sources said the renowned doctor had suffered a head injury after a fall about a fortnight ago and ...
6 April 2026 TelegraphForesters of the Darjeeling Wildlife Division, acting on a tip-off about wildlife contraband in the Siliguri area, arrested a man with a leopard skin from Matigara on Saturday.A source said the accused was planning to smuggle the skin to ...
6 April 2026 TelegraphPolice arrested three residents of Bihar’s Katihar district on Saturday night for allegedly flying a drone near the helicopter of chief minister Mamata Banerjee at Malatipur in Malda.The incident occurred around 1pm on Saturday when Mamata was preparing to ...
6 April 2026 TelegraphGautam Deb, the Trinamool Congress candidate for the Siliguri Assembly constituency, has accused the BJP of hiring goons to tear down Trinamool flexes, festoons and flags in the city.“The BJP has hired some goons who are tearing our festoons ...
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