Winter has arrived in Kolkata, and with schools closing for the holidays, parents are often on the hunt for ways to keep their children engaged and entertained. Fortunately, the ‘City of Joy’ is packed with destinations that blend fun ...
28 December 2025 Indian ExpressWest Bengal elections 2026 news: The ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) Saturday launched a new slogan – “Jotoi koro hamla, abar jitbe Bangla” (no matter how many attacks you launch, Bangla will win again) – ahead of the West Bengal ...
28 December 2025 Indian ExpressBJP’s Suvendu Adhikari, the Leader of Opposition in West Bengal, Saturday said Bangladesh ought to be taught a lesson akin to what Israel taught Gaza. Suvendu marched to the Bangladesh Deputy High Commission in Kolkata alongside party leaders and ...
28 December 2025 Indian ExpressON THE first day of hearings in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district as part of the SIR (Special Intensive Revision) exercise to decide if electors who have been issued notices will remain on the rolls, Bidhubhushan Mondol, 62, ...
28 December 2025 Indian ExpressTrinamool Congress (TMC) MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar on Saturday hit out at the Election Commission (EC) and alleged that it was acting at the behest of the BJP after four members of her family, including her mother and sons, ...
28 December 2025 Indian ExpressA third-year student of the English Department at West Bengal’s Jadavpur University has complained to the varsity authorities over an incident allegedly involving a hijab check during the semester examination held on December 23.According to the student’s complaint, which ...
28 December 2025 Indian ExpressReacting to the recent killing of a 19-year-old migrant worker from West Bengal in Odisha, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Saturday condemned violence against Bengali-speaking people in other states.“We strongly condemn the brutal oppression and persecution that has ...
28 December 2025 Indian ExpressBengali film actress Parno Mittra on Friday joined the Trinamool Congress (TMC) in the presence of party leader and state Finance Minister Chandrima Bhattacharya and TMC leader Jayprakash Majumder.Mittra had joined the BJP six years ago and contested the ...
27 December 2025 Indian ExpressOdisha migrant lynching: Thousands gathered at Bahadurpur village under Suti police station in Murshidabad on Friday, as the body of 19-year-old migrant labourer Jewel Sheikh arrived from Odisha.Sheikh was lynched in Sambalpur district of Odisha on the evening of ...
27 December 2025 Indian ExpressIn the run-up to the second phase of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in West Bengal starting on December 27, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee held a meeting with representatives of the West Bengal Civil Service (Executive) ...
27 December 2025 Indian ExpressAs hearings to decide whether lakhs of electors will remain on the rolls begin in West Bengal, the Election Commission of India has allowed only Booth Level Officers (BLOs), their supervisors, Electoral Registration Officers (EROs) and micro-observers to be ...
27 December 2025 Indian ExpressThe South Eastern Railway (SER) has approved a major infrastructure project to replace the ageing Kolaghat Bridge No 57 on the Howrah–Kharagpur section, one of the busiest rail corridors in eastern India. The new bridge, to be built at ...
27 December 2025 Indian ExpressSixteen months after their 32-year-old daughter was raped and murdered while on duty at R G Kar Medical College and Hospital in August 2024, her parents say their lives now revolve around courtrooms, adjournments and an unending wait for ...
27 December 2025 Indian ExpressThe Matua-dominated assembly seats accounts for a high rate of “untraceable” voters after the first phase of Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls concluded in West Bengal, a survey has shown.According to the data collated for 15 assembly ...
26 December 2025 Indian ExpressAs Christmas festivities reach it’s peak. Major thoroughfares in Central Kolkata, particularly J.L. Nehru Road and the AJC Bose Road crossing, are witnessing massive gridlock due to the influx of revelers heading toward the Park Street carnival. With Park Street, ...
26 December 2025 Indian ExpressDays after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to West Bengal, Union Home Minister Amit Shah is set to arrive in Kolkata for a two-day visit beginning December 29, during which he will hold a series of internal Bharatiya Janata ...
26 December 2025 Indian ExpressA 19-year-old labourer from West Bengal’s Murshidabad was lynched in Odisha’s Sambalpur district on Wednesday night. Police have arrested six accused in connection with the incident.The victim, Jewel Sheikh, hailed from Chakbahadurpur village under Suti police station limits and ...
26 December 2025 Indian ExpressThe second phase of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in West Bengal will begin on December 27, with the Election Commission of India (ECI) gearing up to conduct hearings for more than one crore voters across ...
26 December 2025 Indian ExpressDays after West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said that agreeing to the implementation of Goods and Services Tax (GST) on the advice of then state Finance Minister Amit Mitra was a “very big blunder”, Mitra on Wednesday said ...
26 December 2025 Indian ExpressFor over eight months, 25-year-old Awal Sheikh has been languishing in confinement – first in a jail, and then at a detention centre for illegal foreigners, in Tamil Nadu’s Cuddalore district — miles away from his Murshidabad home in ...
25 December 2025 Indian ExpressWith a massive number of revellers expected to throng Park Street and adjoining areas during Christmas and New Year celebrations, the Kolkata Police have rolled out an extensive security and traffic management plan, deploying around 2,500 personnel to maintain ...
25 December 2025 Indian ExpressKolkata remained tense for the second consecutive day on Wednesday as protests continued over the killing of a Bangladesh-origin man, with chaotic scenes unfolding during the BJP’s “Howrah Bridge Blockade” programme. Police stopped the BJP procession before it could ...
25 December 2025 Indian ExpressDescribing JU as the “best university of West Bengal,” Governor CV Ananda Bose on Wednesday said Jadavpur University (JU) will become the best in the country in the near future.Delivering the keynote address at the university’s 68th annual convocation, ...
25 December 2025 Indian ExpressHearings for the second phase of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in West Bengal will begin on December 27, with notices already issued to around 10 lakh electors, officials of the Election Commission of India (ECI) ...
25 December 2025 Indian ExpressThe protests over the killing of a garment factory worker in Bangladesh escalated in Kolkata on Tuesday, with police resorting to a lathicharge to disperse demonstrators who attempted to march to the Bangladesh Deputy High Commission in the Beckbagan ...
25 December 2025 Indian ExpressThe Calcutta High Court has quashed criminal proceedings against an 86-year-old man in a domestic cruelty case filed by his wife, following the complainant’s death.The dispute, which arose in June 2023 under the jurisdiction of Kalyani police station, centred ...
24 December 2025 Indian ExpressA Ranaghat Additional District Judge (ADJ) court on Tuesday pronounced the quantum of punishment for the nine accused convicted in the Hanskhali gang rape case, sentencing three prime accused to life imprisonment.All nine accused were produced before the court ...
24 December 2025 Indian ExpressIn a festive boost for city revellers, Kolkata Metro has announced extended operations on Christmas Day, with additional and late-night services on the Blue Line (North–South) and Green Line (East–West) to manage the expected surge of commuters heading to ...
24 December 2025 Indian ExpressAlmost eight months after a 72-year-old man and his 40-year-old son were brutally hacked to death by a mob during a protest against the Centre’s new Waqf law, a court in Murshidabad on Monday convicted 13 men of mob ...
23 December 2025 Indian ExpressAs the Election Commission (EC) gears up for hearings in cases of discrepancies in the enumeration forms submitted by the electors during the first phase of Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, the poll panel is focusing on ...
23 December 2025 Indian ExpressThe long-awaited stone-laying ceremony of the Gangasagar bridge is likely to be held in the first week of January. The Mamata Banerjee-led West Bengal government has decided to construct a five-kilometre-long bridge over the Muriganga river to connect Sagar ...
23 December 2025 Indian ExpressAs Bharatpur MLA Humayun Kabir on Monday launched a political outfit — ‘Janata Unnayan Party’ – days after he was suspended from the TMC for going ahead with his plans to lay the foundation stone of a Babri-like mosque ...
23 December 2025 Indian ExpressThe Calcutta High Court on Monday rejected the anticipatory bail granted to a Block Development Officer named in the murder of a jewellery shop owner in October this year.The single bench of Justice Tirthankar Ghosh also ordered the Rajganj ...
23 December 2025 Indian ExpressThe Calcutta High Court on Monday rejected a plea seeking a central agency probe into the chaos that abruptly ended the Lionel Messi event at the Salt Lake Stadium earlier this month.After the hearing of three Public Interest Litigations ...
23 December 2025 Indian ExpressA week after chaos that took place at Salt Lake Stadium in Kolkata, after thousands of angry and disappointed football fans failed to catch a glimpse of Argentinian soccer superstar Lionel Messi at the stadium and tore down banners, ...
23 December 2025 Indian ExpressPointing to the ongoing round of turmoil in neighbouring Bangladesh, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat on Sunday called upon the Hindus there to stay united and urged the members of the community, spread across the world, to ...
23 December 2025 Indian ExpressSuspended from the ruling TMC just days ahead of him going ahead with his plan to lay the foundation stone of a Babri Masjid-like in Murshidabad despite the party’s objection, Kabir has been claiming to attract Muslim support, a ...
23 December 2025 Indian ExpressEven as temperatures across Bengal fluctuated over the past day, dense fog affected visibility in several districts. In South Bengal, Bardhaman recorded the lowest minimum at 10.8 degrees Celsius, while in the North Bengal plains, Alipurduar registered 9 degrees ...
23 December 2025 Indian ExpressThe sixth cycle of the tiger census, known as the All India Tiger Estimation, was officially launched on Sunday, with ground surveys having begun last month.Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav, who chaired a high-level joint meeting of the National ...
22 December 2025 Indian ExpressThe Bidhannagar police recently said that Satadru Dutta, Lionel Messi GOAT India Tour’s arrested organiser, has blamed an ‘influential’ person and also officials for the chaos at the Salt Lake Stadium in Kolkata during the Argentine footballer’s event earlier ...
22 December 2025 Indian ExpressTrying to understand the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) through the lens of the BJP is a mistake, said RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat in Kolkata Sunday.Addressing the ‘RSS 100 Vyakhyan Mala’, a lecture series as part of the RSS’s centenary ...
22 December 2025 Indian ExpressThe city is bracing for a busy Sunday with the Tata Steel World 25K Kolkata 2025 marathon, a World Athletics Gold Label Road Race, which will kick off from Indira Gandhi Road. Elite runners from India and around the ...
22 December 2025 Indian ExpressAfter Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday slammed the Mamata Banerjee-led West Bengal government over “non-development” and “jungle raj”, the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) hit back at his alleged lack of concern for the Matua community.Addressing a press conference, ...
22 December 2025 Indian ExpressThe Purba Medinipur police Sunday arrested the owner of a school for allegedly harassing Kolkata-based singer Lagnajita Chakraborty.The accused has been identified as Mehboob Mallick.Chakraborty complained that the accused heckled her for singing devotional songs and asked her to ...
22 December 2025 Indian ExpressSatadru Dutta, the arrested main organiser of Lionel Messi event in Kolkata on December 13, has told investigators that the football icon was “unhappy with being touched or hugged” during his appearance at the Salt Lake Stadium and left ...
21 December 2025 Indian ExpressAhead of the Assembly elections in West Bengal next year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday called for an end to the Trinamool Congress government’s “jungle raj” and urged people to give the BJP a chance to form a ...
21 December 2025 Indian ExpressFollowing Parliament’s passage of the Viksit Bharat—Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) or VB—G RAM G, after a sharp debate over dropping ‘Mahatma Gandhi’ from the Centre’s rural employment scheme, the Trinamool Congress has announced that the West ...
21 December 2025 Indian ExpressPrime Minister Narendra Modi Saturday virtually addressed the public at Taherpur in Bengal’s Nadia district after his helicopter was unable to land due to low visibility.Hitting out at the ‘jungle raj’ in Bengal, PM Modi said, “Bihar has unanimously ...
21 December 2025 Indian ExpressAfter the publication of the draft electoral roll under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in West Bengal on December 11, the Election Commission of India (ECI) will start the hearing of electors who were dissatisfied with mapping information or ...
21 December 2025 Indian ExpressAmid fresh violence in Bangladesh following the killing of youth leader Sharif Osman Hadi, India’s largest land port at Petrapole was on alert over concerns regarding the safety of Indian trucks and drivers in Benapole on the Bangladeshi side ...
21 December 2025 Indian ExpressPrime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Ranaghat in West Bengal’s Nadia district was delayed on Saturday after his helicopter failed to land at Taherpur due to heavy fog and returned to Kolkata.Modi had landed at Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose ...
21 December 2025 Indian ExpressKolkata’s air quality has deteriorated sharply this winter, with the city recording AQI levels worse than Delhi on several occasions this December — a rare and alarming trend for the eastern metropolis.Last week, residents in Kolkata breathed air more ...
20 December 2025 Indian ExpressThe Election Commission of India (ECI) has decided to deploy Micro Roll Observers in West Bengal to assist Electoral Roll Observers and Special Electoral Roll Observers in the SIR process.The decision follows a proposal from state Chief Electoral Officer ...
20 December 2025 Indian ExpressCricket Association of Bengal (CAB) president Sourav Ganguly has issued a Rs 50-crore defamation notice and filed a cyber complaint against Uttam Saha, secretary of the Argentina Fan Club in Kolkata, over remarks made in a recent media interview ...
20 December 2025 Indian ExpressPrime Minister Narendra Modi will visit West Bengal on Saturday to address a rally and unveil highway projects in Nadia district’s Ranaghat. This is Modi’s first visit to the state since the SIR (Special Intensive Revision) started.On Friday, Modi ...
20 December 2025 Indian ExpressThe Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) issued 12,823 certificates between August 9 and December 9, according to data released by the civic body during the ongoing revision of the electoral rolls.“The civic body issued a total of 12,823 certificates to ...
20 December 2025 Indian ExpressThe Election Commission has asked the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) to deploy Central armed forces on the premises of the West Bengal Chief Electoral Officer’s office in Kolkata, citing a potential “law and order” risk during the ...
20 December 2025 Indian ExpressOn a day, the Lok Sabha passed a Bill to replace the 20-year-old scheme MGNREGA, the rural employment guarantee scheme named after Mahatma Gandhi, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday announced that the state’s Karmashree scheme would ...
19 December 2025 Indian ExpressFifteen years after the murder of a TMC worker in Left Front-ruled West Bengal, and 12 years after the family of the victim had filed a petition for a CBI probe, the Calcutta High Court on Thursday directed the ...
19 December 2025 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday criticised the Centre for what she called the removal of Mahatma Gandhi’s name from the rural employment guarantee scheme, and announced that the state’s Karmashree scheme would be renamed in honour ...
19 December 2025 Indian ExpressKolkata kickstarted its year-end festivities with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee inaugurating the 15th edition of the Kolkata Christmas Festival at Allen Park on Thursday.Addressing the inaugural programme, Banerjee said, “Today marks the beginning of the 15th Christmas Festival at ...
19 December 2025 Indian ExpressA day after a massive fire completely destroyed Ghuni Basti, a slum in New Town’s Eco Park, near Kolkata in North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday ordered a probe.The chief minister’s order ...
19 December 2025 Indian ExpressFollowing the first phase of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) and publication of the draft electoral roll, the Election Commission of India (ECI) is set to begin hearings from December 23, which will continue until at least January 31.Chief ...
19 December 2025 Indian ExpressWest Bengal’s mining sector could see a significant boost, with recent Geological Survey of India (GSI) surveys identifying potential gold and critical mineral deposits across several districts. In a written response to Rajya Sabha MP Samik Bhattacharya, the Union ...
19 December 2025 Indian ExpressThe Calcutta High Court on Thursday dismissed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) challenging the construction of a Babri Masjid in Beldanga, Murshidabad by suspended Trinamool Congress MLA Humayun Kabir.A division bench of Acting Chief Justice Sujoy Paul and Justice ...
19 December 2025 Indian ExpressPlastic waste from Kurseong, a hill station in West Bengal’s Darjeeling district, is being used to build a brand-new road in Mirik Block of northern Bengal, the first such public thoroughfare within the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA).The 4.420-km stretch, ...
19 December 2025 Indian ExpressWithout mentioning the fiasco during Lionel Messi’s visit to Kolkata, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday said that despite good works done by her TMC government in the state, a section of people tries to defame her ...
18 December 2025 Indian ExpressAyesha Akhtar, a mother of two and an Urdu para-teacher, sits with a sigh of relief at Taki House School in Sealdah, designated as the Booth Level Office centre for the area.For her, Wednesday marked the end of a ...
18 December 2025 Indian ExpressA day after the Election Commission released the draft electoral roll of West Bengal on the conclusion of the first phase of the SIR, senior CPI(M) leader Mohammad Salim’s son, Atish Aziz, on Wednesday pointed to the error in ...
18 December 2025 Indian ExpressA massive cylinder blast at an oxygen godown near Kankurgachi triggered a large fire early Wednesday, with residents reporting that the explosion sounded like a “bomb or missile attack”.The blast caused panic across the area, with those living within ...
18 December 2025 Indian ExpressRSS chief Mohan Bhagwat will begin his four-day visit to West Bengal from today and is scheduled to hold a youth conference and organisational meetings.He will start the visit from Siliguri in North Bengal, where he will attend a ...
18 December 2025 Indian ExpressThe Supreme Court Wednesday transferred to the Calcutta High Court the suo motu case it had initiated in connection with the rape and murder of a woman doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata, for hearings in ...
18 December 2025 Indian ExpressWith the draft electoral roll published in West Bengal, the second phase of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) has begun. Electors whose names appear in the draft may now be called for hearings or re-verification. After this process, the ...
18 December 2025 Indian ExpressPrime Minister Narendra Modi is set to address a public rally at Taherpur in West Bengal’s Nadia district on December 20, in his third visit to the state in five months, as the BJP ramps up preparations for the ...
18 December 2025 Indian ExpressLess than 24 hours after the state-appointed inquiry committee recommended the formation of a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the chaos at the Salt Lake Stadium, a four-member SIT led by Director (Security) Peeyush Pandey visited the venue ...
18 December 2025 Indian ExpressTo assist travelers, the Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International (NSCBI) Airport has launched a dedicated traffic advisory service on its official X handle.“This initiative aims to alert passengers in advance about potential traffic jams or waterlogging on routes leading ...
18 December 2025 Indian ExpressThe Calcutta High Court on Wednesday quashed the recruitment of 313 school teachers in the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA), terming their appointment “illegal”.Stating that the West Bengal School Education Department failed to justify the recruitment process and the approvals ...
18 December 2025 Indian ExpressThe Enforcement Directorate (ED) has filed the first supplementary chargesheet against Pakistan national Azad Hussain alias Azad Mallik alias Ahammed Hossain Azad, and his Indian accomplice Indubhushan Haldar alias Dullal in connection with a case pertaining to an alleged ...
18 December 2025 Indian ExpressChief Minister Mamata Banerjee will on Wednesday address over 12,000 traders and MSMEs during the Byabasayi Sammelan at Netaji Indoor Stadium, ahead of the Bengal Business Conclave. The Sammelan is being organised by the Confederation of West Bengal Trade ...
17 December 2025 Indian ExpressThe Election Commission published West Bengal’s draft electoral rolls on Tuesday, following the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise, which led to the deletion of over 58 lakh voters due to reasons such as death and migration. After this exclusion, ...
17 December 2025 Indian ExpressAround 200 members of a forum of booth-level officers (BLOs) held a demonstration outside the West Bengal CEO’s office here on Tuesday, protesting against the alleged deletion of thousands of genuine voters in the draft electoral roll under the ...
17 December 2025 Indian ExpressThe Election Commission published West Bengal’s draft electoral rolls on Tuesday, following the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise, which led to the deletion of over 58 lakh voters due to reasons such as death and migration. After this exclusion, ...
17 December 2025 Indian ExpressThe Election Commission of India (ECI) on Tuesday published the draft electoral roll for West Bengal as per its scheduled timeline.According to the ECI, voters can now check whether their names appear in the draft electoral roll through the ...
17 December 2025 Indian ExpressAmid massive backlash on social media and a formal complaint by her husband, Bengali actress Subhashree Ganguly on Monday released a video statement on Instagram saying she was being unfairly targeted over the chaos that unfolded during Argentine footballer ...
17 December 2025 Indian ExpressA preliminary report on the violence and vandalism at Salt Lake Stadium on Saturday has been submitted to the state government by the three-member enquiry committee constituted by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.Based on the report, show-cause notices have been ...
17 December 2025 Indian ExpressThe pandemonium at Kolkata’s Salt Lake stadium during football superstar Lionel Messi’s visit claimed its first political casualty on Tuesday with the resignation of Aroop Biswas as West Bengal’s Sports Minister. He will, however, continue to hold the portfolio of ...
17 December 2025 Indian ExpressSIR Draft Roll West Bengal 2025: Ahead of next year’s elections in West Bengal, the draft electoral roll will be published on December 16. The keenly awaited list being compiled by the Election Commission (EC) will determine who gets ...
16 December 2025 Indian ExpressTuesday will mark the second stage of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral roll in West Bengal with the publication of the draft voters’ list by the Election Commission.The SIR exercise began on November 4 with the ...
16 December 2025 Indian ExpressA social media influencer was arrested by the Kolkata Police’s Cyber Wing in connection with his post about TMC MP Mahua Moitra allegedly smoking e-cigarettes inside Parliament.According to the police, Shashank Singh was arrested at midnight but was released ...
16 December 2025 Indian ExpressTollywood actor Subhashree Ganguly’s husband, director-producer and Trinamool Congress MLA Raj Chakraborty, has filed a formal complaint at Titagarh police station, alleging that his wife has been subjected to harassment and abusive trolling on social media since Saturday. The ...
16 December 2025 Indian ExpressSIR draft roll West Bengal 2025: The Election Commission of India (ECI) is set to release the draft electoral rolls for West Bengal on Tuesday, December 16. The SIR (Special Intensive Revision) process began on November 4, following the ...
16 December 2025 Indian ExpressThree Public Interest Litigations (PILs) were filed in the Calcutta High Court on Monday over the chaos that erupted at Salt Lake Stadium during the visit of football star Lionel Messi as part of his three-day “Messi GOAT India ...
16 December 2025 Indian ExpressThe Trinamool Congress on Monday came out strongly against a proposed Central government Bill that seeks to replace the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), with party leaders saying it would be “strongly opposed”.The NDA government’s proposed ...
16 December 2025 Indian ExpressJanuary 2026 brings a holiday bonanza for West Bengal government employees, with the possibility of up to 10 days off including weekends, if a single day of leave is taken strategically.According to the state government calendar, Saturday, January 10 ...
16 December 2025 Indian ExpressThe Salt Lake Stadium, scene of Saturday’s chaotic Lionel Messi event, bore the brunt of angry fans’ frustration on Sunday.Torn banners hung precariously from the galleries, broken bucket chairs littered the sides, and the goalpost’s net was torn. On ...
15 December 2025 Indian ExpressFive persons have been arrested in connection with a vandalism case, registered after chaos broke out during footballer Lionel Messi’s event at the Vivekananda Yuba Bharati Krirangan in Salt Lake, Kolkata. The case was lodged at the Bidhannagar South ...
15 December 2025 Indian ExpressRejecting the bail plea, a Bidhannagar court on Sunday sent Shatadru Dutta Dutta, the chief organiser of the Lionel Messi football event in Kolkata, to 14-day police custody, a day after fans ran amok at Salt Lake stadium, unhappy ...
15 December 2025 Indian ExpressA day after spectators went on a rampage at the Salt Lake Stadium in Kolkata during Argentine football legend Lionel Messi’s visit, the three-member inquiry committee formed by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee visited the venue Sunday.West Bengal ...
15 December 2025 Indian ExpressMessi visit fiasco in Kolkata: A self-described “sports entrepreneur and influencer”, Shatadru Dutta finds himself on the wrong side of the law and of the fans of Argentine football superstar Lionel Messi, who booed him on Sunday as he ...
15 December 2025 Indian ExpressAs Kolkata picked up the pieces after the chaotic Lionel Messi event at Salt Lake stadium on Saturday, the Opposition BJP has accused the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) of misusing the football icon for its election propaganda ahead of ...
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