KOLKATA: 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 ...
4 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKOLKATA: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaMalda: 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 IndiaKrishnendu.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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaWhen 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKOLKATA: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata/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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaDiamond 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 ...
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