Howrah: As BJP prepares to try and dent one of the Trinamool Congress citadels in south Bengal, Howrah is all set to witness a poll battle between a set of hopefuls from the saffron brigade who have consistently increased ...
28 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Maniktala constituency is set to witness a neck-and-neck contest between veteran politician and five-time MLA Tapas Roy for BJP and first-timer Shrreya Pande, the Trinamool candidate. Though they once shared a family connection — Roy once had ...
28 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: In a major pre-election crackdown to maintain law and order, the state police has arrested 1,543 alleged troublemakers over the past 36 hours. The intensified combing operations and naka checks, carried out from Sunday afternoon till Monday morning, ...
28 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Two ministers in the Mamata Banerjee cabinet are fighting contrasting political battles in two adjoining constituencies—Dum Dum and Dum Dum North—on the northern fringes of the city. In Dum Dum, three-time MLA and education minister Bratya Basu is ...
28 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The SIR slash notwithstanding, woman voters have outnumbered men in 23 out of the 142 Assembly segments going to polls on Wednesday.Topping the list is Jadavpur, which now has 11,759 more women voters than men. Panihati, where the ...
28 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: In Beleghata assembly constituency, dotted with at least 100 statues of Bengal's icons and religious figures — from Mahatma Gandhi, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, Vidyasagar to Swami Vivekananda — the attack on "Bengali asmita" has emerged as a ...
28 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: No MLA has been able to win the Jadavpur seat in two consecutive rows since 2011. Getting a second term in the 2026 Assembly election will be the test for Trinamool's Debabrata Majumdar, who won the seat in ...
28 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Upscale Ballygunge in south Kolkata, a Trinamool bastion for over 25 years, is a curious mix of cultures and people from various economic strata. Here, high-rises and affluent neighbourhoods sit alongside expansive slums. SIR deletions have somewhat wiped ...
27 April 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Referring to the power outage while votes were being counted in Nandigram during the 2021 assembly polls, CM Mamata Banerjee on Sunday put her workers on alert, asking why complaints of power-cuts were pouring in from EVM strongrooms ...
27 April 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Its electoral strength down from 1.91 lakh before the SIR to 1.22 lakh, the Jorasanko assembly constituency has the fewest voters in Kolkata. Across Bengal, it comes second, after Bhatpara in North 24 Parganas, which has 1.17 lakh ...
27 April 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Eight live bombs were found near a primary school in the Habra area on Monday, triggering panic among locals and prompting a swift security response, officials said.Police rushed to the spot and cordoned off the area after the ...
27 April 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: A CISF jawan was injured in a firing incident outside BJP candidate Pawan Singh’s residence in Bhatpara, located in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district, prompting the Election Commission to seek a report, officials said on Monday.The incident ...
27 April 2026 Times of IndiaJAGATDAL: West Bengal Police on Monday arrested four people in connection with violent clashes between Trinamool Congress (TMC) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) supporters outside Jagatdal Police Station on Sunday night.The accused have been identified as Koushik Das, Sikander ...
27 April 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Raghu Rai's photography immortalized a spectrum of Bengal’s genius, most notably Satyajit Ray, whom he called Dadu, not Dada, with the admiration one reserves for a guru. His portraits of Ray, alongside those of Saint Teresa, stand at ...
27 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The ‘Partha-Da factor' which has been a constant for two-and-a-half decades in Behala has gone missing now. For 25 years, starting in 2001, Behala Paschim voted for Partha Chatterjee, a heavyweight state cabinet minister until his arrest in ...
27 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: On the face of it, the contest appears to be a straight face-off between two heavyweight neighbours in Rashbehari — Trinamool's Debasish Kumar and BJP's Swapan Dasgupta — but that is not the case. In the 2024 LS ...
27 April 2026 Times of IndiaDistrict election officials have verbally clarified to residents of housing complexes with booths that family members, helps, drivers and other service sector employees can stay within the premises to clear confusion around an order issued last week. Bengal CEO ...
27 April 2026 Times of IndiaHowrah: Bamungachi in Liluah turned into a battlefield on Sunday as Trinamool Congress and BJP supporters clashed, prompting the Election Commission to order the transfer of two Howrah police inspectors.The violence broke out when a Trinamool procession passed close ...
27 April 2026 Times of IndiaBONGAON: Unease around SIR and deletion of names is palpable across the Matua belt, but so is BJP's efforts to limit its impact.With SIR in Bengal leading to deletion of around 90 lakh names in the state, the Matua ...
27 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Centre has ordered an NIA investigation in the recovery of 79 crude bombs in Bhangar on Saturday."Central govt is of the opinion that a Scheduled Offence under the National Investigation Agency Act, 2008, has been committed in the ...
27 April 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday reframed Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's iconic call - "Give me blood, and I'll give you freedom" - by asking for votes in the Matua belt of Thakurnagar in return for "azadi" from ...
27 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Union home minister Amit Shah on Sunday sharpened BJP's electoral pitch in Bengal, accusing chief minister Mamata Banerjee of orchestrating a "conspiracy" to delete the names of Matua and Namasudra voters from the electoral rolls.Addressing a rally in ...
27 April 2026 Times of IndiaBongaon: What looks like a CAA help centre at the Thakurbari premises from outside has been temporarily converted into a BJP strongroom, with young BJP workers from Varanasi calling Gaighata voters, urging them to vote for BJP candidate Subrata ...
27 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Fending off barbs over the RG Kar incident, alleged infiltration, and his "outsider" status raised by the BJP, current MLA and deputy mayor Atin Ghosh appears confident of retaining the Cossipore-Belgachhia constituency for a second term. While Ghosh ...
27 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Upscale Ballygunge in south Kolkata, a Trinamool bastion for over 25 years, is a curious mix of cultures and people from various economic strata. Here, high-rises and affluent neighbourhoods sit alongside expansive slums. SIR deletions have somewhat wiped ...
27 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Sunday warned Kolkata and state police that any attempt to disrupt voting or obstruct electors would invite "immediate unprecedented consequences", emphasising that "none will be spared".EC sources said a stern message ...
27 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Election Commission on Sunday ordered a probe after a video surfaced on social media purportedly showing bike-borne men intimidating locals in the Diamond Harbour Assembly constituency ahead of the second phase polling in Bengal, a senior official ...
27 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Three women died and four others were injured in two bike accidents reported from the Maidan and Jorasanko PS areas. In the first case, a bike and a scooter collided on Red Road around 3.10 am on Sunday. ...
27 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Film writer Utsav Mukherjee has been found after being missing for 24 days and is currently staying at a friend's house in Delhi, according to people close to the family. The police, too, confirmed the same. "Script writer ...
27 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: One man has been arrested for allegedly snatching a 5.5g gold chain from a 65-year-old woman, Niva Middya, in Survey Park on Friday. The partner of the accused Manirul Shah, is on the run. The stolen chain could ...
27 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 23-year-old woman from Alipore has accused her boyfriend of rape, cheating, physical assault and intimidation, according to a complaint filed on Friday.The woman alleged that she was in a relationship with the accused since 2024 and on ...
27 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A man, accused of sexually assaulting and murdering his live-in partner's 3-year-old daughter near Maidan on March 21, has been arrested from Babughat on Friday morning. He had initially fled to Ayodhya to evade arrest.Police said the child's ...
27 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 40-year-old woman and the wife of a college professor, Enakshi Das, was found dead at her Garia home on Sunday morning with a piece of cloth stuffed in her mouth and a blunt-force injury to the back ...
27 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Nearly 12.9 lakh voters across 142 assembly segments, which go to the polls on April 29, will get to know on Monday whether they get back their voting rights. According to the SC guideline, names cleared by the ...
27 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Politicians across party lines made a beeline to make the most of the last Sunday of campaigning before the second phase of polling. While several started early to finish by 11 am, some braved the heat even after ...
27 April 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: ED on Sunday carried out searches at several locations in Kolkata as part of an investigation into alleged land grabbing and financial fraud cases connected to fugitive criminal ‘Sona Pappu’, a senior official said.The raids were conducted at ...
26 April 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: A clash broke out between Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Trinamool Congress (TMC) workers in West Bengal’s Howrah on Sunday, prompting police to resort to a lathi charge to disperse the crowd.The incident came a day after heightened ...
26 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: At the gleaming gateway to the city in Rajarhat and New Town, the display face of Bengal, a quieter battle is being played out over people, who have been robbed of their voting rights. The SIR exercise has ...
26 April 2026 Times of IndiaAsansol: A 43-year-old man was allegedly attacked and beaten to death by miscreants on Friday night near his home at Kanyapur, Asansol, in West Burdwan, after which police detained two persons. Congress netas said the victim was a party ...
26 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Lux Industries, one of India's leading innerwear and apparel manufacturers, is set to be trifurcated among three branches of the founding Todi family in an amicable settlement that will also resolve cross-holdings between the groups. The Rs 3,000 ...
26 April 2026 Times of IndiaMurshidabad: Alleging that BJP shared an edited excerpt of a midnight outburst at the Jangipur strong room — regarding CCTV visibility and an alleged blackout of LCD screens — Trinamool's Sagardighi candidate Bayron Biswas has threatened a case against ...
26 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: CM Mamata Banerjee discontinued her public meeting at Bhowanipore's Chakraberia Road on Saturday evening alleging that microphones set up for a BJP rally 400 metres away were placed directly towards the Trinamool meeting to drown out her voice.Promising ...
26 April 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: For 50-year-old Benji, the anguish of disenfranchisement has brought with it the heartbreak of being orphaned again.An orphan from Kerala, his home for the past 27 years has been his employer’s family in Beleghata. But the Election Commission’s ...
26 April 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: A last-minute scramble to "secure" their votes has sent air and train fares to Kolkata from other metros soaring as SIR-spooked voters rush home ahead of Wednesday's second phase.Between Sunday and Tuesday, one-way flight tickets from Delhi to ...
26 April 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Clashes broke out between supporters of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Kolkata’s Bhabanipur area on Saturday.Police and Rapid Action Force (RAF) personnel to intervene and separate the two groups. The incident occurred ...
26 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Tamil superstar and TVK chief Vijay, Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren, AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal and RJD chief Tejashwi Yadav converged in support of CM Mamata Banerjee on Saturday, applauding her fight against BJP and the Election Commission ahead ...
26 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Tamil superstar and TVK chief Vijay, Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren, AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal and RJD chief Tejashwi Yadav converged in support of CM Mamata Banerjee on Saturday, applauding her fight against BJP and the Election Commission ahead ...
26 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bordered by Chinese settlements, with poll graffiti in mandarin, on one side and the cosmopolitan Rashbehari Connector, dotted with swanky mall, showrooms and hangout zones, on the other side, the Kasba assembly constituency covers six Kolkata Municpal Corporation ...
26 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The EC will use drones for surveillance around booths on poll day in Kolkata and its suburbs. Officials on Saturday held a series of meetings to install additional CCTV cameras on all roads leading to the booths to ...
26 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Kolkata Police on Saturday issued a fresh transfer and posting order involving four inspectors across three police stations in the city.In an official communication, KP commissioner informed the Bengal CEO that inspector Gautam Das of the Special ...
26 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Enforcement Directorate on Friday conducted a number of searches across West Bengal in connection to the ration distribution scam. The agency is targeting the money laundering sources in connection to the suspected ration distribution fraud. The central ...
26 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A bomb-like explosion was reported near Noapara police station on Saturday. The incident reportedly took place when an explosive device was being defused by a bomb squad, leading to an unexpected blast. "A probe is underway to ascertain ...
26 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Union home minister Amit Shah on Saturday responded to CM Mamata Banerjee's threat to drag him to court for his "ulta latka denge (will hang upside down)" comments at public rallies, saying that a BJP victory in Bengal ...
26 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Saturday said that while some Hindu names have been deleted from the electoral rolls, they have to "do a little sacrifice to make the nation better".Addressing a press conference, Sarma said, ...
26 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Saturday said that while some Hindu names have been deleted from the electoral rolls, they have to "do a little sacrifice to make the nation better".Addressing a press conference, Sarma said, ...
26 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Panihati, a Trinamool Congress stronghold for two decades, which will go to the polls on April 29, has emerged as a centre of contest after BJP decided to field the mother of the RG Kar victim as its ...
26 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The city could be voting under a cloud cover next Wednesday and the polling could be followed by a thunderstorm, the Met office said. After a week-long scorching spell during which the maximum temperature repeatedly crossed 36°C, Kolkata ...
26 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Even after the April 24 deadline ended, many booth-level officers (BLOs) across the city are continuing with distribution of voter slips among electors in their respective parts. While some of them completed the task by Saturday evening, others ...
26 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A fire broke out in the Sholo Bigha slum near Eastern Railway's Santoshpur station on Saturday at 1.48 pm. Around 50-60 shanties near the railway station were gutted in the blaze. No one was injured. . Traffic came ...
26 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Just a week after shooting of ‘Kone Dekha Alo' (KDA) — produced by Organinc Studios, of which Leena Gangopadhyay was part of the board of directors — resumed, a letter has been sent to all office-bearers of the ...
26 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: One person died and another sustained serious injuries after they were electrocuted at a residence on Bhukailash Road under Ekbalpur Police Station on Saturday morning.Police identified the deceased as Shibsharan Prasad Sau (51), while the injured, Debsharan Sau ...
26 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Thousands across Kolkata rushed to liquor shops on Saturday, forming long queues as they tried to buy alcohol before the 6 pm election shutdown.Anxiety and urgency marked the city's liquor outlets as long queues formed outside off-shops, with ...
26 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A fire broke out in the Sholo Bigha slum near Eastern Railway's Santoshpur station on Saturday at 1.48 pm. Around 50-60 shanties near the railway station were gutted in the blaze. No one was injured. . Traffic came ...
26 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Friday censure for Jadavpur University, about "anti-national slogans being written on the walls" and "students seen protesting on the streets instead of studying", prompted chief minister Mamata Banerjee to shoot off an open letter, ...
26 April 2026 Times of IndiaHowrah: Before the second phase of voting, Sk Habib, a teacher and candidate from Humayun Kabir's ‘Aam Janata Unnayan Party' in Uluberia South, joined the Trinamool Congress.Sheikh Habib said, "I joined Humayun's party thinking he genuinely wanted to do ...
26 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: From caregivers, drivers to domestic helps or maids, the service sector, spooked by SIR of electoral roll, has left many city households in the lurch as they are heading to their villages or towns in different districts to ...
26 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Jadavpur University students, teachers and alumni said that the university should not be dragged into electoral politics following Prime Minister Narendra Modi's speech on Friday associating "anarchy" with JU and its students."The entire nation used to take the ...
26 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Identity politics is re-scripting the Vijay-versus-Vijay fight in Jorasanko this time, a coincidence that brings to mind the many roles played by Amitabh Bachchan in his movies in the 1970s and 1980s.But beyond the shared name, this is ...
26 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: In Tollygunge, the electoral battle this time is being fought as much across party lines as across a canal.The Tolly Nullah, cutting through the constituency, has emerged as a political metaphor, with opposition parties alleging that development under ...
26 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Kolkata Police has verbally advised all officers — from sub-inspectors and above posted at police stations, and preferably assistant sub-inspectors — to remain stationed at their respective police stations, including at night, until the end of the polls ...
25 April 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The Election Commission on Friday ordered the immediate suspension of five police officers in Diamond Harbour Police District for alleged misconduct and failure to maintain neutrality in course of the Bengal assembly elections.The suspended officers are Sandip Garai, ...
25 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A day after Bengal registered record polling in the first phase of the assembly elections, Union home minister Amit Shah claimed that the BJP would win more than 110 of the 152 seats that went to poll on ...
25 April 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Saturday carried out searches at multiple locations in poll-bound West Bengal as part of its money laundering probe into an alleged Public Distribution System (PDS) scam, officials said.Searches were underway at around nine ...
25 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Congress MP and LoP in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi is set to campaign in Bengal on Saturday, while former Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal will campaign for Trinammol candidates. Bihar deputy CM Tejashwi Yadav, who is already in Bengal, ...
25 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Himadri Speciality Chemical has commissioned its first anode material production facility at Mahistikry in Bengal, marking the company's entry into the lithium-ion battery value chain.CMD Anurag Chowdhary said the facility was developed through over a decade of in-house ...
25 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Kolkata's cultural fraternity assembled on Friday evening in front of the Academy of Fine Arts to protest the arrest warrant issued against poet Srijato Bandyopadhyay following a complaint lodged by a Nadia-based lawyer. This meet was organised by ...
25 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The intense heat notwithstanding, thousands of people across the city queued up outside liquor outlets right from Friday morning as off-shops reopened after a four-day shutdown.By 8.30 am, 40-50 people could be seen standing outside multiple stores, waiting ...
25 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bars across Kolkata saw a rush of tipplers on Friday, desperate for a swig after a four-day dry period since April 20, imposed due to the elections. Sales surged threefold at many restaurants even as another dry period ...
25 April 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The record turnout in the first phase of Bengal polls has "sounded the bugle" for the end of Trinamool's "maha jungle raj", PM Narendra Modi said on Friday, linking people's participation as an endorsement of BJP's slogan of ...
25 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: PM Narendra Modi took a short break from his hectic Bengal schedule on Friday to enjoy an early morning boat ride on the Ganges, which he said "flows right through the soul of Bengal".The PM, who had spent ...
25 April 2026 Times of IndiaWalk into any well-designed restaurant and something shifts – almost immediately and imperceptibly. The light is just right. The music sits at exactly the right volume. The fork feels satisfying in your hand. But, none of this is coincidence. ...
25 April 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Claiming the high phase-one turnout as a decisive mandate against both BJP and SIR, CM Mamata Banerjee on Friday predicted that the party would not win even half the 77 seats it held after 2021 — and warned ...
25 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Abhishek Banerjee on Friday claimed that Trinamool has already secured more than 100 seats in the first phase of assembly elections held on Thursday, while accusing Union home minister Amit Shah of "threatening voters".Addressing a rally in Jagatballavpur ...
25 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Election Commission's revised polling data released on Friday shows that Bengal's first-phase poll turnout, besides breaking all records in percentage terms, has also increased in absolute terms over the 2021 figure despite the SIR process shrinking the ...
25 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: "Our Ganga is clean. That is why the PM could enjoy the boat ride. Can he do the same in (Delhi's) Yamuna?" CM Mamata Banerjee said on Friday, referring to PM Narendra Modi's early morning boat ride on ...
25 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Calcutta University will allow UG students to write minor papers at their respective home centres instead of travelling to other colleges like earlier. The university's Controller of Examinations issued a notice on Friday and sent it to college ...
25 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: About a dozen doctors, several of them employed with top private hospitals of the city, have received typed extortion letters in the past few days seeking an amount of Rs 10 lakh from each. Two of the doctors ...
25 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bidhannagar is one of Kolkata's most socially layered assembly constituencies, where close to 2 lakh voters are spread across the planned affluence of Salt Lake and the dense settlements of Duttabad, Nayapatti and Mahisbathan. The contrast is sharp ...
25 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: In north Kolkata's tightly packed political theatre, which saw one of the fiercest Trinamool-BJP pre-poll clashes, Sashi Panja is fighting an election that is as much about arithmetic as it is about narrative.One of the top confidantes of ...
25 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Baranagar has emerged as one of the most closely watched contests, with Trinamool candidate Sayantika Banerjee and BJP nominee Sajal Ghosh fighting a prestige battle in a constituency that went to a byelection just a couple of years ...
25 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Baranagar has emerged as one of the most closely watched contests, with Trinamool candidate Sayantika Banerjee and BJP nominee Sajal Ghosh fighting a prestige battle in a constituency that went to a byelection just a couple of years ...
25 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The city endured another scorcher on Friday when the maximum temperature touched 36°C. However, the Met office has predicted relief in two days. An upper air circulation over east Uttar Pradesh could finally break the warm spell and ...
25 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Veteran actor Biplab Dasgupta passed away at his residence in Kolkata on Friday at the age of 75. Dasgupta leaves behind a legacy spanning memorable stage performances, serials, telefilms, cinema and audio plays. He had been suffering from ...
25 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A number of Trinamool candidates, their election agents and even KMC councillors are now rushing to court to either obtain stays on or secure anticipatory bail in criminal cases, in which they have been named in FIRs. A ...
25 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The overwhelming turnout was because people knew this was their battle to save their rights after the large-scale deletion of voters in the SIR exercise, said chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday, shortly after the first phase of ...
25 April 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: At least four voters in West Midnapore, Malda and Birbhum died—two after returning from poll booths, one inside a booth and one on the way to the polling station —even as a scorcher of a sun beat down ...
25 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The city's heart has beaten for the Trinamool, but in a desperate attempt to add some drama to an uneven contest, BJP fielded Santosh Pathak, an immensely popular Congress councillor from ward 45, in the Chowringhee assembly constituency. ...
25 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: No one is predicting whether the second phase of polling in Bengal next Wednesday will beat Thursday's unprecedented turnout of 92.9% (revised on Friday). But everyone, including politicians and voters themselves, is sure of one thing: the second ...
25 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Friday scrapped EC's 48-hour bike ban order for the April 29 phase-2 poll and said pillion riding will not be allowed on two-wheelers for 12 hours on poll day, unless it is for ...
25 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The EC has suspended Hingalganj PS officer-in-charge Sandeep Sarkar over allegations of partisanship and failure to ensure a level playing field during the ongoing assembly election. It has also directed that disciplinary proceedings be initiated against him.According to ...
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