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  • News from West Bengal | 14 Jun, 2026 | ৩০ জ্যৈষ্ঠ, ১৪৩৩
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  • Sujit gets HC breather

    The Calcutta HC on Thursday gave interim relief to state fire minister Sujit Bose from attending to ED summons till the end of the polls. ED called the Bidhannagar candidate for questioning in an alleged municipal recruitment corruption case. ...

    24 April 2026 Times of India
    On West Bengal assembly poll turf after 30 yrs, Adhir says ‘I’m the main man here’

    BEHRAMPORE: For 70-year-old Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, a five-term MP returning to the assembly fray after three decades, poll day began not at a booth but inside a makeshift war room at his Kasimbazar residence, about 5km from Behrampore town.Chowdhury, ...

    24 April 2026 Times of India
    West Bengal polls: Off-shops get ready for manic Friday, Saturday

    KOLKATA: The nearly 5,000 bars and off-shops across the state are eagerly awaiting 'Super Friday', when they can resume business after incurring losses from Monday to Thursday. During this period, the liquor and hospitality industry together suffered losses of ...

    24 April 2026 Times of India
    West Bengal elections: Candidate thrashed, crude bomb hurled, 41 held amid sporadic violence in ph-1

    NAODA/MALDA/SURI: Forty-one people were arrested as episodes of sporadic violence were reported across parts of Bengal in the first phase of polling.Five were held after BJP candidate Subhendu Sarkar alleged he was assaulted by villagers at Kumarganj. Sarkar first ...

    24 April 2026 Times of India
    KKR pledge 10 trees per run under ‘Runs to Roots’ initiative

    In a significant leap forward, three-time Indian Premier League (IPL) champions Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) have kick started the 2026 edition of their flagship initiative, ‘Runs to Roots’, with co-owner Juhi Chawla-Mehta pledging 10 trees for every run scored ...

    24 April 2026 Times of India
    BJP MLA Agnimitra’s car ‘vandalised’ in Asansol

    Kolkata: Allegations of violence marked voting in the Asansol South assembly constituency on Thursday after BJP candidate Agnimitra Paul's car was allegedly vandalised near a polling booth in Rahamat Nagar, Burnpur.Paul, an incumbent MLA, accused Trinamool of orchestrating the ...

    24 April 2026 Times of India
    Special intensive voting: Record 92.6% turnout in West Bengal phase 1 after 9.4% SIR cut

    KOLKATA: SIR may have knocked out lakhs of Bengal voters, but the crores who have stayed on the roll have sent out an unmistakable signal on how important they consider their voting rights to be. An electorate of 3.6 ...

    24 April 2026 Times of India
    4 voters die amid Met’s orange alert for heatwave in districts

    Kolkata: 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 ...

    24 April 2026 Times of India
    Darjeeling logs record 88% polling as voters travel across India to reach booths

    Darjeeling: Darjeeling registered its highest ever voter turnout of 88% till 5pm on Thursday. The record turnout is attributed to residents travelling from various parts of the country to cast their votes amid concerns over their names being struck ...

    24 April 2026 Times of India
    Didi’s 2021 ‘camp’ Boyal Suvendu’s focal point on polling day

    Nandigram: During the polls of 2021, a wheelchair-bound Mamata Banerjee chose Nandigram's Boyal as her anchorage, scripting one of the defining moments of a razor-edge contest. In 2026, it was Suvendu Adhikari — once her opponent, now facing aide-turned-foe ...

    24 April 2026 Times of India
    Man waits 5 hours, catches runaway wife at polling booth

    Jalpaiguri: A tense domestic drama unfolded at booth no. 25/238 in Phansidewa's Tarabari, under the Matigara-Naxalbari assembly segment in Siliguri subdivision, on Thursday — when a man staked out a polling station for hours to intercept his wife, who ...

    24 April 2026 Times of India
    On assembly poll turf after 30 yrs, Adhir says ‘I’m the main man here’

    Behrampore: For 70-year-old Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, a five-term MP returning to the assembly fray after three decades, poll day began not at a booth but inside a makeshift war room at his Kasimbazar residence, about 5km from Behrampore town.Chowdhury, ...

    24 April 2026 Times of India
    Didi’s 2021 ‘camp’ Boyal Suvendu’s focal point on polling day

    Nandigram: During the polls of 2021, a wheelchair-bound Mamata Banerjee chose Nandigram's Boyal as her anchorage, scripting one of the defining moments of a razor-edge contest. In 2026, it was Suvendu Adhikari — once her opponent, now facing aide-turned-foe ...

    24 April 2026 Times of India
    Modi lauds EC for ‘minimal violence’ & record turnout

    Kolkata: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday praised the Election Commission for conducting the first phase of Bengal polls with "minimal violence" and a "record turnout," attributing the high voter turnout to a "storm of change" sweeping the state.Speaking ...

    24 April 2026 Times of India
    Candidate thrashed, crude bomb hurled, 41 held amid sporadic violence in ph-1

    Naoda/Malda/Suri: Forty-one people were arrested as episodes of sporadic violence were reported across parts of Bengal in the first phase of polling.Five were held after BJP candidate Subhendu Sarkar alleged he was assaulted by villagers at Kumarganj. Sarkar first ...

    24 April 2026 Times of India
    Central forces strong enough: Shah assures voters

    Kolkata: Union home minister Amit Shah on Thursday assured voters that the Election Commission's central forces arrangement was "strong enough" and voters had no reason to be scared of Trinamool's "musclemen"."EC has made a strong arrangement of central forces. ...

    24 April 2026 Times of India
    On match day, a calmer Dilip takes guard on ‘home wicket’

    Kharagpur: Dilip Ghosh 2.0 played on match day like never before.Seeking a second term as MLA after a gap of five years, former state BJP president Ghosh conducted polls in a quiet manner, breaking away from his "usual rough ...

    24 April 2026 Times of India
    After SIR knockout punch, police’s midnight knock

    Behrampore/Shamsherganj: On the eve on elections in Murshidabad, cops visited homes of many voters who were knocked out by SIR, warning them not to go anywhere near polling booths on Thursday. However, on poll day, many disregarded those warnings ...

    24 April 2026 Times of India
    EC bike ban: HC asked questions we were asking, say angry bikers

    Kolkata: Thousands of two-wheeler users across the state expressed a collective sense of relief on Thursday following the Calcutta High Court's intervention against the Election Commission's 72-hour motorcycle ban.For the city's middle-class commuters the court's scepticism towards the "arbitrary" ...

    24 April 2026 Times of India
    Scared pool cars go off road five days before Apr 29 polling

    Kolkata: Pool cars are to be taken off roads from April 24 instead of April 27 with random requisitioning for poll duty, a pool car association has written to cops and schools. Many schools have decided to start online ...

    24 April 2026 Times of India
    Empty polling booths, scarred villages at ground zero of SIR rage

    Mothabari (Malda): "Apnara naam tulte esechen? Vote dite parbo? (Have you come to enlist our names? Can we cast our votes?)" — these were the cries that greeted TOI as hundreds of deleted voters mobbed this correspondent at Mothabari ...

    24 April 2026 Times of India
    CU urges colleges to hold online classes till election result

    Kolkata: Calcutta University has urged colleges to hold online classes until the election results are declared, as many affiliated colleges have been occupied by central forces or are being used for poll preparations.The notice, signed by Diptendu Chatterjee, acting ...

    24 April 2026 Times of India
    Poet Srijato seeks legal advice after arrest warrant

    Kolkata: Poet Srijato Bandyopadhyay is in touch with his lawyer to ensure all legal protocol are followed after an arrest warrant was issued against him over a controversial 12-line poem he wrote in 2017. While friends and admirers across ...

    24 April 2026 Times of India
    Voter dies as ‘deleted’ hubby waits outside booth

    Midnapore: A 59-year-old woman from the Keshpur assembly segment in West Midnapore, whose four family members' names were deleted from the electoral rolls, died shortly after casting her vote on Thursday.The incident has once again drawn attention to alleged ...

    24 April 2026 Times of India
    Not everyone is troublemaker: HC

    Kolkata: The EC ‘erred' in issuing a blanket direction by treating citizens as ‘troublemakers,' Calcutta High Court on Wednesday observed while granting interim stay on the order naming 800 people as ‘troublemakers' till June 30, 2026. "The general power ...

    24 April 2026 Times of India
    Cong gets cop nod for RaGa rallies on Sat

    Kolkata: Congress secured permission on Wednesday for Rahul Gandhi to hold three rallies in Bengal on Saturday — a day after police denied clearance for his April 23 appearances.Gandhi will address rallies in Sreerampore, Metiaburuz and at Shahid Minar ...

    24 April 2026 Times of India
    Cash for votes? Police detain BJP netas in North 24-Pgs, Malda

    Malda/Kolkata: The brother of Chanchal BJP candidate Ratan Das was detained on Tuesday after police recovered Rs 2.8 lakh in cash — well over the permissible limit — during a check. Biplab Das was stopped near Barai village on ...

    24 April 2026 Times of India
    At ground zero of SIR rage, election is ‘no more a festival of democracy’

    Mothabari (Malda): "Apnara naam tulte esechen? Vote dite parbo? (Have you come to enlist our names? Can we cast our votes?)" — these were the cries that greeted TOI as hundreds of deleted voters mobbed this correspondent at Mothabari ...

    24 April 2026 Times of India
    Last-minute voters celebrate ‘hard-earned win’ on poll day

    Kolkata: With last-minute relief following the publication of appellate tribunal's supplementary list on Wednesday, a few of the 139 lucky voters, who lost hope, finally got their index fingers inked.Ainul Miah, 30, from Cooch Behar, was able to cast ...

    24 April 2026 Times of India
    88-yr-old grandson of Nandalal Bose makes it after 2nd attempt

    Kolkata: What celebrated painter Nandalal Bose's grandson's family went through on Thursday just to cast their vote exemplified the hurdles that citizens had to cross to exercise their democratic rights. The 88-year-old man, Suprabuddha Sen, and his wife Deepa ...

    24 April 2026 Times of India
    Bars start shutting down after poll panel liquor ban

    Kolkata: Following the EC prohibition on the sale of liquor for nine and a half days in Bengal during the election, a sizeable number of bars-cum-restaurants in Sector V, New Town and some parts of south Kolkata have decided ...

    23 April 2026 Times of India
    SIR shadow looms over West Bengal vote

    When the first vote is cast at 7 am today to decide who will be governing Bengal for the next five years, there will be an elephant in the polling booth: SIR, or the Special Intensive Revision of voters’ ...

    23 April 2026 Times of India
    Vote responsibly, religious leaders tell flock

    Kolkata: As the state heads into Assembly election on April 23 and April 29, religious figures and members of civil society in Kolkata have made an appeal to voters across faiths, communities and linguistic identities to vote and resist ...

    23 April 2026 Times of India
    Poll violence in West Bengal: Crude bombs hurled in Murshidabad, several injured

    MURSHIDABAD: Tension gripped Nowda in Murshidabad district during polling in the West Bengal assembly election after unidentified persons allegedly hurled a crude bomb, leaving several people injured, as reported by news agency PTI. According to initial reports, the explosion ...

    23 April 2026 Times of India
    Resto forum seeks return to 48-hour ban

    The National Restaurant Association of India (NRAI) has written to the state excise directorate, requesting to revert to the earlier 48-hour ban on liquor sales during elections and limit the restriction to poll-bound constituencies. NRAI chapter head Piyush Kankaria ...

    23 April 2026 Times of India
    ED questions Nusrat for 8 hours, sends summons to Sujit, Rathin

    Kolkata: Actress and former Trinamool MP Nusrat Jahan on Wednesday appeared before the Enforcement Directorate in connection with a complaint lodged against her company. The agency, in a separate case, sent summons to state ministers Sujit Bose and Rathin ...

    23 April 2026 Times of India
    Vote responsibly, religious leaders tell flock

    Kolkata: As the state heads into Assembly election on April 23 and April 29, religious figures and members of civil society in Kolkata have made an appeal to voters across faiths, communities and linguistic identities to vote and resist ...

    23 April 2026 Times of India
    Poet Srijato faces arrest warrant in 2019 case over Yogi poem

    Kolkata: A 12-line poem that poet Srijato penned in 2017 has returned to haunt him days ahead of the Bengal elections as an arrest warrant was issued against him on Wednesday. "This is no country for poets. The harassment ...

    23 April 2026 Times of India
    Kolkata now a city of slums because of infiltration: Shah

    Kolkata: Union home minister Amit Shah on Wednesday blamed Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee for turning Kolkata into a "city of slums", alleging that her govt is allowing such settlements to shelter infiltrators and bolster its vote bank.Addressing a rally ...

    23 April 2026 Times of India
    Unkept promises & unpaid wages weigh heavily on N Bengal tea garden workers

    Jalpaiguri: As tea garden workers of north Bengal head to their polling booths on Thursday, many will carry heart-loads of unpaid dues, broken promises and a deepening uncertainty."I don't believe any party any more," said Joybirpara Tea Estate's Rakhi ...

    23 April 2026 Times of India
    Row erupts as TMC alleges ‘secret’ meet between EC observer, BJP candidate

    Kolkata: Trinamool Congress on Wednesday sparked a fresh political row ahead of the first phase of the Bengal assembly elections, accusing an Election Commission-appointed police observer of holding a "clandestine" meeting with a BJP candidate.The party in power alleged ...

    23 April 2026 Times of India
    Man all 44k booths until polling ends: Shah lays out BJP strategy

    Kolkata: Union home minister Amit Shah on Tuesday night held a strategy meet with key functionaries and fine-tuned the election blueprint to ensure a high turnout for the first polling day on Thursday. Shah tasked functionaries with ensuring that ...

    23 April 2026 Times of India
    Abhishek slams Shah for ‘Ei Didi’ jibe, BJP calls row ‘bid to deceive’

    Kolkata: Trinamool on Wednesday sharpened its attack on Union home minister Amit Shah for addressing CM Mamata Banerjee as "Ei Didi" at a rally in Salboni the previous day. BJP dismissed the controversy as a "deliberate attempt to mislead ...

    23 April 2026 Times of India
    Eveready aims to double alkaline portfolio in 3 years

    Kolkata: Dry cell giant Eveready plans to double the alkaline share of its portfolio in the next three years after commissioning its Jammu plant. Eveready Industries India CEO Anirban Banerjee told TOI that a higher alkaline mix would also ...

    23 April 2026 Times of India
    Modi to hold 3 rallies, roadshow in Kol today

    Kolkata: PM Narendra Modi, who is likely to hold nine rallies and three road shows across Bengal over the next five days, may also include a padayatra in his schedule. Modi is slated to address three rallies and hold ...

    23 April 2026 Times of India
    27L under scrutiny, 139 cleared to vote in Bengal Phase 1 polls

    KOLKATA: Supreme Court-mandated tribunals have restored voting rights to 139 people - .005% of more than 27 lakh names struck off rolls in the first phase during judicial adjudication under special intensive revision (SIR) - on the eve of ...

    23 April 2026 Times of India
    On poll day, keeping tuskers away: Forest dept gets jumbo task

    Kolkata/Jaldapara: The forest department has put in place special measures to ensure voter safety during the first phase of the Bengal assembly elections on Thursday, with a focus on elephant-prone areas of south and north Bengal.Around 25 polling booths ...

    23 April 2026 Times of India
    Last-min switch: Denied ticket, TMC MLA in BJP

    Kolkata: Trinamool MLA Khagendra Nath Mahata from Gopiballavpur in Jhargram joined the BJP on Wednesday evening, hours before the constituency goes to polls. Mahata, a doctor, was denied a ticket by Trinamool for the 2026 elections."The party has broken ...

    23 April 2026 Times of India
    Poll blues: Bus crisis, steep cab fare spark chaos in Hills

    Darjeeling: With fears over deletions of nearly 40,000 Gorkha voters during the SIR process driving people to return home at any cost, the road to the Hills turned chaotic at Tenzing Norgay Bus Terminus on the eve of the ...

    23 April 2026 Times of India
    For lakhs without vote, Poll Day is Doomsday after appeals go unheard

    Kolkata: Last week, 33-year-old Ayub Miah had traversed about 713km from Cooch Behar to the tribunal appellate authority's office at Joka but denied entry near the gate. He couldn't meet any official to reach out with his plea for ...

    23 April 2026 Times of India
    Denied ballot but assigned booth, poll staff without voting right prepare to conduct vote

    Kolkata: Several polling personnel reported for duty on Wednesday despite having been stripped of their voting rights. Their names were not restored on electoral rolls even after the tribunal's list was released on Tuesday.Among them is Jahirul Islam, a ...

    23 April 2026 Times of India
    City’s hottest day so far this year as max touches 36.4°C

    Kolkata: With the relentless rise in mercury in the past few days, Kolkata logged the hottest day of the season so far on Wednesday. The mercury breached the 36° mark, with the maximum temperature clinching 36.4° on the Celsius ...

    23 April 2026 Times of India
    More tension, less relief for 139 ‘lucky’ voters

    Kolkata: For many of the 139 extremely fortunate ones who have got back on the voter list, Wednesday brought a mix of emotions ranging from relief and happiness to, ironically, tension.In the minority-dominated Samsherganj constituency, the name of Dhuliyan ...

    23 April 2026 Times of India
    Citizens: We stay here but vote elsewhere. So, does poll panel want us to move out?

    Kolkata: The EC's no-outsider-on-premises rule has drawn flak from residents of city high-rises, some of whom vote in places like East Burdwan but stay in a gated complex in Kolkata. Some others have relatives coming over from Mumbai or ...

    23 April 2026 Times of India
    Poet Subodh gets Harvard call to speak on Ginsberg’s India connect

    Kolkata: Leading contemporary Bengali poet Subodh Sarkar has been invited by Harvard University to give a talk on the place of India in Allen Ginsberg's poetry on the occasion of the centennial of Ginsberg's birth, followed by a reading ...

    23 April 2026 Times of India
    Tangra clash over parking dispute

    Kolkata: A dispute over vehicle parking escalated into a violent confrontation in east Kolkata's Tangra area late Tuesday night, leaving three members of a single family seriously injured and sparking fresh security concerns amid a heightened election atmosphere.The incident, ...

    23 April 2026 Times of India
    30L of 39L lost in e-arrest recovered

    Kolkata: Kolkata Police anti-cybercrime sleuths have successfully orchestrated a significant financial recovery after an 83-year-old resident of Baghbazar fell victim to a sophisticated "digital arrest" scam earlier this month, the first of the eight reported in April so far.In ...

    23 April 2026 Times of India
    17 arrestedin ‘cash on delivery’ scam

    Kolkata: Kolkata Police have dismantled a sophisticated nationwide cybercrime syndicate operating from two addresses in south Kolkata that exploited the popular "cash on delivery" (COD) system to defraud online shoppers across India.In a series of coordinated raids conducted on ...

    23 April 2026 Times of India
    Actor Nusrat Jahan appears before ED in Kolkata over housing fraud case

    KOLKATA: Actor and TMC MP former Nusrat Jahan appeared before the Enforcement Directorate (ED) at its Salt Lake office on Wednesday in connection with a housing fraud case, an official said. Jahan, accompanied by actor and husband Yash Dasgupta, ...

    22 April 2026 Times of India
    Khargosh, Uchchhe among dozen behind bars after EC's order for peace before West Bengal polls

    KOLKATA: In poll-bound Bengal, Khargosh and Uchchhe have found themselves in a new address - behind bars.The detective department of Kolkata Police, acting under orders from Election Commission to ensure peace ahead of the assembly elections and on the ...

    22 April 2026 Times of India
    West Bengal elections: SC deadline over, EC updates roll, voters to know fate today

    KOLKATA: Election Commission will add the names approved by SIR tribunals to Bengal's electoral roll till Tuesday midnight and issue an updated list on Wednesday for the 152 assembly seats that will go to the polls in the first ...

    22 April 2026 Times of India
    First day, no show: Rs 130cr loss & counting for liquor, hospitality biz in West Bengal

    KOLKATA: The first day of the prolonged pre-election curb on sale of liquor translated into a Rs 125-130 crore loss for Bengal's liquor and hospitality business on Monday, said industry insiders, who fear the figure might be higher for ...

    22 April 2026 Times of India
    Man trapped between 2 buses, injured

    Kolkata: A 68-year-old pedestrian, Kailashwar Kabiraj, was severely injured and was stated to be critical after he was trapped between two private buses reportedly racing each other on Mahatma Gandhi Road in Burrabazar on around 10 am on Tuesday.The ...

    22 April 2026 Times of India
    Shah tries to assuage deletion fear in Gorkhas

    Kolkata/Sukna/Salboni/Kulti: In an attempt to assuage fear of the Gorkha community amid SIR and merely two days before Darjeeling goes to polls, Union home minister Amit Shah on Tuesday said BJP will add all deleted names to voter list ...

    22 April 2026 Times of India
    TMC: Shah taunt smacks of Modi’s ‘Didi, o Didi’ jibe

    Kolkata: Union home minister Amit Shah on Monday addressed CM Mamata Banerjee with an "Ei Didi" call, prompting Trinamool, which found it oddly reminiscent of PM Narendra Modi's 2021 "Didi, o Didi" taunt, to react sharply.Modi's call during a ...

    22 April 2026 Times of India
    ‘Work independently,’ Mamata urges officers deputed by EC

    Kolkata: Alleging bias by the Election Commission and officers deputed by it, CM Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said "if you are an IPS or IAS, you must work independently". "Do politics directly," she said, referring to officers she claimed ...

    22 April 2026 Times of India
    Civic volunteers must report to police lines: EC

    Kolkata: The EC has asked SPs and police commissioners to send civic volunteers and green police personnel to reserve police lines three days prior to the polls. "They shall perform non-election duties while deployed in the reserve police line," ...

    22 April 2026 Times of India
    In Santiniketan, tribals of the land bear SIR deletion brunt

    Santiniketan: In Santiniketan, the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) has done more than alter the electoral roll. It has threatened the identity of indigenous people of the land living here for generations, possibly even before Visva-Bharati was founded. Ashramiks have ...

    22 April 2026 Times of India
    No police permission for RaGa rallies in Kol, Serampore

    Kolkata: Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi's rallies in Kolkata and Serampore, scheduled on April 23, have been stalled after Congress failed to secure police permission for the said rallies.Pradesh Congress netas planned three rallies in ...

    22 April 2026 Times of India
    Denied rally nod, Didi sits at tea stall, meets voters

    Kolkata: CM Mamata Banerjee sat down at a roadside tea stall in Collins Lane on Tuesday, and spoke to locals, after the EC didn't allow her to take out a rally in the area. The rally had to be ...

    22 April 2026 Times of India
    Spectre of statelessness grips former enclave-dwellers as SIR hits identity

    Dinhata: Munawwara Bibi runs her finger slowly down a voter list taped to the wall of her local panchayat office. "My name was here during the Lok Sabha polls... how can it disappear," the 65-year-old homemaker murmurs. It's her ...

    22 April 2026 Times of India
    Where maachh guarantees a plate of bhaat: East Mdn fishermen battle tides of change

    Digha/Tajpur: Subhankar Majhi doesn't know of the intense political battle centred around fish. The East Midnapore fisherman is more concerned about his livelihood, because even as his day still begins with brine and salty air, it's now ending with ...

    22 April 2026 Times of India
    Met predicts rain respite by weekend

    Kolkata: The mercury rose further on Tuesday, making the city singe, with the humidity adding to the heat factor. Even as the mercury is expected to rise further, the Met officials allayed the fear for heat wave-like conditions in ...

    22 April 2026 Times of India
    Rap knows no border, Hills borrows Nepal idea

    Darjeeling: Taking a cue from Nepal PM and rapper Balen Shah, poll-bound Darjeeling is now grooving to its own Nepali rap tracks ‘Parivartan' (meaning change) and ‘Torch Light Balne Bela Aayo' (It's Time to Light the Torch). Shah's ‘Balidan' ...

    22 April 2026 Times of India
    Poll officials trek to state’s remotest booth at 7.5k ft

    Darjeeling: Polling personnel in Darjeeling set out on a 16-hour journey to reach Samden, located 78 km from Darjeeling at an altitude of over 7,500 feet, to conduct polling at what is considered West Bengal's last polling booth with ...

    22 April 2026 Times of India
    High-rent properties stare at record losses amid liquor prohibition

    Kolkata: EC's liquor prohibition for nine and a half days over the next fortnight will ostensibly take the worst toll on restaurants and pubs in shopping malls as such establishments pay high rents, a significant portion of which is ...

    22 April 2026 Times of India
    Liquor black market gets a second birth, thanks to EC’s record ban

    Kolkata: The fine art of bootlegging — once thought to be a fading relic of the past — has made a dramatic comeback in Kolkata, driven by the unprecedented 9.5-day liquor ban imposed ahead of the elections. From shadowy ...

    22 April 2026 Times of India
    After outrage, EC flip-flop on bike ban order

    Kolkata: Hours after ordering a prohibition on riding motorcycles in the run-up to the polls, the Election Commission did a flip-flop on Tuesday evening, after facing flak from citizens. The Bengal CEO claimed the ban was aimed at putting ...

    22 April 2026 Times of India
    Gold, arms, cash seized in pre-election check

    Kolkata: Police on Monday seized around 1,160.6 gm gold jewellery, valued at Rs 92.1 lakh, on Amherst Street in the Jorasanko constituency. The occupants of the vehicle, in which the gold was being ferried, could not produce valid papers. ...

    22 April 2026 Times of India
    Beldanga case recusal: Division bench refers NIA’s bail plea to CJ

    Kolkata: A division bench of Calcutta High Court on Tuesday recused itself from hearing the National Investigation Agency's (NIA) plea challenging the bail granted to 15 accused in the April 2025 Beldanga clash.The bench of Justice Arijit Banerjee and ...

    22 April 2026 Times of India
    HC upholds EC order of poll duty for assistant profs

    Kolkata: Every citizen must consider national interests, Calcutta High Court observed on Tuesday, staying the single judge's order and upholding the EC order, appointing assistant professors as presiding officers at polling booths.The EC challenged the single judge's order, which ...

    22 April 2026 Times of India
    HC upholds EC order of poll duty for assistant profs

    Kolkata: Every citizen must consider national interests, Calcutta High Court observed on Tuesday, staying the single judge's order and upholding the EC order, appointing assistant professors as presiding officers at polling booths.The EC challenged the single judge's order, which ...

    22 April 2026 Times of India
    Online: No info. Offline: No info. Tribunal vigil by citizens and lawyers draws a blank

    Kolkata: Many ‘deleted' voters from different places across the city and suburbs turned up at the tribunal appellate authority's office in Joka on Tuesday — two days before the first phase of assembly election and eight days before the ...

    22 April 2026 Times of India
    Ayurveda, yoga enter CISCE curriculum

    Kolkata: The Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) has introduced ayurveda and yoga as topics in environmental science for classes IX and X. The council has developed resource material for ICSE environmental science at the secondary level, ...

    22 April 2026 Times of India
    Show-cause axe on JU placement officer

    Kolkata: The anti-ragging committee of Jadavpur University has decided to issue a show-cause notice to the placement officer from whose office sensitive information of an RTI was leaked to some engineering students, who harassed another third-year engineering student. The ...

    22 April 2026 Times of India
    2.3 L CAPF personnel in phase 2, Kol to get 27,300

    Kolkata: With the second phase of polling in Bengal scheduled for April 29, the Election Commission has planned a comprehensive and multilayered security deployment plan across 142 assembly constituencies.According to official sources, 2,32,100 personnel of central forces will be ...

    22 April 2026 Times of India
    ISF candidate alleges attack, blocks highway

    Kolkata: ISF candidate Arabul Islam was allegedly attacked during a campaign in the Deuli 1 gram panchayat area in Canning East on Tuesday, triggering a two-hour blockade of Basanti Highway.Sources said ISF supporters were putting up party flags in ...

    22 April 2026 Times of India
    Fire halts surgeries, triggers evacuation at Salt Lake hospital

    Kolkata: Surgeries halted midway and patients inside operation theatres and wards were wheeled out on stretchers and wheelchairs after a fire broke out inside the second-floor cathlab of Anandalok Hospital on Tuesday morning, triggering panic and an emergency evacuation ...

    22 April 2026 Times of India
    Close shave for south Kol developer after 18L extortion-abduction bid

    Kolkata: A real estate developer narrowly escaped an alleged kidnapping attempt linked to an extortion demand. According to a victim's complaint, the incident occurred on the evening of April 19 near a petrol pump on Karl Marx Sarani. The ...

    22 April 2026 Times of India
    45L matrimonial fraud

    A woman from Baguiati lost Rs 45 lakh in a scam involving a matrimonial lure. The ordeal began in 2023 when a man promised to marry her and persuaded her to invest money in online platforms. When confronted he ...

    22 April 2026 Times of India
    EC’s ‘no-outsider’ rule stumps residents of condos with booths

    Kolkata: A fresh wave of confusion swept through several housing complexes on Tuesday after the EC barred "outsiders" from staying on the premises that will host polling booths during the mandatory silence period.The restriction, announced by Bengal CEO Manoj ...

    22 April 2026 Times of India
    Race against time to print Braille ballots

    Kolkata: As Bengal prepares for its upcoming assembly elections, a quiet but crucial mission is unfolding at the Regional Braille Press in Narendrapur. Run by the Ramakrishna Mission Blind Boys' Academy, the press is working double shifts to ensure ...

    22 April 2026 Times of India
    Aronyak joins India’s GM club

    Kolkata: India got its newest Grandmaster as Bengal boy Aronyak Ghosh earned his third and final GM norm in the Bangkok Open meet that concluded in Thailand on Sunday.It had been a long wait for the 22-year-old Kolkata boy ...

    22 April 2026 Times of India
    Ex-Portuguese colony’s brush with SIR ends on a happy note

    Mahisadal (East Midnapore): In Mahisadal's Mirpur village, the SIR has not been an unpleasant experience.Only two out of 824 people have fallen foul of the SIR in this village in a marked — and happy — deviation from what ...

    22 April 2026 Times of India
    Unusually long 9.5-day dry spell before polls hits West Bengal; Kolkata bars report losses

    KOLKATA: Park Street fell silent on Monday as people coming in to the restro-bars thinned out after the curb on liquor ahead of the state assembly poll. By late afternoon, most restaurants had put up the ‘Dry Day' or ...

    21 April 2026 Times of India
    Buses and app cabs requisitioned for West Bengal poll duty, commuters left in the lurch

    KOLKATA: If you are commuting within the city using public transport, it is wise that you keep time in hand. Contrary to the belief that public transport will be hit before the city votes in the second phase of ...

    21 April 2026 Times of India
    'Feeling uncomfortable coming to Bengal’: BJP MLA Maithili Thakur raises law and order concerns during election campaign

    KOLKATA: BJP MLA Maithili Thakur, who is campaigning in the state for the upcoming assembly elections, commented on the law and order situation in West Bengal.Maithili Thakur expressed her views on the political atmosphere, stating that the ruling party ...

    21 April 2026 Times of India
    Will seek report from Calcutta HC: SC’s tribunal assurance

    KOLKATA: Supreme Court said on Monday a report would be sought from the chief justice of Calcutta High Court “by today” on the functioning of the tribunals set up to hear appeals against exclusion of names from the electoral ...

    21 April 2026 Times of India
    TMC functionary shot in Gosaba, remains critical

    Kolkata: A Trinamool Congress (TMC) worker, Dibyendu Gayen, was shot at in South 24 Parganas' Gosaba on Sunday, just days ahead of the West Bengal Assembly Election 2026. Cops said Gayen was returning home at 11 pm after attending ...

    21 April 2026 Times of India
    I have EC’s TMC ‘arrest’ list, will fight each case: CM Mamata Banerjee amid Bengal assembly polls

    KOLKATA: "I have the list," CM Mamata Banerjee said on Monday, referring to a list of Trinamool Congress workers to be "arrested ahead of the assembly elections", and vowed to "fight every such case in court".Speaking at a poll ...

    21 April 2026 Times of India
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