Kolkata: A day ahead of the last date for filing nominations, Aam Janata Unnayan Party (JUP) candidate Kechhabuddin Sekh from Nadia's Kaliganj constituency got clearance from the appellate tribunal on April 8, making him the third case where names ...
10 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Sunali Khatun's mother Jyotsna Bibi, initially under adjudication, has finally found her name in the voter list. Sunali's father Bhodu Sheikh had been cleared in the Dec 2025 SIR draft list.On Thursday, Sunali broke into angry tears when ...
10 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Arrested in the Vidyasagar statue vandalism case, BJP leader Rakesh Singh filed his nomination on Thursday — the final day for submissions — for the Kolkata Port constituency while carrying a portrait of Vidyasagar.The Bengal govt had previously ...
10 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: In Kolkata, for voters who were placed under adjudication, Shyampukur saw the highest deletion with 87%, followed by Chowringhee at 73.3%. Ballygunge with 74%, followed by Bhowanipore (72.5%), topped inclusion list.The EC on Thursday released the assembly-wise addition ...
10 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The alleged mastermind of Saradha scam, Sudipto Sen was granted bail in the last two pending cases on Tuesday by the Calcutta High Court after he spent 13 years in jail. The HC observed: "To deny bail now, ...
10 April 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA/KHARAGPUR: BJP's Dilip Ghosh on Wednesday said names of some genuine voters had indeed been deleted during the Special Intensive Revision of voter rolls after he ran into a group of women who asked him why their names were ...
10 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A special bench of appellate tribunal directed the EC to reinstate the name of the maternal grandson of artist Nandalal Bose, Suprabuddha Sen, 88, and his wife, 82, in the electoral rolls, following the SC order. A senior ...
10 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 72-year-old retired schoolteacher with 37 years of service, including five years as teacher-in-charge, has been deleted from the electoral roll, despite submitting valid documents. Sk Asraful Haque, a Khanakul voter, was also presiding officer for at least ...
10 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Subarna Bala Poddar, a 97-year-old refugee who has voted in every election since becoming eligible, has had her name deleted following the Special Intensive Revision (SIR).Subarna Bala was born in Abdullahpur, in what was then undivided Bengal, and ...
10 April 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA/NEW DELHI: Baharampur’s political weight cannot be understood without its past. Established in 1757 following the Battle of Plassey, the town became one of the earliest administrative and military bases of the East India Company in India. Over time, ...
9 April 2026 Times of IndiaRahul Arunday Banerjee’s untimely death is still being mourned by the Bengali film industry. Makers of one of his last theatrical projects, Chhobiwala have announced a special non-commercial initiative to honour the late actor’s memory, amidst the atmosphere of ...
9 April 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday led a 400-metre march from her home to Alipore Survey Building, accompanied by about 4,000 Trinamool Congress supporters, and filed her nomination for Bhowanipore assembly seat with four proposers from four different ...
9 April 2026 Times of IndiaMalda: Advocate Mofakkerul Islam, the alleged mastermind of the Mothabari violence, was sent to judicial custody by the chief judicial magistrate of Malda on Wednesday after the NIA, which has taken over the probe, did not seek his custody. ...
9 April 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA/ARAMBAGH: Mamata Banerjee drew a direct parallel between the SIR voter deletions in Bengal and the NRC exercise in Assam, saying at an election rally in Hooghly's Arambagh on Wednesday that BJP had failed to learn from that experience."In ...
9 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata/Delhi: Trinamool and BJP have filed a flurry of complaints with the EC alleging MCC violations and partisan behaviour. TMC lodged a complaint against Bengal CEO Manoj Agarwal, alleging he met with BJP netas in Nandigram on April 5.Citing ...
9 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Election Commission in a letter to Bengal CEO Manoj Agarwal on Wednesday, again directed that no civic volunteers or Green Police be deployed for election-related duties.The directive also prohibited the personnel from wearing the uniform three days prior ...
9 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Triumph Motorcycles India is targeting sales figure of 1 lakh for sub-400 cc bikes manufactured in India in 15 months. It sold the first 1 lakh units in 30 months.Triumph is the largest UK-owned motorcycle manufacturer, with the ...
9 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Four-time MLA and Trinamool heavyweight Aroop Biswas on Wednesday filed his nomination for the Tollygunge assembly constituency, with a rally to the Alipore Treasury Building.A key face of south Kolkata politics, Biswas was the last among the city's ...
9 April 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Senior executive magistrate Md Erfan Habib, 41, is currently on election duty in Bengal. Serving as the deputy district election officer (DDEO) of Birbhum, he oversees the accuracy of the electoral roll and provides administrative direction to electoral ...
9 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: India may exceed RBI's GDP growth projection for 2026-27, the chairman of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister, S Mahendra Dev, said on Wednesday. Speaking at an interactive session with members of the Bharat Chamber of ...
9 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: BJP has not fielded a single Muslim candidate in the Bengal assembly polls despite having a base of nearly two lakh members from the community in the state, even in seats where it previously fielded Muslim candidates, such ...
9 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Special Task Force of Kolkata Police nabbed a 17-year-old from Bihar on Wednesday, seizing a cache of at least five finished firearms, 13 unfinished ones, and 40 rounds of ammunition. The operation took place near a public ...
9 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: IndiGo airline has filed an FIR against the supervisor of the catering firm, Abdul Latif, who forgot to apply the hand brake when he alighted from the vehicle on Tuesday night, leading to it rolling off and hitting ...
9 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The ceasefire in West Asia comes as a relief to the city's food and beverages sector, which was forced to consider a price hike, that has now been put on hold. While an annual price revision is in ...
9 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Kolkata's bus services are witnessing a noticeable revival following the recent revision in auto-rickshaw fares, with operators reporting an increase in short-distance commuters. However, the resurgence has exposed a persistent demand-supply gap, resulting in overcrowded buses and concerns ...
9 April 2026 Times of IndiaUnaccounted-for cash of Rs 16.3 lakh was seized in two hauls on Tuesday. A Static Surveillance Team stopped a vehicle near RN Tagore Hospital around 11.30 pm on Tuesday and seized Rs 1.3 lakh in cash from the driver. ...
9 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: With Rs 75,700 cash in hand, 9.8 g gold jewellery and a total asset value of Rs 15.4 lakh, Mamata Banerjee — who was the country's poorest chief minister last year by the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) ...
9 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The mother of the RG Kar rape-and-murder victim, who will contest the election as a BJP candidate, on Wednesday alleged she was assaulted and harassed by Trinamool-backed goons during a campaign in Sodepur. The incident reportedly occurred when ...
9 April 2026 Times of IndiaBy- Kaushik.Pradhan@timesofindia.comKOLKATA: A high-level election review meeting on Wednesday turned volatile when a senior election observer openly challenged CEC Gyanesh Kumar, later leading to the observer's removal.During the virtual meeting convened by the full bench of the EC, Cooch ...
9 April 2026 Times of IndiaKharagpur/Kolkata: IIT Kharagpur authorities wrote to the district magistrate, requesting exemption of hostel employees from election duties to ensure "uninterrupted mess services and hostel maintenance, considered emergency duties". Out of 211 Group C and D staff members, 171 received ...
9 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Trinamool, Congress and Left workers are reaching out to citizens, omitted from the electoral roll after the SIR exercise, to help them file appeals at tribunals to get their voting rights back.The most active seem local Trinamool units, ...
9 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A couple from Tollygunge Road was allegedly chased at gunpoint and assaulted by a local criminal on Monday after they protested against his illegal liquor trade. The accused, Jaydeb Malakar, was arrested on Monday night.The incident unfolded when ...
9 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Regional Passport Office, Kolkata, will organise a special "Passport Mela" on April 18 across multiple centres to expedite processing and ease services. Ashish Middha, regional passport officer, Kolkata, said the mela will be held simultaneously at Passport ...
9 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Online collection of property tax in Salt Lake and Rajarhat Gopalpur areas of Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation (BMC) for the financial year of 2026-27 will start from Monday.The tax structure of Salt Lake is different from that of Rajarhat ...
9 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Two cases of alleged digital arrest fraud were reported from the same neighbourhood in the Bagbazar area, with the victims residing barely 100 m from one another. Cops said a total of Rs 90.5 lakh was lost in ...
9 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Another thunderstorm lashed the city on Wednesday evening, extending the spell of pleasant weather. The Met office has forecast one or two spells of rain on Thursday, though with lower intensity, before conditions turn dry from Friday. Apart ...
9 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: In a stern warning to the city's police force, the Lalbazar headquarters has issued a directive mandating the immediate registration of FIRs for all cognisable offences, the SOP being to register the FIR the same day.The order, aimed ...
9 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: At least 600 workers in Kolkata and Mumbai have lost work after Tollywood decided not to work with Magic Moments, the production house behind Rahul Banerjee-starrer ‘Bhole Baba Par Karega'. The move has triggered criticism over Tollywood's cancel ...
9 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Odisha Police began legal process to collect relevant footage that was recorded moments before the death of actor Rahul Arunoday Banerjee. The Odisha Police wrote to East Midnapore police to hand over the relevant footage to them, which ...
9 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Large parts of the city were waterlogged on Wednesday evening following intense nor'wester rain. Several drainage pumping stations run by KMC recorded a sharp rise in the water in the evening, resulting in inundation of areas for a ...
9 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The death of two innocent children in a bomb attack in Manipur has opened up the old wound from which the state has started to heal slowly. With the curfew imposed in some districts and protests against the ...
9 April 2026 Times of IndiaWelcome to hostel life at IIT Madras — where your unexpected roommate might not steal your Maggi, but could absolutely walk in and ask for a dosa. A now-viral video of a deer casually strolling into a student’s room ...
8 April 2026 Times of IndiaSome farmers use scarecrows. Farmers in Bali? They’ve apparently hired Beyoncé. A viral video showing a life-size cutout of the pop icon “guarding” crops is back on everyone’s feed, and yes – it’s exactly as unusual as it sounds. ...
8 April 2026 Times of IndiaArtemis II wasn’t just a moonshot – it was a mood. Between a rogue Nutella jar floating through zero gravity and astronauts tearing up while naming lunar craters, the mission blended science with soul. As the crew looped around ...
8 April 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee on Wednesday criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah, calling them “Bangla-Birodhi Zamindars” who seek votes but fail to deliver for the people.In a post on X, Banerjee shared a ...
8 April 2026 Times of IndiaMalda: The NIA has detained nine more in connection with the Mothabari violence. They are being interrogated to uncover the motive behind the attack on the judicial officers who were gheraoed for nine hours on April 1.A section of ...
8 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Tuesday said that while INDIA bloc was formed keeping national interest in mind, it was never a compulsion on alliance partners to fight state elections together. Kharge, in the city to launch Congress's ...
8 April 2026 Times of IndiaKeshpur: Two youths from Keshpur in West Midnapore, who had travelled to the northeast for work, have allegedly been murdered, with their families urging authorities to bring back their bodies from Mizoram.The deceased — 24-year-old Arfik Rahman Khan and ...
8 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: PM Narendra Modi is likely to hold seven campaign rallies across Bengal this week. Five of the seven scheduled meetings will be held in south Bengal — primarily in areas where BJP trailed Trinamool by a thin margin ...
8 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Election Commission (EC) will hold a virtual meeting on Wednesday with the state chief secretary, home secretary and all district election officers (DEOs) to review poll preparedness. The meeting will be chaired by chief election commissioner Gyanesh ...
8 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The country's plastic industry is reeling under severe disruptions due to the West Asia crisis, with a 50%-70% surge in raw material costs, supply uncertainties, and rising logistics and fuel challenges significantly impacting MSMEs' margins, working capital cycles, ...
8 April 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA/CHAKDAH/BONGAON: CM Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday dubbed the Special Intensive Revision of the electoral roll a “got-up game”, likened it to the Bengali year-end Chaitra sale and assured those whose names have been struck off the voters’ list that ...
8 April 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The ‘Bengal model’ for tackling Type 1 diabetes (T1D), an auto-immune condition commonly diagnosed in children and teenagers, is set for global expansion with several southeast Asian countries expressing an intent to adopt it.The model — functional in ...
8 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: "Motab Shaikh and Motab Herul are the same person," the appellate tribunal ruled on April 5 in its first SIR appeal, accepting the Congress Farakka candidate's Aadhaar card as proof of identity after the Election Commission provided no ...
8 April 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: An IndiGo A 320 aircraft that was parked in the apron area of Kolkata airport was damaged when a vehicle ferrying Oberoi catering officials dashed its right engine on Tuesday night. The airline’s engineers are assessing the damage. ...
8 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A resident of an apartment on Baranashi Ghosh Street in Girish Park sustained injuries on Sunday after a dispute over a barking pet allegedly escalated into a physical assault on her and her minor son. The dog, too, ...
8 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: In a cross-border effort, four Nepali nationals who spent years in Indian mental health institutions were recently repatriated to their homes — two escorted back by social workers, and two reunited after families traced and retrieved them.The individuals ...
8 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A pair of juvenile white-cheeked gibbon, considered critically endangered on IUCN Red List, along with 15 north American wood turtles (endangered) and 10 four-eyed turtles (critically endangered) have been seized at Kolkata airport on Tuesday morning. Sources said ...
8 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Several minority colleges affiliated with Calcutta University have formally asked to be exempted from the university's proposed standardised admission index for undergraduate admissions, citing their minority status and existing independent admission procedures.The university recently proposed introducing a common ...
8 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: In three cash haul ahead of the assembly elections, the static surveillance team (SST) has seized Rs 53 lakh unaccounted-for cash in Kolkata.In the first case, Rs 20 lakh was seized from a vehicle in central Kolkata's Chatawala ...
8 April 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: After playing out over 155 days, the SIR process in Bengal ended on Tuesday with the final tally showing that about 90.8 lakh of the state's pre-SIR voters - nearly 12% of the original 7.6 crore electorate - ...
8 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Forty-eight hours before the electoral roll is frozen, voters deleted in the SIR exercise — from prominent personalities, such as former MP Tarun Mandal and associate professor and head of the Islamic theology department at Aliah University, Mohd ...
8 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Members of West Bengal Motion Picture Artists' Forum, Federation of Cine Technicians of Eastern India and Eastern India Motion Pictures Association have decided not to work in any production of the production house—Magic Moments—till the reason behind Rahul ...
8 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Kolkata and several districts of Bengal saw anxious crowds outside election offices on Tuesday as voters, whose names were deleted from the electoral roll, vowed to continue their fight to restore their voting rights.Among them was Anju Mara ...
8 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: BJP leader Rakesh Singh stepped out of Presidency jail on Tuesday afternoon after being granted an interim bail by the Calcutta High Court to contest the assembly polls from Kolkata Port.Singh, greeted by enthusiastic supporters outside the prison, ...
8 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Trinamool Congress workers in Bhowanipore went back to the drawing board on Tuesday after they realised that almost 10,000 out of the 14,000-plus voters under adjudication in this closely watched constituency in Bengal — where CM Mamata Banerjee ...
8 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: With tribunal appeals unlikely to conclude before polling, the descendants of Mir Jafar, along with thousands of voters whose names have been deleted from the electoral roll, are determined to register their protest by appearing at the polling ...
8 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The traffic department on Tuesday issued an order reiterating that RVNL will be allowed to launch concrete girders atop Chingrighata on weekend nights from midnight to 5 am starting May 15 and again on May 22. The 366-metre ...
8 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Back to back late-evening squalls on Monday and Tuesday left a trail of damage across parts of Kolkata, tearing apart election campaign materials, including hoardings, banners, flexes and party flags, catching workers of several political parties off guard ...
8 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A sweeping purge of electoral roll under the SIR has triggered sharp political and social fault lines in North 24 Parganas, with over 12.3 lakh names struck off across three phases since the first draft was published in ...
8 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The city experienced a thunderstorm for the third consecutive day on Tuesday, with spells of rain accompanied by thunder, lightning and gusty winds. While wind speeds in most parts did not meet the threshold for a squall, Dum ...
8 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 30-year-old IT executive, Kiran Mishra, riding an app bike to office on Tuesday was killed after a govt bus hit the two-wheeler from behind at RS Software crossing in Sector V while the biker tried to veer ...
8 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Trinamool candidate from Behala West, Ratna Chatterjee, has been served a notice by the Kolkata Police in connection with the alleged vandalism of a BJP party office in Parnasree. She has been asked to join the probe, with ...
8 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: This assembly election, the electoral list in Kolkata has been thinned by a whopping 7 lakh voters.While 11 assembly segments in Kolkata North and South already lost 6,29,428 voters due to "deceased", "shifted", and "logical discrepancy"-related deletions, another ...
8 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A pair of juvenile white-cheeked gibbon, considered critically endangered on IUCN Red List, along with 15 north American wood turtles (endangered) and 10 four-eyed turtles (critically endangered) have been seized at Kolkata airport by Customs officials on Tuesday ...
8 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata/Diamond Harbour: This election, the urban South 24 Parganas, with Jadavpur and Tollygunge, finds itself sharing the same fate as its rural belts of Basanti and Sagar, located almost 100 km away.The electoral list has been trimmed by a ...
8 April 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Triumph Motorcycles India is targeting 1 lakh sales of the sub-400 cc bikes manufactured in India in 15 months, down from 30 months it took to sell the first 1 lakh units.Triumph is the largest UK-owned motorcycle manufacturer, ...
8 April 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: In a cross-border effort, four Nepali nationals who spent years in Indian mental health institutions were recently repatriated to their homes — two escorted back by social workers, and two reunited after families traced and retrieved them.The individuals ...
8 April 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: As part of the Government of India’s year-long celebrations marking 150 years of the iconic national song Vande Mataram, the Victoria Memorial Hall in Kolkata will host a special commemorative exhibition paying tribute to its composer, Rishi Bankim ...
7 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: After weeks of fare disputes, commuter complaints and internal disagreements, auto-rickshaw unions in Kolkata have finally agreed to implement a uniform fare hike across routes, bringing temporary relief from the chaos that gripped the city's last-mile connectivity.The revised ...
7 April 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Senior Supreme Court advocate Menaka Guruswamy took oath as a Trinamool Congress MP from West Bengal, becoming India’s first openly queer member in Parliament. She is widely known for being one of the lawyers who argued in the ...
7 April 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Rival camps of Trinamool and BJP squared off in a charged atmosphere outside Alipore Survey Building on Monday as the heavyweight candidates submitted their nomination papers. The situation looked less like an administrative exercise and more like a ...
7 April 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The Supreme Court on Monday requested the SIR appellate tribunal to hear painter Nandalal Bose's maternal grandson Suprabuddha Sen's appeal challenging the deletion of his name from the electoral roll expeditiously.The names of Bose's grandson and granddaughter-in-law Deepa, ...
7 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata/Bethuadahari (Nadia): CM Mamata Banerjee on Monday claimed that the state's chief electoral officer's visit to Nandigram over the weekend, "accompanied by BJP netas", indicated that he was "in cahoots with the saffron party".The Election Commission was acting like ...
7 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: In a major boost to India's marine biodiversity records, researchers from the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) have discovered two new species of free-living marine nematodes along the Tamil Nadu coast.The findings, published on March 25, 2026, in ...
7 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Congress on Monday released its star campaigner list for the Bengal assembly elections, headlined by Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and party president Mallikarjun Kharge.Kharge is scheduled to visit Kolkata on Tuesday. Rahul Gandhi, who last ...
7 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Within 24 hours of publishing its first list of 40 star campaigners, BJP on Monday dropped six names from it. These names were of netas from other states. BJP replaced their names with those of netas from Bengal ...
7 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Thailand-based Minor Hotels is planning a second property in Bengal, founder and group chairperson William Heinecke said on Monday, days after the company signed for a luxury hotel at the World Trade Centre in Salt Lake's Sector V.The ...
7 April 2026 Times of IndiaBURDWAN/KOLKATA: Renu Khatun, the nurse from East Burdwan whose arm was chopped off by her husband and who now uses a prosthetic limb, has found her name deleted from the electoral roll after judicial scrutiny.The 27-year-old, who had been ...
7 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A resident of Chowbaga fell victim to a cybercrime and was allegedly duped of nearly Rs 23 lakh in an investment scam orchestrated through a social media messaging platform. The victim, a trader, filed a complaint, at Anandapur ...
7 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A Kolkata Police officer was allegedly assaulted while on duty in the Behala area early Sunday, prompting Lalbazar to issue a fresh directive mandating the use of body cameras during enforcement operations. The incident took place around 1 ...
7 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Two squalls struck Kolkata and Dum Dum a few minutes apart on Monday night, uprooting trees and delaying flight operations at Kolkata Airport. While the impact in most parts of the city was limited, Alipore recorded wind speeds ...
7 April 2026 Times of IndiaHowrah: Two men were arrested on Sunday night after the Dagar Bagan area under Howrah's Liluah Police Station turned into a battlefield. Bombs were also allegedly hurled.This happened following a clash between a group publicly celebrating an individual's birthday ...
7 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Around 30,000 shuttle bus commuters, dependent on Shuttl and Uber for their daily commute to the IT hubs of Sector V, Newtown and Rajarhat, were forced to change track and opt for alternatives on Monday, after Uber stopped ...
7 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Trinamool on Monday submitted a memorandum to Bengal CEO Manoj Agarwal over the "illegal" acceptance of nearly 30,000 Form 6 documents and the EC's allegedly biased and partisan role in attempting to include outsiders in poll rolls.Senior state ...
7 April 2026 Times of IndiaMalda: Thirty-seven-year-old Kabil Sk of Old Malda's Madhaipur village died by suicide after his name was deleted from the voter list, his family said. Kabil was founding hanging from a poll 500 metres from his home on Monday morning.Sources ...
7 April 2026 Times of IndiaJalpaiguri: Star athlete Swapna Barman filed her nomination as the TMC candidate from Rajganj on Monday — the last day for filing — after days of uncertainty that had kept her off the campaign trail.Swapna was employed as a ...
7 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: CM Mamata Banerjee on Monday questioned PM Narendra Modi's silence on Pakistan defence minister Khawaja Asif's alleged threat to target Kolkata and demanded the PM's resignation."We do not want enmity with any country. But why does PM Modi ...
7 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Even as CM Mamata Banerjee questioned PM Narendra Modi's "silence" on Pakistan's threat to strike Kolkata, state leader of opposition Suvendu Adhikari on Monday alleged that she always fell short of praising the role of the Indian armed ...
7 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Calcutta University has postponed its under-graduate first semester examinations scheduled after April 13 because many affiliated colleges have been occupied for the assembly elections, disrupting access to examination venues.The university authorities said the decision was taken after reviewing ...
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