Trinamool Congress leader Abhishek Banerjee on Wednesday referred to the Sitalkuchi firing on the polling day in 2021 and tried to stoke the Rajbanshi sentiments to drum up support for his party as he campaigned in this part of ...
2 April 2026 TelegraphSeven judicial officers, including three women, were gheraoed and held hostage on Wednesday by villagers in Malda’s Kaliachak to protest against the mass deletions of names as part of the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. The ...
2 April 2026 TelegraphA "happy" Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday welcomed the Supreme Court-monitored breakthrough in the voter list logjam, but simultaneously sounded an alarm, warning that a "new setup" of poll officers handpicked by the Election Commission had been "entrusted" to reject ...
2 April 2026 TelegraphA former Subedar Major of the Indian Army who had served in key military engagements is gearing up for another battle — to prove his eligibility as a Bengal voter. Forty-nine-year-old Azad Ali, who was part ...
2 April 2026 TelegraphThe Trinamool on Wednesday claimed to have found five voters in Bengal who are also registered as voters in Bihar, and alleged that it was the BJP’s doing.“The pattern, the execution, the beneficiary are the same,” Derek O’Brien, the ...
2 April 2026 TelegraphSuvendu Adhikari on Wednesday faced protests from supporters of the Trinamool Congress while campaigning in Nandigram in Purba Medinipur district and later in Bhowanipore.Adhikari, the Leader of the Opposition in the state Assembly, is contesting from both Nandigram and ...
2 April 2026 TelegraphKolkata, Apr 1 (PTI) Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday alleged that officials recently appointed by the Election Commission were entrusted to reject nominations of her party's poll candidates and urged them to be cautious while filing their ...
2 April 2026 TelegraphOlympic bronze medallist Leander Paes on Tuesday joined the growing list of Bengali celebrity turncoats, switching allegiance from the Trinamool to the BJP at the party’s headquarters.Paes is the latest high-profile name in a widening trend that has seen ...
2 April 2026 TelegraphThe Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA) has decided to clean the public swimming pool at Rabindra Sarobar after many swimmers complained that water hyacinth had covered large portions of it.In June 2025, 16-year-old Shivam Kumar Singh drowned after his ...
2 April 2026 TelegraphEvents organised at Jadavpur University, either by the students’ groups or any department, would henceforth need approval from a committee that has recently been set up by the university authorities. A 13-member committee on the “approval and ...
2 April 2026 TelegraphPolice probing the cyber fraud worth around ₹315 crore that led to the arrest of industrialist Pawan Ruia have now shifted focus to the alleged role of the other members of the Ruia family, whose names emerged during the ...
2 April 2026 TelegraphCalcutta University has written to the joint commissioner of Kolkata Police, requesting measures to ensure that the deployment of Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) does not disrupt the university’s ongoing third-semester undergraduate examinations. The police have also been approached ...
2 April 2026 TelegraphTwo men who arrived from Bangkok and boarded a taxi in front of the Calcutta airport early on Wednesday morning were arrested during a naka check for allegedly carrying gold worth over ₹1 crore hidden in their luggage.Police said ...
2 April 2026 TelegraphKolkata Police imposed prohibitory orders around the new office of the chief electoral officer on Strand Road on Wednesday to restrict the movement and assembly of people around the premises. Ajay Nand, the city police commissioner, passed an order ...
2 April 2026 TelegraphThe state has sent a list of 12 IPS officers to the Election Commission, seeking permission to deploy them in key posts left vacant after a series of shuffles by the poll panel.An approval from the ECI was pending ...
2 April 2026 TelegraphThe Enforcement Directorate (ED) teams conducted search and seizure operations at multiple addresses, including the Fern Road house of Biswajit Poddar, the alleged mastermind behind a violent clash and firing in Kankulia, an area near Golpark, on February 1.ED ...
2 April 2026 TelegraphThe price of autorickshaw LPG rose by ₹12.28 per litre on Wednesday, marking the third increase in less than a month and intensifying pressure on auto operators across the city.Between March 1 and April 1, the fuel has become ...
2 April 2026 TelegraphA central institute less than a kilometre from IIM Joka on the city’s southwestern fringes will host all 19 tribunals tasked with deciding the fate of disenfranchised voters.The Syama Prasad Mookerjee National Institute of Water and Sanitation (SPM-NIWAS), inaugurated ...
2 April 2026 TelegraphMany voters removed from the revised electoral rolls in poll-bound Bengal turned up at the office of the South 24-Parganas district magistrate in Alipore on Wednesday.They came to file written applications to reclaim their voting rights, but hours of ...
2 April 2026 TelegraphThey are 12 brothers and sisters, and all but one have their names under adjudication in the electoral rolls.The reason: the Election Commission has raised “suspicion” over how so many siblings share the same father.Hearing notices issued by the ...
2 April 2026 TelegraphA little more than 47 lakh of the 60.06 lakh cases to be adjudicated in the special intensive revision of electoral rolls (SIR) underway in Bengal had been disposed of till Tuesday evening and the entire process would be ...
1 April 2026 TelegraphThe Enforcement Directorate launched an operation across multiple locations in Kolkata, including the residence of businessman Biswajit Poddar alias Sona Pappu in Fern Road near Kasba, early Wednesday morning over money-laundering and extortion charges.Pappu apparently holds sway over the ...
1 April 2026 TelegraphRathindra Nath Bose, the BJP candidate of the Cooch Behar South Assembly constituency, alleged that a group of Trinamool Congress supporters attacked his convoy with stones, rods and sticks on Tuesday afternoon.Trinamool leaders, however, have denied the charges.The incident ...
1 April 2026 TelegraphTrinamool Congress MP and national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Tuesday underscored the “outsider” narrative to tear into the BJP at two rallies in North and South Dinajpur while stressing the slew of social welfare schemes of the Mamata ...
1 April 2026 TelegraphSuman Kanjilal, the Trinamool Congress candidate of Alipurduar, has launched a door-to-door campaign in the Alipurduar civic area to connect with residents amid rising concerns over the deletion of names from voter lists.Over the past two days, Kanjilal, accompanied ...
1 April 2026 TelegraphThe BJP, which published its fourth list of candidates for the Assembly polls on Tuesday, fielded 13 names.With this, the BJP has to announce candidates for six more seats.Among those who received tickets are Santosh Pathak, who recently defected ...
1 April 2026 TelegraphShankar Ghosh, the BJP candidate and the sitting MLA of Siliguri, put up campaign posters outside key government establishments across the city on Tuesday, drawing both public attention and political criticism.The posters have appeared at prominent locations, including the ...
1 April 2026 TelegraphThe Election Commission on Tuesday published the fifth and sixth supplementary lists, which contained three lakh names, taking the total number of people whose names were published in the supplementary lists following adjudication by judicial officers to 29 lakh.Sources ...
1 April 2026 TelegraphAnit Thapa, the chief of the Bharatiya Gorkha Prajatantrik Morcha (BGPM), on Tuesday said his party would not be able to use the candle as its symbol in the Assembly polls despite campaigning with it for around a month.“As ...
1 April 2026 TelegraphCalcutta High Court on Tuesday dismissed two public interest litigations (PILs) challenging the legality of the Election Commission of India (EC)’s mass transfer of bureaucrats and top police officers, and 167 OCs and ICs of several police stations across ...
1 April 2026 TelegraphTrinamool Congress candidate Swapna Barman is engaging with voters in the Rajganj Assembly constituency of Jalpaiguri and documenting their complaints and demands.Accompanied by a female security guard, the athlete-turned-politician is noting down issues raised by residents in a diary ...
1 April 2026 TelegraphMamata Banerjee on Tuesday smelt a “mischievous ploy” by the BJP to include the names of non-residents in the voter list of Bengal in collusion with the Election Commission of India (ECI) to hijack the Assembly polls next month. ...
1 April 2026 TelegraphCalcutta: There is a strong buzz in the Bengal BJP that home minister Amit Shah will accompany Suvendu Adhikari on Thursday when he files his nomination for the Bhabanipur Assembly seat where he has challenged chief minister Mamata Banerjee. ...
1 April 2026 TelegraphTennis star Leander Paes on Tuesday joined the BJP in Delhi amid speculation that he is likely to be fielded from the Krishnanagar Uttar Assembly constituency.“Leander Paes will be an asset for the party in Bengal. He was born ...
1 April 2026 TelegraphLoreto Day School Sealdah has secured affiliation with the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE), with its first batch scheduled to take its ICSE examinations (Class X) in 2028.The 168-year-old institution was affiliated with the state board ...
1 April 2026 TelegraphTuesday did not feel like it was leading to the first summer month.Intermittent showers that began on Monday night continued into the morning in some parts. Gusts of cool winds preceded and accompanied the showers.But the rainy spell is ...
1 April 2026 TelegraphNot fit for election duty, but cleared for VIP bandobast.The Election Commission has accepted the state government’s proposal to deploy officers removed by the poll panel from election duties to manage VIP movement and security during the campaign.The state ...
1 April 2026 TelegraphThe state primary education board’s president confirmed on Tuesday that the interviews set for April to select candidates for teaching jobs will take place as planned, since this process does not violate the model code of conduct.The board had ...
1 April 2026 TelegraphIndia’s civilisational journey is marked by extraordinary intellectual, cultural, and spiritual achievements.Yet, the long interlude of colonial rule not only disrupted our economic and institutional foundations but also eroded the cultural confidence of generations. When India emerged from colonialism, ...
1 April 2026 TelegraphMathematics professor Amartya Kumar Dutta at the Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, has been appointed the new full-term director of the institute, and will take charge on April 1.The tenure of the last full-term director, Sangha-mitra Bandyopadhyay, ended in September ...
1 April 2026 TelegraphPolice investigating the death of Rahul Arunoday Banerjee recorded statements from several eyewitnesses on Tuesday.Among them were crew members and boatmen who were present at the scene or had responded when Banerjee fell into the water and could not ...
1 April 2026 TelegraphMany voters struck off the electoral list are running from pillar to post to figure out the way ahead.They said booth-level officers (BLOs) told them they did not know the process either and that aggrieved voters should approach “higher ...
1 April 2026 TelegraphCity industrialist Pawan Ruia was arrested by the cybercrime wing of Bengal Police on Tuesday in connection with an alleged online fraud worth around ₹300 crore.Police said proceeds of crime from cheating a senior citizen in Salt Lake through ...
1 April 2026 TelegraphA little over three weeks left for the elections, thousands of Bengal residents have been robbed of their voting rights, and no one knows whom to approach.Conversations with officials conducting elections in the state suggested they were just as ...
1 April 2026 TelegraphIndustrialist Pawan Ruia, known as the “turnaround tycoon” was arrested by the Bengal Police’s cybercrime wing on Tuesday evening from a location near Eco park.The Bengal police’s cybercrime wing was investigating Ruia after having uncovered a cybercrime network where ...
1 April 2026 TelegraphBengal industries minister Shashi Panja on Tuesday shared videos and photographs to allege BJP was submitting Form-6 to enable new voters from other states to get enrolled in Bengal.Shyampukur nominee Panja also shared videos and photographs of men in ...
1 April 2026 TelegraphA division bench of Calcutta High Court Chief Justice Sujoy Paul and Justice Parthasarathi Sen on Tuesday dismissed a plea challenging the transfer of IAS, IPS and police officers in poll-bound Bengal.“… we are constrained to hold that the ...
1 April 2026 TelegraphTension gripped the Kachakali in the Chopra Assembly constituency in North Dinajpur district on Sunday evening following a clash between Trinamool Congress and BJP workers over putting up party flags ahead of the upcoming Assembly elections.The BJP leaders alleged ...
31 March 2026 TelegraphThe BJP fielded six candidates for the civic polls in Sikkim, and all of them submitted their nomination papers on the last day on Monday.Srijana Chettri filed her nomination from the Diesel Power House ward of the Gangtok Municipal ...
31 March 2026 TelegraphAbdul Jabbar, a 20-year-old from Srirampur village within the Kaliachak police station limits in Malda, shot himself in a mango orchard on Sunday evening.He was rushed to Malda Medical College & Hospital, where doctors pronounced him dead.Moazzem Sheikh, his ...
31 March 2026 TelegraphA large number of people whose names have been deleted from the voter list during the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR) took out a rally in Kurseong on Monday, marking the first street protest on this issue in the ...
31 March 2026 TelegraphThe Cooch Behar district witnessed road blockades and protests on Monday over discrepancies in the supplementary electoral roll (SER), with residents alleging that their names had not yet appeared on the additional list. Hundreds of residents ...
31 March 2026 TelegraphProtests have erupted in the Congress in many Assembly constituencies in north Bengal against some candidates announced by the party.The series of protests, internal divisions and violent incidents raised concerns about the Congress’s organisational strength in north Bengal ahead ...
31 March 2026 TelegraphMamata Banerjee on Monday threw a poll-timed lifeline to Bengal’s potato farmers, promising that her government would not only compensate those hit by a price crash but also allow them to sell their produce beyond the state’s borders.This marks ...
31 March 2026 TelegraphSwapna Barman, the gold-winning heptathlete who Trinamool has fielded as a candidate for the Assembly polls, has received approval for her resignation from the railways.Following a directive from the Calcutta High Court, which asked the railways to take a ...
31 March 2026 TelegraphThe political landscape of north Bengal is witnessing a churn ahead of the Assembly elections, with a new regional alliance of regional outfits and another outfit separately entering the fray.A newly formed platform, the United Democratic Alliance for North ...
31 March 2026 TelegraphA high-level BJP delegation visited the Election Commission’s headquarters in Delhi on Monday and urged chief election commissioner Gyanesh Kumar to bar Mamata Banerjee from election campaigning, accusing her of violating the model code of conduct by issuing direct ...
31 March 2026 TelegraphSuvendu Adhikari sought re-election from Nandigram with an emphatic display of party unity in Haldia on Monday with veteran Dilip Ghosh and hundreds of BJP workers, the carefully choreographed show of unity turning the otherwise routine filing of nomination ...
31 March 2026 TelegraphIn November 2017, Martin Lutyens, chairman of the Lutyens Trust from the UK, visited India, beginning his tour in Calcutta.The Lutyens Trust seeks to promote the conservation and sensitive stewardship of the architectural and planning legacy of Sir Edwin Lutyens, with particular ...
31 March 2026 TelegraphA game of hopscotch or a slice of pizza can become lessons in maths, schools are telling their teachers.In another school, a teacher explained the difference between radius and diameter using a basketball.Schools are increasingly using real-life and familiar ...
31 March 2026 TelegraphAround 9pm on Monday, the Met office issued a nowcast about an impending thunderstorm in Calcutta and neighbouring districts.Soon after, gusts of wind cooled the city. Plastic cups and leaves were sent flying on the Maidan.Light rain was reported ...
31 March 2026 TelegraphThe on-screen marking of CBSE Class XII answer scripts, introduced by the board this year, has started across schools.The evaluation of answer scripts is being conducted mostly in computer labs, and every teacher has been assigned a desktop, a ...
31 March 2026 TelegraphFour men, including two teenagers, were arrested on Monday for allegedly trying to kill a resident of East Jadavpur after he allegedly asked one of them to use a silencer on his motorcycle that was making a loud noise ...
31 March 2026 TelegraphThe Trinamool’s Rashbehari candidate Debasish Kumar was questioned by the Enforcement Directorate on Monday in connection with its probe into an alleged scam involving land procurement for projects and the subsequent duping of investors.Kumar, MLA from Rashbehari, is also ...
31 March 2026 TelegraphThe Trinamool Congress and the CPM are setting up help desks to assist voters in filing appeals after their names were removed from the electoral roll during the adjudication process.After the post-SIR roll was published on February 28, more ...
31 March 2026 TelegraphVoters marked “deleted” in the post-SIR supplementary lists will have to approach appellate tribunals headed by retired high court judges, as re-enrolling through Form 6 may not be an option, Election Commission officials said.Amid confusion surrounding the process, booth-level ...
31 March 2026 TelegraphA retired Indian Air Force officer, a state government employee, an IIT professor, a corporate executive, a homemaker — one apartment building in Dum Dum has as many as eight residents whose names have been struck off the electoral ...
31 March 2026 TelegraphRahul Arunoday Banerjee died trying to save a female co-actor who had slipped and fallen into a depression on an uneven Talsari beach while they were shooting in “knee-deep” water, eyewitnesses said on Monday.Rahul’s postmortem has revealed that his ...
31 March 2026 TelegraphNabanna on Monday withdrew four senior West Bengal Civil Service officers from CEO Manoj Agarwal’s office in response to a prod from it.These WBCS (Executive) officers have been shifted to various state government departments, while the chief electoral officer’s ...
31 March 2026 TelegraphAs many as 30,000 Form 6 applications for new voter inclusion in the electoral rolls were submitted in one day in Bengal, Trinamool national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee claimed on Monday accusing the BJP of weaponising the electoral ...
31 March 2026 TelegraphCooch Behar: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch his campaign for the Bengal Assembly elections by addressing a public rally at the Raas Mela Ground in Cooch Behar on April 5.The rally will mark the formal beginning of the ...
30 March 2026 TelegraphThe Election Commission of India has removed West Bengal deputy chief electoral officer Subrata Pal and shifted him to the health department, extending a series of administrative changes in West Bengal ahead of the Assembly polls.Rahul Nath, who was ...
30 March 2026 TelegraphTrinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee on Monday accused the BJP of stoking fights among all sections of society and claimed the saffron party wants to loot the country by taking advantage of such situations.Addressing a poll rally here, the ...
30 March 2026 TelegraphAmid the heat of campaigning, two CPM candidates from Nadia district on Saturday displayed exemplary warmth as they stepped away from their campaign trail to save the lives of two critically ill patients.Sabuj Das, 37, the CPM nominee from ...
30 March 2026 TelegraphThe Congress on Sunday evening released the names of its candidates for 284 Assembly seats, including former MP Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury from Murshidabad’s Behrampore and Mausam Benazir Noor from Malda’s Malatipur.Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury will contest an Assembly election after ...
30 March 2026 TelegraphUnion home minister Amit Shah has asked the BJP leadership to focus extensively on grassroots organisation by ensuring that booths remain strong during the election phases.BJP sources said that apart from releasing the chargesheet against the Mamata Banerjee government ...
30 March 2026 TelegraphThe Election Commission removed 83 block development officers (BDOs) across the state, including Nandigram I and II blocks, after it received complaints of partisanship ahead of the Assembly polls.BDOs play the roles of assistant returning officers in the Assembly ...
30 March 2026 TelegraphSupplementary voter lists — the fourth was out on Sunday night — have failed to assuage fears in the Matua-dominated areas of Bengal with the mass exclusion of names ahead of Assembly polls.Many fear they would be denied their ...
30 March 2026 TelegraphMamata Banerjee on Sunday mounted a fierce counter-offensive on Amit Shah, asking if the “opodartho... dangabaaj (worthless... riotmonger)” had another “marbar plan (plan to hit/kill)” for her.The chief minister and Trinamool Congress chief was reacting to the Union home ...
30 March 2026 TelegraphThe BJP mapping out a detailed caste equation, 46,000-plus voters removed from the electoral rolls, an arithmetic edge for the Opposition in the last election and the individual charisma of the two lead protagonists – chief minister Mamata Banerjee ...
30 March 2026 TelegraphA 10ft by 7ft wall at a rehabilitation centre had turned into a canvas for budding artists. For weeks, a group of children with disabilities had been painting, folding bits of paper and putting them on the wall. They ...
30 March 2026 TelegraphSunday felt hot and humid, and Monday is likely to get hotter, the Met office said.On Tuesday, another spell of thunderstorms is expected to provide temporary relief from the sweaty conditions, according to the forecast.The maximum temperature was 32.2 ...
30 March 2026 TelegraphA tourist from Calcutta died on the way to Sandakphu on Saturday.The deceased was identified as Imran Ali, a 39-year-old resident of Park Street, Calcutta.His body was handed over to his friends after a post-mortem at the Darjeeling district ...
30 March 2026 TelegraphA 42-year-old woman was allegedly stabbed to death with a knife in front of her 18-year-old daughter at their residence on Bosepukur Road in Kasba early on Sunday. Police said the woman’s husband has been arrested.The statement of the ...
30 March 2026 TelegraphA total of 184 police officers, including those in charge of 173 police stations throughout the state, were transferred by the Election Commission of India (ECI) through an order released on Sunday evening.The list includes 31 police stations in ...
30 March 2026 TelegraphA booth-level officer (BLO) in North 24-Parganas who kept assuring voters that their electoral rights would be retained found his own name deleted from the rolls after the first post-SIR supplementary list was published on March 23. Samsuzzaman Sahin ...
30 March 2026 TelegraphThe wounds inflicted by the contentious electoral revision continue to deepen. The second post-SIR supplementary list for poll-bound Bengal was published on Friday night. Sources said it contained some 12 lakh names, of which 40% were removed from the ...
30 March 2026 TelegraphBengali actor and TV star Rahul Arunoday Banerjee, 43, passed away during a sea shoot at Talsari in Odisha on Sunday afternoon, leaving the industry shocked by the loss of his warmth and presence.The actor, also a writer, podcast ...
30 March 2026 TelegraphThe Election Commission has suspended three personnel from the central armed police forces after a video surfaced online allegedly showing them playing carrom inside a Trinamool Congress office in Siliguri, a senior official said on Sunday. An internal probe ...
30 March 2026 TelegraphA day after Union Home Minister Amit Shah released a political 'chargesheet' against the TMC government, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday said that he should be chargesheeted "for his past deeds".Addressing a poll rally in Purulia, she also ...
30 March 2026 TelegraphThe Election Commission released the third supplementary voter list under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in West Bengal.The poll panel, however, did not provide details on the total number of deletions or inclusions in the third ...
30 March 2026 TelegraphPolice on Saturday arrested two officials of the Nadia district administration on charges of assaulting a polling officer during a training session in Ranaghat on Friday, while unidentified goons allegedly barged inside his home in Pyradanga and threatened his ...
30 March 2026 TelegraphTwo judicial officers, involved in disposing of under-adjudication cases in Cooch Behar, were allegedly “threatened” by district Trinamool Congress president Abhijit De Bhowmik, raising questions about whether this would hurt the adjudication process in the state as part of ...
30 March 2026 TelegraphRathindra Nath Bose, the BJP candidate of the Cooch Behar South Assembly seat, faced protests from people whose names were removed from the voter list while he was campaigning here on Saturday.Sources said when the candidate reached the home ...
30 March 2026 TelegraphThe Election Commission has replaced the police observer assigned to four Assembly constituencies in Malda after the Trinamool Congress alleged that his wife had links with BJP leaders in Bihar. Jayant Kant, an IPS officer from Uttar Pradesh, who ...
30 March 2026 TelegraphAround 150 residents from the Uttar Laxmipur panchayat area under Malda's Mothabari Assembly constituency, staged a protest on Saturday morning over their exclusion from the poll rolls.Protesters claimed their names were not there in the second supplementary voter list ...
30 March 2026 TelegraphUnion home minister Amit Shah and chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday got involved in a war of words over the transfer of dozens of officials across Bengal by the Election Commission, in the backdrop of violence in Murshidabad’s ...
29 March 2026 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee said that her government would provide two flats to each family which wants to shift from the subsidence-affected coal belt in Raniganj of West Burdwan, along with ₹10 lakh to shift their belongings. “You all ...
29 March 2026 TelegraphThe Trinamool Congress on Saturday countered Union home minister Amit Shah’s “chargesheet” against the Mamata Banerjee government by terming the 35-page document as a “judgment by a fugitive”.Addressing reporters shortly after Shah released the BJP’s “chargesheet”, senior Trinamool leaders ...
29 March 2026 TelegraphUnion home minister Amit Shah on Saturday accused Mamata Banerjee of habitually playing “victim-card” politics, suggesting she got “her leg fractured” during the 2021 campaign and alleging she was repeating the tactic to attack the Election Commission this time.“Mamata ...
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