Governor CV Ananda Bose said on Monday that he will send reports to the ministry of home affairs (MHA) on the situation arising at the international borders in the state with neighbouring Bangladesh where thousands of illegal Bangladeshi migrants ...
25 November 2025 The StatesmanTrinamul Congress will intensify the movement against the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in the coming days and the vote raksha shivirs, camps and war rooms will continue till the 31 January. The call was to be “battle ready”, said ...
25 November 2025 The StatesmanThe Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of West Bengal on Monday will hold a meeting with telecom operators following complaints from Booth Level Officers (BLOs) of having network issues while scanning QR codes and uploading enumeration forms as part of ...
25 November 2025 The StatesmanBuoyed by its decisive victory in the recent Bihar Assembly elections, the BJP’s central leadership is gearing up for an aggressive, high-profile campaign in West Bengal from next month ahead of the 2026 Assembly polls, featuring both Prime Minister ...
25 November 2025 The StatesmanInspired by the landslide electoral success in the recently concluded Bihar Assembly polls, the BJP’s Central leadership is planning to start a high-profile campaign involving both the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah for the ...
24 November 2025 The StatesmanThe Kolkata Police on Sunday arrested two persons in connection with the recovery of a body from a hotel in the Kasba area of south Kolkata on November 22. The arrested individuals have been identified as Dhruv Mitra and ...
24 November 2025 The StatesmanThe districts in West Bengal that have international borders with neighbouring Bangladesh witnessed maximum increase in the number of voters since 2002, the last time when the Special Intensive Revision was carried out in the state, the BJP claimed ...
24 November 2025 The StatesmanThe Election Commission of India (ECI) has received several complaints against the authorities of several state-run schools in West Bengal for not excusing their teachers from regular teaching duties to perform as booth-level officers (BLOs) for the Special Intensive ...
24 November 2025 The StatesmanThe weather system over the Strait of Malacca and the adjoining South Andaman Sea is expected to move west-northwest and intensify into a depression by November 24. According to the India Meteorological Department (IMD), it is likely to strengthen ...
24 November 2025 The StatesmanEnforcement Directorate personnel conducted raids at 44 locations in Bengal and Jharkhand on Friday and Saturday and recovered unaccounted cash totalling Rs 14 crores and substantial quantities of gold jewellery, along with 120 property deeds from offices and premises ...
24 November 2025 The StatesmanWest Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose on Sunday urged everyone to keep patience and avoid emotional reactions after the tragic death of Shanti Muni Ekka, a Booth Level Officer (BLO) who reportedly died by suicide. Her family says she ...
23 November 2025 The StatesmanThe state government has planned to set up a silk hub in Serampore. At an administrative meeting in Tarakeswar, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee announced the establishment of the hub in Hooghly district to create a major centre for silk ...
23 November 2025 The StatesmanThe Malda Sammilani Calcutta (MSC), an organisation dedicated to supporting people from Malda who require accommodation and assistance in Kolkata, felicitated six achievers from diverse fields at a ceremony held on Friday evening at the Malda College Auditorium.Before the ...
23 November 2025 The StatesmanIn a major development for workers across north Bengal’s tea and cinchona plantations, the Centre on Friday implemented the long-awaited Four Labour Codes, marking the biggest overhaul of India’s labour framework in decades. The move—expected to significantly impact the ...
23 November 2025 The StatesmanThe forest department has finally managed to capture an adult Indian striped hyena from a house in Salanpur after an 18-hour-long chase.Last night, two hyenas entered the house of Nimai Pramanik at around 9 p.m. in Salanpur village under ...
23 November 2025 The StatesmanAt a time when artificial intelligence has opened up a new era in research, data collection and analysis, the growing incidence of cyber security breaches needs urgent scrutiny, especially in matters related to databases connected with business operations, data ...
23 November 2025 The StatesmanUnable to bear the enormous stress of the job, a Block Level Officer in Nadia committed suicide holding the Election Commission responsible for her death. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee condoled the death.AdvertisementRinku Tarafdar from Krishnagar committed suicide by hanging ...
23 November 2025 The StatesmanTapati Biswas, a 60-year-old Booth Level Officer (BLO) from Konnagar and a resident of Konnagar Nabagram, suffered a cerebral attack last Wednesday. As her condition deteriorated, she was shifted from Konnagar Matri Sadan Hospital to Kolkata Medical College and ...
23 November 2025 The StatesmanA 52-year-old Booth Level Officer engaged in the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls was found hanging at her residence in Krishnagar on Saturday morning, with a handwritten suicide note that directly blamed the Election Commission of ...
23 November 2025 The StatesmanIn the wake of Delhi recent blast, security at Kolkata’s Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport has been further tightened, with the Airports Authority of India deploying an additional contingent of CISF personnel.From Friday, 69 CISF jawans have been ...
22 November 2025 The StatesmanWest Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose on Friday welcomed the Supreme Court’s recent opinion that courts cannot prescribe timelines for the President or Governors to grant assent to Bills passed by State legislatures, describing the advisory as a reaffirmation ...
22 November 2025 The StatesmanAs the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls enters a crucial phase in West Bengal, a political storm has erupted with the state BJP accusing the ruling Trinamul Congress of manipulating the process, even as Chief Minister Mamata ...
22 November 2025 The StatesmanThe Trinamul Congress has convened a virtual organisational meeting on Monday to discuss the party’s strategies regarding the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) by the Election Commission of India (ECI) in West Bengal.The meeting will be chaired by Trinamul ...
22 November 2025 The StatesmanIndia’s manufacturing sector stands at an inflection point backed by adoption of emerging technologies and advanced automation techniques, senior industry experts said at the 4th edition of Manufacturing Conclave 2025, organised by Assocham here on Friday.The transformative policies such ...
22 November 2025 The StatesmanGorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) Sabhasad Ajoy Edwards has fired off a letter to the newly-appointed Darjeeling District Magistrate, Manish Mishra, demanding full transparency in the Housing Grant disbursal for victims of the 5 October landslides.In a strongly worded communication, ...
22 November 2025 The StatesmanCommuters in Kolkata are likely to have smoother journeys on Saturdays as the city’s two Metro networks are set to have an increased number of services on Saturdays.To begin with, the Purple Line that did not operate on Saturdays ...
22 November 2025 The StatesmanOne of the most renowned festivals of Bidhannagar and the city, Bidhannagar Fair 2025, will be held at Bidhannagar Book Fair Grounds from 1-21 December. The fair will be inaugurated by Kolkata mayor and urban development minister Firhad Hakim, ...
22 November 2025 The StatesmanWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has once again slammed the SIR exercise in the state, calling it “unplanned, chaotic and dangerous”. Referring to the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls underway in West Bengal ahead of the ...
22 November 2025 The StatesmanTremors of 5.7 magnitude shook the city intensely this morning bringing scores of citizens on the streets. The origin of the earthquake, as per the information shared by the India Meteorological Department was Bangladesh having a depth of 10 ...
22 November 2025 The StatesmanThe Indian Chamber of Commerce (ICC) hosted the Innovation Conclave in Kolkata, convened as a high-level platform bringing together government leaders, academic heads and national innovation champions to deliberate on the future of India’s education and skills ecosystem.Speakers including ...
22 November 2025 The StatesmanPandemonium broke out at a SIR meeting of Birbhum MP Shatabdi Roy at Koma Gram Panchayat, under Suri Block II today, as two rival groups of TMC supporters clashed with each other. Shoes were also hurled at the MP’s ...
21 November 2025 The StatesmanThe railway station in the industrial town of Haldia is all set for a major revamp by the South Eastern Railway under the Indian Railway’s Amrit Bharat Station scheme for upgrading the stations.Haldia station in East Midnapur district is ...
21 November 2025 The StatesmanBJP IT cell in-charge and West Bengal co-observer Amit Malviya on Thursday launched a sharp attack on Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, alleging that her repeated criticism of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls stems from “fear of ...
21 November 2025 The StatesmanSarsuna College marked the World GIS Day by receiving the prestigious ‘Centre of Competence’ title from ESRI India. This recognition, typically conferred upon IITs and universities, was handed over by Dwaipayan Dighal, VP, business development at ESRI, to the ...
21 November 2025 The StatesmanThe festive season Baazar Kolkata brought out an exclusive collection of fashion for men, women, and kids – all within an affordable budget that truly captured the essence of festive shopping. Shoppers not only could upgrade their wardrobes but ...
21 November 2025 The StatesmanChief Minister Mamata Banerjee congratulated more than one lakh students who have cleared Joint Entrance Examination and are going through counselling in nursing and para medical courses in various institutions.Miss Banerjee in her X handle wrote: “The successful candidates ...
21 November 2025 The StatesmanThe Election Commission of India (ECI) is set to deploy AI-based software in West Bengal to identify duplicate voters as part of the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in the state.A senior official at the West ...
21 November 2025 The StatesmanThe Sikkim government has initiated a major upgrade of its weather-monitoring network with a comprehensive inspection of 67 Automatic Weather Stations (AWS) across the state. The drive, carried out by the department of science & technology in collaboration with ...
21 November 2025 The StatesmanTrinamul Congress MP Derek O’Brien Thursday raised alarm over the rising death toll in West Bengal, with 31 people losing their lives in the past 24 days amidst the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.O’Brien accused the Election ...
21 November 2025 The StatesmanThe Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday arrested Sahara Group director O P Srivastava in an alleged money laundering case of Rs 1,79,000, official sources said.The official has been accused of cheating the investors and diverting funds into shell companies, ...
21 November 2025 The StatesmanTension gripped the Hakimpur border area in North 24-Parganas’ Swarupnagar on Thursday morning after locals accused sections of the Media of spreading “misleading and provocative” reports amid the ongoing outflow of Bangladeshi nationals returning to their country following the ...
21 November 2025 The StatesmanJadavpur University has barred four male students from entering the campus pending an inquiry into allegations of verbal abuse, physical assault and intimidation of several women students, a senior university official said on Thursday.According to the complaint filed by ...
21 November 2025 The StatesmanChief Minister Mamata Banerjee urged the directors of telefilms to make serials to create social awareness and the Indian freedom movement.She was addressing a gathering in connection with the Tele Academy Award 2025 at the Dhano Dhanyo auditorium this ...
21 November 2025 The StatesmanThe Siliguri Metropolitan Police have launched a major crackdown on the sand mafia operating along the Balason river in Matigara, just 48 hours after Darjeeling MP and BJP national spokesperson Raju Bista publicly criticised the administration for allowing large-scale ...
21 November 2025 The StatesmanIn Potagachi village of Ektarpur Panchayat in Balagarh, Hooghly, the names of around 900 people are missing from the 2002 voter list published by the Election Commission. Voters fear that their names may be excluded during the Special Intensive ...
21 November 2025 The StatesmanA day after Trinamul Congress observes state-wide “Communal Harmony Day”, on 6 December, marking the anniversary of the Babri Masjid demolition, a Gita chanting congregation is set to be held at the Brigade Parade Grounds on 7 December.Organisers of ...
20 November 2025 The StatesmanCPI-M politburo member and state secretary Mohammed Salim on Wednesday delivered a sharp political message to leaders of various Left parties, urging them to “break and crush” what he described as the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh’s (RSS) expanding “enclosures” across ...
20 November 2025 The StatesmanCounterfeiting and smuggling not only harm legitimate businesses but also exploit consumers by exposing them to unsafe and substandard products. Protecting consumer rights is central to building a fair and transparent marketplace, and this requires a united effort from ...
20 November 2025 The StatesmanHundreds of aspiring teachers, both boys and girls, gathered in Siliguri Wednesday and marched towards the branch secretariat, Uttarkanya, under the banner of Uttarkanya Abhijan, intensifying their protest against alleged irregularities in teachers’ recruitment.Most of the participants had appeared ...
20 November 2025 The StatesmanThere is turmoil within the Trinamul-led Siliguri Municipal Corporation (SMC). The SMC plunged into a serious political crisis after senior Trinamul Congress councillor and member of the Mayor-in-Council (MiC) Dilip Barman openly accused Mayor Goutam Deb and the Deputy ...
20 November 2025 The StatesmanBringing hope for orphans having no trace of their parents, the Kolkata Municipal Corporation is to consider issuing birth certificates to abandoned children.The matter was brought to the fore by councillor of ward No. 48, Biswarup Dey in the ...
20 November 2025 The StatesmanThe Calcutta High Court on Wednesday directed the School Service Commission (SSC) to ensure that no “tainted” or disqualified candidate takes part in the ongoing recruitment process for Classes XI-XII teachers.Citing the Supreme Court’s directive, the court ordered the ...
20 November 2025 The StatesmanAfter former education minister Partha Chatterjee, the Calcutta High Court on Wednesday granted bail to former West Bengal Board of Secondary Education president Kalyanmoy Gangopadhyay in a CBI case related to the School Service Commission (SSC) recruitment scam.With this, ...
20 November 2025 The StatesmanA high-powered Election Commission of India team arrived at Krishnagar on Wednesday to take stock of the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise, signalling the Commission’s sharpened focus on accuracy and preparedness ahead of the next electoral cycle.The six-member ...
20 November 2025 The StatesmanWest Bengal Leader of Opposition in Bengal Assembly and BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari today alleged that the death sentence awarded to former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was “done on the orders of Pakistan”, claiming that the verdict lacked ...
20 November 2025 The StatesmanThe West Bengal Assembly secretariat has begun exploring legal options to challenge last week’s Calcutta High Court Division Bench ruling that struck down the Assembly membership of Mukul Roy.According to secretariat officials, Speaker Biman Bandopadhyay’s office has initiated consultations ...
20 November 2025 The StatesmanA high-level team from the Election Commission of India (ECI), led by Senior Deputy Election Commissioner Gyanesh Bharti, arrived in Kolkata on Tuesday to review the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in West Bengal.The visit comes ...
20 November 2025 The StatesmanKrishnagar’s long-running municipal paralysis has taken a startling turn with civic administrator and Sadar Sub-Divisional Officer Sharadwati Choudhury discovering massive discrepancies in staff records.While nearly a thousand sanitation workers appear on the municipality’s rolls, barely 300 to 400 are ...
20 November 2025 The StatesmanFour alleged members of a drug syndicate were arrested in West Delhi after police busted a network reportedly transporting cannabis from West Bengal to Delhi, concealed in trolley bags on long-distance trains, an officer said on Tuesday.According to the ...
20 November 2025 The StatesmanThe Institute of Leadership, Entrepreneurship & Development (iLEAD) successfully conducted its Student Council Elections recently, drawing a large number of students and staff to the polls. The event was held under the careful supervision of teachers and mentors, ensuring ...
20 November 2025 The StatesmanLIC has sanctioned Rs 38,01,000 to Vivekananda Hospital & Research Institute from its golden jubilee foundation fund for ICU equipment and lift installation. The hospital provides free treatment to underprivileged cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy and thalassaemia patients.Addressing the event, ...
20 November 2025 The StatesmanFollowing Trinamool Congress (TMC) Lok Sabha member Kalyan Banerjee’s alleged remarks levelling accusations at the West Bengal Governor of storing arms and bombs in Raj Bhavan and supplying them to the BJP to kill TMC leaders, the Raj Bhavan, ...
20 November 2025 The StatesmanThe birth centenary of music composer Salil Chowdhury began in the city today.Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in her X handle paid rich tributes to Salil Chowdhury on his birth anniversary.AdvertisementA programme titled ‘Saat Range Swapne’ was held at Kala ...
20 November 2025 The StatesmanResponding to the huge demand, the Sealdah Division of the Eastern Railway has decided to introduce two more air-conditioned local trains in its division very soon.The first additional new AC local is to be operated between Sealdah and Kalyani ...
19 November 2025 The StatesmanAjoy Edwards, chief of the Indian Gorkha Janshakti Front (IGJF) and an elected Sabhasad of the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA), has written to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee criticising her objection to the central government–appointed interlocutor for the Hills and ...
19 November 2025 The StatesmanThe National Council of Science Museums (NCSM) has been honoured with the prestigious CIMUSET Award for its climate change gallery “On The Edge?” developed at Science City, Kolkata. The award was announced on 15 November, during the CIMUSET award ...
19 November 2025 The StatesmanUncontrolled stunt biking on a public road has claimed the life of a young Polytechnic student in the Mukutmonipur tourist hub area of Bankura yesterday afternoon. Twenty-one-year-old Monojit Mahato, who hailed from Shyamsundarpur in the Raipur Police Station area, ...
19 November 2025 The StatesmanIn a huge relief to the city Metro network, a major constraint on the way of Purple Line construction was overcome yesterday.The Kolkata Metro Railway, its implementing agency the Rail Vikas Nigam Limited (RVNL) and the Consulate General of ...
19 November 2025 The StatesmanA video that has gone viral on social media shows a Trinamool Congress leader allegedly threatening violence if names of valid voters are removed from West Bengal’s electoral rolls during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) being carried out by ...
19 November 2025 The StatesmanThe Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers Ltd (GRSE) signed a MOU with Andhra Pradesh Maritime Board (APMB) at the 30th Edition of ‘Partnership Summit 2025’, held in Visakhapatnam on 14 November.The strategic partnership aims to foster mutual progress through ...
18 November 2025 The StatesmanSurpassing expectations in Bihar elections, the BJP is shifting focus to West Bengal with a recalibrated strategy boosted by organisational strength and a targeted campaign against the ruling Trinamul Congress (TMC) on law and order, women’s safety, and migration ...
18 November 2025 The StatesmanThe investigation into the Delhi blast case has expanded to West Bengal, with the National Investigation Agency (NIA) interrogating a suspect currently held in a Kolkata jail.The suspect, Sabir Ahmed, a resident of Palashipara in the Nadia district, is ...
18 November 2025 The StatesmanLaw, judiciary and labour minister Moloy Ghatak has said that although the BJP won the Bihar Assembly elections with an overwhelming majority, the credit for this victory goes to the process of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) undertaken by ...
18 November 2025 The StatesmanA section of the SSC candidates moved Calcutta High court on Monday allegedly over the presence of tainted candidates in the recently-published SSC list of candidates for interviews.The discontent is over an alleged flip-flop of the West Bengal School ...
18 November 2025 The StatesmanTill yesterday evening, 22.8 lakh enumeration forms of the total 23.27 lakh have been distributed in West Burdwan district under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls process by the Election Commission of India.Booth Level Officers (BLOs) began ...
18 November 2025 The StatesmanSecurity along the India-Bangladesh border in North and South 24-Parganas has been intensified following the historic verdict delivered by Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal, which on Monday, sentenced former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to death for crimes against humanity.The moment ...
18 November 2025 The StatesmanWest Bengal has recorded another major milestone in public healthcare, with its telemedicine network crossing the milestone of seven crore consultations, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee announced on Monday.The chief minister described the feat as a “milestone” for the state’s ...
18 November 2025 The StatesmanA migrant labourer from Kalna, on his way back home, has mysteriously disappeared from Pune railway station in Maharashtra 10 days ago, and his family still remains clueless about his whereabouts.Nepal Sheikh (35), hailing from New Madhuban locality of ...
18 November 2025 The StatesmanTrinamool Congress Lok Sabha member Kalyan Banerjee, who has courted controversy for his allegation charging Governor CV Ananda Bose with storing arms and ammunition and supplying BJP leaders to attack the TMC, fired a fresh salvo accusing the governor ...
18 November 2025 The StatesmanSurpassing expectations in Bihar elections, the BJP is shifting focus to West Bengal with a recalibrated strategy boosted by organisational strength and a targeted campaign against the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) on law and order, women’s safety, and migration ...
18 November 2025 The StatesmanFollowing claims by Trinamool Congress MP Kalyan Banerjee that arms were stashed inside the Raj Bhawan, West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose on Monday led a combing operation inside the premises. The Joint Combing Operation was carried out by ...
18 November 2025 The StatesmanIn an interesting development, Governor CV Ananda Bose is cutting short his outstation tour and returning to Raj Bhavan, Kolkata, today to personally lead an unprecedented joint combing operation across the entire Raj Bhavan complex.According to an announcement made ...
18 November 2025 The StatesmanWest Bengal Governor C.V. Ananda Bose on Sunday described the four-time Trinamool Congress Lok Sabha member, C.V. Ananda Bose ’s allegation that arms and ammunition were being distributed from the Raj Bhavan in Kolkata as “inflammatory, explosive and irresponsible”.Speaking ...
17 November 2025 The StatesmanThe Leader of Opposition (LoP) in the West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, on Sunday, released an audio clip and claimed that it substantiated that Trinamool Congress legislator Jiban Krishna Saha, who is in jail in connection with the multi-crore ...
17 November 2025 The StatesmanAfter getting released from judicial custody in connection with the cash-for-job case, former West Bengal Education Minister Partha Chatterjee has installed a box outside his party office in Kolkata to seek public opinions on his political leadership.Chatterjee, who is ...
17 November 2025 The StatesmanThe office of the West Bengal Governor, C.V. Ananda Bose, had directed the Kolkata Police to start an investigation into the allegations made by the four-time Trinamool Congress Lok Sabha member, Kalyan Banerjee’ that arms and ammunition were being ...
17 November 2025 The StatesmanA minor boy, Sheikh Reyan (10), a resident of Mayapur, under Arambagh 1 Gram Panchayat, went missing on Thursday evening. After an intensive search, the police recovered his body, wrapped in a blanket, from the house of a man ...
16 November 2025 The StatesmanScientists from the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) discovered a new species of slender gecko in Andhra Pradesh adding to the known biodiversity of the Eastern Ghats.According to the researchers, this is only the second species of the genus ...
16 November 2025 The StatesmanState BJP president Samik Bhattacharya on Saturday said that the 2026 West Bengal Assembly elections would be the last election of chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s political career.Speaking to reporters in Siliguri, Mr Bhattacharya said: “Even if the Special Intensive ...
16 November 2025 The StatesmanMovement between Krishnagar and Nabadwip is set to face significant disruption for over six weeks as the Nadia district administration has announced phased traffic restrictions on the Sri Gouranga Setu over the Bhagirathi.The decision follows an official communication from ...
16 November 2025 The StatesmanThe The Darjeeling Welfare Society (DWS), led by its founder-president and Rajya Sabha MP Harsh Vardhan Shringla, inaugurated Rozgar Mela 2.0 in Siliguri on Saturday. The two-day job fair, held at Salesian College near Don Bosco School, is being ...
16 November 2025 The StatesmanSal seed butter, until now an untapped resource, has begun providing livelihood for marginalised tribal families in several villages within the Junglemahal forests near here. This has been made possible through a project initiated by a central scientific research ...
16 November 2025 The StatesmanA retired teacher, who was attacked by a swarm of honeybees, died in hospital yesterday.Sixty-two-year-old Nirmal Dutta of Dhandabag was attacked by a large number of bees while taking his son to tuition on a two-wheeler last Sunday. Both ...
16 November 2025 The StatesmanFormer Lok Sabha MP and Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Saturday forwarded a letter to Union minister of home affairs Amit Shah, urging for an ordinance for protecting the citizenship rights of people from the Matua community.Matuas are ...
16 November 2025 The StatesmanOn the birth anniversary of Birsa Munda as India celebrated Birsa Munda Jayanti, both Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Trinamul Congress national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee paid respects to the iconic tribal leader.Mamata Banerjee wrote in Bengali on her ...
16 November 2025 The StatesmanBuoyed by the Bihar Assembly election results, BJP leaders in north Bengal are increasingly confident that they can wrest power in West Bengal in 2026—provided the Election Commission of India carries out a thorough Special Intensive Revision (SIR) to ...
15 November 2025 The StatesmanThe Election Commission of India’s (ECI) extended deadline for distributing enumeration forms under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) ends on Saturday, with around 70 lakh forms still left to be delivered across West Bengal.Officials in the office of the ...
15 November 2025 The StatesmanSix bighas of ‘vacant’ land in the heart of Burdwan town can be the target of any real estate shark, even if the land happens to be a burial ground. The machinations of one such developers’ company resulted in ...
15 November 2025 The StatesmanWith the BJP and Nitish Kumar alliance securing victory in Bihar as early trends indicated a favourable mandate, Union minister Giriraj Singh on Friday turned his political gaze eastwards.Barely hours after the numbers began tilting towards the NDA, Mr ...
15 November 2025 The StatesmanWith a quarter of the 21st Century almost over, diabetes remains a major global health concern among both young and old. The complexities from this non-communicable disease tear into the fabric of society, with problems ranging from costs of ...
15 November 2025 The Statesman