The West Bengal government will pay the pending Dearness Allowance (DA) arrears to serving employees, pensioners and family pensioners in a single instalment instead of the two tranches announced earlier, an official said on Saturday.The decision follows a Supreme ...
29 March 2026 TelegraphA fire broke out at a corner of a dais just after the completion of an election rally by senior TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee in West Bengal's Birbhum district on Saturday, officials said.Banerjee and other leaders had come down ...
29 March 2026 TelegraphTrinamool Lok Sabha MPs Mahua Moitra and Kirti Azad and Bengal minister Bratya Basu are set to present a charge sheet against Union home minister Amit Shah at the Trinamool Bhawan. Watch the event live:Dubbing Shah as “India’s ...
29 March 2026 TelegraphUnion home minister Amit Shah is set to release a BJP document outlining allegations against the ruling Trinamool Congress in poll-bound Bengal.Watch the event live:The ‘Abhiyognama’, or ‘charge sheet’, compiles alleged instances of corruption and misgovernance during the 15-year ...
29 March 2026 TelegraphTrinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee on Saturday asserted that the BJP will lose power in the country in its attempt to destroy West Bengal.While addressing a poll rally in Raniganj, she said she would usher in a new era ...
29 March 2026 TelegraphA primary school teacher on election duty was assaulted allegedly by people present during a polling personnel training session in Nadia’s Ranaghat on Friday after he objected to the screening of a state government advertisement featuring Chief Minister Mamata ...
29 March 2026 TelegraphThe BJP has intensified its election campaign in Kumargram, an Assembly seat in the Alipurduar district that shares borders with BJP-ruled Assam, by highlighting what it describes as significant improvements in law and order and overall development in the ...
29 March 2026 TelegraphThe two main Opposition parties in Sikkim — the Sikkim Democratic Front (SDF) and the Citizen Action Party (CAP) — will boycott the municipal elections scheduled for April 24, alleging an undemocratic environment created by the ruling Sikkim Krantikara ...
29 March 2026 TelegraphUnion home minister Amit Shah reached Kolkata early Saturday after his flight was delayed by nearly two hours due to a thunderstorm that hit the city around midnight.According to airport sources, the special aircraft carrying him from Delhi was ...
29 March 2026 TelegraphA thunderstorm struck Calcutta and neighbouring districts around midnight on Friday, the second in less than two days.The rain was minimal, but the howling winds and frequent streaks of lightning persisted for some time. The gusts were strong enough ...
29 March 2026 TelegraphSeparate teams from the Enforcement Directorate (ED) conducted raids across multiple locations in Calcutta and the districts on Saturday as part of their investigation into a purported scam involving land acquisition for projects and the deceiving of investors through ...
29 March 2026 TelegraphPolling stations will be set up inside seven housing complexes in New Town and Bidhannagar, sources in the Election Commission (EC) said. All seven will have polling stations on their premises for the first time.One of the housing complexes ...
29 March 2026 TelegraphThe squall season has arrived, as have the elections.Around midnight on Friday, a thunderstorm struck Calcutta and neighbouring districts, disrupting flights and delaying the aircraft carrying Union home minister Amit Shah by nearly an hour.“The plane from New Delhi ...
29 March 2026 TelegraphSaifuddin Ahmad Khan, 55, is worried whether his wife, Naima Aktari, 48, will be able to vote in the upcoming elections, as her name does not appear in the two supplementary lists released so far.Tanya Parveen, 31, said her ...
29 March 2026 TelegraphThe Election Commission has directed officers-in-charge of police stations across the state to monitor and ensure the security of candidates, political rallies, roadshows and corner meetings to “maintain the sanctity of the electoral process”.In a notification issued late on ...
29 March 2026 TelegraphThe Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) has released a training itinerary for teachers for the new academic session beginning in April to help them adapt to changing classroom interactions and assessments.The teachers have to be enabled ...
29 March 2026 TelegraphA Hindi High School alumnus who grew up in Thakurpukur and still calls Calcutta his home was sworn in as the High Sheriff of the County Palatine of Durham on Friday.Arnab Basu, 53, is the first person of Indian ...
29 March 2026 TelegraphTrain services along the main route that connects the Northeast with the rest of the country were disrupted for over an hour on early Friday morning after a man, later found to be mentally unstable, climbed a high-tension electric ...
28 March 2026 TelegraphAt least five people, including a homemaker, were injured in a leopard attack in Chiknamati under Jalpaiguri’s Kranti block on Friday, around 60km from district headquarters, triggering widespread panic.Local sources said that the leopard strayed into the residential area ...
28 March 2026 TelegraphGautam Deb, the Trinamool Congress candidate from the Siliguri Assembly seat and the city’s mayor, drew significant attention by joining Ram Navami festivities on Friday.The senior Trinamool leader visited platforms set up by the Bangiya Hindu Mahamancha and Ram ...
28 March 2026 TelegraphSuspected BJP and Sangh Parivar activists allegedly turned violent on Friday during a Ram Navami rally in a locality of Raghunathganj in Murshidabad’s Jangipur, ransacking around 40 shops and setting several of them on fire on Friday afternoon, triggering ...
28 March 2026 TelegraphA single bench of Calcutta High Court’s circuit bench in Jalpaiguri on Friday instructed the railways to decide by Monday on the termination of Swapna Barman, the Arjuna awardee and Asian Games gold winner heptathlete, who was declared as ...
28 March 2026 TelegraphUnion home minister Amit Shah is slated to release a detailed “chargesheet” against the Mamata Banerjee government on Saturday in a bid to intensify anti-incumbency sentiments in Bengal ahead of the Assembly polls.BJP sources said that the move, unprecedented ...
28 March 2026 TelegraphMamata Banerjee on Friday jeered at the Centre’s reduction of excise duty on petrol and diesel by ₹10 per litre each, and said Bengal couldn't be expected to spare LPG for "10 lakh personnel" who would reach the state ...
28 March 2026 TelegraphThe number of women voters in Bengal has fallen to its lowest in a decade following the SIR, data provided by the Centre in the Lok Sabha on Friday revealed.While this is likely to change after the under-adjudication cases ...
28 March 2026 TelegraphPolice on Friday arrested another man in connection with the murder of Rahul Dey, who was shot dead at his friend’s place at Ganguly Bagan, a residential neighbourhood near Garia, on Thursday morning.Earlier, the police had arrested four others ...
28 March 2026 TelegraphThe Election Commission on Friday suspended Avijit Paul, the inspector in charge of Basanti police station in South 24-Parganas, within 24 hours of reported violence on Thursday.Prabir Ghosh, an inspector with the state’s enforcement branch, was posted as the ...
28 March 2026 TelegraphCBSE schools said only a few among their Class X students had so far expressed willingness to appear for a second board exam to improve their performance.At South Point, it is 70 out of 800; at Mahadevi Birla World ...
28 March 2026 TelegraphThe northernmost US state, known for its vast and stunning wilderness, is wooing tourists from Calcutta. The Alaska Travel Association, in collaboration with the US Consulate Calcutta, hosted a roadshow last week. A similar show was held in Mumbai ...
28 March 2026 TelegraphSome have increased prices, others are planning to and many have switched to diesel ovens — sweet shops in the city continue to grapple with the LPG supply shortage.Commercial LPG is being sold at steep rates on the black ...
28 March 2026 TelegraphThe Election Commission on Friday announced that at least six housing complexes in the city will host polling stations on their premises for the upcoming elections.Four of the six complexes are in north Calcutta, while two are in the ...
28 March 2026 TelegraphA university teacher whose voting right is under adjudication dared Gyanesh Kumar, the chief election commissioner of India, to visit his family graveyard in Habra, North 24-Parganas. “Five generations of my family are buried there. Exhume and take a ...
28 March 2026 TelegraphThe Election Commission has yet to open the online window for appeals by voters whose names were struck off the electoral roll after adjudication.The EC published the first supplementary list on Monday night, with names of cleared and deleted ...
28 March 2026 TelegraphA state government official whose father’s surname was changed into a Bengali expletive after translation from Nepali, and a leather goods worker whose name was wrongly recorded on his voter card, now face electoral uncertainty.Their names were “under adjudication” ...
28 March 2026 TelegraphThe Election Commission on Friday night published the second supplementary list of around 12 lakh under-adjudication cases, which were disposed of.The list published around 11.35pm has been divided into two categories. The first is of those who are approved ...
28 March 2026 TelegraphThe fate of approximately 37 lakh of the 60 lakh names marked as under adjudication in Bengal had been decided till late Friday night though the identity of a majority of them remains undisclosed.The second supplementary list would be ...
28 March 2026 TelegraphIn a first this election season in West Bengal, the Election Commission on Friday ordered the immediate suspension of Basanti Police Station Inspector-in-Charge Avijit Paul for allegedly failing to tackle BJP-TMC clashes on March 26, according to a notice ...
28 March 2026 TelegraphEleven Trinamool nominees are still unsure whether their names are still in the electoral rolls for the Bengal Assembly polls.Nine out of these nominees are from the minority community.State industries minister Shashi Panja, state environment minister Md Ghulam Rabbani, ...
28 March 2026 TelegraphWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday reiterated her demand that cooking gas produced in the state should not be diverted elsewhere in the country, citing concerns over a perceived LPG shortage amidst the ongoing West Asia conflict.Responding ...
28 March 2026 TelegraphTwo nights, one day. This is not the duration of a holiday at an exotic locale, but the time some auto drivers spent waiting outside the City Centre petrol pump for LPG this week.Till last week, the LPG shortage ...
28 March 2026 TelegraphThe BJP was gripped by dissent in Cooch Behar and Jalpaiguri districts ahead of the Assembly elections, with sections of party workers protesting against the choice of candidates in the Cooch Behar South and the Rajganj constituencies. Within 24 ...
28 March 2026 TelegraphDarjeeling: A tribute to 50 years of Sikkim’s statehood will be etched across 50 mountain passes.The Himalayan Mountaineering Institute (HMI) based in Darjeeling has set out to traverse 50 Himalayan passes, each climb a marker of the state’s golden ...
28 March 2026 TelegraphResidents of Agra, a village within the Hili police station limits near the India-Bangladesh border in South Dinajpur district, have accused Border Security Force (BSF) personnel of damaging their betel leaf plantations. “We have been cultivating ...
28 March 2026 TelegraphThe CPM on Thursday said it formed teams of lawyers and Red Volunteers to help genuine voters whose names have been struck off poll rolls.The Election Commission has set up 19 tribunals across Bengal to deal with appeals of ...
28 March 2026 TelegraphThe Election Commission has requested Calcutta High Court to allow it to publish day-to-day supplementary lists so that the under-adjudication voters whose names get deleted have more time to appeal before the tribunals.“We have been told that a decision ...
28 March 2026 TelegraphGautam Deb, who is contesting on the Trinamool Congress ticket from the Siliguri Assembly seat, has outlined a five-point development agenda for the upcoming elections and promised a new district with headquarters in Siliguri.While interacting with residents at Pranami ...
28 March 2026 TelegraphThe Trinamool Congress leadership in Dinhata, Cooch Behar district, has accused Ajay Roy, the BJP candidate from the seat, and his security personnel of threatening a Trinamool worker at gunpoint on Thursday.Trinamool filed a complaint with Dinhata police, which ...
28 March 2026 TelegraphThe Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) has criticised the Narendra Modi government at the Centre, accusing it of ignorance regarding the current administrative situation in the Darjeeling hills.The hill body's reaction comes after a recent statement by Nityanand Rai, the ...
28 March 2026 TelegraphMohammad Zakir Hossain Biswas spent hours pacing outside the tribunal at the district collectorate here for two days, but couldn’t find anyone to submit an application challenging the non-enrolment of his name on the supplementary list published by the ...
28 March 2026 TelegraphTrinamool Congress leader Abhishek Banerjee on Thursday said politics should be ideally pursued on karma (work), whereas the BJP mixed politics with dharma (religion). The Trinamool national general secretary addressed a public meeting ...
28 March 2026 TelegraphSuvendu Adhikari on Thursday urged the mother of the RG Kar rape-and-murder victim to take part in the BJP’s campaign in Bhabanipur against Mamata Banerjee at least once. “If you have any time after campaigning in Panihati, I request ...
28 March 2026 TelegraphMamata Banerjee on Thursday set a five-to-six-month expiry date for the Narendra Modi government at the Centre, predicting its premature collapse this monsoon. The chief minister and Trinamool Congress chief also issued an ultimatum to those she deemed the ...
28 March 2026 TelegraphWorld peace, prosperity and a new LPG cylinder — these seemed to be the top prayers of devotees gathered for Eid ul Fitr namaz in the twin townships this year.“This will be the first time that biryani will be ...
28 March 2026 TelegraphLarge sections of Bangur Avenue are in the throes of a dusty and noisy change. In every lane of the neighbourhood off VIP Road, there is a minimum of three or four houses that have been torn down to ...
28 March 2026 TelegraphKendriya Vidyalaya 1 celebrated its annual day at Bharatiyam in EZCC with a variety of programmes.The show commenced with the lighting of the ceremonial lamp by assistant commissioners of the Kendriya Vidyalaya regional office Dibakar Bhoi and Chintapalli Vijaya ...
28 March 2026 TelegraphWe started with paperless currency. Now that we have smartphones, we are back to being paperless, with digital currency,” remarked Rajendra Yadav, superintending archaeologist, Calcutta circle, of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI). He was addressing members of the ...
28 March 2026 TelegraphElderly residents staying alone in Ward 39 were promised help to clean their backyards if they were unable to maintain it on their own. Ahead of monsoon, the season for vector-borne diseases, local councillor and mayor-in-council member Rajesh Chirimar ...
28 March 2026 TelegraphA 30-year-old man was killed with a bullet in the head while partying on a friend’s terrace early on Thursday morning in a residential neighbourhood near Garia.A bullet grazed the host’s head.The police said the victims and the attackers ...
28 March 2026 TelegraphThe two-day sports meet at DPS Megacity saw multiple activities and plenty of fun on the field.The event had several special guests, including former footballer Mehrajuddin Wadoo. “Parents should realise that sports are important. It doesn’t matter which field ...
28 March 2026 TelegraphThe Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur on Thursday tied up with Charnock Hospital for fostering innovation, research, and technological advancement in the healthcare sector. An MoU, marking the tie-up, was signed in the presence of Suman Chakraborty, IIT Kharagpur ...
28 March 2026 TelegraphIIT Kharagpur has decided to file an application with the National Medical Council (NMC) by March 31 to introduce a postgraduate MD (Doctor of Medicine) programme, said the institute’s director on Thursday.It would be the first IIT to offer ...
28 March 2026 TelegraphMembers of the Jadavpur University unit of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), the student wing of the RSS, performed a puja on the campus to mark Ram Navami.The students wore saffron headbands and performed the puja at the ...
28 March 2026 TelegraphA goods vehicle carrying cigarette lighters that was parked in a lot outside the FCI godown on Hyde Road caught fire on Thursday evening.The fire spread to several vehicles parked nearby and caused multiple explosions in the port area.Fourteen ...
28 March 2026 TelegraphLong working hours and rising costs are weighing on the city’s bakeries and confectioneries as Easter approaches, amid an LPG shortage.This is one of the busiest periods for bakeries, big or small, as they prepare traditional Easter treats — ...
28 March 2026 TelegraphHumse hi tum ho, yeh itihas kahega / Baap to baap rahega (You were born from us, history has it / Once a father, always a father) Calcutta: Songs like this played at full ...
28 March 2026 TelegraphA strong spell of rain, winds and a brief hailstorm struck Dum Dum and its neighbouring areas on Thursday afternoon, disrupting flight operations and forcing the aircraft carrying chief minister Mamata Banerjee to hover for more than an hour ...
28 March 2026 TelegraphOfficers-in-charge of police stations have been instructed to identify and prosecute those responsible for election-related trouble in 2021 and 2024 within their jurisdictions at the earliest.At a meeting on Wednesday with OCs of police stations across the city, senior ...
28 March 2026 TelegraphSenior BJP leader Dilip Ghosh on Thursday claimed that if his party comes to power in poll-bound West Bengal, police would undergo a complete transformation and start conducting "Uttar Pradesh-style encounters" against criminals.Addressing an election campaign in his old ...
26 March 2026 TelegraphState industries minister Shashi Panja, seeking re-election from north Calcutta's Shyampukur, was marked under adjudication when the final draft rolls were published on February 28.Since midnight of March 24, (Monday) the minister and Trinamool nominee has not been able ...
26 March 2026 TelegraphWest Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee's plane landed in Kolkata airport at 5:20 p.m. after remaining in the air over one hour on Thursday.Her plane could not land at Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport due to heavy rain ...
26 March 2026 TelegraphClashes broke out between Trinamool and BJP workers during a door-to-door campaign by the saffron party’s nominee in South 24-Parganas’ Basanti on Thursday.At around 1 pm, BJP nominee Bikash Sardar alleged that a group of Trinamool supporters blocked their ...
26 March 2026 TelegraphIndian elections have always had a flair for the theatre. And in Bengal, where politics is much more entwined with daily life than most other if not all places in India, that drama can throw up spectacles to behold. ...
26 March 2026 TelegraphThe impending Bengal Assembly polls marks a return of the Bengali bhadrolok in the state’s politics.A section of the nominees from both the ruling Trinamool and the main opposition, the BJP, are presentable, articulate and possess the ability to ...
26 March 2026 TelegraphThe Election Commission on Wednesday transferred East Midnapore district magistrate, who is also the district election officer (DEO), Unice Rishin Ismail, and posted Niranjan Kumar, a 2007-batch IAS officer, in his place after the EC found some contractual employees’ ...
26 March 2026 TelegraphNearly 200 tourists were stranded at Chungthang in north Sikkim after multiple landslides, triggered by heavy rainfall, disrupted road connectivity, officials said on Wednesday morning.Mangan district collector Anant Jain said the landslides occurred along the crucial Chungthang-Lachen route on ...
26 March 2026 TelegraphA team from the Chanchal police station in Malda acted on a tip-off and arrested five persons with firearms at Nalkhutiya late on Tuesday. Those arrested were Sukdev Saha, Amit Kumar Saha, Ganesh Mahaldar, Md Rejaul and Md Amad, ...
26 March 2026 TelegraphA political confrontation has erupted between the Trinamool Congress and the BJP over the funding and execution of a road project at a village in the Balurghat block of South Dinajpur district. The BJP said the funds to repair ...
26 March 2026 TelegraphA Trinamool Congress leader suffered a bullet injury at Gangarampur in South Dinajpur district on Tuesday night when another leader of the party opened fire after waylaying the former's car near the local police station. Shiba Chowdhury, 39, is ...
26 March 2026 TelegraphThe police commissioners and the superintendents of police across Bengal were made to take multiple choice question examination on Wednesday by the Election Commission of India to test their poll preparedness. The exam was conducted by the India International ...
26 March 2026 TelegraphThe Centre has stated that it appointed an interlocutor for Darjeeling, the Terai and the Dooars, because of poor representation by the Bengal government during tripartite meetings.Pankaj Kumar Singh, a former deputy national security adviser, was appointed as the ...
26 March 2026 TelegraphA Trinamool Congress (TMC) worker was shot dead and another youth critically injured in a late-night firing incident in Baghajatin, triggering panic ahead of the upcoming West Bengal Assembly elections.The deceased has been identified as Rahul Dey (around 35), ...
26 March 2026 TelegraphEven before the Congress announced its candidates for the Assembly elections in Bengal, senior party leader and former state Congress president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury began projecting himself as the party’s nominee from the Baharampur Assembly seat with his supporters ...
26 March 2026 TelegraphAll India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) president Asaduddin Owaisi on Wednesday announced a new alliance with suspended Trinamool Congress MLA Humayun Kabir’s newly formed party to contest the Assembly elections, posing a substantial and unprecedented threat to Mamata Banerjee’s Muslim ...
26 March 2026 TelegraphA new controversy has erupted in Malda over the appointment of a police observer by the Election Commission, triggering a war of words between the Trinamool Congress and the BJP.On Tuesday, Trinamool leaders, including MP Partha Bhowmik and state ...
26 March 2026 TelegraphWest Bengal has stepped up security measures ahead of Ram Navami celebrations, deploying around 3,000 police personnel across the state and imposing strict restrictions on processions to maintain law and order, a senior officer said.Carrying of weapons has been ...
26 March 2026 TelegraphThe Malda Zilla Kisan Jati Seva Samiti, an influential community-based platform, formally announced its support for the BJP on Wednesday ahead of the Assembly polls.Leaders of the organisation, led by secretary Ashish Mandal, made the announcement at the BJP ...
26 March 2026 TelegraphA thunderstorm disrupted flight operations at Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport for nearly an hour on Thursday, forcing a diversion and delaying several flights.The disruption lasted from 4.22 pm to 5.19 pm as rain, gusty winds and lightning ...
26 March 2026 TelegraphKolkata Knight Riders enter the 2026 IPL with high hopes after splurging a record Rs 25.2 crore on Australian all-rounder Cameron Green, but behind the ambition, tactical challenges at Eden Gardens cast a shadow over their campaign.KKR face a ...
26 March 2026 TelegraphThe process to resume operations from the old emergency ward of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital has been initiated, said the hospital's medical superintendent on Wednesday. The old emergency ward was shut down after it was ransacked on ...
26 March 2026 TelegraphAt RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, several basic services for patients are either missing or in disrepair.The washrooms are not just locked; those that remain open are dirty and barely usable. Stretchers are often unavailable, and even when ...
26 March 2026 TelegraphThe woman who ran a beauty parlour near Garia and was killed by a man inside it on Tuesday died because of “excessive bleeding from razor attacks”, her post-mortem report has suggested. Rupbani Das, in her 40s, was attacked ...
26 March 2026 TelegraphThe school service commission (SSC) has filed a petition in the high court, alleging that it is facing difficulties in conducting counselling, document verification and interviews for the teacher recruitment process as the Election Commission (EC) has engaged 26 ...
26 March 2026 TelegraphSerious concerns about electoral transparency have emerged in parts of Bengal following large-scale deletions of names from voter lists, triggering protests in North 24-Parganas and Malda districts.At Gobra village in the Basirhat North Assembly constituency, the residents staged a ...
26 March 2026 TelegraphThe BJP on Wednesday evening announced that the mother of the junior doctor, who was raped and murdered at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in August 2024, would be its candidate from Panihati, North 24-Parganas.The announcement came ...
26 March 2026 TelegraphThe Election Commission (EC) could publish the outcome of 10 lakh out of the 29 lakh “under adjudication” cases in Bengal in the first supplementary list that deleted around 41 per cent of the voters for lack of documents, ...
26 March 2026 TelegraphThe Trinamool Congress tore into the Election Commission of India on Wednesday over the appointment of Surajit Roy as the returning officer (RO) for the Bhabanipur Assembly constituency, where chief minister Mamata Banerjee is set to defend her seat ...
26 March 2026 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday kicked off her election campaign in north Bengal with three public meetings where she highlighted the “deletion” of a large number of names from the electoral roll and accused the BJP of trying ...
26 March 2026 TelegraphThe Election Commission of India (ECI) on Wednesday ordered immediate transfer of the District Election Officer (DEO) and District Magistrate of Purba Medinipur following complaints of irregularities in poll duty deployment ahead of the West Bengal assembly elections.In an ...
26 March 2026 TelegraphThe BJP has given a ticket to the mother of the RG Kar victim from Panihati constituency as it announced the names of candidates for 19 more constituencies in West Bengal on Wednesday for the state Assembly polls 2026.After ...
26 March 2026 TelegraphThe Election Commission on Wednesday told the Calcutta High Court that it is within its powers to transfer and post officers for the conduct of free and fair elections.Making submissions before a division bench presided by Chief Justice Sujoy ...
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