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  • Off-shops shut after stocks empty out

    Kolkata: Thousands across Kolkata rushed to liquor shops on Saturday, forming long queues as they tried to buy alcohol before the 6 pm election shutdown.Anxiety and urgency marked the city's liquor outlets as long queues formed outside off-shops, with ...

    26 April 2026 Times of India
    Train ops resume after slum fire

    Kolkata: A fire broke out in the Sholo Bigha slum near Eastern Railway's Santoshpur station on Saturday at 1.48 pm. Around 50-60 shanties near the railway station were gutted in the blaze. No one was injured. . Traffic came ...

    26 April 2026 Times of India
    CM bats for JU after PM’s ‘anti-national slogan’ barb

    Kolkata: Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Friday censure for Jadavpur University, about "anti-national slogans being written on the walls" and "students seen protesting on the streets instead of studying", prompted chief minister Mamata Banerjee to shoot off an open letter, ...

    26 April 2026 Times of India
    Humayun’s party candidate joins Trinamool

    Howrah: Before the second phase of voting, Sk Habib, a teacher and candidate from Humayun Kabir's ‘Aam Janata Unnayan Party' in Uluberia South, joined the Trinamool Congress.Sheikh Habib said, "I joined Humayun's party thinking he genuinely wanted to do ...

    26 April 2026 Times of India
    Service sector, driven by SIR, leaves city to fend for itself

    Kolkata: From caregivers, drivers to domestic helps or maids, the service sector, spooked by SIR of electoral roll, has left many city households in the lurch as they are heading to their villages or towns in different districts to ...

    26 April 2026 Times of India
    Don’t involve us in vote fight, JU tells PM

    Kolkata: Jadavpur University students, teachers and alumni said that the university should not be dragged into electoral politics following Prime Minister Narendra Modi's speech on Friday associating "anarchy" with JU and its students."The entire nation used to take the ...

    26 April 2026 Times of India
    Identity politics in Vijay-vs-Vijay poll fight

    Kolkata: Identity politics is re-scripting the Vijay-versus-Vijay fight in Jorasanko this time, a coincidence that brings to mind the many roles played by Amitabh Bachchan in his movies in the 1970s and 1980s.But beyond the shared name, this is ...

    26 April 2026 Times of India
    In Tollygunge, minister spans Nullah divide

    Kolkata: In Tollygunge, the electoral battle this time is being fought as much across party lines as across a canal.The Tolly Nullah, cutting through the constituency, has emerged as a political metaphor, with opposition parties alleging that development under ...

    26 April 2026 Times of India
    ‘Verbal order’ asks KP officers to stay at police stns till polls

    Kolkata: Kolkata Police has verbally advised all officers — from sub-inspectors and above posted at police stations, and preferably assistant sub-inspectors — to remain stationed at their respective police stations, including at night, until the end of the polls ...

    25 April 2026 Times of India
    EC suspends five Diamond Harbour cops for alleged misconduct during Bengal assembly elections

    KOLKATA: The Election Commission on Friday ordered the immediate suspension of five police officers in Diamond Harbour Police District for alleged misconduct and failure to maintain neutrality in course of the Bengal assembly elections.The suspended officers are Sandip Garai, ...

    25 April 2026 Times of India
    Confident of more seats, higher win margins, says Shah

    Kolkata: A day after Bengal registered record polling in the first phase of the assembly elections, Union home minister Amit Shah claimed that the BJP would win more than 110 of the 152 seats that went to poll on ...

    25 April 2026 Times of India
    ED conducts raids in Kolkata, Burdwan, Habra in 'PDS scam'-linked money laundering case

    KOLKATA: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Saturday carried out searches at multiple locations in poll-bound West Bengal as part of its money laundering probe into an alleged Public Distribution System (PDS) scam, officials said.Searches were underway at around nine ...

    25 April 2026 Times of India
    Rahul, Kejriwal to campaign in Bengal today

    Kolkata: Congress MP and LoP in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi is set to campaign in Bengal on Saturday, while former Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal will campaign for Trinammol candidates. Bihar deputy CM Tejashwi Yadav, who is already in Bengal, ...

    25 April 2026 Times of India
    Himadri commissions anode material facility in Bengal

    Kolkata: Himadri Speciality Chemical has commissioned its first anode material production facility at Mahistikry in Bengal, marking the company's entry into the lithium-ion battery value chain.CMD Anurag Chowdhary said the facility was developed through over a decade of in-house ...

    25 April 2026 Times of India
    Protest near Academy against Srijato warrant

    Kolkata: Kolkata's cultural fraternity assembled on Friday evening in front of the Academy of Fine Arts to protest the arrest warrant issued against poet Srijato Bandyopadhyay following a complaint lodged by a Nadia-based lawyer. This meet was organised by ...

    25 April 2026 Times of India
    Thousands queue up at off-shops after 4-day ban, Sat supply a worry

    Kolkata: The intense heat notwithstanding, thousands of people across the city queued up outside liquor outlets right from Friday morning as off-shops reopened after a four-day shutdown.By 8.30 am, 40-50 people could be seen standing outside multiple stores, waiting ...

    25 April 2026 Times of India
    Bars swing back to life, stare at gloomy weekend

    Kolkata: Bars across Kolkata saw a rush of tipplers on Friday, desperate for a swig after a four-day dry period since April 20, imposed due to the elections. Sales surged threefold at many restaurants even as another dry period ...

    25 April 2026 Times of India
    Bengal polls: Phase-1 turnout is victory of trust over fear, says PM Narendra Modi

    KOLKATA: The record turnout in the first phase of Bengal polls has "sounded the bugle" for the end of Trinamool's "maha jungle raj", PM Narendra Modi said on Friday, linking people's participation as an endorsement of BJP's slogan of ...

    25 April 2026 Times of India
    Modi visits Bengal’s ‘soul’, chats up boatmen, walkers

    Kolkata: PM Narendra Modi took a short break from his hectic Bengal schedule on Friday to enjoy an early morning boat ride on the Ganges, which he said "flows right through the soul of Bengal".The PM, who had spent ...

    25 April 2026 Times of India
    Mood on the menu with lights, music and vibes: Anatomy of a memorable meal in Kolkata

    Walk into any well-designed restaurant and something shifts – almost immediately and imperceptibly. The light is just right. The music sits at exactly the right volume. The fork feels satisfying in your hand. But, none of this is coincidence. ...

    25 April 2026 Times of India
    Forget Bengal, we will dethrone BJP from Delhi: CM Mamata Banerjee after phase-1 turnout

    KOLKATA: Claiming the high phase-one turnout as a decisive mandate against both BJP and SIR, CM Mamata Banerjee on Friday predicted that the party would not win even half the 77 seats it held after 2021 — and warned ...

    25 April 2026 Times of India
    TMC past century in ph-1, slams Shah over ‘voter threats’

    Kolkata: Abhishek Banerjee on Friday claimed that Trinamool has already secured more than 100 seats in the first phase of assembly elections held on Thursday, while accusing Union home minister Amit Shah of "threatening voters".Addressing a rally in Jagatballavpur ...

    25 April 2026 Times of India
    24 lakh more voted in 1st phase of polls despite 18 lakh drop in electorate count after SIR

    Kolkata: The Election Commission's revised polling data released on Friday shows that Bengal's first-phase poll turnout, besides breaking all records in percentage terms, has also increased in absolute terms over the 2021 figure despite the SIR process shrinking the ...

    25 April 2026 Times of India
    Our Ganga clean, can he take a dip in Yamuna: Didi

    Kolkata: "Our Ganga is clean. That is why the PM could enjoy the boat ride. Can he do the same in (Delhi's) Yamuna?" CM Mamata Banerjee said on Friday, referring to PM Narendra Modi's early morning boat ride on ...

    25 April 2026 Times of India
    CU allows minor UG tests at home centres

    Kolkata: Calcutta University will allow UG students to write minor papers at their respective home centres instead of travelling to other colleges like earlier. The university's Controller of Examinations issued a notice on Friday and sent it to college ...

    25 April 2026 Times of India
    12 docs get 10L extortion letters with death threat

    Kolkata: About a dozen doctors, several of them employed with top private hospitals of the city, have received typed extortion letters in the past few days seeking an amount of Rs 10 lakh from each. Two of the doctors ...

    25 April 2026 Times of India
    Demand for better civic infra unites two Salt Lakes ahead of Apr 29 polls

    Kolkata: Bidhannagar is one of Kolkata's most socially layered assembly constituencies, where close to 2 lakh voters are spread across the planned affluence of Salt Lake and the dense settlements of Duttabad, Nayapatti and Mahisbathan. The contrast is sharp ...

    25 April 2026 Times of India
    Sharp voter deletion may turn X factor in fight for Shyampukur

    Kolkata: In north Kolkata's tightly packed political theatre, which saw one of the fiercest Trinamool-BJP pre-poll clashes, Sashi Panja is fighting an election that is as much about arithmetic as it is about narrative.One of the top confidantes of ...

    25 April 2026 Times of India
    Sealdah’s Sajal flags flooding & water crisis concerns to unsettle Trinamool in Baranagar

    Kolkata: Baranagar has emerged as one of the most closely watched contests, with Trinamool candidate Sayantika Banerjee and BJP nominee Sajal Ghosh fighting a prestige battle in a constituency that went to a byelection just a couple of years ...

    25 April 2026 Times of India
    Sealdah’s Sajal flags flooding & water crisis concerns to unsettle Trinamool in Baranagar

    Kolkata: Baranagar has emerged as one of the most closely watched contests, with Trinamool candidate Sayantika Banerjee and BJP nominee Sajal Ghosh fighting a prestige battle in a constituency that went to a byelection just a couple of years ...

    25 April 2026 Times of India
    Kol suffers another scorcher but Met spies rain relief on Sunday

    Kolkata: The city endured another scorcher on Friday when the maximum temperature touched 36°C. However, the Met office has predicted relief in two days. An upper air circulation over east Uttar Pradesh could finally break the warm spell and ...

    25 April 2026 Times of India
    Theatre personality, veteran actor Biplab Dasgupta passes away at 75

    Kolkata: Veteran actor Biplab Dasgupta passed away at his residence in Kolkata on Friday at the age of 75. Dasgupta leaves behind a legacy spanning memorable stage performances, serials, telefilms, cinema and audio plays. He had been suffering from ...

    25 April 2026 Times of India
    50 Trinamool candidates, poll agents, councillors seek court stay, pre-arrest bail

    Kolkata: A number of Trinamool candidates, their election agents and even KMC councillors are now rushing to court to either obtain stays on or secure anticipatory bail in criminal cases, in which they have been named in FIRs. A ...

    25 April 2026 Times of India
    Voters know it’s a battle to save their rights: CM

    Kolkata: The overwhelming turnout was because people knew this was their battle to save their rights after the large-scale deletion of voters in the SIR exercise, said chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday, shortly after the first phase of ...

    25 April 2026 Times of India
    4 voters die amid Met’s orange alert for heatwave in districts during West Bengal elections

    KOLKATA: At least four voters in West Midnapore, Malda and Birbhum died—two after returning from poll booths, one inside a booth and one on the way to the polling station —even as a scorcher of a sun beat down ...

    25 April 2026 Times of India
    In city seat with max SIR deletions, welfare schemes, change slogans take a backseat

    Kolkata: The city's heart has beaten for the Trinamool, but in a desperate attempt to add some drama to an uneven contest, BJP fielded Santosh Pathak, an immensely popular Congress councillor from ward 45, in the Chowringhee assembly constituency. ...

    25 April 2026 Times of India
    Spooked by SIR, 2nd phase may also see heavy turnout

    Kolkata: No one is predicting whether the second phase of polling in Bengal next Wednesday will beat Thursday's unprecedented turnout of 92.9% (revised on Friday). But everyone, including politicians and voters themselves, is sure of one thing: the second ...

    25 April 2026 Times of India
    Cal HC cuts EC’s 48-hour ban on bike movement to 12 hours

    Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Friday scrapped EC's 48-hour bike ban order for the April 29 phase-2 poll and said pillion riding will not be allowed on two-wheelers for 12 hours on poll day, unless it is for ...

    25 April 2026 Times of India
    EC suspends Hingalganj OC

    Kolkata: The EC has suspended Hingalganj PS officer-in-charge Sandeep Sarkar over allegations of partisanship and failure to ensure a level playing field during the ongoing assembly election. It has also directed that disciplinary proceedings be initiated against him.According to ...

    25 April 2026 Times of India
    Sujit gets HC breather

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    Kolkata: At least four voters in West Midnapore, Malda and Birbhum died—two after returning from poll booths, one inside a booth and one on the way to the polling station —even as a scorcher of a sun beat down ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    23 April 2026 Times of India
    Tangra clash over parking dispute

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    22 April 2026 Times of India
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