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  • First day, no show: Rs 130cr loss & counting for liquor, hospitality biz in West Bengal

    KOLKATA: The first day of the prolonged pre-election curb on sale of liquor translated into a Rs 125-130 crore loss for Bengal's liquor and hospitality business on Monday, said industry insiders, who fear the figure might be higher for ...

    22 April 2026 Times of India
    Man trapped between 2 buses, injured

    Kolkata: A 68-year-old pedestrian, Kailashwar Kabiraj, was severely injured and was stated to be critical after he was trapped between two private buses reportedly racing each other on Mahatma Gandhi Road in Burrabazar on around 10 am on Tuesday.The ...

    22 April 2026 Times of India
    Shah tries to assuage deletion fear in Gorkhas

    Kolkata/Sukna/Salboni/Kulti: In an attempt to assuage fear of the Gorkha community amid SIR and merely two days before Darjeeling goes to polls, Union home minister Amit Shah on Tuesday said BJP will add all deleted names to voter list ...

    22 April 2026 Times of India
    TMC: Shah taunt smacks of Modi’s ‘Didi, o Didi’ jibe

    Kolkata: Union home minister Amit Shah on Monday addressed CM Mamata Banerjee with an "Ei Didi" call, prompting Trinamool, which found it oddly reminiscent of PM Narendra Modi's 2021 "Didi, o Didi" taunt, to react sharply.Modi's call during a ...

    22 April 2026 Times of India
    ‘Work independently,’ Mamata urges officers deputed by EC

    Kolkata: Alleging bias by the Election Commission and officers deputed by it, CM Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said "if you are an IPS or IAS, you must work independently". "Do politics directly," she said, referring to officers she claimed ...

    22 April 2026 Times of India
    Civic volunteers must report to police lines: EC

    Kolkata: The EC has asked SPs and police commissioners to send civic volunteers and green police personnel to reserve police lines three days prior to the polls. "They shall perform non-election duties while deployed in the reserve police line," ...

    22 April 2026 Times of India
    In Santiniketan, tribals of the land bear SIR deletion brunt

    Santiniketan: In Santiniketan, the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) has done more than alter the electoral roll. It has threatened the identity of indigenous people of the land living here for generations, possibly even before Visva-Bharati was founded. Ashramiks have ...

    22 April 2026 Times of India
    No police permission for RaGa rallies in Kol, Serampore

    Kolkata: Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi's rallies in Kolkata and Serampore, scheduled on April 23, have been stalled after Congress failed to secure police permission for the said rallies.Pradesh Congress netas planned three rallies in ...

    22 April 2026 Times of India
    Denied rally nod, Didi sits at tea stall, meets voters

    Kolkata: CM Mamata Banerjee sat down at a roadside tea stall in Collins Lane on Tuesday, and spoke to locals, after the EC didn't allow her to take out a rally in the area. The rally had to be ...

    22 April 2026 Times of India
    Spectre of statelessness grips former enclave-dwellers as SIR hits identity

    Dinhata: Munawwara Bibi runs her finger slowly down a voter list taped to the wall of her local panchayat office. "My name was here during the Lok Sabha polls... how can it disappear," the 65-year-old homemaker murmurs. It's her ...

    22 April 2026 Times of India
    Where maachh guarantees a plate of bhaat: East Mdn fishermen battle tides of change

    Digha/Tajpur: Subhankar Majhi doesn't know of the intense political battle centred around fish. The East Midnapore fisherman is more concerned about his livelihood, because even as his day still begins with brine and salty air, it's now ending with ...

    22 April 2026 Times of India
    Met predicts rain respite by weekend

    Kolkata: The mercury rose further on Tuesday, making the city singe, with the humidity adding to the heat factor. Even as the mercury is expected to rise further, the Met officials allayed the fear for heat wave-like conditions in ...

    22 April 2026 Times of India
    Rap knows no border, Hills borrows Nepal idea

    Darjeeling: Taking a cue from Nepal PM and rapper Balen Shah, poll-bound Darjeeling is now grooving to its own Nepali rap tracks ‘Parivartan' (meaning change) and ‘Torch Light Balne Bela Aayo' (It's Time to Light the Torch). Shah's ‘Balidan' ...

    22 April 2026 Times of India
    Poll officials trek to state’s remotest booth at 7.5k ft

    Darjeeling: Polling personnel in Darjeeling set out on a 16-hour journey to reach Samden, located 78 km from Darjeeling at an altitude of over 7,500 feet, to conduct polling at what is considered West Bengal's last polling booth with ...

    22 April 2026 Times of India
    High-rent properties stare at record losses amid liquor prohibition

    Kolkata: EC's liquor prohibition for nine and a half days over the next fortnight will ostensibly take the worst toll on restaurants and pubs in shopping malls as such establishments pay high rents, a significant portion of which is ...

    22 April 2026 Times of India
    Liquor black market gets a second birth, thanks to EC’s record ban

    Kolkata: The fine art of bootlegging — once thought to be a fading relic of the past — has made a dramatic comeback in Kolkata, driven by the unprecedented 9.5-day liquor ban imposed ahead of the elections. From shadowy ...

    22 April 2026 Times of India
    After outrage, EC flip-flop on bike ban order

    Kolkata: Hours after ordering a prohibition on riding motorcycles in the run-up to the polls, the Election Commission did a flip-flop on Tuesday evening, after facing flak from citizens. The Bengal CEO claimed the ban was aimed at putting ...

    22 April 2026 Times of India
    Gold, arms, cash seized in pre-election check

    Kolkata: Police on Monday seized around 1,160.6 gm gold jewellery, valued at Rs 92.1 lakh, on Amherst Street in the Jorasanko constituency. The occupants of the vehicle, in which the gold was being ferried, could not produce valid papers. ...

    22 April 2026 Times of India
    Beldanga case recusal: Division bench refers NIA’s bail plea to CJ

    Kolkata: A division bench of Calcutta High Court on Tuesday recused itself from hearing the National Investigation Agency's (NIA) plea challenging the bail granted to 15 accused in the April 2025 Beldanga clash.The bench of Justice Arijit Banerjee and ...

    22 April 2026 Times of India
    HC upholds EC order of poll duty for assistant profs

    Kolkata: Every citizen must consider national interests, Calcutta High Court observed on Tuesday, staying the single judge's order and upholding the EC order, appointing assistant professors as presiding officers at polling booths.The EC challenged the single judge's order, which ...

    22 April 2026 Times of India
    HC upholds EC order of poll duty for assistant profs

    Kolkata: Every citizen must consider national interests, Calcutta High Court observed on Tuesday, staying the single judge's order and upholding the EC order, appointing assistant professors as presiding officers at polling booths.The EC challenged the single judge's order, which ...

    22 April 2026 Times of India
    Online: No info. Offline: No info. Tribunal vigil by citizens and lawyers draws a blank

    Kolkata: Many ‘deleted' voters from different places across the city and suburbs turned up at the tribunal appellate authority's office in Joka on Tuesday — two days before the first phase of assembly election and eight days before the ...

    22 April 2026 Times of India
    Ayurveda, yoga enter CISCE curriculum

    Kolkata: The Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) has introduced ayurveda and yoga as topics in environmental science for classes IX and X. The council has developed resource material for ICSE environmental science at the secondary level, ...

    22 April 2026 Times of India
    Show-cause axe on JU placement officer

    Kolkata: The anti-ragging committee of Jadavpur University has decided to issue a show-cause notice to the placement officer from whose office sensitive information of an RTI was leaked to some engineering students, who harassed another third-year engineering student. The ...

    22 April 2026 Times of India
    2.3 L CAPF personnel in phase 2, Kol to get 27,300

    Kolkata: With the second phase of polling in Bengal scheduled for April 29, the Election Commission has planned a comprehensive and multilayered security deployment plan across 142 assembly constituencies.According to official sources, 2,32,100 personnel of central forces will be ...

    22 April 2026 Times of India
    ISF candidate alleges attack, blocks highway

    Kolkata: ISF candidate Arabul Islam was allegedly attacked during a campaign in the Deuli 1 gram panchayat area in Canning East on Tuesday, triggering a two-hour blockade of Basanti Highway.Sources said ISF supporters were putting up party flags in ...

    22 April 2026 Times of India
    Fire halts surgeries, triggers evacuation at Salt Lake hospital

    Kolkata: Surgeries halted midway and patients inside operation theatres and wards were wheeled out on stretchers and wheelchairs after a fire broke out inside the second-floor cathlab of Anandalok Hospital on Tuesday morning, triggering panic and an emergency evacuation ...

    22 April 2026 Times of India
    Close shave for south Kol developer after 18L extortion-abduction bid

    Kolkata: A real estate developer narrowly escaped an alleged kidnapping attempt linked to an extortion demand. According to a victim's complaint, the incident occurred on the evening of April 19 near a petrol pump on Karl Marx Sarani. The ...

    22 April 2026 Times of India
    45L matrimonial fraud

    A woman from Baguiati lost Rs 45 lakh in a scam involving a matrimonial lure. The ordeal began in 2023 when a man promised to marry her and persuaded her to invest money in online platforms. When confronted he ...

    22 April 2026 Times of India
    EC’s ‘no-outsider’ rule stumps residents of condos with booths

    Kolkata: A fresh wave of confusion swept through several housing complexes on Tuesday after the EC barred "outsiders" from staying on the premises that will host polling booths during the mandatory silence period.The restriction, announced by Bengal CEO Manoj ...

    22 April 2026 Times of India
    Race against time to print Braille ballots

    Kolkata: As Bengal prepares for its upcoming assembly elections, a quiet but crucial mission is unfolding at the Regional Braille Press in Narendrapur. Run by the Ramakrishna Mission Blind Boys' Academy, the press is working double shifts to ensure ...

    22 April 2026 Times of India
    Aronyak joins India’s GM club

    Kolkata: India got its newest Grandmaster as Bengal boy Aronyak Ghosh earned his third and final GM norm in the Bangkok Open meet that concluded in Thailand on Sunday.It had been a long wait for the 22-year-old Kolkata boy ...

    22 April 2026 Times of India
    Ex-Portuguese colony’s brush with SIR ends on a happy note

    Mahisadal (East Midnapore): In Mahisadal's Mirpur village, the SIR has not been an unpleasant experience.Only two out of 824 people have fallen foul of the SIR in this village in a marked — and happy — deviation from what ...

    22 April 2026 Times of India
    Unusually long 9.5-day dry spell before polls hits West Bengal; Kolkata bars report losses

    KOLKATA: Park Street fell silent on Monday as people coming in to the restro-bars thinned out after the curb on liquor ahead of the state assembly poll. By late afternoon, most restaurants had put up the ‘Dry Day' or ...

    21 April 2026 Times of India
    Buses and app cabs requisitioned for West Bengal poll duty, commuters left in the lurch

    KOLKATA: If you are commuting within the city using public transport, it is wise that you keep time in hand. Contrary to the belief that public transport will be hit before the city votes in the second phase of ...

    21 April 2026 Times of India
    'Feeling uncomfortable coming to Bengal’: BJP MLA Maithili Thakur raises law and order concerns during election campaign

    KOLKATA: BJP MLA Maithili Thakur, who is campaigning in the state for the upcoming assembly elections, commented on the law and order situation in West Bengal.Maithili Thakur expressed her views on the political atmosphere, stating that the ruling party ...

    21 April 2026 Times of India
    Will seek report from Calcutta HC: SC’s tribunal assurance

    KOLKATA: Supreme Court said on Monday a report would be sought from the chief justice of Calcutta High Court “by today” on the functioning of the tribunals set up to hear appeals against exclusion of names from the electoral ...

    21 April 2026 Times of India
    TMC functionary shot in Gosaba, remains critical

    Kolkata: A Trinamool Congress (TMC) worker, Dibyendu Gayen, was shot at in South 24 Parganas' Gosaba on Sunday, just days ahead of the West Bengal Assembly Election 2026. Cops said Gayen was returning home at 11 pm after attending ...

    21 April 2026 Times of India
    I have EC’s TMC ‘arrest’ list, will fight each case: CM Mamata Banerjee amid Bengal assembly polls

    KOLKATA: "I have the list," CM Mamata Banerjee said on Monday, referring to a list of Trinamool Congress workers to be "arrested ahead of the assembly elections", and vowed to "fight every such case in court".Speaking at a poll ...

    21 April 2026 Times of India
    Didi goes from condo to condo in upscale Bhowanipore locality during West Bengal elections

    KOLKATA: Chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday launched a door-to-door campaign, the first time in 15 years in upscale complexes in her constituency, visiting seven condos along Shakespeare Sarani and Lord Sinha Road to seek votes and hear residents’ ...

    21 April 2026 Times of India
    Bengal’s devpt will happen from within, not Guj: Soren

    Jhargram: "People of Bengal know that the state's development will happen from Bengal itself, not from Gujarat," said Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren in an X post on Monday. Soren, who campaigned in Bengal for the third straight day, addressed ...

    21 April 2026 Times of India
    Yogi attributes Netaji’s ‘Give me blood...’ to Swamiji, draws flak

    Kolkata: Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath's faux pas on Monday attributing Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's iconic "give me blood, I will give you freedom" slogan to Swami Vivekananda led to sharp criticism not only from Trinamool but also from ...

    21 April 2026 Times of India
    6 killed in 3 accidents in N Dinajpur

    Malda: Six people died in three accidents on the national highway in North Dinajpur's Itahar on Monday. At Mahadevpur, about 5 km from Itahar, a stone-chip laden dumper collided with a truck. The driver of the dumper was declared ...

    21 April 2026 Times of India
    Rekha & Smriti woo state’s woman voters for BJP

    Kolkata: Delhi CM Rekha Gupta and former Union minister Smriti Irani led BJP's charge against Trinamool on Monday blaming the party for the women's quota bill's fall in Parliament.Speaking at a roadshow in Entally, Gupta said, "Trinamool and its ...

    21 April 2026 Times of India
    QRTs fan out across state, max in Murshidabad

    Kolkata: EC will deploy 2,193 quick response teams (QRTs) across 152 constituencies in 16 districts for the first phase of assembly polls on April 23.Murshidabad will see the highest deployment with 288 QRTs, followed by East Midnapore (253) and ...

    21 April 2026 Times of India
    With 44.8% share, Jio leads Bengal telecom market

    Kolkata: Reliance Jio has emerged as the dominant telecom operator in Bengal in both subscriber base and revenue market share, according to Feb data published by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India.Jio's subscriber base in the Bengal Circle stands ...

    21 April 2026 Times of India
    Arrested realtor had clout over cops: ED

    Kolkata: ED on Monday claimed that arrested realtor Jay S Kamdar was "in close contact" with several police officers — including Santanu Sinha Biswas, a serving DCP in Kolkata Police's Special Branch — and had been providing them and ...

    21 April 2026 Times of India
    I-PAC director’s rep keeps ED date

    New Delhi/Kolkata: A legal representative of I-PAC director Rishi Raj Singh appeared before the ED in Delhi on Monday to help the agency extract data from electronic gadgets seized during recent raids, officials said.Founded in 2015, I-PAC provides political ...

    21 April 2026 Times of India
    NIA moves HC against bail for 15 in Beldanga case

    Kolkata: The NIA on Monday moved Calcutta HC challenging the bail granted by a lower court to 15 accused in the Beldanga violence case. The bail was issued after NIA failed to file a charge sheet within 90 days. ...

    21 April 2026 Times of India
    ‘Goli’, ‘dead miscreants’, ‘bulldozer’ on Himanta, Rajnath, Yogi lips

    Kolkata: "Bulldozer", "bullets" and "dead miscreants" analogies figured in the speeches of BJP's central netas who campaigned in poll-bound Bengal on Sunday and Monday.Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma's "bullets for a bullet" rhetoric was matched by Union defence minister ...

    21 April 2026 Times of India
    Attackers break civic cop’s hand

    Kolkata: A civic volunteer, Gobinda Hari (38), was allegedly assaulted by a group of BJP supporters in Baranagar on Monday after he protested against derogatory remarks targeting CM Mamata Banerjee. Hari sustained fractures and was hospitalised. Police registered a ...

    21 April 2026 Times of India
    Woman hacked to death in Kestopur

    Kolkata: A 32-year-old woman, Bandana Singh Roy, was allegedly hacked to death at a rented residence in Kestopur's Area No. 3 on Monday morning following a heated altercation with a local acquaintance, police said. The incident took place at ...

    21 April 2026 Times of India
    Brothers in BSF & SSB get postal ballots after deletion

    Kolkata: Two brothers, one serving with the BSF and the other with the SSB, from Bhagwangola in Murshidabad received postal ballots days after their names were deleted during the adjudication process of the ongoing SIR, leaving their kin surprised. ...

    21 April 2026 Times of India
    Woman traps, blackmails girl with nude pics

    Kolkata: A 16-year-old girl was allegedly coerced into sharing her private photos online and was blackmailed by the receiver, prompting her family to lodge a police complaint. Based on the complaint, Bidhannagar Cyber Crime Police launched a probe into ...

    21 April 2026 Times of India
    Salt Lake ragging: Cops ask for CCTV footage from engg college

    Kolkata: Probing into the alleged incident of ragging and assault of a first-year student of Techno India's main campus in Salt Lake Sector V, cops have requisitioned CCTV footage of the campus gate and footage from CK-CL ground in ...

    21 April 2026 Times of India
    Burdwan student scores 99.9 to emerge Bengal’s JEE Mains topper, 30th on nat’l list

    Kolkata: Kuntal Choudhury from East Burdwan has emerged as Bengal's top scorer in JEE Mains, securing an National Testing Agency (NTA) score of 99.9. According to the list of top candidates released by NTA, he has ranked 30th among ...

    21 April 2026 Times of India
    Poll duty takes toll on birders, hits Bengal’s summer avian count

    Kolkata: The fourth edition of Poila Baisakh Bird Count ended on Sunday with participants, according to preliminary reports, recording 400+ species during the three-day exercise that started on April 17. In 2024 and 2025, the species count stood at ...

    21 April 2026 Times of India
    Poll duty takes toll on birders, hits Bengal’s summer avian count

    Kolkata: The fourth edition of Poila Baisakh Bird Count ended on Sunday with participants, according to preliminary reports, recording 400+ species during the three-day exercise that started on April 17. In 2024 and 2025, the species count stood at ...

    21 April 2026 Times of India
    Women in the fray: 55 on TMC list, Cong fields 44, BJP 33, Left 27

    Kolkata: Participation of women candidates in the Bengal assembly election has risen, with 385 women in the fray this time against 240 in 2021, according to reports compiled by the Association for Democratic Rights (ADR) and West Bengal Election ...

    21 April 2026 Times of India
    Women in the fray: 55 on TMC list, Cong fields 44, BJP 33, Left 27

    Kolkata: Participation of women candidates in the Bengal assembly election has risen, with 385 women in the fray this time against 240 in 2021, according to reports compiled by the Association for Democratic Rights (ADR) and West Bengal Election ...

    21 April 2026 Times of India
    The Bengal test: Can Mamata hold, or will BJP crack the bastion?

    NEW DELHI: Will West Bengal once again subscribe to Mamata Banerjee’s pitch and emotional appeal built around the formula of ‘maa, mati, manush’? The ever-resilient and energised Bharatiya Janata Party in the state is eyeing her seat of power, ...

    20 April 2026 Times of India
    Bengal polls 2026: Bipolar Behrampore becomes a triangular fight with Adhir in fray

    BEHRAMPORE: For the past five years, Behrampore, a historic town, has largely witnessed a bipolar fight between the Trinamool Congress (TMC) and the BJP, with the latter registering a dramatic 35% surge in vote share in the 2021 assembly ...

    20 April 2026 Times of India
    West Bengal polls: Steel belt Durgapur reinvents itself as medical & education hub

    DURGAPUR: From revival of industry, local employment based on service sector growth - medical and education hubs - to changing skyline, with high-rises and malls, contestants for forthcoming assembly election in Durgapur are trying to score on development. Regarded ...

    20 April 2026 Times of India
    ‘Breach of diplomatic protocol’: Kolkata Police directs officers to stop searching envoy vehicles after Russian protest

    KOLKATA: Kolkata Police has instructed its officers to avoid checking vehicles belonging to any consulate general, following a protest by the Russian consulate general over alleged inspection attempts.Joint CP headquarters issued a late-night order to all units in this ...

    20 April 2026 Times of India
    That’s why you have fielded fewer women than us, Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee hits back

    KOLKATA: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “address to the nation” on Saturday was an election campaign speech, chief minister Mamata Banerjee said on Sunday, describing the move as “cowardly, hypocritical and fork-tongued”.Compared with TMC, she said, BJP nominated fewer women ...

    20 April 2026 Times of India
    Women’s welfare is Narendra Modi’s guarantee: PM at rallies amid Bengal polls

    KOLKATA: Stressing that “women’s welfare is Modi’s guarantee”, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday slammed Congress and Trinamool for “conspiring” against women and blocking the passage of amendments to the women’s reservation law in Parliament.Modi alleged that “anti-woman” Trinamool ...

    20 April 2026 Times of India
    Max 33.8°C, Kol to stay hot & humid for 5 more days

    Kolkata: Scorching westerly and northwesterly winds kept Kolkata hot and humid on Sunday even as the maximum temperature slid marginally to 33.8°C. The Met office warned that warm and humid conditions will continue to prevail across most of south ...

    20 April 2026 Times of India
    ‘Hydroponic’ ganja worth 3.5 cr seized at airport

    Kolkata: A passenger arriving from Bangkok, was arrested on Thursday by the customs officials, for carrying hydroponic ganja worth Rs 3.5 crore. Airport officials said that the marijuana was ingeniously concealed inside decorative items. The passenger was intercepted after ...

    20 April 2026 Times of India
    No-fly zone for PM, Soren misses event

    Jhargram: Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren's helicopter was unable to land in Lalgarh on Sunday due to a "no-fly zone" established for PM Narendra Modi's rally. Soren and his wife, Kalpana, were scheduled to attend a campaign meeting in support ...

    20 April 2026 Times of India
    Will induct all I-PAC staffers in TMC, none will lose job: Mamata

    Kolkata: CM Mamata Banerjee on Sunday pledged to induct I-PAC personnel into Trinamool and ensure no one loses their job as she lashed out against BJP for trying to "scare" members of the political consultancy firm engaged by her ...

    20 April 2026 Times of India
    In Kol, CAPF chiefs take stock of poll security in mega meet

    Kolkata: In a first-of-its-kind exercise in a poll-bound state, the chiefs of all Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) held a high-level meeting in Kolkata's Science City to review the security situation and deployment of nearly 2 lakh personnel during ...

    20 April 2026 Times of India
    Naka check dampener on Akshay Tritiya gold sales

    Kolkata: Akshay Tritiya started on a muted note on Sunday with lower than expected footfall across jewellery stores in Kolkata. City jewellers however expect a better turnout on Monday as the auspicious occasion stretches over two days. They also ...

    20 April 2026 Times of India
    ‘Poll agent’ CEO won’t win Suvendu N’gram: Abhishek

    Nandigram: Trinamool national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee hit the campaign trail in Nandigram all guns blazing on Sunday, saying he didn't know "who Suvendu Adhikari's election agent is, but I feel it is Manoj Agarwal"."But I challenge you, neither ...

    20 April 2026 Times of India
    CU to review college infra for honours with research prog

    Kolkata: Ahead of introducing honours with research in the fourth year of the undergraduate programme, Calcutta University is set to review how many of its affiliated colleges have the required infrastructure.A marathon meeting with the 146 affiliated colleges has ...

    20 April 2026 Times of India
    Digha Jagannath Dham footfall touches 1.3 cr on 1st anniversary

    Kolkata: On the eve of its first anniversary, Jagannath Dham, Digha, has crossed a remarkable milestone, welcoming over 1.3 crore pilgrims since its inauguration last year. The landmark comes just ahead of Akshaya Tritiya, when the temple will complete ...

    20 April 2026 Times of India
    HC nod to surrogacy route for Darjeeling couple in 50s

    Kolkata: The Jalpaiguri Circuit Bench of Calcutta High Court has allowed the surrogacy option for a Darjeeling couple in their 50s, taking into account the pain undergone by the couple to become parents and successful cryopreservation of embryos, which ...

    20 April 2026 Times of India
    4 days before polls, EC shunts two cops on Suvendu turf

    Kolkata: The EC on Sunday removed the SDPOs of Haldia and Contai in East Midnapur district, just four days before the first phase of assembly elections on April 23.East Midnapur, Suvendu Adhikari's turf, will go to the polls in ...

    20 April 2026 Times of India
    Cal HC rejects VB appeal against asst prof’s payment

    Kolkata: Different pay scales for posts with the same degree of responsibility, reliability and confidentiality are invalid, Calcutta High Court held on April 17 while rejecting Visva-Bharati's appeal against paying assistant professors of a school under the university the ...

    20 April 2026 Times of India
    Seniors demand 1 L, singe engg student with cigarettes

    Kolkata: A first-year engineering diploma student of a private university in Salt Lake has alleged that he was ragged, assaulted, burnt with cigarettes and threatened with death by a group of senior BCA students if he didn't pay them ...

    20 April 2026 Times of India
    IIT student died due to situational pressure: Kin

    Kharagpur/Kolkata: Deceased third-year IIT student Jayveersinh Dodiya's grandfather on Sunday said the boy may have been a victim of "situational pressure" from the institute or "outside forces", rather than academic pressure. Dodiya died on Saturday after falling from the ...

    20 April 2026 Times of India
    City hospitals empty out as staff return to dist home towns to vote

    Kolkata: Several hospitals are apprehending a staff shortage as hundreds of employees plan to leave for their home towns for the first-phase elections on April 23. At many facilities, OPD appointments and planned surgeries are being deferred or scheduled ...

    20 April 2026 Times of India
    EC set to use AI tech to monitor polling booths

    Kolkata: The EC will use an AI-based video analytics programme to monitor polling booths across Bengal. The system will analyse live footage from webcasting cameras and instantly flag signs of trouble, enabling authorities to identify troubled booths and dispatch ...

    20 April 2026 Times of India
    24-yr-old dies after falling into elevator shaft, 2 held

    Kolkata: Two men, Mohammad Tasir and Sai Ansari, have been arrested on Friday afternoon for their alleged involvement in the death of their friend, Mohammad Sahab (24), in Anandapur. Sahab, a resident of Martinpara, allegedly died after falling into ...

    20 April 2026 Times of India
    5 L new voters enter roll, take state count to 6.82 cr

    Kolkata: The EC has reported a fresh rise in the number of voters in Bengal, with nearly 5 lakh names being added to the electoral roll in the past month, taking the total count to 6.8 crore. Bengal, which ...

    20 April 2026 Times of India
    Will we, won’t we: SIR-deleted voters oscillate between despair and hope 24 hours before SC deadline for EC

    Kolkata: Murshidabad resident Sagar Shaikh ekes out a living by plying a horse-drawn carriage for tourists at Hazarduari and wins bread for his wife and two kids. Four days ahead of the assembly poll in his town, he travelled ...

    20 April 2026 Times of India
    At Ladies’ Park, Didi meets constituents of ‘mini India’

    Kolkata: "Election is the festival of democracy and not autocracy," said CM Mamata Banerjee at a community meet at Ladies' Park in Bhowanipore where representatives from different communities had gathered on Sunday evening. Speaking before a packed audience, Banerjee ...

    20 April 2026 Times of India
    Black-tailed gull, bird from East Asia, makes India debut on Bengal beach

    Kolkata: Amid the Poila Baisakh Bird Count, that's on across the state, Bengal has given India its first record of black-tailed gull, a bird native to the shorelines of East Asia. This is also the 933rd bird species from ...

    20 April 2026 Times of India
    STF seizes firearms, 77L cash in run-up to election

    Kolkata/Durgapur: Ahead of the upcoming polls, law enforcement agencies across Bengal have intensified their crackdown on the movement of illegal arms and unaccounted cash, resulting in a series of major seizures in Kolkata and Durgapur. On Saturday, the Special ...

    19 April 2026 Times of India
    ED searches premises linked to Kolkata Police deputy commissioner, Sun Enterprise MD Joy Kamdar in PMLA probe

    KOLKATA: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Sunday carried out raids at premises linked to Kolkata Police deputy commissioner Shantanu Sinha Biswas and another individual as part of a money laundering probe into an alleged criminal and his associated syndicate ...

    19 April 2026 Times of India
    Advocate held after SL gang-rape plaint

    Kolkata: A 29-year-old man, an advocate by profession, was arrested on Friday night for his alleged involvement in the gang rape of a massage therapist in Salt Lake. He denied all charges against him. On Saturday, he was produced ...

    19 April 2026 Times of India
    ‘If you have guts come to my home,’ Didi dares after I-T raids

    Kolkata: CM Mamata Banerjee on Saturday dared BJP to raid her home after Income Tax raids at the homes of her chief proposer in Bhowanipore, Miraj Shah, and Rashbehari Trinamool candidate Debasish Kumar. The CM alleged that the EC ...

    19 April 2026 Times of India
    TMC plaint against Himanta for ‘inciteful, divisive’ remarks

    Kolkata: Trinamool on Saturday lodged a complaint with the Election Commission against Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma over "inciteful and divisive" remarks made during an election rally in Cooch Behar. Trinamool also accused Sarma of making communally-charged statements and ...

    19 April 2026 Times of India
    Complaint against BJP’s Tapas Roy for ‘forced entry’ into housing complex

    Kolkata: A complaint was filed against Tapas Roy, the BJP candidate from Maniktala in North Kolkata, for allegedly entering a housing complex by force to campaign. Residents of two housing complexes in Ward 31 reportedly filed complaints against Roy ...

    19 April 2026 Times of India
    Court grants bail to 15 in Beldanga case

    Kolkata: An NIA court on Saturday granted bail to 15 people arrested in connection with the Beldanga violence in Murshidabad in Jan, after the agency failed to submit its charge sheet within the mandatory 90-day period. The court granted ...

    19 April 2026 Times of India
    Court grants bail to 15 in Beldanga case

    Kolkata: An NIA court on Saturday granted bail to 15 people arrested in connection with the Beldanga violence in Murshidabad in Jan, after the agency failed to submit its charge sheet within the mandatory 90-day period, reports Dwaipayan Ghosh. ...

    19 April 2026 Times of India
    BJP neta held for ‘slapping’ woman, minor

    Asansol: A BJP neta was arrested on Friday night after a woman alleged he slapped her and her minor daughter during a door-to-door campaign visit at DVC Colony in Pandaveswar, after she said she would vote for Trinamool, reports ...

    19 April 2026 Times of India
    Ex-IPS BJP pick threatens to thrash voters

    Kolkata: Trinamool on Friday lodged a complaint against Rajesh Kumar, the BJP candidate for Jagatdal, for allegedly violating the MCC and threatening to "tie [voters] upside down and beat them up on the day results are announced".The party provided ...

    19 April 2026 Times of India
    Plaint against BJP Barrackpore pick for threatening woman

    Kolkata: A homemaker lodged a complaint with Titagarh police station on Saturday against BJP's Barrackpore candidate Koustav Bagchi, alleging that he threatened her during a door-to-door campaign visit to her residence. Police said an inquiry is underway and CCTV ...

    19 April 2026 Times of India
    ‘Stand with Didi’: J’khand CM woos tribals for TMC

    Purulia: Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren, campaigning for Trinamool in Purulia on Saturday, delivered a sharp attack on the Election Commission, alleging it was acting as BJP's instrument in Bengal."Everywhere else, elections are happening in a single phase. In Bengal, ...

    19 April 2026 Times of India
    Bidhannagar: 20% voters struck off roll in 3 key seats

    Kolkata: A sharp reduction in voter rolls across Salt Lake, New Town, Rajarhat-Gopalpur and adjoining areas under Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation post SIR has set the stage for an unusually tight contest in this year's assembly election, with all major ...

    19 April 2026 Times of India
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