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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata/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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaSantiniketan: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaDinhata: 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 IndiaDigha/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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaDarjeeling: 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 IndiaDarjeeling: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaA 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaMahisadal (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 IndiaKOLKATA: 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 IndiaKOLKATA: 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 IndiaKOLKATA: 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 IndiaKOLKATA: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKOLKATA: "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 IndiaKOLKATA: 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 IndiaJhargram: "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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaMalda: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaNew 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: "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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaNEW 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 IndiaBEHRAMPORE: 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 IndiaDURGAPUR: 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 IndiaKOLKATA: 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 IndiaKOLKATA: 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 IndiaKOLKATA: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaJhargram: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaNandigram: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKharagpur/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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: "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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata/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 IndiaKOLKATA: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaAsansol: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaPurulia: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 ...
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