From Swasthya Sathi to Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana, Bengal’s health department officials are holding discussions with central agencies and administrators in other states to understand how to implement the social health schemes following the change of ...
10 May 2026 TelegraphThe All Bengal Blind Teachers’ Association filed a public interest litigation in Calcutta High Court on Friday, challenging the Election Commission’s steps against the visually impaired government employees who could not perform election duties. Sources said nearly 2,000 visually ...
10 May 2026 TelegraphInvestigators on Friday recovered the second motorcycle allegedly used in the murder of Chandranath Rath, a close aide of senior BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari, even as the West Bengal Police intensified search for a car suspected to have been ...
9 May 2026 TelegraphWest Bengal chief minister-designate Suvendu Adhikari on Friday said the first BJP government in the state would fulfil all promises made in the party’s election manifesto and work in coordination with the Centre to realise the aspirations of the ...
9 May 2026 TelegraphUnion Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday asserted that infiltration and cattle smuggling would become “impossible” in West Bengal after he announced Suvendu Adhikari's election as the leader of the BJP legislature party and its chief ministerial face.Addressing the ...
9 May 2026 TelegraphOnce the poster boy of the Trinamool Congress and a frontline face of Mamata Banerjee’s anti-land acquisition movement in Nandigram, Suvendu Adhikari’s evolution into a formidable BJP rival poised to wrest the state’s administrative helm is as dramatic as ...
9 May 2026 TelegraphSenior BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari was on Friday elected the leader of the BJP legislature party in West Bengal, paving the way for him to become the first BJP chief minister of the state.BJP sources said Adhikari's name was ...
9 May 2026 TelegraphTrinamool Congress leader Saugata Roy on Friday demanded a court-monitored CBI investigation into the killing of party workers and incidents of vandalism in post-poll violence in West Bengal. Speaking to PTI Videos, Roy said that many party leaders and ...
9 May 2026 TelegraphFormer Calcutta High Court Chief Justice TS Sivagnanam has resigned from the appellate tribunal constituted to hear challenges against the exclusion of names from electoral rolls following the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise.Justice (retd) Sivagnanam was among the 19 ...
9 May 2026 TelegraphThe special investigation team probing the murder of Chandranath Rath, the personal assistant of BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari, is looking at gangsters in Uttar Pradesh and Odisha to find the killers, who have evaded the police net for more ...
9 May 2026 TelegraphSecurity and surveillance have been stepped up across West Bengal’s border districts as investigators suspect that professional shooters from neighbouring states may have been involved in the murder of BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari’s close aide Chandranath Rath, police said ...
9 May 2026 TelegraphThe family of Buddhabeb Bera, the driver injured in the shooting that killed BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari's close aide Chandranath Rath, demanded exemplary punishment for those responsible and urged the new government to ensure such incidents do not happen ...
9 May 2026 TelegraphBengal recorded the highest number of crimes committed by foreigners (992) among states in 2024, while Delhi topped union territories in both crimes committed by foreigners and crimes against them, according to the latest National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) ...
9 May 2026 TelegraphSamajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav met Trinamool Congress chairperson Mamata Banerjee at her residence here on Thursday and said a “multi-layered mafiagiri”, allegedly spearheaded by the BJP and the Election Commission, oversaw the “theft” of the Bengal mandate.“The ...
9 May 2026 TelegraphA 28-year-old was hacked to death on Wednesday night at Maheshpur Baganpara, within the Englishbazar police station limits in Malda, over a dispute related to card games.A police source said the deceased is Kishan Haldar. Three people have been ...
9 May 2026 TelegraphA Trinamool Congress leader from Jalpaiguri was arrested on Wednesday after a woman accused him of intimidation and assault.Abhijit Sinha, a district general secretary of the Trinamool, was produced in court on Thursday and granted bail.A source said residents ...
9 May 2026 TelegraphSuvendu Adhikari on Thursday claimed that had he not defeated Mamata Banerjee from Bhabanipur, his personal assistant Chandranath Rath would not have been murdered, appearing to imply a Trinamool hand in the assassination.Some other BJP leaders suggested a possible ...
9 May 2026 TelegraphBharatiya Gorkha Prajantrik Morcha (BGPM) president Anit Thapa on Thursday announced a “peace march” on May 14, the very day the Bimal Gurung-led Gorkha Janmukti Morcha was slated to lay siege to Lal Khoti, the headquarters of the Gorkhaland ...
9 May 2026 TelegraphMove over, roses. It’s lotus season now.The change of guard in Bengal has effected a poriborton in the pecking order of flowers. The BJP’s landslide victory in these Assembly elections has sent the demand for lotuses soaring across Raiganj ...
9 May 2026 TelegraphChandranath Rath, 41, had moved into his Madhyamgram flat about four years ago but led such a low-key life that neighbours never found out he was Suvendu Adhikari’s personal assistant until Wednesday night, when he was assassinated inside an ...
9 May 2026 TelegraphThe number of students who scored above 90% has dipped in three subjects — mathematics, physical science and geography — in Madhyamik compared with last year. The results of the Bengal board’s Class X exams, declared on Friday, show ...
9 May 2026 TelegraphA team from the Directorate of Forensic Sciences (DFS), Gujarat, visited the Madhyamgram crime scene on Friday where Chandranath Rath, personal assistant to chief minister-designate Suvendu Adhikari, was gunned down on Wednesday night.A special investigation team (SIT), comprising officers ...
9 May 2026 TelegraphBengal awaits a spectacle it has rarely witnessed.A new government, the BJP’s first in Bengal, will be sworn in from a corner of the Maidan that has hosted many historic political events.But rarely has there been a gathering bringing ...
9 May 2026 TelegraphSome Calcuttans are buying laddoos weighing 50 kilos or more as offerings to mark wish fulfilment.The BJP has placed orders running into thousands of boxes of laddoos and assorted cashews.At 4pm on Friday, Gokul Sweets on Lord Sinha Road ...
9 May 2026 TelegraphWork on the long-pending Chingrighata section of Kolkata Metro’s Orange Line is expected to begin from May 15, with officials hopeful that Metro and railway infrastructure projects in the city will gather momentum following the formation of the new ...
9 May 2026 TelegraphThe authorities of Jadavpur University have postponed the executive council (EC) meeting scheduled for Friday following advice from the governor’s office amid the political transition in West Bengal, where a BJP government is set to be sworn in on ...
9 May 2026 TelegraphUnion Home Minister Amit Shah arrived in Kolkata on Friday for the BJP legislature party meeting and the swearing-in ceremony of the party’s first government in West Bengal following its historic victory in the recently concluded assembly elections.Shah, who ...
9 May 2026 TelegraphThe vendors of Baisakhi Market, who so long squatted under a rundown shed in an empty plot, started operations from AMP Vaisaakkhi mall on April 26. The day came after nearly two decades of wait.Some of these vendors first ...
9 May 2026 TelegraphThe first organiser off the khuti puja block this year is FD Block Sarbojanin. The block also unveiled its theme-maker and theme caption.Prasanta Pal, a well-known name in the Puja circuit, will be helming the puja in its 42nd ...
9 May 2026 TelegraphFD Block has joined the limited number of blocks in Salt Lake which have installed CCTV cameras in their lanes using private funds.“We have installed 100 cameras so far with a few more spots left to be covered. We ...
9 May 2026 TelegraphAseat in the Assembly wasn’t the only prize over which the battlelines were drawn recently. At Siddha Town Rajarhat, nearly 100 badminton players served, rallied and smashed over two days to win the trophy. The housing complex near the ...
9 May 2026 TelegraphHe has a huge mango tree that bears very many fruits, along with foliage, bonsais and cacti, but it’s Arnab Bhattacharjee’s Orchids that are bright enough to clear dark skies. Their colours, shapes and textures can make you gaze ...
9 May 2026 Telegraph1. When the music director presented a particularly acrobatic tune to Asha Bhosle, she did what any sensible artist would—retreated to practise with missionary zeal. So intense was her rehearsal (even in the car) that her driver, deeply alarmed, ...
9 May 2026 TelegraphMicrogreens is the new buzz-word among both nutritionists and gourmet chefs so Bidhannagar Horticultural Society organised a seminar to teach members how to grow them.Microgreens are tender, young vegetable saplings that are harvested at a very early age stage ...
9 May 2026 TelegraphMultiple thunderstorms struck Calcutta and neighbouring areas on Thursday morning, afternoon and evening.More such spells are likely across Bengal in the coming days. Rain is likely in Calcutta on all days till May 10. The intensity is likely to ...
9 May 2026 TelegraphA giant branch of a tree fell on the elevated Metro tracks between Tollygunge and Kudghat stations during a thunderstorm on Thursday afternoon, disrupting Metro services on the north-south corridor (Blue Line) for over an hour. The branch of ...
9 May 2026 TelegraphSome students of Asutosh College marked the BJP’s rise to power in Bengal on May 5 by applying saffron tilaks on portraits of Sister Nivedita, Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, Raja Ram Mohan Roy and other eminent personalities.The students entered the ...
9 May 2026 TelegraphThe man who handled much of the back-office work for Suvendu Adhikari during the Bengal elections was remembered on Thursday by friends and party colleagues as “soft-spoken”, “dependable” and “meticulous”.Chandranath Rath, 42, was shot on Wednesday night while travelling ...
9 May 2026 TelegraphThe crackle of gunfire and the roar of motorcycles drew several residents of Doharia, a neighbourhood off Jessore Road in Madhyamgram, to their balconies on Wednesday night.They saw an SUV parked in the middle of the road with its ...
9 May 2026 TelegraphThe Nissan Micra that blocked Chandranath Rath’s Mahindra Scorpio before he was gunned down entered the city at least five hours before the “operation” and moved through parts of Barasat and New Barrackpore before heading towards the “crime scene”, ...
9 May 2026 TelegraphKolkata Police on Thursday issued a statement on social media stating that several fake and misleading posts were being circulated online claiming that Section 144 has been imposed in parts of Kolkata. The police said no such order under ...
8 May 2026 TelegraphThe BJP on Thursday accused the Trinamool Congress of fostering a "mafia culture" and "maha jungle raj" in West Bengal following the killing of an aide of BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari, alleging that the incident reflects the "institutionalised" post-poll ...
8 May 2026 TelegraphSamajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday met TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee at her Kalighat residence and expressed solidarity with the party leadership following its defeat in the West Bengal assembly polls, while alleging that the elections in the ...
8 May 2026 TelegraphTrinamool Congress (TMC) MP Mahua Moitra on Thursday posted a video on her X handle where she alleged that while travelling to Delhi via IndiGo, four to six men onboard the flight harassed her by chanting slogans such as ...
8 May 2026 TelegraphOne of the two motorbikes used in Wednesday night’s murder of Bengal BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari’s personal assistant Chandranath Rath has been recovered from near a tea shop nearly 4 km from the scene of crime in North 24-Parganas’ ...
8 May 2026 TelegraphFive BJP workers were injured in a crude bomb attack in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district late on Wednesday, police said, hours after the killing of a close aide of BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari triggered a fresh political ...
8 May 2026 TelegraphPolice are in search of Krishna Das, Jalpaiguri's unsuccessful Trinamool Congress candidate, in connection with a case of post-poll violence against him. “We are in search of him, and he will be arrested as there is a specific complaint ...
8 May 2026 TelegraphThe second floor of Writers’ Buildings is “most suited” to house the office of Bengal’s next chief minister, and could be readied in weeks if the BJP decides to shift the state secretariat back to the heart of the ...
8 May 2026 TelegraphSummer snowfall in the upper ridges of Darjeeling and Sikkim in early May brought cheer to stakeholders in the tourism industry, who noted that tourist activity was picking up after the Bengal polls.Tourism stakeholders are positive that the number ...
8 May 2026 TelegraphThe CPM-led Left Front returned to the Assembly after a gap of five years with one seat, but the total vote share remained stagnant at 5.07 per cent despite efforts to shore up its electoral fortunes by fielding several ...
8 May 2026 TelegraphThe family of Chandranath Rath, personal assistant of Suvendu Adhikari, will decide on his last rites after the post-mortem examination is completed on Thursday, even as his killing in North 24 Parganas has triggered a political storm and heightened ...
8 May 2026 TelegraphAll retired officers reemployed by the Mamata Banerjee administration have been asked not to come to office until the new government takes over in a purported bid to avert the destruction of the documentary evidence of alleged corruption, sources ...
8 May 2026 TelegraphThe Bimal Gurung-led Gorkha Janmukti Morcha has decided to gherao Lal Khoti, the headquarters of the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA), on May 14 to protest against alleged corruption at the hill body.Noman Rai, the president of the Gorkha Janmukti ...
8 May 2026 TelegraphSenior Trinamool leaders in Malda, including a former cabinet minister, have openly targeted the party’s national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee, holding him responsible for the party’s massive defeat in the Assembly elections.Krishnendu Narayan Choudhury, a former Trinamool MLA and ...
8 May 2026 TelegraphCBSE schools have started downloading admit cards for the second Class X board examinations scheduled to begin on May 15. The board released the admit cards on Tuesday. They are to be downloaded by the schools and handed over ...
8 May 2026 TelegraphA third-year IIT Kharagpur student who jumped from the seventh-floor terrace of a hostel on April 18 was facing “academic issues” while simultaneously preparing for the CFA (chartered financial analyst) examinations, according to a report by a fact-finding committee.The ...
8 May 2026 TelegraphThe Centre has sanctioned ₹671.72 crore for the upgrade of electrical infrastructure on the north-south corridor (Blue Line) of Metro Railway.The upgrade is aimed at increasing train frequency. At present, the Blue Line has a peak-hour frequency of five ...
8 May 2026 TelegraphAway from public view, a team of election-hardened BJP leaders from north India camped in the northern fringes of Calcutta to micro-manage the party’s campaign, reshaping its organisational approach in a state where elections are driven by local units.These ...
8 May 2026 TelegraphA bulldozer was paraded through New Market on Tuesday evening, an area lined with shops and roadside stalls, many of them run by Muslim owners, less than 24 hours after the BJP secured a brute majority in the Bengal ...
8 May 2026 TelegraphThe CRPF’s national chief instructed election and police observers on Tuesday night to ensure there is no post-poll violence in Bengal.Directives were issued, including a ban on the use of bulldozers in BJP victory rallies and an immediate halt ...
8 May 2026 TelegraphMembers of the BJP teachers’ cell visited the Kolkata District Primary School Council’s office in Kasba and asked officials to ensure that no file was smuggled out of the building on Wednesday.The members went to Shiksha Bhavan in Kasba ...
8 May 2026 TelegraphA change in leadership in Bengal has brought a time-bound Supreme Court–mandated schoolteacher recruitment process to a halt.The school service commission (SSC) had planned to resume counselling for recommending candidates for higher secondary (Classes XI and XII) teaching posts ...
8 May 2026 TelegraphTejash Doshi, 50 BusinessmanConstituency: BhabanipurWhy I wanted a change: It has become suffocating. There are political interferences and directives that we have to abide by. Why should a businessman be told how to run his business? When we see ...
8 May 2026 TelegraphJadavpur University postponed an executive council meeting on Friday following objections from the governor’s office, an official said.The governor’s office is said to have called JU vice-chancellor Chiranjib Bhattacharjee on Wednesday evening and told him not to hold the ...
8 May 2026 TelegraphKolkata Police issued an advisory on Wednesday against the spread of fake news in connection with the violence reported in Topsia late on Tuesday. Referring to a purported document that was in circulation asking people in areas around Rippon ...
8 May 2026 TelegraphChandra Nath Rath, who was the personal assistant of Suvendu Adhikari while the BJP Bengal chief minister probable was leader of Opposition in the outgoing Assembly, was shot dead on Wednesday night. An ex-serviceman originally from East Midnapore, Rath ...
7 May 2026 TelegraphBJP national spokesperson Sambit Patra alleged that the Trinamool Congress (TMC) in West Bengal was attempting to incite post-poll violence by disguising its workers as BJP supporters using symbols of the saffron party to malign it.Patra asserted that its ...
7 May 2026 TelegraphTwo outgoing West Bengal ministers under the ED scanner in a recruitment scam case skipped their scheduled appearance before the central agency on Wednesday, citing separate reasons and seeking more time, officials said.An ED official said the two Trinamool ...
7 May 2026 TelegraphOn May 2, 2021, Mamata had lost her own contest in Nandigram but led her party from the front to a resounding victory against heavy odds. On Monday, 1,828 days later, she had failed to prevent a BJP sweep ...
7 May 2026 TelegraphTension flared in south Kolkata’s Bhabanipur area past midnight on Tuesday after a mob gathered outside the residence of TMC MLA-elect and senior leader Sobhandeb Chattopadhyay, before dispersing following police intervention.The senior minister in the outgoing Mamata Banerjee cabinet ...
7 May 2026 TelegraphThe oath-taking ceremony of the new chief minister of West Bengal would take place on May 9, 10 am at the Brigade Parade Ground, BJP state president Samik Bhattacharya has confirmed.Answering to post-poll violence, Samik Bhattacharya, in a news ...
7 May 2026 TelegraphAdditional police deployment and area security arrangements outside Trinamool Congress leader and Diamond Harbour MP Abhishek Banerjee’s residence and office in Kolkata have been withdrawn following a review, even as his Z-category security cover remains unchanged.The changes took effect ...
7 May 2026 TelegraphIncidents of threats, assault and killings have continued in Bengal after the Assembly election results despite appeals by BJP leaders such as Suvendu Adhikari and Samik Bhattacharya.At least four people have died in the state since the Assembly poll ...
7 May 2026 TelegraphThe BJP’s ascent to power in West Bengal has revived industry expectations around the long-delayed Rs 25,000 crore Tajpur deep sea port project, with stakeholders hopeful that improved coordination between the state and the Centre will accelerate progress on ...
7 May 2026 TelegraphIn the aftermath of a political shift in West Bengal, two key advisors to outgoing Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee have stepped down, signalling administrative changes following the BJP’s decisive electoral victory.Two former chief secretaries – Alapan Bandyopadhyay and H ...
7 May 2026 TelegraphChief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar has directed immediate arrests of those involved in post-poll violence in West Bengal after at least three deaths and widespread vandalism raised serious law and order concerns.CEC Gyanesh Kumar instructed the state’s top administrative ...
6 May 2026 TelegraphRabindranath Ghosh, a senior Trinamool Congress leader and a former state minister from Cooch Behar, blamed two leaders of his party for the poor performance in the Assembly polls.“If Udayan Guha and Abhijit De Bhowmik are not removed, Trinamool ...
6 May 2026 TelegraphThe Election Commission on Tuesday issued the formal notification for the constitution of a new West Bengal Assembly, marking the completion of the electoral process and clearing the path for government formation after the BJP’s sweeping victory in the ...
6 May 2026 TelegraphThe development card played by the Trinamool Congress, coupled with the assurance of a wage hike, failed to dent the BJP’s support base in the tea belt of north Bengal.The BJP has secured all Assembly seats in the brew ...
6 May 2026 TelegraphAt a time when incidents of violence targeted at Trinamool’s offices are being reported from different parts of north Bengal after the results of the 2026 Assembly polls, Balurghat in South Dinajpur witnessed a contrast. On Tuesday morning, ...
6 May 2026 TelegraphViolent incidents have been reported across north Bengal following the announcement of the election results on Monday, leaving workers of both the Trinamool Congress and the BJP injured.In Jalpaiguri, Trinamool candidate Krishna Das alleged that BJP workers, armed with ...
6 May 2026 TelegraphBJP MLAs Anandamay Barman and Sikha Chatterjee, who have clocked the highest victory margins of over 1 lakh and over 97,000, respectively, in the 2026 Assembly elections, attributed their thumping victories to the Centre’s infrastructural development in and around ...
6 May 2026 TelegraphThe breach in five districts — North 24-Parganas, South 24-Parganas, Calcutta, Howrah and Hooghly — which used to be the Trinamool Congress fortress, contributed the most to the BJP's landslide victory and thwarted Mamata Banerjee's dream of a fourth ...
6 May 2026 TelegraphThe leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, on Tuesday cautioned Congress leaders against rejoicing in the drubbing the Trinamool Congress had received in the Bengal Assembly polls. "Some in the Congress, and others, ...
6 May 2026 TelegraphAfter the BJP sweep in Bengal, Kalimpong saw the first signs of a political shift in the hills on Tuesday, with BJP leaders and supporters staging a demonstration in front of the Kalimpong municipality demanding immediate civic elections.All three ...
6 May 2026 TelegraphAt least three political workers were allegedly killed and several others injured in a spate of post-poll clashes that erupted across Bengal within hours of the Assembly election results being declared on Monday, despite repeated appeals from the BJP ...
6 May 2026 TelegraphBengal is headed for an unprecedented constitutional confrontation after Mamata Banerjee refused to resign as chief minister on Tuesday after her party, the Trinamool Congress, lost to the BJP in the Assembly election results on Monday. The new BJP ...
6 May 2026 TelegraphThe BJP on Tuesday criticised West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for refusing to resign after the party's decisive defeat in the assembly elections, saying that she was making herself a "laughing stock".State BJP spokesperson Debjit Sarkar alleged that ...
6 May 2026 TelegraphThe Enforcement Directorate (ED) has issued a lookout notice against Kolkata Police Deputy Commissioner Shantanu Sinha Biswas in connection with a money laundering case, an official said on Tuesday.The lookout notice was issued after Biswas evaded multiple summons issued ...
6 May 2026 TelegraphWest Bengal Chief Electoral Officer Manoj Kumar Agarwal on Tuesday rejected TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee’s allegation that BJP supporters and central forces assaulted her during counting of votes."I spoke to the District Election Officer. The District Election Officer said ...
6 May 2026 TelegraphWaiting at the Guru Nanak Dental College in Bengal’s Panihati for the counting of votes in six constituencies in the district, a candidate overheard a conversation between some government officials assigned on poll duty.Like the candidates, the officials too ...
6 May 2026 TelegraphThe BJP on Tuesday named Union Home Minister Amit Shah as the party's central observer for election of its legislative party leader in West Bengal. The party also appointed Union minister JP Nadda as its central observer for election ...
6 May 2026 TelegraphAs results of 54 Assembly seats in north Bengal were out on Monday, stray incidents of violence cropped up. The Telegraph notes a few. Counting clash Trinamool and BJP supporters clashed at the counting ...
6 May 2026 TelegraphFollowing the BJP’s electoral victory in Bengal, several stakeholders in Tollywood — including actors, directors and producers — have expressed optimism, voicing hope for meaningful reforms. Voices from across Tollywood suggest that the industry is at a turning point. ...
6 May 2026 TelegraphAt least two people died in incidents of alleged political violence in Calcutta on Monday and Tuesday, alongside reports of vandalism at several Trinamool Congress offices across the city.All police stations under Kolkata Police’s jurisdiction were instructed to arrest ...
6 May 2026 TelegraphKishore Datta stepped down as Bengal’s advocate-general on Tuesday, a day after the Assembly election results were announced.Datta sent his resignation letter to governor K.N. Ravi in the morning, said sources in Calcutta High Court. With his resignation, the ...
6 May 2026 TelegraphMayor Firhad Hakim visited his office at the Kolkata Municipal Corporation headquarters on Tuesday, a day after his party’s drubbing at the Assembly elections. The Trinamool board enjoys an overwhelming majority in the civic body, with over 130 out ...
6 May 2026 TelegraphThe scissor barricades on Harish Chatterjee Street that lead to the residence of outgoing chief minister Mamata Banerjee were removed on Tuesday morning, a day after the Trinamool Congress was routed in the Assembly elections. Sources said hand-held guardrails ...
6 May 2026 TelegraphThe BJP is keen to run the government from Writers’ Buildings, tapping into what party leaders said was a long-standing public sentiment attached to the historic seat of power in Bengal.Party insiders said the move to shift the secretariat ...
6 May 2026 TelegraphThe second floor of Writers’ Buildings is “most suited” to house the office of Bengal’s next chief minister, and could be readied in weeks if the BJP decides to shift the state secretariat back to the heart of the ...
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