Calcutta University has set aside 80% of its postgraduate seats for undergraduate students who exit colleges at the end of their third year, the vice-chancellor said on Friday. CU has around 6,000 postgraduate seats. Of the 80%, 60% of ...
12 April 2026 TelegraphThe Chinese consulate general announced a film festival to be hosted jointly with Nandan from April 17 to 19.“Ever since I arrived in Calcutta in June 2024, I have received requests to exhibit Chinese films. Recently, Pursuit of Jade ...
12 April 2026 TelegraphA 71-year-old woman suffering from arthritis walked nearly 3km in a rally protesting the special intensive revision of electoral rolls.Keya Chattopadhyay, a resident of Baghajatin, has retained her vote in the Jadavpur Assembly segment. She had come to express ...
12 April 2026 TelegraphThe city’s police commissioner, Ajay Nand, has instructed all senior officers, including those of the rank of additional commissioners, to be on the roads and jointly check vehicles with central forces between 10pm and 2am every day.Earlier, assistant commissioners ...
11 April 2026 TelegraphTrinamool wants to go door-to-door. BJP wants to get voters to step out of their doors and vote on April 29.In the battle royal of Bhabanipur, the BJP’s big bet is on increasing voter turnout in pockets where it ...
11 April 2026 TelegraphAt a school in Park Circus, students contested an election to understand how democracy works.Over the past week, they campaigned much like real candidates. Their manifestos addressed issues that affect their daily lives — bullying, phone use, inclusion and ...
11 April 2026 TelegraphA Matua leader who hosted Union home minister Amit Shah for lunch at his home in 2020 is now urging his community to vote for “any party that has worked for our welfare”.Nabin Biswas, Rajarhat New Town resident and ...
11 April 2026 TelegraphWest Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday responded to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s remarks on fish production with a political counter at a rally in Barasat, even as a wider debate on fisheries data and inter-state performance continued ...
10 April 2026 TelegraphA BJP government in Bengal would not interfere with the state’s food habits, Union home minister Amit Shah made clear on Friday releasing his party’s Sankalp Patra for the Assembly elections with the manifesto silent on any ban on ...
10 April 2026 TelegraphUnion home minister Amit Shah is to release the BJP’s Sankalpa Patra (Letter of Pledge), the party’s election promises to Bengal’s electors – aka the manifesto – in the 2026 Assembly polls.Shah had released a “chargesheet” against the government ...
10 April 2026 TelegraphFor years, the BJP's equation with Bengal's Matua refugees was built on a single promise -- back the party and the long uncertainty over their citizenship will be resolved. But the final electoral rolls following the Election Commission’s special ...
10 April 2026 TelegraphBengal CPM secretary Md Salim on Thursday launched a scathing attack on the Trinamool Congress and the BJP, alleging a “understanding” between the two parties over deposit mobilisation scams in Bengal.Addressing multiple election rallies in Jalpaiguri district in support ...
10 April 2026 TelegraphA 68-year-old disenfranchised voter from Nadia died after collapsing in a queue to submit a petition before the SIR appellate tribunal in Ranaghat on Thursday afternoon, in an incident that has once again foregrounded the human cost of the ...
10 April 2026 TelegraphBJP national chief Nitin Nabin on Thursday alleged that the Trinamool Congress used clubs to devise plans for booth capture in elections and asked the clubs not to act at the behest of the ruling party in the coming ...
10 April 2026 TelegraphPoliticians cutting across party lines paid their tribute to “endearing” Congress veteran and former Union minister Abu Hasem Khan Choudhury, who died in Calcutta on Wednesday night. He was 88.The body of Khan Choudhury, popularly known as Dalu, was ...
10 April 2026 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday highlighted Nirvachan Sadan's "partisan" ultimatum on its social media handle to her party, the Trinamool Congress, as definitive proof of her party’s solitary struggle to protect Bengal.Mamata launched a scathing attack on what ...
10 April 2026 TelegraphPrime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday added a new word, hisab (accountability), to his famous slogan Sabka Sath, Sabka Vikas for Bengal and asserted that everyone involved in looting people or committing crimes would be brought to book once ...
10 April 2026 TelegraphThe Dhupguri Assembly constituency in Jalpaiguri saw heightened tensions between Trinamool Congress and BJP workers on Wednesday evening.Local Trinamool leaders alleged that a BJP worker, Shibnath Roy, obstructed the women party workers campaigning in the Paschim Magurmari area of ...
10 April 2026 TelegraphThe evacuation of stranded tourists from Lachen in north Sikkim was completed on Thursday.Officials from the Mangan district administration said the operation was conducted under the supervision of the district collector, with active coordination from the Indian Army, the ...
10 April 2026 TelegraphThe father of a 14-year-old girl in Cooch Behar who died in her school on April 7 alleged her possible murder or forced suicide and demanded a thorough police investigation into her death. “My daughter may have been ...
10 April 2026 TelegraphAt each of Calcutta’s 11 Assembly segments, the number of deleted voters far outstrips the margins by which Trinamool or the BJP led from these seats during the 2024 general election.With Trinamool’s vote base of Muslims, women and the ...
10 April 2026 TelegraphPerhaps the Prime Minister has decided that the way to a Bengali voter’s heart is through the stomach. Maybe Trinamool’s claim that a BJP government in Bengal would ban fish-eating has made him nervous.Or, perhaps, the scales have fallen ...
10 April 2026 TelegraphIt’s less than a week to Poila Baisakh, and plans are being finalised. Some residents will visit relatives, others will take part in cultural programmes…. But there’s one ritual every household will look forward to – relishing Bengali sweets.This ...
10 April 2026 TelegraphIf you’re withering in the heat, step into Sekuwa Ghar in IB Block for a cool Himalayan escape. The Nepalese restaurant has just opened an outlet in Salt Lake, on the ground floor of DownTown Mall, that is still ...
10 April 2026 TelegraphA month before polling day, Sujit Bose entered Salt Lake to the beat of drums, the swirl of dancers and slogans that often sounded more celebratory than combative.His first road show in the township on March 29 carried little ...
10 April 2026 TelegraphThe filing of nominations for candidates contesting the three Assembly seats under the Bidhannagar subdivision ended at the Bidhannagar subdivisional office on Thursday, the last day of the process.There was tension outside the office on Tuesday when rival candidates ...
10 April 2026 TelegraphThe Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has fielded a doctor and the Communist Party of India (Marxist) a lawyer to fight outgoing MLA and Trinamul Congress candidate Sujit Bose in the Bidhannagar Assembly constituency.In terms of publicity material, the Opposition ...
10 April 2026 TelegraphDevotees from about half a dozen churches of Kestopur gathered for an Easter rally on Sunday, where prayers for world peace were on everyone’s lips.“It rained this afternoon, so many could not join us. We met at Holy Family ...
10 April 2026 TelegraphCommercial gas cylinders may still be scarce amid the Iran war, but that has not taken the bang out of the Baisakhi Blast that Mani Square hosts in the run-up to Poila Baisakh.Neither has the price of the select ...
10 April 2026 TelegraphThe Supreme Court granted divorce to a couple, observing that their decade-long dispute had “crossed all limits” and assumed the proportions of a “matrimonial battle of Mahabharata”, while awarding ₹5 crore as permanent alimony to the wife and rejecting ...
10 April 2026 TelegraphA fraudulent call centre was busted in an office on Park Street.Personnel there were allegedly making calls to cheat people by making them download loan apps. Seven people have been arrested.Police said they had received information about the illegal ...
10 April 2026 TelegraphThe Enforcement Directorate on Thursday “provisionally attached” assets worth ₹18.5 crore, in the form of mutual funds and shares, belonging to Krishna Damani, former trustee of the South Point Education Society, and his family in connection with an ongoing ...
10 April 2026 TelegraphThe Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday questioned one of the directors of a real estate company as part of its ongoing investigation into an alleged land procurement scam and investor fraud.Sources in the central agency said the company came ...
10 April 2026 TelegraphActors and filmmakers in the Tollygunge studios who have been out of work for several months, allegedly because of an unofficial embargo by powerful studio unions, have expressed willingness to initiate steps to withdraw cases they had filed to ...
10 April 2026 TelegraphA senior aviation official, who spent decades ensuring flights operated safely over India’s eastern skies, can no longer vote.Rajender Singh Lahauria, 61, served in air traffic control (ATC) for more than 25 years, including as director of Patna airport ...
10 April 2026 TelegraphThe high court on Thursday granted the CBI permission to re-examine convicted rapist and murderer Sanjay Roy and other witnesses connected to the brutal killing of a doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in August 2024.The order ...
10 April 2026 TelegraphJadavpur University has directed that any students’ organisation or department planning an event on campus must submit an undertaking assuring that all prescribed noise norms will be strictly followed.A circular issued on Wednesday states that if organisers use a ...
10 April 2026 TelegraphTwo Calcuttans who worked on a project to build petroleum storage tanks in Kuwait nearly two decades ago recalled being overawed by the scale of the country’s oil infrastructure and expressed shock at reports that they were damaged in ...
10 April 2026 TelegraphAn online signature campaign petitioning the Chief Justice of India to restore the voting rights of millions disenfranchised by the “special” electoral roll revision began on Thursday.Organisers of the campaign, a civil society collective formed in the wake of ...
10 April 2026 TelegraphPrime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday unveiled a set of “six guarantees” for Bengal, drawing a detailed rebuttal from Trinamool, which issued a “seven-point reality check” on the BJP’s claims.Addressing a rally in Haldia in Purba Medinipur district, Modi ...
10 April 2026 TelegraphThe Trinamool on Thursday shared a video of a person resembling the Aam Janata Unnayan Party leader Humayun Kabir demanding Rs.1,000 crore from the BJP for the Bengal Assembly polls in lieu of support post-elections.“BJP can get around 100 ...
10 April 2026 TelegraphPrime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday slammed the Mamata Banerjee government in West Bengal for its alleged misrule and appealed to voters to oust the TMC from power in the upcoming assembly polls.Addressing a gathering in Haldia, the backyard ...
10 April 2026 TelegraphTwo complaints have been filed against Shankar Ghosh, the incumbent BJP MLA of Siliguri and the party’s repeat candidate and a Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha leader, over alleged misconduct on April 5 and 6.According to police sources, the Trinamool ...
10 April 2026 TelegraphThe Election Commission on Wednesday removed Anurag Yadav, the general observer of the Cooch Behar South Assembly seat, during a virtual meeting with 294 observers posted across as many Assembly constituencies in Bengal.Sources said chief election commissioner Gyanesh Kumar ...
9 April 2026 TelegraphThe Supreme Court has ruled that a candidate from a community that enjoys reservations in government jobs can be appointed to a post in the administration in the unreserved category based on merit, even if there is an eligible ...
9 April 2026 TelegraphThe Trinamool Congress on Wednesday managed to get under the skin of the Election Commission at a meeting where the party complained about the alleged deployment of biased officers in Bengal, prompting the poll panel to take the rare ...
9 April 2026 TelegraphWhat's in a name? Apparently, a lot in the Karandighi and Rajganj Assembly seats, where multiple candidates with identical names are contesting the polls.In Karandighi, North Dinajpur, three Independents have filed nominations with names identical to those of the ...
9 April 2026 TelegraphBJP national president Nitin Nabin on Wednesday played the Bangladeshi infiltrator card at a public meeting in Alipurduar and simultaneously promised a "better life" to the region's tea population.“(Chief minister) Mamata Banerjee rushed to the Supreme Court to save ...
9 April 2026 TelegraphMamata Banerjee on Wednesday hit out at the BJP-Election Commission "got-up game" of the special intensive revision (SIR) process, vowing to move court again to challenge the mass deletions, and questioned the very purpose of establishing tribunals to hear ...
9 April 2026 TelegraphThe percentage of Muslims removed after adjudication from the revised electoral rolls of Bhabanipur is double the community’s share of the segment’s population, a study has shown.Bhabanipur, represented by Mamata Banerjee in the Assembly, is the hottest seat in ...
9 April 2026 TelegraphOver 57 per cent of the 90.82 lakh names removed from the Bengal voter list after the SIR drive are from 10 districts bordering Bangladesh and more than 70 per cent of these people are Muslims, district-wise data made ...
9 April 2026 TelegraphAn escort vehicle of senior Congress leader and former MP Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury was damaged after being hit by a sand-laden truck in West Bengal's Murshidabad district on Wednesday evening, police said.Chowdhury, who is contesting the Assembly polls from ...
9 April 2026 TelegraphMamata Banerjee chose to walk from her Harish Chatterjee Street home to Alipore Survey Building to file her nomination as the Trinamool candidate from Bhabanipur on Wednesday. Hundreds of supporters followed her on foot. They had started gathering at ...
9 April 2026 TelegraphThe Election Commission on Wednesday decided to deploy an additional 150 companies of central forces in Bengal for the Assembly polls, raising the total deployment to 2,550 companies. Officers in the state police directorate said this was the highest ...
9 April 2026 TelegraphCalcutta University has announced that a candidate will be admitted to the undergraduate honours programme for BA and BSc based on the marks of the best four subjects and the marks obtained in the “subject/related subject” in the board ...
9 April 2026 TelegraphThe Election Commission has announced a set of guidelines for all jails in the state, including daily tracking of mobile jammers and cancellation of paroles for inmates till May 6, sources said.“All mobile jammers and signal jammers installed in ...
9 April 2026 TelegraphThe alleged kingpin of the Saradha scam that shook the state 13 years ago obtained bail in possibly the last case pending against him on Wednesday. Lawyers in Calcutta High Court said Sudipta Sen, the owner of the chit ...
9 April 2026 TelegraphIn the city’s two election districts, 64% of voters under adjudication were deleted in Calcutta North, compared with 36% in Calcutta South, data shared by Election Commission sources showed.The stark difference in deletion rates between the two parts of ...
9 April 2026 TelegraphA time-tested system was dismantled in one fell swoop by the Election Commission, a veteran rights activist said at a protest meeting against the SIR on Wednesday.“The presumption of citizenship is a basic tenet. An election model had been ...
9 April 2026 TelegraphInitially, voters were seeking guidance to fill out the complicated SIR enumeration form.Now, they have anxious queries about what happens if their names are deleted from the electoral rolls despite appealing to the tribunals.Metro spoke to a lawyer who ...
9 April 2026 TelegraphMany people who struggle to make ends meet are now desperately seeking legal help after their names were removed from the electoral rolls.The exclusion of these daily wage earners has created deep uncertainty, leaving many unsure of what steps ...
9 April 2026 TelegraphThe Calcutta High Court on Wednesday granted conditional bail to multi-crore Saradha ponzi scam accused Sudipta Sen in the last two of the 300-odd criminal cases against him, paving the way for his release from jail after 13 years.A ...
8 April 2026 TelegraphMore than 40 per cent of voters deleted in Bhabanipur after adjudication as part of the special intensive revision of electoral rolls are Muslims though the community makes up only 20.1 per cent of the population in Bengal chief ...
8 April 2026 TelegraphThe Congress on Tuesday unveiled its manifesto for the Assembly elections, promising a sweeping overhaul of the state’s socio-economic framework through a series of welfare-driven and development-oriented measures.Releasing the document, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge underscored the urgent need to ...
8 April 2026 TelegraphA four-member delegation from the Trinamool Congress will meet the Election Commission on Wednesday morning amid a face-off between the party and the poll body over the deletion of names from the voter list as part of the special ...
8 April 2026 TelegraphInner conflicts have emerged within the BJP in South Dinajpur as rebel leaders have filed nominations as Independent candidates in Gangarampur and Balurghat Assembly constituencies.In Gangarampur, local BJP leader Chittaranjan Barman filed his nomination as an Independent on Monday, ...
8 April 2026 TelegraphThe district education department of North Dinajpur and the administration have served show-cause notices to the authorities of a state-aided high school in the district for cancelling an examination without prior notice because of a public meeting organised by ...
8 April 2026 TelegraphAround 1,000 tourists remain stranded at Lachen since the road cave-in near the Tarum Chu bridge in north Sikkim on Sunday.The connectivity between Chungthang and Lachen has been completely cut off, and continuous snowfall along the alternative route through ...
8 April 2026 TelegraphChief Minister Mamata Banerjee has congratulated Sanjita Oraon, a tribal athlete from Naxalbari block of the Siliguri subdivision, for winning a gold medal at the inaugural Khelo India Tribal Games 2026 in Chhattisgarh.Sanjita, 23, clinched the gold medal in ...
8 April 2026 TelegraphTrinamool Congress leader Abhishek Banerjee on Tuesday tried to stoke the sentiments of the Rajbanshi community as he addressed three public meetings in the northern districts of Cooch Behar, Alipurduar and Jalpaiguri.“The Prime Minister visited Cooch Behar and addressed ...
8 April 2026 TelegraphMamata Banerjee on Tuesday said the BJP and the Election Commission had an unholy nexus to disenfranchise millions of legitimate Indian citizens from Bengal selectively through special intensive revision (SIR).Framing the April 23-29 Assembly polls as a visceral fight ...
8 April 2026 TelegraphMamata Banerjee on Tuesday accused the BJP-led central government of orchestrating “selective disenfranchisement” by targeting vulnerable communities, particularly the Matuas and minorities, through large-scale deletions from electoral rolls.Addressing back-to-back rallies at Chakdaha in Nadia and Bongaon in North 24-Parganas, ...
8 April 2026 TelegraphPolitical tensions in Siliguri escalated once again on Tuesday following fresh allegations of poster defacement against the BJP by the Trinamool Congress.Gautam Deb, a senior Trinamool leader and the party’s candidate from the Siliguri Assembly constituency, has accused the ...
8 April 2026 TelegraphOver 46 lakh people have been struck off the electoral rolls in the seven districts with high Muslim concentration, accounting for over half of the 90 lakh voters declared ineligible across Bengal.Apart from Malda, Murshidabad and North Dinajpur, there ...
8 April 2026 TelegraphAs many as 90.82 lakh names have been shorn off the post-SIR Bengal voter list with 27.16 lakh of the 60 lakh people under adjudication being deleted, according to Election Commission sources.The post-SIR electoral roll now stands at 6.77 ...
8 April 2026 TelegraphThe Enforcement Directorate searched the premises of Kolkata-based realty company Merlin Group and its promoters on Wednesday as part of a money laundering investigation, officials said. About seven premises linked to the group and its promoters, Sushil Mohta and ...
8 April 2026 TelegraphA Calcuttan who had travelled to more than 50 countries on his Indian passport learnt on Tuesday morning that he was no longer an Indian voter.Imran Zaki, 58, a successful businessman and social worker, said he was scared and ...
8 April 2026 TelegraphA division bench of the high court, comprising Justice Rajarshi Bharadwaj and Justice Uday Kumar, on Tuesday pulled up both the state police and the CBI for the “exorbitant delay” in completing the probe and trial against Saradha group ...
8 April 2026 TelegraphSt Xavier’s College on Park Street has informed students that those exiting the four-year undergraduate programme after the third year in July will be awarded a “graduate with major” degree.An honours degree will be awarded to students who complete ...
8 April 2026 TelegraphThe work to bridge the gap on the upcoming New Garia–Airport Metro corridor (Orange Line) at the Chingrighata crossing will be carried out in two phases — from May 15 to 17 and again between May 22 and 24, ...
8 April 2026 TelegraphAn IndiGo aircraft was damaged after an unmanned vehicle hit the plane which was standing at the parking bay on Tuesday evening.Airport officials said the Airbus A320 aircraft was scheduled to fly to Guwahati and was waiting for passengers ...
8 April 2026 TelegraphThe high court on Tuesday constituted a committee of three former judges to decide procedures for the appellate tribunals that will hear appeals from voters removed from the electoral rolls.Sources said former Chief Justice of Calcutta High Court T.S. ...
8 April 2026 TelegraphA flurry of activity marked the campus of a central institute near IIM Joka on Tuesday afternoon. Men ferried chairs up and down staircases, two others were setting up LAN ports to connect devices across the network, while a ...
8 April 2026 TelegraphThousands of voters whose names were struck off the electoral rolls queued up on Tuesday to submit offline appeals at the Alipore Survey building and the office of South 24 Parganas’ district magistrate, with some travelling for hours and ...
8 April 2026 TelegraphThe Election Commission has directed poll officials to operate through WhatsApp groups for “seamless coordination” in the run-up to and on polling days.Separate WhatsApp groups will be created comprising police observers, divisional deputy commissioners, assistant commissioners, CAPF commandants and ...
8 April 2026 TelegraphAll police stations under Kolkata Police have been directed by the Election Commission to register cases in cognisable offences on the same day, failing which the officer responsible for refusal or delay could face suspension, sources in the poll ...
8 April 2026 TelegraphAn exercise billed as corrective has led to exclusions on a scale the country has never seen.The special intensive revision of electoral rolls in poll-bound Bengal has removed close to 91 lakh names, or nearly 12% of the state’s ...
8 April 2026 TelegraphActors and technicians at the Tollygunge studios decided to resume work after a day’s strike, but said none of them would immediately take up assignments with the production house involved in the shoot where actor Rahul Arunoday Banerjee died.At ...
8 April 2026 TelegraphBiswajeet Poddar, also known as Sona Pappu, who is absconding from the Kolkata Police and the Enforcement Directorate, has claimed the BJP was fielding Rakesh Singh from the Kolkata Port area.“I have come with breaking news. Criminal Rakesh Singh, ...
8 April 2026 TelegraphOver 27 lakh voters were found ineligible by the Election Commission at the end of the deadline for the adjudication process in Bengal, which will vote in Assembly elections on April 23 and 29.A district-wise list of eligible and ...
8 April 2026 TelegraphCongress candidate from Malatipur in Malda district, Mausam Noor, has demanded that the Election Commission settle the voter list first and then conduct the Assembly polls in Bengal.A recorded video message of Noor was played at a meeting organised ...
8 April 2026 TelegraphA girl was shot dead by a distant relative in the Islampur subdivision of North Dinajpur district late on Sunday for allegedly helping his daughter to elope with a youth.The police have arrested Abdul Aziz and initiated an investigation.A ...
8 April 2026 TelegraphThe Darjeeling Himalayan Railway (DHR) reported a significant rise in passenger footfall and revenue generation in the 2025–2026 fiscal year in comparison to the 2024- 2025 financial year. According to official sources, DHR recorded a passenger footfall of ...
8 April 2026 TelegraphA new association of tourist transport operators, the North Bengal Tourist Transport Operators Association (NBTTOA), was launched in Siliguri on Monday to address the pressing concerns of the sector.Its representatives addressed a news meet on Monday to outline key ...
8 April 2026 TelegraphWhat began as a protest anthem against Nepal’s monarchy in 1979 resurfaced in the streets of Darjeeling and Kurseong on Monday, with the strains of "Gaun Gaun Bata Utha (Rise Up From Every Village)" stirring political and cultural memories.In ...
8 April 2026 TelegraphSwapna Barman, the heptathlete and Asian Games gold medallist fielded by the Trinamool Congress from the Rajganj Assembly seat of Jalpaiguri district, filed her nomination on Monday.“Today was the last day of nomination, and thankfully, I could file it. ...
8 April 2026 TelegraphThe Congress leadership in Malda experienced both relief and concern on the final day of nomination filing for the first phase of the Assembly elections scheduled for April 23.In an important development for the party, Mottakin Alam, a former ...
8 April 2026 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday made a surprise attack on her Tamil Nadu counterpart M.K. Stalin, accusing him of being in a tacit understanding with the saffron camp.Stalin is not only a key constituent of the anti-BJP INDIA ...
8 April 2026 TelegraphCalcutta University has deferred its undergraduate first-semester theory exams scheduled after April 13.The decision follows reports from several affiliated colleges that they are unable to host exams, as their campuses have been requisitioned to accommodate central security forces deployed ...
8 April 2026 TelegraphSiliguri mayor Gautam Deb, the Trinamool candidate contesting from the Siliguri Assembly seat, and Shankar Ghosh, the BJP's sitting MLA who his party has again fielded from the seat, got into a war of words on Monday.Deb alleged that ...
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