In a first this election season in West Bengal, the Election Commission on Friday ordered the immediate suspension of Basanti Police Station Inspector-in-Charge Avijit Paul for allegedly failing to tackle BJP-TMC clashes on March 26, according to a notice ...
28 March 2026 TelegraphEleven Trinamool nominees are still unsure whether their names are still in the electoral rolls for the Bengal Assembly polls.Nine out of these nominees are from the minority community.State industries minister Shashi Panja, state environment minister Md Ghulam Rabbani, ...
28 March 2026 TelegraphWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday reiterated her demand that cooking gas produced in the state should not be diverted elsewhere in the country, citing concerns over a perceived LPG shortage amidst the ongoing West Asia conflict.Responding ...
28 March 2026 TelegraphTwo nights, one day. This is not the duration of a holiday at an exotic locale, but the time some auto drivers spent waiting outside the City Centre petrol pump for LPG this week.Till last week, the LPG shortage ...
28 March 2026 TelegraphThe BJP was gripped by dissent in Cooch Behar and Jalpaiguri districts ahead of the Assembly elections, with sections of party workers protesting against the choice of candidates in the Cooch Behar South and the Rajganj constituencies. Within 24 ...
28 March 2026 TelegraphDarjeeling: A tribute to 50 years of Sikkim’s statehood will be etched across 50 mountain passes.The Himalayan Mountaineering Institute (HMI) based in Darjeeling has set out to traverse 50 Himalayan passes, each climb a marker of the state’s golden ...
28 March 2026 TelegraphResidents of Agra, a village within the Hili police station limits near the India-Bangladesh border in South Dinajpur district, have accused Border Security Force (BSF) personnel of damaging their betel leaf plantations. “We have been cultivating ...
28 March 2026 TelegraphThe CPM on Thursday said it formed teams of lawyers and Red Volunteers to help genuine voters whose names have been struck off poll rolls.The Election Commission has set up 19 tribunals across Bengal to deal with appeals of ...
28 March 2026 TelegraphThe Election Commission has requested Calcutta High Court to allow it to publish day-to-day supplementary lists so that the under-adjudication voters whose names get deleted have more time to appeal before the tribunals.“We have been told that a decision ...
28 March 2026 TelegraphGautam Deb, who is contesting on the Trinamool Congress ticket from the Siliguri Assembly seat, has outlined a five-point development agenda for the upcoming elections and promised a new district with headquarters in Siliguri.While interacting with residents at Pranami ...
28 March 2026 TelegraphThe Trinamool Congress leadership in Dinhata, Cooch Behar district, has accused Ajay Roy, the BJP candidate from the seat, and his security personnel of threatening a Trinamool worker at gunpoint on Thursday.Trinamool filed a complaint with Dinhata police, which ...
28 March 2026 TelegraphThe Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) has criticised the Narendra Modi government at the Centre, accusing it of ignorance regarding the current administrative situation in the Darjeeling hills.The hill body's reaction comes after a recent statement by Nityanand Rai, the ...
28 March 2026 TelegraphMohammad Zakir Hossain Biswas spent hours pacing outside the tribunal at the district collectorate here for two days, but couldn’t find anyone to submit an application challenging the non-enrolment of his name on the supplementary list published by the ...
28 March 2026 TelegraphTrinamool Congress leader Abhishek Banerjee on Thursday said politics should be ideally pursued on karma (work), whereas the BJP mixed politics with dharma (religion). The Trinamool national general secretary addressed a public meeting ...
28 March 2026 TelegraphSuvendu Adhikari on Thursday urged the mother of the RG Kar rape-and-murder victim to take part in the BJP’s campaign in Bhabanipur against Mamata Banerjee at least once. “If you have any time after campaigning in Panihati, I request ...
28 March 2026 TelegraphMamata Banerjee on Thursday set a five-to-six-month expiry date for the Narendra Modi government at the Centre, predicting its premature collapse this monsoon. The chief minister and Trinamool Congress chief also issued an ultimatum to those she deemed the ...
28 March 2026 TelegraphWorld peace, prosperity and a new LPG cylinder — these seemed to be the top prayers of devotees gathered for Eid ul Fitr namaz in the twin townships this year.“This will be the first time that biryani will be ...
28 March 2026 TelegraphLarge sections of Bangur Avenue are in the throes of a dusty and noisy change. In every lane of the neighbourhood off VIP Road, there is a minimum of three or four houses that have been torn down to ...
28 March 2026 TelegraphKendriya Vidyalaya 1 celebrated its annual day at Bharatiyam in EZCC with a variety of programmes.The show commenced with the lighting of the ceremonial lamp by assistant commissioners of the Kendriya Vidyalaya regional office Dibakar Bhoi and Chintapalli Vijaya ...
28 March 2026 TelegraphWe started with paperless currency. Now that we have smartphones, we are back to being paperless, with digital currency,” remarked Rajendra Yadav, superintending archaeologist, Calcutta circle, of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI). He was addressing members of the ...
28 March 2026 TelegraphElderly residents staying alone in Ward 39 were promised help to clean their backyards if they were unable to maintain it on their own. Ahead of monsoon, the season for vector-borne diseases, local councillor and mayor-in-council member Rajesh Chirimar ...
28 March 2026 TelegraphA 30-year-old man was killed with a bullet in the head while partying on a friend’s terrace early on Thursday morning in a residential neighbourhood near Garia.A bullet grazed the host’s head.The police said the victims and the attackers ...
28 March 2026 TelegraphThe two-day sports meet at DPS Megacity saw multiple activities and plenty of fun on the field.The event had several special guests, including former footballer Mehrajuddin Wadoo. “Parents should realise that sports are important. It doesn’t matter which field ...
28 March 2026 TelegraphThe Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur on Thursday tied up with Charnock Hospital for fostering innovation, research, and technological advancement in the healthcare sector. An MoU, marking the tie-up, was signed in the presence of Suman Chakraborty, IIT Kharagpur ...
28 March 2026 TelegraphIIT Kharagpur has decided to file an application with the National Medical Council (NMC) by March 31 to introduce a postgraduate MD (Doctor of Medicine) programme, said the institute’s director on Thursday.It would be the first IIT to offer ...
28 March 2026 TelegraphMembers of the Jadavpur University unit of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), the student wing of the RSS, performed a puja on the campus to mark Ram Navami.The students wore saffron headbands and performed the puja at the ...
28 March 2026 TelegraphA goods vehicle carrying cigarette lighters that was parked in a lot outside the FCI godown on Hyde Road caught fire on Thursday evening.The fire spread to several vehicles parked nearby and caused multiple explosions in the port area.Fourteen ...
28 March 2026 TelegraphLong working hours and rising costs are weighing on the city’s bakeries and confectioneries as Easter approaches, amid an LPG shortage.This is one of the busiest periods for bakeries, big or small, as they prepare traditional Easter treats — ...
28 March 2026 TelegraphHumse hi tum ho, yeh itihas kahega / Baap to baap rahega (You were born from us, history has it / Once a father, always a father) Calcutta: Songs like this played at full ...
28 March 2026 TelegraphA strong spell of rain, winds and a brief hailstorm struck Dum Dum and its neighbouring areas on Thursday afternoon, disrupting flight operations and forcing the aircraft carrying chief minister Mamata Banerjee to hover for more than an hour ...
28 March 2026 TelegraphOfficers-in-charge of police stations have been instructed to identify and prosecute those responsible for election-related trouble in 2021 and 2024 within their jurisdictions at the earliest.At a meeting on Wednesday with OCs of police stations across the city, senior ...
28 March 2026 TelegraphSenior BJP leader Dilip Ghosh on Thursday claimed that if his party comes to power in poll-bound West Bengal, police would undergo a complete transformation and start conducting "Uttar Pradesh-style encounters" against criminals.Addressing an election campaign in his old ...
26 March 2026 TelegraphState industries minister Shashi Panja, seeking re-election from north Calcutta's Shyampukur, was marked under adjudication when the final draft rolls were published on February 28.Since midnight of March 24, (Monday) the minister and Trinamool nominee has not been able ...
26 March 2026 TelegraphWest Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee's plane landed in Kolkata airport at 5:20 p.m. after remaining in the air over one hour on Thursday.Her plane could not land at Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport due to heavy rain ...
26 March 2026 TelegraphClashes broke out between Trinamool and BJP workers during a door-to-door campaign by the saffron party’s nominee in South 24-Parganas’ Basanti on Thursday.At around 1 pm, BJP nominee Bikash Sardar alleged that a group of Trinamool supporters blocked their ...
26 March 2026 TelegraphIndian elections have always had a flair for the theatre. And in Bengal, where politics is much more entwined with daily life than most other if not all places in India, that drama can throw up spectacles to behold. ...
26 March 2026 TelegraphThe impending Bengal Assembly polls marks a return of the Bengali bhadrolok in the state’s politics.A section of the nominees from both the ruling Trinamool and the main opposition, the BJP, are presentable, articulate and possess the ability to ...
26 March 2026 TelegraphThe Election Commission on Wednesday transferred East Midnapore district magistrate, who is also the district election officer (DEO), Unice Rishin Ismail, and posted Niranjan Kumar, a 2007-batch IAS officer, in his place after the EC found some contractual employees’ ...
26 March 2026 TelegraphNearly 200 tourists were stranded at Chungthang in north Sikkim after multiple landslides, triggered by heavy rainfall, disrupted road connectivity, officials said on Wednesday morning.Mangan district collector Anant Jain said the landslides occurred along the crucial Chungthang-Lachen route on ...
26 March 2026 TelegraphA team from the Chanchal police station in Malda acted on a tip-off and arrested five persons with firearms at Nalkhutiya late on Tuesday. Those arrested were Sukdev Saha, Amit Kumar Saha, Ganesh Mahaldar, Md Rejaul and Md Amad, ...
26 March 2026 TelegraphA political confrontation has erupted between the Trinamool Congress and the BJP over the funding and execution of a road project at a village in the Balurghat block of South Dinajpur district. The BJP said the funds to repair ...
26 March 2026 TelegraphA Trinamool Congress leader suffered a bullet injury at Gangarampur in South Dinajpur district on Tuesday night when another leader of the party opened fire after waylaying the former's car near the local police station. Shiba Chowdhury, 39, is ...
26 March 2026 TelegraphThe police commissioners and the superintendents of police across Bengal were made to take multiple choice question examination on Wednesday by the Election Commission of India to test their poll preparedness. The exam was conducted by the India International ...
26 March 2026 TelegraphThe Centre has stated that it appointed an interlocutor for Darjeeling, the Terai and the Dooars, because of poor representation by the Bengal government during tripartite meetings.Pankaj Kumar Singh, a former deputy national security adviser, was appointed as the ...
26 March 2026 TelegraphA Trinamool Congress (TMC) worker was shot dead and another youth critically injured in a late-night firing incident in Baghajatin, triggering panic ahead of the upcoming West Bengal Assembly elections.The deceased has been identified as Rahul Dey (around 35), ...
26 March 2026 TelegraphEven before the Congress announced its candidates for the Assembly elections in Bengal, senior party leader and former state Congress president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury began projecting himself as the party’s nominee from the Baharampur Assembly seat with his supporters ...
26 March 2026 TelegraphAll India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) president Asaduddin Owaisi on Wednesday announced a new alliance with suspended Trinamool Congress MLA Humayun Kabir’s newly formed party to contest the Assembly elections, posing a substantial and unprecedented threat to Mamata Banerjee’s Muslim ...
26 March 2026 TelegraphA new controversy has erupted in Malda over the appointment of a police observer by the Election Commission, triggering a war of words between the Trinamool Congress and the BJP.On Tuesday, Trinamool leaders, including MP Partha Bhowmik and state ...
26 March 2026 TelegraphWest Bengal has stepped up security measures ahead of Ram Navami celebrations, deploying around 3,000 police personnel across the state and imposing strict restrictions on processions to maintain law and order, a senior officer said.Carrying of weapons has been ...
26 March 2026 TelegraphThe Malda Zilla Kisan Jati Seva Samiti, an influential community-based platform, formally announced its support for the BJP on Wednesday ahead of the Assembly polls.Leaders of the organisation, led by secretary Ashish Mandal, made the announcement at the BJP ...
26 March 2026 TelegraphA thunderstorm disrupted flight operations at Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport for nearly an hour on Thursday, forcing a diversion and delaying several flights.The disruption lasted from 4.22 pm to 5.19 pm as rain, gusty winds and lightning ...
26 March 2026 TelegraphKolkata Knight Riders enter the 2026 IPL with high hopes after splurging a record Rs 25.2 crore on Australian all-rounder Cameron Green, but behind the ambition, tactical challenges at Eden Gardens cast a shadow over their campaign.KKR face a ...
26 March 2026 TelegraphThe process to resume operations from the old emergency ward of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital has been initiated, said the hospital's medical superintendent on Wednesday. The old emergency ward was shut down after it was ransacked on ...
26 March 2026 TelegraphAt RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, several basic services for patients are either missing or in disrepair.The washrooms are not just locked; those that remain open are dirty and barely usable. Stretchers are often unavailable, and even when ...
26 March 2026 TelegraphThe woman who ran a beauty parlour near Garia and was killed by a man inside it on Tuesday died because of “excessive bleeding from razor attacks”, her post-mortem report has suggested. Rupbani Das, in her 40s, was attacked ...
26 March 2026 TelegraphThe school service commission (SSC) has filed a petition in the high court, alleging that it is facing difficulties in conducting counselling, document verification and interviews for the teacher recruitment process as the Election Commission (EC) has engaged 26 ...
26 March 2026 TelegraphSerious concerns about electoral transparency have emerged in parts of Bengal following large-scale deletions of names from voter lists, triggering protests in North 24-Parganas and Malda districts.At Gobra village in the Basirhat North Assembly constituency, the residents staged a ...
26 March 2026 TelegraphThe BJP on Wednesday evening announced that the mother of the junior doctor, who was raped and murdered at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in August 2024, would be its candidate from Panihati, North 24-Parganas.The announcement came ...
26 March 2026 TelegraphThe Election Commission (EC) could publish the outcome of 10 lakh out of the 29 lakh “under adjudication” cases in Bengal in the first supplementary list that deleted around 41 per cent of the voters for lack of documents, ...
26 March 2026 TelegraphThe Trinamool Congress tore into the Election Commission of India on Wednesday over the appointment of Surajit Roy as the returning officer (RO) for the Bhabanipur Assembly constituency, where chief minister Mamata Banerjee is set to defend her seat ...
26 March 2026 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday kicked off her election campaign in north Bengal with three public meetings where she highlighted the “deletion” of a large number of names from the electoral roll and accused the BJP of trying ...
26 March 2026 TelegraphThe Election Commission of India (ECI) on Wednesday ordered immediate transfer of the District Election Officer (DEO) and District Magistrate of Purba Medinipur following complaints of irregularities in poll duty deployment ahead of the West Bengal assembly elections.In an ...
26 March 2026 TelegraphThe BJP has given a ticket to the mother of the RG Kar victim from Panihati constituency as it announced the names of candidates for 19 more constituencies in West Bengal on Wednesday for the state Assembly polls 2026.After ...
26 March 2026 TelegraphThe Election Commission on Wednesday told the Calcutta High Court that it is within its powers to transfer and post officers for the conduct of free and fair elections.Making submissions before a division bench presided by Chief Justice Sujoy ...
26 March 2026 TelegraphPolice stations across Calcutta have begun setting up additional checkpoints following a recent directive from the Election Commission ahead of the elections.The poll panel has asked Kolkata Police to triple the number of checkpoints compared to the 2024 elections. ...
26 March 2026 TelegraphThe Centre on Wednesday said the mandatory gap between delivery of a domestic LPG cylinder (14.2kg) and booking the next has not been extended, remaining 25 days in urban areas and 45 days in rural areas.However, several LPG distributors ...
26 March 2026 TelegraphMore than 60 rallies, big and small, will criss-cross the city on the occasion of Ram Navami on Thursday.Police said traffic is likely to be most affected in multiple pockets of central and north Calcutta due to the processions. ...
26 March 2026 TelegraphNone of them knows where to seek redress.The Supreme Court has mandated appellate tribunals to decide individual cases.Most of those cast off the voters’ list have only heard about the tribunals, headed by retired judges, but do not know ...
26 March 2026 TelegraphAt the close of counting in the Bengal Assembly polls on May 2 five years ago, Suvendu Adhikari had edged past Mamata Banerjee by 1,956 votes.The defeat has continued to rankle the Trinamool supremo and the party’s rank and ...
25 March 2026 TelegraphSenior BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari on Wednesday claimed that around 79 lakh "fake" names have been removed from the state's electoral rolls during the SIR, and asserted that this would help the BJP secure more than 177 seats in ...
25 March 2026 TelegraphBengal remains in the dark about the final voters' list, with 15 days left before nominations close for the second phase of polling, as 705 judicial officers race to finalise a “fool proof” roll promised by the Election Commission ...
25 March 2026 TelegraphThe Election Commission (EC) is investigating a technical glitch that briefly marked all voters in West Bengal as “under adjudication” on its portal, officials said on Wednesday.The issue surfaced on Tuesday night when voters checking their details using Epic ...
25 March 2026 TelegraphThe Centre on Wednesday denied reports quoting LPG dealers that the wait times for cooking-gas cylinder refills had been increased, but consumers and industry representatives in Bengal The Telegraph Online spoke to had a different tale to tell.“Reports circulating ...
25 March 2026 TelegraphAIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Wednesday claimed that Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's politics helped the BJP grow in West Bengal. The senior leader slammed the Trinamool Congress, alleging that the party bagged Muslim votes but did nothing for the ...
25 March 2026 TelegraphTennis star Leander Paes called on BJP national president Nitin Nabin in a New Town hotel on Tuesday, setting off speculations that the meeting could be a prelude to his candidature in the Bengal Assembly polls.Although Paes was not ...
25 March 2026 TelegraphChief Minister Mamata Banerjee reached north Bengal on Tuesday to kick off her election campaign in the region where the BJP had performed better than the Trinamool Congress in the 2021 Assembly polls.Around 3.25pm, Mamata landed on a helipad ...
25 March 2026 TelegraphA single bench of the Calcutta High Court at the Circuit Bench at Jalpaiguri heard a petition filed by Swapna Barman, the heptathlete and Asian Games gold medalist who is also contesting at the ensuing Assembly elections on Trinamool’s ...
25 March 2026 TelegraphA group of BJP workers from Hooghly district on Tuesday agitated at the party’s Salt Lake office, demanding the replacement of Sumana Sarkar with someone from the old guard as the Balagarh candidate.The protest took place on a day ...
25 March 2026 TelegraphThe Chopra block Congress committee in North Dinajpur independently announced its candidate for the Assembly elections, citing the “unnecessary delay” by the party high command in releasing the official list of nominees.On Monday, Congress leaders of the block nominated ...
25 March 2026 TelegraphUnfavourable weather conditions across north Bengal and Sikkim have raised concerns among political parties ahead of the Assembly elections and the mountain state’s civic polls, which will be held on April 24. Heavy rainfall has affected several districts ...
25 March 2026 TelegraphCalcutta: A complete lack of clarity on the part of the Election Commission left a majority of the under-adjudication voters in the dark throughout Tuesday as they struggled to find out whether their names were approved for inclusion in ...
25 March 2026 TelegraphTwo separate Supreme Court benches on Tuesday admonished the Bengal government for the controversy-ridden SIR process in the state and its objection to the Enforcement Directorate’s plea against the alleged obstruction to a raid in Calcutta on January 8. ...
25 March 2026 TelegraphPoll-bound Bengal is all set to witness unprecedented celebrations of Ram Navami, with the saffron ecosystem set to organise over 4,000 processions and pujas — at least 1,000 more than the figure last year.Ram Navami will be observed over ...
25 March 2026 TelegraphKhaleda Banu heals patients at the Murshidabad Medical College Hospital, but she cannot find a remedy for a missing line of text on the poll rolls.The 28-year-old doctor’s name has been struck off the rolls following a contentious “adjudication” ...
25 March 2026 TelegraphBangshibadan Barman, who heads a faction of the Greater Cooch Behar Peoples’ Association (GCPA), joined the BJP in Calcutta on Tuesday.Barman, who is still the chairman of the Rajbanshi development and cultural board formed by the state government and ...
25 March 2026 TelegraphMamata Banerjee on Tuesday issued a clarion call, presumably to every non-NDA party in the country, to set aside differences and close ranks on the allegedly unholy nexus between the BJP and the Election Commission to establish a one-party ...
25 March 2026 TelegraphThe IIT Kharagpur director said at a lecture at St Xavier’s University that although artificial intelligence enables policymakers to make decisions instantly, such decisions must be vetted by “ethical judgment that requires deliberation”. Suman Chakraborty was addressing a medal-awarding ...
25 March 2026 TelegraphThe Metro Orange Line will reach Sector V by the end of this year if the clearance for lifting concrete decks at Chingrighata is granted by the police this month, railway officials said.“Once the gap at Chingrighata is plugged, ...
25 March 2026 TelegraphAn emeritus professor at the Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, who also served as a National Chair of Science, has written to the ministry of statistics and programme implementation opposing its move to place the ISI Bill before the Union ...
25 March 2026 TelegraphThe Centre has extended the mandatory gap between the delivery of one domestic LPG (14.2kg) cylinder and booking the next refill from 25 to 35 days, distributors said on Tuesday.Urban families with double-cylinder connections — a provision to keep ...
25 March 2026 TelegraphThe state secondary education board has initiated the police verification process to appoint 168 teachers at the Plus II level in the first phase.The process marks the resumption of teacher appointments at government-aided schools after a 10-year gap. After ...
25 March 2026 TelegraphA woman running a beauty parlour was allegedly hacked to death inside her shop near Garia on Tuesday afternoon by a man suspected to be her paramour. The man later slit his own throat and died, police said.Rupbani Das, ...
25 March 2026 TelegraphRam Navami, the latest addition to Bengal’s packed festival calendar, will be celebrated on Thursday and Friday.Barely a month before the state goes to the polls, nerves are taut. The Election Commission has replaced much of the top brass ...
25 March 2026 TelegraphPolice on Tuesday recorded the statements of public works department engineers and representatives of the private firm that manufactured Lift 2 at the trauma care building of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital.Sources said the engineers were questioned on ...
25 March 2026 TelegraphRashad Hasan, 38, had been trying to download the supplementary voter list since Monday night, but without success. His growing anxiety turned into frustration, and by Tuesday evening, hopelessness.Susmita Bhattacharjee, 40, faced the same ordeal.Both Rashad and Susmita were ...
25 March 2026 TelegraphThe Calcutta High Court on Tuesday allowed a Ram Navami procession by an organisation in Howrah on March 26 but imposed strict restrictions on carrying weapons.Petitioner Anjani Putra Sena, a non-profit organisation, moved the high court claiming that the ...
24 March 2026 TelegraphIndividual voters stuck in the “adjudication” limbo of the Election Commission’s special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls may or may not get to know whether they will get to vote but as of post-noon Tuesday it is still ...
24 March 2026 TelegraphAs tensions in West Asia continue to rise, the Indian share market is experiencing sharp volatility, driven by a storm of geopolitical conflict, energy shocks and a shift in global monetary policy. The Nifty 50 dropped to 23,114 on ...
24 March 2026 TelegraphPen lovers from across Kolkata, and India, flocked to the Pen Mahotsav at the Indian Council for Cultural Relations on Park Street on March 20. From budding collectors to seasoned fountain pen loyalists, the exhibition unfolded as a paradise ...
24 March 2026 TelegraphCalcutta University is struggling to implement the National Education Policy (NEP) at the postgraduate level due to the shortage of teachers and lack of funds, the vice-chancellor of the university said.CU vice-chancellor Ashutosh Ghosh raised the issue during his ...
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