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  • EC flags 47 lakh voter names for deletion in Bengal; probes three booths with ‘zero self-mapping’

    The number of estimated voters likely to be eliminated from West Bengal’s electoral roll has touched 47,06,902, according to the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of West Bengal. Officials emphasised that this figure is provisional.EC sources said the 47 lakh ...

    4 December 2025 Indian Express
    Mamata defends Waqf Act implementation: ‘Won’t allow anyone to touch properties here, BJP made the law’

    West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday defended her government’s position on the Centre’s Waqf Amendment Act, 2025, saying the law was “made by the BJP” and that her government “will not allow anyone to touch” Waqf properties ...

    4 December 2025 Indian Express
    As Govt signals return, Sunali Khatun’s one wish: ‘Want baby to be born in India’

    Detained in Delhi, taken to Assam, pushed into Bangladesh after a night on the border, caught while trying to return, and jailed in Chapainawabganj — for 25-year-old Sunali Khatun, the past five months have been longer than a lifetime. ...

    4 December 2025 Indian Express
    Mamata unveils lyrical 15-year report card, says despite Centre not giving dues, she did not drift away from development path

    Unveiling a “15-years report card” – Unnayoner Panchali – of the TMC government in West Bengal ahead of the Assembly polls due early next year, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said she never drifted from the ...

    3 December 2025 Indian Express
    After Mamata govt’s U-turn on Waqf law, minister says ‘Muslims won’t stay quiet’

    TMC minister and president of Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind’s West Bengal branch, Siddiqullah Chowdhury, on Tuesday said that “Muslims will not stay quiet” if the Waqf properties are taken away.“It is very easy to say a lot of things from AC ...

    3 December 2025 Indian Express
    If you are in Kolkata, know the roads to avoid for next 4 months

    The next four months will see major traffic diversion in the Picnic Garden area of Kolkata as the police have initiated a 120-day closure and diversion plan to allow for essential sewer line work.The four-phase diversion strategy will primarily ...

    3 December 2025 Indian Express
    In Bengal, ECI flags ‘100% enumeration’ in 2,208 booths, orders detailed scrutiny

    The Election Commission of India (ECI) has ordered strict scrutiny of booths where all enumeration forms, or only one to 10 forms each, were returned. This implies that the number of deceased, absent or shifted voters reported from these ...

    3 December 2025 Indian Express
    ‘Won’t set up detention camps, don’t give forceful instructions to our officers like British’: Mamata to Centre

    West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said her government would not set up any “detention camp” in the state. “I obey the Constitution. I do secular politics. I will not make any detention camp here. I don’t ...

    3 December 2025 Indian Express
    ED secures restitution of properties worth Rs 169.47 crore to CBI in bank fraud case

    The Enforcement Directorate (ED) attached and later restituted properties worth crores to the Central Bank of India under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), in a case involving M/s Prakash Vanijya Private Limited and its promoter-director Manoj Kumar ...

    3 December 2025 Indian Express
    Mamata announces Rs 2 lakh aid to families of 39 who died of ‘SIR-panic’

    Accusing the BJP-led government at the Centre of “weaponising” the electoral roll revision process, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday announced to give Rs 2 lakh each to the families of 39 people who, she claimed, have ...

    3 December 2025 Indian Express
    After ordering probe, EC revises figures for Bengal booths with 100% enumeration – from 2,208, it drops to 480 in a day

    After initially claiming that over 2,208 booths in West Bengal returned 100 per cent SIR enumeration forms, the Election Commission on Tuesday revised down the number to just 480.The Election Commission has ordered a “strict scrutiny” of booths where ...

    3 December 2025 Indian Express
    ‘Is seeking debate on SIR, asking for accountability a drama?’: Abhishek slams PM Modi

    The TMC on Monday slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi for calling the Opposition’s protest in Parliament a “drama”.TMC MP and party’s national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee said demanding accountability on the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise and other governance ...

    3 December 2025 Indian Express
    West Bengal Police busts constable recruitment racket, 10 held

    West Bengal Police have busted an alleged scam linked to the police constable recruitment exam held on Sunday, arresting 10 people. According to the police, the gang was allegedly operating a racket, luring aspiring candidates with the promise of ...

    3 December 2025 Indian Express
    CBI names RG Kar whistleblower in supplementary chargesheet

    The CBI on Monday submitted a supplementary chargesheet in the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital multi-crore financial irregularities case, naming former deputy superintendent Akhtar Ali, who had shot into prominence as the key whistleblower in the case. Ali ...

    3 December 2025 Indian Express
    ‘Can’t leave country’: Pregnant Indian woman pushed into Bangladesh gets bail; SC asks govt to bring her back

    First pushed into Bangladesh and then ending up in a prison there for “illegal entry”, 26-year-old Sunali Khatun, who is in her late stage of pregnancy, walked out of Chapainawabganj jail on Monday – almost five months after her ...

    2 December 2025 Indian Express
    Retired Justice Rabindranath Samanta appointed new Lokayukta of Bengal

    Retired Justice Rabindranath Samanta was appointed the new Lokayukta of West Bengal at a meeting held in the state secretariat Nabanna on Monday, a senior official said here.The appointment was announced after a meeting of the Lokayukta Committee, chaired ...

    2 December 2025 Indian Express
    Salt Lake Stadium visit, unveiling of 70-foot statue: Itinerary of Lionel Messi as he returns to Kolkata after 14 years

    Football legend Lionel Messi is set to return to India this December after a gap of 14 years. He first visited the country in 2011 when he captained Argentina in a historic friendly match against Venezuela at the Salt ...

    2 December 2025 Indian Express
    Outside Bengal CEO’s office, BLOs face off with BJP leaders

    A group of Booth Level Officers (BLOs), protesting outside the office of the state Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) in Kolkata, on Monday, had an altercation with the BJP delegation, which had come to meet CEO Manoj Agarwal over the ...

    2 December 2025 Indian Express
    Feeling unsafe at night? Kolkata Police to launch 20 ‘pink booths’ manned by women personnel

    Kolkata Police have announced the launch of “pink booths”, staffed entirely by women police personnel, across the city to improve women’s safety, particularly at night. The move follows the recent incident in which a woman was allegedly molested by ...

    2 December 2025 Indian Express
    800 kms from Ayodhya, a Babri Masjid-Ram Mandir replica showdown fuels a fresh political row in Bengal

    Hoardings, posters, and leaflets circulating across villages and towns in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district depict the Babri Masjid and call for laying its foundation stone on December 6 — 856 km from Ayodhya and 33 years after its demolition. ...

    2 December 2025 Indian Express
    Bengali TV actor couple ‘assaulted’ over feeding of stray dogs in Kolkata, police say probing the incident

    Bengal television actor couple Sayantani Mullick and Indranil Mullick were allegedly assaulted by a group of people over feeding of stray dogs in their neighbourhood in the Kasba area of Kolkata on Friday night.The actors, who have lodged a ...

    1 December 2025 Indian Express
    Deadline extended for SIR: What it means for voters and BLOs

    As the Election Commission (EC) on Sunday extended the deadline of the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls by one week, the Booth Level Officers (BLOs) welcomed the move.“It is quite a relief,” a BLO from North ...

    1 December 2025 Indian Express
    Happening today in Bengal: KMC launches special drive for issuing birth-death certificates, raises BJP’s eyebrows

    The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) will launch special camps for issuing birth and death certificates from today. The TMC-ruled civic body’s move comes amid the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in the state, which has now ...

    1 December 2025 Indian Express
    Elephant dies, calf Injured after being hit by train in Jalpaiguri

    An elephant was killed and a calf injured after being hit by a train in Dhupguri, Jalpaiguri district early Sunday morning.The incident occurred at around 3:45 am near the 73/7 railway pillar. The calf was rescued and taken to ...

    1 December 2025 Indian Express
    West Bengal School Service Commission removes 269 ‘tainted’ candidates from teacher recruitment process

    The West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) has removed 269 “tainted” candidates from the ongoing assistant teacher recruitment process and urged the public to alert it about any others who may have slipped into the process unnoticed.In a notice ...

    1 December 2025 Indian Express
    JBG Kolkata Marathon: Traffic diversions in city today

    The JBG Kolkata Marathon, “Cholo Dourai”, organised by Sportz, is likely to disrupt city traffic today as thousands of participants take to the streets. The event, now in its 10th edition, will be hosted at The Lalit Great Eastern, ...

    1 December 2025 Indian Express
    Ensure ‘no eligible voter is left out’: West Bengal CEO stresses accuracy of electoral rolls in state

    Amid the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise in West Bengal, Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Manoj Agarwal on Saturday emphasized the need for accurate electoral rolls and said that “no eligible voter is left out and no ineligible voter ...

    1 December 2025 Indian Express
    Woman molested in car after being drugged in Kolkata; man arrested

    The police in Kolkata have arrested a man after a 28-year-old woman alleged that she was forced into a moving vehicle, drugged, molested, and dumped in the city on Friday.Sources said the woman stated in her police complaint that ...

    1 December 2025 Indian Express
    To realise Make in India, industry needs to look beyond the short term: Jaishankar at IIM-Calcutta

    External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar said on Saturday that the Central government’s emphasis on ‘Make in India’ in the last decade speaks of a different mindset and greater ambition and the industry needs to partner wholeheartedly and look beyond ...

    30 November 2025 Indian Express
    Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee to hold anti-SIR rallies in Malda, Murshidabad next week: TMC sources

    Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief Mamata Banerjee and her nephew Abhishek Banerjee will hold rallies in all Bengal districts along the India-Bangladesh border to protest against the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in the state.TMC sources said ...

    30 November 2025 Indian Express
    ‘Reinforcing people-centric spirit’: West Bengal Governor as Raj Bhavan renamed as ‘Lok Bhavan’

    West Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose on Saturday announced to rename Raj Bhavan in Kolkata as ‘Lok Bhavan’ following the Central government’s directive to do so, officials said.With this, West Bengal became the first state in the country ...

    30 November 2025 Indian Express
    11 arrested, two detained for killing two TMC workers in Malda: Police

    A day after two Trinamool Congress (TMC) workers were hacked to death after a meeting of a ‘salishi sabha’ (a kangaroo court) turned violent in Malda district, police on Friday arrested 11 people in connection with the incident. Two ...

    30 November 2025 Indian Express
    ‘Social stigma, family disconnect‘: Transgender community in Bengal apprehensive over losing voting rights in SIR

    Sitting in their rooms, Atanu, Shikha, and many more members of transgender community — abandoned by their families and ostracised in society — are living in fear that their identity will be completely erased in the wake of the ...

    30 November 2025 Indian Express
    After months-long deadlock, Bengal govt accepts Centre’s new Waqf law

    After having refused to implement the Centre’s new Waqf Amendment Act, 2025, for months, the West Bengal government has finally accepted the law and issued directions to upload information of 82,000 waqf properties across the state on the central ...

    30 November 2025 Indian Express
    TMC panchayat pradhan & his aide shot at in Howrah, remain critical: Police

    Trinamool Congress leader Debobrata Mondal, alias Babu Mondal, and his associate were critically injured after unidentified assailants opened fire at them in Howrah late on Thursday night, police said.Mondal, who is the head of Howrah’s Sampuipara Basukathi gram panchayat ...

    29 November 2025 Indian Express
    FIR filed on Dona Ganguly’s online harassment complaint

    An FIR was filed after Dona Ganguly, wife of former cricketer Sourav Ganguly, lodged a complaint with Kolkata Police, alleging that she has been subjected to “obscene comments and body-shaming” on social media, police said on Friday, adding a probe has ...

    29 November 2025 Indian Express
    BJP leader Suvendu not to attend Lokayukta meeting chaired by Bengal CM Mamata

    In a fresh flashpoint underscoring the rising political heat ahead of the 2026 West Bengal Assembly polls, Leader of the Opposition Suvendu Adhikari on Friday rejected the state government’s invitation to the annual Lokayukta Committee meeting chaired by Chief ...

    29 November 2025 Indian Express
    With 12-day Durga Puja break, Bengal govt employees will have more than 150 days off in 2026

    State government employees in West Bengal will have more than 150 non-working days in 2026, with an extended 12-day holiday during Durga Puja and several long festival breaks throughout the year.According to the holiday list published by the state ...

    29 November 2025 Indian Express
    TMC panchayat chief shot on open road in Howrah, hospitalised along with associate

    The head of Howrah’s Sampuipara Basukathi gram panchayat and Trinamool Congress leader Debobrata Mondal, alias Babu Mondal, was shot on Thursday night. His associate, Anupam Rana, was also hit by a bullet.Both were rushed to a private hospital in ...

    29 November 2025 Indian Express
    3 senior EC officials camp in Kolkata to oversee SIR exercise

    The Election Commission (EC) has sent three senior officers to West Bengal to oversee the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in the state.Earlier, the EC teams had visited the state twice to oversee the exercise in the ...

    29 November 2025 Indian Express
    Happening today in Bengal: EC’s deadline to Kolkata Police for BLO protest ends; protest in JU over council polls

    The 48-hour deadline given to Kolkata Police by the Election Commission over the ongoing protest by a section of BLOs against “SIR work pressure” ends today. The EC had sent off a notice to Kolkata Police, calling the BLOs’ ...

    28 November 2025 Indian Express
    Mamata orders major police reshuffle, 40 top cops shifted

    Amid the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in West Bengal and Assembly elections only months away, the Mamata Banerjee government on Thursday carried out a major police reshuffle, transferring at least 10 district police chiefs (Superintendent ...

    28 November 2025 Indian Express
    West Bengal ranks as nation’s 2nd most popular tourist spot; US, UK, Russia top contributors

    West Bengal has emerged as the second most popular destination for international tourists visiting India, trailing only Maharashtra, according to the Union Tourism Ministry’s India Tourism Data Compendium 2025.The state welcomed 31 lakh international visitors in 2024, marking a ...

    28 November 2025 Indian Express
    SIR in Bengal: ‘Dead man’s form’ used by alleged Bangladesh national, he gets arrested

    As the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise continues in West Bengal, incidents of illegal migrants allegedly leaving the state have risen. But in Dankuni, Hooghly district, a Bangladesh national allegedly made an attempt to stay in the country by ...

    28 November 2025 Indian Express
    Rs 40 more for 750 ml: Liquor prices to shoot up from Dec 1 in Bengal

    With winter setting in, prices of all types of liquor in West Bengal are set to rise ahead of the new year. According to a recent notification issued by the state Excise department, the new additional excise duty will ...

    28 November 2025 Indian Express
    Bengal BSF finds gold worth Rs 1 crore in cycle tyre, smuggler manages to flee

    When you look at a bicycle tyre, you expect it to be inflated with air. Troops of the Border Security Force (BSF), however, were in for a surprise.A bizarre discovery along the India-Bangladesh border stunned officials. Acting on intelligence ...

    28 November 2025 Indian Express
    West Bengal SSC re-releases list of 1,806 ‘tainted’ candidates with additional details

    The West Bengal School Service Commission on Thursday published afresh a “comprehensive” list of 1,806 “tainted” candidates, who were previously marked as qualified for the posts of assistant teachers in the 2016 State Level Selection Test (SLST).The list containing ...

    28 November 2025 Indian Express
    TMC MP questions EC over use of ‘mysterious’ AI app for SIR in Bengal

    Trinamool Congress (TMC) Rajya Sabha MP Saket Gokhale on Thursday questioned the “mysterious” AI application that the Election Commission has said it will use for the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise in West Bengal.In a post on X, the ...

    28 November 2025 Indian Express
    ‘Want baby to be born in India’: Family despairs, clock ticks for pregnant Sunali Khatun as SC suggests govt to get her back from Bangladesh

    Every day that passes, every court hearing that raises “false hopes”, what they dread the most inches closer, says the family of Sunali Khatun. Pregnant when deported around five months ago, the 25-year-old could go into labour any time ...

    27 November 2025 Indian Express
    Happening Today in Bengal: A standoff between protesting BLOs and chief electoral officer; hunger strike in Jadavpur

    EC vs BLOs The Election Commission has requested a report from Kolkata Police regarding a protest by a section of BLOs (Booth Level Officers) at the CEO’s office, calling it a “serious security breach”. The action taken report has ...

    27 November 2025 Indian Express
    Birbhum police’s ‘Samarth’ app: a new AI tool puts legal experts in the pocket of investigators

    The Birbhum district police in West Bengal have developed a custom AI-powered Android application named Samarth to enhance the efficiency and legal accuracy of daily police work. The tool is expected to be a significant leap in modern policing, ...

    27 November 2025 Indian Express
    ‘His bail can be cancelled: judge after former Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee fails to appear before ED court

    A special ED court judge Wednesday warned the counsel for former education minister Patha Chatterjee that his bail may be cancelled if he does not appear in person for the hearings in the West Bengal “cash-for-jobs scam” case.Partha Chatterjee ...

    27 November 2025 Indian Express
    Democracy being attacked: CM targets BJP on Constitution Day, vows to protect it

    Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday pledged to “protect democracy” in India and slammed the BJP-led government at the Centre for attacking democracy and religion, raising questions on citizenship and voting rights, and for “rushing” the Special Intensive Revision ...

    27 November 2025 Indian Express
    CBI arrests aide of Shahjahan Sheikh for 2024 attack on ED in Sandeshkhali

    CBI’s anti-corruption branch in Kolkata has arrested another suspect in connection with the alleged attack on Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials at Sandeshkhali in North 24 Parganas district, during a raid at the residence of former TMC leader Shahjahan Sheikh  ...

    27 November 2025 Indian Express
    ‘Pledge to protect democracy’: On Constitution Day, Mamata backs BLOs, slams BJP

    West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday pledged to “protect democracy” in India and slammed the BJP government at the Centre for attacking democracy and religion, raising questions on citizenship and voting rights, and for “rushing” the Special ...

    27 November 2025 Indian Express
    ECI seeks report from Kolkata Police over protest at CEO office, calls it ‘security breach’

    The Election Commission Wednesday wrote to Kolkata Police Commissioner Manoj Kumar Verma, alleging “serious security breach” during the ongoing protest by BLOs at the Chief Electoral Officer’s office in Kolkata, and sought an action-taken report within 48 hours.“I am ...

    27 November 2025 Indian Express
    Kasba hotel murder: Fight over ₹2,000 led to CA’s death, Kolkata police probe hints

    Chartered accountant Adarsh Losalka, who was found dead inside a hotel in Kolkata’s Kasba area on November 22, was allegedly murdered over a dispute involving ₹2,000, police sources said on Wednesday.According to the sources, Losalka had arranged to meet ...

    27 November 2025 Indian Express
    Kolkata Metro to upgrade systems as Blue Line eyes 90-second frequency mirroring London, Moscow Metro services

    Kolkata Metro is eyeing to achieve the goal of operating services at an interval of 90 seconds, similar to the services in London and Moscow. Presently, the frequency of services in Blue Line — the country’s oldest Metro Corridor ...

    27 November 2025 Indian Express
    Happening today in Bengal: Brace for traffic disruption in Kolkata

    A bunch of protests and marches in Kolkata is likely to cause a major traffic disruption today afternoon, causing inconvenience to commuters heading from south to north Kolkata or to Howrah. Two major demonstrations are scheduled to take place ...

    26 November 2025 Indian Express
    Kolkata law college rape: Student’s father alleges pressure to drop case, police begin probe

    The father of a student, who was allegedly gangraped at a Kolkata law college in June this year, has alleged that he is being threatened and pressured to withdraw the case.Speaking to The Indian Express, the student’s father said ...

    26 November 2025 Indian Express
    Eye of accident victim ‘gouged out’ at morgue, Mamata orders probe after victim’s family block her convoy in Barasat

    Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s convoy, returning from a rally in Bongaon, was on Tuesday evening stopped in Barasat by the agitating family members of an accident victim,who alleged that one of the eyes of their dead relative was removed ...

    26 November 2025 Indian Express
    EC rejects TMC’s request over size of delegation, Abhishek seeks livestream of meet

    The TMC’s request for an appointment with Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar in New Delhi over the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in West Bengal was rejected by the Election Commission after the latter insisted on ...

    26 November 2025 Indian Express
    Mamata’s attack on BJP, Election Commission over Bengal SIR row: 5 quotes

    West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Tuesday vowed to “shake” the foundation of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) across the country if she is challenged in the state, and attacked the Election Commission of India (ECI) over the ongoing Special ...

    26 November 2025 Indian Express
    ‘Don’t dare to hurt Bengal or I will shake the nation’: Mamata to BJP

    West Bengal Election 2026: Asserting that the BJP will not return to power at the Centre in the 2029 Lok Sabha elections, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday warned the BJP against “hurting the people of Bengal” ...

    26 November 2025 Indian Express
    ‘Quit playing games’: Angry Mamata to BJP after her chopper to Bangaon is grounded ‘at the last minute’

    An angry Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday accused the BJP of conspiring against her after a helicopter, scheduled to take her to the rally venue in Bongaon in North 24 Parganas district, was reportedly not allowed to fly. Sources said ...

    26 November 2025 Indian Express
    After 24 hrs wait, CEO meets protesting BLOs, but ‘SIR pressure’ dharna to go on

    Almost 24 hours after the members of BLO (Booth Level Officers) Adhikar Raksha Committee sat on a dharna outside the West Bengal Chief Electoral Officer’s office protesting over “excessive work pressure” under the SIR, the protesters on Tuesday insisted ...

    26 November 2025 Indian Express
    Don’t allow repeat of Bihar mistakes, ensure 100% SIR forms are submitted: Abhishek Banerjee to TMC cadre

    Warning party cadre against “repeating Bihar mistakes”, TMC general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Monday told them to ensure that one hundred per cent SIR enumeration forms are submitted.Taking stock of the party’s work in the ongoing Election Commission Special ...

    26 November 2025 Indian Express
    ‘Call for Mamata’s fourth term’ by police officers: Suvendu writes to CEC seeking bar on them from election duty

    Leader of Opposition in the Bengal Assembly Suvendu Adhikari on Monday wrote to Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar alleging “blatant politicisation” within the West Bengal Police and Kolkata Police, claiming that recent statements by police personnel show that “electoral ...

    26 November 2025 Indian Express
    Bengal Governor visits Hakimpur border town to see ‘reverse exodus’: ‘Will send report to competent authorities’

    West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose on Monday evening visited Hakimpur town in North 24 Parganas as hundreds of illegal immigrants from Bangladesh flocked to the border town to cross over to the neighbouring country in the wake of ...

    25 November 2025 Indian Express
    Three children killed, two injured after car plunges into pond in Howrah

    Three children died and two others were injured when the van in which they were returning home from school fell into a pond in Howrah district’s Uluberia area on Monday afternoon, police said.The van driver has been arrested and ...

    25 November 2025 Indian Express
    What happened inside Kolkata hotel room: As police try to piece together murder night, some blank spaces remain to be filled

    A day after arresting a man and a woman, both in their 20s, for the murder of a 33-year-old chartered accountant at a Kolkata hotel, the police are trying to join together the pieces of evidence to figure out ...

    25 November 2025 Indian Express
    ‘Severe impact on the fairness’: Mamata objects to Bengal CEO’s outsourced hiring of data staff, booths in private complexes

    Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday wrote to Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, objecting to two proposals put forward by the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of West Bengal — hiring data entry operators and software developers through an external ...

    25 November 2025 Indian Express
    Kasba hotel murder: Couple ‘trapped’ CA through dating app, ‘withdrew money from ATM’ after allegedly killing him

    A day after Chartered Accountant Adarsh Losalka was murdered in a hotel in Kasba, police said he had met accused Kamal Saha and Dhruvo Mitra on a dating app a day before his death.On Monday, Joint Commissioner of Police ...

    25 November 2025 Indian Express
    BLOs hold protest outside Bengal CEO office: ‘What EC is asking is impossible to do in short time’

    A section of Booth Level Officers (BLOs), engaged in the ongoing SIR of electoral rolls, staged a protest on Monday outside the Chief Electoral Officer’s (CEO) office in Kolkata, citing “excessive workload” and “net connectivity issues”.The protesting BLOs had ...

    25 November 2025 Indian Express
    A Legacy Lost: Bankim’s family seeks university, upkeep of his Kolkata, Naihati houses

    The ongoing controversy surrounding Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay and Rabindranath Tagore has left the descendants of the former 19th-century novelist, poet, essayist and journalist pained, who are now demanding a university in his name as well as proper upkeep of ...

    25 November 2025 Indian Express
    SIR form submitted — will you be called for a hearing in West Bengal? Here’s what you need to know

    In most parts of West Bengal, enumeration forms have already been submitted. According to data from the CEO, West Bengal, as of Sunday, 7.64 crore forms have been distributed out of 7.66 crore electors, which is about 99.75 per ...

    25 November 2025 Indian Express
    Happening today in Bengal: BLOs to march against SIR in Kolkata

    A platform of BLOs (Booth Level Officers) will hold a rally from College Square to the office of Chief Electoral Officer in Kolkata on Monday, claiming they are being subjected to “inhuman stress” and that the poll panel had ...

    25 November 2025 Indian Express
    Clear skies ahead for West Bengal; minimum temperature may drop by 2°C after Tuesday: IMD

    While a well-marked low-pressure area is strengthening over the distant Strait of Malacca and the South Andaman Sea, the immediate weather outlook for West Bengal remains stable with the India Meteorological Department (IMD) forecasting mostly clear skies for the ...

    24 November 2025 Indian Express
    Teachers on BLO duty, Bengal govt schools face staff crunch

    The ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in West Bengal has adversely affected academic activities in government-run schools in the state, with thousands of teachers – who have been appointed as Booth Level Officers (BLOs) by the ...

    24 November 2025 Indian Express
    SIR fear needs to be allayed, CM’s claim must be examined: West Bengal Governor

    Amid reports of alleged suicides by BLOs during the ongoing SIR (Special Intensive Revision) of electoral rolls in West Bengal and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee questioning the Election Commission’s exercise, Governor CV Ananda Bose on Sunday said knee-jerk reactions ...

    24 November 2025 Indian Express
    Kolkata imposes strict 7 am-9 am no-parking rule to help municipal corporation sweepers

    Kolkata Mayor Firhad Hakim has announced a new no-parking rule on city roads every morning from 7 am to 9 am. This directive, aimed at addressing impediments to citywide cleaning efforts, mandates that all roads must be completely free ...

    24 November 2025 Indian Express
    Aadhaar cards found dumped outside Kolkata park, police launch probe; BJP says Bengal is ‘headquarters for infiltrators’

    Several Aadhaar cards were found abandoned outside a park in Salt Lake in Kolkata Sunday morning amid the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls in West Bengal.Morning joggers noticed the Aadhaar cards lying on the side ...

    24 November 2025 Indian Express
    Murder in Kolkata hotel: Delivery agent, woman, last seen entering CA’s room, arrested; post-mortem report confirms death by strangulation

    A delivery agent and a woman, both in their 20s, have been arrested in connection with the death of a Chartered Accountant, whose naked body was found with legs tied, in a hotel room in south Kolkata’s Kasba area ...

    24 November 2025 Indian Express
    Man found dead in Kasba hotel; police track two companions from CCTV

    The body of a 33-year-old man was recovered on Saturday afternoon from a hotel room in Kasba’s Rajdanga area, police said, and investigators are tracing two people who were seen with him on CCTV. The deceased has been identified ...

    24 November 2025 Indian Express
    Happening today in Bengal: Kolkata braces for traffic snarls as Vidyasagar Setu closes; Police prep for marathon

    Commuters traveling from Kolkata to Howrah will face the closure of the second Hooghly bridge (Vidyasagar Setu) and traffic disruptions for eight hours. Kolkata police informed that the bridge will be closed from 6 am to 2 pm on ...

    23 November 2025 Indian Express
    Passenger on Air India’s Vancouver-Delhi flight complains of chest pain, declared dead after deboarding in Kolkata

    A 70-year-old man, who complained of chest pain and uneasiness on board an Air India flight from Vancouver to Delhi on Friday night, was deboarded in Kolkata and rushed to a hospital, where he was declared dead on arrival, ...

    23 November 2025 Indian Express
    BJP flags ‘disproportionate’ increase of Muslim voters in Bengal; TMC calls claim ‘baseless’

    The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) recently submitted a document to the Election Commission of India (ECI) claiming that the share of Muslim voters in West Bengal increased by 127.7 per cent while the percentage of Hindu electors rose by 72.3 ...

    23 November 2025 Indian Express
    Happening today in Bengal: More Metro service on the Green Line

    There is some good news for Metro commuters in Kolkata with more services on the Green Line. From Saturday, the Metro will operate 202 services (101 UP and 101 DN) on the Green Line instead of the usual 186. ...

    23 November 2025 Indian Express
    BJP says woman party worker pushed off roof by ‘TMC miscreants’, police arrest one

    The BJP on Friday claimed that a woman party worker was hospitalised after she was allegedly pushed off the roof of an under-construction building in Raidighi in South 24 Parganas district, allegedly by miscreants backed by the ruling TMC.The ...

    23 November 2025 Indian Express
    ‘105.49% in Uttar Dinajpur’: Since 2002 SIR, steepest rise in voters in Bengal’s border districts

    Between 2002, when the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) was last conducted by the Election Commission of India, and 2025, West Bengal has seen a 66% increase in the number of registered voters — from 4.58 crore to 7.63 crore. ...

    22 November 2025 Indian Express
    ‘It lasted for quite some time’: Strong tremors spark panic in Kolkata, parts of Bengal after earthquake in Bangladesh

    West Bengal Kolkata Earthquake Today: Kolkata and several parts of West Bengal were rattled by strong tremors on Friday morning after a 5.2-magnitude earthquake struck neighbouring Bangladesh. The epicentre of the quake, which occurred at approximately 10.08 am ...

    22 November 2025 Indian Express
    ED searches multiple locations in Bengal, Jharkhand in connection with ‘corruption’ in coal mining exports

    The ED has launched a search operation at multiple addresses of coal traders. Since Friday morning, searches have been underway in Dhanbad in Jharkhand and Asansol, Purulia and Kolkata in West Bengal.According to ED sources, search operations are underway ...

    22 November 2025 Indian Express
    After Mamata asks ECI to stop Bengal SIR, Suvendu says ‘TMC nurtured illegal elements’

    Bengal Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikary has hit out at Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for calling the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process “inhuman” and urging the Election Commission of India (ECI) to stop it. Amid the ongoing SIR of ...

    22 November 2025 Indian Express
    Coal Mining Scam: ED raids in Jharkhand, West Bengal against coal mafia

    ED Raids in Jharkhand, Bengal News: The Enforcement Directorate on Friday conducted searches in a coordinated money laundering case action against the coal mafia in Jharkhand and West Bengal, official sources said.More than 40 premises in the two states are ...

    22 November 2025 Indian Express
    Happening today in Bengal: Governor at heritage walk. But will he talk?

    All eyes will be on West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose today as he will  attend a heritage initiative on the banks of the Hooghly river – his first public appearance since a war of words erupted between him ...

    22 November 2025 Indian Express
    ‘Turnaround Tycoon’ booked in cyber crime racket case: Who is Pawan Ruia

    For 68-year-old industrialist Pawan Ruia, the chairman of the Ruia Group, booked in a multi-crore cyberfraud racket case, this is not the first time he has hit the headlines for all the wrong reasons.He was arrested by the CID ...

    21 November 2025 Indian Express
    Jadavpur University to have more CCTVs, 32 more guards, and security audit by Kolkata Police: Bengal govt submits report to Calcutta HC

    The Bengal Education department has submitted a compliance report to the Calcutta High Court detailing the implementation of security measures on Jadavpur University’s main and Salt Lake campuses.In August, the Calcutta High Court had directed the department to file ...

    21 November 2025 Indian Express
    How Bengal police linked industrialist Ruia to a multi-crore cybercrime network

    At 9, Ezra Street in Kolkata, the centrepiece of a Rs 317 crore cyberfraud probe in which industrialist Pawan Ruia has been named accused, stands a dilapidated, three-storeyed, colonial-era building with exposed patches of bricks and a jumble of ...

    21 November 2025 Indian Express
    Vande Mataram birthplace fights for survival: Damp walls, crammed rooms & fund crunch

    In one corner of the Bankim Bhavan Gaveshana Kendra Museum — some 45 km from Kolkata — a bronze bust, a handwritten music book, a shawl and a turban compete for space in a pastel-blue room lined with family ...

    21 November 2025 Indian Express
    Jadavpur University forms team to probe alleged moral policing on campus

    Jadavpur University has formed a four-member team to investigate an incident of alleged moral policing on campus involving four fourth-year engineering students.According to a senior JU official, a group of women submitted a complaint to Vice-Chancellor Chiranjib Bhattacharjee, alleging ...

    21 November 2025 Indian Express
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