Welcoming the Supreme Court’s order to the Election Commission (EC) to publish the names of electors who have been summoned for “logical discrepancies” as part of the ongoing SIR exercise in West Bengal, TMC general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on ...
21 January 2026 Indian ExpressOn the second day of his two-day visit to West Bengal, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday inaugurated and laid foundation stones for Central government projects worth over Rs 830 crore for the state from Singur. He also flagged ...
20 January 2026 Indian ExpressTwo Public Interest Litigations (PIL) seeking the deployment of Central forces at violence-hit Beldanga in the Murshidabad district of West Bengal were filed in the Calcutta High Court Monday.The BJP filed one of the PILs, while a local resident ...
20 January 2026 Indian ExpressFrom Singur, synonymous with Mamata Banerjee’s land acquisition stir against Tata’s Nano car factory that stormed her to power in West Bengal two decades ago, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday accused her government of failing to bring industries ...
20 January 2026 Indian ExpressMinutes after Narendra Modi exhorted people of West Bengal to punish the Mamata Banerjee-led government at a BJP rally in Singur, it was TMC general secretary and party heir apparent Abhishek Banerjee who countered the prime minister, saying the ...
20 January 2026 Indian ExpressChief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant on Sunday said that “in an age of immediacy, judiciousness has become rare and therefore deeply valuable.”Addressing the convocation of the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences (NUJS), Kolkata, CJI Surya ...
19 January 2026 Indian ExpressAfter below-normal temperatures in the state in the first half of January, the weather office Sunday said that the mercury is set to rise across South Bengal in the next few days.According to the Alipore Regional Meteorological Centre, temperatures ...
19 January 2026 Indian ExpressThe Election Commission of India has extended the deadline for filing claims and objections regarding inclusion, deletion, and name change in the electoral rolls under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) to January 19. In a press note issued on Friday, ...
19 January 2026 Indian ExpressThe Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur on Saturday inaugurated the two-day Impact RISE 2026 conclave at the IIT KGP Research Park in Newtown, Kolkata.The event, themed “Forging Futures: Engineering Social Change – Converging Capital, Innovation, and Action,” brought ...
19 January 2026 Indian ExpressKavach railway safety system: The Ministry of Railways has approved the proposal to install Kavach, an indigenously developed Automatic Train Protection (ATP) system over 443 Route km (RKM) across West Bengal. The move will significantly enhance passenger safety by ...
19 January 2026 Indian ExpressUnrest was reported from Beldanga in Murshidabad district for the second day on Saturday after hundreds of people blocked the Barua crossing, alleging that another migrant worker from the district was assaulted in Bihar.According to police, 30 people have been ...
18 January 2026 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday appealed to Chief Justice of India Surya Kant to “protect the Constitution and democracy from disaster” so as to safeguard the country’s institutions which are under threat.Addressing a gathering on the ...
18 January 2026 Indian ExpressPrime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday flagged off India’s first Vande Bharat Sleeper train from Howrah to Guwahati in Assam and announced several rail and road projects worth over Rs 3,250 crore to election-bound Bengal during his two-day visit ...
18 January 2026 Indian ExpressPrime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday attacked the ruling Trinamool Congress in West Bengal, saying that the party was using infiltrators as its vote bank and asserting that the state needed a change in government.Addressing a public rally in ...
18 January 2026 Indian ExpressKolkata traffic advisory: Major roads will remain closed and traffic will be diverted for several hours on January 24 and January 26 in Kolkata in view of the Republic Day parade and its rehearsal. “All classes of vehicles and all ...
18 January 2026 Indian ExpressKolkata road closure, Kolkata Traffic Advisory, Kolkata Traffic Update: Vidyasagar Setu also known as the Second Hooghly Bridge, will remain closed for eight hours on Sunday, January 18, due to repair and rehabilitation work, including the replacement of stay and ...
18 January 2026 Indian ExpressPrime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday gifted several rail and road projects, worth over Rs 3,250 crore, to poll-bound West Bengal, on his two-day visit to the state.Modi, who arrived in Malda from Purnea in Bihar, flagged off India’s ...
18 January 2026 Indian ExpressThe faded purple Chinese characters on heavy iron gates are the only signs suggesting the old glory of an airy compound in the middle of congested Tangra in Kolkata. They spell ‘Pei May Chinese School’ — once a symbol ...
17 January 2026 Indian ExpressChief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday announced plans to transform Siliguri into a global tourism and spiritual destination, promising that the city will no longer be just a transit point.Speaking at the foundation stone-laying ceremony of the Mahakal Temple ...
17 January 2026 Indian ExpressAhead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to West Bengal’s Malda on Saturday, where he flagged off the first Vande Bharat sleeper train between Howrah and Guwahati, the Railways had written to the officer in charge of the local Kaliachak ...
17 January 2026 Indian ExpressConcerned by the recent Nipah outbreak in West Bengal, the state government has decided to launch a survey of bats in a bid to identify the source of the infection.According to an official with the forest department, the survey ...
17 January 2026 Indian ExpressThe International Society for Krishna Consciousness (Iskcon) in Mayapur, located in West Bengal’s Nadia district, registered a First Information Report (FIR) on Friday following a surge in sophisticated online accommodation scams targeting devotees.The temple management also issued a high-level ...
17 January 2026 Indian ExpressTension simmered in Uttar Dinajpur district of West Bengal a day after a Block Development Office in Chakulia’s Goalpokhar area was ransacked by a mob of around 300 people protesting over the SIR hearings.The intensity of Thursday’s mob violence ...
17 January 2026 Indian ExpressA wave of violent protests erupted in Beldanga, in the Murshidabad district on Friday over the death of a migrant worker in Jharkhand, as angry locals blocked railway tracks and National Highway-12 for hours, leaving thousands of passengers stranded ...
17 January 2026 Indian ExpressThe BJP on Wednesday said the Supreme Court’s notice to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for allegedly interfering in the ED raids at political consultancy firm I-PAC’s premises was a “legal slap” for the TMC supremo “who considers ...
17 January 2026 Indian ExpressThe West Bengal health and family welfare department has released guidelines on the transmission of the Nipah virus and the necessary precautions to be taken, days after two nurses tested positive for the virus. A five-member medical team from ...
17 January 2026 Indian ExpressFollowing the confirmation of Nipah virus infections in five individuals, including a doctor, in West Bengal, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has dispatched an advanced mobile testing van from the National Institute of Virology (NIV) in Pune ...
17 January 2026 Indian ExpressA mob protesting against SIR hearings ransacked the Block Development Office (BDO) and attacked police personnel in Chakulia in West Bengal’s Uttar Dinajpur district on Thursday. The mob also brought out files, furniture and other documents from the BDO ...
16 January 2026 Indian ExpressThe Calcutta High Court on Thursday granted permission to Leader of Opposition in Bengal Assembly Suvendu Adhikari and other BJP MLAs for holding a sit-in dharna at Mandirtala bus stand, close to state secretariat, Nabanna, after the Enforcement Directorate allegedly faced obstruction ...
16 January 2026 Indian ExpressThe National Testing Agency (NTA) has postponed the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Main 2026 exam date for West Bengal, initially scheduled for January 23, due to Saraswati Puja. The exams were scheduled between January 23 and 30. A revised ...
16 January 2026 Indian ExpressIIT Kharagpur will host a global convergence, “Parliament of Enlightened Thoughts”, organised under the aegis of its Platinum Jubilee celebrations in collaboration with The Boston Pledge, to launch Renaissance 2.0, a movement to reimagine the future of civilization, at ...
16 January 2026 Indian ExpressEven as electors are summoned for “logical discrepancies” as part of the Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) for electoral rolls in West Bengal, sources said that at least 11,500 more names have been deleted so far as part ...
16 January 2026 Indian ExpressMidway through the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in West Bengal, Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Manoj Agarwal has proposed to the Election Commission of India (ECI) that electors attending hearings and submitting documents to include their names ...
16 January 2026 Indian ExpressPrime Minister Narendra Modi is set to flag off three new Amrit Bharat trains from Bengal during his forthcoming visit to the state on January 18. Railway officials said the new launches will serve critical suburban routes and spur ...
16 January 2026 Indian ExpressWith two human Nipah cases detected in West Bengal recently and many more people put in isolation as a precautionary measure, the Alipore Zoological Garden has stepped up monitoring of resident fruit and Indian flying fox bats in the ...
16 January 2026 Indian ExpressAT least three more persons, a doctor, a nurse, and a health staff member, have been infected with the Nipah virus in West Bengal, taking the total number of active cases to five.The first two patients – a male ...
15 January 2026 Indian ExpressA BDO office in Farakka was ransacked during the hearing for the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls on Wednesday. Police have registered an FIR against unknown people after the Election Commission intervened, sources said.The incident took place ...
15 January 2026 Indian ExpressThe Chief Electoral Officer’s (CEO) office has initiated a large-scale administrative overhaul in West Bengal, with the state government formally notified to reshuffle police personnel ahead of the 2026 Assembly elections. Following directives from the Election Commission of India, ...
15 January 2026 Indian ExpressThe West Bengal Police have intensified their investigation into the Enforcement Directorate (ED) raids carried out at premises linked to the election management company I-PAC last week, with teams now working to identify and potentially summon the officials involved ...
15 January 2026 Indian ExpressTMC MP Abhishek Banerjee on Tuesday presented 10 more people, who were allegedly declared dead in the draft electoral rolls during the SIR exercise in West Bengal, at a rally here, and accused the Election Commission of taking away ...
15 January 2026 Indian ExpressUpping the ante against the Election Commission (EC) over the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday claimed that the poll panel brought in the concept of “logical discrepancies” to remove genuine voters ...
15 January 2026 Indian ExpressUpping the ante against the Election Commission (EC) over the SIR exercise, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday claimed that the poll panel brought in the concept of “logical discrepancies” to remove genuine voters from the electoral ...
15 January 2026 Indian ExpressKolkata road closure, Kolkata Traffic Advisory: The Belgharia Railway Over Bridge (ROB) will remain closed from January 17 as Sealdah Division undertakes renovation work. Thus, vehicular movement on the bridge will be completely restricted from Saturday, January 17, until the ...
14 January 2026 Indian ExpressWith two nurses from a private hospital on ventilator support after testing positive for the Nipah virus in preliminary screenings at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Kalyani, the West Bengal government has sounded an alert across all ...
14 January 2026 Indian ExpressThe BJP Tuesday moved the Calcutta High Court seeking permission to hold a rally outside the West Bengal Secretariat, Nabanna, or any place around it after the Enforcement Directorate (ED) allegedly faced obstruction from Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and ...
14 January 2026 Indian ExpressAfter remaining confined to water for nearly 20 days, the four-year-old ailing hippopotamus at Alipore Zoological Garden in Kolkata has finally come out of the moat of the enclosure, bringing relief for the zoo authorities.Sources indicate that the hippopotamus, ...
14 January 2026 Indian ExpressFlagging the “mechanical” SIR process “using Artificial Intelligence (AI)”, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday, in a fresh letter to Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar, accused the poll panel of disowning its own previous mechanisms, and ...
13 January 2026 Indian ExpressThe West Bengal government on Monday said that two cases of Nipah virus have been detected in the state. Both the affected individuals are medical staffers of a private hospital in Barasat in North 24 Parganas district and are ...
13 January 2026 Indian ExpressTrinamool Congress (TMC) national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Monday slammed the Centre over the Enforcement Directorate (ED) raid on I-PAC, alleging that the central agency’s objective was not investigation but “stealing political information” to settle scores on behalf ...
13 January 2026 Indian ExpressThe West Bengal chief electoral officer (CEO) has issued strict instructions to the micro observers deputed across the state to oversee the second stage of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process, warning them of disciplinary action if they are ...
13 January 2026 Indian ExpressFlagging the “mechanical” SIR process “using Artificial Intelligence (AI)”, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday, in a fresh letter to Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar, accused the poll panel of disowning its own previous mechanisms, and ...
13 January 2026 Indian ExpressDemanding the arrest of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and DGP Rajeev Kumar for allegedly “obstructing” the ED raids on I-PAC premises in Kolkata, the BJP on Sunday held a protest march in Kolkata.Leader of Opposition in Assembly Suvendu Adhikari, ...
13 January 2026 Indian ExpressSamir Putatundu, a veteran Left leader in West Bengal and co-founder of Party for Democratic Socialism (PDS), died at a private hospital in South Kolkata Sunday night. He was 74. He had been suffering from various diseases for several ...
13 January 2026 Indian ExpressA massive crowd gathered at the Bagdogra airport on Monday to bid farewell to singer-actor Prashant Tamang as his mortal remains was flown to Darjeeling.Tamang, whose journey from the Kolkata Police to a national celebrity following his victory in ...
13 January 2026 Indian ExpressThe West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education (WBCHSE) has announced a new security measure to prevent the forgery of mark sheets and pass certificates.A senior official stated that ultraviolet (UV) security threads will be embedded in the higher ...
13 January 2026 Indian ExpressThe Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has sought a report from the office of West Bengal Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari regarding the alleged attack on his convoy by ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) supporters near Purulia late Saturday evening. ...
12 January 2026 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Manoj Kumar Agarwal recently said that his office was contemplating easing the rules for people belonging to Adivasi communities under the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in the state.CEO Agarwal ...
12 January 2026 Indian ExpressA 75-year-old man died due to cardiac arrest while attending a hearing related to the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process in Birbhum district on Saturday morning.The deceased, identified as Kanchan Kumar Mondal, had received a notice for an SIR ...
12 January 2026 Indian ExpressOne of the four people injured in an explosion at a firecracker factory in Champahati in West Bengal succumbed to injuries Sunday morning.The deceased was identified as Gouhari Ganguly, 70, who suffered around 80 per cent burns, according ...
12 January 2026 Indian ExpressThe presence of West Bengal Chief Secretary Nandini Chakraborty, Principal Secretary to Chief Minister Manoj Pant with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee during Enforcement Directorate’s raid at political consultancy firm I-PAC’s Kolkata office has led to a controversy, with senior ...
11 January 2026 Indian ExpressThe Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Saturday launched its campaign song for the upcoming West Bengal Assembly elections, asserting that the party would return to power for a fourth consecutive term.The song’s launch comes within 48 hours after a stand-off ...
11 January 2026 Indian ExpressAn explosion ripped through a firecracker factory in Champahati under West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district on Saturday, leaving four people seriously injured.Meanwhile, a fire broke out after the blast, and a fire tender was pressed into service to ...
11 January 2026 Indian ExpressIn her third letter to Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar since the beginning of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday alleged the ongoing drive has turned into an ...
11 January 2026 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari sent a legal notice to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday evening, demanding proof of the allegations she made against him and Union Home Minister Amit Shah in the coal scam. He ...
11 January 2026 Indian ExpressA minor girl was allegedly raped inside a factory premises in West Bengal’s Hooghly district on Thursday evening, following which the police arrested two men. The incident has sparked an uproar in the area with local Opposition leaders claiming ...
11 January 2026 Indian ExpressA fresh row has erupted in West Bengal over the alleged presence of Chief Secretary Nandini Chakravorty, Principal Secretary to the Chief Minister Manoj Pant and other officials with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee at I-PAC’s Sector V office during ...
11 January 2026 Indian ExpressThe Kolkata police have launched an investigation into the Enforcement Directorate’s (ED) search operations at the residence of I-PAC director Pratik Jain. The election management company I-PAC advises the Trinamool Congress (TMC) and the West Bengal government.According to police ...
11 January 2026 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Friday launched a scathing attack on the Centre following a protest after raids by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on the I-PAC office and the residence of its co-founder Pratik Jain in Kolkata, alleging ...
10 January 2026 Indian ExpressA day after the Enforcement Directorate (ED) raided the office of I-PAC and the residence of the political consultancy firm’s director in Kolkata in connection with a money laundering case, I-PAC Friday issued a statement claiming it has “extended ...
10 January 2026 Indian ExpressLeading a massive protest rally against the Enforcement Directorate’s (ED) raids on political consultancy firm I-PAC, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday accused the BJP of using central agencies to “snatch” the TMC’s electoral strategy and announced ...
10 January 2026 Indian ExpressA day after the Enforcement Directorate’s (ED) raids on political consultancy firm I-PAC sparked a political storm in West Bengal, the stand-off deepened on Friday as the Trinamool Congress (TMC) urged the Calcutta High Court to direct the agency ...
10 January 2026 Indian ExpressThe Enforcement Directorate (ED), in a plea before the Calcutta High Court, has sought a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe against Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who stormed into the office of political consultancy firm I-PAC, and the house ...
10 January 2026 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose Friday took to the congested streets of Kolkata’s Dacres Lane, abandoning his Z-plus category security detail just hours after receiving an “audacious” death threat via email.Governor Ananda Bose embarked on a programme ...
10 January 2026 Indian ExpressIt all began just before noon when West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee dropped in at the Loudon Street house of I-PAC director Pratik Jain in Kolkata as officials of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) began their search.Before her, Kolkata ...
10 January 2026 Indian ExpressPrime Minister Narendra Modi is set to address a public gathering at Singur’s Gopalnagar Mouza on January 18, nearly two decades after Tata Motors shut down its Nano factory in the Hooghly district. His visit is part of a ...
9 January 2026 Indian ExpressIn a major move to streamline the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, the office of the Chief Electoral Officer of West Bengal has issued fresh directives exempting several categories of voters from personal appearance at mandatory ...
9 January 2026 Indian ExpressOver 20,000 passport applications are awaiting clearance across 72 police stations after Kolkata Police started birth certificate verification in a bid to stop issuance of passports with forged documents, an officer said.According to the officer, over 400 passports are ...
9 January 2026 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Thursday sat on a dharna at I-PAC’s office in Kolkata’s Salt Lake to protest against the Enforcement Directorate raids against the top political consultancy group and its head, Pratik Jain, as she questioned ...
9 January 2026 Indian ExpressThe Enforcement Directorate Thursday moved the Calcutta High Court, alleging it faced hindrance while conducting raids on I-PAC in connection with an ongoing investigation and proceedings under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).The matter was mentioned before the ...
9 January 2026 Indian ExpressOpposition parties in Bengal have demanded that Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee be booked for first rushing to I-PAC Director Pratik Jain’s residence in Kolkata and then to the political consultancy firm’s office in Salt Lake’s Sector V during an ...
9 January 2026 Indian ExpressGangasagar Mela special train 2026, Gangasagar Mela 2026: Eastern Railway (ER) will operate 18 special EMU local trains to clear the expected surge of pilgrims during Gangasagar Mela 2026. Regarded as the second-largest pilgrimage gathering in the country, the ...
9 January 2026 Indian ExpressThe Opposition BJP, as well as the CPI(M), on Wednesday accused Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee of destruction of evidence as she barged into I-PAC chief Pratik Jain’s residence in Kolkata and collected files and a laptop even as the ...
9 January 2026 Indian ExpressThe Enforcement Directorate Thursday conducted raids at multiple locations in Kolkata and Bidhannagar, including those linked to the political consultancy firm I-PAC, in connection with a money laundering case.The searches covered I-PAC’s office on the 11th floor of a ...
9 January 2026 Indian ExpressSeeking clear guidelines on ‘logical discrepancies’ in the SIR exercise, a group of AEROs (Assistant Electoral Registration Officers) has written to the West Bengal Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) expressing concerns that electors who were mapped earlier and are now ...
8 January 2026 Indian ExpressWith Assembly elections in West Bengal less than three months away, the BJP on Wednesday reconstituted its state office bearers committee, six months after Samik Bhattacharya was appointed the state unit chief.The announcement of the new team comes on ...
8 January 2026 Indian ExpressAfter a prolonged spell of bone-chilling cold, Kolkata witnessed a slight rise in minimum temperature on Thursday, with Alipore observatory recording 11.6°C, a rise from the previous day’s 10.3 degree Celsius. This comes after a record-breaking Tuesday, where the ...
8 January 2026 Indian ExpressAn advocate has filed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) petition in the Calcutta High Court demanding that the authorities recognise the deteriorating ambient air quality in the Kolkata-Howrah metropolitan region as a public health emergency.A division bench led by ...
8 January 2026 Indian ExpressImagine a lifeguard that never tires, swims at three times the speed of an Olympic athlete, and can pull the weight of a small car. For the crowds at Gangasagar Mela—an annual pilgrimage where lakhs of devotees take a ...
8 January 2026 Indian ExpressThe Election Commission on Wednesday served a notice to Nobel laureate Amartya Sen in connection with the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in West Bengal, seeking a hearing of the 92-year-old economist on January 16 at ...
8 January 2026 Indian ExpressResidents across South Bengal are experiencing severe chills as a cold wave has gripped the region. Kolkata recorded temperatures in the 10-degree range early on Wednesday, with Alipore reaching a minimum of 10.3°C and Dum Dum dipping to 9.8°C.On ...
8 January 2026 Indian ExpressWith Kolkata witnessing unusually chilly weather—the city saw temperatures in the 10-degree range early on Wednesday, a day after it recorded its coldest January day in 12 years—electronic shops are running out of room heaters as shopkeepers and distributors ...
8 January 2026 Indian ExpressBengal weather update today: Bengal is unlikely to see respite from the biting cold any time soon as the temperature could go down further. The cold wave conditions are likely to continue in West Bengal till January 9 at ...
8 January 2026 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari on Tuesday wrote to Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar requesting that the employment records from tea gardens and cinchona gardens be accepted as official proof of identity and residence for the tea ...
7 January 2026 Indian ExpressAccusing the BJP and the Election Commission of forming a nexus to disenfranchise voters in West Bengal through the SIR exercise, TMC general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Tuesday urged people to “un-map the BJP from Bengal” and ensure the ...
7 January 2026 Indian ExpressFour days after a police team that visited Sandeshkhali in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district was attacked, the prime accused in the case, Musa Mollah, a local Trinamool Congress (TMC) worker, was arrested on Tuesday.Mollah was arrested under ...
7 January 2026 Indian ExpressTMC general secretary Abhishek Banerjee has named Sunali Khatun’s newborn boy “Apon” (our own), saying “no power on earth can make our own people feel like strangers”.A day after the 26-year-old woman, who was recently repatriated from Bangladesh, gave ...
7 January 2026 Indian ExpressEven as Kolkata is experiencing bone-chilling winters with temperatures dropping below 10 degrees Celsius, a young hippopotamus at the city’s Alipore Zoo has been standing still inside a water enclosure for nearly a fortnight.According to sources in the zoo, ...
7 January 2026 Indian ExpressBengal Weather Update: Bengal is reeling under an intense cold wave. Due to northerly winds, temperatures have plunged sharply across the state. On Monday, Kolkata recorded a minimum temperature of 10.2 degrees Celsius, which was 3.7 degrees below normal. ...
7 January 2026 Indian ExpressKolkata recorded its coldest January day in 12 years on Tuesday, with the minimum temperature dropping to 10.2°C. This is nearly seven degrees below the seasonal average, prompting residents to scramble for heavy woollens as the city experienced an ...
7 January 2026 Indian ExpressDarling Earth, an english translation of Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay’s Bengali novel ‘Parthibo’, was launched by Prasenjit Saha in Kolkata on Monday evening. The classic novel explores questions about life, meaning, and human consciousness through interwoven narratives set in villages and ...
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