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  • Darjeeling’s iconic Glenary’s bar is shut: 5 violations listed by Excise Dept

    Not on one count, but at least on five counts, the Excise Department has shut the iconic Glenary’s bar in Darjeeling for three months, The Indian Express has learnt.On Monday, a team of the West Bengal Excise Department raided ...

    11 December 2025 Indian Express
    ECI issues show cause notices to ERO, AERO, 2 BLOs over violations during SIR exercise in Bengal

    The Election Commission of India (ECI) has issued showcause notices to two Booth Level Officers (BLO), an Electoral Registration Officer (ERO), and an Assistant Electoral Registration Officer (AERO) from Baruipur East assembly constituency of South 24 Parganas district for ...

    11 December 2025 Indian Express
    Row erupts in Bengal after video of non-veg patty vendor’s assault near Gita event goes viral

    A political row has erupted in West Bengal after a video, purportedly showing a street vendor selling non-vegetarian patties being thrashed near the venue of a “Gita Path” event at Brigade Parade Ground, went viral.The incident, which took place ...

    11 December 2025 Indian Express
    SIR form submission deadline ends tomorrow in Bengal: Here’s your quickest last-day option

    The pre-hearing phase of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of West Bengal’s voter roll ends on December 11, 2025. With one day left, discrepancies have emerged — including roughly 55 lakh ‘uncollected forms’, representing voters who may be struck ...

    11 December 2025 Indian Express
    ‘Don’t need Delhi’s charity, we’ll run own scheme’: Mamata slams Centre on MGNREGA

    Launching a scathing attack on the Centre, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday tore up a note outlining new MGNREGA norms at a public meeting in Cooch Behar, calling it a “valueless and insulting” diktat and said ...

    11 December 2025 Indian Express
    ‘We are not begging’: Mamata Banerjee slams Centre for failing to pay dues to state, tears up circular on labour budget

    Addressing a Trinamool Congress (TMC) rally in Cooch Behar against the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Tuesday attacked the Centre over its failure to pay its dues to the state. She ...

    10 December 2025 Indian Express
    West Bengal: Few documents or family links, Sonagachi sex workers tackle SIR fears

    They are the nowhere people, but can they remain the somewhere voters? Clutching forms, some anxiously drawing a dupatta or shawl over their faces, the sex workers of Sonagachi in north Kolkata queued up at three special camps decorated ...

    10 December 2025 Indian Express
    Happening in Bengal today: Bengal CEO camp at Sonagachi

    Kolkata is set for a day of important administrative and political activity, starting with the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of West Bengal holding a special camp at Sonagachi, Asia’s largest red-light district, on December 9). Also, the political spotlight ...

    10 December 2025 Indian Express
    ‘He would’ve been alive if safety protocol had been maintained,’ Goa nightclub fire victim Subhash Chhetri’s sister says as family in Bengal waits for his body

    His father had died years ago. To support his mother, Subhash Chhetri went to Goa last year and was working there as a cook. Like many other 24-year-olds, Subhash also dreamed of building a house and starting a family. ...

    10 December 2025 Indian Express
    Bengal polls will be announced soon after publication of voters’ list to block legal challenge: Mamata Banerjee

    West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday claimed that assembly elections in the state would be announced immediately after the publication of the final electoral rolls following the SIR exercise in February to prevent legal challenges.Addressing a public ...

    10 December 2025 Indian Express
    ‘Civil Aviation Ministry will strive to stabilise operations’: Top officer reviews situation in Kolkata airport amid IndiGo crisis

    Following mass cancellations of IndiGo services in West Bengal and other parts of the country, the Ministry of Civil Aviation on Tuesday dispatched a senior officer to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport, Kolkata, to conduct an on-the-ground review to ...

    10 December 2025 Indian Express
    Driving into a bygone era: Vintage cars grace Kolkata streets for the 5th EIMG fiesta at Eco Park

    Kolkata on Sunday morning was electric, charged with the deep, resonant hum of engines that have seen nearly a century pass on the 5th edition of The EIMG Vintage Car Fiesta presented by Club de Golf.The spectacle began on ...

    10 December 2025 Indian Express
    ‘Indians being pushed into Bangladesh’: Mamata warns against BSF ‘high-handedness’ at border

    In a veiled reference to the BSF, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday warned against what she called “high-handedness” at the India-Bangladesh border and condemned alleged instances of Indian nationals being pushed into the neighbouring country.Addressing an ...

    9 December 2025 Indian Express
    ECI sends 5 more Special Roll Observers to Bengal for SIR

    The Election Commission of India (ECI) has appointed five additional Special Roll Observers for West Bengal, who will arrive to review the progress of the ongoing Special Summary Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.The newly appointed observers are Kumar Ravi ...

    9 December 2025 Indian Express
    ‘Indians being pushed into Bangladesh’: Mamata warns against BSF ‘high-handedness’

    In a veiled reference to the BSF, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday warned against what she called “high-handedness” at the India-Bangladesh border and condemned alleged instances of Indian nationals being pushed into the neighbouring country.Addressing an ...

    9 December 2025 Indian Express
    22-yr-old Bengal woman held for killing her newborn girl: ‘Desperate for a son, she was afraid to inform her husband of giving birth to a girl’

    A 22-year-old woman from West Bengal has been arrested in Ghaziabad for allegedly killing her newborn daughter barely 45 minutes after giving birth at her sister’s home.Police said Jharna allegedly wanted to throw the newborn from the terrace to ...

    9 December 2025 Indian Express
    Happening today in Bengal: Mamata skips Telangana Business Summit to be in North Bengal

    West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is scheduled to visit Cooch Behar today to hold an administrative meeting. She will also address a rally there.The chief minister, who was invited by her Telangana counterpart Revanth Reddy to attend ‘Telangana ...

    9 December 2025 Indian Express
    Mamata blames Centre for IndiGo chaos, says FDTL rollout done ‘without planning’

    Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee targeted the Centre over the IndiGo flight disruptions impacting thousands of passengers over the past week on Monday, claiming that the policy of Flight Duty Time Limitations (FDTL) was implemented without any planning. Before attending ...

    9 December 2025 Indian Express
    Bengal weather: Kalaikunda shivers at 13.5 degree Celsius, dry weather to prevail across state for next few days

    West Bengal is set for a week of stable, dry, and cool winter weather with clear skies generally prevailing. According to weather experts at the Alipore Meteorological Office, there will be no significant change in the temperature over the ...

    8 December 2025 Indian Express
    US tourists tops the list: Know why Bengal is second most popular destination for foreign visitors in the country

    Even as West Bengal has emerged as the second-most popular destination for international tourists in India, trailing only Maharashtra — based on the Union Tourism Ministry’s India Tourism Data Compendium — multiple factors have contributed to this achievement.The state ...

    8 December 2025 Indian Express
    As lakhs throng Kolkata Bhagavad Gita event, BJP’s Dilip Ghosh dares TMC to hold Gita recitation

    Kolkata’s iconic Brigade Parade Ground on Sunday witnessed lakhs of people, including Governor C V Ananda Bose, BJP leaders, as well as sadhus and sadhvis from across West Bengal, reciting the Bhagavad Gita at an event organised by the ...

    8 December 2025 Indian Express
    ‘Will never go to Delhi again’: Sunali visits her home, admitted to hospital in Birbhum

    Sunali Khatun (25), the pregnant woman who was brought back from Bangladesh after she along with her husband, son and another family was pushed into the neighbouring country in June this year, on Saturday visited her parental house and ...

    8 December 2025 Indian Express
    TMC slams Humayun Kabir, BJP on ‘Sanhati Dibas’; Mamata Banerjee vows fight against communalism

    The Trinamool Congress (TMC) observed December 6, the Babri Masjid demolition anniversary, as “Sanhati Dibas”, with Chief Minister and party supremo Mamata Banerjee pledging to continue fighting against forces stoking communalism to “destroy the country”.CM Banerjee took to social ...

    8 December 2025 Indian Express
    ‘Spoken to Owaisi’ for tie-up in Assembly polls’: After laying ‘Babri’ stone in Murshidabad, suspended TMC MLA Humayun Kabir says ready to fight TMC and BJP

    A day after laying the foundation stone for a Babri Masjid-like mosque at Beldanga in West Bengal’s Murshidabad, suspended Trinamool Congress MLA Humayun Kabir Sunday said he is in talks with All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) president and MP ...

    8 December 2025 Indian Express
    ‘Rs 5000 per student’: WBBSE imposes penalty on West Bengal govt schools for delayed registrations ahead of 2026 Madhyamik Examination

    The West Bengal Board of Secondary Education (WBBSE) has directed 50 government schools that have failed to complete registration or rectify student data within the stipulated deadline to pay a penalty of ₹5,000 per student by Monday.The schools that ...

    7 December 2025 Indian Express
    ‘A prestige battle for Muslims’: Suspended TMC MLA lays ‘Babri’ stone in Murshidabad

    Calling it “a prestige battle for Muslims”, suspended Trinamool Congress MLA Humayun Kabir on Saturday laid the foundation stone for a Babri Masjid-like mosque at Beldanga in West Berngal’s Murshidabad where thousands of people gathered on the anniversary of ...

    7 December 2025 Indian Express
    Brigade Parade Ground gets fortified for Bhagavad Gita recital event, 5 lakh devotees to join, security beefed up

    The iconic Brigade Parade Ground in Kolkata is gearing up to host a grand Bhagavad Gita recital event, likely to be attended by five lakh people along with several spiritual leaders on Sunday, the organisers said.Organised by the Sanatan ...

    7 December 2025 Indian Express
    Close shave for Bengali actor Anirban Chakraborty as bus hits his car Kolkata

    Popular Bengali actor Anirban Chakraborty had a close shave on Saturday when his car was hit by a bus in Kolkata, police said. The incident took place near Charu Market in south Kolkata when Chakraborty and his driver were travelling ...

    7 December 2025 Indian Express
    Calcutta HC refuses to intervene in stone-laying of Babri replica in Murshidabad

    The Calcutta High Court on Friday declined to interfere in the proposed foundation-laying ceremony of a Babri Masjid replica at Beldanga in Murshidabad, announced earlier by suspended Trinamool Congress MLA Humayun Kabir.A division bench of Acting Chief Justice Sujoy ...

    7 December 2025 Indian Express
    Happening today: High alert in Murshidabad as ‘Babri-style’ mosque plan meets court restraint; TMC marks December 6 as Samhati Diwas

    Foundation stone-laying planned in Murshidabad’s Beldanga, security beefed upSecurity has been beefed up in Murshidabad’s Beldanga area ahead of the foundation stone-laying of the a ‘Babri Masjid replica’, announced earlier by suspended Trinamool Congress (TMC) MLA Humayun Kabir. Kabir ...

    7 December 2025 Indian Express
    Pushed into Bangladesh over 5 months back, pregnant Sunali Khatun, son brought back to India

    Sunali Khatun (25), a pregnant woman who along with two of her family members and others was pushed into Bangladesh in June this year on suspicion of being an illegal immigrant, returned to India on Friday with her eight-year-old ...

    6 December 2025 Indian Express
    Tree down or sick? Call the ambulance: Kolkata launches mobile healthcare for ailing trees

    At a time when air quality across major cities, particularly Delhi, is a concern, Kolkata has taken a proactive step to preserve its “green lungs”. The city has launched Eastern India’s first-ever “Tree Ambulance” service — a free, mobile ...

    6 December 2025 Indian Express
    Here’s how much Bengal govt has spent on Lakshmir Bhandar till now. A hint — It’s the highest among all social welfare programmes

    Among the Mamata Banerjee government’s schemes over the last 50 months, it has spent the highest amount on its flagship Lakshmir Bhandar scheme — a programme widely believed to have yielded maximum political dividends for the ruling Trinamool Congress.According ...

    6 December 2025 Indian Express
    Happening today in Bengal: Waqf registration deadline ends today, and what will Humanyun Kabir do next

    The deadline to register Waqf properties on a portal launched by the Centre ends today. After resisting implementing the Waqf (Amendment) Act for months, the TMC government last week issued directions to upload information regarding Waqf properties on the ...

    6 December 2025 Indian Express
    2026 Assembly Elections readiness: On the day, SIR deadline gets over, West Bengal CEO to hold meeting for state polls on Dec 11, discuss strategies to combat money power menace

    West Bengal Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Manoj Kumar Agarwal will hold a crucial meeting with 25 nodal agencies on December 11 to discuss the preventive measures and strategies to combat the menace of money power in the Assembly elections ...

    6 December 2025 Indian Express
    PIL in Calcutta HC seeks stay on suspended TMC MLA Humayun Kabir’s Babri Masjid plan

    A Public Interest Litigation (PIL) has been filed in the Calcutta High Court seeking a stay on suspended Trinamool Congress (TMC) MLA Humayun Kabir’s plan to lay the foundation stone for building a mosque modelled on the Babri Masjid, ...

    6 December 2025 Indian Express
    First expelled from TMC 10 years ago, Humayun Kabir’s second stint was no less controversial

    It was his resolve to build a Babri Masjid-like mosque in Murshidabad that led to the suspension of 62-year-old TMC MLA Humayun Kabir. But this is not the first time that he has faced disciplinary action in the party.Kanir, ...

    5 December 2025 Indian Express
    Mamata doubles down: ‘SIR, a Shah ploy to impose President’s rule in Bengal’

    Doubling down her attack on Union Home Minister Amit Shah over the Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday claimed that whole exercise was pushed as part of “Union ...

    5 December 2025 Indian Express
    TMC MLA Humayun Kabir suspended for vow to build Babri Masjid replica; he says will form new party

    Hours before Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee’s scheduled address at Berhampore in Murshidabad district, the party on Wednesday suspended its Bharatpur MLA Humayun Kabir, days after he “vowed” to build a replica of the Babri Masjid in the district.State ...

    5 December 2025 Indian Express
    20 km of Kolkata Metro rail project delayed due to land acquisition related issues, says Ashwini Vaishnaw

    Kolkata Metro project, Kolkata Metro project latest news: In recent years, the construction of the Kolkata Metro rail project has expanded rapidly. It is the country’s first metro rail project, with construction beginning in 1973–74. However, due to issues ...

    5 December 2025 Indian Express
    In big jolt to Bengal govt, Calcutta HC cancels 1,600 supernumerary posts in schools

    In a major setback to the West Bengal government, the Calcutta High Court Thursday cancelled 1,600 supernumerary upper primary teaching posts for vocational and physical education.The order was passed by a single bench of Justice Biswajit Basu, who observed, ...

    5 December 2025 Indian Express
    At least ’21 cancellations, 177 delays’ in last 24 hours at Kolkata airport as IndiGo crisis deepens: Crew shortage worsened by new norms

    Air travel across India continues to face severe disruptions as widespread delays and cancellations at IndiGo, the country’s largest carrier, deepen the airline’s ongoing operational crisis. In Kolkata alone, at least 21 cancellations and 177 delays were recorded in ...

    5 December 2025 Indian Express
    Mamata suspends MLA Humayun Kabir over Babri mosque plan, says ‘Mir Jafars in every religion trying to create unrest’

    Hours after suspending TMC MLA Humayun Kabir over his plan to build a Babri Masjid-style mosque in Murshidabad, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday likened him to “traitor Mir Jafar” and warned people against falling into the ...

    5 December 2025 Indian Express
    What was the ‘Babri Masjid’ remark that got MLA Humayun Kabir suspended from TMC?

    The Trinamool Congress on Thursday suspended MLA Humayun Kabir for his remarks on laying the foundation stone of a Babri Masjid in Malda. “We noticed that one of our MLAs from Murshidabad suddenly declared that he would build the ...

    4 December 2025 Indian Express
    Happening today in Bengal: Kanyashree girls to debut at World School Volleyball Tournament

    Job aspirants, under the banner of the United Fresher’s Front and WB SLST-2 (2025) Fresher’s Candidates Mancha, will hold a march to the Assembly House in Kolkata today, demanding transparency and immediate declaration of SLST-2 exam vacancies. The procession ...

    4 December 2025 Indian Express
    As Mamata govt welcomes order, BJP says it has given rise to fresh questions

    Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday welcomed the Calcutta High Court’s order setting aside a previous ruling that had annulled the appointments of 32,000 primary school teachers for alleged irregularities, calling the verdict a “humanitarian” relief for thousands of ...

    4 December 2025 Indian Express
    Won’t allow anyone to touch waqf property: Mamata in Malda after TMC minister’s remarks

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

    4 December 2025 Indian Express
    Mamata targets Amit Shah over SIR: ‘Want to capture Bengal by trickery’

    West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday continued her attack on the BJP over the Election Commission’s ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in West Bengal, accusing Union Home Minister Amit Shah of “orchestrating” the exercise ...

    4 December 2025 Indian Express
    5, including two Bangla nationals, get life term in 2016 terror plot case

    Five alleged key operatives of the Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), a banned Bangladesh-based terrorist organisation, were sentenced to life imprisonment by a Kolkata court for their involvement in a conspiracy to carry out bomb blasts and other subversive activities across ...

    4 December 2025 Indian Express
    ED attaches Rs 200 crore assets of Kolkata businessman in bank fraud case

    The Enforcement Directorate , Kolkata zonal office, has attached properties worth crores of rupees belonging to M/s Prakash Vanijya Private Limited and its promoter-director Manoj Kumar Jain in a money laundering investigation under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, ...

    4 December 2025 Indian Express
    Hindus must unite to save Sanatan Dharma, says Adhikari in Malda

    A day before Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s two-day tour to Malda and Murshidabad, Leader of Opposition in West Bengal Assembly Suvendu Adhikari on Tuesday held a rally and inaugurated a 35-feet Lord Hanuman idol in Malda.Adhikari inaugurated the idol ...

    4 December 2025 Indian Express
    Happening today in Bengal: Mamata takes her anti-SIR protest to Malda, AIMIM to protest her govt’s U-turn on Waqf law

    For the next two days, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will be holding rallies against the Election Commission’s ongoing exercise of Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Malda and Murshidabad districts.This marks the TMC chief’s second ...

    4 December 2025 Indian Express
    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
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