Police stations across Calcutta have begun setting up additional checkpoints following a recent directive from the Election Commission ahead of the elections.The poll panel has asked Kolkata Police to triple the number of checkpoints compared to the 2024 elections. ...
26 March 2026 TelegraphThe Centre on Wednesday said the mandatory gap between delivery of a domestic LPG cylinder (14.2kg) and booking the next has not been extended, remaining 25 days in urban areas and 45 days in rural areas.However, several LPG distributors ...
26 March 2026 TelegraphMore than 60 rallies, big and small, will criss-cross the city on the occasion of Ram Navami on Thursday.Police said traffic is likely to be most affected in multiple pockets of central and north Calcutta due to the processions. ...
26 March 2026 TelegraphNone of them knows where to seek redress.The Supreme Court has mandated appellate tribunals to decide individual cases.Most of those cast off the voters’ list have only heard about the tribunals, headed by retired judges, but do not know ...
26 March 2026 TelegraphAt the close of counting in the Bengal Assembly polls on May 2 five years ago, Suvendu Adhikari had edged past Mamata Banerjee by 1,956 votes.The defeat has continued to rankle the Trinamool supremo and the party’s rank and ...
25 March 2026 TelegraphSenior BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari on Wednesday claimed that around 79 lakh "fake" names have been removed from the state's electoral rolls during the SIR, and asserted that this would help the BJP secure more than 177 seats in ...
25 March 2026 TelegraphBengal remains in the dark about the final voters' list, with 15 days left before nominations close for the second phase of polling, as 705 judicial officers race to finalise a “fool proof” roll promised by the Election Commission ...
25 March 2026 TelegraphThe Election Commission (EC) is investigating a technical glitch that briefly marked all voters in West Bengal as “under adjudication” on its portal, officials said on Wednesday.The issue surfaced on Tuesday night when voters checking their details using Epic ...
25 March 2026 TelegraphThe Centre on Wednesday denied reports quoting LPG dealers that the wait times for cooking-gas cylinder refills had been increased, but consumers and industry representatives in Bengal The Telegraph Online spoke to had a different tale to tell.“Reports circulating ...
25 March 2026 TelegraphAIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Wednesday claimed that Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's politics helped the BJP grow in West Bengal. The senior leader slammed the Trinamool Congress, alleging that the party bagged Muslim votes but did nothing for the ...
25 March 2026 TelegraphTennis star Leander Paes called on BJP national president Nitin Nabin in a New Town hotel on Tuesday, setting off speculations that the meeting could be a prelude to his candidature in the Bengal Assembly polls.Although Paes was not ...
25 March 2026 TelegraphChief Minister Mamata Banerjee reached north Bengal on Tuesday to kick off her election campaign in the region where the BJP had performed better than the Trinamool Congress in the 2021 Assembly polls.Around 3.25pm, Mamata landed on a helipad ...
25 March 2026 TelegraphA single bench of the Calcutta High Court at the Circuit Bench at Jalpaiguri heard a petition filed by Swapna Barman, the heptathlete and Asian Games gold medalist who is also contesting at the ensuing Assembly elections on Trinamool’s ...
25 March 2026 TelegraphA group of BJP workers from Hooghly district on Tuesday agitated at the party’s Salt Lake office, demanding the replacement of Sumana Sarkar with someone from the old guard as the Balagarh candidate.The protest took place on a day ...
25 March 2026 TelegraphThe Chopra block Congress committee in North Dinajpur independently announced its candidate for the Assembly elections, citing the “unnecessary delay” by the party high command in releasing the official list of nominees.On Monday, Congress leaders of the block nominated ...
25 March 2026 TelegraphUnfavourable weather conditions across north Bengal and Sikkim have raised concerns among political parties ahead of the Assembly elections and the mountain state’s civic polls, which will be held on April 24. Heavy rainfall has affected several districts ...
25 March 2026 TelegraphCalcutta: A complete lack of clarity on the part of the Election Commission left a majority of the under-adjudication voters in the dark throughout Tuesday as they struggled to find out whether their names were approved for inclusion in ...
25 March 2026 TelegraphTwo separate Supreme Court benches on Tuesday admonished the Bengal government for the controversy-ridden SIR process in the state and its objection to the Enforcement Directorate’s plea against the alleged obstruction to a raid in Calcutta on January 8. ...
25 March 2026 TelegraphPoll-bound Bengal is all set to witness unprecedented celebrations of Ram Navami, with the saffron ecosystem set to organise over 4,000 processions and pujas — at least 1,000 more than the figure last year.Ram Navami will be observed over ...
25 March 2026 TelegraphKhaleda Banu heals patients at the Murshidabad Medical College Hospital, but she cannot find a remedy for a missing line of text on the poll rolls.The 28-year-old doctor’s name has been struck off the rolls following a contentious “adjudication” ...
25 March 2026 TelegraphBangshibadan Barman, who heads a faction of the Greater Cooch Behar Peoples’ Association (GCPA), joined the BJP in Calcutta on Tuesday.Barman, who is still the chairman of the Rajbanshi development and cultural board formed by the state government and ...
25 March 2026 TelegraphMamata Banerjee on Tuesday issued a clarion call, presumably to every non-NDA party in the country, to set aside differences and close ranks on the allegedly unholy nexus between the BJP and the Election Commission to establish a one-party ...
25 March 2026 TelegraphThe IIT Kharagpur director said at a lecture at St Xavier’s University that although artificial intelligence enables policymakers to make decisions instantly, such decisions must be vetted by “ethical judgment that requires deliberation”. Suman Chakraborty was addressing a medal-awarding ...
25 March 2026 TelegraphThe Metro Orange Line will reach Sector V by the end of this year if the clearance for lifting concrete decks at Chingrighata is granted by the police this month, railway officials said.“Once the gap at Chingrighata is plugged, ...
25 March 2026 TelegraphAn emeritus professor at the Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, who also served as a National Chair of Science, has written to the ministry of statistics and programme implementation opposing its move to place the ISI Bill before the Union ...
25 March 2026 TelegraphThe Centre has extended the mandatory gap between the delivery of one domestic LPG (14.2kg) cylinder and booking the next refill from 25 to 35 days, distributors said on Tuesday.Urban families with double-cylinder connections — a provision to keep ...
25 March 2026 TelegraphThe state secondary education board has initiated the police verification process to appoint 168 teachers at the Plus II level in the first phase.The process marks the resumption of teacher appointments at government-aided schools after a 10-year gap. After ...
25 March 2026 TelegraphA woman running a beauty parlour was allegedly hacked to death inside her shop near Garia on Tuesday afternoon by a man suspected to be her paramour. The man later slit his own throat and died, police said.Rupbani Das, ...
25 March 2026 TelegraphRam Navami, the latest addition to Bengal’s packed festival calendar, will be celebrated on Thursday and Friday.Barely a month before the state goes to the polls, nerves are taut. The Election Commission has replaced much of the top brass ...
25 March 2026 TelegraphPolice on Tuesday recorded the statements of public works department engineers and representatives of the private firm that manufactured Lift 2 at the trauma care building of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital.Sources said the engineers were questioned on ...
25 March 2026 TelegraphRashad Hasan, 38, had been trying to download the supplementary voter list since Monday night, but without success. His growing anxiety turned into frustration, and by Tuesday evening, hopelessness.Susmita Bhattacharjee, 40, faced the same ordeal.Both Rashad and Susmita were ...
25 March 2026 TelegraphThe Calcutta High Court on Tuesday allowed a Ram Navami procession by an organisation in Howrah on March 26 but imposed strict restrictions on carrying weapons.Petitioner Anjani Putra Sena, a non-profit organisation, moved the high court claiming that the ...
24 March 2026 TelegraphIndividual voters stuck in the “adjudication” limbo of the Election Commission’s special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls may or may not get to know whether they will get to vote but as of post-noon Tuesday it is still ...
24 March 2026 TelegraphAs tensions in West Asia continue to rise, the Indian share market is experiencing sharp volatility, driven by a storm of geopolitical conflict, energy shocks and a shift in global monetary policy. The Nifty 50 dropped to 23,114 on ...
24 March 2026 TelegraphPen lovers from across Kolkata, and India, flocked to the Pen Mahotsav at the Indian Council for Cultural Relations on Park Street on March 20. From budding collectors to seasoned fountain pen loyalists, the exhibition unfolded as a paradise ...
24 March 2026 TelegraphCalcutta University is struggling to implement the National Education Policy (NEP) at the postgraduate level due to the shortage of teachers and lack of funds, the vice-chancellor of the university said.CU vice-chancellor Ashutosh Ghosh raised the issue during his ...
24 March 2026 TelegraphThe state government has decided to deploy central forces during Ram Navami processions if required, sources in the state home department said on Monday.The state has witnessed communal clashes on Ram Navami in the past, prompting police to make ...
24 March 2026 TelegraphAutorickshaw fares on several routes in the city went up on Monday, three days after the price of auto LPG rose by ₹8 per litre, the second jump in eight days.Between March 12 and 20, the auto LPG price ...
24 March 2026 TelegraphA fast-food outlet in Golpark remained shut over the weekend. A family on the southern fringes of the city has switched to cooking with firewood, spending around ₹300 a week. A hotel in central Calcutta has halted live counters ...
24 March 2026 TelegraphThe Election Commission on Sunday asked the Bengal government to send a list of officers-in-charge and inspectors-in-charge of police stations who “may not be able to conduct a free and fair election”, a senior police officer told Metro on ...
24 March 2026 TelegraphA team from the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) on Monday inspected Lift 2 of the trauma care building at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, where 41-year-old Arup Banerjee was crushed between the doors on Friday.The team collected a ...
24 March 2026 TelegraphVishal Samanta, 22, had planned to keep his ailing father, Biswajit Samanta, 61, at home before heading to write his third-semester BTech exam at a private engineering college in Dum Dum. Vishal never imagined that he would be returning ...
24 March 2026 TelegraphA 61-year-old man who had come to RG Kar Medical College and Hospital with symptoms of bleeding from the nose and mouth early on Monday died after doctors allegedly asked him to walk about 50 metres to a pay-and-use ...
24 March 2026 TelegraphThe Supreme Court on Monday castigated the Bengal government’s “obstinate” stalling of Metro Railway construction at Chingrighata as a “dereliction of constitutional duties” and an attempt to politicise a project that would benefit people.It rejected the state’s plea that ...
24 March 2026 TelegraphCPI(M) young turk Dipsita Dhar is disheartened at the RG Kar hospital rape-murder victim's mother wanting to fight the West Bengal assembly elections on a BJP ticket, but says her emotional connect to the polls continues to centre around ...
24 March 2026 TelegraphThe deadlock between the Left Front and the Indian Secular Front (ISF) over seat-sharing remained unresolved on Monday as Nawsad Siddiqui’s party went ahead to announce candidates for 23 Assembly constitiencies.The tussle over seats deepened with the ISF deciding ...
24 March 2026 TelegraphThe state election commission (SEC) of Sikkim announced the dates for the civic polls of the Himalayan state on Monday.K C Lepcha, the state election commissioner, speaking at the SEC office in Gangtok, said polling would be held on ...
24 March 2026 TelegraphTwo voters of the minority community, placed under adjudication, died in North Dinajpur district in the past 24 hours, their families alleging fear surrounding the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR) process of the electoral rolls led to their deaths.On ...
24 March 2026 TelegraphAt least six houses were gutted in a fire early on Monday in Mungpoo, a hill hamlet in the Darjeeling district.Although no casualties have been reported so far, the incident has raised concerns over emergency preparedness in remote but ...
24 March 2026 TelegraphThe Cooch Behar district administration has asked the central forces deployed for the Assembly polls to be more approachable to residents by using simple Bengali phrases while interacting with them.The aim is to reduce fear and build confidence among ...
24 March 2026 TelegraphThe two principal parties in the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) — the Anit Thapa-led Bharatiya Gorkha Prajatantrik Morcha (BGPM) and the Ajoy Edwards-led Indian Gorkha Janshakti Front (IGJF) — are approaching the Assembly elections with diametrically opposite strategies.Thapa's BGPM, ...
24 March 2026 TelegraphNagendra Roy aka Ananta Maharaj, who heads a faction of the Greater Cooch Behar Peoples’ Association (GCPA), seems to be performing a curious balancing act as the Trinamool Congress and BJP vie for inroads into the crucial Rajbanshi vote ...
24 March 2026 TelegraphThe Election Commission seized cash, liquor, narcotics, precious metals and assorted freebies collectively valued at ₹181.36 crore within just six days since the announcement of the Assembly polls on March 16 as the EC launched an aggressive crackdown on ...
24 March 2026 TelegraphShankar Ghosh, the Siliguri BJP MLA who is contetsing again from the same seat, on Monday called his rival from the Trinamool Congress, Gautam Deb, “incompetent” as he had purportedly failed as the mayor of the city. Deb on ...
24 March 2026 TelegraphThe wait for the first supplementary list of eligible voters, from among those under adjudication, ended after the Election Commission released it on Monday night.Sources in the office of the Bengal chief electoral officer said that the supplementary list ...
24 March 2026 TelegraphRinku Majumdar, wife of former West Bengal BJP president Dilip Ghosh, on Friday publicly expressed displeasure after being denied a party ticket for the upcoming assembly elections, claiming that the leadership's argument of not fielding multiple members from the ...
24 March 2026 TelegraphAhead of the two-phase West Bengal assembly elections on April 23 and April 29, authorities have seized cash, liquor, drugs, and freebies worth over Rs 181 crore as enforcement of the model code of conduct (MCC) intensifies across all ...
24 March 2026 TelegraphSupply contraints of LPG cylinders showed no signs of abating in parts of West Bengal on Monday, with gas distributors, transporters and restaurants reporting disruption in operations amid the crunch.Bijan Biswas, vice-president of the Indane LPG Distributors' Association in ...
24 March 2026 TelegraphThe Supreme Court on Monday pulled up the Mamata Banerjee government for delaying the completion of the Metro network's orange line, which connects New Garia with the airport.“This merely exhibits the obstinate attitude of the authority wherein they want ...
24 March 2026 TelegraphPolice arrested six persons after recovering a firearm from an SUV owned by a former Congress MLA during naka checking on NH12 at Kaluadighi under Malda police station on Saturday evening.The SUV in question belongs to Md Mottakin ...
24 March 2026 TelegraphThe death of yet another booth-level officer (BLO) from Malatipur Assembly constituency of Malda district on Sunday morning has triggered a fresh political slugfest, with the Trinamool Congress blaming the Election Commission of India (EC) and the BJP.However, some ...
24 March 2026 TelegraphFive fishermen risked their lives to snatch a companion from the jaws of a Bengal tigress on Saturday evening in the Sundarbans delta, striking the animal repeatedly with bamboo poles and oars until she retreated.The victim, Nikhil Mondal, 43, ...
24 March 2026 TelegraphThe issue of daily wages for tea garden workers has emerged as a key political flashpoint in the Alipurduar district, with both the BJP and Trinamool Congress sharpening their campaigns to woo voters in the region’s tea belt.The BJP ...
24 March 2026 TelegraphThe Trinamool Congress is grappling with internal dissent, leadership dissatisfaction and concerns over representation in Cooch Behar ahead of the Assembly elections, which has created a complex and volatile political situation in the district.The resignation of Khokon Mian, a ...
24 March 2026 TelegraphMamata Banerjee on Sunday warned her party’s Bhabanipur leadership that nothing was in the ruling dispensation’s hands anymore, attacking the alleged BJP-poll panel nexus and its Bengal administrative overhaul.She urged all stakeholders in the Trinamool Congress ecosystem to pull ...
24 March 2026 TelegraphThe Election Commission and the state government have asked district magistrates to ensure security at possible gathering places and vulnerable points because the first supplementary list of voters, after adjudication, could be published on Monday.Chief electoral officer Manoj Agarwal ...
24 March 2026 TelegraphBJP national president Nitin Nabin will meet the party’s state leadership on Tuesday to assess election preparedness amid growing discontent within the ranks over candidate selection for many seats.The BJP has since the publication of the second list of ...
24 March 2026 TelegraphMamata Banerjee has asked Trinamool Congress workers to stay alert even after polling ends and to keep watch on strong rooms, as the party steps up preparations for the 2026 West Bengal Assembly elections.Addressing a closed-door organisational meeting in ...
24 March 2026 TelegraphThe Election Commission is likely to release the first supplementary voters’ list for West Bengal on Monday evening, officials said. The list is part of the ongoing Special Summary Revision (SIR) exercise.The list will be published in the same ...
24 March 2026 TelegraphA 54-year-old booth-level officer died of a heart attack on Saturday night, with his family blaming pressure from the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise in West Bengal.Utpal Thakur, a para-teacher by profession, was posted at booth number 93 ...
24 March 2026 TelegraphThe Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Sunday announced its second list of candidates for Assam Assembly elections, naming Congress MLA Sherman Ali Ahmed from Mandia constituency while withdrawing the candidature of the party's state senior vice-president Dulu Ahmed.The latest list ...
24 March 2026 TelegraphTMC's Rajya Sabha MP Sagarika Ghose said anti-incumbency in West Bengal, which was localised, has largely been obscured by the fallout of the SIR exercise, giving the party a distinct edge over the BJP in the upcoming assembly elections.The ...
24 March 2026 TelegraphThe West Bengal government has directed all the district magistrates to take precautionary measures for maintaining law and order during the publication of the supplementary electoral rolls on March 23.A senior official said a communication issued by the Home ...
24 March 2026 TelegraphThe 41st battalion of the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) apprehended a Bangladeshi attempting to enter India from Nepal with forged identity documents on Friday.Shamim Hawlader, 34, was intercepted by the SSB from a shared taxi at the integrated check ...
24 March 2026 TelegraphA patient at state-run R G Kar Medical College and Hospital died on Monday after his family alleged he was forced to walk to a toilet despite his critical condition. The incident has raised questions over hospital infrastructure and ...
24 March 2026 TelegraphPather Panchali was originally called Durer Bari. The novel that makes it to any list of the top five influential novels in Bengali had a different title when pen was first put to paper in 1924.Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay’s immortal work ...
24 March 2026 TelegraphA spell of rain over the last week exposed the choked gully pits along Calcutta’s roads, leading to waterlogging along the edges of the roads in many places. On Saturday morning, stretches along the edges of Bentinck Street were ...
24 March 2026 TelegraphSunday was cool and sunny, but the Met office said the temperature would rise over the next few days.Rain is predicted again towards the weekend, the weatherman said.“The temperature came down significantly, and it will gradually go up in ...
24 March 2026 TelegraphThe investigation into the elevator malfunction at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital has revealed that at least one cable was torn in the machine room situated on the top floor of the trauma care unit, where the lifts ...
24 March 2026 TelegraphFamily members and friends of Arup Banerjee, who died in a lift fiasco at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on Friday, on Sunday stated that the arrest of a few people was not enough and that they wanted ...
24 March 2026 TelegraphAll police commissioners and district police chiefs across Bengal were asked by the Election Commission on Saturday to visit all police stations in their jurisdiction on Sunday and Monday to convey the six objectives of the election body.The objectives ...
24 March 2026 TelegraphArup Banerjee’s son, who will turn four soon, has been looking for his father since Saturday, after he returned home with his mother.Ayush, Arup’s son, underwent surgery on his right hand at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on ...
24 March 2026 TelegraphLift operators are often not present, money is requested for services that are supposed to be free, and there is a deficiency in adequate signage, causing patient families to be uncertain about where to find testing locations — the ...
24 March 2026 TelegraphInvestigators probing a man's death after he got trapped in an R G Kar Hospital lift are looking into possible safety lapses and human error, even as records show the elevator had cleared a routine inspection recently, a police ...
24 March 2026 TelegraphCalcutta University has asked affiliated colleges where the central armed police force (CAPF) personnel have already entered, ahead of the Assembly polls, to continue classes in any format they deem fit to complete the syllabus on time.The controller of ...
24 March 2026 TelegraphChildren need to learn to value the privileges they enjoy and be sensitive to the challenges others face, a school in Salt Lake told its students and parents in light of the ongoing conflict in West Asia. IEM Public ...
24 March 2026 TelegraphIn Bengal’s state-run hospitals, patients’ families often have to pull their own trolleys — or, in the worst cases, take patients to the operating theatre themselves — because attendants hired for these jobs are either absent or demand money.The ...
24 March 2026 TelegraphThe city is expected to get a clear sky on Sunday, but the upper regions of north Bengal, like Darjeeling, Kalimpong and Jalpaiguri, are likely to receive rain for the next few days, the Met office has predicted.In Calcutta, ...
24 March 2026 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee will kick off her Assembly election campaign on Sunday evening with a closed-door kormi sabha at Ahindra Mancha in Chetla, focusing on poll strategy for the Bhabanipur constituency.Trinamool insiders said Mamata is expected to unveil ...
24 March 2026 TelegraphTens of thousands of voters placed “under adjudication” are awaiting a supplementary list of eligible voters, expected next week.More than 60.06 lakh voters were under adjudication when the post-SIR electoral roll was published on February 28. Election Commission sources ...
24 March 2026 TelegraphPolice probing the death of 41-year-old Arup Banerjee at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital are investigating a series of glaring human errors and possible mechanical faults in the trauma building lift accident. Metro pieces together the angles being ...
24 March 2026 TelegraphArup Banerjee’s friend, Sandip Deb, had accompanied the family to RG Kar Medical College and Hospital after Arup’s son Ayush fractured an arm on Thursday night and needed urgent attention.Arup, 41, was crushed to death after he was trapped ...
24 March 2026 TelegraphSonali Banerjee, who was stuck inside a lift at RG Kar Hospital with husband Arup and four-year-old son Ayush on Friday morning, recalled on Saturday the sequence of events leading to her husband’s gruesome death.Here’s her first-person account:We were ...
24 March 2026 TelegraphThe mother of the doctor, who was raped and murdered at the state-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, alleged on Saturday that the death of a man following an elevator malfunction at the facility showed the authorities were ...
24 March 2026 TelegraphThe first supplementary list of voters resolved through adjudication could be published next week with the state administration and Calcutta High Court coming to the conclusion that next week would be better keeping in mind the possibility of law-and-order ...
21 March 2026 TelegraphThe Election Commission of India (ECI) on Thursday placed on hold the transfer orders of five IPS officers issued on Wednesday night for their assignment as poll observers in other states. There was no change in the orders of the ...
21 March 2026 TelegraphThe Assembly elections are still several weeks away, but the central forces are already at work. On Thursday, the forces marched through pockets of Amherst Street, Burrabazar, Posta, Kasba, Gariahat, and Rabindra Sarobar. A senior officer from the local police ...
21 March 2026 TelegraphThe Left Front on Thursday published its second list of 32 candidates for the Assembly elections, taking the total number of nominees to 224. CPM state secretary Md Salim said the LF's seat-sharing negotiations with the Indian Secular Front (ISF) ...
21 March 2026 TelegraphAction Area III has lost its only multiplex. PVR Inox Downtown Mall was found with its ticket counters closed towards the end of the last week of February. And on Sunday, the last pieces of furniture were carried away, leaving ...
20 March 2026 TelegraphRG Kar Medical College and Hospital yet again faced a major backlash after the Number Two lift of the trauma care building malfunctioned, trapping a family of three inside. The Telegraph Online tries to piece together what happened on March ...
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