Kolkata: Amid the Poila Baisakh Bird Count, that's on across the state, Bengal has given India its first record of black-tailed gull, a bird native to the shorelines of East Asia. This is also the 933rd bird species from ...
20 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata/Durgapur: Ahead of the upcoming polls, law enforcement agencies across Bengal have intensified their crackdown on the movement of illegal arms and unaccounted cash, resulting in a series of major seizures in Kolkata and Durgapur. On Saturday, the Special ...
19 April 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Sunday carried out raids at premises linked to Kolkata Police deputy commissioner Shantanu Sinha Biswas and another individual as part of a money laundering probe into an alleged criminal and his associated syndicate ...
19 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 29-year-old man, an advocate by profession, was arrested on Friday night for his alleged involvement in the gang rape of a massage therapist in Salt Lake. He denied all charges against him. On Saturday, he was produced ...
19 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: CM Mamata Banerjee on Saturday dared BJP to raid her home after Income Tax raids at the homes of her chief proposer in Bhowanipore, Miraj Shah, and Rashbehari Trinamool candidate Debasish Kumar. The CM alleged that the EC ...
19 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Trinamool on Saturday lodged a complaint with the Election Commission against Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma over "inciteful and divisive" remarks made during an election rally in Cooch Behar. Trinamool also accused Sarma of making communally-charged statements and ...
19 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A complaint was filed against Tapas Roy, the BJP candidate from Maniktala in North Kolkata, for allegedly entering a housing complex by force to campaign. Residents of two housing complexes in Ward 31 reportedly filed complaints against Roy ...
19 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: An NIA court on Saturday granted bail to 15 people arrested in connection with the Beldanga violence in Murshidabad in Jan, after the agency failed to submit its charge sheet within the mandatory 90-day period. The court granted ...
19 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: An NIA court on Saturday granted bail to 15 people arrested in connection with the Beldanga violence in Murshidabad in Jan, after the agency failed to submit its charge sheet within the mandatory 90-day period, reports Dwaipayan Ghosh. ...
19 April 2026 Times of IndiaAsansol: A BJP neta was arrested on Friday night after a woman alleged he slapped her and her minor daughter during a door-to-door campaign visit at DVC Colony in Pandaveswar, after she said she would vote for Trinamool, reports ...
19 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Trinamool on Friday lodged a complaint against Rajesh Kumar, the BJP candidate for Jagatdal, for allegedly violating the MCC and threatening to "tie [voters] upside down and beat them up on the day results are announced".The party provided ...
19 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A homemaker lodged a complaint with Titagarh police station on Saturday against BJP's Barrackpore candidate Koustav Bagchi, alleging that he threatened her during a door-to-door campaign visit to her residence. Police said an inquiry is underway and CCTV ...
19 April 2026 Times of IndiaPurulia: Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren, campaigning for Trinamool in Purulia on Saturday, delivered a sharp attack on the Election Commission, alleging it was acting as BJP's instrument in Bengal."Everywhere else, elections are happening in a single phase. In Bengal, ...
19 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A sharp reduction in voter rolls across Salt Lake, New Town, Rajarhat-Gopalpur and adjoining areas under Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation post SIR has set the stage for an unusually tight contest in this year's assembly election, with all major ...
19 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Running from the pillar to post to know about the status of their appeals made after deletion of names, many ‘deleted' voters, including advocates, knocked on the door of justice at Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee-National Institute of Water ...
19 April 2026 Times of IndiaAsansol: Amid grievances over the SIR process and long-standing concerns such as pollution, illegal coal mining, the ‘mafia raj' and drinking water shortage, Asansol — one of India's key coal trading hubs — is gearing up for a high-stakes ...
19 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Friday's 15-hour-long I-T raid on Debashis Kumar's house gave the seasoned politician a shot in the arm as the party activists touring neighbourhoods across Rashbehari constituency (after the release of the leader) felt the Trinamool Congress would gain ...
19 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A Kolkata Police constable was placed under suspension following allegations of influencing voters during the ongoing election process.According to an official order issued by the joint commissioner of police (headquarters) on Saturday, Constable Sk Masud Karim of the ...
19 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata/Kharagpur: A third-year IIT Kharagpur student died after reportedly falling from the eighth-floor terrace of Atal Bihari Vajpayee Hall of Residence on Saturday. Preliminary findings hinted at suicide, police said. Jayveersinh Dodiya (21) is the eighth Kharagpur campus student ...
19 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The city would stay warm and humid over the next five days, with a possibility of the maximum temperature reaching 37°C in this scorching spell, warned the Met office. While thunderstorms occurred at some places in Murshidabad, Nadia ...
19 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Calcutta University syndicate, the highest decision-making body, has approved a new postgraduate academic calendar—July to June—aligning it with the national academic schedule. The new schedule will be implemented from the upcoming session.CU has never had an academic calendar ...
19 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: In an unprecedented move to ensure free, fair and peaceful election, the EC plans to create a strict 100-metre perimeter — a ‘Lakshman Rekha' — around every polling booth in Bengal. The boundary will be marked with white ...
19 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The EC on Saturday relieved the observer for the Chinsurah seat in Hooghly, C Paulrasu, an IAS officer of the 2004 batch, and asked him to leave the constituency and Bengal immediately.Another IAS officer, Rajesh Kumar Sharma, who ...
19 April 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Saturday accused the Mamata Banerjee-led West Bengal government of diverting state resources for “Bangladeshi Muslim infiltrators” and said she must be removed from power, warning that “otherwise we will lose Bengal.”Addressing ...
18 April 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The Kolkata Police’s Special Task Force (STF) seized a cache of arms and ammunition near Rajabazar Science College in Kolkata and detained a man days ahead of the two-phase polling in West Bengal, officials said on Saturday. Acting ...
18 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Friday addressed the Marathi ‘manoos' at Maharashtra Niwas near Kalighat, asserting that "only a safe Bengal can ensure a safe India".Fondly known as ‘Devabhau', Fadnavis highlighted the contributions of both Bengal and ...
18 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Sati Chatterjee, a former professor of English literature at Jadavpur University, passed away on Friday at her Lake Gardens residence. The 91-year-old academic was suffering from a lung infection.In 1950, Chatterjee joined Presidency College to study English literature ...
18 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Experts at the India-Germany Climate Talks in Kolkata on Thursday said it was time to recognise and monetise the economic value of wetlands, like the East Kolkata Wetlands (EKW), citing their potential to generate carbon credits while delivering ...
18 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bharatpur MLA and AJUP chief Humayun Kabir on Friday moved the Calcutta High Court, seeking a court-monitored probe into the 19-minute viral sting video purportedly featuring him and an unidentified man. Kabir said the video, which purportedly shows ...
18 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Star Health Insurance expects a 25% growth in Bengal in the current fiscal and has set a target of Rs 1,250 crore premium in 2026-27 from the state. Anand Roy, MD and CEO of the company, said Star ...
18 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Just 72 hours to go before the Supreme Court's first deadline to add voters cleared by SIR tribunals, Election Commission has yet to publish the name of a single person whose voting right has been reinstated and who ...
18 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Darjeeling, Siliguri, Cooch Behar and North Dinajpur will cease to exist if the delimitation bill is passed, CM Mamata Banerjee said on Friday, slamming the BJP-led govt's move as a "deliberate attempt at dividing the country"."They tabled the ...
18 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Income-tax officials on Friday raided CM Mamata Banerjee's poll nomination proposer Miraj Shah (also the trustee of one of the state's biggest private educational institutions), and Trinamool's Rashbehari candidate Debashis Kumar, prompting the CM to call BJP "cowards ...
18 April 2026 Times of IndiaNandigram: Crude bombs were allegedly hurled at BJP neta Abbas Beg's house in Nandigram late Thursday, hours after he filed a police complaint against TMC neta Sheikh Sufiyan.Beg, BJP Tamluk minority cell general secretary, said the attack in Nayana ...
18 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Hitting the pause button on the acrimony of an election season where their parties are pitted against one another in Bengal, LoP in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi and Trinamool's leader in the LS Abhishek Banerjee spoke on a ...
18 April 2026 Times of IndiaKalyani: Police on Friday arrested Trinamool councillor Rajib Dalal in Nadia. Dalal, who represents Ward 17 and is the first ever chairman of the Haringhata Municipality, was picked up from his residence in Barajaguli.The arrest was reportedly linked to ...
18 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Association of Health Service Doctors (AHSD), West Bengal, has written to the police commissioner against cardiologist PK Hazra, alleging that the doctor has posted a photo of the RG Kar rape-murder victim on social media. Calling such ...
18 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Calcutta High Court on Friday quashed the requisition of state colleges' assistant professors for the duty of presiding officers in polling stations, pulling up the Election Commission of India (ECI) for not showing any "unavoidable" circumstance for their ...
18 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Sati Chatterjee, a former professor of English literature at Jadavpur University, passed away on Friday at her Lake Gardens residence. The 91-year-old academic was suffering from a lung infection.In 1950, Chatterjee joined Presidency College to study English literature ...
18 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Several electors who are sick and aged below 85 are seeking clarifications from BLOs whether they can avail of the postal ballot facility at home. Recently, a BLO from Shyampukur constituency has written a letter to the public ...
18 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The annual concert of Sri Ram Narayan Singh Memorial High School, ‘Jhankriti 2025', was held at Kala Mandir auditorium with eminent personalities from the fields of education and performing arts in attendance. The concert's theme, ‘Bengal', celebrated the ...
18 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Chinese film festival returned to Nandan after a decade on Friday. The festival, inaugurated by Chinese consul general Xu Wei, will continue till Sunday.The last time a Chinese film festival was held in Kolkata was in 2016.The ...
18 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Less than two weeks before the assembly election in Salt Lake-New Town-Rajarhat, the EC removed Bidhannagar Police commissioner, Murlidhar Sharma, from office. The ECI appointed IPS Tripurari Atharva as the new CP. Atharva was previously serving as the ...
18 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Rampant on-road parking is choking Kolkata's already strained road network, with transport officials warning that unchecked encroachment of carriageways is severely impacting mobility across the city. "In a city with extremely limited road space, parked vehicles are reducing ...
18 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The temperature has started rising once again a day after thundershowers pulled it down below the normal mark. On Friday, the maximum temperature in Kolkata rose to 34°C from 32.4°C the previous day. With no possibility of rain ...
18 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: IIT-Kharagpur is set to establish an interdisciplinary research initiative aimed at advancing data-driven innovation in the mining sector, named Vikram Sodhi Centre of Excellence for AI-Enabled Geological & Mining Systems, with a funding commitment of Rs 15 crore ...
18 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Two contemporary Bengali films — one adapted from a Tagore play and another on the jatra culture of Bangladesh with a Kolkata-based sound designer — are being screened at the Moscow International Film Festival. This is in addition ...
18 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Trinamool Congress candidate for Rashbehari constituency Debasish Kumar has always been a late riser. Friday morning would have been no different. Kumar had been on a whirlwind tour of his constituency on Thursday night, returned home well past ...
18 April 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: People in the city are in awe of the multiple armoured capsule-based infantry mobility vehicles deployed for polls. It is hard to miss their sight. Be it on arterial roads or at crossings in the city.A few of ...
17 April 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday carried out searches in connection with its ongoing money laundering probe into Kolkata-based real estate firm Merlin Group and its linked entities, officials said to news agency PTI. The latest action comes ...
17 April 2026 Times of IndiaPINGLA (WEST MIDNAPORE): Their art, passed down from one generation to another, brings alive tales from Indian mythology on scrolls. But ahead of the assembly elections, the Chitrakars of West Midnapore’s Pingla are wielding their brush to paint a ...
17 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Gariahat Police have moved a local court seeking permission to initiate a full-scale criminal investigation into the disappearance of high-value gold jewellery from a bank locker of a deceased senior citizen.The move comes after a preliminary enquiry ...
17 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A severely emaciated young mare, found in a near-dead condition under the Hastings flyover near the Maidan, has triggered an FIR by PETA India, exposing yet another instance of alleged cruelty linked to the city's horse-drawn carriage trade. ...
17 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: "You (Election Commission of India) can appoint judges also under Section 26 (of Representation of People Act) as polling officers... I am ready to go," said Justice Krishna Rao of the Calcutta High Court on Thursday, slamming the ...
17 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: City-based Shyam Steel has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Maharashtra govt to establish a large-scale manufacturing plant in Chandrapur district for over Rs 10,000 crore. Shyam Steel has a strong presence in the eastern region, with ...
17 April 2026 Times of Indiahargram: Trinamool national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Thursday criticised BJP's poll promise to implement a Uniform Civil Code (UCC) in Bengal within six months of coming into office, alleging it would dictate how people practise their religion."Earlier, Amit ...
17 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Trinamool has submitted a series of complaints to the Bengal chief electoral officer (CEO) against several senior BJP and AJUP netas for alleged violations of the Model Code of Conduct (MCC).TMC alleged that Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman ...
17 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A day after launching "Matrishakti Bharosa card" for women, BJP on Thursday unveiled the "Yuvashakti Bharosa card" for youth, a physical token of the party's commitment to both sections in its manifesto. Trinamool panned the saffron party for ...
17 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath and Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma led a coordinated BJP attack on the Trinamool govt on Thursday, alleging that Bengal was "nurturing infiltrators" and had surrendered to "mafia raj".Addressing a rally in Phansidewa, ...
17 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: CM Mamata Banerjee on Thursday said "no one happier" than her after the Supreme Court allowed those, whose names were deleted during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) but restored by appellate tribunals, to vote in the Bengal polls."Congratulations ...
17 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Calcutta HC on Thursday granted interim relief to Trinamool's Nandigram candidate Pabitra Kar in an FIR alleging criminal intimidation and robbery.Justice Ajoy Kumar Mukherjee directed that while the probe may continue, no arrest or stringent steps can be ...
17 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Aniket Bhattacharyya scored 99.4% in his class 10 board exam despite serious health setbacks in the months leading up to it; Aarav Bengani, who was hospitalised just before the boards and missed some unit tests, secured 86%; Avishi ...
17 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: With good scores in the class 10 boards, several city CBSE schools have reported that students who earlier wanted to appear for a second board exam have started withdrawing their names. However, schools on Thursday issued fresh circulars ...
17 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: In a dramatic four-hour operation that pushed the city's disaster management units to their limits, a fully grown cow was pulled from the depths of the city's subterranean drainage network on Thursday evening.The rescue near the perennially busy ...
17 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Calling the state's requisition of eight buses of South Point High School for election duty "arbitrary", the Calcutta High Court on Thursday quashed the requisition order under Section 160 of the Representation of the People Act, which gave ...
17 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Spells of thundershower pushed the mercury down on Thursday in Kolkata. While the showers were not uniform across the city in terms of intensity and duration, most pockets received a spell or two, bringing a respite from the ...
17 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Of the 1,478 candidates contesting the first phase of the Bengal elections, almost one-fifth are crorepatis, most of them being Trinamool contenders. The poorest candidate, with assets of Rs 500, is from the new Aam Janata Unnayan Party. ...
17 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A truck driver, Raju Kathat (43) from Rajasthan, was allegedly terrorised and robbed by a local family and their associates in Bansdroni on Tuesday, allegedly after a stray dog was run over by his vehicle.According to the complaint, ...
17 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Supreme Court's order on the supplementary revised electoral roll on Thursday is yet to address the anxiety among several deleted voters who are still waiting to know about the tribunals' take on their voting right in the ...
17 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Shooting of ‘Kone Dekha Alo' will resume on Friday after the production house and channel agreed to West Bengal Motion Picture Artists' Forum's demand to provide all necessary documentary evidence confirming that Leena Gangopadhyay has been officially removed ...
17 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences (WBNUJS), Kolkata, on Thursday decided that some students who, following the death of a first-year law student on Monday, were too distraught to take the end-semester exams from Friday could take ...
17 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The CBSE announced the class 10 board results on Wednesday with an overall pass percentage of 93.7, an increase of 0.04 percentage points from the previous year's 93.66%. Though students have another chance to reappear for the exams ...
17 April 2026 Times of IndiaA 43-year-old resident of Madhyamgram, Sumitava Mukherjee, submitted a written appeal to the DM on Thursday seeking permission for voluntary death for himself and his family after his name was struck off the electoral roll following the SIR.Mukherjee alleged ...
17 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A general physician and owner of one of the port area's most prominent nursing homes, also an ex-Trinamool MLA, will not be able to vote this time — along with four of his family members — thanks to ...
17 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The maximum temperature dropped slightly in the city on Wednesday. But high moisture continued to unleash heat and humidity. Certain weather conditions are expected to trigger a nor'wester spell on Thursday, the Met office, which is keeping a ...
16 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: After the body of a woman was found inside a sack in a pond at Dhopagachhi in the Baruipur PS area on Tuesday, police arrested two brothers — Mehbub and Meheraj — on Wednesday. Meheraj, with his daughter, ...
16 April 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: With central forces arriving at their premises well ahead of the polls, many state-aided schools have decided to delay first summative exams until the elections are over.They also plan to conduct the examinations before the onset of summer ...
16 April 2026 Times of IndiaReplica LPG cylinders, cricket bats, bicycles, sacks of potatoes — in the Bengal theatre of assembly polls, such props have occupied centre stage, each of them carefully chosen to signal a message, trigger emotion, or to sharpen a political ...
16 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Two cases of digital arrest fraud were reported from south Kolkata on Tuesday. The victims, one aged 72 years and the other 80, were swindled of Rs 64.5 lakh by fraudsters, who posed as investigators from federal agencies, ...
16 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Cops from the Chitpore Police Station have initiated an investigation into a complaint of persistent stalking and criminal trespass after a 25-year-old human resources (HR) manager was reportedly targeted by a former theatre colleague. The man has been ...
16 April 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Kolkata: At least two corporate entities — a real estate firm and a hospitality company — have jumped onto the election bandwagon and introduced campaigns urging citizens to step out and vote at the ensuing Assembly elections in ...
16 April 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Scientists have rolled out an AI-powered forecasting system to help fishers locate hilsa shoals in the Bay of Bengal — a first-of-its-kind initiative aimed at boosting catch, but already raising concerns among sections of the fishing community over ...
16 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A woman from Anandapur and another one from New Town were duped of Rs 31 lakh after they were lured into investing in a fake loan scheme and an investment platform.The Anandapur woman, living in a condo, was ...
16 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata/Darjeeling: Union home minister Amit Shah on Wednesday made a slew of promises targeted at north Bengal on Wednesday, including the withdrawal of "false" cases against Gorkha representatives and the inclusion of the Rajbanshi language in the Eighth Schedule ...
16 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A fire broke out on the top floor of a two-storey residential building on Ekbalpore Lane in Mominpore, located in the densely populated Naptani Bagan locality. No one was injured. An Ekbalpore PS officer said it was around ...
16 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A rape survivor told the Calcutta High Court that she had "suffered enough" and did not want to pursue further charges against her brother-in-law, who had raped her in 2013 when she was 17. Respecting her wishes, the ...
16 April 2026 Times of IndiaKarandighi (WB): Hitting the campaign trail in West Bengal, defence minister Rajnath Singh Wednesday slammed CM Mamata Banerjee for deindustrialisation of the state, alleged a reign of fear and appeasement on her watch and projected the polls as a ...
16 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: CM Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday said central forces approached her car while she was at the Dum Dum airport and she asked them to check it, and questioned why vehicles of Trinamool seniors were being checked while those ...
16 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Days before polls, Smriti Irani handed out ‘Matri Shakti Bhorosa Cards'—linked to BJP's Rs 3,000-a-month promise for women—to five party workers, prompting Trinamool to question the timing.Explaining why she was distributing these cards before the elections, Irani said: ...
16 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman's distribution of weaver cards to handloom weavers in Bengal on Wednesday drew a model code violation complaint from Trinamool and a sharp rebuke from CM Mamata Banerjee.Sitharaman visited weavers in Serampore's Ashram Para ...
16 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bengal governor RN Ravi chose a Poila Baisakh programme in Lok Bhavan on Wednesday to urge the state's youth to be a "part of change" and underline Bengal's "decline" over the years, prompting CM Mamata Banerjee to hit ...
16 April 2026 Times of IndiaJalpaiguri: Falakata MLA Dipak Barman, also the constituency's BJP candidate, was allegedly roughed up by locals on Tuesday evening at Kadambini tea estate, where he was on campaign.As Barman reached the garden and got down from his vehicle, a ...
16 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bengal has emerged as a leading state in financial inclusion, contributing nearly Rs 1,000 crore to the over Rs 10,000 crore total balance in financial inclusion accounts operated through BLS E-Services' business correspondent network across India, the company ...
16 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Bengal Home Industries Association, founded by Rabindranath's nephew Gaganendranath Tagore and Lady Carmichael (wife of the then governor), has turned 110, surviving the test of time, multiple changes of address and stiff competition from the cottage industry ...
16 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Two cases of online trading fraud, with losses of over Rs 43.4 lakh, were reported at Bidhannagar Cyber Crime PS in 24 hours.A Hatiara resident alleged he was lured to invest in a fake online trading platform and ...
16 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Manchester-based lecturer Mehebub Sahana desperately wanted to vote in this assembly election and booked tickets for himself, his wife and their 18-month daughter. But he cancelled his trip after his name got deleted from the electoral roll.Sahana is ...
16 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: From queuing with devotees and offering pujas at local temples to holding colourful campaigns and greeting passers-by, the first day of the Bengali New Year focused on Bangaliana, setting it apart from the usual election rallies and door-to-door ...
16 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The ongoing poll season, described as Vote Puja, has forced major Durga Pujas in the city to defer their khuti pujas. The ritual is usually held on Poila Baisakh, as well as on Rath Yatra. But this time, ...
16 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The footfall at city restaurants surpassed last year's Bengali New Year figure on Wednesday. The crowd at most of the leading restaurants on Poila Baisakh eve was also higher than last year's. Both lunch and dinner seats at ...
16 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Former Trinamool Congress councillor Nirmal Dutta was arrested from Salt Lake on Wednesday for allegedly issuing veiled threats to voters, police said. He was produced before the Bidhannagar sub-divisional court, which rejected his bail plea and remanded him ...
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