Keshpur: Two youths from Keshpur in West Midnapore, who had travelled to the northeast for work, have allegedly been murdered, with their families urging authorities to bring back their bodies from Mizoram.The deceased — 24-year-old Arfik Rahman Khan and ...
8 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: PM Narendra Modi is likely to hold seven campaign rallies across Bengal this week. Five of the seven scheduled meetings will be held in south Bengal — primarily in areas where BJP trailed Trinamool by a thin margin ...
8 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Election Commission (EC) will hold a virtual meeting on Wednesday with the state chief secretary, home secretary and all district election officers (DEOs) to review poll preparedness. The meeting will be chaired by chief election commissioner Gyanesh ...
8 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The country's plastic industry is reeling under severe disruptions due to the West Asia crisis, with a 50%-70% surge in raw material costs, supply uncertainties, and rising logistics and fuel challenges significantly impacting MSMEs' margins, working capital cycles, ...
8 April 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA/CHAKDAH/BONGAON: CM Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday dubbed the Special Intensive Revision of the electoral roll a “got-up game”, likened it to the Bengali year-end Chaitra sale and assured those whose names have been struck off the voters’ list that ...
8 April 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The ‘Bengal model’ for tackling Type 1 diabetes (T1D), an auto-immune condition commonly diagnosed in children and teenagers, is set for global expansion with several southeast Asian countries expressing an intent to adopt it.The model — functional in ...
8 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: "Motab Shaikh and Motab Herul are the same person," the appellate tribunal ruled on April 5 in its first SIR appeal, accepting the Congress Farakka candidate's Aadhaar card as proof of identity after the Election Commission provided no ...
8 April 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: An IndiGo A 320 aircraft that was parked in the apron area of Kolkata airport was damaged when a vehicle ferrying Oberoi catering officials dashed its right engine on Tuesday night. The airline’s engineers are assessing the damage. ...
8 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A resident of an apartment on Baranashi Ghosh Street in Girish Park sustained injuries on Sunday after a dispute over a barking pet allegedly escalated into a physical assault on her and her minor son. The dog, too, ...
8 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: In a cross-border effort, four Nepali nationals who spent years in Indian mental health institutions were recently repatriated to their homes — two escorted back by social workers, and two reunited after families traced and retrieved them.The individuals ...
8 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A pair of juvenile white-cheeked gibbon, considered critically endangered on IUCN Red List, along with 15 north American wood turtles (endangered) and 10 four-eyed turtles (critically endangered) have been seized at Kolkata airport on Tuesday morning. Sources said ...
8 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Several minority colleges affiliated with Calcutta University have formally asked to be exempted from the university's proposed standardised admission index for undergraduate admissions, citing their minority status and existing independent admission procedures.The university recently proposed introducing a common ...
8 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: In three cash haul ahead of the assembly elections, the static surveillance team (SST) has seized Rs 53 lakh unaccounted-for cash in Kolkata.In the first case, Rs 20 lakh was seized from a vehicle in central Kolkata's Chatawala ...
8 April 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: After playing out over 155 days, the SIR process in Bengal ended on Tuesday with the final tally showing that about 90.8 lakh of the state's pre-SIR voters - nearly 12% of the original 7.6 crore electorate - ...
8 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Forty-eight hours before the electoral roll is frozen, voters deleted in the SIR exercise — from prominent personalities, such as former MP Tarun Mandal and associate professor and head of the Islamic theology department at Aliah University, Mohd ...
8 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Members of West Bengal Motion Picture Artists' Forum, Federation of Cine Technicians of Eastern India and Eastern India Motion Pictures Association have decided not to work in any production of the production house—Magic Moments—till the reason behind Rahul ...
8 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Kolkata and several districts of Bengal saw anxious crowds outside election offices on Tuesday as voters, whose names were deleted from the electoral roll, vowed to continue their fight to restore their voting rights.Among them was Anju Mara ...
8 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: BJP leader Rakesh Singh stepped out of Presidency jail on Tuesday afternoon after being granted an interim bail by the Calcutta High Court to contest the assembly polls from Kolkata Port.Singh, greeted by enthusiastic supporters outside the prison, ...
8 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Trinamool Congress workers in Bhowanipore went back to the drawing board on Tuesday after they realised that almost 10,000 out of the 14,000-plus voters under adjudication in this closely watched constituency in Bengal — where CM Mamata Banerjee ...
8 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: With tribunal appeals unlikely to conclude before polling, the descendants of Mir Jafar, along with thousands of voters whose names have been deleted from the electoral roll, are determined to register their protest by appearing at the polling ...
8 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The traffic department on Tuesday issued an order reiterating that RVNL will be allowed to launch concrete girders atop Chingrighata on weekend nights from midnight to 5 am starting May 15 and again on May 22. The 366-metre ...
8 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Back to back late-evening squalls on Monday and Tuesday left a trail of damage across parts of Kolkata, tearing apart election campaign materials, including hoardings, banners, flexes and party flags, catching workers of several political parties off guard ...
8 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A sweeping purge of electoral roll under the SIR has triggered sharp political and social fault lines in North 24 Parganas, with over 12.3 lakh names struck off across three phases since the first draft was published in ...
8 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The city experienced a thunderstorm for the third consecutive day on Tuesday, with spells of rain accompanied by thunder, lightning and gusty winds. While wind speeds in most parts did not meet the threshold for a squall, Dum ...
8 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 30-year-old IT executive, Kiran Mishra, riding an app bike to office on Tuesday was killed after a govt bus hit the two-wheeler from behind at RS Software crossing in Sector V while the biker tried to veer ...
8 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Trinamool candidate from Behala West, Ratna Chatterjee, has been served a notice by the Kolkata Police in connection with the alleged vandalism of a BJP party office in Parnasree. She has been asked to join the probe, with ...
8 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: This assembly election, the electoral list in Kolkata has been thinned by a whopping 7 lakh voters.While 11 assembly segments in Kolkata North and South already lost 6,29,428 voters due to "deceased", "shifted", and "logical discrepancy"-related deletions, another ...
8 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A pair of juvenile white-cheeked gibbon, considered critically endangered on IUCN Red List, along with 15 north American wood turtles (endangered) and 10 four-eyed turtles (critically endangered) have been seized at Kolkata airport by Customs officials on Tuesday ...
8 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata/Diamond Harbour: This election, the urban South 24 Parganas, with Jadavpur and Tollygunge, finds itself sharing the same fate as its rural belts of Basanti and Sagar, located almost 100 km away.The electoral list has been trimmed by a ...
8 April 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Triumph Motorcycles India is targeting 1 lakh sales of the sub-400 cc bikes manufactured in India in 15 months, down from 30 months it took to sell the first 1 lakh units.Triumph is the largest UK-owned motorcycle manufacturer, ...
8 April 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: In a cross-border effort, four Nepali nationals who spent years in Indian mental health institutions were recently repatriated to their homes — two escorted back by social workers, and two reunited after families traced and retrieved them.The individuals ...
8 April 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: As part of the Government of India’s year-long celebrations marking 150 years of the iconic national song Vande Mataram, the Victoria Memorial Hall in Kolkata will host a special commemorative exhibition paying tribute to its composer, Rishi Bankim ...
7 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: After weeks of fare disputes, commuter complaints and internal disagreements, auto-rickshaw unions in Kolkata have finally agreed to implement a uniform fare hike across routes, bringing temporary relief from the chaos that gripped the city's last-mile connectivity.The revised ...
7 April 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Senior Supreme Court advocate Menaka Guruswamy took oath as a Trinamool Congress MP from West Bengal, becoming India’s first openly queer member in Parliament. She is widely known for being one of the lawyers who argued in the ...
7 April 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Rival camps of Trinamool and BJP squared off in a charged atmosphere outside Alipore Survey Building on Monday as the heavyweight candidates submitted their nomination papers. The situation looked less like an administrative exercise and more like a ...
7 April 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The Supreme Court on Monday requested the SIR appellate tribunal to hear painter Nandalal Bose's maternal grandson Suprabuddha Sen's appeal challenging the deletion of his name from the electoral roll expeditiously.The names of Bose's grandson and granddaughter-in-law Deepa, ...
7 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata/Bethuadahari (Nadia): CM Mamata Banerjee on Monday claimed that the state's chief electoral officer's visit to Nandigram over the weekend, "accompanied by BJP netas", indicated that he was "in cahoots with the saffron party".The Election Commission was acting like ...
7 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: In a major boost to India's marine biodiversity records, researchers from the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) have discovered two new species of free-living marine nematodes along the Tamil Nadu coast.The findings, published on March 25, 2026, in ...
7 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Congress on Monday released its star campaigner list for the Bengal assembly elections, headlined by Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and party president Mallikarjun Kharge.Kharge is scheduled to visit Kolkata on Tuesday. Rahul Gandhi, who last ...
7 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Within 24 hours of publishing its first list of 40 star campaigners, BJP on Monday dropped six names from it. These names were of netas from other states. BJP replaced their names with those of netas from Bengal ...
7 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Thailand-based Minor Hotels is planning a second property in Bengal, founder and group chairperson William Heinecke said on Monday, days after the company signed for a luxury hotel at the World Trade Centre in Salt Lake's Sector V.The ...
7 April 2026 Times of IndiaBURDWAN/KOLKATA: Renu Khatun, the nurse from East Burdwan whose arm was chopped off by her husband and who now uses a prosthetic limb, has found her name deleted from the electoral roll after judicial scrutiny.The 27-year-old, who had been ...
7 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A resident of Chowbaga fell victim to a cybercrime and was allegedly duped of nearly Rs 23 lakh in an investment scam orchestrated through a social media messaging platform. The victim, a trader, filed a complaint, at Anandapur ...
7 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A Kolkata Police officer was allegedly assaulted while on duty in the Behala area early Sunday, prompting Lalbazar to issue a fresh directive mandating the use of body cameras during enforcement operations. The incident took place around 1 ...
7 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Two squalls struck Kolkata and Dum Dum a few minutes apart on Monday night, uprooting trees and delaying flight operations at Kolkata Airport. While the impact in most parts of the city was limited, Alipore recorded wind speeds ...
7 April 2026 Times of IndiaHowrah: Two men were arrested on Sunday night after the Dagar Bagan area under Howrah's Liluah Police Station turned into a battlefield. Bombs were also allegedly hurled.This happened following a clash between a group publicly celebrating an individual's birthday ...
7 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Around 30,000 shuttle bus commuters, dependent on Shuttl and Uber for their daily commute to the IT hubs of Sector V, Newtown and Rajarhat, were forced to change track and opt for alternatives on Monday, after Uber stopped ...
7 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Trinamool on Monday submitted a memorandum to Bengal CEO Manoj Agarwal over the "illegal" acceptance of nearly 30,000 Form 6 documents and the EC's allegedly biased and partisan role in attempting to include outsiders in poll rolls.Senior state ...
7 April 2026 Times of IndiaMalda: Thirty-seven-year-old Kabil Sk of Old Malda's Madhaipur village died by suicide after his name was deleted from the voter list, his family said. Kabil was founding hanging from a poll 500 metres from his home on Monday morning.Sources ...
7 April 2026 Times of IndiaJalpaiguri: Star athlete Swapna Barman filed her nomination as the TMC candidate from Rajganj on Monday — the last day for filing — after days of uncertainty that had kept her off the campaign trail.Swapna was employed as a ...
7 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: CM Mamata Banerjee on Monday questioned PM Narendra Modi's silence on Pakistan defence minister Khawaja Asif's alleged threat to target Kolkata and demanded the PM's resignation."We do not want enmity with any country. But why does PM Modi ...
7 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Even as CM Mamata Banerjee questioned PM Narendra Modi's "silence" on Pakistan's threat to strike Kolkata, state leader of opposition Suvendu Adhikari on Monday alleged that she always fell short of praising the role of the Indian armed ...
7 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Calcutta University has postponed its under-graduate first semester examinations scheduled after April 13 because many affiliated colleges have been occupied for the assembly elections, disrupting access to examination venues.The university authorities said the decision was taken after reviewing ...
7 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Supreme Court on Monday requested the SIR appellate tribunal to hear painter Nandalal Bose's maternal grandson Suprabuddha Sen's appeal challenging the deletion of his name from the electoral roll expeditiously.The names of Bose's grandson and granddaughter-in-law Deepa, ...
7 April 2026 Times of IndiaUttarpara: Former NSG commando and BJP candidate from Uttarpara, Dipanjan Chakraborty, faced controversy after he campaigned wearing a black attire with NSG written on it.Trinamool raised concerns over whether national security force attire could be used for election campaigning. ...
7 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: As Bengal prepares for the two-phase Assembly elections amid a wider multi-state polling exercise in April 2026, rising climate risks are emerging as a serious concern for voter safety and election management, according to a detailed report prepared ...
7 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Tributes have been pouring in for physician Mani Kumar Chhetri, who passed away on Sunday night. A group of doctors is also working on releasing a documentary that features the 106-year-old doctor. Titled ‘Endocrinology in Bengal', the film ...
7 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Tollywood is split over the role of Magic Moments Motion Pictures in the context of actor Rahul Banerjee's demise while shooting in Talsari. While veteran actor Madhabi Mukhopadhyay is disturbed by the attacks levelled at Leena Gangopadhyay's "insensitivity", ...
7 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Calcutta HC on Monday granted bail to Rakesh Singh, a BJP functionary in jail for five and a half months, for contesting polls for the Kolkata Port assembly seat.The HC accepted Singh's plea, though his son remains ...
7 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A week after actor Rahul Banerjee's death while shooting ‘Bhole Baba Par Karega', the investigation has intensified following the filing of two FIRs and the decision to halt all shooting from Tuesday to demand safety on sets. In ...
7 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: An FIR has been registered against Trinamool Congress candidate from Behala West Ratna Chatterjee and several other party workers after the BJP accused her — and her workers — of being involved in a vandalism at their party ...
7 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Commuters across a vast expanse of the city were kept waiting for long stretches on the first working day of the week as their future representatives got busy filing their nominations for the upcoming assembly election.The worst-hit stretches ...
7 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Rival camps of Trinamool and BJP squared off in a charged atmosphere outside Alipore Survey Building on Monday as the heavyweight candidates submitted their nomination papers. The situation looked less like an administrative exercise and more like a ...
7 April 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Actor Ambarish Bhattacharya, who played Rahul Banerjee's father in this serial, has put down his papers from the production company and has decided never to work with Leena Gangopadhyay and Saibal Banerjee’s production house. Bhattacharya, who was also ...
7 April 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: "Where is the format to file an appeal to get included in the voter list?" a voter from the Chowringee constituency was seen screaming before EC officials on Sunday afternoon at Jessop Building.The room on the second floor ...
6 April 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: In poll season, experts have urged political parties to take care of waste. As per a study by the International Society of Waste Management, Air and Water headed by former JU professor and waste management expert Sadhan Ghosh, ...
6 April 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: In a fallout of actor Rahul Arunoday Banerjee's death on the Talsari beach, Tollywood shooting will remain suspended from Tuesday over safety and security concerns for unit members on the sets.An emergency meeting has been called on Tuesday ...
6 April 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: An FIR has been registered against Trinamool Congress candidate from the Behala Paschim assembly constituency, Ratna Chattopadhyay, in connection with alleged vandalism in the Parnasree area of south Kolkata, police said on Monday.The case was filed on April ...
6 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The EC has turned down ADG CID and former Kolkata Police Commissioner Supratim Sarkar's plea for reprieve from being sent to Tamil Nadu as a police observer on medical grounds. The EC order prompted Sarkar to leave for ...
6 April 2026 Times of IndiaBEHRAMPORE: Chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday told voters that they would remain safe if Trinamool is elected back to office and gave a call to prevent splitting of anti-BJP votes.“If you vote for Trina-mool, I will be able ...
6 April 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Prime Minister Narendra Modi focused on the targeting of seven judicial officers in Malda’s Kaliachak last week and held it up as an example of Bengal’s law and order situation while addressing his first rally in Bengal since ...
6 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Mounting pressure from unions and commuters in the run-up to the state elections has forced auto drivers across several routes in Kolkata to roll back recent fare hikes, despite a sharp increase in fuel costs. Over the past ...
6 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The mother of the RG Kar rape and murder victim — now contesting as the BJP candidate from Panihati — has sparked a sharp political controversy after a video surfaced in which she threatens to physically assault CM ...
6 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: One of the city's oldest surviving doctors, renowned cardiologist and Padma Shri awardee Mani Chettri, who practised till he was 100 years old, died late on Sunday. He was 106. Chettri, a former director of health services, was ...
6 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: EC on Sunday issued a certificate under Section 9 of the Representation of the People Act, 1951, clearing Asian Games gold medallist Swapna Barman to contest the Bengal assembly elections on a Trinamool ticket from Rajganj — a ...
6 April 2026 Times of IndiaBehrampore/Kolkata: A special tribunal, formed after a Supreme Court directive, directed the Election Commission to add the name of Congress's Farakka candidate, Mahatab Sheikh, to the voter list, overturning a judicial officer's decision to strike his name off the ...
6 April 2026 Times of IndiaExclusion of around 700 voters from the post-SIR supplementary list across three booths in Hasnabad triggered protests on Sunday, with hundreds blocking roads and burning tyres on the Kathi-Malancha Road for hours. The deletions affected booth nos. 251, 252 ...
6 April 2026 Times of IndiaCooch Behar: BJP tried to play down the absence of Suvendu Adhikari on the stage while PM Narendra Modi spoke at Raashmela Maidan in Cooch Behar on Sunday. Bengal BJP brass, including Union minister Sukanta Majumdar and state president ...
6 April 2026 Times of IndiaKrishnanagar (Nadia): BJP's decision to field Anupam Biswas from Kalyani and Taraknath Chatterjee from Krishnanagar North sparked protests from party workers through the weekend.In Krishnanagar North — a TMC stronghold since 2016 where BJP has built its vote share ...
6 April 2026 Times of IndiaMalda: Three days after the Kaliachak incident where judicial officers were gheraoed, and a day before the SC hearing, a Malda ADM was served a show-cause notice by DM Rajanbir Singh Kapur on Sunday.ADM Sheikh Ansar Ahamad was charged ...
6 April 2026 Times of IndiaMalda: Three youths from Bihar were arrested on Sunday for allegedly flying a drone near the helicopter of chief minister Mamata Banerjee. The trio was detained immediately after the incident on Saturday.The CM was addressing a public meeting at ...
6 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Election Commission on Sunday suspended Kasba Police Station OC Biswajit Debnath — just six days after appointing him — for omitting criminal Sona Pappu from the pre-poll list of history sheeters and active offenders submitted to the ...
6 April 2026 Times of IndiaBhubaneswar: Police in Odisha's Talsari have registered a case against five members of a Tollywood production house, holding them prima facie responsible for actor Rahul Banerjee's death during a TV serial shoot last Sunday. Charges include negligence and misrepresentation ...
6 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: With weeks to go before the assembly polls, a coalition of civil society groups has unveiled an Urban Mobility Charter for Kolkata and other Bengal cities, calling for transport reforms and greater investment in people-centric systems. It urges ...
6 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Though supply of commercial LPG has resumed to some extent, star hotels in the city are working on a two-pronged strategy to stabilise operations. In a hybrid model, the establishments are cooking on electric gadgets but are using ...
6 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: At least a dozen Jadavpur University students were injured and admitted to a private hospital on Saturday night after a clash broke out between two groups after the Faculty of Engineering and Technology Students' Union (Fetsu) fest, Sanskriti, ...
6 April 2026 Times of IndiaDarjeeling: Around 1,000 tourists from Bengal have been stranded in North Sikkim's Lachen after a landslide damaged a crucial stretch of road near Tarum Chu Bridge. The district administration has suspended all movement along the Chungthang–Lachen route. However, offering ...
6 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The season's first scorching spell was broken by cloud cover and an afternoon thunderstorm in Kolkata on Sunday that brought relief from the sweltering heat by pulling the mercury down six notches. While the cloud cover shielded the ...
6 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 5-year-old golden retriever underwent otoendoscopy, an advanced diagnostic procedure in veterinary healthcare, to detect an ear disease that has been affecting the dog since 2024. This was the first time the procedure has been performed in eastern ...
6 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: From candlelit Easter vigils that stretched late into the night to hymn-filled morning masses and afternoon processions through the city's streets, Kolkata marked Easter on Sunday with prayers, celebrations and appeal for peace and harmony.Across churches in central ...
6 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Several colleges affiliated with Calcutta University are considering reducing their undergraduate seats due to a yearly dip in enrolment. Two colleges have already appealed to the university to reduce the number of seats ahead of the fresh admission ...
6 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: I am 88 years old and I don't care about what is happening," said Suprabuddha Sen, maternal grandson of artist and painter Nandalal Bose, who illustrated the original manuscript of India's Constitution and designed emblems for prestigious honours, ...
6 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Minati Sen, 58, a resident of Baruajibi area in Hoogly's Rishra gram panchayat, died by suicide on Saturday night, allegedly after she came to know that her name was struck off the voter list following SIR. Her son ...
6 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: During heightened election surveillance, police seized unaccounted for cash worth Rs 38 lakh from a car on NSC Bose Road near Netaji Nagar on Saturday night. The vehicle, coming from Alipore, was stopped during a naka check. Officers ...
6 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: In poll season, experts have urged political parties to take care of waste. As per a study by the International Society of Waste Management, Air and Water headed by former JU professor and waste management expert Sadhan Ghosh, ...
6 April 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The Election Commission on Saturday suspended four senior Kolkata police officers, including a DCP, and ordered disciplinary proceedings against them for their failure to maintain law and order during a roadshow by Union home minister Amit Shah in ...
5 April 2026 Times of IndiaJalpaiguri: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to address a rally at Cooch Behar's Rash Mela ground on Sunday as BJP seeks to reassure Rajbanshi voters — a community that makes up roughly 30% of north Bengal's electorate — ...
5 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata/Malda: A mysterious drone appeared in front of CM Mamata Banerjee's helicopter in Malda just as she was heading to Gazole after a rally in Malatipur. Police have detained three people in this connection.Though the detainees claimed they had ...
5 April 2026 Times of IndiaBurdwan: Three villages in East Burdwan have put up banners and flexes barring all political parties and their workers from entering until voters whose names were deleted under the SIR process are restored to the electoral roll.The villages — ...
5 April 2026 Times of IndiaJalpaiguri: Two candidates turned up to file nominations for the Maynaguri seat on Saturday, both claiming to be BJP's official pick.The confusion stemmed from a last-minute candidate swap. The party had initially fielded sitting MLA Kaushik Roy, then replaced ...
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