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7 yrs after jumping to TMC, RS MP Mausam Noor is back in Congress
January 4, 2026 11:14 IST

Niece of Ghani Khan Choudhury, TMC MP Noor’s return to Congress comes at a crucial time for the party in decline, which not only lost its Malda bastion but also lacks prominent leaders in Bengal

People accuse me of appeasement politics, I am a true secularist: Mamata
December 30, 2025 06:00 IST

Say foundation stone of ‘state’s largest’ Mahakal Temple will be laid in Siliguri next month

‘Can no longer take the pressure’: Bengal BLO, a headmaster, ends life amid SIR work
December 29, 2025 12:10 IST

TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee blames EC for deaths; BJP says state govt and ruling party should take responsibility.

Hearings post-Xmas, focus on five districts with most ‘discrepancies’
December 23, 2025 06:03 IST

Of the 5 border districts, EC officials say, most discrepancies in South 24 Parganas.

13 convicted of lynching father-son duo during Waqf protest in Murshidabad
December 23, 2025 06:13 IST

The accused broke open the door of the Das family house and dragged the father and son out before hacking them to death on the street, says the chargesheet

HC junks pleas seeking central agency probe into Messi event fiasco
December 23, 2025 06:08 IST

Court questions if an independent assessment was made before issuing the close proximity passes or if they were issued on demand

BDO’s anticipatory bail junked, HC directs him to surrender within 72 hrs
December 23, 2025 05:56 IST

The lower court had granted anticipatory bail to the BDO in November last week which was challenged by the state government in HC in December first week

Hindus in Bangladesh must be united… India should help: Mohan Bhagwat
December 22, 2025 05:03 IST

Says India’s foreign policy is fine, but needs speed

From glory to ruin: Salt Lake Stadium’s history of controversies
December 22, 2025 06:15 IST

Inaugurated in 1984 the stadium was once one of the largest in the world, holding 1,20,000 spectators.

Tiger conservation model must be science-based, says Minister Bhupender Yadav
December 22, 2025 05:08 IST

Seeks report from Assam govt on death of elephants at Hojai district

Messi visit fiasco in kolkata
December 15, 2025 14:12 IST

Messi Visit Fiasco in Kolkata: The 45-year-old self-described sports entrepreneur and influencer has been arrested for Saturday's fiasco at Kolkata's Salt Lake stadium and sent to police custody for 14 days.

5, including two Bangla nationals, get life term in 2016 terror plot case
December 4, 2025 05:26 IST

The convicts are alleged members of terror organisation Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh

SIR in Goa: 96.5% forms collected, 90,000 found to be ‘absent, shifted, dead or duplicate’, says CEO
December 3, 2025 11:44 IST

Also on scanner, booths with zero or very few enumeration forms returned

After months-long deadlock, Bengal govt accepts Centre’s new Waqf law, issues order to upload details
November 29, 2025 04:13 IST

State Minority Development Department directs DMs to upload information of 82,000 waqf properties on central portal by Dec 5

dona ganguly
November 29, 2025 05:59 IST

Kolkata Police said they have received the complaint and that the Cyber Cell is investigating the matter.

Three EC officials camp in Kolkata to oversee SIR
November 28, 2025 07:00 IST

State CEO seeks additional space, zeroes in on Shipping Corp office

Mamata orders major police reshuffle, 40 top cops shifted
November 28, 2025 07:00 IST

At least 10 district police chiefs transferred; Jhargram, Malda SPs among them.

blo protest, west bengal,
November 27, 2025 03:38 IST

The ECI letter came after the demonstration led by the BLO Adhikar Raksha Committee outside the CEO’s office, citing excessive work pressure during the ongoing SIR.

Eye of accident victim ‘gouged out’ at morgue, CM orders probe
November 26, 2025 07:05 IST

Mamata Banerjee says will give compensation and a job to the next of the kin of 36-year-old Pritam Ghosh

Kolkata law college rape: Student’s father alleges pressure to drop case, police begin probe
November 26, 2025 07:04 IST

Out of the four accused, one out on bail.

EC rejects TMC’s request over size of delegation, Abhishek seeks livestream of meet
November 26, 2025 05:14 IST

The TMC’s request for an appointment with Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar in New Delhi over the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in West Bengal was rejected by the Election Commission after the latter insisted on meeting a five-member delegation, instead of 10. In a letter to the TMC, the EC wrote: […]

electoral roll sir
November 26, 2025 05:09 IST

Several BLOs continued uploading enumeration forms digitally from the dharna spot.

BLOs hold stir outside Bengal CEO office over ‘workload’
November 25, 2025 08:33 IST

CEO Manoj Agarwal Agarwal releases data detailing “significant progress” while praising the BLOs calling them “real heroes of the SIR” process.

Bankim’s family seeks university, upkeep of his Kolkata, Naihati houses
November 24, 2025 07:12 IST

Descendants highlight cordial relationship between Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay and Rabindranath Tagore.

Happening today in Bengal: BLOs to march against SIR in Kolkata
November 24, 2025 07:13 IST

The BLO Adhikar Raksha Committee, consisting of school teachers, college teachers, and state government employees, has demanded that the SIR exercise cannot continue in the current manner.

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