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Suvendu blames Mamata for 27 lakh voter deletions in Bengal
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Sunday, September 27, blamed former CM Mamata Banerjee for the deletion of 27 lakh names from the state’s electoral rolls during the Special Intensive…
- India
BJP chief Nitin Nabin begins two-day West Bengal visit today
Kolkata: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national president Nitin Nabin will undertake a two-day organisational and outreach visit to West Bengal starting on Sunday. The visit will focus on strengthening the party’s grassroots…
- India
‘BJP govt made ‘Vande Mataram’ mandatory in Madrasas,’ says CM
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Saturday, September 26, said his government has made singing of ‘Vande Mataram’ mandatory in registered madrasas. Adhikari, while attending a programme at the National…
- India
60 anti-Christian incidents in Bengal since May 2026: Report
New Delhi: West Bengal witnessed at least 60 incidents targeting Christians across 13 districts between May 13 and September 20, 2026, according to a report by India Hate Lab (IHL), a project…
- India
Bengal: FIR against Maktoob over report on Moitra complaint
New Delhi: The West Bengal Police has registered a case against Maktoob Media following a social media post on Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Mahua Moitra’s allegations that Muslim IPS officers were kept…
- India
Fishermen rescue baby elephant in Teesta river, internet melts
West Bengal: A video of a group of local West Bengal fishermen rescuing a baby elephant, not more than a month old, and reuniting it with its mother has the internet swooning.…
- India
ABVP forces professor to resign, performs ‘purification’ ritual
Kolkata: A Muslim professor at Kolkata’s Surendranath College was forced to resign on September 11 over an attendance issue. What followed was Akhil Bharatiya Vidhyarthi Parishad (ABVP) members performing a purification ritual.…
- India
Rajya Sabha polls for 12 seats on October 16
New Delhi: Elections to 12 Rajya Sabha seats across Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and West Bengal will be held on October 16, the Election Commission announced on Tuesday, September 22. The elections will…
- Hate Crime
Bengal tea stall owner claims assault for serving minorities
Kolkata: A tea stall owner has claimed that a group of men assaulted him in West Bengal‘s Paschim Bardhaman for serving Muslim customers and that he has previously received threats. The alleged…
- India
After Nandigram, Rejinagar bypoll candidate arrested in Bengal
Kolkata: An Independent candidate for the Rejinagar Assembly bypoll in West Bengal was arrested on Saturday, September 19, in a five-year-old case of a clash between two groups during the 2021 state…
- India
Nandigram bypoll: Congress candidate in 14-day judicial custody
Haldia (West Bengal): The Congress’ Nandigram bypoll candidate Milan Pradhan was on Saturday, September 19, sent to judicial custody till October 3 by a local court, a day after his arrest on…
- News
After Mamata vows support, Congress Nandigram candidate held
Kolkata: Milan Pradhan, the Congress candidate for the forthcoming bypoll for the Nandigram Assembly constituency in the East Midnapore district of West Bengal, was arrested on Friday, September 18, in an old…
- India
Football player vs Envelope: Rival TMC factions get symbols
New Delhi: The Mamata Banerjee-led faction of Trinamool Congress on Friday, September 18, got the name ‘Mamata All India Trinamool Congress’, while its rival group led by Arup Roy got the name…
- India
‘Vote chori, govt chori, now party chori’: Rahul slams EC order
New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday, September 18, slammed the Election Commission over its decision of directing rival Trinamool Congress factions to not use the party name and the “flowers…
- India
EC bars TMC factions from using party name, symbol in by-poll
New Delhi: The Election Commission has directed rival factions of the All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) not to use the party name and “Flowers and Grass symbol” during the West Bengal bypolls,…
