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Bengal polls: RG Kar victim’s mother files nomination as BJP candidate
Kolkata: Ratna Debnath, mother of the raped-murdered RG Kar hospital doctor and the BJP candidate from Panihati, filed her nomination papers on Thursday. She was accompanied by senior BJP leader and former…
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Can’t treat us like this, Bengal poll observer tells Gyanesh Kumar; removed
Kolkata: A senior election observer was removed from his post after he allegedly challenged Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar during a high-level review meeting on Wednesday, April 8, ahead of the West…
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EC-Trinamool meet ends on bitter note, CEC tells party leaders to ‘get lost’
New Delhi: The meeting between a Trinamool Congress (TMC) delegation and the full bench of the Election Commission (EC) on Wednesday, April 8, culminated on an acrimonious note, with the TMC saying the…
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95 pc of deleted voters are Muslims in West Bengal’s Nandigram SIR
Kolkata: Muslims have accounted for 95.5 per cent of voters deleted from seven Special Intensive Revision (SIR) supplementary lists in West Bengal’s Nandigram. According to the Sabar Institute, a Kolkata-based public policy…
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Woman burnt alive after she rejects marriage proposal in Kolkata
Kolkata: A 30-year-old Muslim woman was allegedly set on fire and succumbed to her injuries on Monday, April 6, after she refused to marry a man who lured her on the pretext…
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SC gives Malda incident probe to NIA, pulls up Bengal chief secretary
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday, April 6, exercised its plenary power to transfer cases related to gherao and attack on seven judicial officers engaged in Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise…
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Babri politics makes Murshidabad Bengal’s most volatile poll battleground
Beldanga: Three adjoining assembly seats in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district have turned into the most volatile theatre of the 2026 poll battle, with the proposed Babri Masjid-style mosque at Rejinagar reshaping loyalties,…
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Constitution illustrator Nandalal Bose’s grandson dropped from Bengal voter list
Kolkata: The 88-year-old grandson of Nandalal Bose, the renowned illustrator of the Constitution of India, said that his and his wife’s names are missing from the voter list after the Special Intensive Revision…
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Bengal polls: Owaisi all guns against CM Mamata on Muslim representation
Patna: AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Sunday criticised West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee for “unsatisfactory” representation of Muslims in the government sector in the state, and questioned their socio-economic conditions during the…
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Malda gherao reflects TMC’s maha jungleraj: Modi in Bengal
Kolkata: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday made the Malda gherao of judicial officers the fulcrum of the BJP’s campaign on lawlessness in West Bengal, accusing the TMC government of running a…
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EC decides to keep 500 CAPF companies deployed in Bengal post poll
New Delhi: Amid law and order concerns in poll-going West Bengal, the Election Commission on Friday decided to continue deployment of 500 companies of central forces in the state even after the…
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BJP embraces fish in Bengal, highlighting power of TMC’s identity pitch
Kolkata: In West Bengal’s election waters, fish have leapt from the dinner plate to the centre of the political net, with the Trinamool Congress trying to hook Bengali pride, and the BJP…
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Bengal: Anti-SIR protests rise, Mamata says BJP plotting unrest
Kolkata: Just three weeks ahead of the first phase of the West Bengal Assembly election, protests over the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls spread across several districts of the state on…
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‘Shocking overreach by govt’: TMC’s Sagarika Ghose on FCRA Amendment Bill
New Delhi: The FCRA Amendment Bill is a “shocking government overreach”, and not a “regulation”, but “control”, TMC Rajya Sabha deputy leader Sagarika Ghose said on Tuesday. In a post on X,…
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Ahead of West Bengal polls, tennis icon Leander Paes joins BJP
New Delhi: Tennis legend Leander Paes formally joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday, March 31, in the presence of Union Ministers Kiren Rijiju and Sukanta Majumdar, a move seen as a…
