West Bengal
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Kolkata cardiologist offers discount for patients who chant ‘Jai Shree Ram’
Kolkata: A city-based cardiologist, who believes that a change in the political regime in West Bengal would help the state recover from its “current dip”, is offering a Rs 500 discount on…
- India
Bengal polls: Rahul Gandhi to start campaigning from Malda district
Kolkata: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is all set to campaign for the party in West Bengal for the Assembly elections, said party leaders on Sunday. He will start the campaigning from Malda…
- Kolkata
BJP ‘struck Rs 1,000-crore deal’ to unseat TMC: Bengal CM
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday alleged the BJP has “struck a Rs 1,000-crore deal” to unseat the Trinamool Congress from power in the state. She made the claims…
- India
Bengal’s 65-seat faultline: How SIR deletions could decide who forms govt
Kolkata: West Bengal’s 2026 election may be decided not by the arithmetic of 294 seats that dominate campaign speeches, but by around 65-70 constituencies where victory and defeat are separated by little…
- India
SIR country’s biggest scam in recent times: Mamata
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday, April 12, alleged that the BJP bribes voters before elections, and called the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls the “country’s biggest…
- India
Govt hurrying women’s quota law implementation for political mileage: Kharge
New Delhi: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge has conveyed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi that calling Parliament’s special sitting amid state polls reinforces belief that the government is hurrying the implementation of women’s…
- Kolkata
Over 3.6 cr people eligible to cast votes in 1st phase of Bengal polls: EC
Kolkata: More than 3.6 crore electors across 16 districts are eligible to exercise their franchise in the first phase of the West Bengal assembly elections on April 23, according to Election Commission…
- India
EC transfers 12 police officials in poll-bound West Bengal
Kolkata: The Election Commission has ordered a reshuffle at the top level of the police administration, transferring 12 officers in Kolkata Police and the state police in poll-bound West Bengal, EC officials…
- India
BJP govt to end Trinamool’s syndicate raj in Bengal: Shah
Onda: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday, April 11, asserted that if the Bharatiya Janata Party is voted to power in West Bengal, it will end TMC’s ‘syndicate raj’, and said…
- Kolkata
Bengal SIR: Flag maker Raju Halder among 90 lakh deleted from voter rolls
Raju Halder, a Howrah resident who works as a second-generation Indian flag maker, said he found his name missing from the electoral rolls following the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise in West…
- India
HM Amit Shah rejects Trinamool’s allegations on Humayun Kabir’s ‘deal’
Kolkata: The Union Home Minister, Amit Shah, on Friday, April 10, trashed the allegations raised by the Trinamool Congress on Thursday, accusing the Bharatiya Janata Party of having a clandestine understanding with…
- India
Crackdown on infiltration, Rs 3K aid for women: BJP releases Bengal manifesto
Kolkata: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday, April 10, unveiled its manifesto for the West Bengal Assembly polls, which promised to plug infiltration, implement a Uniform Civil Code and proposed expansive welfare…
- India
Bengal polls: Easy to fool Muslims, says Humayun Kabir in video shared by TMC
Kolkata: The Trinamool Congress on Thursday shared a purported video of Humayun Kabir in which the former party leader alleged claims of proximity with the BJP’s leader of opposition, Suvendu Adhikari, and…
- India
Modi targets TMC, says West Bengal regime change ‘cast in stone’
Asansol: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday, April 9, asserted that a regime change in West Bengal is inevitable as the TMC’s “repository of sins” has become full. Beginning his speech at…
- India
Bengal SIR: NIA files 12 FIRs over gherao of judicial officers in Malda
New Delhi: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday, April 8, registered 12 cases to probe a gherao of judicial officers, who were deputed for work relating to the Special Intensive Revision…