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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…
- 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…
- India
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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AIMIM leader held for ‘threatening’ Bengal election officers on SIR duty
West Bengal: Mofakkerul Islam, an All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) leader and Calcutta High Court advocate, was arrested by the West Bengal Police on Friday, April 3, on charges of mobilising a…
- India
Mamata blames ‘Hyderabad cuckoo AIMIM’ for Malda unrest
Gazole: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday, April 3, blamed All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) for unrest in Malda. She also mocked Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s announcement that he…
- India
ECI asks NIA to probe attack on judicial officers in Bengal
New Delhi: Acting on the directions of the Supreme Court, the Election Commission of India (ECI) has written to the National Investigation Agency (NIA) requesting it to conduct an inquiry into the…
- Kolkata
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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Bengal SIR: Maximum ‘under adjudication’ cases in Bangladesh-bordering districts
Kolkata: As the final voters’ list in West Bengal, prepared under the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise, was published on Saturday, official statistics showed that the maximum number of “under adjudication”…
- India
Female loco pilot returning from ‘washroom break’ fatally hit by train
New Delhi: A woman loco pilot was mowed down by a speeding train in West Bengal’s Malda division when she was crossing the track to return to the engine after a ‘washroom…
- India
It is BSF’s responsibility to protect the border: Mamata
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday emphasised that it is the BSF’s responsibility to protect the international boundary and urged locals in Malda district to avoid visiting the border…
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West Bengal’s BJP MP caught kissing women while campaigning
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate and incumbent MP of West Bengal’s Malda Uttar constituency Khagen Murmu got embroiled in a controversy over allegedly kissing a girl while campaigning for Lok Sabha…
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Self-proclaimed Hindu priest conducts puja in 14th-century mosque in Bengal
In what could lead to communal disharmony, a young self-proclaimed Hindu priest conducted pooja inside the Adina Mosque in the Malda district of West Bengal on Saturday, February 18. According to local…
