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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,…
- Hate Crime
Bengal: Violence during Ramnavami procession, Muslim shops set on fire
Kolkata: Tension gripped parts of Murshidabad district in poll-bound West Bengal during Ramnavami processions on Friday, March 27, after communal clashes broke out, with incidents of stone-pelting, vandalism and arson reported from multiple…
- India
TMC urges EC to remove Bhabanipur returning officer
Kolkata: The TMC has demanded that the poll panel remove Surajit Roy as the Bhabanipur Assembly constituency’s returning officer, alleging he has close links with BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari, who is locked…
- India
ECI removes 73 returning officers in poll-bound West Bengal
Kolkata: In a significant development late on Monday evening, the Election Commission of India (ECI) removed as many as 73 Returning Officers (ROs) in West Bengal, which is scheduled to go to…
- Kolkata
SIR fallout gives TMC edge in Bengal polls, says Sagarika Ghose
Kolkata: TMC’s Rajya Sabha MP Sagarika Ghose said anti-incumbency in West Bengal, which was localised, has largely been obscured by the fallout of the SIR exercise, giving the party a distinct edge…
- India
RG Kar rape victim’s mother eyes BJP ticket in West Bengal polls
Kolkata: The mother of RG Kar victim on Thursday, March 19, said she wants to contest the West Bengal Assembly election as a BJP candidate, asserting that she aims to take the…
- India
Trinamool stages walkout in RS over EC’s midnight bureaucratic shuffle in Bengal
New Delhi: Following a midnight shuffle of bureaucrats, the tensions between the Trinamool Congress and the Election Commission of India (ECI) escalated with Trinamool MPs staging a day-long walkout from the Rajya…
- India
West Bengal polls: BJP eyes gains in five assembly seats
New Delhi: Stakes are high for the Bharatiya Janata Party in the upcoming polls to five assemblies, with West Bengal being the major test case for the saffron party. In the 2021…
- India
Hours before poll announcement, Mamata hikes honorarium for purohits, muezzins
Kolkata: Hours before the scheduled announcement of assembly polls, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday, March 15, announced an increase of Rs 500 in the monthly honorarium for purohits and…
- Politics
Cong likely to announce names of Bengal Assembly poll candidates in three phases
Kolkata: The Congress may announce candidates for the forthcoming elections to 294 Assembly constituencies in West Bengal in three separate phases based on the recommendations of the West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee…
- India
SC to hear Mamata Banerjee’s plea against Bengal SIR tomorrow
New Delhi: The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear on Tuesday the plea filed by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and several Trinamool Congress (TMC) leaders challenging the ongoing Special Intensive…
- India
TMC women activists take out protest march in Kolkata over LPG price hike
Kolkata: TMC’s women activists took out a march here on Sunday, March 8, to protest against the LPG price hike, and clanged utensils to symbolically highlight the difficulties faced by households. The…
- Kolkata
Voter roll deletions: Mamata continues sit-in, spends night At Kolkata protest site
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee continued her protest against alleged arbitrary deletions in the post-SIR electoral rolls for the second consecutive day on Saturday, after she spent the night at…
- India
104-yr-old put under adjudication category in electoral rolls, triggers row
Kolkata: A 104-year-old man has complained of being listed in the “under adjudication” category in the final electoral rolls issued by the Election Commission following the special intensive revision (SIR) exercise in…
- News
TMC, Left, Cong strike rare chord on voter list row ahead of Bengal polls
Kolkata: In the run-up to the West Bengal assembly elections, an unlikely political convergence is taking shape in the state with the ruling TMC and the opposition CPI(M) and Congress raising similar…
