West Bengal
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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…
- India
West Bengal polls: PM to boost BJP campaign with three rallies
Kolkata: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will hold three rallies at Haldia, Asansol and Suri in West Bengal on Thursday, April 9, to intensify the BJP’s campaign for the state assembly polls. This…
- India
Bengal SIR: Voter count drops for first time since 2011
Kolkata: The Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in West Bengal has concluded following the release of the final supplementary list. Statistical analysis indicates that this marks the first instance of a decline in…
- Hyderabad
Went to cancel tickets, muezzin lands in company of Kachiguda Railway Police
Hyderabad: A muezzin in Hyderabad has alleged he was assaulted by the Railway Protection Force at the Kacheguda Railway Station on April 5 while trying to get a ticket cancelled. Mohammed Afzal…
- Hate Crime
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…
- India
Names of people belonging to Matua, minority communities deleted: Mamata
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday, April 7, alleged that names of people belonging to the Matua and minority communities were deleted from the post-SIR voter rolls in the…
- India
Once BJP comes to power in Bengal, all infiltrators will be sent back: Shah
Patharkandi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday, April 7, asserted that a ‘parivartan’ is inevitable in West Bengal, and said once the BJP comes to power in the state, all infiltrators…
- India
Nearly 91 lakh names deleted from Bengal electoral rolls after SIR exercise
Kolkata: Nearly 91 lakh voters have been deleted from the electoral rolls in West Bengal following the Special Intensive Revision exercise in the state, according to data released by the Election Commission.…
- India
West Bengal CM ‘encouraging’ infiltration for ‘vote bank politics’: Bandi Sanjay
Hyderabad: Union Minister of State for Home Bandi Sanjay Kumar has accused West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee of “facilitating” illegal infiltration for “vote-bank politics”. Sanjay Kumar, who met Bengali families living…
- Kolkata
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…
- 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…
