Bengal

The Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls — an Election Commission exercise aimed at removing dead, duplicate and ineligible voters — is now being used beyond elections, with BJP governments in West Bengal and Bihar linking…
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It was 2007. A young Suvendu Adhikari stood amid the dust and turmoil of Nandigram, speaking into a handheld microphone with Mamata Banerjee by his side. At the time, he was one of the key architects of Banerjee’s anti-Left movement and a…
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After a brief spell of rain and wind, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) has predicted a gradual rise in Delhi's temperatures over the coming days. Heatwave conditions are expected to set in at isolated pockets from Wednesday, April…
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Cyclonic storm Dana is currently barreling towards coastal Odisha, set to make landfall on early Friday morning and bring heavy rains and thunderstorms to the state. Cyclone Dana will bring heavy rains to the southern part of West Bengal…
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The Odisha and West Bengal governments have started evacuating people and decided to close educational institutions in vulnerable areas, as cyclone Dana is set to cross the coasts in the early hours of October 25 with a wind speed of…
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West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, whose state shares border with Bangladesh, on Sunday offered shelter to ‘helpless people’ from the neighbouring country, which has been witnessing violent student-led protests against reservations…
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday, May 12, addressed an election rally in Barrackpore, West Bengal. Hitting out at the ruling Trinamool Congress in Bengal, Modi made five guarantees to the state. “I am giving five guarantees to…
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BJP's number of seats will come down in Haryana, Rajasthan, Karnataka, Maharashtra, West Bengal, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal said in his roadshows in the Capital on Saturday -- a day after he came out of…
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi and West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee are scheduled to address back-to-back Lok Sabha campaign rallies on Thursday at Cooch Behar in north Bengal, a region where the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has…
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The Supreme Court on Friday issued a notice to the West Bengal government seeking a reason behind the ban on the controversial film ‘The Kerala Story’ in the state. A bench of Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and Justice PS Narasimha said…
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