West Bengal

Non-vegetarian food has emerged as an unlikely flashpoint in the high-pitched West Bengal Assembly Elections, with the ruling All India Trinamool Congress and the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party trading sharp claims over cultural identity…
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The ripple effects of elections in Assam and West Bengal are now visible in Lucknow, where a sharp drop in sanitation workers has disrupted waste management across the city. Hundreds of workers living in slums have returned to their native…
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The Election Commission of India is considering setting up dedicated verification counters outside polling stations in West Bengal to check the identity of voters whose faces are covered by a burqa, ghunghat, scarf or other cloth, two…
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The Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of West Bengal on Tuesday released details of voters deleted from the state’s draft electoral roll as part of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) ahead of the 2026 elections. According to WB CEO sources,…
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A political storm broke out in West Bengal on Saturday between the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) and the principal opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) minutes after chaos erupted at Salt Lake Stadium in Bidhannagar during an event…
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West Bengal Police on Sunday arrested three suspects in connection with the alleged gang-rape of a 23-year-old medical student outside her college campus in Durgapur on Friday night. The second-year MBBS student, who had gone out with a…
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Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Tuesday questioned the party's leadership for removing him as chief of its West Bengal unit without prior intimation. He claimed he had resigned after the Lok Sabha elections but he wasn't…
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For the last leg of the ongoing Lok Sabha polls, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Prime Minister Narendra Modi are going all out to ensure that the party bags a substantial number of the 57 seats where elections will be held on June 1.…
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who arrived in Kolkata on Thursday evening, is scheduled to address three Lok Sabha election rallies in West Bengal today. Upon landing, PM Modi went directly to the Raj Bhavan at around 10:20 pm, where he…
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will arrive in West Bengal on Friday for a two-day visit and address two rallies at Arambagh and Krishnanagar besides inaugurating projects worth ₹22,000 crore at separate events. In Krishnanagar, Modi will…
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