West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee KOLKATA: Referring to the power outage while votes were being counted in Nandigram during the 2021 assembly polls, CM Mamata Banerjee on Sunday put her workers on alert, asking why complaints of power-cuts were pouring in from EVM strongrooms after the first phase of the assembly elections.“Look at EC! It…
KOLKATA: Its electoral strength down from 1.91 lakh before the SIR to 1.22 lakh, the Jorasanko assembly constituency has the fewest voters in Kolkata. Across Bengal, it comes second, after Bhatpara in North 24 Parganas, which has 1.17 lakh voters.On the list of 10 seats in Bengal with fewest voters, Jorasanko is followed by Chowringhee…
KOLKATA: Eight live bombs were found near a primary school in the Habra area on Monday, triggering panic among locals and prompting a swift security response, officials said.Police rushed to the spot and cordoned off the area after the recovery was reported.The incident comes amid heightened concern over the recovery of explosives in Bhangar.Earlier, the…
JAGATDAL: West Bengal Police on Monday arrested four people in connection with violent clashes between Trinamool Congress (TMC) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) supporters outside Jagatdal Police Station on Sunday night.The accused have been identified as Koushik Das, Sikander Prasad, Gopal Routh and Shyamdev Shaw. Police said efforts are underway to trace the remaining suspects,…
Kolkata: Upscale Ballygunge in south Kolkata, a Trinamool bastion for over 25 years, is a curious mix of cultures and people from various economic strata. Here, high-rises and affluent neighbourhoods sit alongside expansive slums. SIR deletions have somewhat wiped out the vast differences between the electorate, with all sections being affected.A staggering 71,000 names were…
KOLKATA: Raghu Rai’s photography immortalized a spectrum of Bengal’s genius, most notably Satyajit Ray, whom he called Dadu, not Dada, with the admiration one reserves for a guru. His portraits of Ray, alongside those of Saint Teresa, stand at the heart of his Bengal legacy that will be cherished after his demise on Sunday. In…
Kolkata: Three women died and four others were injured in two bike accidents reported from the Maidan and Jorasanko PS areas. In the first case, a bike and a scooter collided on Red Road around 3.10 am on Sunday. The pillion riders, Raniya Singh (24) and Vidhya Gurung (19), who were reportedly not wearing helmets,…
Kolkata: A man, accused of sexually assaulting and murdering his live-in partner’s 3-year-old daughter near Maidan on March 21, has been arrested from Babughat on Friday morning. He had initially fled to Ayodhya to evade arrest.Police said the child’s mother was in a relationship with the man from Rabindranagar. Investigators alleged that both were addicted…
Bongaon: What looks like a CAA help centre at the Thakurbari premises from outside has been temporarily converted into a BJP strongroom, with young BJP workers from Varanasi calling Gaighata voters, urging them to vote for BJP candidate Subrata Thakur. For more than nine hours a day, these youths keep calling Matuas, trying to fight…
KOLKATA: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday reframed Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s iconic call – “Give me blood, and I’ll give you freedom” – by asking for votes in the Matua belt of Thakurnagar in return for “azadi” from TMC’s “maha jungle raj”.By invoking Netaji’s call, Modi anchored BJP’s campaign in Bengal’s pride and emotion…
