Kolkata: Barely 12 hours before the polls, BJP’s war room, often described as a “high-tech nerve centre” of the party’s election machinery, looked noisier than ever, with the core unit and a group of strategists busy analysing field reports, pinpointing critical constituencies and making calls to nearly 40,000 booth agents. On Wednesday morning, Bengal will…
Kolkata/Kharagpur: “I am dying, my body will be in the room. I’ve left the security number. Call them to take my body from the room.” A fourth-year IIT Kharagpur engineering student’s chilling message to his family, informing them of his death in the hostel room, led to the discovery of the 22-year-old’s hanging body. The…
West Bengal polls: Violence, vandalism reported during early hours of voting KOLKATA: Incidents of violence and vandalism were reported from parts of West Bengal in the early hours of voting in the second phase of the assembly elections on Wednesday, police said. According to news agency PTI, the incidents were reported from multiple locations, including…
A BJP candidate, Kalita Majhi, a domestic worker of over two decades, is now campaigning for MLA in Ausgram, leaving her employers struggling with her absence. GUSKARA: For the family members of Platilal Patra, 37-year-old Kalita Majhi is not merely a house help who has been working in their home for over two decades. “She…
Moitra shared a couple of videos on X showing a man grooving to music at what appeared to be a nightclub, and tagged the officer, calling him a “Fair and Lovely babua”. KOLKATA: A political bubble burst during the West Bengal polls after Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra shared archived videos purportedly showing a man…
Sandeshkhali: During the June 2024 Lok Sabha elections, Sandeshkhali dominated political discourse and grabbed national attention. The riverine island emerged as a major political flashpoint, with BJP seeking to turn the tide against Trinamool by riding on protests over alleged sexual violence against women and land grabbing by former TMC strongman Sheikh Shahjahan and his…
Kolkata: Mandatory insurance for all Bengali films and a model code of conduct for shooting units are set to be key measures of Tollywood’s proposed Standard Operating Procedure (SOP), following the death of actor Rahul Banerjee during a serial shoot in Talsari on March 29.Representatives of the Eastern India Motion Picture Association (EIMPA) and the…
Kolkata: Reminding the Election Commission of a citizen’s fundamental right to liberty, the Calcutta High Court on Tuesday asked it not to resort to preventive detention and arrests unless essential and only when done legally.Disposing of a writ petition against the alleged illegal pre-poll detention of Trinamool workers and councillors, the high court said it…
Singur: As the morning mist settles over lush green patches of Hooghly, the rhythmic sound of tillers in Singur is punctuated by the loud, competing echoes of campaign microphones. As this historic semi-rural constituency — once at the centre of political upheaval in Bengal — heads to the polls, Singur remains a landscape defined by…
Kolkata: Nearly 55 nuns in the Missionaries of Charity (MC), an order formed by Saint Teresa of Calcutta and headquartered in Kolkata, have been included in the supplementary list published on Tuesday after the tribunal cleared their cases. The MC had written to the Election Commission (EC) after many names and the nuns had moved…
