Kolkata: After liquor, Election Commission has asked eateries that are within 100 metres of polling booth to stay closed. However, the 100-metre rule would vary from constituency to constituency. This has resulted in closure of more than 400 prominent eateries across the city on April 29 and, for some, both on April 28 and 29.According…
Pic courtesy: Raghu Rai Foundation A different India emerged through Raghu Rai’s eyes – one veiled in morning mist, rising from heat and dust, flowing with rivers, dancing toward immersion. So it was with the people he photographed. His camera became an invisible presence in intimate spaces, revealing only what a compassionate gaze allowed. From…
Kolkata: The Union home ministry has extended the tenure of Bengal DGP Siddh Nath Gupta by six months, just two days before the second phase of Assembly elections. Gupta, who was scheduled to retire on April 30, will now continue in office for an additional six months.Gupta is the first DGP in the state in…
Howrah: As BJP prepares to try and dent one of the Trinamool Congress citadels in south Bengal, Howrah is all set to witness a poll battle between a set of hopefuls from the saffron brigade who have consistently increased their vote share here since 2014 and a battle-hardened Trinamool organisation that has delivered each time…
Kolkata: Bhowanipore has become the most symbolically charged constituency in Bengal’s 2026 election, not only because it pits CM Mamata Banerjee against Suvendu Adhikari, but because it condenses the state’s wider tensions over identity, class, community, governance and momentum into one south Kolkata seat.For Banerjee, this is where her home is, one in which she…
Kolkata: In Beleghata assembly constituency, dotted with at least 100 statues of Bengal’s icons and religious figures — from Mahatma Gandhi, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, Vidyasagar to Swami Vivekananda — the attack on “Bengali asmita” has emerged as a key poll plank alongside everyday civic concerns, including reopening of Sukanta Mancha, named after poet Sukanta…
KOLKATA: Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju on Monday said there is a strong wave in favour of the Bharatiya Janata Party in West Bengal, adding that the party wants the state to once again become a growth engine of the country.Rijiju told ANI that people believe only the BJP can restore Bengal after what…
Kolkata: The Maniktala constituency is set to witness a neck-and-neck contest between veteran politician and five-time MLA Tapas Roy for BJP and first-timer Shrreya Pande, the Trinamool candidate. Though they once shared a family connection — Roy once had a very close association with former MLA Sadhan Pande, Shrreya’s father — neither is ready to…
KOLKATA: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said he was “confident” of a “historic change” in Bengal after the elections and that he would be back in the state to attend the swearing-in of a BJP govt.“I sensed the mood of the people of Bengal wherever I went. I am confident that I have to…
Kolkata: Apologising for any personal attack or lack of decency by a BJP neta, the party’s state president Samik Bhattacharya said on Monday: “If anyone was hurt by any BJP neta’s words during the campaign, I apologise to him. I apologise if there was any statement which was not decent, or below the belt.”At a…
