Kolkata: Pool cars are to be taken off roads from April 24 instead of April 27 with random requisitioning for poll duty, a pool car association has written to cops and schools. Many schools have decided to start online classes till the end of polls.Urgency rose after a few pool cars were allegedly intercepted while…
Midnapore: A 59-year-old woman from the Keshpur assembly segment in West Midnapore, whose four family members’ names were deleted from the electoral rolls, died shortly after casting her vote on Thursday.The incident has once again drawn attention to alleged irregularities following the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) and the distress being faced by thousands of affected…
Mothabari (Malda): “Apnara naam tulte esechen? Vote dite parbo? (Have you come to enlist our names? Can we cast our votes?)” — these were the cries that greeted TOI as hundreds of deleted voters mobbed this correspondent at Mothabari on polling day.Only in the first week of this month, this nondescript village made headlines after…
Kolkata: As the state heads into Assembly election on April 23 and April 29, religious figures and members of civil society in Kolkata have made an appeal to voters across faiths, communities and linguistic identities to vote and resist attempts to divide.The calls for unity and participation have come at a time when the political…
Kolkata: A 12-line poem that poet Srijato penned in 2017 has returned to haunt him days ahead of the Bengal elections as an arrest warrant was issued against him on Wednesday. “This is no country for poets. The harassment I have been facing for writing a verse is showing which way the nation is heading,”…
Kolkata: As the state heads into Assembly election on April 23 and April 29, religious figures and members of civil society in Kolkata have made an appeal to voters across faiths, communities and linguistic identities to vote and resist attempts to divide.The calls for unity and participation have come at a time when the political…
Kolkata: Union home minister Amit Shah on Wednesday blamed Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee for turning Kolkata into a “city of slums”, alleging that her govt is allowing such settlements to shelter infiltrators and bolster its vote bank.Addressing a rally in Dumdum, Shah said, “Kolkata is becoming a city of slums now. Didi does not feel…
Malda/Kolkata: The brother of Chanchal BJP candidate Ratan Das was detained on Tuesday after police recovered Rs 2.8 lakh in cash — well over the permissible limit — during a check. Biplab Das was stopped near Barai village on the Chanchal border in Malda district, where police found the cash in his two-wheeler. Police also…
Bengal’s first phase of assembly polls sees 3.6 crore voters casting ballots amidst controversy over 27 lakh voter deletions due to ‘logical discrepancies’. Key battles include Suvendu Adhikari, Dilip Ghosh, and Adhir Chowdhury facing tough contests. The Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise has significantly impacted voter strength, particularly in Murshidabad and Malda, sparking protests and…
Kolkata: CM Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday sharpened her campaign rhetoric with a pointed inversion of her 2011 slogan, telling rallies in Amdanga and Haripal: “In 2011, I said ‘bodla noy, bodol chai’ — change, not revenge. This time I say ‘bodol noy, bodla chai’ — revenge, not change. Revenge at the ballot box, revenge for…
