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Kolkata, March 2 West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday alleged an “EC-BJP nexus” behind the deletion of 63.66 lakh names from the state’s electoral rolls following the SIR, claiming that the exercise was designed to help the saffron party ahead of the 2026 assembly polls.In her...

Howrah (WB), Mar 2 Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Monday asserted that criminals in West Bengal would be "in jail or God knows where" within a month of a BJP government coming to power in the state.However, he said eliminating joblessness in Bengal, from where a significant number of people...

In Mathurapur, West Bengal, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday intensified the BJP's campaign against "infiltration," stating that while names are being removed from West Bengal's electoral rolls under the SIR, they will be "removed from the state" once the party comes to power, raising the...

Krishnanagar, March 1 Accusing the Mamata Banerjee government in West Bengal of aiding infiltrators, Union minister JP Nadda on Sunday claimed that the original inhabitants of West Bengal will become a minority due to this.Addressing a rally in Krishnanagar, in the Nadia district, from where...

Haveri (Karnataka), March 1 – The internal power struggle within the Congress-led Karnataka government will intensify and reach its final phase after the state budget, said former Chief Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Basavaraj Bommai, referring to the leadership struggle between...

New Delhi, February 27 – West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has been leading a sustained protest against the Election Commission's Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls, recently claiming that the poll exercise may lead to the removal of 1.2 crore voters.The State...

New Delhi, February 27 The BJP said on Friday that while a court has acquitted AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal for "lack of evidence" in a case involving the Delhi excise policy, the people of the national capital have already given him a "political response on political grounds," and the...

New Delhi/Jamshedpur, February 26 The Supreme Court on Thursday imposed a "complete ban" on any further publication, reprint, or digital dissemination of the NCERT's Class 8 social science book, as it contains "offensive" content regarding corruption in the judiciary. The court stated that this...

Kolkata, February 25 – The office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of West Bengal, Manoj Kumar Agarwal, on Wednesday sought a detailed and comprehensive report from Kolkata Police Commissioner, Supratim Sarkar, regarding the incident involving the heckling of the Leader of the Opposition in...

Kolkata, February 24 – Members of the Adhikar Raksha Committee, a representative body for Booth Level Officers (BLOs), were accused of throwing shoes at the Leader of the Opposition in West Bengal, Suvendu Adhikari, and veteran Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader, after he arrived at the office...

Kolkata, February 24 Both the Trinamool Congress and the BJP hailed the Supreme Court's order on Tuesday, allowing the Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court to deploy judicial officers from neighboring Jharkhand and Odisha to deal with claims and objections in the ongoing Special Intensive...

New Delhi, February 24 – With a Delhi court sending the National President of the Youth Congress (IYC), Uday Bhanu Chib, to four days of police custody following his arrest in connection with the shirtless protest held during the India AI Impact Summit, opposition leaders on Tuesday criticised...

New Delhi, February 23 In a significant development, the Supreme Court on Monday declined to restrain a one-member committee appointed by the Andhra Pradesh government from reviewing an independent Special Investigation Team's (SIT) report on the Tirumala laddus controversy.The top court, on...

Kolkata, February 23 – Mourning poured in from all corners of West Bengal's political spectrum on Monday for veteran leader Mukul Roy as both Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Leader of the Opposition Suvendu Adhikari mourned the death of the state's "Chanakya."Roy, 71, died of cardiac arrest...

Kolkata, February 23 Mukul Roy, a key strategist once hailed as the "Chanakya" of West Bengal politics, defined an era of silent political coups and shifting loyalties as a master of defection, yet ironically, he came to embody the very politics he perfected.With the passing of the founding...

Guwahati, February 19 – Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra reacted to reports on Thursday that former veteran party leader Bhupen Borah was expected to switch to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), stating that political movements before elections are not uncommon and asserted that the Congress...

New Delhi, February 18 Opposition leaders on Wednesday said that the display of a commercially available Chinese robot as an in-house innovation by an Indian university at the AI Summit was "shameful" and slammed IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw for sharing the image on a social media platform...

Kolkata, February 18 With numbers firmly stacked in its favor, the ruling TMC is set to win four of the five Rajya Sabha seats from West Bengal, while the opposition BJP is expected to secure one, as the announcement of the election schedule set off political maneuvering and administrative...

Gandhinagar, February 17 – The political parties in Gujarat strongly reacted on Tuesday following the release of the state's final voter list. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) defended the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), while the Congress raised concerns about transparency and procedural...

Ahmedabad, February 17 The total number of voters in Gujarat now stands at 4.40 crore, according to the final electoral rolls published on Tuesday by the Election Commission (EC) following the nearly three-and-a-half-month Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise, officials said.The final...