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Kolkata, April 8 – The body of a Bharatiya Janata Party activist was recovered in Haldia, in the East Midnapore district of West Bengal, on Wednesday evening, just under 24 hours before the party’s major election campaign rally there, which will be addressed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on...

Kolkata, March 30 – Leader of the Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, filed his nomination as a candidate for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from the Nandigram Assembly constituency in East Midnapore district of West Bengal on Monday.Adhikari has previously represented...

Kolkata, March 29 – The Election Commission of India (ECI) announced on Sunday the transfer of 83 block development officers (BDOs) and assistant returning officers (AROs) in West Bengal, amidst the crucial state assembly elections scheduled for next month.In a statement sent to West Bengal...

Kolkata, March 25 Trinamool Congress national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Wednesday attacked BJP leader and Nandigram candidate Suvendu Adhikari, accusing him of betraying the people of his constituency and "surrendering" to those who insult Bengalis.Addressing a workers' meeting of...

Kolkata, March 23 – A single-judge bench of the Calcutta High Court granted an interim protection to Suvendu Adhikari, the Leader of the Opposition (LoP) in the West Bengal Assembly, from any coercive police action in an FIR registered against him at the Khardah Police Station in North 24...

Kolkata, March 20 – Even a couple of hours before the Trinamool Congress announced its candidate list on March 17 for the upcoming two-phase Assembly elections in West Bengal next month, no one knew who the party's candidate would be in Nandigram, in the East Midnapore district, against sitting...

Kolkata, March 20 – Leader of the Opposition (LoP) in the West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, accused an officer-in-charge of a police station in his native district of East Midnapore of making a WhatsApp call to a prominent Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader from the district and asking...

Kolkata, March 15 – Just hours before the Election Commission formally announces the West Bengal Assembly elections, the state government carried out a reshuffle of police officials at the ground level on Sunday.According to a senior state government official, 27 Inspectors and the...

Kolkata, March 15 – The Leader of the Opposition (LoP) in the West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, clarified on Sunday about the possibility of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leadership asking him to contest from two Assembly constituencies simultaneously in the upcoming state elections...

Kolkata, March 2 The Election Commission of India (ECI) has provided details of the advance deployment of the 480 companies of the Central Armed Police Force (CAPF) in two phases in West Bengal before the announcement of the polling dates for the Assembly election.Of these 480 companies, 240...

Kolkata, February 26 – The Election Commission of India (ECI) announced on Thursday the details of the 240 companies of Central Armed Police Force (CAPF) personnel that will be deployed in the first phase on March 1, amidst preparations for the state assembly elections in West Bengal.Notably...

Kolkata, February 22 – The Regional Meteorological Centre in Kolkata said on Sunday that light to moderate rainfall is likely in some parts of West Bengal over the next two days due to a depression in the Bay of Bengal.According to the forecast, there is a possibility of light rain with...

Kolkata, February 21 – The bodies of the 18 victims of the Anandapur warehouse fire on the southern outskirts of Kolkata were identified through DNA analysis and handed over to their families from the Katapukur morgue on Saturday.Initially, it was believed that the 18 bodies handed over to the...

Kolkata, February 21 – The bodies of 18 victims of the Anandapur warehouse fire on the southern outskirts of Kolkata have been identified through DNA analysis and handed over to their families on Saturday. With this, the official death toll in the tragedy has risen to 45, while nine persons are...

Kolkata, February 17 – The West Bengal government has completed the process of registering FIRs against two electoral registration officers (EROs) and two assistant electoral registration officers (AEROs), following the deadline set by the Election Commission of India (ECI) to complete the...

Kolkata, February 14 – The Election Commission of India (ECI) should directly initiate disciplinary action against errant electoral officers at various levels accused of deliberate irregularities during the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in West Bengal, instead of repeatedly advising...