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New Delhi, April 6 Observing that central forces will remain deployed considering recent incidents, the Supreme Court on Monday said that around 60 lakh claims and objections of those removed from voter lists in the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in poll-bound West...

In Bethuadahari (West Bengal), April 6, Mamata Banerjee, leader of the TMC, alleged on Monday that the BJP had entered into a "tacit agreement" with the Congress and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin. She claimed that many officers from the West Bengal cadre had been sent to the southern state...

Anand, April 6 – Congress candidate Bhrugurajsinh Chauhan formally entered the contest for the Umreth Assembly by-election on Monday, submitting his nomination papers in the presence of senior party leader Bharatsinh Solanki. This marked the party's formal entry into the race for the Anand...

Bethuadahari (WB), April 6 TMC chief Mamata Banerjee on Monday alleged that the BJP had entered into a "tacit understanding" with the Congress and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin, claiming that many IAS and IPS officers from West Bengal had been sent to the southern state as poll observers...

Guwahati, April 6 The Congress filed a complaint with the Election Commission on Monday, demanding the cancellation of Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma's candidacy, arguing that he did not disclose his wife's alleged offshore assets in the poll affidavit.The move by the opposition party came...

New Delhi, April 6 – The Election Commission of India (ECI) issued detailed guidelines on the pre-certification of political advertisements in print media for the upcoming Assembly elections and bye-elections, aimed at ensuring a free and fair campaign environment.The Commission had earlier...

Kolkata, April 6 – The Kolkata police have registered an FIR against a female member of the Trinamool Congress-backed Booth Level Officer (BLO) Rights Protection Committee for staging a protest outside the office of the State Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), officials said on Monday.A senior...

Kolkata, April 6 – A first information report (FIR) has been filed against Trinamool Congress MLA Ratna Chatterjee, who is also the party's candidate in this election, over an incident of vandalism at a local office of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the Behala (Paschim) Assembly...

Kolkata, April 6 An FIR has been filed against the Trinamool Congress candidate for the Behala Paschim assembly constituency, Ratna Chattopadhyay, in connection with alleged vandalism in the Parnasree area of South Kolkata, police said on Monday.The case was registered on April 5 following...

Kolkata, April 6 The Trinamool Congress and the BJP have filed complaints with the Election Commission against each other over alleged threats, hate speech, and abusive remarks, just weeks before the 2026 West Bengal assembly elections.The central issue is the BJP's candidate in Panihati, the...

Kolkata, April 6 – The Election Commission of India (ECI) has rejected the request from former Kolkata Police Commissioner and the current Additional Director General (ADG) of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of West Bengal, Supratim Sarkar, for relief from being sent as a central...

Kolkata, April 5 The TMC and the BJP filed complaints against each other with the Election Commission on Sunday over alleged threats, hate speech, and abusive remarks in the latest flare-up of an increasingly venomous battle weeks ahead of the 2026 West Bengal assembly polls.At the centre of...

In Guwahati, on April 5, Congress leaders Pawan Khera and Gaurav Gogoi asked Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma to answer three questions regarding whether his family owns property or companies abroad.These questions were raised during a press conference, shortly after Sarma said that he...

Kolkata, April 5 The Election Commission has suspended the officer-in-charge (OC) of the Kasba police station in Kolkata for allegedly failing to include the name of a known criminal in the list of offenders ahead of the West Bengal Assembly elections, an EC official said on Sunday evening.The...

Kolkata, April 5 – Ahead of the West Bengal Assembly elections, the Kolkata Police and the Static Surveillance Team (SST) seized a large sum of unaccounted cash during a routine check operation in the Netaji Nagar Police Station area on Sunday.According to police, the seizure took place at...

New Delhi, April 5 The BJP on Sunday accused the Congress of using "fabricated" documents and "concocted stories" to level "baseless" allegations against Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma's wife, saying the main opposition party has stooped to such "reprehensible and despicable" acts...

In Cooch Behar, on April 5, Prime Minister Narendra Modi highlighted the BJP's campaign against lawlessness in West Bengal, focusing on the incident in Malda where judicial officers were held hostage. He accused the TMC of "sponsored lawlessness" and portrayed the assembly elections as a battle...

New Delhi, April 5 – Election flying squads and enforcement agencies in West Bengal have seized a total of ₹319 crore worth of cash, liquor, and other freebies until Sunday, an official said.Among the five states/UTs going to polls, West Bengal tops the list in terms of recovery of freebies...

Samserganj, April 5 West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday urged people to vote to "take revenge" for the deletion of names from the electoral rolls.The Trinamool Congress chief urged people whose names have been removed from the voter list during the Special Intensive Revision...

New Delhi, April 5 – The Election Commission of India (ECI) announced on Sunday that the process of installing Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) with candidate settings for the 2026 Assam Legislative Assembly elections has been successfully completed across all 126 assembly constituencies in the...