hooghly district

Senior BJP leader and Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address public meetings in Haldia, Asansol, and Suri in the Birbhum district.BJP leader and Union Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan will participate in a meeting with farmers in Singur, in the Hooghly district, followed by a conclave in...

Kolkata, April 8 West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday criticized the BJP and the Election Commission over the deletion of voters' names during the SIR exercise and said her party would move a court again to resist the removal of electors from the electoral rolls.Her comments...

Kolkata, April 8 West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday criticized the BJP and the Election Commission over the deletion of voters' names during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise and said her party would move court again to resist the removal of electors from the...

Kolkata, April 8 West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday criticized the BJP and the Election Commission over the deletion of voters' names during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise and said her party would file another petition in court to resist the removal of voters...

Kolkata, April 7 The Election Commission's disclosure on Tuesday that around 91 lakh names had been deleted from West Bengal's electoral rolls after the Special Intensive Revision triggered a political uproar, with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee accusing the BJP of targeting Matuas and...

In West Bengal, the Election Commission has released the complete list of voters under judicial review as part of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) for the electoral roll. For the first time, details have been published at the district level, clearly indicating whether voters are eligible or...

Kolkata, April 5 The IMD on Sunday forecast thunderstorms in some districts of West Bengal until April 9, which would bring down maximum temperatures by a few degrees.Favorable wind patterns and strong moisture from the Bay of Bengal are likely to bring light to moderate rain over most...

In Kolkata, on April 3, TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee stated that his party would stand by those whose names were deleted from the electoral rolls after the publication of supplementary electoral rolls, and would also address alleged attempts to deny genuine voters their rights.He accused the...

Kolkata, March 26 – Several areas across different districts of West Bengal have been placed under heavy security since Thursday morning, in anticipation of tension and violence during Ram Navami processions later in the day.Special security measures have been implemented across the entire...

New Delhi, March 25 In West Bengal, where Assembly elections are scheduled for April 23 and 29, there is a rush to "secure the spoils" from a direct political battle between the ruling Trinamool Congress and the principal opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) – the minority mandate...

Kolkata, March 17 Swapan Dasgupta, a leader of the BJP, has been nominated from Rashbehari, a wealthy neighborhood in South Kolkata, for the upcoming assembly elections. This nomination from Tarakeswar, a relatively quiet area in the Hooghly district of West Bengal, is seen as a homecoming for...

Kolkata, March 16 – Three people were killed and another seriously injured after a car crashed into roadside trees in the Hooghly district of West Bengal on Monday.According to police, the accident occurred in Sonada, Polba, on the Tarakeshwar Road.A car traveling from Daspur towards...

Kolkata, March 16 The Left Front announced its first list of 192 candidates for the West Bengal assembly elections on Monday, with outgoing Rajya Sabha MP Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya and CPI(M) central committee member Minakshi Mukherjee among the key nominees.This is seen as a crucial battle...

Kolkata, March 16 The Left Front announced its first list of 192 candidates for the West Bengal assembly elections on Monday, with outgoing Rajya Sabha MP Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya and CPI(M) central committee member Minakshi Mukherjee among the key nominees.Bhattacharya will contest from the...

Kolkata, March 12 Taking a stern view of a sessions court judge not following proper procedure in convicting and awarding the death sentence to an accused, the Calcutta High Court on Thursday acquitted him of the charge of murder.A division bench said that the court of the Additional District...

Kolkata, March 10 – West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, on Tuesday, called off her indefinite sit-in protest against the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in West Bengal, which began in the afternoon of February 6, at Esplanade in Kolkata.Announcing the withdrawal of the protest on...

Kolkata, March 7 Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Saturday asserted that change is inevitable in West Bengal after the upcoming assembly elections, maintaining that the BJP will form the government, bringing an end to the 15-year uninterrupted rule of the Trinamool Congress.He criticized...

Kolkata, March 7 – The Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) Parivartan Yatra continues to receive strong support from people in West Bengal, as party leaders accuse the Trinamool Congress government of corruption, mismanagement, and administrative failures.At a Parivartan Yatra event in the...

Kolkata, March 5 – A manual scavenger died on Thursday while cleaning a manhole in Ward No. 12 of the Serampore Municipality in the Hooghly district of West Bengal. Two other workers also fell sick while working inside the same manhole.Following information that three workers had fallen ill...

Kolkata, March 4 Alleging attacks on BJP workers in several districts ahead of the upcoming West Bengal assembly elections, the main opposition BJP on Wednesday accused the ruling TMC of resorting to violence and intimidation to retain power in the state.Addressing a press conference, state...