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Kolkata, March 11 An Afghan national was arrested in West Bengal's Nadia district for allegedly entering India via Bangladesh without valid documents, police said on Wednesday.The man, identified as Aljahi Musafar, a resident of Nimroz province in Afghanistan, was apprehended by the Border...

Kolkata, March 6 – The Trinamool Congress on Friday announced a three-member delegation that will meet the full bench of the Election Commission of India (ECI) in Kolkata on Monday.The delegation includes Lok Sabha MP Mahua Moitra from the Krishnanagar constituency in Nadia district, Rajya...

Kolkata, March 5 – A Booth Level Officer (BLO) and an elderly person died in West Bengal on Thursday. The deceased's family members alleged that they died due to the heavy workload and panic caused by the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise and the voter list in the state.According to...

Kolkata, March 5 On the death anniversary of Binapani Devi, the former head of Matua Mahasangha in West Bengal, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday launched a scathing attack on the Centre and the ECI over the "deliberate exclusion" of Matua voters from the electoral rolls.Matuas are...

Kolkata, March 3 – Three young men were killed after a car they were travelling in lost control and fell into a pond, police said on Tuesday. The incident took place on Monday night in the Islampur area of North Dinajpur district. Meanwhile, four others were injured in the accident and have been...

Kolkata, March 3 – West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee called for "holy harmony" among the people on Dol Yatra and Holi on Tuesday.She posted on her social media account, quoting two lines from a song about the Dol Yatra festival, written by Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore, in which the...

Kolkata, March 2 Panic, anger, and suspicion are spreading through the Matua heartland in West Bengal, putting the BJP on the defensive in its stronghold, even as the TMC senses a political opportunity, following large-scale deletions under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral...

Krishnanagar (WB), March 1 Accusing the Mamata Banerjee government in West Bengal of providing "shelter" to infiltrators, Union minister JP Nadda on Sunday claimed that the state's original inhabitants would become a minority if the trend continued.Addressing a rally in Krishnanagar in Nadia...

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...

Kolkata, March 1 – As the final list of voters in West Bengal, as part of the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in the state, was published, it showed that there had been no new voter registrations in as many as 99 Assembly constituencies during the entire SIR exercise, from the beginning...

Kolkata, March 1 The publication of West Bengal’s post-SIR rolls has not only pruned 63.66 lakh names from the electorate, but has also redrawn the state’s demographic and political landscape ahead of the 2026 assembly polls, recasting voter profiles across districts, border areas, and key...

Kolkata, February 28 The publication of West Bengal’s post-SIR electoral rolls has not only pruned 63.66 lakh names from the electorate, but it has also redrawn the state’s demographic and political landscape ahead of the 2026 assembly elections, reshaping voter profiles across districts, border...

Krishnanagar (WB), February 28 A police officer was found dead in the Nadia district of West Bengal on Saturday, officials said.The body of Sub-Inspector Suman Mondal was found at his rented accommodation in the Bagula area, they said.Mondal was stationed at the Bagula police outpost under...

Kolkata, February 28 – Political reactions intensified in West Bengal on Saturday over the ongoing issue of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) and recent political developments, with leaders from the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) and the principal opposition BJP exchanging sharp remarks...

Kolkata, February 28 – The Election Commission has published the post-SIR electoral rolls for West Bengal, showing that nearly 66 lakh names are likely to be deleted, having begun the process in November last year. Another 60 lakh names are currently under review. This marks a significant change...

Kolkata, February 28 – Anticipating potential tensions following the publication of the final voter lists in three separate categories later in the day, the West Bengal government has identified four districts bordering Bangladesh as highly sensitive and appointed four senior officers from the...

Kolkata, February 28 The Election Commission's phased publication of the post-SIR electoral rolls in West Bengal has revealed that the Nadia district has recorded around 2.71 lakh deletions since the exercise began in November, while Bankura has seen a net reduction of 1.18 lakh names...

Kolkata, February 27 – The family of Pulak Haldar, a final-year student at the Kalyani Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Hospital and Medical College in Nadia district, West Bengal, whose decomposed body was found in his hostel room, has claimed that he was murdered.The autopsy of the student's body...

Kolkata, February 26 – The decomposed body of a medical student was found in a room at the Kalyani Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Hospital and Medical College in Nadia district, West Bengal, on Thursday.According to police, the deceased student has been identified as Pulak Haldar, a final-year...

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...