north 24 parganas district

Kolkata, March 31 – The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) released its fourth list of party candidates for the upcoming two-phase Assembly elections in West Bengal on Tuesday.The fourth list includes a total of 13 new names. In addition, the BJP also changed the party candidate for the Maynaguri...

New Delhi, March 30 A day after resigning from the Trinamool Congress, West Bengal MLA Qazi Abdur Rahim joined the Congress on Monday, saying he has "returned home".Rahim, the sitting MLA from the Baduria constituency in North 24 Parganas district, had resigned from all his party posts on...

Kolkata, March 29 – Driven by resentment over being denied a party ticket to contest the upcoming West Bengal Assembly elections, Quazi Abdur Rahim, the outgoing MLA from the Baduria Assembly seat in the North 24 Parganas district, quit the Trinamool Congress on Sunday.In a lengthy post on his...

Kolkata, March 28 Communal polarization in West Bengal is intensifying ahead of the 2026 assembly elections, moving beyond campaign rhetoric into sustained mobilization at the grassroots level, with the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise emerging as a key flashpoint in the state's...

Kolkata, March 24 CPI(M) leader Dipsita Dhar expresses disappointment that the mother of the victim in the RG Kar hospital rape-murder case wants to contest the West Bengal assembly elections on a BJP ticket, but maintains her commitment to seeking justice for the traumatized medical intern...

Kolkata, March 22 – The Election Commission of India (ECI) has intensified its efforts to remove unauthorized political advertisements across West Bengal in the lead-up to the upcoming two-phase state assembly elections.In a statement released on Sunday night, the ECI said that a total of...

Kolkata, March 21 Supporters of the BJP and TMC clashed in Baranagar in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district on Saturday over alleged tearing of campaign posters and banners, police said.The incident took place at the Tobin Road crossing within the constituency, in the presence of BJP...

Kolkata, March 19 A local TMC leader was allegedly murdered in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district, which is heading for elections, police said on Thursday.The deceased was Masiur Gazi (41), president of booth number 178 in Champatala gram panchayat in the Deganga area, a senior TMC...

Kolkata, March 18 Three-time Trinamool Congress MLA from Amdanga, Rafiqur Rahman, urged the party leadership on Wednesday to reconsider its decision to field a new candidate from the constituency.Protests erupted after the party announced Peerzada Kasem Siddiqui as its candidate for the seat...

Kolkata, March 16 – The judicial review process has been completed for almost one-third of the cases referred under the "logical discrepancy" category during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in West Bengal, Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Manoj Kumar Agarwal said on Monday...

Kolkata, March 16 Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, and senior West Bengal BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari extended greetings to the Matua community on the 215th birth anniversary of the sect's spiritual leader, Harichand Thakur, on Monday.A Matua Dharma Mela is being...

Kolkata, March 15 With the assembly polls now announced, West Bengal is officially on track to chart the course of its government for the next five years. The following provides a look at some of the key constituencies in the districts, which could significantly influence the political landscape...

Kolkata, March 14 – Two Bangladeshi nationals have been arrested at the India-Bangladesh international border in the North 24 Parganas district for allegedly entering the country illegally, a senior district police officer said on Saturday.According to police, the two individuals were...

Barasat, March 14 Two people died in a motorcycle collision in Basirhat, North 24 Parganas district, West Bengal, on Saturday, according to police.Two others were also injured in the accident when the two motorcycles collided in the Dighari Park area in the morning, they said.The deceased...

Kolkata, March 13 Some EMU local trains were delayed by approximately 30 minutes on Friday due to a signal malfunction at the Belghoria station in the North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal, according to an official.Train movement was operational on two of the four lines at Belghoria within...

Kolkata, March 10 At least 10 people were injured after a bus carrying members of a wedding party collided with a truck on B T Road in North 24 Parganas district on Tuesday, a senior police officer said.The accident occurred near the Panihati Sporting Club ground when the bus, carrying members...

Kolkata, March 9 A team of Nepal Police, assisted by its West Bengal counterpart, has arrested seven people, including a couple from the state, and seized counterfeit currency worth approximately Rs 70 crore during a raid at an apartment near Kolkata, an official said on Monday.The raid took...

Kolkata, March 8 Former Union Minister and Hamirpur MP Anurag Thakur participated in the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) Parivartan Yatra in West Bengal on Sunday along with Union Minister Shantanu Thakur and other party leaders.Addressing a large public gathering in the Naihati Assembly...

Kolkata, March 6 A car belonging to BJP MLA Baneswar Mahato was vandalized during the party's "Change Yatra" in Purulia district of West Bengal on Friday.The incident occurred in Mahato's constituency, Balarampur, with the BJP alleging that members of the TMC were behind the attack.The BJP...

Kolkata, March 5 Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami alleged on Thursday that the image of West Bengal, the land associated with luminaries like Swami Vivekananda, Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay, Rabindranath Tagore, and Subhas Chandra Bose, has been tarnished by the "misgovernance" of...