Kolkata, Feb 21 The latest developments in West Bengal politics, stemming from Pratikur Rahman's defection to the TMC, could provide a significant boost to the ruling party, especially given the concerns about its declining popularity among Muslim voters, stakeholders said.Rahman's move may...
bengal state elections
cpi(m)
dakshin dinajpur district
diamond harbour
lok sabha elections 2024
malda district
md salim
murshidabad district
muslim voters
north24parganasdistrict
political defection
pratikur rahman
south 24parganasdistrict
srijan bhattacharya
tmc (all india trinamool congress)
trinamool congress
uttar dinajpur district
west bengal politics
Kolkata, February 21 – Event organizer Tanay Shastri filed a formal police complaint against Bengali actress and former Trinamool Congress MP Mimi Chakraborty on Saturday, escalating a legal dispute that began with a ₹20 lakh defamation notice.Shastri, who recently spent 14 days in judicial...
Kolkata, February 19 – The All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM), founded by Asaduddin Owaisi and planning to contest the upcoming Assembly elections in West Bengal, is focusing on the issue of a large number of minority migrant workers from the state as its main attack against the...
aimim
all india majlis-e-ittehadul muslimeen
cooch behar district
employment opportunities
howrah district
malda district
migrant workers
minority workers
murshidabad district
muslim voters
nadia districtnorth24parganasdistrictnorth dinajpur district
south 24parganasdistrict
trinamool congress
west bengal assembly elections
Kolkata, February 19 – Event organizer Tanay Shastri, who is facing a harassment case, has issued a notice for a defamation lawsuit against Bengali actress and former Trinamool Congress MP Mimi Chakraborty.Shastri informed on Thursday that a legal notice has been sent to Chakraborty, informing...
Kolkata, February 18 – With only four days remaining for the scrutiny of supporting identity documents submitted by voters during the hearing sessions regarding claims and objections to the draft voter list in West Bengal, more than 114,000 documents submitted during the hearing have yet to be...
assembly election
chief electoral officer (ceo)
claims and objections
cooch behar district
electoral commission of india (eci)
electoral scrutiny
fake identity documents
identity document verification
kolkata (uttar) districtnorth24parganasdistrictnorth dinajpur district
south 24parganasdistrict
voter documents
voter exclusion
west bengal voter list
Kolkata, February 17 – Two individuals have been arrested in Kolkata for allegedly detaining two Bangladeshi citizens and extorting money in order to obtain visas, police said on Tuesday.Officers from the Technocity Police Station conducted a raid at a hotel on Monday and rescued the two...
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arrest
bangladesh
bank transfer
barasat court
extortion
fraud
hotel
human trafficking
humayun kabir
illegal detention
kolkata
north24parganasdistrict
police investigation
technocity police station
visa fraud
Kolkata, February 17 – The current deadline of February 21 for completing the ongoing scrutiny of identity documents submitted during the hearing sessions on the draft voter list in West Bengal may be extended by two to three days, according to the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO)...
bangladesh border
cooch behar district
deadline extension
document verification process
east burdwan district
election commission of india
electoral officer
identity document verification
malda district
murshidabad districtnorth24parganasdistrict
scrutiny of documents
south 24parganasdistrict
west bengal voter list
west burdwan district
Kolkata, February 15 – Following the conclusion of the hearing session on claims and objections to the draft voter list in West Bengal, and with the scrutiny of supporting identity documents scheduled to continue until February 21, the Election Commission of India (ECI) has identified five...
assembly elections
cooch behar district
east burdwan district
election commission of india
identity documents
logical discrepancy
malda district
murshidabad districtnorth24parganasdistrict
progeny mapping
south 24parganasdistrict
unlisted documents
voter mapping
west bengal voter list
west burdwan district
Kolkata, February 14 – The hearing phase on claims and objections to the draft voter list in West Bengal concluded on Saturday evening, with an additional 4.98 lakh names identified as eligible for deletion from the final voter list.These 4.98 lakh voters are those who did not attend the...
assembly elections
chief electoral officer
claims and objections
deletion of voters
draft voter list
election commission of india
election schedule
enumeration phase
kalimpong district
kolkata (dakshin) electoral districtnorth24parganasdistrict
south 24parganasdistrict
special intensive revision (sir)
voter registration
west bengal voter list
Kolkata, February 14 Ahead of the high-stakes West Bengal elections, the TMC announced a 16-member election core committee on Saturday for various Assembly constituencies that fall under the Barasat Lok Sabha seat in North 24 Parganas district.In a statement, the party said that Minister...
assembly constituencies
barasat lok sabha seat
bidhannagar municipal corporation
bjp political party
election core committee
india
jyotipriyo mallick
kakoli ghosh dastidar
north24parganasdistrict
political strategy
rathin ghosh
sabyasachi dutta
sujit bose
tmc party
west bengal elections
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...
assistant electoral registration officers
cec (chief election commissioner)
cooch behar district
disciplinary action
district magistrates
east burdwan district
east midnapore district
election commission of india
electoral officers
electoral registration officers
fir (first information report)
jalpaiguri district
malda districtnorth24parganasdistrict
south 24parganasdistrict
special intensive revision
west bengal election
Bongaon (WB), February 13 A 24-year-old man, who was arrested on the charge of cohabiting with a minor after befriending her two years ago, was granted bail by the Bongaon sub-divisional court here after her family agreed to the accused's proposal to marry the survivor, who has now reached...
adult marriage
bail
bongaon
consent
criminal justice
family court
juvenile justice
legal proceedings
marriage
marriage agreement
north24parganasdistrict
pocso act
protection of children from sexual offences
qazi
west bengal
Kolkata, February 13 A court in the North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal has cleared a cancer alternative therapy expert of charges of making false claims about his profession.Following this acquittal, a court under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) has also acquitted Aradeep...
New Delhi, February 12 The CBI arrested a wanted criminal on Thursday, who was accused in one of the post-election violence cases in West Bengal and had been on the run since 2021, officials said.The alleged absconder, Nazir Hossen, was arrested from his father-in-law's residence in the North...