Katwa, April 11 Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday intensified the BJP's campaign on infiltration and welfare in the poll-bound state of West Bengal, promising that the process of granting citizenship to Matua and Namasudra refugee families would be expedited once the party comes to power...
bengal
bjp (bharatiya janata party)
citizenship
citizenship (amendment) act
immigration
matua community
migration
namasudra community
narendra modi
political campaigns
purbabardhamandistrict
refugee families
trinamool congress
west bengal
west bengal assembly elections
Kolkata, April 10 Leader of the Opposition in the West Bengal assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, on Friday claimed that those who had been associated with the Trinamool Congress during its early years were being "attacked, snubbed, and insulted" within the party.Alleging that several leaders faced...
bikash narayan chowdhury
bjp
cpi(m)
mangalkot
political party affiliation
purbabardhamandistrict
suvendu adhikari
trinamool congress
west bengal assembly elections
west bengal politics
In Kolkata, nearly 91 lakh voter names were removed from the electoral rolls following the completion of the Systematic Identification of Voter Eligibility (SIVE) exercise in West Bengal. This move, according to the Election Commission, has further polarized the political landscape, turning the...
bangladeshis in west bengal
coimbatore district
election commission of india
election tribunals
electoral roll revision
judicial scrutiny of voter names
kolkata electoral rolls
malda district
matua community
minority voters
murshidabad district
nadia district
north 24 parganas district
political polarization
purbabardhamandistrict
rajbanshi community
south 24 parganas district
systematic identification of voter eligibility (sive)
voter delimitation
west bengal elections
Kolkata, April 6 Thousands of people whose names were removed from the electoral rolls queued up across West Bengal since Monday morning to present their cases before judicial officers, as tribunals for the adjudication of appeals began functioning in the state.Monday is the last day for...
basanti
citizen rights
constituency appeals
election commission of india
electoral rolls
gosaba
north 24 parganas district
political parties
purbabardhamandistrict
south 24 parganas district
special intensive revision (sir)
tribunal adjudication
voter rejection
west bengal elections
west bengal police
Kolkata, April 5 Senior Trinamool Congress leader Abhishek Banerjee on Sunday accused the Narendra Modi government of withholding the state's dues for the past five years, aiming to make the poor people of West Bengal go hungry in order to vote the TMC to power in successive assembly elections...
Kolkata, April 3 The Election Commission on Friday ordered the immediate suspension of a joint block development officer (BDO) in poll-bound West Bengal and directed the initiation of disciplinary proceedings against her.The poll body, however, did not mention the grounds for the action.In a...
administrative law
assistant returning officer
chief electoral officer
chief secretary
disciplinary proceedings
election commission of india
election law
government action
government official
joint block development officer
khandaghosh assembly constituency
political administration
purbabardhamandistrict
suspension order
west bengal election
Kolkata, April 2 Just three weeks ahead of the first phase of the West Bengal Assembly election, protests over the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls spread across several districts of the state on Thursday, with agitators blocking roads and highways over the deletion of names from...
amit shah
bjp
cooch behar district
election commission of india
electoral roll revision
judicial officer gherao
malda district
mamata banerjee
national highway 12
protests
purbabardhamandistrict
road blockades
sir (special intensive revision)
voter suppression
west bengal assembly election
Galsi, March 25 A woman was killed and at least 30 people were injured after a bus collided with a truck in the Purba Bardhaman district of West Bengal on Wednesday, police said.The accident occurred on National Highway-19 in the Galigram area, when the bus, which was travelling on the...
benachiti-krishnanagar route
bus accident
fatalities
galigram area
injury
national highway-19
purbabardhamandistrict
traffic collision
truck accident
west bengal
Kolkata, March 18 Former TMC leader Humayun Kabir announced the first list of 15 candidates for his newly formed Am Janata Unnayan Party on Wednesday, stating that the party would contest 182 seats in the West Bengal assembly elections and field a Muslim candidate against Chief Minister Mamata...
aimim
am janata unnayan party
bhabanipur constituency
bharatpur
humayun kabir
malda district
mamata banerjee
minority vote base
murshidabad district
muslim candidates
political rivalry
political strategy
purbabardhamandistrict
tmc-bjp confrontation
trinamool congress
west bengal assembly elections
Kolkata, March 7 Senior BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari on Saturday alleged that the West Bengal government had deliberately withheld central allocations for social welfare projects like Ayushman Bharat and PM Awas Yojana, depriving millions of people.Addressing a 'Poriborton Yatra' rally in...
ayushman bharat
banglar bari
bjp
farmers
mamata banerjee
mangalkot
pm awas yojana
poriborton yatra
public distribution system (pds)
purbabardhamandistrict
social welfare projects
suvendu adhikari
tmc
unemployment
west bengal
Kolkata, March 6 A scuffle broke out between police personnel and SFI activists during a protest outside the state-run Burdwan University campus in West Bengal on Friday over alleged delays in holding student union elections and the publication of semester results of the institute.Around 300...
burdwan university
cpi(m)
higher education department
police
protest
purbabardhamandistrict
rajganj
semester results
sfi
student activism
student demands
student union elections
university gate
west bengal
Kolkata, March 4 A 104-year-old man has complained of being listed in the "under adjudication" category in the final electoral rolls issued by the Election Commission following the SIR exercise in West Bengal on February 28, officials said on Wednesday.Sheikh Ibrahim, a resident of Jamalpur...
adjudication
democratic participation
election commission
electoral rolls
harassment
independent india
jamalpur gram panchayat
political allegations
purbabardhamandistrict
sheikh ibrahim
tmc (all india trinamool congress)
voter registration
voting rights
west bengal
Kolkata, March 3 CPI(M) West Bengal state secretary Mohammed Salim said that the Left parties will organize a march to the office of the West Bengal Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) on Wednesday, demanding the publication of an accurate voter list before the upcoming assembly elections.Citing...
bharatiya janata party (bjp)
cpi(m)
deletion of voters
election commission of india (eci)
electoral rolls
electors under adjudication
left front
mohammed salim
name spellings
political harassment
purbabardhamandistrict
trinamool congress
voter list revision
west bengal assembly elections
west bengal chief electoral officer (ceo)
Kolkata, March 1 A civil society platform with TMC leanings on Sunday alleged a "sinister conspiracy" to remove 1.25 crore names from West Bengal's electoral rolls and accused the EC of carrying out a "planned purge" under the guise of the SIR exercise.The organization, Desh Bachao Ganmancha...
amit shah
civil society platform
desh bachao ganmancha
election commission of india
electoral roll purge
malda district
mamata banerjee
murshidabad district
north 24 parganas district
political targeting
purbabardhamandistrict
south 24 parganas district
special intensive revision (sir)
voter registration
west bengal electoral rolls
Kolkata, February 16 The Trinamool Congress has alleged that the death of a Bengali migrant woman in Gujarat points to a "deepening crisis of safety" for workers from West Bengal in BJP-ruled states, calling it a "grim reminder of systemic law and order failures".In a statement posted on X on...
amit shah
bengali migrant workers
bjp-ruled states
crime against migrant workers
gujarat
gujarat state
mahatma gandhi national rural employment guarantee act
nandanghat police station
narendra modi
police inquiry
purbabardhamandistrict
sonamoni bairagya
suicide investigation
trinamool congress
west bengal
Kolkata, February 15 The Trinamool Congress on Sunday alleged that the death of a Bengali migrant woman in Gujarat points to a "deepening crisis of safety" for workers from West Bengal in BJP-ruled states, calling it a "grim reminder of systemic law-and-order failures".In a statement posted on...
amit shah
bengali migrant workers
bjp-ruled states
crime against migrant workers
gujarat
hotel attendant
incident investigation
mahatma gandhi national rural employment guarantee act
nandanghat police station
narendra modi
purbabardhamandistrict
sonamoni bairagya
suicide investigation
trinamool congress
west bengal
Kolkata, February 15 A coach of an empty passenger train caught fire at the Katwa railway station in the Purba Bardhaman district of West Bengal early Sunday morning, an official of Eastern Railway said.No injuries were reported in the incident.Fire department officials said the fire was...
coach damage
eastern railway
fire department
forensic investigation
howrah division
katwa railway station
kavach
kolkata
purbabardhamandistrict
railway incident
railway safety
train fire
trinamool congress
vande bharat trains
west bengal
Kolkata, February 15 A coach of an empty passenger train caught fire at the Katwa railway station in the Purba Bardhaman district of West Bengal early Sunday morning, an official of Eastern Railway said.There have been no reports of injuries.Fire officials said the fire was reported around...
eastern railway
fire department
fire incident
fire investigation
katwa railway station
platform two
purbabardhamandistrict
railway coach
train fire
west bengal
Kolkata, February 15 A coach of an empty passenger train caught fire at the Katwa railway station in Purba Bardhaman district of West Bengal early Sunday morning, an official of Eastern Railway said.No injuries have been reported in the incident.Fire officials said the fire was reported...
Kolkata, February 12 A 25-year-old nurse who had recovered from Nipah virus infection died of cardiac arrest on Thursday at a private hospital in Barasat, North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal, a state health department official said.She had been removed from ventilator support at the end...