south 24 parganas district

Kolkata, March 22 – Kolkata Police Commissioner Ajay Nand stated on Sunday that incidents of booth jamming, vote rigging, or booth capture will not be tolerated under any circumstances during the upcoming city-wide Assembly elections.This directive was issued after Nand conducted an inspection...

Kolkata, March 20 – The Kolkata Police recovered a large sum of cash from the trunk of a vehicle in New Town, a northern suburb of Kolkata, on Friday.Following instructions from the new Commissioner of the Kolkata Police, security arrangements have been tightened in the run-up to the Assembly...

Kolkata, March 19 – The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) announced its second list of candidates for the upcoming two-phase Assembly elections in West Bengal on Thursday, naming nominees for 111 more constituencies.With this, the party has announced a total of 255 candidates for the 294-member...

Kolkata, March 19: Amid the crucial two-phase Assembly elections in West Bengal next month, the state police have recovered a large amount of cash in two locations within the state over the last 12 hours, the police said on Thursday.One of the two locations is Baruipur in the South 24 Parganas...

Kolkata, March 18 Police on Wednesday apprehended a man and seized over Rs 1 lakh in cash from him during a vehicle checking drive in the South 24 Parganas district ahead of the assembly elections, an officer said.The incident took place in the Jayatala area under the Baruipur police station...

Kolkata, March 18 Panic spread among villagers and fishermen in two districts of West Bengal on Wednesday after unidentified drone-like objects were spotted in a rice paddy field and on a beach, prompting swift police action to reassure the public, a senior officer said.In Paschim Medinipur...

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 15 – The Election Commission of India (ECI) announced on Sunday a two-phase polling schedule for the 2026 West Bengal Assembly elections – April 23 and April 29 – even as the fate of over 42 lakh voters referred for judicial adjudication after being classified under the "logical...

Kolkata, March 12 A boy was killed and another person was injured in an LPG cylinder explosion at a garage in Budge Budge, in the South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal, on Thursday morning, police said.The incident occurred around 11:20 am at the garage located in Ward Number 19 of the...

Kolkata, March 12 Shortages of cooking gas cylinders have begun to affect midday meals in schools across West Bengal, forcing authorities to adopt alternative fuels such as firewood or serve limited food items to students, officials said on Thursday.At Krishnachandrapur High School in South 24...

Kolkata, March 11 – The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday alleged that the West Bengal government’s failure to submit the labour budget proposal was delaying the release of wages under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) in the state.In a statement...

Baruipur (WB), March 11 A local BJP leader was seriously injured after being shot, in the South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal on Wednesday, police said.The assailants, on a motorcycle, fled the area after firing two shots at Trilokesh Dhali's abdomen in Sagar Island, a police officer...

Kolkata, March 10 – A Booth Level Officer (BLO) in Kakdwip, West Bengal, approached the state administration on Tuesday after receiving threats from a voter in his area following the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise, in which his name was removed from the voter list.BLO Manindranath...

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 – Around 15 children fell ill at an Anganwadi center in West Bengal on Thursday after a dead lizard was allegedly found in the cooked food served there.The incident took place at the Nagendrapur Uttarpara ICDS center in Raidighi in South 24 Parganas district. All the 15...

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 5 – The Election Commission of India (ECI) has informed the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) that the progress in poll preparations in two districts bordering Bangladesh in West Bengal for the upcoming Assembly elections has not been satisfactory so far.These two...

Kolkata, March 3 Doctors at a Kolkata hospital have successfully implanted a permanent pacemaker in a 62-year-old woman with an artificial bicaval valve system, a rare anatomical condition “reported only once before” in global medical literature.Authorities at the Manipal Hospital in the...

Kolkata, March 2 The Election Commission of India (ECI) has provided details of the advance deployment of the 480 companies of the Central Armed Police Force (CAPF) in two phases in West Bengal before the announcement of the polling dates for the Assembly election.Of these 480 companies, 240...

Kolkata, March 2 – An application was filed under the Right to Information (RTI) Act, 2005, to obtain details regarding the performance of the former West Bengal Education Minister and ex-Trinamool Congress general secretary as an MLA from the Behala (Paschim) Assembly constituency in South 24...