south 24 parganas district

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...

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...

Kolkata, February 27 Residents of Kolkata and adjacent districts of West Bengal felt tremors on Friday afternoon after a 5.5 magnitude earthquake struck parts of Bangladesh, officials said.The quake was felt around 1:22 pm, according to an official from the India Meteorological Department...

Kolkata, February 27 – The scheduled participation of Union Home Minister Amit Shah in the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) 'Parivartan Yatra' programme, amidst preparations for the Assembly elections, has been postponed by a day.Initially, the Union Home Minister was scheduled to launch the...

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...

Kolkata, February 25 – One of the three children, critically injured in an explosion in a drum filled with chemicals in the Bhangar area of West Bengal's South 24 Parganas district, died on Wednesday morning.According to police, the child, identified as nine-year-old Sadiqul Ahmed from...

Kolkata, February 24 The Calcutta High Court on Tuesday suspended the life imprisonment sentence of a man, convicted for the rape of a minor, stating that his appeal, which has been pending since 2019, is yet to be heard, and that prior appeals are also pending.Noting that it is uncertain when...

Kolkata, February 24 – As the process of judicial review of voter documents identified under the "logical discrepancy" category in West Bengal, which is heading towards elections, began, the judicial officers appointed in four districts near the India-Bangladesh border have sought special...

Kolkata, February 23 Ahead of the West Bengal assembly elections, a clash broke out between members of the TMC and the ISF in the Bhangar area of South 24 Parganas district on Monday evening, causing panic among locals, police said.A senior police officer said that both sides had filed...

Kolkata, February 23 Calcutta High Court Chief Justice Sujoy Paul held an internal coordination meeting with the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of West Bengal and senior administrative and police officials on Monday regarding the work assigned to judicial officers, officials said.The Chief...

Kolkata, February 23 – With the crucial Assembly elections in West Bengal scheduled for later this year, Union Home Minister Amit Shah will launch the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) 'Parivartan Yatra' programme from the South 24 Parganas district on March 1, marking the formal launch of the...

Kolkata, February 23 Noting that the West Bengal government was unable to handle mass agitations that were obstructing the demolition of over 500 illegal constructions in the East Kolkata wetlands, the Calcutta High Court on Monday said it was considering deploying paramilitary forces to carry...

Kolkata, February 22 – The Regional Meteorological Centre in Kolkata said on Sunday that light to moderate rainfall is likely in some parts of West Bengal over the next two days due to a depression in the Bay of Bengal.According to the forecast, there is a possibility of light rain with...

Kolkata, February 22 – The Trinamool Congress has alleged that its party workers were attacked by activists of the Indian Secular Front (ISF) in the Polerhat area of South 24 Parganas district, West Bengal, according to police reports on Sunday.The Trinamool Congress claimed that the incident...

Kolkata, February 21 – Pratikur Rahman, a state committee member of the CPI(M) in West Bengal and considered one of the party’s prominent young leaders, joined the Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Saturday. The CPI(M) leadership subsequently expelled him from the party.Rahman was formally inducted...

Kolkata, February 21 – The bodies of the 18 victims of the Anandapur warehouse fire on the southern outskirts of Kolkata were identified through DNA analysis and handed over to their families from the Katapukur morgue on Saturday.Initially, it was believed that the 18 bodies handed over to the...

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...

Kolkata, February 21 – The bodies of 18 victims of the Anandapur warehouse fire on the southern outskirts of Kolkata have been identified through DNA analysis and handed over to their families on Saturday. With this, the official death toll in the tragedy has risen to 45, while nine persons are...

Kolkata, February 19 – Kaizar Ahmed, a prominent leader of the Trinamool Congress from Bhangar in the South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal, filed a police complaint against his own party's legislator from the neighboring Canning (Purba) Assembly constituency, Saokat Molla, on Thursday...