Kolkata, April 27 (IANS) On the last day of Assembly election campaigning in West Bengal, Trinamool Congress General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee held public meetings at four places, including Ranaghat, Goghat, and Arambagh, since morning and targeted the Bharatiya Janata Party on one issue after another, including the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019, and the Special Intensive Revision exercise. Addressing an election rally in Nadia district’s Ranaghat, Abhishek Banerjee asked the Matuas whe…
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New Delhi, April 25 (IANS) West Bengal’s principal Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will need to significantly shore up its 2021 performance in phase two of Assembly election scheduled on Wednesday, April 29, where most of the 142 seats spread across seven districts have historically voted overwhelmingly for the ruling Trinamool Congress. The BJP had a favourable field among the 152 constituencies which went to poll in the first phase last Thursday, April 23, where it had won 59 of the …
New Delhi, April 24 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday spent time on the banks of the Hooghly River in Kolkata, taking a boat ride and reiterated his government’s commitment to the development of West Bengal and the prosperity of its people.Taking to the social media platform X, the Prime Minister highlighted the cultural and spiritual importance of the Ganga for Bengalis.PM Modi said, “For every Bengali, the Ganga occupies a very special place. One can say that the Ganga flows thro…
Kolkata, April 13 (IANS) Trinamool Congress’s general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Monday promised to restore voting rights of those whose names have been removed from the state’s voter list post Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise. Speaking at an election rally in Nadia district’s Karimpur, Banerjee said the voting rights of such people will be restored within a month after forming a new government in West Bengal after the Assembly polls.On Monday, he held a meeting in Karimpur to suppo…
Kolkata, April 7 (IANS) A huge amount of money was recovered in Kolkata on Tuesday ahead of the Assembly elections. About Rs 19 lakh was seized from the Shyambazar area of north Kolkata. Two persons have been arrested in connection with the incident, said a senior officer of Kolkata Police.Investigators are trying to find out where the money was being brought from and where and to whom it was being taken. Raids are also being carried out in different places in Kolkata before the elections….
Kolkata, April 6 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of maintaining a deliberate silence at his election campaign rally in Cooch Behar district on Sunday regarding the threat issued by Pakistan’s Defence Minister Khawaja Asif, who said that Pakistan would retaliate with a strike on Kolkata if India tried to stage any false-flag operation against Pakistan in the future.“How could a Pakistani minister speak about targeting Kolkata? Why…
Kolkata, April 1 (IANS) The judicial adjudication process has been completed for over 78 per cent of the cases referred for adjudication after being classified under the “logical discrepancy” category, with the process yet to be completed for another 13 lakh cases.The figures stood till Tuesday night, said officials on Wednesday. Considering the speed at which the judicial adjudication process is being conducted by over 700 judicial officers, including 100 each from neighbouring Jharkhand an…
Kolkata, March 27 (IANS) Saikat Chatterjee, a polling officer in poll-bound West Bengal and a teacher at a state-run school, was allegedly thrashed by some individuals after he protested against the playing of a purported Trinamool Congress campaign video during an electoral training programme at Ranaghat in Nadia district on Friday afternoon.The incident took place at Ranaghat Debnath Institute for Boys School, where a training programme for polling personnel was being conducted.After the incid…
Kolkata, March 5 (IANS) A Booth Level Officer (BLO) and an elderly person died in West Bengal on Thursday. Family members of the deceased alleged that they died due to workload and panic arising out of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise and the voters’ list in the state.According to the police, the name of the BLO who died in West Midnapore district is Subimal Karak. He was 58-years-old and lived in Hatimari area of Shalboni police station.He was working as a teacher at Sa…
Kolkata, March 4 (IANS) In a shocking incident that has sent ripples across the district, a 28-year-old widowed teacher was allegedly gang-raped by her brother-in-law and two neighbours at her in-laws’ residence in the Shantipur area of West Bengal’s Nadia district, police said on Wednesday. The victim, a school teacher by profession, lodged a formal complaint at Shantipur police station on March 2, accusing three individuals, her brother-in-law (devar), and two neighbours identified as Babla…