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…
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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…
Kolkata, March 1 (IANS) As the final voters’ list in West Bengal as part of the ongoing Special Intensive Revision in the state was published, it showed that there has been no fresh voters’ inclusion in as many as 99 Assembly constituencies during the entire SIR exercise starting from the beginning of the numeration phase in December last year till the publication of the final voters’ list The final voter list was published on Saturday afternoon.During this phase, there had been no Form-6 …
Haringhata (West Bengal), Feb 27 (IANS) The National Capacity Building Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) and Collapsed Structure Search and Rescue (CSSR) Competition 2026 concluded successfully on Friday. The competition was hosted by the 2nd Battalion NDRF at its campus in Haringhata, in the Nadia district of West Bengal. It brought together State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) teams from seven states in the eastern and northeastern region, including Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Meghalaya, Sik…
Kolkata, Feb 27 (IANS) The family members of Pulak Haldar, a final-year student of Kalyani Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Hospital and Medical College in West Bengal’s Nadia district, whose decomposed body was recovered from the hostel room, have claimed that he was murdered.The autopsy of the medical student’s body will be conducted on Friday, and only after that will the medical reasons behind the death be ascertained, said an investigating officer in the case.According to Sudhanshu Haldar, the fat…
Kolkata, Feb 26 (IANS) The decomposed body of a medical student was recovered from a hostel room at Kalyani Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Hospital and Medical College in West Bengal’s Nadia district on Thursday.According to police, the deceased student has been identified as Pulak Haldar, a final-year student of Kalyani Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Hospital and Medical College. He was a resident of Mograhat in South 24 Parganas district.Sources said that Pulak was last seen on February 20 when he went …
Kolkata, Feb 24 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), on Tuesday, accused the District Magistrate (DM), also known as District Electoral Officer (DEO), of the sensitive India-Bangladesh bordering the Nadia district of West Bengal, of instructing the electoral registration officers (EROs) and assistant electoral registration officers (AEROs) of the district to indulge in misappropriations in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise. BJP’s Information Technology Cell Chief and the party’s …
Kolkata, Feb 23 (IANS) The news of the demise of veteran politician and once her virtual second-in-command in Trinamool Congress had left her totally broken, said West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee on Monday morning.In her condolence message that she posted on the wall of her social media handle, the Chief Minister also described Roy as her once “comrade-in-arms”.“I am deeply shocked and grieved by the sudden news of the demise of veteran politician M…
Kolkata, Feb 16 (IANS) A single-judge bench of the Calcutta High Court, on Monday, raised questions over the hyperactive action by the Krishnanagar Police in Nadia district of West Bengal against an individual over a social media post involving Trinamool Congress Lok Sabha member from Krishnanagar constituency, Mahua Moitra. The individual, Rishi Bagri, approached the single-judge bench of Justice Jay Sengupta, and accused the police of registering an FIR in the matter hurriedly and subsequently…