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Last Updated:November 11, 2025, 06:10 IST Party insiders noted that Banerjee’s high-profile intervention in what was a small, block-level event was deliberate and strategic While the BJP’s central leadership and several state leaders have publicly opposed legalising same-sex unions, Banerjee made it clear that his party rejected ‘such rigidity’. File pic In a rare and…
Last Updated:November 08, 2025, 7:55 PM IST What the Left and TMC represent is not the norm but the exception, and a relatively recent one The common Bengali never abandoned faith, festivals, or community culture. (Representational photo) For decades, the political story of Bengal has been told as if the state were naturally left-leaning. A…
Last Updated:October 23, 2025, 12:16 AM IST A significant number of BLOs have reportedly written to the Election Commission citing various reasons for their inability to perform poll-related duties Sources within the Election Commission maintain that a substantial number of BLOs are essential for the SIR exercise, and hence the issuance of show-cause notices was…
Political tensions flared in West Bengal after BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari alleged that his convoy was attacked while on his way to a Kali Puja event in South 24 Parganas. Adhikari accused Trinamool Congress leaders of orchestrating the attack and said he would impose President’s Rule in the state “within an hour” if given the…
The ruling Trinamool Congress and the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) slugged it out in the West Bengal assembly over a resolution related to the Bengali migrants. While the TMC alleged that the BJP is against the Bangla-speaking people, the saffron party accused the TMC of turning Bengal into Bangladesh. Amid a heated debate in…
Last Updated:August 15, 2025, 05:35 is Police sources allege that Hindol Mazumdar was one of the masterminds behind the attack on Bengal Education Minister Bratya Basu’s convoy at Jadavpur University Screengrab of the protests that took place at Jadavpur University on March 1. (Image: X/@amitmalviya) Hindol Mazumdar, a former student of pharmaceutical technology at Jadavpur…
Last Updated:August 07, 2025, 04:58 is The WBCS (Executive) Officers’ Association has written to the state chief secretary, requesting his intervention and urging a review of the Election Commission’s decision On August 5, the ECI suspended two electoral registration officers (EROs) and two assistant EROs (AEROs) for allegedly facilitating the inclusion of fictitious names in…
54 minutes ago Copy link Recently, an FIR was lodged in the film ‘The Bengal Files’ and its makers in West Bengal. FIRs were lodged by several members of Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress (TMC) against the film’s director Vivek Agnihotri, producers Pallavi Joshi and Abhishek Aggarwal. But the High Court, while hearing his petition, has…
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Trinamool Congress (TMC) have got angry over a letter on Delhi Police. It has been alleged that Delhi Police has addressed Bangla language as ‘Bangladeshi language’. Chief Minister Mamata said that while targeting the central government for the letter of Delhi Police, he said that it is an…
Amid the controversy over the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise in Bihar, the first phase of the voter list revision process has concluded. The Election Commission of India (ECI) released data stating that more than 7.24 crore electors, out of a total of 7.89 crore, submitted their enumeration forms. The data shows that 65 lakh…