States

Two Journeys, One Vote: While Some Migrant Workers Get Support, Thousands Struggle Home

A surge of migrant workers returning to West Bengal amid SIR fears is straining transport, as thousands undertake costly journeys to ensure their names remain on voter lists.

Between a Paralysed Elder and a 19-Year-Old: The 1956 Deed That No Longer Guarantees a Vote

Kolkata's Metiabruz faces voter row as Garwan clan loses 15 members, including eight women. Residents allege 37,000 deletions, while activist Jiten Nandi’s hunger strike demands transparency, restoration, and accountability.

Climb with Welfare, Fall with BJP: Inside TMC’s Snakes and Ladders Poll Campaign

TMC’s Snakes and Ladders leaflet depicts Narendra Modi and Amit Shah as “snakes,” while welfare schemes act as “ladders,” taking Mamata Banerjee’s campaign into Bengal homes.

‘Excluded’ in My Own Land: An IIM Professor Demands Answers on Voter Purge

On Ambedkar Jayanti, Kolkata protest targets SIR as ‘Excluded’ voters like Nandita Roy question deletions, Sabir Ahamed flags patterns, and Faridul Islam’s emotional appeal underscores a growing citizenship

IIM Academic, Aliah Professors, Journalist—All ‘Deleted’: Bengal’s Voter List Deletion Sparks Outrage

IIM and Aliah University professors, an Anandabazar Patrika journalist, and medical students face disenfranchisement as the ECI deletes their names. Protesters at Park Circus Maidan now demand justice for 27 lakh voters
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The journey of Madhya Pradesh from two parties contest to multi-party election

People’s disenchantment with the BJP government of 15 years in Madhya Pradesh is much too obvious. The party MLAs and ministers face people’s anger...

Do election duty honestly at your own risk in Madhya Pradesh

On complaints from the Congress, the Election Commission has removed Bhind and Satna Collectors. A common complaint against them was preparation of fake voters’...

Mamata makes a point with Durga puja carnival

Kolkata: West Bengal's Puja Carnival or Pujo Carnival in its third year since inception emerged grander and better. On Tuesday, around 75 puja pandals...

After sexual harassment allegations, Calcutta Times Editor gets a transfer but survivors say, not enough

Kolkata: Editor of Calcutta Times, Satadru Ojha, who has been in the limelight for all the wrong reason, has been relieved of his current...

Calcutta Times and its serial sexual offender use same modus operandi

Wrote, deleted, rewrote, backspaced and finally could gather the emotions together to be able to write it down. "Sexually harassed, troubled and compelled to...

How I was sexually harassed by TOI editor and my fight against it

I faced repeated sexual harassment from my former boss Satadru Ojha at Calcutta Times. And after all his failed attempts to make me fall...
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