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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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Doesn’t Maa Durga bleed? Asks Bengal-origin artist, faces FIR, threats and gets trolled

Kolkata: Visual artist Aniket Mitra, who happens to be a gold medallist from Kolkata’s prestigious Art College, was in for a rude shock when...

In Madhya Pradesh, ABVP’s ‘rowdies’ have Chouhan’s protection

At Rajiv Gandhi Government College in Mandsaur, Madhya Pradesh, some Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) activists went to submit a memorandum to the principal....

Bengal’s share of shame: Beggar died from hunger and not illness, claim activists

Kolkata: West Bengal registered its second starvation death in 2018, when 68-year-old Bimla Pandey, breathed her last in her small one-room mud hut in...

Vasundhara Raje has failed as CM, she has also ruined Rajasthan’s bhaichara: Manvendra Singh

Barmer/Kolkata: It took almost three days to pin Manvendra Singh down for a telephonic interview. Singh recently dropped a brick following his announcement to...

Next day of launch of Ayushman Bharat by PM, a woman dies because of its procedure in Jharkhand

Ranchi: On September 23, Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a major healthcare scheme, Ayushman Bharat —Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojna, which has been nicknamed...

As election approaches, saffron groups smell love jihad in Bengal’s air

Kolkata: West Bengal has been a focal point for the right-wing ideologues for some time now. Reports of foot soldiers of the saffron brigade...
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