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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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Evictions Without Alternatives: Are Kolkata Hawkers Being Left to Starve?

Most of us are okay with the hawker eviction drive because they will give good pictures of Kolkata, free pavements and good business to...

Ex-Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren Granted Bail: Court Finds ‘Reason to Believe’ in Innocence

Ranchi: Jharkhand High Court, while granting bail to former chief minister Hemant Soren under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) in an alleged...

Hit, Stabbed, and Shot at Point-Blank Range! The Truth Behind IITian Faizan’s Murder

Kolkata: The student of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, Faizan Ahmed, was murdered, and it was only after the second autopsy was conducted....

Bengal: Mamata’s magic stuns poll pundits, as TMC wins 29 seats

Kolkata: The Lok Sabha elections results in Bengal has left all exit poll pundits stunned with Mamata Banerjee and her Trinamul Congress delivering its...

Kalpana Soren’s Decisive Win and the Road Ahead

Giridih: In her first political battle, Kalpana Soren, wife of jailed former chief minister of Jharkhand, Hemant Soren, won decisively in the Gandey assembly...

TMC Poised for Major Gains: Second-Best Tally Since 2014 on the Horizon?

Kolkata: Out of the fifty-seven constituencies going for voting in the seventh and last phase of the Lok Sabha elections 2024, nine seats in...
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