Bengal

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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‘Education of privileged’ for the underprivileged

Kolkata: Life was least promising for Kolkata’s 6-year-old Asad Khan after his father’s demise. Unable to bear the family expenses, his mother got married...

Setback to ED as Calcutta High Court turns down its plea to freeze assets of Rashmi Metaliks

Kolkata: In a major setback to Enforcement Directorate (ED), and relief to Rashmi Metaliks, Calcutta High Court turned down the plea of the central...

Father Stan Swamy’s work was for nation development, his death has shamed India: Father Felix Raj

Kolkata: On the first death anniversary of Father Stan Swamy, widely known as an ‘institutional murder’, the tribal rights defender was remembered in several...

Arrest Of Teesta Draws Protests In India And Abroad

Kolkata: Amid the widespread condemnation of the arrest of Teesta Setalvad, a human rights activist and RB Sreekumar, former Director-General of Police, they were...

Arjun’s ‘Ghar Wapsi’ In TMC After Three Years

Kolkata: It's yet another ‘Ghar Wapsi’ for Trinamool Congress with Bharatiya Janata Party’s Member of Parliament from Barrackpore and its vice president Arjun Singh...

TMC wins the bypolls, gets historic victory in Asansol but Ballygunge comes with a message

Kolkata: Bollywood actor Shatrughan Sinha broke the jinx of Trinamool Congress by winning the Asansol Lok Sabha seat with more votes than former Bharatiya Janata...
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