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Aparna BhattacharyaThe Wire |
Listen to this article: Kolkata: Ritabrata Banerjee, a newly elected MLA, has laid claim to the legislative identity of the All India Trinamool...
Kolkata: Across India, cash-transfer schemes for women have become one of the most powerful instruments of electoral politics and social welfare....
Kolkata: Across India, cash-transfer schemes for women have become one of the most powerful instruments of electoral politics and social welfare....
Listen to this article: On May 24, the vote count in Falta where the Election Commission had ordered a repoll, served as a postmortem of the Trinamool...
Listen to this article: Kolkata: As polling gets underway in Falta today, Bengal watches as an assembly constituency completes an interrupted...
Listen to this article: Kolkata: A 21-year-old man in Kolkata died on May 18, nearly two weeks after he was allegedly stabbed during a Bharatiya...
Kolkata: Suvendu Adhikari was sworn in on Saturday (May 9) as West Bengal’s first BJP chief minister, marking a dramatic rupture in the state’s...
Listen to this article: Kolkata: The Bharatiya Janata Party’s 2026 breakthrough in West Bengal was not simply an anti-incumbency wave. Coupled with...
Listen to this article: Kolkata: Electoral outcomes in fiercely contested regions are often decided by razor-thin margins, where every vote counts. In...
Listen to this article: Kolkata: Electoral outcomes in fiercely contested regions are often decided by razor-thin margins, where every vote counts. In...
Listen to this article: Kolkata: The West Bengal result numbers point to a decisive BJP victory, with the party winning 206 seats and establishing a...
Listen to this article: Kolkata: In what is shaping up to be one of the most seismic political earthquakes in recent Indian history, the Bharatiya...
Listen to this article: Bengal’s second and final phase of polling is today and it is undeniable that a striking demographic paradox has taken shape...
Listen to this article: Firoza Bibi Mondal asked to check whether her name was included in the supplementary list published by the electoral tribunal....
Listen to this article: If you want to understand the true cost of being a woman in Indian politics, do not look at the manifestos, the parliamentary...
Listen to this article: In West Bengal, the appellate tribunal that was supposed to act as a safeguard for wrongly excluded voters has instead come to...
Listen to this article: Kolkata: West Bengal’s Phase 1 polling gathered strong momentum through the morning, with overall turnout rising to 41.11%...
Listen to this article: Kolkata: Last year, Samserganj in Murshidabad’s border belt made national headlines after communal tension over the Waqf...
Listen to this article: A granular analysis of deleted voter rolls in three West Bengal constituencies suggests that what is being presented as...
Listen to this article: Kolkata: The Supreme Court has finally given limited but significant relief to voters who were “under adjudication” in the...
Listen to this article: Kolkata: At the stroke of midnight on April 6, the Election Commission of India’s (ECI) publication of the 12th and final...
Listen to this article: Late evening (March 24), a fragile sense of security was shattered for seven crore electors in West Bengal. These were the...
Listen to this article: Kolkata: At the stroke of midnight on March 23, 2026, the Election Commission of India (ECI) released its first supplementary...
Listen to this article: The Election Commission of India (ECI) has set the stage for a fiercely contested 2026 West Bengal Assembly election. Hours...
Listen to this article: Kolkata: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s rally at Kolkata’s Brigade Parade Ground on March 14 was a high-octane exercise in...
Listen to this article: Kolkata: The full bench of the Election Commission (EC) has reportedly expressed dissatisfaction over the implementation of...
Listen to this article: Kolkata: The final list for West Bengal’s electoral rolls, after the special intensive revision (SIR) indicates that 1.21...
Listen to this article: Kolkata: The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Saturday (February 28) published the final electoral roll for West Bengal...
Listen to this article: Kolkata: Sheikh Liyaqat Hossein has lived his entire life in a narrow lane of Mollapara in Shibpur, Howrah. He studied up to...
Senior West Bengal politician and former Union railway minister Mukul Roy passed away in the early hours of Monday, February 23, following prolonged...