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Listen to this article: Kolkata: At Subhani Chak in Nandigram on October 6, women were turned away from the polling station without voting. “They...
Listen to this article: Kolkata: Eleven months after the special intensive revision (SIR) in West Bengal began removing names from its electoral...
Listen to this article: Kolkata: On September 28, the Supreme Court refused to urgently hear the West Bengal Special Intensive Revision (SIR) case...
Listen to this article: Chanchal, in the Malda district of West Bengal, is a mixed rural-urban seat marked as Constituency No. 45 on the state’s...
Listen to this article: Kolkata: Voters of 11 assembly constituencies in Murshidabad are having their cases heard at Appellate Tribunal 11 – from...
Kolkata: On January 30, 2026, six weeks before the election announcement, Bengali digital creator Sayak Chakraborty ignited a political controversy...
Kolkata: On January 30, 2026, six weeks before the election announcement, Bengali digital creator Sayak Chakraborty ignited a political controversy...
Listen to this article: On May 8, 2026, Justice (Retd) Indrajit Chatterjee, sitting as Appellate Tribunal No. 11 for the district of Murshidabad,...
Listen to this article: Kolkata: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has reported to the Election Commission of India (ECI) an expenditure of Rs 286.99...
Listen to this article: Kolkata: An application seeking a name’s deletion from the West Bengal’s electoral rolls was more than twice as likely to...
Listen to this article: Kolkata: Twenty-six-year-old Sahinura Begum resides in Part 34 of the Raiganj assembly constituency in Uttar Dinajpur. When...
Listen to this article: This is the fifth and final piece of a series on how the adjudication process of the Special Intensive Revision in West Bengal...
Listen to this article: The Election Commission on September 18 told the Supreme Court that 22.21 lakh electors whose names were deleted in Bengal...
Listen to this article: Kolkata: On July 18, 2026, Union home minister Amit Shah convened a high-level review on border security in West Bengal’s...
Listen to this article: The dates have been going up on Bengali social media since the evening of September 17, as if it is an obituary. Twenty-eight...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: When assembly elections were held in February 2025, 61,636 people voted in the New Delhi constituency. The Special...
Listen to this article: This is the second of four articles on Delhi’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR). Read the first one here. Kolkata: When...
Listen to this article: Kolkata: The advertisement, numbered ICA-D1350(23)/2026, carried the national emblem, the faces of Prime Minister Narendra...
Listen to this article: This is the fourth of a series on how the adjudication process of the Special Intensive Revision in West Bengal continues in...
Listen to this article: This is the third of a series on how the adjudication process of the Special Intensive Revision in West Bengal continues in...
Listen to this article: Kolkata: Before the third phase of the Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of voter rolls, Delhi had...
Listen to this article: Kolkata: Men wearing saffron scarves gathered outside the Anandabazar Patrika office in Kolkata around noon on Tuesday...
Listen to this article: Kolkata: The Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of West Bengal’s electoral roll marked “27,16,393 people as not eligible”...
Listen to this article: This is the second in a series of articles on the tribunal hearings on Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in...
Listen to this article: Kolkata: The Federation of Press Clubs has demanded that the West Bengal government withdraw the criminal case registered...
Listen to this article: Kolkata: Kolkata Police on Saturday (August 29) registered a case against former West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee...
Listen to this article: Kolkata: West Bengal chief minister Suvendu Adhikari demanded at a rally in Jadavpur on Friday (August 28) that the...
Kolkata: A complaint asking police to register an FIR against the editorial team of Anandabazar Patrika, including two named journalists, was received...
Listen to this article: This is the first in a series of articles on the tribunal hearings on Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in...
Listen to this article: Kolkata: Mohd Dual Ali, a resident of Bhagwangola in Murshidabad, West Bengal, served in the Indian Army and was hit by...
Listen to this article: Sukna is where the plains give out. The road from Siliguri runs flat and hot through tea gardens and then, quite suddenly,...
The students and alumni who marched at Jadavpur on Friday (August 21) carried a long strip of painted cloth between them, and what was written on it...
Listen to this article: Sheikh Abdul Hafiz is 25 years old. On August 13, as part of the Cockroach Janta Party’s (CJP) “School Thik Karo (fix the...
Listen to this article: Kolkata: Sheikh Abdul Hafiz had walked into a local village primary school and asked a few simple questions on whether the...
Listen to this article: When Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari launched the self-enumeration phase of Census 2027 in West Bengal on August 1, he...
Listen to this article: Kolkata: A Performance Audit by the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG), covering FY 2017-18 to 2021-22, has found...
Kolkata: An increasingly confrontational campaign has gathered momentum around the 14th-century Adina Mosque in West Bengal’s Malda district, as...
Listen to this article: Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari invoked the religion-coded expression “Friday people” while...
West Bengal has finally resolved the oldest philosophical problem in politics by defining the boundary between good and bad. Plato, Aristotle and...
Listen to this article: Kolkata: In the early hours of July 8, Prabhas Mondal, one of the key accused in the rape and murder case of an 11-year-old in...
Listen to this article: For nearly three decades, Mamata Banerjee has been the undisputed face, voice, and absolute authority of the Trinamool...
Listen to this article: Kolkata: June 18 was a day of political jolts for Mamata Banerjee, beleaguered chief of the Trinamool Congress. The Calcutta...
Listen to this article: Kolkata: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) took up almost simultaneous searches at the premises associated with three...
On June 9, compounding her significant woes, police arrived at Mamata Banerjee’s house in connection with a case filed against her over the forgery...
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...
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