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New Delhi, April 1 (SocialNews.XYZ) AIMIM President Asaduddin Owaisi on Wednesday strongly criticised the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process in West Bengal, insisting that citizenship verification does not fall under the Election Commission of India (ECI) but is the responsibility of the Union Ministry of Home Affairs. Speaking to reporters in West Bengal, Owaisi said, "We oppose the SIR. Our writ petition on this matter is still pending before the Supreme Court. Citizenship is not within ...Read More >
Urging people not to "waste" their votes by supporting either the Congress, the Left Front, or Humayun Kabir's newly formed outfit, the AJUP, TMC general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Sunday said that voting for any of the three parties would mean voting for the BJP. The TMC MP, who is considered number 2 in the party and heir apparent of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, was campaigning in the Muslim-dominated Naoda Assembly seat in Murshidabad district. "Voting for the Congress or Adhir Babu, ...Read More >
West Bengal Elections 2026: Key Leaders Who Could Shape Bengal Assembly Polls Outcome Completely West Bengal Assembly Elections 2026 Key Candidates: 2026 West Bengal Assembly polls will feature key battles featuring Mamata Banerjee, Suvendu Adhikari and others. As West Bengal heads into a high-voltage Assembly election, the contest is once again being shaped not just by party symbols but by a handful of powerful political faces whose battles could define the state's future. The 2026 election w ...Read More >
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], March 31 (ANI): Calcutta High Court on Tuesday dismissed the PIL filed by Trinamool Congress (TMC) Lok Sabha member and advocate Kalyan Banerjee against transfers of IAS, IPS and other officials in West Bengal. Banerjee had filed a PIL against the Election Commission of India (ECI)'s notification for the transfer of the Chief Secretary, Home Secretary, Director General of Police (DGP) and certain District Magistrates and Superintendents of Police. Also Read | Rah ...Read More >
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], March 31 (ANI): Calcutta High Court on Tuesday dismissed the PIL filed by Trinamool Congress (TMC) Lok Sabha member and advocate Kalyan Banerjee against transfers of IAS, IPS and other officials in West Bengal. Banerjee had filed a PIL against the Election Commission of India (ECI)'s notification for the transfer of the Chief Secretary, Home Secretary, Director General of Police (DGP) and certain District Magistrates and Superintendents of Police. The two-judge B ...Read More >
The 294-member Vidhan Sabha is expected to witness a close contest between the ruling All India Trinamool Congress, led by Mamata Banerjee since 2011, and the BJP. The Bharatiya Janata Party released its fourth list of candidates for the 2026 West Bengal Assembly elections on Tuesday, A total of 13 candidates were named in the latest list. In a key change, the party has swapped its candidate in the Maynaguri seat, replacing Kaushik Roy with Dalim Roy. WB Assembly Elections 2026: BJP's full fou ...Read More >
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday released its fourth list of 13 candidates for the West Bengal Assembly Elections 2026, including Soma Thakur, the wife of Union Minister of State Shantanu Thakur, from the Bagda seat in the North 24 Parganas district. With this, the saffron party has named 287 candidates for the West Bengal polls, for which the polling will be held in two phases. The party has also replaced its candidate in the Maynaguri constituency, fielding Dalim Roy in place of Ka ...Read More >
West Bengal Assembly Elections 2026: As the state moves closer to the 2026 assembly elections, Banerjee faces one of the most consequential tests of her political career West Bengal Assembly Elections 2026: Clad in a simple white sari and rubber slippers, Mamata Banerjee has long cultivated the image of an outsider in Indian politics. Over decades, that outsider has become one of the system's most durable power centres, reshaping the political landscape of West Bengal and carving out a national ...Read More >
Officers posted in key constituencies such as Bhabanipur in Kolkata and Nandigram in Purba Medinipur district were included in the reshuffle that was effected on Sunday. The transfers also involved inspectors and sub-inspectors assigned as ICs and OCs in districts, including Cooch Behar, Malda, Murshidabad, Birbhum, Paschim Medinipur, Howrah, and North and South 24 Parganas. According to the order, Soumitra Basu, previously with the Special Task Force (STF), will take charge as IC of the Bhaba ...Read More >
After the announcement of SIR in Bengal on Monday by ECI, an all-party meeting has been called by the West Bengal Chief Electoral Officer's (WB- CEO) office on Tuesday at 4PM, where all national and state-level political parties will be participating. Meanwhile, Trinamool Congress leadership said that they will abide by the Constitution and there is no place for violence. However, they will not allow a single legal voter's name to be deleted from the electoral list and take the movement to Delh ...Read More >
A deep depression over the Bay of Bengal is set to intensify into a cyclonic storm. This weather system will bring heavy rain to several districts across West Bengal. The India Meteorological Department has issued advisories for fishermen. Light to moderate rain is expected to begin in south Bengal districts from October 27. A deep depression over the Bay of Bengal, which is in the process of intensifying into a cyclonic storm, will bring heavy rain in some districts of West Bengal from October ...Read More >
New Delhi, Oct 28 (SocialNews.XYZ) With Assembly elections expected in West Bengal by May-June next year, every move made by Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress Chairperson Mamata Banerjee will be under public scrutiny. Thus, the large-scale bureaucratic reshuffle carried out by her government hours before the Election Commission announced the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in the country, is suspected to be linked with the upcoming polls. As is the ongoing organisational ...Read More >
Kolkata (PTI): The West Bengal government on Monday announced the transfer of over 500 bureaucrats amid the rollout of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in the state. In one of the largest reshuffles on a single day, 67 IAS and 460 West Bengal Civil Services (Executive) officers were transferred, according to a slew of notifications issued by the Personnel and Administrative Reforms (P&AR) Department. The transfer notifications were dated October 24, even as they were upl ...Read More >
New Delhi, Oct 27 (SocialNews.XYZ) The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued an orange alert for three Maharashtra districts and predicted moderate spells of rain and thunderstorm accompanied with lightning as well as likely gusty winds reaching 30-40 km per hour from Monday till Tuesday, the Weather department said in a press statement. The three Maharashtra districts which have been issued an orange alert are Dhule, Nandurbar, Nashik, the statement said on Sunday. From Sunday at 8 ...Read More >
Kolkata: With the four-week deadline to bring back Sunali Khatun and five others from Bangladesh ending on Friday, their families have decided to move the Calcutta High Court on Oct 27 seeking implementation of its order. On the other hand, the six appeared before a Bangladesh court on Thursday where the charge sheet on their illegal entry was submitted.A Calcutta HC division bench of justices Tapabrata Chakraborty and Reetobroto Kumar Mitra had on Sept 26 directed authorities to bring back Khat ...Read More >
Kolkata, Oct 2 (PTI) A deep depression over the Bay of Bengal is very likely to bring heavy to very heavy rainfall in several districts of West Bengal till October 6 morning, as various parts of the state witnessed showers on Thursday, dampening Durga Puja festival spirits on its culminating day on Bijoya Dashami. The IMD said that the system is very likely to move towards the shore and cross Odisha and adjoining Andhra Pradesh coasts between Gopalpur and Paradip by Thursday night. An overcast ...Read More >
Kolkata, Oct 1 (PTI) Coastal and South Bengal districts are likely to receive heavy rainfall in the next 48 hours under the influence of a deep depression in the Bay of Bengal, a senior IMD official said here on Wednesday. From noon of October 2, there would be rain in some parts of Kolkata and heavy to very heavy rainfall in coastal districts - South 24 Parganas and Purba Medinipur - which will continue till the next two days, the official said. "While there is possibility of moderate rains s ...Read More >
Kolkata, along with West Midnapore, Jhargram, Howrah, Nadia, Murshidabad and Birbhum, is also likely to be hit by heavy rain, with estimates between 7 cm and 11 cm. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued a severe weather alert, forecasting heavy to very heavy rainfall across multiple districts of West Bengal, with the downpour expected to peak on October 2 - the day of Dashami, which marks the climactic end of the Durga Puja celebrations. According to a report by The Indian Expre ...Read More >
Kolkata, Sep 30 (PTI) Heavy rain is likely in parts of West Bengal from Bijoya Dashami on Thursday due to a low-pressure area, the IMD said. The low-pressure area is likely to form over central Bay of Bengal on Wednesday, it said. Under its impact, Howrah, South 24 Parganas, Purba and Paschim Medinipur are likely to receive heavy to very heavy rainfall (7 to 20 cm) on Thursday, it said. Heavy rainfall (7 to 11 cm) is also very likely in Kolkata, along with North 24 Parganas, Hooghly, Jhargram ...Read More >
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Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court has quashed the Union government's deportation orders against two migrant worker families from West Bengal, directing that six individuals pushed into Bangladesh earlier this year be brought back to India within four weeks. A division bench of Justices Reetobroto Mitra and Tapabrata Chakraborty, while hearing two habeas corpus petitions, held that the authorities had "acted in hot haste" and "admittedly did not follow" the Union home ministry's May 2 guidelines ...Read More >
The Calcutta High Court on Friday overturned the Centre's June deportation of six West Bengal residents, including pregnant Sunali Khatun, to Bangladesh, ordering their repatriation within four weeks. The court ruled the deportation illegal, citing violations of fundamental rights and lack of proper verification. The Calcutta High Court on Friday set aside the Centre's decision to deport Sunali Khatun, Danish and Sabir Shek and three others from West Bengal to Bangladesh in June and directed th ...Read More >
Mamata, TMC leaders invoke 'Bangla-asmita' & recall vandalism of Vidyasagar statue in 2019 UNION HOME Minister Amit Shah on Friday inaugurated the Santosh Mitra Square Durga Puja pandal in Kolkata, which this year carries a military-themed tribute titled 'Operation Sindoor.' Addressing the gathering after performing the rituals, Shah linked regional aspirations to a national development narrative and said he prayed for a government that would build a "Sonar Bangla", (Golden Bengal) a prosperou ...Read More >
Hyderabad, Sep 26 (PTI) The Telangana government on Friday said it aims to attract Rs 1 lakh crore in investments in the aerospace industry over the next five years. According to a press release, State Industries Minister Sridhar Babu chaired a special meeting at the secretariat with leading representatives from the aerospace sector, engaging in in-depth discussions on the future of aerospace development in the state. ...Read More >
The Calcutta High Court on Friday (September 26, 2025) directed repatriation of six people from two families hailing from West Bengal's Birbhum, who were pushed into Bangladesh. A Division Bench comprising Justice Tapabrata Chakraborty and Justice Reetobrata Mitra gave this direction while deciding two writ petitions filed by Bhodu Sheikh and Amir Khan. Bhodu Sheikh sought repatriation of his daughter Sunali Khatun Sheikh, his son-in-law Danish Sheikh and minor grandson, while Amir Khan sought ...Read More >
Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Friday dismissed the Centre's order to push back six members of two families, including eight-month pregnant Sonali Bibi, from West Bengal's Birbhum district into Bangladesh. A division bench of Justice Tapobrata Chakraborty and Justice Ritabrata Kumar Mitra has ordered the Union Home Ministry that they should be brought back to India within a month. The Centre will move the Supreme Court against the Calcutta High Court's order. On June 26, Delhi Police arre ...Read More >
Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court directed the centre on Friday to bring back all six members of the two West Bengal families -- including a pregnant woman and two minors -- who were detained in Delhi in June on suspicion of being illegal Bangladeshi immigrants and deported on the orders of the foreigners regional registration officer, lawyers who attended the hearing said. "The division bench of justices Tapabrata Chakraborty and Ritabrata Kumar Mitra gave the centre four weeks to bring back Su ...Read More >
Kolkata: Hasin Jahan, the estranged wife of Team India pacer Mohammed Shami, is likely to contest elections in West Bengal. According to sources, the Congress may field her during the assembly elections scheduled next year. The party is busy picking candidates for the next election. Hasin's presence at the Vidhan Bhavan on Saturday created a buzz. A Congress source claims that she may be nominated from one of the seats in Birbhum in the next assembly elections. She has also had preliminary talk ...Read More >
Kolkata: The state govt on Thursday informed the Calcutta High Court that although Delhi Police had been notified of a Bengal Police enquiry report stating that pregnant migrant labourer Sunali Khatun, her husband, and their minor child had been residing in Birbhum district since birth, no reply was received. This was submitted during a habeas corpus hearing.The family of three had been picked up by Delhi Police on suspicion of being Bangladeshi citizens and deported to Bangladesh on June 26. A ...Read More >
Kolkata: Six workers died and five others were severely injured on Friday when a portion of a stone quarry collapsed at Bahadurpur village in Birbhum's Nalhati. Eyewitnesses said the labourers got buried under heavy rocks.Officers said efforts were on to ascertain whether any more workers were trapped in the quarry.The tragedy was a rerun of last October's accident where three labourers had died in a stone mine collapse in Nalhati."The collapse was so sudden that the workers did not get a chance ...Read More >
Kolkata: At least six workers died while five others were injured in an accident at a stone quarry in Birbhum of West Bengal on Friday afternoon. All of them got trapped under a huge chunk of earth that had caved in at the quarry. The cave-in occurred between 2 pm and 2.30 pm following a blast that is routinely carried out in the quarry at Bahadurpur in Nalhati for mining. The round of the blasts is twice a day, the first in the morning while the second in the afternoon, according to sources. ...Read More >
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