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West Bengal Assembly Elections 2026 Opinion: Elections are scheduled in two phases - April 23 and April 29 - with counting on May 4. West Bengal Assembly Elections 2026 Opinion: As the West Bengal Assembly Election 2026 approaches, one key question stands out: can the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) cross the 100-seat mark? Current surveys suggest a close contest, but the numbers point to a tough climb. Polls show tight fight A C-Voter survey shows a narrow gap, with the All India Trinamool Cong ...Read More >
Kolkata, Apr 5 (PTI) The TMC on Sunday accused the BJP of being involved in the unrest in West Bengal's Malda district, where several judicial officers engaged in scrutiny of under-adjudication voters were gheraoed recently, and charged Prime Minister Narendra Modi with peddling falsehood on women's safety issues. The ruling party's comments came after the PM made the Malda gherao of judicial officers the centrepiece of the BJP's campaign on alleged lawlessness in the state, claiming that it ref ...Read More >
Kolkata, Dec 16 (PTI) The Election Commission on Tuesday published West Bengal's draft electoral rolls following SIR, deleting the names of more than 58 lakh voters on various grounds, including death and migration, and redrawing voter profiles across districts and border belts ahead of the 2026 assembly polls. The scale, spread and political geography of the deletions have affected several high-profile assembly seats, and have sharpened political fault lines and set the stage for a contentious ...Read More >
Kolkata | The Election Commission (EC) on Tuesday published West Bengal's draft electoral rolls following SIR, deleting the names of more than 58 lakh voters on various grounds, including death, migration and non-submission of enumeration forms, officials said. The deletions have affected several high-profile assembly seats, and have sharpened political fault lines and set the stage for a contentious verification phase ahead of state elections due early next year. According to official data, 5 ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: EC on Thursday revised the rules relating to counting of postal ballots, making it mandatory for all postal ballot papers to be counted before the penultimate round of EVM/VVPATs counting is taken up.The new practice will be first implemented in Bihar where assembly polls are due in Nov.This restores the arrangement prior to May 2019, when EC had changed the guidelines to allow EVM counting to proceed regardless of postal ballot counting stage. The 2019 change did not rule out chances ...Read More >
Delhi schools have announced autumn break. Holidays will begin on September 29, and classes will resume on October 3. The Directorate of Education (DoE) earlier this year released the schedule for holidays in government as well as private schools of National Capital. The holiday list is applicable for schools across Delhi for the 2025-26 academic session. As per the same, the schools will observe holiday for the autumn between September 29 and October 1. Since October 2 is a national holiday fo ...Read More >
Kolkata, Sep 23 (PTI) At least eight people were killed due to electrocution as torrential overnight rain - among the heaviest in nearly four decades- left Kolkata paralysed on Tuesday, crippling air, rail and road transport, shutting down educational institutions, and forcing the state government to declare Puja holidays two days in advance. The deluge - 251.4 mm in less than 24 hours - was the highest since 1988 and sixth highest single-day rainfall in the last 117 years, only behind the reco ...Read More >
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India's Longest Train Route: 4 Days, 9 States, 4189 Km, 50+ Stations And Stunning Views - Any Guesses? It's... Kolkata and nearby areas were hit by extremely heavy overnight rainfall on Tuesday, leading to severe waterlogging and widespread disruption. The downpour brought daily life to a halt, affecting road traffic, public transport, and routine activities across the city and surrounding regions. In response to the situation caused by the unprecedented rains in Kolkata and several districts o ...Read More >
Kolkata: Faced with a near breakdown of public life in the wake of an unprecedented overnight rains in recent memory in Kolkata and other south Bengal districts, the West Bengal government on Tuesday declared Puja holidays in state-run educational institutions two days ahead of schedule. Following up on Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's appeal to stay off waterlogged roads to prevent accidents by electrocution and instructing holidays in schools or shift to online classes, state education minist ...Read More >
Kolkata School Holiday on Sept 24, 25 Due to Rain: West Bengal state Education Minister Bratya Basu announced that all government-run educational institutions in West Bengal will remain closed on September 24 and 25, following Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's appeal to keep students off waterlogged roads and prevent electrocution-related accidents. Teachers and non-teaching staff have been directed to work from home to complete pending tasks during this period, before the holidays for Durga Puja ...Read More >
West Bengal conducted School Service Commission exams for assistant teachers in government schools. Around 2.29 lakh candidates appeared across 478 centers. Education Minister Bratya Basu highlighted the large number of out-of-state applicants. The recruitment follows the dismissal of 26,000 teachers due to a Supreme Court ruling. Basu emphasized transparency in the process. In all, 2,29,497 candidates appeared for the School Service Commission (SSC) examinations on Sunday for the recruitment o ...Read More >
Kolkata: Out of 5.6 lakh examinees for the second state-level selection test (SLST), 44,879 were from other states, said state education minister Bratya Basu on Sunday. Merit lists for the second state-level selection test (SLST) will be published along with the scores that candidates secured in the written examinations. The interview process will start in Nov.Basu said, "Under the guidance and advice of chief minister Mamata Banerjee, the second SLST examinations were conducted by the West Beng ...Read More >
North 24 Parganas (West Bengal) [India], September 14 (ANI): West Bengal Education Minister Bratya Basu on Sunday said that there are no jobs in the double-engine government, which is why students from other states are coming to the state. He emphasised that under Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's leadership, exams are held regularly and fairly. Speaking to the reporters, Bratya Basu said, "...There are no jobs in the double-engine government, so they (candidates from other states) are coming t ...Read More >
Kolkata, Sep 13 (PTI) Jadavpur University on Saturday imposed several curbs on movement of students, researchers, faculty, staff and visitors on the campus after dusk in the wake of the unnatural death of a third-year undergraduate student on the night of September 11. In a circular, the university registrar prohibited "trespassing, morning and evening walks, use of drugs and alcohol inside the campus and regulate entry at night hours without valid identity cards." "It is notified for informati ...Read More >
Kolkata, Jul 8 (PTI) The West Bengal government is preparing a standard operating procedure (SOP) to abide by the Calcutta High Court order about closing student union rooms in state-run colleges and universities, Education Minister Bratya Basu said on Tuesday. The high court on July 3 ordered that student union rooms in colleges and universities across West Bengal, where students' body elections are pending, should remain closed. Also Read | PM Modi in Brasilia: PM Narendra Modi Receives Gran ...Read More >
Kolkata, Jul 8 (PTI) The West Bengal government is preparing a standard operating procedure (SOP) to abide by the Calcutta High Court order about closing student union rooms in state-run colleges and universities, Education Minister Bratya Basu said on Tuesday. The high court on July 3 ordered that student union rooms in colleges and universities across West Bengal, where students' body elections are pending, should remain closed. The order came following the alleged gang rape of a first-year ...Read More >
Kolkata, Jul 4 (PTI) A forum of teachers, who have been referred to as 'untainted' by the West Bengal School Service Commission and are currently working at their schools on an interim basis following a Supreme Court order, on Friday said none of its members have applied for fresh recruitment examinations. Deserving Teachers' Rights Forum spokesperson Chinmoy Mondal said none of the 15,403 teachers, who were marked as not specifically tainted by the WBSSC on its list sent to the offices of dist ...Read More >
Kolkata, June 28: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), on Saturday, announced the formation of a four-member fact-finding team to investigate the case of rape of a law student within the law college premises at Kasba in Kolkata earlier this week. On the other hand, West Bengal Education Minister, Bratya Basu, has sought an immediate report from the college authorities over the unfortunate incident. In a statement issued by the BJP, the four members of the party's fact-finding team in the matter ha ...Read More >
Shimla, Jun 28 (PTI) The Himachal Pradesh government on Saturday gave its consent for setting up Panchayat Emergency Response Centre in all panchayats of the state, according to an official statement. In a meeting held here under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu, the cabinet gave its consent for Panchayat Emergency Response Centre in each of the 3,645 panchayats of the state to ensure effective response in the event of natural disasters to save human lives and propertie ...Read More >
Kolkata: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), on Saturday, announced the formation of a four-member fact-finding team to investigate the case of rape of a law student within the law college premises at Kasba in Kolkata earlier this week. On the other hand, West Bengal Education Minister, Bratya Basu, has sought an immediate report from the college authorities over the unfortunate incident. In a statement issued by the BJP, the four members of the party's fact-finding team in the matter have been ...Read More >
KOLKATA: West Bengal minister Bratya Basu and his Trinamool Congress colleague Kunal Ghosh are set to appear in a Bengali film on the mystery behind the disappearance of a female university official. The thriller will recapture Kolkata's political arena of 1997 when the CPI(M)-led Left Front was in power in West Bengal. The movie 'Karpur' (camphor) is based on a book, 'Antardhaner Nepathye' (behind the disappearance), which had references to a real life incident. It will cast Ghosh, who is a j ...Read More >
Kolkata: On the 13th day of teachers' protest outside Bikash Bhavan, the protesting teachers split among themselves and formed a new platform. At least 2,500 protesters stood by the chief minister, as stated in a press conference by education minister Bratya Basu on Monday. Reacting to a question from media, Basu said in Titagarh, "I will trust those who have written to me expressing their faith in the chief minister."The new organisation formed was named the West Bengal Untainted Teachers Assoc ...Read More >
Kolkata, Feb 3 (PTI) Saraswati Puja celebrations were held at a law college in south Kolkata on Monday under police supervision upon orders of the Calcutta High Court. While the puja was performed on Sunday, a few related rituals were held in various schools, colleges, libraries and households across West Bengal on Monday before the immersion of the idols. Students at Jogesh Chandra Chaudhuri Law College joined in the rituals amid police presence as per directions of the high court. The court ...Read More >
Kolkata, Dec 12 (VOICE) BJP leader Rahul Sinha on Thursday accused West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee of not genuinely wanting the INDIA bloc to succeed, amid ongoing speculations about her leadership aspirations within the Opposition alliance. Sinha's remarks came after Mamata Banerjee expressed her willingness to lead the INDIA bloc, receiving backing from some alliance leaders. Following this, Mamata thanked her 'supporters', stating that she is "indebted" to their faith in her and w ...Read More >
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