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The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has started probe by registering a "preliminary enquiry" into Malda violence case in which thousands of people on Wednesday blocked the two gates of the Kaliachowk-2 Block Development Office (BDO), holding staff including seven judicial officers "hostage" for hours before they were rescued after midnight. The anti-terror agency initiated the preliminary enquiry late on Thursday after the Election Commission of India (ECI) formally referred the matter, sen ...Read More >
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], April 3 (ANI): The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has started probe by registering a "preliminary enquiry" into Malda violence case in which thousands of people on Wednesday blocked the two gates of the Kaliachowk-2 Block Development Office (BDO), holding staff including seven judicial officers "hostage" for hours before they were rescued after midnight. Also Read | Airline Seat Policy Rollback: Govt Suspends 60% Free Seat Selection on Flights After FIA and A ...Read More >
Malda (West Bengal) [India], April 3 (ANI): ADG North Bengal K Jayaraman on Friday said 35 people have been arrested till now in the Malda hostage incident. "We detained Mofakkarul Islam from Bagdogra airport, for instigating people. He was going to his residence in Ithar. We will not allow any such kind of activity. Will definitely probe if this was pre-planned or not. After this incident, we have given CAPF to judicial officers. So far, 35 people have been arrested," ADG said. Jayaraman reit ...Read More >
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], April 3 (ANI): The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has started probe by registering a "preliminary enquiry" into Malda violence case in which thousands of people on Wednesday blocked the two gates of the Kaliachowk-2 Block Development Office (BDO), holding staff including seven judicial officers "hostage" for hours before they were rescued after midnight. The anti-terror agency initiated the preliminary enquiry late on Thursday after the Election Commission of ...Read More >
KOLKATA: Union home minister Amit Shah on Thursday set a goal of 170 seats for the Bengal BJP in the upcoming assembly elections and announced that he would camp in the state for 15 days during the polls.Shah, who was present at a nomination rally for four BJP candidates in Kolkata, said Suvendu Adhikari would win from Bhowanipore -- chief minister Mamata Banerjee's home turf -- and the victory would act as a "shortcut" to trigger a regime change in the state."We will win seats one after another ...Read More >
New Delhi: Acting on the directions of the Supreme Court, the Election Commission of India (ECI) has written to the National Investigation Agency (NIA) requesting it to conduct an inquiry into the recent incident in West Bengal's Malda district where judicial officers deputed for electoral roll revision work were allegedly gheraoed and attacked. In a communication addressed to the Director General of the NIA, the poll panel referred to the apex court's order passed in a suo motu writ petition c ...Read More >
Kolkata, Apr 2 (PTI) Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday turned BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari's nomination filing from Bhabanipur into a high-voltage political spectacle, claiming he had a "shortcut" to bring about "paribartan" (change) in West Bengal, defeating Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in her own constituency. Shah said while the BJP would otherwise have to win 170 seats to form the government with a comfortable majority, a victory for Adhikari in Bhabanipur alone would automatically ...Read More >
Kolkata, April 2 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Thursday evening handed over the probe into the harassment of seven judicial adjudication officers at Kaliachak in minority-dominated Malda district to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). Earlier in the day, a division bench of the Supreme Court, headed by Justice Surya Kant, strongly denounced the incident, describing it as evidence of a complete law and order failure in West Bengal, and directed that the matter ...Read More >
Anti-SIR protests in West Bengal. Pictures: Sourced by our correspondent. Nearly 24 hours after seven court-appointed judicial officers, including three women, were gheraoed and held hostage in Malda, Bengal Police arrested Maulana Shahjahan Ali, the Indian Secular Front's candidate for the Mothabari Assembly constituency, along with 17 others. The accused have been remanded to 10 days' police custody. Security forces rescued the seven judicial officers after protesters gheraoed them for seve ...Read More >
Malda: Protests against the SIR (Special Intensive Revision) process of electoral rolls intensified sharply across Malda district for the second day today, spreading from Sujapur and Mothabari to Old Malda and English Bazar. Demonstrators demanding inclusion of 'valid voters' in the electoral list clashed with the police, leaving a police vehicle driver seriously injured. Law enforcement resorted to lobbing tear gas shells to bring the situation under control. The unrest follows a dramatic esca ...Read More >
She cited credible reports indicating that BJP agents submitted a large number of Form 6 applications for the enrolment across districts. "These do not seem to be routine applications for voter inclusion but a mischievous ploy to include non-residents in the electoral roll," Banerjee wrote to Kumar. "There are serious concerns that these applications may pertain to individuals who are not genuine residents of Bengal and have no legitimate connection to the state. Similar patterns were reportedl ...Read More >
Siliguri (West Bengal) [India], April 1 (ANI): Union Minister Sukanta Majumdar on Tuesday condemned the attack on Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) workers outside the Election Commissioner's office by Trinamool Congress (TMC) party workers, calling TMC "the face of violence." Speaking to the reporters, Mazumdar emphasised the need for a strict law and order situation in view of the Assembly elections. "The TMC's desperation is growing day by day. Today, our workers were standing before the Election ...Read More >
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], March 31 (ANI): The Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday wrote to the Chief Election Commissioner, West Bengal, accusing Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee of delivering inflammatory speeches that undermine the integrity of the ongoing electoral process. Highlighting specific instances of alleged voter intimidation in the complaint, the party stated, "During a public rally at Mainaguri, North Bengal, on 25th March 2026, the Chief Minister reportedly stated that after the ...Read More >
Accusing her of violating the Model Code of Conduct in force in West Bengal as political activity in the state gathers pace, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Monday urged the Election Commission of India to debar TMC supremo and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee from campaigning. In a memorandum to ECI, senior Union ministers Piyush Goyal and Kiren Rijiju and other leaders from the BJP's national leadership sought an urgent intervention of the poll body as they cited "malicious & repeated violatio ...Read More >
Kolkata: Alleging violation of Model Code of Conduct (MCC), Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday had visited the office of Election Commission of India (ECI) at the national capital and sought ban on Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's campaign. Notably, a delegation comprising Union Ministers Piyush Goyal, Kiren Rijiju, and Sukanta Majumdar, BJP national general secretary and MP Arun Singh among others had visited the ECI office. In its complaint, the saffron camp said that the Trinamool Congr ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: The BJP on Monday approached the Election Commission, alleging that West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and TMC leaders are "intimidating" voters to dissuade them from voting for the saffron party in the upcoming assembly polls. In a petition submitted to the Election Commission (EC) by a BJP delegation, the party urged the poll panel to debar Banerjee from participating in poll campaigns and order registration of an FIR against the TMC leaders. The delegation comprising Unio ...Read More >
The political slugfest over President Droupadi Murmu's West Bengal visit escalated on Sunday, with the Union home ministry seeking a report from the state government over the alleged protocol breach, Prime Minister Narendra Modi sharpening his attack on the Trinamool Congress (TMC), and chief minister Mamata Banerjee hitting back. In a letter to West Bengal Chief Secretary Nandini Chakravorty, Union home secretary Govind Mohan sought a response by 5pm on Sunday regarding alleged violations of t ...Read More >
New Delhi: As the Kamtapur State Demand Council (KSDC) has threatened to field independent candidates in North Bengal in the forthcoming West Bengal Assembly election, the home ministry has called KSDC leaders for crucial talks in the national capital. The invitation from the Home Ministry for talks scheduled for Wednesday assumes significance because the Rajbanshi community influences 22-24 of the total 54 Assembly constituencies in North Bengal. The Kamatapur State Demand Council is an organ ...Read More >
BJP MP Anant Maharaj was honoured with the Banga Bibhushan by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. ShowQuick Read Summary is AI-generated, newsroom-reviewed * The Rajbanshis are a scheduled caste community concentrated in North Bengal * The Rajbanshis hold sway in over 15 Assembly seats, where how they vote can affect results * BJP MP Anant Maharaj was honoured with the Banga Bibhushan by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Did our AI summary help? Let us know. Switch To Beeps Mode Kolkata: The ...Read More >
This is the second letter that Banerjee has written to Modi on this issue. She had sent the first letter on October 18. "I once again look forward to your intervention and request you to revoke this unconstitutional and arbitrary order," she wrote on Monday. In October this year, the Centre appointed Pankaj Kumar Singh, a retired IPS officer, as an interlocutor to hold discussions on the issues relating to Gorkhas in Darjeeling hills, Terai and Dooars regions of West Bengal. "It is a matter o ...Read More >
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday alleged that the Centre had allocated over Rs 3,000 crore to West Bengal, but these funds were illegally and unconstitutionally diverted to panchayats by the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress (TMC) government. The BJP's remarks came after Mamata Banerjee arrived in North Bengal on Monday to review the situation in the hills, Terai and Dooars, which were hit by severe floods and landslides in October that left over 40 people dead. Banerjee accused ...Read More >
Kolkata, Oct 31 (PTI) The Met department on Friday issued a warning for moderate rain in the next 24 hours for several north Bengal districts, as the remnant of severe cyclonic storm 'Montha' lay over central Chhatisgarh and was likely to move towards Bihar across East Uttar Pradesh. The storm battered Andhra Pradesh after making landfall on Tuesday and is now losing steam, the weathermen said. A Met office spokesperson said thunderstorms accompanied with intense rain is very likely to affect ...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 >
Darjeeling (West Bengal) [India], October 27 (ANI): Weeks after the torrential rains and devastating landslides hit North Bengal, causing widespread damage in the area, the alternative Hume Pipe bridge over the Balason River at Dudhia in Darjeeling district has been reopened to traffic. The reopening restores a crucial link between Mirik and Siliguri, ensuring smooth movement of vehicles and relief supplies across the region. Also Read | BSNL and Viasat Partner To Advance Satellite Technology ...Read More >
Kolkata: A cyclonic storm that brewed over the Bay of Bengal intensified into a deep depression on Sunday, the Met said. Kolkata received drizzles and remained largely cloudy throughout the day.The drizzles turned more consistent in the evening. There is a possibility of the city experiencing thundershowers. The depression was set to intensify further into a cyclonic storm over the southwest and adjoining west-central Bay of Bengal by Tuesday morning and hit the Andhra coast between Machilipatna ...Read More >
Guwahati: A suspected Maoist who allegedly carried out the Improvised Explosive Device (IED) blast on a railway track in Kokrajhar in Assam was killed in an encounter. Kokrajhar SP Pushpraj Singh said the encounter took place during an operation in Nadanguri. "Police received information that a few militants were hiding in the area. When police reached the spot, they opened fire. When we retaliated, they fled. Upon searching the place, we found one injured militant, who was taken to hospital. H ...Read More >
Guwahati: A suspected Maoist who allegedly carried out the Improvised Explosive Device (IED) blast on a railway track in Kokrajhar in Assam was killed in an encounter. Kokrajhar SP Pushpraj Singh said the encounter took place during an operation in Nadanguri. "Police received information that a few militants were hiding in the area. When police reached the spot, they opened fire. When we retaliated, they fled. Upon searching the place, we found one injured militant, who was taken to hospital. H ...Read More >
Train operations across Lower Assam and parts of north Bengal were disrupted early Thursday after an improvised explosive device (IED) exploded on a railway track in Kokrajhar district, officials said. The blast occurred shortly after midnight, around five kilometres from Kokrajhar railway station on the route towards Salakati. Railway services across Lower Assam and parts of north Bengal were disrupted early on Thursday after unidentified miscreants detonated an improvised explosive device (IE ...Read More >
To manage the heavy rush of passengers and devotees during Diwali and the upcoming Chhath Puja, the Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) has been operating 48 festival special trains for 613 trips (overall) in its jurisdiction between September and December, officials said on Monday. NFR's Chief Public Relations Officer (CPRO) Kapinjal Kishore Sharma said that to manage the massive passenger rush during Diwali and Chhath Puja this year, the NFR has been operating 48 festival special trains for 613 ...Read More >
Darjeeling: A stone was hurled at the convoy of Darjeeling MP Raju Bista near Sukhiapokhri on Saturday while the BJP lawmaker was returning from Rimbick after visiting flood-affected sites in the area. The stone struck one of the security vehicles escorting the MP. No injuries were reported.The incident occurred hours after a video surfaced on social media showing Bista threatening a local neta during an public interaction at Fedi Khila."We were on our way back to Darjeeling. As we neared Mim Ph ...Read More >
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