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Kolkata, Apr 9 (PTI) Trinamool Congress candidate for south Kolkata's Rashbehari assembly constituency, Debasish Kumar, who is seeking re-election from the seat, has declared movable and immovable assets worth a total of Rs 4.95 crore. In the affidavit filed for the 2021 assembly polls from the same constituency, Kumar had declared movable and immovable assets worth Rs 3.29 crore. While his movable assets were then worth Rs 2.12 crore, his immovable assets had a market value of Rs 1.17 crore. ...Read More >
Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan accuses the TMC government in West Bengal of misusing central funds and destroying the state's education system, sparking a political row ahead of the assembly elections. Photograph: ANI PhotoKey PointsUnion Minister Dharmendra Pradhan accuses the TMC government in West Bengal of diverting central funds intended for education and welfare projects.Pradhan claims the TMC's actions have 'destroyed' the education system in Bengal, impacting mid-day meals, books, an ...Read More >
West Bengal Assembly Elections 2026: The BJP has released its fifth list of five candidates. With this, the saffron party has announced 292 of candidates. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday evening five more candidates for the two-phase assembly elections in West Bengal, where it is hoping to dislodge Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress (TMC) from power. As per the list, the party has fielded Taraknath Chatterjee from Krishnanagar Uttar, Anupam Biswas from Kalyani, ...Read More >
Kolkata Police on Friday registered two cases following a complaint by the Election Commission of India over chaos outside a nomination centre, where senior Suvendu Adhikari and other BJP candidates filed their papers a day earlier amid clashes and alleged slogan-shouting by ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) workers. "Two cases were registered against unidentified people at the Alipore and Kalighat police stations," a police officer said, requesting anonymity. After addressing a rally at Hazra, ...Read More >
The Enforcement Directorate on Friday summoned TMC leader Debasish Kumar, who is also the party candidate from Rashbehari in South Kolkata, for questioning in connection with a land-grabbing case for the second time in one week. Kumar was seen entering the Enforcement Directorate office in CGO complex around 11:30 am. The outgoing MLA of the Rashbehari constituency, Kumar, is also a member of Mayor in Council of Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC). According to sources, the ED had recently co ...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 >
KOLKATA: With chants of "Jai Shri Ram" and "BJP Zindabad" echoing through the lanes of Bhabanipur, the BJP on Thursday turned Suvendu Adhikari's nomination filing into a saffron display of strength in a constituency long considered chief minister Mamata Banerjee's political stronghold.Adhikari was accompanied by Union Home Minister Amit Shah, state party president Samik Bhattacharya, and other leaders.Standing atop an open-hood, flower-decked truck adorned with giant BJP cut-outs and lotus symbo ...Read More >
KOLKATA: With chants of 'Jai Shri Ram' and 'BJP zindabad' reverberating through the lanes of Bhabanipur, the BJP on Thursday transformed Suvendu Adhikari's nomination filing into a saffron show of strength in the very constituency that has long been Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's political fortress. Adhikari was accompanied by Union Home Minister Amit Shah and state party president Samik Bhattacharya and other leaders. Standing atop an open-hood, flower-decked truck fitted with giant BJP cut ...Read More >
Kolkata, Apr 2 (PTI) With chants of 'Jai Shri Ram' and 'BJP zindabad' reverberating through the lanes of Bhabanipur, the BJP on Thursday transformed Suvendu Adhikari's nomination filing into a saffron show of strength in the very constituency that has long been Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's political fortress. Adhikari was accompanied by Union Home Minister Amit Shah and state party president Samik Bhattacharya and other leaders. Standing atop an open-hood, flower-decked truck fitted with g ...Read More >
Kolkata: Union Home Minister Amit Shah participated in a mega colourful roadshow, starting from South Kolkata's Hazra more and ending near Survey Building near Gopalnagar, with mega mega fanfare, music, colour and orange balloons and saffron flags flowing, "parivartan" song and music, and people dancing to the beats of drums everywhere, to submit nominations for Bhabanipur candidate Suvendu Adhiakri and three others candidates in Kolkata. Amid huge participation of the BJP workers in the rally, ...Read More >
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) Wednesday raided six locations in Kolkata, including the residence of history-sheeter Biswajit Poddar alias Sona Pappu in Ballygunge and that of his close associate Rahul Das, in connection with a land-grabbing case. The agency is investigating a housing scam, focusing on allegations of land grabbing, illegal construction, and extortion. It is alleged that Sona Pappu and his associates ran an extortion racket under the guise of real estate promotion, and that th ...Read More >
Kolkata: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Monday questioned Debasish Kumar, Trinamool Congress MLA and candidate for the upcoming assembly poll from south Kolkata's high-profile Rashbehari assembly seat, in connection with alleged land deals in the city, an official from the federal agency said, requesting anonymity. Kumar, a member of the Mayor-in-Council at the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC), won the Rashbehari seat for the first time in 2021. In the coming two-phase Bengal polls, he ...Read More >
Kolkata/New Delhi, Apr 1 (PTI) The Enforcement Directorate on Wednesday seized about Rs 1.2 crore in cash and a country-made pistol during searches in Kolkata as part of a money laundering investigation against an alleged criminal and his linked syndicate, official sources said. The action is being taken in the case against Biswajit Poddar alias Sona Pappu, who is booked in multiple cases of attempted murder and extortion, they said. The ED action has come amid two-phase assembly polls in West ...Read More >
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) Wednesday raided six locations in Kolkata, including the residence of history-sheeter Biswajit Poddar alias Sona Pappu in Ballygunge and that of his close associate Rahul Das, in connection with a land-grabbing case. The agency is investigating a housing scam, focusing on allegations of land grabbing, illegal construction, and extortion. It is alleged that Sona Pappu and his associates ran an extortion racket under the guise of real estate promotion, and that th ...Read More >
Kolkata: Ahead of the Assembly polls, Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Monday had questioned Trinamool Congress (TMC) MLA and candidate from the Rashbehari constituency in South Kolkata, Debasish Kumar in connection with a land-grabbing case. Kumar is also Mayor-in-Council at the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) and became MLA from Rashbehari seat in 2021 and this time he is again contesting from that seat against Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)'s Swapan Dasgupta who is a journalist and former R ...Read More >
Kolkata, Mar 30 (PTI) TMC MLA Debasish Kumar on Monday appeared before the Enforcement Directorate for questioning in connection with a land fraud case, officials said. Kumar, who has been renominated from the Rashbehari seat in south Kolkata, appeared before the ED in the midst of his election campaign. The ED aims to determine whether Kumar had any financial transactions with businessman Amit Gangopadhyay, whose property was recently searched by the central agency, an official said. "The se ...Read More >
Kolkata: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Monday questioned Debasish Kumar, Trinamool Congress MLA and candidate for the upcoming assembly poll from south Kolkata's high-profile Rashbehari assembly seat, in connection with alleged land deals in the city, an official from the federal agency said, requesting anonymity. Kumar, a member of the Mayor-in-Council at the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC), won the Rashbehari seat for the first time in 2021. In the coming two-phase Bengal polls, he ...Read More >
Kolkata, Dec 17 (PTI) West Bengal Chief Minister and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee will address a mega meeting of the party's booth-level agents (BLAs) here on Monday to chart its voter-list strategy for the second phase of the SIR, with over 58 lakh names struck off the state's draft electoral rolls, party sources said. Amid mounting political unease over the Election Commission's Special Intensive Revision (SIR), the meeting scheduled at Netaji Indoor Stadium here is aimed at strengthening the ...Read More >
The draft electoral roll for West Bengal has been published, with 58,20,899 voter names deleted so far. According to available data, the deletions include: deceased voters: 24.16 lakh (3.15 per cent), shifted or absent voters: 32.65 lakh (4.26 per cent), and voters enrolled at multiple locations: 1.38 lakh (0.18 per cent). Most of these deletions relate to cases where verification forms were not returned, or where voters were reported to be deceased, shifted to another location, absent, or dupl ...Read More >
Kolkata: The Trinamool Congress leadership has decided to instruct its booth-level agents to carry out fresh, door-to-door scrutiny of deleted voters' names in Bhabanipur, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's assembly constituency, after nearly 45,000 electors were struck off from the draft rolls under the SIR exercise, party sources said. According to Election Commission data, Bhabanipur had 2,06,295 voters as of January 2025. The draft rolls now carry 1,61,509 names, indicating that 4 ...Read More >
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], November 4 (ANI): The Second phase of the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls has started in 12 States and Union Territories on Tuesday, with Booth Level Officers (BLO) distributing enumeration forms door-to-door. The BLO in Rashbehari Assembly constituency in West Bengal's Kolkata said that they have been instructed to get the enumeration forms filled within a month. BLO Rajesh Singh told ANI, "This is the 160-Rashbehari Assembly constituency. We have ...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 >
NEW DELHI: The three men accused of gangraping a student inside South Calcutta Law College on June 25 spent several hours drinking in the institute's guard room after committing the crime, police said on Saturday. The prime accused, Monojit Mishra, along with Pramit Mukherjee and Zaib Ahmed, even warned the college's security guard to stay silent before heading out for dinner."After committing the crime, the three consumed alcohol in the guard's room and then asked security guard Pinaki Banerjee ...Read More >
Kolkata: Making the fourth arrest in the Kolkata law college student's gang rape case, the Kolkata Police on Saturday took into custody a 55-year-old security guard of the South Calcutta Law College in Kasba after his statements to the police were found to be inconsistent, joint commissioner (crime) of police Rupesh Kumar said. The heinous act was committed in the guard's room on June 25 by three persons, including an alumnus. The security guard, Rupak Banerjee, was arrested after being detaine ...Read More >
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