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Kolkata, April 9 (UNI) Former Malda South Congress MP Abu Hasem Khan Chowdhury, popularly known as Dalu, passed away on Wednesday night at a private hospital in Kolkata. He was 89 and had been suffering from prolonged illness. Dalu's son, Isha Khan Chowdhury, is the current Congress MP from Malda South. Dalu came from a prominent political family. His uncle, former union Minister A. B. A. Ghani Khan Chowdhury, passed away just before the state assembly elections on April 14, 2006 - two decade ...Read More >
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], April 8 (ANI): Congress on Wednesday released its second list of eight candidates for the 2026 West Bengal Assembly elections, replacing seven candidates named in the first list. In its list of candidates for eight constituencies for the second phase of West Bengal polls, Congress named Tahir SK from Nakashipara seat, replacing Golam Kibria Mandal; Asif Khan replaced Rahidul Mandal on Chapra seat, Sunayana Biswar replaced Barnali Naskar on Minakhan (SC) seat, Chan ...Read More >
Malda/Kolkata: NIA recorded the statement of one of the judicial officers held hostage at the Kaliachak-II BDO office on April 1 and secured two weeks of police custody of main accused Mofakkerul Islam on Saturday. Sources said questioning has led to the detention of three more people, though no fresh arrests were confirmed by late evening.The agency's teams visited multiple locations through the day -- beginning at the Kaliachak-II BDO office, then Mothabari police station and later the SP's of ...Read More >
Kolkata, Apr 4 (PTI) A team of NIA officials, probing the gherao of seven judicial officers engaged in the SIR exercise, videographed the incident spot on the second day of their visit to Mothabari in Malda on Saturday, a senior district official said. The NIA has been tasked by the Election Commission to investigate the Wednesday incident, following a directive from the Supreme Court, which has censured the West Bengal administration over the issue. The 24-member team of the federal anti-terr ...Read More >
New Delhi: A National Investigation Agency (NIA) team from Delhi reached Kaliachak in Bengal's Malda on Friday following the Election Commission of India's orders to investigate the mob siege at a block development officer's (BDO) office the night before that held seven judicial officers hostage for hours and attracted the ire of the Supreme Court. The 20-member NIA team reached Mothabari in the afternoon in 12 cars kept at the Kolkata airport - about 315 km away - hours after the state Crimina ...Read More >
Kolkata, Apr 3 (PTI) A former AIMIM candidate was arrested on Friday over the gherao of the seven judicial officers in Malda district, adding a fresh political twist to the case as Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee blamed the Asaduddin Owasi-led party, the BJP, and the ISF for "engineering" the unrest. An NIA team visited Mothabari and Kaliachak police stations in Malda to probe the Wednesday incident. The federal anti-terror probe agency has been tasked by the Election Commission to investigate t ...Read More >
Protests erupt in Malda over alleged voter roll deletions, highways blocked and police vehicle vandalised, driver injured, 10 cases filed as security is tightened Tensions flared across parts of West Bengal's Malda on Thursday, with protesters blocking highways, vandalising a police vehicle and clashing with security forces over alleged discrepancies in voter rolls, sources told News18. In the Jadupur Bypass area of English Bazar, a police vehicle was attacked after a group of protesters attem ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], April 3 (ANI): Russia's First Deputy Chairman Denis Manturov reaffirmed that Russian companies have the capacity to steadily increase supplies of oil and liquefied natural gas (LNG) to the Indian market amid the energy crisis due to the conflict in West Asia, underlining deepening energy cooperation between the two countries during his official visit to the country. According to a statement issued by the Russian Embassy in India on Telegram on Thursday, Manturov highlighted t ...Read More >
KOLKATA/MALDA: The Bengal police on Friday arrested former AIMIM candidate and lawyer Mofakrul Islam from Bagdogra airport in Siliguri in connection with the violence and hostage situation occurred in Malda district.Mofakrul Islam was allegedly trying to board a flight and flee.Investigators have termed him a key conspirator in the Kaliachak gherao of judicial officers, as the case snowballed into a major law-and-order and political flashpoint ahead of the West Bengal elections. Islam, who conte ...Read More >
Kolkata: The West Bengal Police's Criminal Investigation Department (CID) on Friday arrested advocate Mofakkarul Islam, described as the alleged mastermind behind the gherao of seven judicial officers in Malda district's Kaliachak area. He was detained at Bagdogra Airport near Siliguri while reportedly attempting to flee by boarding a flight. Islam, a lawyer and former AIMIM candidate in the 2021 West Bengal Assembly elections, is accused of being the primary instigator of the incident. He all ...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 >
Kolkata, Apr 2 (PTI) BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari on Thursday alleged that the gherao of judicial officers and violence in Malda's Sujapur during the SIR exercise was "planned and organised by the TMC" under the leadership of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. Addressing a press conference here, Adhikari claimed that the gherao of the judicial officers engaged in the SIR exercise in Malda was orchestrated from the "top level of the Trinamool Congress in Kolkata under the leadership of M ...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 >
Kolkata: The Election Commission of India (ECI) has sought a report from the West Bengal Police Director General of Police (DGP) for more than 10 hours, till they were rescued at midnight by CAPF, in connection with the incident in Malda's Kaliachak incident after seven judicial officers, including three women, were gheraoed by a huge number of voters whose names had been deleted in the Adjudication process, in Malda district's Kaliachak, for more than ten hours. Meanwhile, Supreme Court has sho ...Read More >
Kolkata, April 2 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Election Commission of India (ECI) has sought a report from the Director General of West Bengal Police on the incident of seven judicial officers, including three women, who were involved in the ongoing judicial adjudication of voters' classified under the "logical discrepancy" category being gheraoed and held hostage at Kaliachak in Malda district by a group of voters whose names had been deleted in the process. The seven officials were taken hostage on We ...Read More >
Kolkata, April 2: The Election Commission of India (ECI) has sought a report from the Director General of West Bengal Police on the incident of seven judicial officers, including three women, who were involved in the ongoing judicial adjudication of voters' classified under the "logical discrepancy" category being gheraoed and held hostage at Kaliachak in Malda district by a group of voters whose names had been deleted in the process. The seven officials were taken hostage on Wednesday. However ...Read More >
Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury will contest from Baharampur. The Congress on Sunday released its first list of 284 candidates for the upcoming West Bengal Assembly polls, fielding former state unit chief Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury from Baharampur and ex-TMC MP Mausam Noor from Malatipur. The Congress, which is going solo in the polls for the 294 assembly seats in the state, announced the names of 284 candidates in one go. While Chowdhury has been fielded from Baharampur and Noor, who joined the Congress ...Read More >
The National Investigation Agency has arrested a youth in West Bengal's Uttar Dinajpur district. Janisur Alam was apprehended on suspicion of terror links. He allegedly attempted to flee during questioning. Digital devices and documents were seized. The NIA is investigating potential links to sabotage acts and the Delhi blast. A separate raid occurred in Murshidabad following the blast. A youth has been arrested by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in West Bengal's Uttar Dinajpur district ...Read More >
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