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West Bengal

News Reports

Kolkata Municipal Corporation launches major demolition drive, razes down illegal buildings belonging to TMC goons Faiz Ahmed Khan and others

OpIndia Staff - 25 May, 2026

Heavy police deployment was seen in multiple parts of the city as civic authorities arrived with bulldozers, payloaders, mechanised jackhammers and gas cutters to pull down the structures.

West Bengal: E-rickshaw driver Zafar Ali Sheikh commits suicide after being denied permission by his wife to carry out animal slaughter during Eid

OpIndia Staff - 25 May, 2026

Zafar's son, Badsha, said, "The family was a little scared that cows couldn't be slaughtered this year during Eid. My mother did not want to make any animal sacrifice."

News Reports

West Bengal: BJP candidate Debangshu Panda secures landslide victory in Falta repoll, defeats CPI(M) candidate by 1.09 lakh votes

OpIndia Staff - 24 May, 2026

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate Debangshu Panda has secured a decisive victory in the Falta Assembly constituency in West Bengal's South 24 Parganas...

Government and Policy

BJP govt in West Bengal orders all districts to set up holding centres to keep illegal immigrants awaiting deportation

OpIndia Staff - 24 May, 2026

The holding centres will accommodate not only newly apprehended illegal foreigners but also foreign prisoners who have completed their sentences and are awaiting deportation procedures.

News Reports

Leaders receiving notices, MLAs skipping meetings, councillors resigning en masse: Is the TMC beginning to crumble after its defeat in Bengal?

शिव - 23 May, 2026

West Bengal politics currently appears to be at a turning point. The BJP is exuding confidence after its historic victory, while the TMC appears to be teetering between introspection and discontent.

‘They are threatening to blow me up with bombs’: Man who served jhalmuri to PM Narendra Modi receives death threats from Pakistan and Bangladesh

OpIndia Staff - 23 May, 2026

Sao stated, "I am receiving several calls from unknown numbers where abusive and vulgar language is being used."

News Reports

Land-grabbing, running extortion rackets, influencing police postings and more: Meet Santanu Sinha Biswas, former DCP of Kolkata and close aide of Mamata Banerjee, now...

Aditi - 22 May, 2026

Santanu Sinha Biswas, a highly influential figure in the Kolkata Police Department, came under ED's radar when it was examining Kasba-Golpark-based criminal Pappu's bank accounts. The agency found suspicious financial transactions linked to Biswas.

News Reports

Calcutta HC dismisses petition by TMC and Communists challenging restrictions on cow slaughter in West Bengal: Read what the court said when they...

Aditi - 22 May, 2026

The impugned notification was issued by the newly elected BJP government in West Bengal in compliance with the already existing West Bengal Animal Slaughter Control Act, 1950. The Act has been effective in the state for 76 years and was passed with the objective of increasing the supply of milk and avoiding the wastage of animal power needed for agricultural improvement.

Crime

West Bengal: ED conducts raids in extortion racket case involving former Kolkata DCP and close aide of TMC regime, Santanu Sinha Biswas

OpIndia Staff - 22 May, 2026

The raids started around 6 am at properties, including a hotel on Roy Street in Kolkata, along with the house of another Kolkata Police sub-inspector.