West Bengal

Notably, a re-election is scheduled in the Falta constituency on 21st May after allegations of widespread malpractices led to the cancellation of the election earlier.

"All assistance schemes on the basis of religious classification are now being discontinued," declared minister Agnimitra Paul.

West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari has ordered a massive police crackdown on 2021 post-poll violence.

According to him, “This ₹100 crore spread in Nandigram came from Bangladesh, Pakistan and various foreign countries. This huge foreign money was used in the state elections through hawala or some other illegal route.”

Just two weeks after Trinamool Congress lost the assembly elections in West Bengal, dozens of Aadhaar cards belonging to ordinary residents were recovered from...

In a major development days before the repoll in the Falta Assembly constituency, Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Saidul Khan, vice-president of the Falta Panchayat...

The decision comes after several complaints emerged over the past few years regarding many of the caste certificates issued by the previous TMC government.

Talks were going on peacefully between the mosque committee and police officials when rumours suddenly spread that police were trying to stop the namaz altogether.

“The government in West Bengal has changed. A double-engine government has come to power. The problem of Chingri Ghata, stuck for three years, has been resolved. Permission has also been obtained from the Kolkata Police. Now the work is starting,” Minister Vaishnaw wrote on X, in Bangla.

Addressing a press conference in Nabanna, Chief Minister Adhikari said that the suspended officers allegedly offered a bribe to the family of the rape and murder case victim. They also conducted press conferences without written orders. CM Adhikari added that now a departmental enquiry will be conducted against Vineet Goyal, Abhishek Gupta, and Indira Mukherjee.