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Crime

From fake number plates to Austrian 9mm Glock pistol: Chilling details surface in the murder of Suvendu Adhikari’s aide Chandranath Rath

OpIndia Staff - 7 May, 2026

To legally own such a weapon, approval from the central government is required through recommendations from state authorities.

News Reports

Called out by a late-night phone call, found hacked to death hours later: BJP supporter hacked to death in Malda as post-election violence rocks...

OpIndia Staff - 7 May, 2026

Kishan Haldar, a 28-year-old BJP supporter, was hacked to death in Malda’s English Bazar on Wednesday night.

Crime

West Bengal: 5 BJP workers injured in Panihati bomb attack near the house of newly elected MLA Ratna Debnath, mother of RG Kar ...

OpIndia Staff - 7 May, 2026

Five BJP workers were seriously injured after crude bombs were hurled at them in Panihati late Wednesday.

Crime

West Bengal post poll violence: Suvendu Adhikari’s PA Chandranath Rath shot dead in Madhyamgram, 4 rounds fired at close range: What we know so...

OpIndia Staff - 7 May, 2026

Police officials said the attackers appeared to have carried out the murder in a planned manner. A senior officer said, “It’s a planned murder. Because after he shot Rath, the killer waited for him to die.”

Crime

Bengal violence: BJP worker Rohit Roy shot in the abdomen by TMC goons in Basirhat, soon after murder of Suvendu Adhikari’s PA

OpIndia Staff - 7 May, 2026

Hours after the murder of Suvendu Adhikari’s PA Chandranath Rath in the North 24 Parganas district, BJP worker Rohit Roy was shot in the...

News Reports

As the BJP sweeps Bengal, pro-TMC newspaper The Telegraph takes an abrupt pivot: Understanding why it’s opportunism and not an ideological shift

Shraddha Pandey - 6 May, 2026

The front page of the Calcutta edition of the newspaper published on 5th May dominated BJP’s Bengal victory, with a large front in saffron colour “BJP’s Bengal” with an illustration of the iconic Howrah Bridge worked into the lettering. Below it is the headline “Saffron tsunami sets aside TMC”.

News Reports

From TMC strongman to BJP’s CM frontrunner: How Suvendu Adhikari broke Mamata Banerjee’s political fortress and emerged as the face of the BJP in...

Aditi - 6 May, 2026

In a major political surprise, Adhikari snapped ties with the TMC and joined the BJP ahead of the 2021 state assembly elections.

Government and Policy

After Bengal victory, PM Modi-led Union Cabinet gives ‘Vande Mataram’ status equal to national anthem

OpIndia Staff - 6 May, 2026

The Modi Cabinet amends the National Honour Act to give Vande Mataram the same status and legal

News Reports

Mamata Banerjee’s undignified rejection of electoral defeat and brazen insult to Bengal’s public mandate exposes the real face of fascism that the Left always...

Jinit Jain - 6 May, 2026

Mamata Banerjee’s refusal to accept Bengal’s electoral verdict exposes the very authoritarianism and contempt for constitutional morality that the Congress-Left ecosystem has long accused the BJP of embodying.