In North Bengal’s politically sensitive Malda district, the election campaign has gathered momentum, turning both urban centres and rural belts into a high-voltage battleground of narratives, personalities, and shifting loyalties.
Abhishek Banerjee, Trinamul Congress (TMC) national general secretary today launched a sharp attack on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate from Pandua, Tushar Majumdar, alleging that he had falsely claimed to be a doctor and was involved in corruption.
The ongoing Assembly elections in West Bengal are not merely routine polls but will determine the future direction of the country, said Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren while addressing a rally at Manbazar in Purulia, today.
Ahead of the second phase of polling, the Election Commission of India has begun door-to-door voting for elderly and physically infirm voters, aged above 80.
The arrested individuals have been identified as Guddu Ray and Tapan Kumar Mitra. With barely four days remaining before polling, the purpose behind carrying such a large sum of cash remains unclear.
Occasionally, democratic systems reve al their weaknesses through stress points rather than withstand them.
There are some seats which are reserved for the Scheduled Caste (SC) in both parliamentary and assembly elections.
The recent eruption of worker unrest across industrial clusters like Noida is less a law-and-order problem than a stress test of India’s economic model.
More than a month after a naval strike left them stranded, Iranian sailors are finally heading home from Sri Lanka, a delayed return that quietly marks the afterlife of a widening conflict.
With Buddhadeb Bhattacharya’s passing away in 2024, not only was the Left era in West Bengal over, but also gone was the last hope of reviving West Bengal as a modern, functional state, which he had kindled in the hearts of middle-class Bengalis.
