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Aparna BhattacharyaThe Wire |
Listen to this article: This is the third of a series on how the adjudication process of the Special Intensive Revision in West Bengal continues in...
Listen to this article: Kolkata: Before the third phase of the Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of voter rolls, Delhi had...
Listen to this article: Kolkata: Men wearing saffron scarves gathered outside the Anandabazar Patrika office in Kolkata around noon on Tuesday...
Listen to this article: Kolkata: The Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of West Bengal’s electoral roll marked “27,16,393 people as not eligible”...
Listen to this article: This is the second in a series of articles on the tribunal hearings on Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in...
Listen to this article: Kolkata: The Federation of Press Clubs has demanded that the West Bengal government withdraw the criminal case registered...
Listen to this article: Kolkata: Kolkata Police on Saturday (August 29) registered a case against former West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee...
Listen to this article: Kolkata: West Bengal chief minister Suvendu Adhikari demanded at a rally in Jadavpur on Friday (August 28) that the...
Kolkata: A complaint asking police to register an FIR against the editorial team of Anandabazar Patrika, including two named journalists, was received...
Listen to this article: This is the first in a series of articles on the tribunal hearings on Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in...
Listen to this article: Kolkata: Mohd Dual Ali, a resident of Bhagwangola in Murshidabad, West Bengal, served in the Indian Army and was hit by...
Listen to this article: Sukna is where the plains give out. The road from Siliguri runs flat and hot through tea gardens and then, quite suddenly,...
The students and alumni who marched at Jadavpur on Friday (August 21) carried a long strip of painted cloth between them, and what was written on it...
Listen to this article: Sheikh Abdul Hafiz is 25 years old. On August 13, as part of the Cockroach Janta Party’s (CJP) “School Thik Karo (fix the...
Listen to this article: Kolkata: Sheikh Abdul Hafiz had walked into a local village primary school and asked a few simple questions on whether the...
Listen to this article: When Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari launched the self-enumeration phase of Census 2027 in West Bengal on August 1, he...
Listen to this article: Kolkata: A Performance Audit by the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG), covering FY 2017-18 to 2021-22, has found...
Kolkata: An increasingly confrontational campaign has gathered momentum around the 14th-century Adina Mosque in West Bengal’s Malda district, as...
Listen to this article: Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari invoked the religion-coded expression “Friday people” while...
West Bengal has finally resolved the oldest philosophical problem in politics by defining the boundary between good and bad. Plato, Aristotle and...
Listen to this article: Kolkata: In the early hours of July 8, Prabhas Mondal, one of the key accused in the rape and murder case of an 11-year-old in...
Listen to this article: For nearly three decades, Mamata Banerjee has been the undisputed face, voice, and absolute authority of the Trinamool...
Listen to this article: Kolkata: June 18 was a day of political jolts for Mamata Banerjee, beleaguered chief of the Trinamool Congress. The Calcutta...
Listen to this article: Kolkata: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) took up almost simultaneous searches at the premises associated with three...
On June 9, compounding her significant woes, police arrived at Mamata Banerjee’s house in connection with a case filed against her over the forgery...
Listen to this article: Kolkata: Ritabrata Banerjee, a newly elected MLA, has laid claim to the legislative identity of the All India Trinamool...
Kolkata: Across India, cash-transfer schemes for women have become one of the most powerful instruments of electoral politics and social welfare....
Kolkata: Across India, cash-transfer schemes for women have become one of the most powerful instruments of electoral politics and social welfare....
Listen to this article: On May 24, the vote count in Falta where the Election Commission had ordered a repoll, served as a postmortem of the Trinamool...
Listen to this article: Kolkata: As polling gets underway in Falta today, Bengal watches as an assembly constituency completes an interrupted...
Listen to this article: Kolkata: A 21-year-old man in Kolkata died on May 18, nearly two weeks after he was allegedly stabbed during a Bharatiya...
Kolkata: Suvendu Adhikari was sworn in on Saturday (May 9) as West Bengal’s first BJP chief minister, marking a dramatic rupture in the state’s...
Listen to this article: Kolkata: The Bharatiya Janata Party’s 2026 breakthrough in West Bengal was not simply an anti-incumbency wave. Coupled with...
Listen to this article: Kolkata: Electoral outcomes in fiercely contested regions are often decided by razor-thin margins, where every vote counts. In...
Listen to this article: Kolkata: Electoral outcomes in fiercely contested regions are often decided by razor-thin margins, where every vote counts. In...
Listen to this article: Kolkata: The West Bengal result numbers point to a decisive BJP victory, with the party winning 206 seats and establishing a...
Listen to this article: Kolkata: In what is shaping up to be one of the most seismic political earthquakes in recent Indian history, the Bharatiya...
Listen to this article: Bengal’s second and final phase of polling is today and it is undeniable that a striking demographic paradox has taken shape...
Listen to this article: Firoza Bibi Mondal asked to check whether her name was included in the supplementary list published by the electoral tribunal....
Listen to this article: If you want to understand the true cost of being a woman in Indian politics, do not look at the manifestos, the parliamentary...
Listen to this article: In West Bengal, the appellate tribunal that was supposed to act as a safeguard for wrongly excluded voters has instead come to...
Listen to this article: Kolkata: West Bengal’s Phase 1 polling gathered strong momentum through the morning, with overall turnout rising to 41.11%...
Listen to this article: Kolkata: Last year, Samserganj in Murshidabad’s border belt made national headlines after communal tension over the Waqf...
Listen to this article: A granular analysis of deleted voter rolls in three West Bengal constituencies suggests that what is being presented as...
Listen to this article: Kolkata: The Supreme Court has finally given limited but significant relief to voters who were “under adjudication” in the...
Listen to this article: Kolkata: At the stroke of midnight on April 6, the Election Commission of India’s (ECI) publication of the 12th and final...
Listen to this article: Late evening (March 24), a fragile sense of security was shattered for seven crore electors in West Bengal. These were the...
Listen to this article: Kolkata: At the stroke of midnight on March 23, 2026, the Election Commission of India (ECI) released its first supplementary...
Listen to this article: The Election Commission of India (ECI) has set the stage for a fiercely contested 2026 West Bengal Assembly election. Hours...