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Modi should apologise for his 'Bankim da' remark: Mamata Banerjee

India, Dec. 9 -- West Bengal chief minister and Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo Mamata Banerjee said on Tuesday that Prime Minister Narendra Modi should apologise to people for his remarks referring ... Read More


Bengal: Security tightened in Murshidabad before foundation stone for Babri-modelled mosque

India, Dec. 6 -- High security arrangements have been put in place across parts of West Bengal's Murshidabad district ahead of the foundation stone laying of a mosque modelled on Ayodhya's Babri Masji... Read More


TMC suspends MLA Humayun Kabir over Babri Masjid replica controversy in Bengal

India, Dec. 4 -- The Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Thursday suspended party legislator Humayun Kabir, who had triggered a controversy by saying that he would lay the foundation stone of a Babri Masjid r... Read More


Mamata slams BJP over SIR rollout, calls it 'vote-bandi' before 2026 Bengal polls

India, Dec. 3 -- West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday once again attacked the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led Centre, saying that in 2016 "note bandi" (demonetisation) was introduc... Read More


West Bengal: Seven-step SOP for BLOs to remove deceased, duplicate and fake voters

India, Dec. 3 -- The chief electoral officer (CEO) of West Bengal has drawn up a seven-step standard operating procedure (SOP) for booth level officers (BLOs) and officials engaged in the Special Inte... Read More


Bengal: Booths with zero dead, duplicate voters drop by 80% after ECI's rap

India, Dec. 2 -- The number of booths in West Bengal where there are no dead, duplicate and untraceable voters, dropped by around 80% within a span of 24 hours, after the Election Commission of India ... Read More


Bengal: BJP demands audit of SIR data entries alleging massive irregularities

India, Dec. 1 -- Alleging massive irregularities during digitisation of enumeration forms in the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in election-bound West Bengal, a delegation of the Bharatiya J... Read More


Kids being used to smuggle at India-Bangladesh border: BSF official

India, Dec. 1 -- Kolkata It was October 22. A sleepy village in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district went about its day as usual. Farmers toiled in the fields, women queued at the village tube we... Read More


'Kids being used to smuggle at border'

Swarupnagar, Dec. 1 -- On December 24, 2022, the Border Security Force's (BSF) 115 Battalion detained a seven-year-old girl near Indo-Bangladesh border in West Bengal with around 107 grams of heroin. ... Read More


'Kids being used to smuggle at border'

Swarupnagar, Dec. 1 -- On December 24, 2022, the Border Security Force's (BSF) 115 Battalion detained a seven-year-old girl near Indo-Bangladesh border in West Bengal with around 107 grams of heroin. ... Read More