A BJP candidate, Kalita Majhi, a domestic worker of over two decades, is now campaigning for MLA in Ausgram, leaving her employers struggling with her absence. GUSKARA: For the family members of Platilal Patra, 37-year-old Kalita Majhi is not merely a house help who has been working in their home for over two decades. “She…
Kolkata: As the city votes on Wednesday, the Kolkata Police Dog Squad has already deployed its newest members — Ina, Tina, Snoopy and Moon — to secure the city’s high-stakes political landscape. The four labradors, recently designated as “explosive experts”, transitioned directly from rigorous training to the frontline of VIP security and rally ground sanitisation.According…
Kolkata: Nearly 55 nuns in the Missionaries of Charity (MC), an order formed by Saint Teresa of Calcutta and headquartered in Kolkata, have been included in the supplementary list published on Tuesday after the tribunal cleared their cases. The MC had written to the Election Commission (EC) after many names and the nuns had moved…
Kolkata: A physician who lives in Paris but visits Kolkata with his family at least once a year, has flown down to vote on Wednesday. A firm believer in the paradox ‘change is the only constant’, he voted for a change in 2011 when the Trinamool won a decisive mandate to overthrow the Left govt…
KOLKATA: Bengal’s SIR tribunals have cleared 1,468 citizens to vote in the second phase of the assembly elections, taking the total number of cleared voters to 1,607 across the two polling phases in the state (139 people had their voting right restored in the first phase).The number of deletions by the tribunals in the second…
Kolkata: Of 4,200 residents of Sonagachhi, Asia’s largest red-light district, 1,300 were deleted from the poll roll, bolstering the argument that a large number of socially and economically deprived women failed to make the SIR cut.During judicial adjudication, cases for 850 women from Sonagachhi were heard. All but one were rejected. The deletions occurred despite…
Kolkata: Reminding the Election Commission of a citizen’s fundamental right to liberty, the Calcutta High Court on Tuesday asked it not to resort to preventive detention and arrests unless essential and only when done legally.Disposing of a writ petition against the alleged illegal pre-poll detention of Trinamool workers and councillors, the high court said it…
Sandeshkhali: During the June 2024 Lok Sabha elections, Sandeshkhali dominated political discourse and grabbed national attention. The riverine island emerged as a major political flashpoint, with BJP seeking to turn the tide against Trinamool by riding on protests over alleged sexual violence against women and land grabbing by former TMC strongman Sheikh Shahjahan and his…
West Bengal polls: Violence, vandalism reported during early hours of voting KOLKATA: Incidents of violence and vandalism were reported from parts of West Bengal in the early hours of voting in the second phase of the assembly elections on Wednesday, police said. According to news agency PTI, the incidents were reported from multiple locations, including…
Moitra shared a couple of videos on X showing a man grooving to music at what appeared to be a nightclub, and tagged the officer, calling him a “Fair and Lovely babua”. KOLKATA: A political bubble burst during the West Bengal polls after Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra shared archived videos purportedly showing a man…
