Kolkata: Apologising for any personal attack or lack of decency by a BJP neta, the party’s state president Samik Bhattacharya said on Monday: “If anyone was hurt by any BJP neta’s words during the campaign, I apologise to him. I apologise if there was any statement which was not decent, or below the belt.”At a…
Kolkata: While the probe is still ongoing in the Garia murder case, investigators have stated that they are almost certain that it was a murder, and the prime suspect is the victim’s husband, Soumik Das. A 40-year-old woman, Enakshi Das, was found dead in her Garia apartment on Sunday morning. Police said that nearly 90%…
Kolkata: Jadavpur University held Internal Complaints Committee elections to choose undergraduate and postgraduate student representatives from the Arts, Science and Engineering faculties. In the Arts faculty, SFI won both seats, securing 850 votes in the UG category and 641 in PG. In Engineering, DSF emerged victorious in both categories with 1,776 votes for UG and…
Kolkata: No MLA has been able to win the Jadavpur seat in two consecutive rows since 2011. Getting a second term in the 2026 Assembly election will be the test for Trinamool’s Debabrata Majumdar, who won the seat in 2021.While Trinamool chose Majumdar, also a KMC MMiC, as its MLA candidate, CPM has placed its…
Kolkata: The SIR slash notwithstanding, woman voters have outnumbered men in 23 out of the 142 Assembly segments going to polls on Wednesday.Topping the list is Jadavpur, which now has 11,759 more women voters than men. Panihati, where the BJP has fielded the RG Kar victim’s mother as its candidate — also has more women…
Kolkata: Upscale Ballygunge in south Kolkata, a Trinamool bastion for over 25 years, is a curious mix of cultures and people from various economic strata. Here, high-rises and affluent neighbourhoods sit alongside expansive slums. SIR deletions have somewhat wiped out the vast differences between the electorate, with all sections being affected.A staggering 71,000 names were…
Kolkata: A man, accused of sexually assaulting and murdering his live-in partner’s 3-year-old daughter near Maidan on March 21, has been arrested from Babughat on Friday morning. He had initially fled to Ayodhya to evade arrest.Police said the child’s mother was in a relationship with the man from Rabindranagar. Investigators alleged that both were addicted…
Kolkata: Three women died and four others were injured in two bike accidents reported from the Maidan and Jorasanko PS areas. In the first case, a bike and a scooter collided on Red Road around 3.10 am on Sunday. The pillion riders, Raniya Singh (24) and Vidhya Gurung (19), who were reportedly not wearing helmets,…
Kolkata: A 23-year-old woman from Alipore has accused her boyfriend of rape, cheating, physical assault and intimidation, according to a complaint filed on Friday.The woman alleged that she was in a relationship with the accused since 2024 and on Jan 1, 2025, he took her to a guest house in Howrah. He then drugged her…
Kolkata: Union home minister Amit Shah on Sunday sharpened BJP’s electoral pitch in Bengal, accusing chief minister Mamata Banerjee of orchestrating a “conspiracy” to delete the names of Matua and Namasudra voters from the electoral rolls.Addressing a rally in Ranaghat South, a constituency with significant Matua population, Shah said, “Mamatadidi got names of some Matuas…
