Kolkata: Congress MP and LoP in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi is set to campaign in Bengal on Saturday, while former Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal will campaign for Trinammol candidates. Bihar deputy CM Tejashwi Yadav, who is already in Bengal, held a roadshow for TMC in Bhatpara on Friday. Rahul had campaigned for Congress candidates in…
Kolkata: A day after Bengal registered record polling in the first phase of the assembly elections, Union home minister Amit Shah claimed that the BJP would win more than 110 of the 152 seats that went to poll on Thursday. Shah also claimed that the tally after the second phase will see “Didi on her…
KOLKATA: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Saturday carried out searches at multiple locations in West Bengal as part of its ongoing money laundering investigation into the alleged ration distribution scam, officials said.ED teams are also conducting a raid at the residence of businessman Partha Sarathi in North 24 Parganas district in connection with the Public…
Kolkata: Himadri Speciality Chemical has commissioned its first anode material production facility at Mahistikry in Bengal, marking the company’s entry into the lithium-ion battery value chain.CMD Anurag Chowdhary said the facility was developed through over a decade of in-house research. “We have been working on this for 14 years and have raw material for this…
KOLKATA: Claiming the high phase-one turnout as a decisive mandate against both BJP and SIR, CM Mamata Banerjee on Friday predicted that the party would not win even half the 77 seats it held after 2021 — and warned it would be dislodged from Delhi as well.“Yesterday in rural Bengal, 93% were against you, Modi-babu,…
Kolkata: Kolkata’s cultural fraternity assembled on Friday evening in front of the Academy of Fine Arts to protest the arrest warrant issued against poet Srijato Bandyopadhyay following a complaint lodged by a Nadia-based lawyer. This meet was organised by the Desh Banchao Gana Mancha.Srijato had posted a 12-line poem, ‘Abhisaap’, after Yogi Adityanath was sworn…
Kolkata: Kolkata Police has verbally advised all officers — from sub-inspectors and above posted at police stations, and preferably assistant sub-inspectors — to remain stationed at their respective police stations, including at night, until the end of the polls so they are readily available on call.Several OCs said the “verbal advisory” reflects mounting operational pressure…
Kolkata: The city’s heart has beaten for the Trinamool, but in a desperate attempt to add some drama to an uneven contest, BJP fielded Santosh Pathak, an immensely popular Congress councillor from ward 45, in the Chowringhee assembly constituency. The urban seat has witnessed the heaviest voter deletions among Kolkata’s assembly constituencies — 87,725 —…
Kolkata: In north Kolkata’s tightly packed political theatre, which saw one of the fiercest Trinamool-BJP pre-poll clashes, Sashi Panja is fighting an election that is as much about arithmetic as it is about narrative.One of the top confidantes of CM Mamata Banerjee and a three-term MLA from Shyampukur in north Kolkata, where her father-in-law and…
Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Friday scrapped EC’s 48-hour bike ban order for the April 29 phase-2 poll and said pillion riding will not be allowed on two-wheelers for 12 hours on poll day, unless it is for dropping or picking children from school, medical emergencies or family functions. The HC did not interfere…
