Bengal, Tamil Nadu record highest-ever turnout since Independence in Phase 1 of polling, says Gyanesh KumarVoter turnout in West Bengal and Tamil Nadu reached historic highs on Thursday. Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar announced the rec...
24 Apr, 2026, 07.10 PM IST
Murshidabad violence: Bengal elections turn violent amid TMC-AUJP clashes, stone pelting, crude bomb attack and proxy voting claimsMurshidabad Violence: West Bengal elections face unrest. Murshidabad saw clashes between TMC and AUJP workers. BJP candidate Agnimitra Paul...
24 Apr, 2026, 07.08 PM IST
Violence mars Bengal phase I polling; BJP candidate attacked, Humayun Kabir convoy vandalisedViolence erupted during Bengal's first phase of polling. BJP candidate Subhendu Sarkar faced an attack in Kumarganj. In Murshidabad, AUUP c...
24 Apr, 2026, 07.08 PM IST
Assembly Elections 2026: Voting ends in two states, Bengal voter turnout tops 90%, Tamil Nadu hits 84%Voters in West Bengal and Tamil Nadu turned out in large numbers for Assembly elections. West Bengal saw over 90% participation, while Tami...
24 Apr, 2026, 07.07 PM IST
West Bengal records highest voter turnout since 2011 Left ouster, polling crosses 92%West Bengal's Assembly elections ushered in an extraordinary voter turnout, surpassing 92.72%—a record for the last fifteen years! Despite ...
24 Apr, 2026, 12.36 AM IST
Bengal elections 2026: Polling underway for 152 assembly seats in 1st phase of Assembly pollsWest Bengal Assembly Elections: Voting is happening today in West Bengal's first phase elections. Over 3.60 crore voters are eligible acros...
23 Apr, 2026, 09.38 AM IST
BJP govt will come to power in Bengal: Amit ShahUnion Home Minister Amit Shah asserted that a BJP government will be formed in West Bengal on May 5, promising to fence border areas within...
14 Apr, 2026, 12.04 AM IST
Bengal: Bombs hurled as violence continues over nomination filing for panchayat pollsViolence continued in West Bengal's South 24 Parganas district as several people were injured due to bomb hurled on day 4 of nomination fil...
13 Jun, 2023, 01.59 PM IST
Trinamool leader Anubrata Mondal quizzed by CBI in post-poll violence caseThe CBI questioned him in connection with the death of one Gaurav Banerjee, who was killed in Birbhum district, following the assembly poll...
03 Jun, 2022, 10.32 AM IST
'Hiding like a rat': BJP leader Saumitra Khan slams TMC's Anubrata Mandal for 'involvement' in Birbhum violenceKhan said, "CBI had asked Anubrata to appear in Kolkata's Nizam Palace for questioning in the cattle smuggling case. He wrote to CBI and sa...
09 Apr, 2022, 12.59 PM IST
Mafia rule in West Bengal, Centre's intervention needed to restore law and order: BJPThe BJP had constituted the five-member team in the aftermath of the Birbhum violence, in which eight people were burnt alive in Bogtui vil...
30 Mar, 2022, 05.14 PM IST
Democracy being 'murdered' under Mamata's rule, alleges BJPThe death of the eight people in Birbhum clearly shows that democracy is being killed in West Bengal under the rule of TMC, BJP spokesperso...
29 Mar, 2022, 05.56 PM IST
Birbhum killings: Oppn parties welcome HC order for CBI probe, TMC promises cooperationThe court directed an SIT formed by the Bengal government to hand over all probe-related papers and the accused persons arrested by it to t...
25 Mar, 2022, 01.02 PM IST
Action to be taken against perpetrators irrespective of their political colours: Mamata on Birbhum killingsThe CM, during a programme here, also maintained that she had to postpone her visit to the district by a day as "other political parties we...
23 Mar, 2022, 04.15 PM IST
10 burnt alive in violence following killing of Trinamool leader“Seven bodies have been recovered till now. We will find the exact reason behind the fire and the incident after investigation is completed...
22 Mar, 2022, 01.49 PM IST
TMC leader Anubrata Mondal moves HC on CBI notice to appear before itMondal has been asked to appear before the CBI investigators at the NIT camp office in Durgapur in neighbouring Paschim Bardhaman district ...
02 Feb, 2022, 02.07 PM IST
BJP central team to visit violence-hit BirbhumThree persons were killed and as many injured, and at least five houses were set on fire when Trinamool Congress and BJP supporters fought ...
28 Oct, 2014, 06.23 PM IST