Border constituencies in Cooch Behar top list of 'under adjudication' votersThree border constituencies in Cooch Behar, West Bengal, report the highest number of voters under adjudication. This process, part of elec...
08 Mar, 2026, 03.25 PM IST
Mamata Banerjee to scale up anti-SIR campaign with rallies in Malda, Murshidabad, Cooch BeharWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee intensifies her campaign against the Election Commission's electoral roll revision. She will hol...
01 Dec, 2025, 09.34 AM IST
Lok Sabha Elections: Cooch Behar reports BJP-Trinamool clashViolence mars Cooch Behar voting as BJP, Trinamool clash. Incidents in Sitai, Dinhata, Bhetaguri. Bombs found, leaders injured, workers att...
20 Apr, 2024, 12.42 AM IST
West Bengal elections: Sporadic violence reported, TMC polling agent beaten in CoochbeharDuring the first phase of Lok Sabha elections in West Bengal, incidents of violence were reported, including the beating of a polling agent...
19 Apr, 2024, 12.09 PM IST
West Bengal polls: Sporadic incidents of violence reported in CoochbeharIn the first phase of polling in Coochbehar, Jalpaiguri, and Alipurduar in North Bengal, sporadic violence was reported, with voter turnout...
19 Apr, 2024, 12.09 PM IST
Lok Sabha Elections in West Bengal: Focus on Cooch Behar, Jalpaiguri and Alipurduars constituenciesIn the first phase of Lok Sabha elections in West Bengal, Cooch Behar, Jalpaiguri, and Alipurduars constituencies will go to polls. Union M...
18 Apr, 2024, 04.02 PM IST
Cooch Behar Lok Sabha constituency: BJP and Trinamool in race to woo Rajbanshis, list sopsBoth the parties are claiming that they have done developmental work for the community, which accounts for about 40% of the voters in the c...
05 Apr, 2024, 11.39 PM IST
20 lakh people waiting to get their MNREGA dues in Bengal: Abhishek BanerjeeBanerjee spoke about “free and fair poll” in the Panchayat election. He said that “there is attempt to deprive the people of Bengal. It is ...
25 Apr, 2023, 06.54 PM IST
Bengal Guv's plan to visit violence-hit areas triggers row with state govtWest Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar’s planned visit to Sitalkuchi and other places in Coochbehar district on Thursday to take an overview...
13 May, 2021, 07.52 AM IST
Poor and polarised Sitalkuchi was always the big contest between TMC and BJP in Cooch BeharBoth TMC and BJP leaders that ET spoke with before the polls admitted that it was Sitalkuchi –– one of the two seats out of a total nine se...
12 Apr, 2021, 10.02 PM IST
TMC rebel as BJP nominee hopes to queer pitch for Didi“The battle was already won after the BJP declared an expelled TMC leader as its candidate,” state cabinet minister Rabindranath Ghosh told...
01 Apr, 2019, 08.12 AM IST
Illegal cultivation of marijuana continues unabated in CoochbeharThere is no concrete data, but an estimated 550 ha area of the district hosts marijuana cultivation - needless to say, illegally.
10 Jan, 2017, 04.01 PM IST
Failed promises:Some enclave dwellers want to return to BangladeshBangladesh and India exchanged 162 adversely-held enclaves on August 1, 2015, ending one of the world's most complex border disputes that h...
07 Aug, 2016, 10.05 AM IST
West Bengal's 103-year-old Asgar Ali casts his vote for first time in lifeFor the last several decades 103-year-old Asgar Ali had been waiting patiently for this moment in his life when his voice is heard in the f...
05 May, 2016, 02.23 PM IST
WB polls: New citizens get big say in Cooch Behar battleThe political parties, including TMC and BJP, are in a race to woo them as these voters will now act as a deciding factor in these four ass...
05 May, 2016, 04.30 AM IST
Political parties go all out to woo enclave votersThe 51 enclaves are spread across Dinhata, Mekliganj, Sitai, Sitalkuchi and Toofanganj Assembly constituencies, with over 14864 residents h...
04 May, 2016, 12.51 PM IST
Enclave-dwellers to vote for first time since IndependenceThe district administration of Coochbehar said the technical process regarding the identification and granting of land rights was in proces...
03 May, 2016, 11.30 AM IST