Kolkata Port Assembly election result 2026: Firhad Hakim vs Rakesh Singh vs Aquib Gulzar vs Faiyaz Ahmad Khan, who is winning?Kolkata Port constituency faces a close contest as Firhad Hakim seeks a third term amid a significant voter decline. A sharp drop in electo...
04 May, 2026, 06.00 AM IST
Bhowanipore battle: Mamata vs Adhikari rematch turns into high-stakes Bengal testBattleground Bengal's key contest is in Bhowanipore. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee faces former aide Suvendu Adhikari. This rematch carrie...
28 Apr, 2026, 08.35 PM IST
Kolkata Port: Decline in number of voters during SIR brings in uncertainty in TMC bastionVoter numbers have significantly dropped in Kolkata Port Assembly constituency. This has created uncertainty for the ruling Trinamool Congr...
27 Apr, 2026, 11.47 AM IST
Bhabanipur: Mamata's political refuge, BJP's psychological battleground in Bengal's prestige warBhabanipur, Mamata Banerjee's stronghold, faces a crucial election against Suvendu Adhikari. This contest is seen as a symbolic rematch of ...
26 Apr, 2026, 12.19 PM IST
West Bengal Polls: In Murshidabad's Beldanga, gamochas weave livelihoods amid election noiseBeldanga, Murshidabad, famous for its handwoven towels, faces religious polarization. Past incidents of violence and NIA probes have shifte...
12 Apr, 2026, 11.59 PM IST
Kanwar Yatra eateries row: TMC MP Mahua Moitra moves SCTMC MP Mahua Moitra has petitioned the Supreme Court against UP and Uttarakhand orders for eatery name displays along Kanwar Yatra, citing ...
21 Jul, 2024, 10.42 PM IST
Kanwar Yatra: Why is there a controversy over UP police's name display rule?On a busy road in Muzaffarnagar, the owner of Kashif Confectionery, Furkan, expressed his dismay to TOI. “We never consider whether a shopk...
20 Jul, 2024, 02.23 PM IST
Take strict action against panchayats banning entry of Muslim traders in villages: Nuh MLA Aftab AhmedHaryana Congress MLA Aftab Ahmed has asked for strict action to be taken by the government against village panchayats in the state that hav...
10 Aug, 2023, 03.41 PM IST
Nuh violence: Panchayat heads issue letters 'banning' Muslim tradersLetters, which have been identified as fake, have surfaced online that claim that some villages in Haryana's Mahendergarh, Rewari, and Jhaj...
09 Aug, 2023, 03.36 PM IST
AITC writes to CJI for action against CM Himanta Biswa Sarma for alleged hate speechThe All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) has written a letter to the Chief Justice of India, requesting action on the alleged hate speech by...
18 Jul, 2023, 12.30 AM IST
Ban on Muslim vendors at Shivamogga temple fest: Congress protests, Bommai offers to look into complaintsIn another instance, Sri Mahalingeshwara temple at Puttur near Mangaluru, has said only Hindus can bid for bulk allotment of temporary stal...
24 Mar, 2022, 01.42 AM IST
High Court judgment on hijab: Muslims observe Karnataka bandhTraders from the Muslim community in Bengaluru's areas including Russel Market, Shivajinagar and Nagawara shut their shop in response to th...
17 Mar, 2022, 11.37 PM IST
Arvind Kejriwal leads AAP to its second big win in Delhi assembly electionsAfter assuming power in 2015, Kejriwal and team started courting traditional Congress and BJP voters. The party actively won over small tra...
12 Feb, 2020, 11.17 AM IST
UP elections 2017: Many threads of thoughts for March 8 in Varanasi bylanesMaurya weavers are strongly with BJP, and say the Modi government’s promise of giving more powerlooms to the state was encouraging.
08 Mar, 2017, 12.42 AM IST
In western Uttar Pradesh, local Muslims deny space to ‘settlers’ from other caste to bury deadGraveyards are a political issue in several towns in western UP, including Kairana. They have strictly different graveyards for different M...
17 Jun, 2016, 01.52 AM IST
Delhi elections: In old city, vote banks matter, not developmentTraders are considered a BJP vote bank, but Chandni Chowk, one of Delhi’s busiest commercial centres , has voted Congfor the past 15 years.
15 Nov, 2013, 12.27 PM IST
Muzaffarnagar clashes sour its famed jaggery businessThe flourishing business of jaggery (gurh) in the region is already on the verge of a shutdown as workers have fled after the clashes.
19 Sep, 2013, 05.02 AM IST