Erosion-hit Bengal voters sceptical as LS polls bring their plight in spotlight

India, May 2 -- Chaya Sarkar, 36, moved into a school building in 2022 when residents of Samserganj in West Bengal's Murshidabad lost their homes and land district to erosion. "We have nowhere to go n... Read More

Bidi barons lock horns in Bengal LS poll arena

Dhuliyan, April 29 -- It is around 9 am and work is already in the full swing at a prominent bidi manufacturing factory in Dhuliyan, a town in Murshidabad district of West Bengal, with dozens of men a... Read More

Bidi barons lock horns in Bengal LS poll arena

Dhuliyan, April 28 -- It is around 9 am and work is already in the full swing at a prominent bidi manufacturing factory in Dhuliyan, a town in Murshidabad district of West Bengal, with dozens of men a... Read More

Bidi barons lock horns in Bengal LS poll arena

Dhuliyan, April 28 -- It is around 9 am and work is already in the full swing at a prominent bidi manufacturing factory in Dhuliyan, a town in Murshidabad district of West Bengal, with dozens of men a... Read More

Bidi barons lock horns in elections in West Bengal's Murshidabad and Malda

India, April 27 -- It was just around 9am and work was going on in full swing at the factory of a popular bidi-brand near the Dak Bangla crossing at Dhuliyan in West Bengal's Murshidabad district. Sit... Read More

Fear stalks scarred Sandeshkhali in polls run-up

Basirhat, April 26 -- BasirhatEvery night for the past two months, the pattern has been the same. As the sun recedes into the night sky, 52-year-old Sadhan Maity steps out of his thatched hut in Natun... Read More

Sandeshkhali unrest part of a long line of TMC-BJP pre- and post-flashpoints

India, April 15 -- Flags, banners and wall graffiti of political parties have again started coming up in the nondescript village of Jorepatki at Sitalkuchi as Cooch Behar in north Bengal heads for the... Read More

Short stays, fake IDs in suspects' escape strategy

Kolkata, April 15 -- Abdul Matheen Ahmed Taahaa and Mussavir Hussain Shazib, who were arrested by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday for an explosion at Rameshwaram Cafe in Bengaluru on... Read More

Cheap hotels, short stays, multiple fake IDs in Bengaluru cafe blast suspects' escape strategy

Kolkata, April 15 -- Abdul Matheen Ahmed Taha and Mussavir Hussain Shazib, the two men arrested by NIA on Friday for a blast at Bengaluru's Rameshwaram Cafe on March 1, spent a month in West Bengal, f... Read More

Cheap hotels, short stays, multiple fake IDs in Bengaluru cafe blast suspects' escape strategy

Kolkata, April 14 -- Abdul Matheen Ahmed Taha and Mussavir Hussain Shazib, the two men arrested by NIA on Friday for a blast at Bengaluru's Rameshwaram Cafe on March 1, spent a month in West Bengal, f... Read More

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