Bengal: Booths with zero dead, duplicate voters drop by 80% after ECI's rap

India, Dec. 2 -- The number of booths in West Bengal where there are no dead, duplicate and untraceable voters, dropped by around 80% within a span of 24 hours, after the Election Commission of India ... Read More

Bengal: BJP demands audit of SIR data entries alleging massive irregularities

India, Dec. 1 -- Alleging massive irregularities during digitisation of enumeration forms in the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in election-bound West Bengal, a delegation of the Bharatiya J... Read More

Kids being used to smuggle at India-Bangladesh border: BSF official

India, Dec. 1 -- Kolkata It was October 22. A sleepy village in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district went about its day as usual. Farmers toiled in the fields, women queued at the village tube we... Read More

'Kids being used to smuggle at border'

Swarupnagar, Dec. 1 -- On December 24, 2022, the Border Security Force's (BSF) 115 Battalion detained a seven-year-old girl near Indo-Bangladesh border in West Bengal with around 107 grams of heroin. ... Read More

'Kids being used to smuggle at border'

Swarupnagar, Dec. 1 -- On December 24, 2022, the Border Security Force's (BSF) 115 Battalion detained a seven-year-old girl near Indo-Bangladesh border in West Bengal with around 107 grams of heroin. ... Read More

ECI directs Bengal DEOs to map housing societies to set up polling stations

India, Nov. 29 -- The Election Commission of India (ECI) has directed the district magistrates in every district across West Bengal, who double up as district election officers (DEOs) to map housing s... Read More

Bengal Raj Bhavan renamed Lok Bhavan following Centre's directive

India, Nov. 29 -- West Bengal governor C.V. Ananda Bose on Saturday renamed the Raj Bhavan in Kolkata as Lok Bhavan, following a directive from the Union home ministry. "In pursuance of the communica... Read More

ECI orders relocation of West Bengal CEO office after "serious security breach"

India, Nov. 28 -- The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Friday directed the West Bengal Chief Electoral Officer (WBCEO) to shift the poll panel's office in Kolkata to a more secure location, days ... Read More

BJP govt at Centre may collapse before 2029, says Mamata Banerjee

India, Nov. 26 -- West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday called for opposition unity while claiming that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will not return to power after the 2029 Lok S... Read More

TMC delegation likely to meet CEC over SIR; Protests by BLOs enter second day

India, Nov. 25 -- A ten-member delegation of the ruling Trinamool Congress in West Bengal is likely to meet chief election commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar on Friday. Meanwhile, protests by the booth... Read More

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