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Half of 60L voters under scrutiny in Murshidabad, Malda, N Dinajpur

Kolkata, March 1 -- Nearly half of the over 60 lakh voters whose names remain under adjudication after the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) are concentrated in three minority-dominated districts of We... Read More


Post roll revision, 99 Assembly seats record 'zero new voters'

Kolkata, March 1 -- The final electoral roll published by the Election Commission of India after the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) on Saturday has thrown up a striking statistic - 99 of Bengal's 29... Read More


Article of Faith: Waking with God (1), By Femi Aribisala

Nigeria, March 1 -- Strange things continued to happen after Jesus became my Lord and Saviour. I discovered that another Person was now living in my body. He plays hide-and-seek, but I caught Him once... Read More


TMC questions Centre over 'Mahila Suraksha' in BJP-ruled states

Kolkata, March 1 -- The Trinamool Congress (TMC) has raised concerns over women's safety, citing official data on missing women in BJP-ruled states and questioning the Centre's "Mahila Suraksha" narra... Read More


Trinamool alleges 'silent rigging' after new electoral roll sparks row

Kolkata, March 1 -- The Trinamool Congress (TMC) has alleged that the Election Commission of India (ECI), along with the BJP have used the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process to silence dissent a... Read More


Two senior IAS officers handed additional charge

Kolkata, March 1 -- Two senior IAS officers in the state have been handed over additional charge of two departments. Vandana Yadav, an IAS officer of the 1998 batch, has been handed over the additiona... Read More


Metro services to begin in afternoon on Tuesday

Kolkata, March 1 -- Metro services across Kolkata will commence in the afternoon on March 3, Tuesday and operate with reduced frequency, in view of Dolyatra, with the first trains on all corridors sch... Read More


BLO dies after voter list publication

Kolkata, March 1 -- "The bloody death march of SIR rages on, claiming yet another innocent soul in its merciless grip," the TMC said after a BLO died shortly after the publication of the electoral rol... Read More


Death toll in UAE rises to three, another 58 injured in strikes

Sri Lanka, March 1 -- Three people in the United Arab Emirates have been killed in Iran's retaliatory strikes, the country's Ministry of Defense said in a statement on Sunday. Those killed were natio... Read More


Bengali actress Subhashree & son stranded in Dubai, both safe

KOLKATA, March 1 -- With the US and Israel launching military strikes on Iran and the killing of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, tensions have sharply escalated across the Gulf region. F... Read More