The Election Commission of India (ECI) began training Booth Level Officers in West Bengal on Saturday, while concerns have been raised that a Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls being conducted in adjacent poll-bound Bihar will also be conducted in the state. West Bengal Chief Electoral Officer Manoj Agarwal did not rule out during the training session that SIR would be conducted in the state as well.

Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday announced a new programme titled “Amader Para, Amader Somadhan” aimed at resolving minor local issues in villages across the state.

Calcutta High Court finally upheld the West Bengal School Service Commission’s authority to conduct the teacher’s recruitment examination under the prescribed rules.

Raising the instances of targeting of migrant workers from West Bengal in the Bharatiya Janata Party-ruled states, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday (July 16, 2025) hit the streets in Kolkata and said protests would rage across the country if Bengalis continued to be harassed.

A special CBI court in Alipore has officially framed charges against Dr. Sandip Ghosh, former principal of RG Kar Medical College, and four others in a major corruption case. The charges, framed on July 14, include criminal conspiracy, cheating, breach of trust, forgery, and corruption under the Prevention of Corruption Act. The court has scheduled the trial to begin on July 22, 2025. 

Kolkata had to see another ‘rape’ case after the case of Calcutta Law College, where a woman, studying at Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Calcutta alleged that she had been raped inside the hostel at the campus premises.