Bengal
Surinder Koli, the prime accused in the infamous 2006 Nithari serial killings who was acquitted by the Supreme Court in 2025, was found dead in Haridwar on September 18. The incident followed a national seminar in Visakhapatnam where senior jurists and media professionals scrutinized investigative lapses by the CBI and questioned the lack of media follow-up for the victims’ families.
In a startling turn of events, Surinder Koli, the prime accused in the 2006 Nithari serial killings who was acquitted by the Supreme Court in 2025, was found dead inside his Haridwar tea stall on September 18. The incident closely follows a national seminar in Visakhapatnam where senior jurists and experts scrutinized the press and the CBI over systemic investigative failures that denied justice to victim families.
The Election Commission of India has frozen the Trinamool Congress name and ‘Flowers & Grass’ symbol for the October 6 bypolls, assigning separate interim designations to factions led by Mamata Banerjee and Arup Roy. Amid an urgent Supreme Court challenge by the party supremo, an emerging Congress-Mamata alignment has prompted the resignation of Trinamool’s Nandigram nominee.
A major political crisis has erupted within the All India Trinamool Congress (TMC) as a group of rebel MLAs openly voiced their opposition to party national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee, declaring that they can no longer accept his leadership.
In a major political blow to the Trinamool Congress (TMC), senior party heavyweight and close Mamata Banerjee loyalist Firhad Hakim has resigned as the Mayor of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC). The veteran leader, who had held the position since November 2018, stepped down after receiving formal permission from party supremo Mamata Banerjee.
A fresh confrontation broke out between the Trinamool Congress (TMC) and West Bengal Assembly Speaker Tapas Roy on Tuesday after the Speaker’s secretariat allegedly refused to accept a letter from the opposition party regarding appointments to key positions in the House.
A wave of fear has hit Kolkata’s iconic College Street book market after stall owners received verbal orders to clear pavements. While KMC Commissioner Smita Pandey denied authorizing an eviction drive, the recent demolition of hawker hubs across Bengal has left generational booksellers deeply anxious about their future.
Freshly elected BJP legislator Gopal Chandra Saha received a roaring reception from the regional business community on Saturday, May 30, 2026, during a high-profile felicitation drive at Old Malda’s iconic trading hub. Organized by the executive board of the Malda Merchants’ Chamber of Commerce, the administrative gathering commenced at the Rajiv Gandhi Municipal Market in Mangalbari, where trade representatives paid public floral tributes at the bust of the former Prime Minister before pivoting to core local commerce dilemmas. Riding the momentum of the BJP’s recent historic structural victory across the state, Saha’s town-hall interaction concentrated on mapping out modernized civic amenities, expanding access to drainage infrastructure, and clearing transport logjams currently bottlenecking regional traders. Addressing a dense crowd of wholesale operators, local shopkeepers, and political activists, the MLA pledged to establish a permanent collaborative framework with local market associations to systematically fast-track urban renewal projects and ensure that Malda’s crucial commercial nodes are robustly optimized to handle rising inter-state transit demands.
Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee allegedly faced a physical assault by a crowd during a visit to meet post-poll violence victims in Sonarpur. Blaming the BJP for orchestrating the chaos, Banerjee lambasted the lack of security deployment just hours after receiving a fresh investigative summons from the CID.
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