Bengal
Confronting an existential crisis under the ruling BJP in West Bengal, Left parties are set to contest the upcoming Kolkata Municipal Corporation elections as a unified bloc, bringing non-Left Front allies like SUCI(C) and CPI(ML) Liberation on board. Driven by a delimitation exercise that expanded KMC wards from 144 to 209 and recent clashes over Left book stalls, the CPI(M) has set aside its historical ‘big brother’ approach to share seats and build a wider resistance against the saffron camp.
The West Bengal government has officially notified a policy granting Group D government jobs to the next of kin of people killed in political violence from 2001 onwards. Announced by Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari at Garbeta and formally notified by Chief Secretary Manoj Agarwal on November 1, the scheme extends compassionate appointments to spouses, children (including third-gender), or siblings of unmarried victims whose family income does not exceed ₹50,000 a month, with applications to be screened by district magistrate and police committees.
A catastrophic Glacial Lake Outburst Flood (GLOF) in upper Bhutan has triggered red alerts across North Bengal, prompting the emergency evacuation of over 10,000 people in Alipurduar and Cooch Behar districts. With the Sankosh and Mo Chhu rivers receiving millions of cubic meters of sudden discharge, the West Bengal administration has deployed NDRF and SDRF rescue squads, opened relief camps in school buildings, and initiated widespread public warnings to prevent loss of life across vulnerable tea garden belts.
Ahead of Bengali cinema icon Uttam Kumar’s birth centenary, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday paid tribute to the legendary actor in his monthly radio programme ‘Mann Ki Baat’, recalling a personal memory of passing by his Kolkata residence during a roadshow before the Assembly elections and receiving a photograph of him as a gift.
A fight broke out at Diamond Harbour Trinamul Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee’s office in the city on Thursday when a team of Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) officials and Kolkata Police personnel raided the address and forcibly removed the party’s billboard there amidst resistance.
Five months after constituting 19 appellate tribunals to hear appeals arising from the special intensive revision (SIR) in West Bengal, the Supreme Court on Tuesday (August 25, 2026) found that public information regarding these proceedings remains sparse or speculative, even as upcoming municipal elections draw near in the State.
West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Monday (August 24, 2026) said that 23,000 certificates under the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), 2019 have been distributed out of the 2.30 lakh applications that have been made.
Jadavpur University campus in Kolkata is no stranger to violence. It has long been a citadel of Left politics at which BJP ideology had any place for decades which arguably the recent violence tried to “set right”
West Bengal Minister Agnimitra Paul on Sunday faced strong backlash for admonishing a homeless woman for boiling milk for her child on a pavement in Kolkata.
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