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 fresh controversy has emerged in West Bengal after reports suggested that eggs may no longer be served in mid-day meals at several government and government-aided schools in Kolkata. The development comes after the state government decided to engage ISKCON (International Society for Krishna Consciousness) to provide cooked meals under the PM POSHAN scheme in schools under the Kolkata Municipal Corporation area.
A massive multi-agency rescue operation is underway in west Kolkata’s Taratala area after a three-storey, under-construction warehouse collapsed on Wednesday afternoon, killing at least five workers and injuring 20 others. Authorities fear that between 12 and 18 labourers remain trapped beneath the heavy wreckage.
In a major move to decentralize authority and bring civic administration closer to the people, the West Bengal government has announced the creation of five new districts and several urban civic bodies.
Kolkata is set to get a second airport as the West Bengal government announced an ambitious aviation infrastructure expansion plan in its 2026 budget.
The Kolkata Municipal Corporation has renamed Suhrawardy Avenue in the Park Circus area as Gopal Mukherjee Road, honouring Gopal Mukherjee, popularly known as Gopal Patha, a figure associated with the communal violence in Kolkata during the Direct Action Day period of 1946. The decision has triggered a political controversy in West Bengal.
Former Indian cricketer and current Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Yusuf Pathan finds himself in deep legal and financial trouble over a long-running land dispute in Vadodara. The Gujarat High Court recently issued a stern warning to Pathan regarding his continued, unauthorized occupation of a public plot, while the Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC) initiated a public auction process for the property.
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