The Supreme Court on Monday (January 19, 2026) criticised the Election Commission for the “stress and strain” caused, through its ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise, to the ordinary people of the State of West Bengal, where 1.36 crore people, almost 20% of the population, have received notices from the poll body to explain “logical discrepancies” in their names and family backgrounds
India has been invited by U.S. President Donald Trump to be part of the Board of Peace for Gaza, sources in New Delhi said on Sunday (January 18, 2026). The information was also disseminated by the U.S. Ambassador to India Sergio Gor who shared a letter on social media from Mr. Trump to Prime Minister Narendra Modi inviting India’s participation in the Board of Peace for Gaza.
Ruling dispensation Trinamool Congress and principal Opposition outfit BJP are shouting of reaping political advantage before Assembly election even though dust is yet to settle on a Enforcement Directorate (ED) raid at two offices of I-PAC in Kolkata recently. With chief minister and TMC supremo, Mamata Banerjee storming into the office of I-PAC, her party’s political consultant and emerging with a green file and a lap top stated to be containing TMC poll game plan, senior TMC leaders are claiming political advantage while her action is being looked upon as an instance of obstructing governmental investigation by the saffron camp.
A day after inducting the PMK into the alliance, the seat-sharing talks in the NDA seems to have hit a roadblock. AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K. Palaniswami’s visit to Delhi to call on the top BJP leaders has turned into a damp squib. BJP’s demand for 56 seats out of the total 234 constituencies and share in power seems to have irked the AIADMK camp.
The political battle between the BJP and the Trinamul Congress (TMC) in West Bengal escalated sharply on Thursday after the Enforcement Directorate raided two premises linked to the Indian Political Action Committee (I-PAC), the political consultancy working with the ruling party, in connection with a coal smuggling-linked money laundering probe. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee responded by personally intervening at the raid sites, leading to a dramatic confrontation with the central agency.
Trinamool Congress national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Tuesday alleged that ‘anti-Bengal forces’ tried to prevent him from reaching Tarapith in Birbhum district to address a public meeting. However, he managed to reach the venue in a helicopter belonging to Jharkhand Chief Minister (CM) Hemant Soren.
Alleging harassment of the electorate in the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in the State, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday (January 5, 2026) said she would move the court against the Election Commission of India (EC).
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Thursday announced the launch of a financial assistance scheme for male students and a cash gift programme for women, ahead of the assembly elections in the state.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Dilip Ghosh, who the party’s West Bengal unit had sidelined for months, was back in the spotlight on Thursday as he held a meeting with Bengal BJP president Samik Bhattacharya and declared that he was ready to shoulder any responsibility assigned to him.
