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.
Four decades and a couple of years have gone by since Uttam Kumar’s passing. And yet July 24, when he journeyed to the land of shadows remains a day of mourning among his fans, a tribe which is increasing though many in it were born years after his death.
With less than a year left for the Assembly Election in West Bengal, the Election Commission (EC) has directed the Mamata Banerjee government to “delink” the office of Chief Electoral Officer (West Bengal) from its home department, create a election department with financial autonomy and fill up the vacant posts under it.
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.
West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday launched a scathing attack on the Bharatiya Janata Party-led central government during the Trinamool Congress’ annual Martyrs’ Day rally in Kolkata, vowing to continue her fight until the BJP is removed from power at the Centre.
Calcutta High Court finally upheld the West Bengal School Service Commission’s authority to conduct the teacher’s recruitment examination under the prescribed rules.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit West Bengal on Friday, where he will address a BJP rally in Durgapur, besides laying the foundation stone and inauguration of multiple development projects worth over Rs 5000 crore.
The high court on Thursday asked the state administration to ensure traffic movement was not “disturbed” because of the Trinamool Congress’s Martyrs’ Day rally on July 21.
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.
