“I was never involved in corruption. It was a blunder to join politics,” states the suicide note of the deceased former deputy speaker of West Bengal Assembly and ex-Trinamool Congress MLA from Rampurhat in Birbhum district, Asish Banerjee, who was found hanging at an office of the party on Sunday morning, police sources said.
The West Bengal Assembly, on Wednesday, passed two delimitation bills related to the state’s municipal corporations. The first is the Howrah Municipal Corporation (Amendment) Bill, 2026, and the second is the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (Amendment) Bill, 2026. The bills were introduced during a special one-day Assembly session.
The government has raised the monthly health-related allowance available to former Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) to ₹10,000, providing greater financial support for their medical needs. The move is expected to benefit former legislators, particularly those facing increasing healthcare expenses after retirement.
Former West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday (August 11, 2026) held a protest next to a statue of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose in Kolkata’s Shyambazar area over controversial remarks made against Bose by a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Rajya Sabha MP.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the Election Commission (EC) to provide details of the cases decided and pending before appellate tribunals dealing with appeals against the deletion of names from West Bengal’s electoral rolls during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR).
The Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Monday, August 10, 2026 welcomed the Supreme Court’s decision allowing party general secretary Abhishek Banerjee to travel abroad for medical treatment.
A political confrontation erupted in Halisahar, North 24 Parganas, after former West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee’s vehicle was allegedly surrounded by protesters during her visit to the area on Sunday.
West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari has ordered a fresh invitation into the rape and murder of the doctor at the RG Kar medical college and hospital in Kolkata.
West Bengal chief minister Suvendu Adhikari on Sunday announced a monthly pension of Rs 10,000 for 325 people, who were jailed while protesting in the Emergency in 1975. Adhikari also announced free travel on government buses and free medical assistance at government hospitals for the “Loktantara Senani’.
In several parts of West Bengal, police have asked mosques committees to remove rooftop loudspeakers and replace them with sound box to ensure noise pollution rules.
