Bangladesh Assembly Elections: Over 3.6 crore voters eligible to vote in first phase on April 23, Election Commission says
New Delhi: More than 3.6 million voters in 16 districts are eligible to vote in the first phase of the West Bengal assembly elections to be held on April 23, according to data released by the Indian Parliament. election committee.The electoral roll at…
Shah calls on tribal community to avenge Mamata’s insult to Murmu
KOLKATA: Union Minister Amit Shah on Saturday called on Bengal’s tribal communities to “revenge” President Durupati Murmu’s insults against her during her visit to Bengal last month by voting, stepping up the BJP’s outreach…
Voter turnout in Assam near record 86%, highest rise among Muslim-majority states
Guwahati: Voter turnout in the Assam assembly elections 2026 climbed further on Sunday to nearly 86 per cent, according to the latest update from the Election Commission. This marked the highest turnout in state history, surpassing all-time highs of…
RTI data shows huge chunk of money spent on childhood vaccinations goes unspent
NEW DELHI: Although India allocates hundreds of millions of rupees for childhood vaccination every year, RTI data shows that a large chunk of the funds remains unspent, raising questions about the performance of the National Immunization Programme, one…
Union Minister Piyush Goyal welcomes second batch of evacuated Indian fishermen at Chennai airport
Goyal told reporters at the airport on Saturday that the evacuation was carried out on the instructions of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and that the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) and Indian missions abroad coordinated efforts to move the stranded…
Indians crave untested Chinese weight-loss peptides
It started with an Instagram video of an influencer touting the most effective weight-loss peptides. In two taps, your feed is filled with a peptide-driven weight loss journey. And then the rabbit hole started: YouTube explainers, AI-reduced scientific…
PM Modi writes to all parties seeking support for women’s quota bill
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday engaged leaders of various parties in the Lok Sabha and Senate, seeking their support for unanimously passing the Women’s Reservation Bill next week, which seeks to reserve one-third of seats in…
Net deletion in 12 states/Union Territories due to SIR 5.2cr (10%); second phase includes Rs 2 crore
NEW DELHI: Over 20 million voters from 12 states and Union Territories (UTs) have been included during the second phase of the Special Intensified Revision (SIR), bringing the net deletion of voters to nearly 52 million, or 10.2 per cent of the total…
Sir: Dead woman was in electoral list but husband and son not in Bengal
KOLKATA: Mina Jalal, 77, who never knew she was eligible to be a voter in her life, is on trial under the SIR. The elector of the Chowringhee parliamentary constituency died on March 27, days after the Electoral Commission included him in the final list…
West Bengal polls: Didi claims attempts to cancel her nomination from Bhowanipur
KOLKATA: Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool chief Mamata Banerjee on Saturday claimed that an attempt was made to cancel her Bhowanipore nomination through a “false affidavit”. She submitted her nomination on April 8 and it was accepted on…