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    Menaka Guruswamy’s RS nomination: What's behind TMC move ahead of Bengal polls?

    Samir K Purkayastha
    28 Feb 2026 5:06 PM IST

    The nomination aligns with party’s broader Rajya Sabha approach of selecting candidates who reflect social diversity while advancing its wider political positioning

    Menaka Guruswamy
    West Bengal
    SIR hearings in West Bengal
    West Bengal

    Bengal voter churn: Lakhs struck off as EC publishes post-SIR rolls in phases

    28 Feb 2026 3:39 PM IST
    armed police forces deployment
    West Bengal

    In rare move, EC deploys central forces in Bengal even before poll date announcement

    28 Feb 2026 1:22 PM IST
    Student found dead in hostel of BITS Pilani Goa campus; cops launch probe
    Odisha

    Odisha woman raped twice in a day, killed after second assault in Paradip

    28 Feb 2026 9:37 AM IST
    EC set to publish post-SIR electoral rolls in Bengal

    EC set to publish post-SIR electoral rolls in Bengal

    28 Feb 2026 8:59 AM IST
    Kolkata earthquake

    5.5 magnitude quake jolts Kolkata, other parts of Bengal; no damage reported

    27 Feb 2026 2:17 PM IST
    Supreme Court of India SC pensionary benefits to women officers

    Bengal SIR training module row: SC says judicial officers won’t be ‘influenced’

    27 Feb 2026 1:40 PM IST
    Amit Shah says BJP will win West Bengal elections, vows to drive out ‘infiltrators’

    Amit Shah says BJP will win West Bengal elections, vows to drive out ‘infiltrators’

    26 Feb 2026 3:52 PM IST
    odisha mega cash haul

    Odisha Vigilance officials seize Rs 4.27 crore from mines officer

    25 Feb 2026 6:29 PM IST
    Air ambulance crash in Jharkhand

    Air ambulance that crashed in Jharkhand had no black box as per aviation rules

    25 Feb 2026 2:12 PM IST
    BJP-CPM ‘understanding’ helped Kerala become Keralam; Bengal pleas ignored: Mamata

    BJP-CPM ‘understanding’ helped Kerala become Keralam; Bengal pleas ignored: Mamata

    24 Feb 2026 8:35 PM IST
    air ambulance crash

    Many hopes and a family’s desperate bid to save a life crash with an air ambulance

    24 Feb 2026 3:48 PM IST
    BJP recalibrates Bengal campaign with youth outreach, professional meets and yatras

    BJP recalibrates Bengal campaign with youth outreach, professional meets and yatras

    24 Feb 2026 3:47 PM IST
    electoral rolls

    Bengal SIR: SC allows additional civil judges for electoral roll verification

    24 Feb 2026 12:27 PM IST
    Air ambulance crash

    All 7 on board Ranchi-Delhi air ambulance killed in crash in Jharkhand

    The Federal
    24 Feb 2026 7:17 AM IST

    According to the DGCA website, Delhi-based non-scheduled operator Redbird has six aircraft in its fleet, including the one that crashed

    Mukul Roy obit: Chanakya of Bengal politics, a Test cricket connoisseur

    Mukul Roy obit: 'Chanakya of Bengal politics', a Test cricket connoisseur

    23 Feb 2026 12:33 PM IST
    Mukul Roy

    Mukul Roy, former railway minister and Bengal's 'Chanakya' dies

    23 Feb 2026 9:11 AM IST
    Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi

    Adani hydropower project among Odisha's Rs 44,200 cr industrial surge

    22 Feb 2026 2:13 PM IST
    Five police personnel killed in SUV-truck collision

    Five police personnel killed in SUV-truck collision on NH-49 in Odisha’s Jharsuguda

    22 Feb 2026 1:22 PM IST
    Five Odisha school teachers held for ‘raping’ 13-year-old ‘for a long time’

    Five Odisha school teachers held for ‘raping’ 13-year-old ‘for a long time’

    22 Feb 2026 9:25 AM IST
    IRB Battalion, Haryana, Nuh

    Central forces to be deployed in West Bengal ahead of Assembly elections

    21 Feb 2026 6:25 PM IST
    BJP’s ethnic strategy in North Bengal falters ahead of Assembly elections

    BJP’s ethnic strategy in North Bengal falters ahead of Assembly elections

    21 Feb 2026 6:30 AM IST
    West Bengal BJP chief Samik Bhattacharya

    Bengal people can eat what they like, state BJP chief says amid Bihar fish-meat sale ban row

    19 Feb 2026 7:37 PM IST
    RG Kar protest

    How tepid R G Kar rape-murder probe is paralysing hospital's key services

    19 Feb 2026 7:11 PM IST
    whatsapp chats leaked

    TMC accuses EC of manipulating voter list via 'WhatsApp instructions'

    19 Feb 2026 2:48 PM IST
    Banglar Yuva Sathi scheme

    Bengal’s job crisis exposed? Queues for Yuva Sathi, anger outside Bikash Bhavan

    18 Feb 2026 4:00 PM IST
    Senior journalist Monideepa Banerjee speaks about the SIR controversy, identity politics, and upcoming West Bengal and Assam assembly elections.

    The election is over; Mamata has already won: Monideepa Banerjee

    17 Feb 2026 1:20 PM IST
    Banglar Yuva Sathi camp

    Banglar Yuva Sathi Scheme: Eligibility, how to apply; here’s all you need to know

    15 Feb 2026 4:06 PM IST
    Texas student arrest

    Bengal BLO calls lover’s husband ‘for SIR’, kills him, arrested

    14 Feb 2026 4:48 PM IST
    Mamata Banerjee, Rahul Gandhi, Arvind Kejriwal

    What Rahul, other Opposition leaders can learn from Mamata

    14 Feb 2026 4:00 PM IST
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