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

    The Federal
    27 Feb 2026 2:17 PM IST

    A 5.5 magnitude earthquake shook Kolkata and nearby West Bengal districts on Friday afternoon. No casualties reported; tremors felt across high-rise buildings

    Kolkata earthquake
    West Bengal
    Supreme Court of India SC pensionary benefits to women officers
    India

    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’
    India

    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

    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

    24 Feb 2026 7:17 AM IST
    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’

    Agencies
    22 Feb 2026 9:25 AM IST

    Private school teachers held in Kendrapara after 13-year-old accuses them of prolonged sexual abuse; police and child welfare panel launch probe

    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
    Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and CEC Gyanesh Kumar

    West Bengal SIR row escalates as EC summons Chief Secretary to New Delhi

    13 Feb 2026 6:53 PM IST
    Bengal: BJP deploys external aides to plug grassroots gaps ahead of 2026 polls

    West Bengal elections: BJP deploys external aides, private agencies to plug grassroots gaps

    13 Feb 2026 2:45 PM IST
    Murshidabad, Bengal

    Humayun Kabir begins building Babri-style mosque in Bengal's Murshidabad

    11 Feb 2026 6:02 PM IST
    Bengal police operation to arrest forgery suspect in Mahua Moitra case halted in Noida

    Bengal police allege political interference in UP over Mahua Moitra 'fake' chat case

    11 Feb 2026 2:58 PM IST
    Why in West Bengal, govt-recognised madrasas aren’t the isolated religious hubs as portrayed by BJP

    Why in West Bengal, govt-recognised madrasas aren’t the isolated religious hubs as portrayed by BJP

    10 Feb 2026 7:11 PM IST
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