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SIR, anti-incumbency, resurgent Left-Cong make Bengal polls a nail-biter

SIR, anti-incumbency, resurgent Left-Cong make Bengal polls a nail-biter

28 April 2026 8:07 PM IST

Matua community procession in Thakurnagar in West Bengal

Matua voters divided even as SIR deletions cast shadow over Bengal polls

28 April 2026 6:30 AM IST

BJP fields Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay descendant for West Bengal polls 2026.

After Vande Mataram, it's Bankim: Electoral politics heats up in Bengal's Naihati

27 April 2026 6:30 AM IST

The BJP has tried to appropriate the legacy of Bengali literary icon Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay to challenge the states Trinamool Congress in the 2026 Assembly elections. Bankim Chandra photo: Wikimedia Commons

Bengal's battle for Bankim: BJP localises nationalist pitch to counter TMC in Naihati

26 April 2026 6:30 AM IST

BJP candidate Suvendu Sarkar being allegedly manhandled

Murshidabad blast, candidate assaults shadow Bengal's 90 per cent turnout

23 April 2026 6:52 PM IST

Samayun Sheikh (front) and other migrant workers from West Bengal who hired an SUV to return home in Murshidabad district from neighbouring Odisha to cast votes in the April 23 elections.

Second disenfranchisement? Travel hurdles rob Bengal’s migrant workers of their votes

22 April 2026 7:54 PM IST

Hindutva politics in Bengal

From land crusade heart, Nandigram emerges as Hindutva hub in Bengal | Ground Report

22 April 2026 3:58 PM IST

Noor Joined Congress

West Bengal polls: There is a BJP-TMC nexus, says ex-TMC leader Mausam Noor

21 April 2026 10:17 PM IST

West Bengal Jangalmahal

Bengal polls: Peace returns to Jangalmahal, development yet to catch up

21 April 2026 7:31 PM IST

west bengal malda potato

Bengal polls: Farmers’ distress in Malda turns into political ‘hot potato’ for TMC

21 April 2026 10:25 AM IST

In Bengals Muslim heartland, quiet discontent tests TMCs grip

In Bengal's Muslim heartland, quiet discontent tests TMC's grip

20 April 2026 4:00 PM IST

Bansabati’s Raj Rajeswari Mata temple

BJP may flag ‘infiltrators’ but Bengal border villages tell a different story | Ground report

20 April 2026 6:30 AM IST

West Bengal voter deletion

Murshidabad's royal descendants face 'existential crisis’ due to voter deletions

17 April 2026 2:56 PM IST

Murshidabad electoral roll adjudication

Polls a week away, 12,000 Murshidabad voters remain in a limbo | Ground report

15 April 2026 1:42 PM IST

Junglemahal before West Bengal elections 2026

Bengal elections: Peace came to Jangalmahal, but prosperity didn't follow | Ground Report

12 April 2026 4:13 PM IST

West Bengals fish politics

In Bengal, TMC fiercely defends bastion as BJP tries to melt fish-loving Bengali heart

12 April 2026 6:30 AM IST

SIR mass deletion row in West Bengal

Bengal polls: 20 days to go for phase 1, chaos continues over missing names after SIR

4 April 2026 1:31 PM IST

Indian government mulls using reptiles to guard porous Bangladesh border

Wild East? BSF may use snakes, crocodiles to guard porous Bangladesh border

2 April 2026 4:00 PM IST

West Bengal assembly elections

Bengal Leftists shed atheist avatar to keep up with times, don religion on sleeve

2 April 2026 6:30 AM IST

Amit Shah

From ‘Didi-o-Didi’ to welfare push, softer tone, cultural reset: BJP reworks Bengal playbook

31 March 2026 10:25 AM IST

Ratna Debnath

BJP uses RG Kar victim’s mother’s candidacy to push poll agenda on safety and justice

29 March 2026 11:21 AM IST

Humayun Kabir (left), Asaduddin Owaisi

West Bengal elections: Why Owaisi-Humayun alliance could hurt Congress, more than TMC

28 March 2026 11:49 AM IST

Trinamool Congress MP Kirti Azad

Bengal pre-poll violence puts EC’s zero-tolerance policy to test

26 March 2026 6:30 AM IST

West Bengal Congress protest rally

In Bengal, Congress bets on 'BC Roy legacy' for 2026 solo Assembly election run

23 March 2026 9:33 PM IST

Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and CEC Gyanesh Kumar

Bengal elections: A three-tier strategy behind EC's bureaucratic reshuffle

20 March 2026 10:02 PM IST

R G Kar Medical College and Hospital

RG Kar in the eye of the storm again as man killed in hospital lift collapse

20 March 2026 3:28 PM IST

BJP campaigns for West Bengal elections

Bengal elections | BJP lists 111 faces more, includes star power, former Union minister

19 March 2026 6:43 PM IST

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to protest against SIR

TMC packs a punch with new faces, ticket reshuffle, and social coalition boost

17 March 2026 9:02 PM IST

Mamata Banerjee

TMC under pressure as welfare politics meets voter frustration in Bengal

17 March 2026 8:09 PM IST

EC announces 2026 Assembly election schedule

EC releases 2-phase Bengal poll even as over 60 lakh voters' fate remains unknown

15 March 2026 9:00 PM IST