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AA Edit | EC’s Six-crore Purge A Self-goal On SIR?

AA Edit | EC’s Six-crore Purge A Self-goal On SIR?

It is estimated that six crores of the 36 crore names in the electoral rolls in 16 states and three Union territories...

2 Sept 2026 12:03 AM IST

AA Edit | Stop Political Violence In Bengal

AA Edit | Stop Political Violence In Bengal

The fact that she is technically on the way out as caretaker CM until BJP chooses to anoint a head of its legislature...

8 May 2026 12:29 AM IST

K.J. Jacob |After Losing Its Last Bastion, Can Left Script Revival Story?

K.J. Jacob |After Losing Its Last Bastion, Can Left Script Revival...

The UDF, on the other hand, displayed unusual deftness going about its election campaign. It dismissed the LDF...

5 May 2026 11:30 PM IST

AA Edit | Record Turnouts In WB, TN A Big Boost For Democracy

AA Edit | Record Turnouts In WB, TN A Big Boost For Democracy

Over 85 per cent of the revised electorate of Tamil Nadu came to the booths and used the EVMs while the frenzy was more...

25 April 2026 12:22 AM IST

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | Women’s Quota, Size Of LS: Time For A Rethink?

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | Women’s Quota, Size Of LS: Time For A Rethink?

Consider also that the representation of women in high political office is slim. No woman has ever been a home minister...

24 April 2026 1:27 AM IST

Shikha Mukerjee | Bengal’s 5-year Thriller: Didi Faces Biggest Test?

Shikha Mukerjee | Bengal’s 5-year Thriller: Didi Faces Biggest Test?

They split out into the streets, outraged by a horrifying attack on a junior doctor raped and murdered inside a...

21 April 2026 11:14 PM IST

AA Edit | Ensure West Bengal Polls Are Fought Democratically

AA Edit | Ensure West Bengal Polls Are Fought Democratically

Whatever be the levels of resistance and legal challenges to the alleged machinations of SIR, protests should not...

3 April 2026 10:48 PM IST

The EC was responding to a story carried out by this paper in which former IAS officer Kannan Gopinathan had raised serious concerns with regard to sanctity of EVMs due to use of VVPAT machines, saying VVPATs have made EVMs amenable to hacking.

AA Edit | EC Can’t Act Arbitrarily, Rein In Transfer Powers

However, the Constitution does not confer on the EC the right to take over the functioning of the elected government and...

18 March 2026 12:12 AM IST

AA Edit | ECI Has To Revisit Its ‘Logic’ Behind West Bengal SIR

AA Edit | ECI Has To Revisit Its ‘Logic’ Behind West Bengal SIR

The ECI’s response, however, was not in a way that can inspire confidence in the minds of the people

21 Jan 2026 12:22 AM IST

Mamata Banerjee (PTI file image)

Mamata Banerjee lands in a tight spot after audio clip asking BJP man...

The BJP which tweeted the audio clip lodged a complaint against the CM with West Bengal's CEO Ariz Aftab and demanded...

28 March 2021 9:15 AM IST

The first list of 57 names, which came a day ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modis first election rally in the state, also has names of former Indian cricketer Ashoke Dinda and ex-IPS officer Bharati Ghosh. (Twitter)

BJP releases first list of candidates for West Bengal Assembly polls

Suvendu Adhikari, a former prot©g© and close confidante of TMC supremo and CM Mamata Banerjee, will take on the latter...

7 March 2021 8:29 AM IST

Polling for the sixth, seventh and the eighth phase will be held on April 22, April 26 and April 29, respectively. (Representational Photo: ANI)

EC rules out clubbing poll phases

Mamata Banerjee on Thursday evening also appealed to the EC to club the remaining phases of the polls into one

16 April 2021 1:22 AM IST