People celebrate the first day of the year in different ways. Some party by the beach, some choose to stay home and some go on a jungle safari just like Priyanka Gandhi. On January 1, 2026, a ...

In West Bengal, like in Tamil Nadu and Bihar, more women than men were deleted during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls, an analysis of polling station-level data shows.

The police in Kolkata and Bidhannagar have stepped up their investigation into a complaint against the Enforcement Directorate’s raids on the Indian Political Action Committee’s office and the ...

KOLKATA: Sunday marked two months of the SIR rollout in Bengal as people struggle to get back something as basic as their voting right amid confusion among officials over which documents are kosher, ...

India's Gen Z believes in the BJP's development mode, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in election-bound West Bengal today, citing the party's landslide victory in the recent local body polls in ...

Block development officer Bharati Chik Baraik was summoned for a special revision hearing The officer and her family were scrutinized for missing names in the 2002 electoral roll The opposition ...

West-Bengal School Holidays in January 2026: The new academic session starts this year with the commencement of 2026. Schools usually start new sessions from March and April and therefore, the updated ...

Two suspected cases of Nipah virus disease were identified in West Bengal on January 11, 2026, at the ICMR–AIIMS Kalyani Virus Research and Diagnostic Laboratory (VRDL), prompting an immediate and ...

That man is Harry Stoner, played by Jack Lemmon in a performance that looks almost casual until you realize how little slack it allows. (Although no one should have allowed Lemmon to throw a baseball ...

Tiger Shroff, one of Bollywood’s most bankable stars, is celebrating his birthday today. The actor, known for his impressive martial arts skills and death-defying stunts, has been entertaining ...

BEIJING—When Yang Xingyue heard that tech company Xiaomi was offering free tours of its electric-vehicle plant, she dropped everything and applied for tickets. The odds weren’t good. After Xiaomi ...

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has sought a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe against West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, the state’s director general of police (DGP) and the ...