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Thursday, August 14, 2025
TopicBengal bypolls

Topic: Bengal bypolls

Eight consecutive bypoll losses since 2021 — what’s behind BJP’s downslide in Bengal

Post impressive performance in 2021 assembly polls, it has all gone downhill for Bengal BJP. It saw sharp decline in vote share in July panchayat polls, and has now lost Dhupguri to TMC.

TMC nominates Ex-Goa CM Luizinho Faleiro to Rajya Sabha

Faleiro, the former chief minister of Goa, had quit the Congress and joined the Trinamool Congress in September.

Polling begins for Bhabanipur by-polls, 2 other constituencies in Bengal amid Covid measures

TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee, who lost from the Nandigram constituency in the assembly elections earlier this year, has to win this by-poll to retain the chief minister's post.

Large rallies, Hindi songs, Tagore’s poems — Mamata’s high-voltage campaign to win Bhabanipur

West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee has addressed close to a dozen rallies and public meetings as Trinamool Congress carries out an intense campaign for 30 September bypoll in Bhabanipur.

West Bengal bypoll results: TMC leads in Kharagpur and Karimpur

Counting of votes began at 8 am Thursday amid tight security in three assembly seats of West Bengal where bypolls were held on 25 November.

On Camera

Dogs matter more to Indian middle class than people

Why do people who complain that our municipalities are incapable of offering proper shelter to dogs not worry about the pathetic shelter offered to refugees and victims of political persecution?

Slashing GST on waste can unlock Rs 1.8 lakh crore, high tax hurting circular economy goals—CSE

Centre for Science and Environment in new report makes case for rationalising GST on waste material, saying most informal operators can’t afford high tax & it also hinders recycling.

India, US troops to undertake joint military exercise next month, first after Op Sindoor

21st edition of annual joint military exercise will be held from 1 to 16 September, aimed at sharing military tech, operational best practices & disaster relief coordination methods.

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.