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Thursday, September 4, 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

On Arundhati Roy, mother-daughter conflicts, and the burden of being a ‘good mother’

When reading the book, one can see Roy’s mother as a 'fascist government' unto herself, the centre of her own cult. In Arundhati’s words, Mary Roy was ‘mother guru’.

A Rs 33,000 cr ‘banking fraud’: ED’s case against Arvind Dham, Amtek’s web of ‘500 shell companies’

ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.

‘Loyal wingman’ to full ICBM triad & air defence, China’s show of power at Victory Day parade

China flaunted military might & modernisation as it displayed stealth drones, anti-satellite system & cyber warfare contingent during parade to mark victory over Japan in WWII.

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.