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Thursday, November 27, 2025
TopicWest Bengal assembly elections

Topic: West Bengal assembly elections

Netaji planning commission, Netaji police battalion — Mamata’s poll-year budget is big on Bose

Mamata Banerjee presented Budget for 2021-22 as Finance Minister Amit Mitra excused himself on account of health issues. State elections are slated to be held in the next two months.

Why talks of a ‘secular front’ against BJP & Trinamool have hit a wall in Bengal

Indian Secular Front, formed by Furfura Sharif cleric Abbas Siddiqui, and Congress have discussed a potential alliance in upcoming polls. But an old 'rivalry' has queered pitch.

BJP urges EC to give central observers final say over deployment of forces in Bengal polls

The BJP delegation also talked about the possible misuse of the provision that allows people with disability and voters above 80 to cast their votes by postal ballots.

Home ministry has time till July 2021 to frame and notify rules for CAA implementation

Extension has been given by a parliamentary committee. BJP is in a bind because Bengal & Assam are going to polls, and their voters hold opposing views on CAA.

Budget puts roads in focus in poll-bound states, Bengal & Assam tea workers get welfare push

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s party BJP is hoping to win West Bengal for the first time and retain Assam in assembly polls later this year.

Former West Bengal minister Rajib Banerjee quits TMC after 2 decades

By resigning, Banerjee, who stepped down from the state cabinet last week, has sparked speculation that he might switch to the BJP.

Netaji laughs ‘from his secret place’ & Bharat vs Lutyens’ India

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

SC refuses to entertain PIL seeking ‘free, safe, fair’ elections in West Bengal

During the brief hearing, the lawyer said Hindu voters are 'not allowed to go out to vote' in places where Muslims are in majority.

Why should ‘Jai Shri Ram’ chant upset anyone, says Yogi on Mamata refusing to give speech

UP CM Yogi Adityanath says the next govt in West Bengal will be formed by BJP, and explains why UP brought in the anti-conversion law and a new excise policy.

‘Will suffer Mamata misrule, not BJP’ — Bengal intellectuals don’t want another ‘poriborton’

Looking to unseat Mamata in 2021 Bengal polls, BJP has been trying to establish a rapport with intelligentsia. It hasn’t seen much success.

On Camera

Dubai Air Show crash needs calm analysis, not outrage and noisy nationalism

Sometimes the machine just gives up, unable to keep pace with the will of the military mind of the air warrior. That’s what happened in Palam 1989 and Dubai 2025.

Chhattisgarh pitches state as hub for ‘specialty steel’, nets investment plans of Rs 6,321 crore

Speaking at 2nd Investor Connect, CM Vishnu Deo Sai says 'we have been able to attract a lot of investors.' The focus of the event was the steel sector. 

Asim Munir set to take charge as overall commander of Pakistan military, most powerful Army chief ever

In largest overhaul of military command in 5 decades, Field Marshal Asim Munir set to assume post of Chief of Defence Forces tomorrow, as Army claims primacy in Pakistan armed forces.

A tribute to Tejas. India’s delay culture is the real enemy in the skies

It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.