

Wednesday 15 April '09
Chief Electoral Officer Debashis Sen has asked all district magistrates to submit a report on how many FIRs have been lodged till date...Saturday 11 April '09
The state government has not acted on an Election Commission directive to transfer senior police officers from election related duties for allegedly having a bias towards the ruling party.Thursday
9 April '09The Darjeeling district administration is in a fix after a drivers’ association announced that it will not ferry any political leader or worker other than those belonging to Gorkha Janamukti Morcha to the hills.Thursday
9 April '09Almost three weeks have passed since Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee had submitted a list of 46,000 voters which, according to her, were fakes.Wednesday
8 April '09Although the Election Commission had said a few weeks ago that all the information related to violation of the model code of conduct will be uploaded on its website...Thursday
2 April '09Denied any Lok Sabah seat by the Trinamool Congress — not long ago, Amar Singh was seen by the side of Mamata Banerjee at press meets in Kolkata...Wednesday
1 April '09At Nandigram — the ground zero of the Trinamool Congress’ resurrection — the ruling CPM has started painting walls with graffiti with ominous messages that could face ire from the Election Commission.Monday
30 March '09After receiving several complaints from booth level officers and booth level agents about the presence of many illegal voters in the electoral roll of Haldia Assembly constituency...Monday
30 March '09Following the recent blast in Alipurduar, the polling personnel in Jalpaiguri have voiced their concern over security and proper compensation in case of any casualty on duty.Thursday
26 March '09The electoral office of Haldia Assembly constituency is in a fix after being flooded with around 4,000 applications for inclusion in the voters list that do not even have proper details or identity proof.Thursday
26 March '09While the State Election Commission survey in Garia reveals that the allegations by the Trinamool were ‘partly true’ as 53 voters were found having almost the same Electoral Photo Identity Card numbers...Sunday
22 March '09For long, the Left Front’s adversaries have accused it of “scientific rigging” in the Marxist bastion without much luck, but this time around...Saturday
21 March '09The state Election Commission has decided to investigate the voter’s list of South Kolkata constituency, which according to Trinamool Chief Mamata Banerjee consists of 46,000 bogus voters...Thursday
19 March '09Since March 2, when the model code of conduct came into force with the announcement of poll schedules by the Election Commission, nearly 33 cases relating to the violation of the code have been lodged with the Commission.Monday
16 March '09Not a very long time ago, Rs 50 crore was spent to beautify the city pavements with paver-blocks and tiles. The tiles did make the pavements look nice, but not for long.Monday
9 March '09To attract voters ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, the Left Front government in Bengal has gone on a foundation stone-laying spree.Sunday
8 March '09Hundreds of schemes under some MPs’ Local Area Development fund that had been hanging fire have suddenly been started after the Lok Sabha election poll dates...Thursday
5 March '09Even as the state Election Commission is seeking to ensure that all citizens have Electoral Photo Identity Cards by registering voters in borough offices instead of school and colleges, the registration system has left voters unhappy.Wednesday
4 March '09Mayor Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya has decided to slap a notice to the developer of the twin parkomats in the city after there were allegations of financial irregularities in several deals between the Kolkata Municipal Corporation and the developer, Simplex Projects Ltd.Wednesday
4 March '09Poor infrastructure has played a spoilsport, as the voters failed to get the desired response from Anandababu.Tuesday
3 March '09After the pullout by the Tata Motors and DLF, the Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) has now put its Rs 2,000-crore agro-retail plans in the state on hold following problems with Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC)...Thursday
26 February '09The Examiner of Local Accounts has found serious financial irregularities in car-parking projects — Parkomat at Rawdon Street and at Lindsay Street...Friday
20 February '09While the state government has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for the country’s first Light Rail Transit System in Kolkata, it’s not sure how it will raise funds for the Rs 4,500-crore project that will link the city’s southern suburbs and northern suburbs.Thursday
19 February '09The Left Front-led civic body has failed to shut down around 135 illegal dyeing and bleaching factories in the Garden Reach area...Wednesday
18 February '09Ward 135, in the grip of severe enteric outbreak, is being deprived of potable water because Mrinal Mondal, Member-Mayor-in-C, water supply has allegedly shifted the water pump of the ward to his own ward.