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West Bengal • October 17, 2026

The Rain Plan Was on Paper: What Police Told Puja Organisers Before the Kolkata Stampede

Three weeks before the crush at the Chorbagan Sarbojanin Durga Puja pandal, Kolkata’s police commissioner gave the city’s organisers two instructions: keep entry and exit routes separate, and plan for rain. On Saturday evening, in rain, a surge at the pandal’s exit gate left at least 17 people dead, PTI reports. It called them feared […]

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Former West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee
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TMC Name, ‘Flowers & Grass’ Symbol Frozen by ECI Ahead of West Bengal Bypolls

The Election Commission of India has frozen the Trinamool Congress’s name and its “Flowers & Grass” symbol. In an interim order, it barred both rival factions from using them in the upcoming West Bengal Assembly bypolls. The decision leaves Mamata Banerjee without the party’s best-known electoral identity weeks before voters go to the polls. The […]

By Nawaz • 5 min read

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