West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has written again to the Chief Election Commissioner, objecting to the methodology of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.
Soumitra Khan was detained after leading a BJP protest outside the Bankura SP office over an Indas murder case.
Clashes between the Bharatiya Janata Party and All India Trinamool Congress erupted in Kolkata, leading to vandalism and arson at rival political events.
A 22-year-old Bangladeshi fisherman, living at sea for a day after his boat made an abrupt manoeuvre, was rescued by the Indian Coast Guard near the India–Bangladesh Maritime Boundary Line.
The local BJP unit staged a protest after the incident in Kolkata's Lake Town area.
The ED raided I-PAC offices and Pratik Jain's residence and office in Kolkata as part of a money laundering probe. Mamata Banerjee condemned the action, accusing the BJP of seizing Trinamool documents and strategy files.
Addressing a public meeting in South 24 Parganas, West Bengal Chief Minister said she would personally fight the case as a trained lawyer and accused the Election Commission of administrative excesses ahead of the assembly elections.
Police action followed a complaint filed by the personal security officer, though Kabir denied the allegation and claimed that the bodyguard had instead attacked him, describing the case as politically motivated.
Parno Mitra had joined the Bharatiya Janata Party in 2019 and unsuccessfully contested the 2021 West Bengal Assembly elections from Baranagar.
A second mob killing involving a Hindu man has been reported in Bangladesh just days after the lynching of Dipu Chandra Das.
