Indiatimes

At Durga Angan launch, CM Mamata Banerjee invokes goddess amid electoral roll revision row

KOLKATA: CM Mamata Banerjee laid the foundation stone for the construction of Durga Angan in New Town on Monday, invoking Bengal’s most popular religious icon, Ma Durga, for help in the fight against ...
The Telegraph

Mamata’s query on nationality test in SIR highlights alleged Bengali marginalisation

Mamata Banerjee on Monday once again tore into the Election Commission for the special intensive revision of the voter list, issuing a warning and raising questions on the rushed manner in which the ...
Indiatimes

Durga Angan site shifts, new plot in New Town ‘bigger, more suitable’

Kolkata: The site for Durga Angan, the temple complex dedicated to Durga, has suddenly been changed, from a plot opposite Eco Park in New Town to a new piece of land opposite the New Town bus terminus ...
Deccan Herald

Mamata now takes on BJP’s Hindutva with Durga Angan, Suvendu alleges site shifted under Muslim pressure

Mamata will lay the foundation of the ‘Durga Angan’, a temple of Goddess Durga, in New Town in Kolkata, just eight months after she inaugurated a grandiose temple of Lord Jagannatha in Digha, a ...
Mint

Bengal SIR: ‘AI used to delete 54 lakh names' – Mamata Banerjee's big claim, threatens to gherao EC office in Delhi

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday claimed that the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) being conducted by Election Commission of India was a huge "scam" being conducted with the help ...
IGN

Arise, Sir Idris! Actor Idris Elba Knighted in New Year Honours

Actor Idris Elba is knighted in the New Year Honours. The 53-year old Hollywood star from Hackney, London can now officially be called Sir Idris. Sir Idris, who rose to prominence for playing Stringer ...
The Hindu

SIR hearings begin in Bengal, 32 lakh 'unmapped' voters to be covered

The hearings under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls began in West Bengal on Saturday (December 27, 2025) with people queuing up in front of 3,234 centres across the State, a ...
The Financial Express

Bengal begins SIR hearings – Everything voters need to know about verification process

The state began a contentious verification phase on Saturday amid continued bias allegations from the ruling TMC. (Photo source: IE) More than 58 lakh voters were removed from the West Bengal ...
The Hindu

U.P. SIR schedule extended again, this time by a week

The Election Commission of India on Tuesday (December 30, 2025) revised the schedule for the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Uttar Pradesh yet again, extending it by a ...
India TV

Uttar Pradesh SIR: Voter list revision exercise completed, 2.89 crore names likely to be removed

The special intensive revision process of the electoral roll in Uttar Pradesh has been completed. The final figures and the draft voter list will be released on December 31. According to sources, ...
InfoWorld

JDK 26: The new features in Java 26

Java 26, due in March with structured concurrency, lazy constants, AOT object caching, and primitive types in patterns, instanceof, and switch, has entered a second rampdown phase for bug fixes. Java ...