New Delhi: Trinamool Congress strongman and Bhatpara MLA Arjun Singh is all set to join the BJP here in the presence of senior party leaders, party sources said on Thursday. The legislator was miffed with the Trinamool leadership as he was denied a Lok Sabha ticket from Barrackpore parliamentary constituency,[Read More…]
New Delhi: A Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) delegation here on Wednesday met Election Commission officials and demanded that West Bengal be declared a “super sensitive” state for 2019 Lok Sabha polls due to its “history of violence”. The BJP delegation, led by Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad and comprising[Read More…]
Kolkata: Trinamool Congress star Lok Sabha poll candidate Mimi Chakraborty is brimming with enthusiasm for her new role, and says she is “ready with her sneakers on”. Chakraborty on Tuesday became Trinamool’s surprise choice for Jadavpur constituency, replacing Harvard University professor and eminent historian Sugato Bose. “I just want everyone[Read More…]
Kolkata: For Trinamool Congress celebrity candidate Nusrat Jahan, her new stint in politics is just like household work, and she believes she can easily balance her new role with her film career. “For me, managing home and shooting for films both are my full-time jobs. Now I don’t think to[Read More…]
Moon Moon Sen will contest election from Asansol. She had joined Trinamool Congress in 2014, winning the then Lok Sabha polls from Bankura constituency.
Trinamool Congress supremo and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday announced the candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, a list which had 41% women candidates. One name in the list is that of famous actor Nusrat Jahan, the latest movie celebrity to jump into politics. Nusrat Jahan who has[Read More…]
Trinamool Congress on Tuesday announced its list of candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha Elections. The party has decided to field 41 percent woman an increment from last Lok Sabha elections where the party had 35 percent female candidates. While addressing the media, party chief and West Bengal Chief Minister[Read More…]
With the dates of the general elections announced on Sunday, speculations that top Congress leaders from Bengal might join the saffron camp arose and Deepa Das Munshi wife of late former Union Minister Priya Ranjan Das Munshi was expected to be one of them. Deepa Das, while talking to media[Read More…]
Kolkata: West Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress will announce its candidates’ list for the Lok Sabha polls on Tuesday, party supremo and chief minister Mamata Banerjee said here on Monday. Banerjee said the list would be declared after meetings of the party’s steering committee and district presidents. “We will announce the[Read More…]
A 21-year-old college student identified as Ranjan Debnath committed suicide while in a video conversation with his girlfriend at Barasat’s Duttapukur on Sunday night. According to a report in a leading publication, the third-year student Debnath of New Barrackpore College, had been in depression after his father married for the second time[Read More…]
In a shocking incident, a man on his way to a wedding ceremony was brutally assaulted by mob on suspicion of being a child lifter. The mob thought he was a child-lifter, because the frightened youth could not properly explain his purpose of visit in the area. The incident took[Read More…]
Kolkata: West Bengal BJP leader Mukul Roy here on Monday said those who were raising questions about the air strikes on a terror camp in Balakot, Pakistan, were insulting the country’s armed forces and acting like anti-nationals. “Those who are questioning the IAF air strikes are insulting the Indian Army[Read More…]
Kolkata: West Bengal Governor K.N. Tripathi on Sunday courted controversy when he attacked those who have questioned the success of the air strikes carried out by India in Pakistan’s Balakot. Addressing a function here, Tripathi without taking any names warned such people doubting the impact of the air strikes. “There[Read More…]
Mita, an English teacher when asked that why she is against war, she said that every death in the battlefield ultimately leaves numerous in the soldiers’ families devastated.
Kolkata: The Border Security Force (BSF) has seized fake Indian currency notes with a face value of Rs 47,000 in Rs 2,000 and Rs 500 denominations from West Bengal’s Malda district and arrested one person, an official said on Friday. Acting on a tip-off, the BSF troopers nabbed a suspect[Read More…]
Kolkata: Five persons have been arrested for assaulting a Kashmiri shawl trader in West Bengal’s Nadia district, police said on Thursday. Jawed Ahmed Khan, 27, was assaulted by a group of people in Taherpur area on February 18 but he was rescued, a police officer said. He said Khan’s safety[Read More…]
Days after a Kashmiri doctor said he was considering leaving Kolkata city after his daughters complained of ostracism in school and neighbourhood in the aftermath of the Pulwama terror strike, a class-12 student from the same city received several rape and life threats for a post on the plight of Kashmiris[Read More…]
New Delhi: The West Bengal government on Tuesday said that the Supreme court cannot go into the validity of a closure report filed by the state police in a criminal matter as this jurisdiction rests with the magistrate’s court. The bench of Justice A.K. Sikri, Justice S. Abdul Nazeer and[Read More…]
Kolkata: The Special Task Force (STF) of Kolkata Police arrested an operative of terror outfit Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) who allegedly got training under Kausar, one of the key accused in Burdwan’s Khagragarh blast case of 2014, an officer said here on Tuesday. “Asif Iqbal alias Nadeem (22), an active JMB[Read More…]
West Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress on Saturday organised a candle march led by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee here to protest against the terror attack on a paramilitary convoy in Jammu and Kashmir that killed 49 troopers while the opposition Left Front and the BJP also hit the streets. During the[Read More…]
Kolkata: Manipur’s legendary human rights activist Irom Sharmila, who continued a fast-unto-death protest for 16 years demanding the repeal of an Act, on Friday said she dreams of a world without caste, discrimination and dictatorship. “I want to leave for my children a world without caste, discrimination, and dictatorship, and[Read More…]
Kolkata: Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee on Monday blamed the BJP for party MLA Satyajit Biswas’ murder and claimed those who are seeking protection from central leaders in Delhi will be brought back and put to justice. Biswas, a Trinamool MLA from Nadia district’s Krishnagunj, was shot dead from point-blank[Read More…]
Kolkata: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Mukul Roy was named in a police complaint here on Sunday in the Trinamool Congress legislator Satyajit Biswas murder case, police said. Biswas, a popular Dalit leader, was shot dead by unidentified assailants while he was attending a Saraswati Puja programme in the Nadia district[Read More…]
Shillong: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Saturday began questioning Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar in connection with the chit fund case, an official said. “They (CBI) have started interrogating Kumar in their (CBI) Shillong branch office since 11 a.m. on the matter,” an official told IANS on the[Read More…]
Jalpaiguri: Amid BJP’s accusations of harassment and intimidation by the state’s ruling Trinamool Congress, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to address a public meeting in Jalpaiguri district’s Churabhandar on Friday, in a bid to give a further fillip to the saffron outfit’s Lok Sabha poll campaign in northern West[Read More…]