Addressing the media on Monday July 30 following Assam’s final draft list of eligible citizens, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee claimed that Bengalis living in Assam were targeted in the “divide and rule game plan.” Expressing her concern over the 40 lakh applicants who were denied spot on the[Read More…]
West Bengal Lokayukta (Amendment) Bill, 2018, to keep the Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee out of purview has been passed in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly on Thursday. Section 9(a) of the The West Bengal Lokayukta (Amendment) Bill, 2018 mentions that “notwithstanding anything contained in any of the provisions of this[Read More…]
Amid the ongoing annual Martyr’s Day rally in West Bengal, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday announced that former BJP leader and Rajya Sabha MP Chandan Mitra has joined Trinamool Congress. CM Mamata also said that former CPM MP Moinul Hasan, Congress’ Sabina Yasmin and Mizoram advocate-general Biswajit Deb have[Read More…]
Sadhan Mandal from Nadiya, West Bengal, who was serving life imprisonment, has been termed as innocent by the Calcutta High Court. The lower court had sentenced the life imprisonment three years ago for allegedly misbehaving with his wife and inciting her to commit suicide. After a petition was filled by[Read More…]
Jalpaiguri, West Bengal: A mentally ill tribal woman was beaten brutally by a mob on suspicion of being a child-lifter in the Jalpaiguri district of West Bengal on Monday, said police. A suo motu case has been registered by under section 307 of the Indian Penal Code (attempt to murder).[Read More…]
At least 20 persons were injured on Monday when a part of the canopy collapsed at Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s rally in West Bengal‘s Midnapore town. The injured were rushed to the Midnapore Medical College and Hospital in ambulances in the Prime Minister’s convoy and even motorcycles. According to informed[Read More…]
Kolkata: At the same time when we all are glad that the Supreme Court has upheld the judgment in Nirbhaya gang-rape case, about 305 kilometers away from Kolkata, a mother has been running from the pillar to post to get justice for her five-year-old rape survivor. A 21-year-old neighbour raped[Read More…]
Kolkata: A 31-year-old Nigerian woman at the Kolkata airport was detained for allegedly trying to smuggle cocaine in her uterus on Monday night, ten days after five Chinese nationals were arrested from a railway station in the city with almost 200kg of a banned party drug. Narcotics Control Bureau’s eastern[Read More…]
Kolkata: The ruling Trinamool Congress on Thursday looked set for a resounding victory crushing all opposition parties in rural West Bengal, after nearly 11 hours of the vote count in the three-tier state Panchayat election, with the BJP emerging a distant second in almost all the districts. The Left Front,[Read More…]
Kolkata: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Mukul Roy’s brother-in-law has been arrested from Delhi for allegedly taking money from people on the pretext of getting them jobs in the Indian Railways, police here said on Saturday. Roy, however, described the arrest as a “political conspiracy” against him and his party. “Srijan[Read More…]
Kolkata: West Bengal Police has contacted four or five other states to ask for additional forces to be sent for the state panchayat polls on May 14, state Director General of Police Surajit Kar Purkayastha said on Friday. He claimed that the state has made “adequate” security arrangement for conducting the[Read More…]
Kolkata: The West Bengal Police has busted a racket selling carcass meat to restaurants and shops, and arrested six persons in this connection and seized nearly 20 tonnes of meat from a cold storage in Kolkata, a senior officer said on Thursday. The seizure took place during a joint raid by[Read More…]
Kolkata: Four persons were arrested on Wednesday in West Bengal’s Birbhum district for the killing of a young man, Sheikh Dildar, in a group clash between supporters of two parties, police said. They were remanded in seven-day police custody by a court. “One person had died in a clash between[Read More…]
Kolkata: The Central government has congratulated the West Bengal government as the state has become revenue surplus in March, officials said. In a recent communication to state Chief Secretary Malay De, Union Finance Secretary Hasmukh Adhia said: “As far as West Bengal is concerned, the revenue gap has come down from[Read More…]
Kolkata: Accusing the Congress and CPI-M of ganging up with the BJP for the coming panchayat polls, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday asked the two parties whether they supported the saffron outfit’s ideology in the state. “We want one to one fight against BJP, because it is[Read More…]
Kolkata: Parts of Raniganj in West Bengal’s Paschim Burdwan district that remained tense for most of this week following clashes over Ram Navami rallies limped back to normalcy on Friday even as large number of police and para-military forces continued to be deployed in the area to prevent any breach of[Read More…]
Kolkata: Former Indian soccer captain Bhaichung Bhutia on Monday announced that he has resigned from the Trinamool Congress and was no more associated with any political party. In a tweet, the country’s soccer icon also said he has quit all the official and political posts of the Trinamool Congress, which he[Read More…]
Kolkata: The chief of Hindu Samhati, a hardliner Hindu outfit in West Bengal, and three of its activists were on Wednesday arrested for allegedly attacking journalists at an event on occasion of the organisation’s 10th foundation day here, a senior police officer said. “Hindu Samhati chief Tapan Ghosh and three other[Read More…]
Kolkata: With reports of more symptoms of diarrhoea from adjoining areas of affected wards of Kolkata Municipal Corporation, over 1,100 people were so far affected due to the outbreak, an official said on Tuesday. As many as 10 wards of the corporation in the southern and eastern parts of the city[Read More…]
New Delhi: Trinamool Congress MP Dinesh Trivedi on Thursday said former Prime Ministers Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi are martyrs, and while criticising them, this should be kept in mind. Participating in a debate on the Budget in Lok Sabha, Trivedi said even though politicians may not agree with them on[Read More…]
Kolkata: In a formidable showing, West Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress wrested the Noapara Assembly seat from the Congress on Thursday and was all set to retain the Uluberia Lok Sabha seat with a huge margin even as the BJP emerged its main challenger. The counting was taken up on Thursday of[Read More…]
The two-day Bengal Global Business Summit organised by the state government has so far received new investment proposals worth Rs 2,19,925 crore, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee announced here on Wednesday. Addressing delegates on the concluding day of the meet, Banerjee said 50 per cent of last year’s business proposals and[Read More…]
Kolkata: A 17-year-old girl in West Bengal’s East Midnapore has appealed to the district authorities to allow her to kill herself as she has become pregnant after allegedly being raped by a man on the promise of marriage, police said on Saturday. “We got intimation from District Magistrate’s public grievance[Read More…]
West Bengal Governor Keshri Nath Tripathi on Wednesday condemned the incident of agitation by the student’s union in the Charuchandra College here and urged the students to show “student-like courtesy” towards the teachers. A teacher and a non-teaching staff of the college were allegedly manhandled by the students during an[Read More…]
Terming West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s visit to a temple in Birbhum district as “soft Hindutva”, state BJP President Dilip Ghosh on Wednesday said the ruling party was trying to arrest consolidation of “Hindu votes” in favour of his party. “If we go to temples, we are branded as[Read More…]
