A government-aided school was indefinitely shut down following communal tension in West Bengal’s Howrah district. According to an Indian Express report, around 100 students of the Tehatta High School on Tuesday marched to National Highway-6 and blocked the road. They protested against an order which has the school under lockdown[Read More…]
CPI-ML (Red Star) General Secretary KN Ramachandran has been missing in West Bengal since Sunday. The veteran Naxalite leader who was travelling from Lucknow had arrived at the Kolkata railway station on Sunday evening and has been unreachable then after. He was scheduled to lead a central delegation of his[Read More…]
Finance minister Arun Jaitley was scheduled to attend the 3rd edition of the Bengal global business event but did not show up on Friday. Sources say that he was believed to have been asked by the party high command to stay away. After the arrest of two TMC MPs Tapas[Read More…]
The ongoing protests against forceful possession of land for a power project in the Bhangar area of South 24 Parganas in West Bengal took a violent turn Tuesday. A mob wrecked at least ten police vehicles. The protests have intensified over the last two days A man was brought dead[Read More…]
Farmers in West Bengal are protesting against alleged “forceful” possession of 16 acres of farmland for the project by the Power Grid Corporation of India. Violent protests have erupted in West Bengal’s South 24 Pargana district after villagers opposed to a power sub-station project clashed with police over the forceful[Read More…]
At least six persons, all women have died in a stampede that occurred near Kochuberia in Sagar Islands during Gangasagar fair in West Bengal. Over 35 people have been injured in the incident, according to the reports. “Six aged women died at Kachuberia temporary hospital due to heart attack. They[Read More…]
At least six persons have died and 15 others have been injured in a stampede that took place near Kochuberia in Sagar Islands during Gangasagar fair in West Bengal. The incident occurred while the devotees were trying to board a launch at the Kachuberia ghats. The stampede occurred around 5pm[Read More…]
Ganga Sagar mela is facing the after effects of demonetisation. The famous Ganga Sagar mela, which witnesses lakhs of deities coming every year seem to have lost its number of pilgrims this year. Not only is this fair considered auspicious but also is one of the most awaited religious fairs[Read More…]
Trinamool Congress MP Sudip Bandyopadhyay was arrested on Tuesday by the CBI as a suspect in the Rose Valley chit fund scam case. This is the second arrest of a TMC leader in a week. Another senior Trinamool MP Tapas Pal, accused in the same case, was sent to custody[Read More…]
A small town, Dhulagarh in West Bengal has been under panic since Dec 13, following violent clashes broke between two communities. Interestingly, West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee, has not spoken even a single word about the incident. Though the incident has not reported by media houses but Banerjee, has hogged[Read More…]
At a time when people are facing problems across the country due to note ban, the banned currencies are selling at a premium in the serpentine bylanes of trading hub Burrabazar at central Kolkata. As per reports in TOI, Old notes of Rs 500 and Rs 1000 will fetch you[Read More…]
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee conveyed state government’s displeasure at the FBI team’s surprise visit, without informing the state, to question alleged Islamic State operative Mohammed Masiuddin, alias Abu al-Musa, a resident of Labhpur in the state. Sources quoted by Times of India said that West Bengal DGP Surajit[Read More…]
In a noteworthy progress, Kolkata, together with 10 other cities in the world, has been honoured with the best cities of 2016 award for inspiring and innovative programme concerning solid waste management, during the C40 Mayors Summit held in Mexico City. Notably, Kolkata is the only Indian city to receive[Read More…]
High drama unfolded on Thursday night after the “deployment of the army” at certain toll plazas in West Bengal. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee decided to stay put at the state secretariat ‘Nabanna’ for the night seeking Army’s removal from the second Hooghly bridge toll plaza near Nabanna. Notably, even after the[Read More…]
Chief Minister of West Bengal and Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Benerjee on Wednesday led a protest at Jantar Mantar in Delhi demanding a rollback of the policy of demonetisation from Prime Minister Modi, citing inconvenience caused to the general public. Now another TMC leader and West Bengal state power minister[Read More…]
BJP sweeps Assam, MP; TMC takes West Bengal; AIADMK in Tamil Nadu The results of bypolls to four Lok Sabha and nine Assembly seats will boost the morale of BJP as the party has cleaned sweeped Madhya Pradesh and Assam. Counting of votes took place on Tuesday for four Lok[Read More…]
CPI(M) West Bengal unit on Friday alleged that a huge amount of cash has been deposited in the bank account of the BJP state unit. The deposits were made hours before the demonetisation announcement and using only the bank notes of Rs 500 and Rs 1000, The Hindu Business Line reported. An[Read More…]
In a shocker for Bengal politics, the Congress party on Monday announced to contest the bypolls of two parliamentary and one Assembly seats alone, thus putting an end to the longstanding alliance between CPM and Congress. Congress chief Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury , pointed out that the CPM has already declared[Read More…]
Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur officials on Monday claimed that a group of students were developing drones using indigenous hardware and software. The drones, being developed under the institute’s Aerial Robotics Kharagpur (ARK) initiative, are being given shape at the Centre for Excellence in Robotics and funded by the Sponsored Research[Read More…]
Four years after woman’s rights activist Suzette Jordan was gangraped by five men in a moving car, the main accused in the case has been nabbed. On Thursday night, Kader Khan was apprehended from a hideout in Delhi on Thursday night along with an accomplice named Ali. The two will[Read More…]
Despite being in a ‘majority’ around 300 families in Bengal’s Kanglapahari village of Birbhum district have been victim of ‘minority’ appeasement as the Hindu families for the fourth consecutive year were denied to perform Durga Puja following the objection from few Muslim families. As the local administration has been denying[Read More…]
Mamata Banerjee government in Bengal has extended a cordial hand to Tata Group post Singur verdict. After spearheading the campaign that led to Tata being ousted, she has put forward a proposal offering land for an industrial hub to the company. State finance minister Amit Mitra said, “We have a[Read More…]
Bengal has reported the highest number of dengue deaths- 24 so far this year against 14 in 2015. As many as 5,639 cases have been reported as yet against 8,156 last year. Officials say this figure is bound to increase as at least six more weeks of ‘dengue season’ remain.[Read More…]