Kolkata: All India Trinamool Congress (AITMC) organises protests across the state to condemn the gruesome murder of 5 Bengalis in Assam. TMC condemn the brutal killings of innocent Bengalis in Bhartiya Janata Party-ruled State. Thousands of people have hit the streets in protest today. West Bengal Chief Minister has urged[Read More…]
Siliguri (West Bengal): Targeting the ruling BJP at the Centre on the issue of National Register of Citizens (NRC), West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said Bengal does not bow before anyone and will provide shelter to all those people who have been wronged and face discrimination. “Bengal[Read More…]
Kolkata: The West Bengal government is considering construction of a skywalk beside the over two-century old Kalighat Kali temple, one of the city’s landmarks visited by thousands of devotees and tourists every day, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on Friday. The structure would be similar to the newly built skywalk[Read More…]
Kolkata: The Trinamool Congress will hold a meeting with all its party MPs, MLAs and senior leaders on November 16 to chalk out a blueprint for a proposed anti-BJP rally to be held here on January 19, 2019, a party official said on Thursday. The meeting, to be held in[Read More…]
The National University of Juridical Sciences (NUJS), Kolkata, has introduced a Harry Potter elective course, titled – An Interface between Fantasy Fiction Literature and Law: Special Focus on Rowling’s Potterverse – for the students of the 4th and the 5th year of the BA LLB (Hons) programme in the winter[Read More…]
In a horrific incident on Wednesday in Asansol of West Bengal, a 28-year-old pregnant woman was gang-raped by three men who forcefully entered into her house and committed the shocking act in the night. As per the police officials, the woman who is in the fourth month of her pregnancy[Read More…]
Kolkata: Along with worshiping goddess Kali during the ongoing festive time of Durga Puja, India is also amid the storm of #MeToo movement, battling against the sexual assaults done to the woman and asking for their safety and rights. In a bid to bring out the struggles of sex workers,[Read More…]
The BJP on Wednesday declared senior leader Mukul Roy as chief of BJP campaign committee for West Bengal. Former, Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader, Mukul Roy is considered as a highly skilled leader and BJP wants to utilise the organisational skills of Roy in the upcoming polls. It is expected that[Read More…]
Kolkata, Sep 26 (IANS) Peeved over the vandalism during the BJP-sponsored 12-hour shutdown in West Bengal on Wednesday, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee warned that police will take stern action against those who indulged in hooliganism and violence. Banerjee also directed the police to enforce The West Bengal Maintenance of Public[Read More…]
Within a month of the Majerhat bridge collapse here in West Bengal, that claimed three lives, an under construction bridge in South 24 Parganas collapsed on Monday, police said. “Part of the under construction bridge over Kalnagini river in Kawkdeep area collapsed at around 10 a.m. No one has been[Read More…]
Congress President Rahul Gandhi in a move to change of guard appointed Somendra Nath Mitra as the West Bengal party chief. Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury has been removed from the position and made the Chairman of the Campaign Committee on Friday. Chowdhury has not been in support of an electoral alliance[Read More…]
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said people deserve to know exactly what happened to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose after the Taihoku air crash in 1945. “On this day in 2015, our government declassified the #NetajiFiles. What happened to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose after the air crash at[Read More…]
The West Bengal government plans to pull down the entire the entire span of the Majerhat bridge to build a new one within a year. There were doubts about whether the deadline is sufficient for it because of the challenges of erecting a structure over rail tracks and getting work[Read More…]
Kolkata, Sep 16 (IANS) A massive fire broke out in Central Kolkata’s Bagri Market on Sunday but there were no reports of any casualty or injury. “The fire erupted around 2.45 a.m. Almost 30 fire engines have been deployed. We are trying our level best to bring the fire under control,”[Read More…]
Three days after the Majerhat bridge collapsed in Kolkata, another bridge caved in in Darjeeling district of West Bengal on Friday, police said. No casualty or injury has, however, been reported so far. The bridge over Pichla river in Phansidewa block came down when a lorry carrying bricks was crossing it, they said.
West Bengal BJP President Dilip Ghosh on Thursday claimed that negligence on the part of the state government led to the partial collapse of a south Kolkata bridge and urged Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to conduct a thorough investigation into the matter instead of covering it up by bringing other[Read More…]
State Congress president Adhir Chowdhury demanded an ‘answer’ from West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee and Public Works Department Minister Firhad Hakim. The collapsed Majerhat bridge deserved better maintenance. There are reports that there was a pit near the bridge that remained unattended for quite some time, I don’t know[Read More…]
A Trinamool Congress activist was found dead at Bhangar in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district on Sunday after being missing since Saturday night, police said. While the relative of the deceased claimed that the state ruling party activist has been killed by opposition party workers, police said they have not found any proof of murder. “The[Read More…]
A Bangla customer of HDFC told to “Go to Pakistan or Bangladesh” for expressing his wish to fill the form in Bangla. Amit Sen wanted to fill the deposit form in Bangla language which is also the state language in West Bengal. As Sen submitted the form to the employee,[Read More…]
Students of Jadavpur Presidency University and some other educational institutes on Monday alleged they were attacked by Trinamool Chhatra Parishad (TMCP) supporters outside a city-based college when they were campaigning for an upcoming joint convention on the educational policies passed by the Centre and purported corruption in college admissions in West Bengal. A police[Read More…]
Are the portrayals of a character in any movie so strong that they overshadow the real figure? Something like this happened in Bengal when a textbook used the picture of Farhan Akhtar instead of Milkha Singh. Farhan Akhtar played the character of Milkha Singh in Rakesh Omprakash Mehra’s Bhaag Milkha[Read More…]
Amit Shah rally in West Bengal attacked on Friday night at Paschim Midnapore district. This took place hours before BJP president Amit Shah’s rally in Bengal. The rally is scheduled for today (Saturday) at Central Kolkata Mayor Road. A bus was waiting at Paschim Midnapore to carry the Bharatiya Janata[Read More…]
Trinamool Congress (TMC) members have been alleged of threatening and pressurising many villagers of Jhargram district, West Bengal, to evacuate the place, following which, over 80 families have started taking refuge in Chakulia district, Jharkhand. The local unit of BJP here has taken steps to provide shelter to the families[Read More…]
Four Muslim doctors of Kudghat area of Kolkata, who were being forced to vacate their rented house because of their religious identity, has got assurance from the locals that they won’t have to vacate their place any longer. The pressure on them was made because of them being Muslims but,[Read More…]
Recently a sand artist had made headlines for making a sand sculpture portraying Hindi-Muslim unity in the nation, however, four Muslim doctors – residents of the Kudghat area of Kolkata – are being forced to vacate their rented houses as they are ‘Muslims’. The four Muslim doctors, who have been[Read More…]