Kolkata: West Bengal BJP Kisan Morcha (farmers wing) will stage a march to the state assembly on November 20 to press for the demands of the farmers, state morcha president Ramkrishna Pal said on Tuesday. Karnataka: JDS leader brutally killed in Kanakpura “The farmers in Bengal are struggling to meet[Read More…]
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Housewife beaten to death in Bengal over dowry dispute
Kolkata: A married woman was allegedly beaten to death following a dispute over dowry in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district on Sunday, police said. “Tanaya Mondal, a resident of North 24 Parganas district’s Bagdah, was declared dead in the hospital on Sunday morning. There were external injury marks in[Read More…]
Assam killings: TMC links deaths to NRC, protests in Bengal
Kolkata: West Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress on Friday held protests across the state against the killing of five Bengalis in Assam’s Tinsukia as it put the blame on the Assam government and their NRC move. The Trinamool claimed that the discriminatory attitude of Assam towards the Bengali-speaking population in the[Read More…]
TMC protest led by Abhishek Banerjee; Against the gruesome murder of five Bengalis in Assam
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…]
Bengal: Three miscreants gang-rape a pregnant woman in Asansol
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…]
Cyclone Titli: Centre deploys 21 NDRF teams in Odisha, Andhra and West Bengal
New Delhi: The Centre on Wednesday deployed 21 NDRF teams in Odisha, Andhra Pradesh and West Bengal and put Army, Navy and Coast Guard on standby in view of impending cyclonic storm Titli that is likely to cross coastal areas of the three states on October 11 morning. National Disaster[Read More…]
Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury removed as West Bengal Congress chief
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…]
Kolkata Bridge: Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee announces a new one in a year
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…]
Following landslides, Sikkim cut off from Siliguri
Sikkim was cut off from northern West Bengal‘s Siliguri on Thursday following landslides in both states triggered by heavy overnight rains. National Highway connecting Darjeeling district’s Siliguri to the Sikkimese capital Gangtok was inundated by the Teesta river at Gailphola around noon on Thursday, leaving hundreds of tourists stranded. Many[Read More…]
Another bridge collapses in Darjeeling district of West Bengal
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: TMC activist Shibhu Debnath found dead after being missing
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…]
“Go to Bangladesh or Pakistan” asks HDFC employee to Bangla customer in Kolkata
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…]
West Bengal: Students allege attack by TMCP members
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…]
Bengal textbook carries Farhan Akhtar photo for Milkha Singh
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…]
Somnath Chatterjee’s family rejects CPI-M request to drape body with red flag
KOLKATA: Former Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee’s family on Monday turned down the request of the CPI-M leadership to drape the expelled member’s body in the red flag and allow him to be taken to the party’s West Bengal state headquarters here for people to pay their last respects. “The[Read More…]
80 West Bengal families take refuge in Jharkhand following TMC threats
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…]
Why Mamata Banerjee has made Amit Shah jittery
West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee has somehow left her other Opposition peers far behind in taking cudgels with the Centre’s ruling party, or the BJP and the NDA led by it. So much so that she has rubbed the BJP the wrong way by reaching[Read More…]
Uttar Pradesh: Four labourers buried alive in Bareilly
Four labourers working on laying 4G cables for a private telecom company were buried alive in Uttar Pradesh‘s Bareilly district late on Monday, police said on Tuesday. They had slipped into a six-feet-deep pit and a mud mound collapsed on them, an officer said. Eight labourers were trapped in the[Read More…]
Assam NRC Final Draft: CM Mamata calls it ‘divide and rule game targeting Bengalis’
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: BJP leader hacked to death, party blames Trinamool
Kolkata: A BJP leader was hacked to death in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district, with police putting the blame on unidentified criminals, but the party accused the state’s ruling Trinamool Congress of being responsible for the killing. The Trinamool has, however, denied the charge. Shaktipada Sardar, the secretary of[Read More…]
West Bengal: Bill to keep CM Mamata out of Lokayukta passes
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…]
West Bengal: Man termed innocent after serving three years under life imprisonment
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…]
West Bengal: Mob assaults mentally-ill woman, suspecting her to be child-lifter
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…]
Congress likely to back opposition nominee for RS Deputy Chairman
New Delhi: Keen to further augment opposition unity in the run-up to the 2019 general elections, Congress may opt against fielding a candidate for the post of Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman and work with other parties outside the NDA to put up a common candidate. Informed sources said the combined[Read More…]
SC refuses to interfere with West Bengal panchayat polls
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday refused to interfere with the panchayat elections in West Bengal, rejecting a BJP plea for rescheduling them and deploying paramilitary forces. A bench of Justice R.K. Agrawal and Justice Abhay Manohar Sapre, however, granted liberty to the aggrieved candidates to approach the state Election[Read More…]