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BJP plans series of protests across Bengal to highlight farmers’ plight
Kolkata: Following instructions from the party’s central leadership to launch an all-out attack against the ruling Trinamool Congress in West Bengal, the state unit of the BJP has decided hold a series…
- India
Bengal govt asks JU not to hold key meeting on technical grounds
Kolkata: The West Bengal government on Saturday asked Jadavpur University not to go ahead with scheduled meeting of the Executive Council, the highest decision-making body of the varsity, which was supposed to…
- India
ED raids offices, residence of flour mill owner, confidante of arrested Bengal min
Kolkata: Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials were on Saturday conducting raids and search operations at the residence and offices of a flour mill owner said to be a close confidante of West Bengal…
- Politics
Centre to intervene in case of constitutional crisis in Bengal: BJP
Kolkata: Taking a dig at the ruling TMC over the arrests of its ministers in corruption cases, the BJP on Monday suggested that the state of West Bengal may be on the…
- India
Will pray to Maa Durga that corruption, atrocities end soon in Bengal: Amit Shah
Kolkata: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday inaugurated a Durga Puja in Kolkata and said he would pray to the goddess that “corruption and atrocities” end soon in West Bengal. Shah,…
- India
TMC ends Raj Bhavan sit-in as Guv commits to take up MGNREGA dues issue with Centre
Kolkata: The five-day dharna’ staged by the TMC outside the Bengal Raj Bhavan ended Monday after Governor CV Amanda Bose met the party’s leader Abhishek Banerjee and gave an assurance of fulfilling…
- India
8 dead, 69 missing as flash flood wreaks havoc in Sikkim; Modi dials CM
Gangtok: At least eight people died and 69 others, including 22 army personnel, went missing on Wednesday after a cloudburst over Lhonak Lake in north Sikkim triggered a flash flood in the…
- India
Bengal: Pregnant woman murdered by husband, in-laws in anticipation of girl child
Kolkata: In a gruesome incident in West Bengal’s Malda district, a pregnant woman was brutally murdered by her husband and in-laws in anticipation that she might give birth to another girl child.…
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Choose between us and CPI(M) in Bengal: TMC to send feelers to Congress
Kolkata: Perceiving that an amicable seat sharing formula with Congress is not possible in in West Bengal, Trinamool Congress has decided to send feelers to the grand-old party to choose between it…
- India
Fresh row in Bengal as state Education Minister calls interim VCs ‘slaves’
Kolkata: A fresh row has erupted in West Bengal over the Raj Bhavan-State Secretariat tussle after Education Minister Bratya Basu described the interim Vice-Chancellors appointed by Governor C.V. Ananda Bose as “slaves”.…
- India
Raj Bhavan, Bengal govt stay mum on Guv’s letters, TMC lashes out at Bose
Kolkata: Nearly 20 hours since West Bengal Governor C V Ananada Bose sent two sealed missives to the central and state governments, neither Raj Bhavan nor the state secretariat divulged details of…
- Health
Dengue patient numbers rising in Bengal with every passing day
Kolkata: Dengue seems to be taking a serious turn in West Bengal, especially in the rural pockets of the state, with every passing day as the number of affected people crossed the…
- India
Nadda holds back-to-back meetings with Bengal BJP leaders
Kolkata: BJP president JP Nadda on Sunday held a series of meetings in Kolkata with party leaders of the state, and asked them to strengthen the booth-level organisation ahead of the 2024…
- India
CBI takes over probe into CAPFs recruitment in Bengal through forged documents
New Delhi: The CBI has taken over the investigation into alleged illegal recruitment of Central Armed Police Forces personnel in West Bengal on the basis of forged documents, officials said on Wednesday.…
- India
Woman Congress activist lynched in Bengal’s Murshidabad
Kolkata: A Congresswoman activist, Khatun Bewa (64), was reportedly lynched allegedly by the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) activists at Ghoramara in Murshidabad district of West Bengal on Sunday morning. Bilal Mondal, the…
