The Calcutta High Court on Friday permitted the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to hold a rally on November 29 near Victoria House at Esplanade. This is the same place in central Kolkata where the ruling Trinamool Congress holds its annual ‘Shaheed Divas (Martyrs’ Day)’ rally on July 21. A Division Bench of Chief Justice […]
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West Bengal: Gold worth Rs 64 lakh near India-Bangladesh border, 1 held
The Border Security Force (BSF), under the south Bengal frontier, thwarted a unique attempt of gold smuggling and apprehended a 59-year-old man with two packets containing gold, weighing 1,059.400 grams while being smuggled from Bangladesh to India, officials said on Wednesday. The estimated value of the seized gold is Rs 64,04,073, the BSF said in […]
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West Bengal: Markets in Kolkata witness huge crowd on Diwali
Streets and markets in Kolkata witnessed huge crowds on the occasion of the Diwali festival. Customers thronged the Dakshindari Diya Bazar for festive shopping late on Saturday night. Across India, the cities are all decked up for Diwali celebrations. People from across the country have decorated their houses with colourful lights, rangolis, and flowers to celebrate the festival of […]
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Goa CM inaugurates Durga Pujas, hopes for double-engine government in West Bengal
Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant, during his visit to West Bengal’s Durgapur to innagurate community Durga Pujas said that the State is not progressing the way it should. “Bengal is not progressing the way it should, I pray to Goddess Durga that the State witnesses good governance (Surajya) in future and development happens uniformly […]
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Amidst TMC protest, BJP questions TMC for ‘misrule’ in West Bengal
Bharatiya Janata Party leader and MP Sudhanshu Trivedi, in a press conference in Delhi on Friday took a swipe at Trinamool Congress and said that the present circumstances in Bengal and the misuse of the police in the state have been mentioned by members of other opposition parties as well. “The present circumstances […]
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West Bengal: Trinamool Congress organizes ‘Raj Bhavan Chalo Abhiyan’ in Kolkata
Trinamool Congress (TMC) leaders, under the leadership of TMC National General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee, organised the ‘Raj Bhavan Chalo Abhiyan’ in Kolkata on Thursday. The TMC leaders during the protest said that the march to the Raj Bhavan has been organized to draw Governor C. V. Ananda Bose’s attention to the plight of the poor people of the […]
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West Bengal: Mamata Banerjee suffers leg injury in Spain, hospital advises 10-day rest
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has been advised to rest for 10 days after she sustained an injury to her left leg during her recent trip to Spain, according to her doctors. “Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has been advised to take rest for 10 days due to her leg injury. […]
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West Bengal recruitment scam: Trinamool’s Abhishek Banerjee appears before ED
Trinamool Congress National General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee, who was summoned by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in connection with an alleged recruitment scam, appeared before the agency office in Kolkata on Wednesday. The summons to the TMC MP came weeks after the central probe agency conducted raids in the office of ‘Leaps and Bounds Pvt […]
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West Bengal mining case: Delhi HC grants ten days interim bail to Gurupada Maji
The Delhi High Court on Tuesday granted ten days interim bail”>bail to Gurupada Maji. He is an accused in the West Bengal mining case. He had sought interim bail”>bail to perform the annual ‘Shraddha’ and rituals of his mother. Justice Dinesh Kumar Sharma granted interim bail”>bail to Maji after considering the grounds and submissions made by the […]
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West Bengal: First arrest made in Duttapukur illegal firecracker factory blast case
In a breakthrough in the ongoing probe into the blast in an illegal firecracker factory on Sunday, which left 8 persons dead and several others injured at Duttapukur in the North 24 Parganas district, the local police made its first in the case on Monday, sources informed. The arrested person […]
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West Bengal: Blast rips through illegal cracker factory, 5 dead
Several persons were feared dead after an explosion rocked an illegal firecracker manufacturing unit at Duttapukur in West Bengal’s North 24 Paraganas district. Rescue officials confirmed casualties in the incident, claiming to have already recovered 5 bodies from the heap of debris where the cracker manufacturing unit once stood. “Five bodies have […]
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West Bengal: Bandh in Siliguri over minor girl’s murder
A 12-hour general strike has been called by Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) on Thursday to protest against the murder of a minor girl in West Bengal’s Siliguri. DCP Abhishek Gupta of Siliguri Metropolitan Police said that the accused in the murder case has been arrested. “The minor girl was murdered at an […]
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West Bengal CM attacks Centre over EC appointments bill
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday slammed the central government over the introduction of the Chief Election Commissioner Bill in the Rajya Sabha. Banerjee said that the Bharatiya Janata Party bows down to anarchy. “Amidst calls to bow down to the judiciary, the @BJP4India instead bows to anarchy! The […]
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West Bengal: Jadavpur University forms 7-member committee to probe student death
Jadavpur University on Thursday formed a seven-member internal committee to probe the death of its student, Swarnodip Kundu, who allegedly fell from the balcony of the hostel building. “An internal committee be formed to enquire the extremely sad incident of Swarnodip Kundu, a student of UG-1, Bengali, last night at […]
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Former West Bengal CM Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee remains stable
Former Chief Minister of West Bengal, Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, aged 79, continues to receive medical care and remains on intermittent non-invasive ventilatory support as he enters the 10th day of his admission at Woodlands Multispeciality Hospital. Despite his condition, Bhattacharjee’s spirits are high as he remains alert and engages with both medical professionals […]