Kolkata
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Bengal Raj Bhavan-State Secretariat row heading to court?
Kolkata: The Governor House-State Secretariat tiff in West Bengal is now probably heading for a legal encounter as the state education department is consulting its legal brains on how to counter the…
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73% women want companies to allow them menstrual leave: Survey
New Delhi: Around 73 per cent of women want companies to allow them to take menstrual leaves while 86.6 per cent are in favour of a menstrual-friendly workplace where hygiene methods and…
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Elite Women’s Pro Basketball League try-out in Hyderabad, Mumbai, Kolkata
Delhi: Elite Women’s Pro Basketball League, India’s first-of-its-kind 5×5 Pro Basketball League for women, features six teams filled with rosters of top-level Indian players. The organizers held India’s biggest basketball try-out for…
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‘Will support Cong where it is strong, however…’: Mamata
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee on Monday said her party will support the Congress where it is strong in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. This is…
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Kurmi movement in Bengal becomes a headache for Trinamool Congress
Kolkata: The simmering cold war between the West Bengal government and the people from the Kurmi community in the state over the latter’s demand for a Scheduled Tribe status seems to be…
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Kaliyaganj minor rape-murder: Calcutta HC seeks report from state
Kolkata: A single-judge bench of the Calcutta High Court on Thursday afternoon sought a report from the West Bengal government on the rape and murder of a minor girl at Kaliyaganj in…
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Won’t allow NRC in Bengal: Mamata at Eid congregation in Kolkata
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday claimed some people are trying to divide the nation by pursuing politics of hate and said that she is ready to give her…
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Fact-finding team calls for NIA probe in Bengal Ram Navami clashes
Kolkata: The members of a fact-finding team of Delhi-based NGO “Fact Finding Committee on Human Rights Violation” on Sunday evening said that the clashes over Ram Navami processions in West Bengal’s Howrah…
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Kurmi agitation: 188 trains cancelled for April 9-10
Kolkata: As the people of the Kurmi community intensify their rail and road blockade agitations in support of their long-standing demand for recognition under the Scheduled Tribe category, the Railways has been…
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WB: Post Ram Navami violence, VHP to hold 500 Hanuman Jayanti events
Kolkata: Amid the furore over violence during celebration of Ram Navami in West Bengal, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) has decided to conduct 500 Hanuman Jayanti programmes across the state on Thursday.…
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Ram Navami violence: Howrah’s Kazipara, Shibpur limp back to normalcy
Howrah: Life in Howrah’s Shibpur and Kazipara area, which witnessed clashes during a Ramnavami procession, is limping back to normalcy, a senior police officer said. Markets were open and vehicles plied on…
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Howrah violence: TMC vs Guv on Raj Bhavan’s call to set up seperate monitoring cell
Kolkata: Trinamool Congress on Saturday questioned the decision of West Bengal Governor C. V. Ananda Bose to set up special cell for real time monitoring the situation at Howrah’s Shibpur- Kazipara area…
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Kolkata: Section 144 CrPC imposed after fresh unrest in Howrah
Howrah: After fresh unrest was reported in Howrah’s Kazipara area which witnessed violence over the Ram Navami procession on Thursday, Union Home Minister Amit Shah spoke to West Bengal Governor C V…
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Violence over Ram Navami procession in Bengal’s Howrah
Howrah: Violence broke out between two groups when a Ram Navami procession was taken out in West Bengal’s Howrah city, where several vehicles were torched and shops were ransacked on Thursday evening.…
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Communal clashes in Kolkata: NIA files supplementary charge sheet
New Delhi: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has filed a supplementary charge sheet in connection with alleged communal clashes in the Ekbalpore-Mominpur area of Kolkata in October last year, officials said. The…
