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Don’t take decisions without consulting govt: Mamata to PM Modi on Bangladesh talk
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday, requesting the latter not to take important bilateral decisions with neighbouring Bangladesh, especially on the Teesta River…
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Kolkata Police files case after man throws kitten to death from high-rise
Kolkata: Police have filed a case against a man for allegedly throwing a kitten from his high-rise apartment, resulting in the animal’s death. The complaint, lodged at Tangra police station here, includes…
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Cash-for-job trap: Bengal youth finds name in recruitment list without applying
Kolkata: In a strange turn of events, a youth in West Bengal found his name in the list of appointed food sub-inspectors in the state Food & Supplies Department without even applying…
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Bengal rail accident: GRP forms 6-member SIT to conduct parallel probe
Kolkata: The Government Railways Police (GRP) on Wednesday announced the formation of a six-member special investigation team for an independent probe in the Kanchanjunga Express-goods train collision in West Bengal’s Darjeeling district…
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WB: 5 dead, 30 injured as goods train collides with Kanchanjunga Express
Kolkata: At least five persons died and around 30 others were injured after a goods train collided with the Sealdah-bound Kanchanjunga Express near Rangapani station in West Bengal on Monday, police said.…
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2 compartments of express train derail near Bengal’s New Jalpaiguri
Kolkata: At least two rear compartments of the Sealdah-bound Kanchanjunga Express derailed on Monday after a goods train collided with it near New Jalpaiguri station in West Bengal, a senior railway official…
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HC directs WB govt to ensure 1% quota for transgender persons in public employment
Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court has directed the West Bengal government to ensure one per cent reservation for transgender persons in all public employment in the state. Noting that the state government…
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Bengal hijab row: Teacher decides not to re-join after college allows head scarf
Kolkata: The teacher of a private law college in Kolkata, who was allegedly asked not to attend classes wearing a hijab but later told a head scarf can be allowed, on Thursday…
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Hijab row: College says wearing headscarf allowed, teacher seeks time to rejoin
Kolkata: A private law college in Kolkata, where a teacher was “forced to resign” after she was allegedly not allowed to attend classes wearing a hijab, on Tuesday said she can cover…
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Bengal bypolls: 55 companies of CAPF to be deployed in 4 Assembly seats
Kolkata: The Election Commission of India (ECI) has decided to deploy 55 companies of Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) personnel for the bye-elections for four Assembly constituencies in West Bengal to be…
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Kolkata teacher stops going to college over wearing ‘hijab’
Kolkata: A teacher at a private law college affiliated to the University of Calcutta resigned and stopped attending classes after the institute authorities allegedly requested her to refrain from wearing a hijab…
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TMC’s actor-MLA assaults restaurant owner for ‘abusing’ Abhishek, apologises later
Kolkata: Actor-turned-Trinamool Congress MLA Soham Chakraborty created a controversy by assaulting a restaurant owner who allegedly abused party MP Abhishek Banerjee during the shooting of a film there. Both Chakraborty and restaurant…
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TMC wins Muslim-majority pockets in south Bengal, BJP wins in north
Kolkata: People belonging to the minority community helped TMC sweep Muslim-majority pockets in the southern region of West Bengal while the division of their votes facilitated BJP’s victories in the northern part…
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West Bengal: TMC registers over 2% vote swing, BJP down by two
Kolkata: Refuting predictions made by a majority of exit polls for West Bengal, the Trinamool Congress registered a 45.77 per cent vote share in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls in West Bengal,…
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Several factors led to TMC’s victory, proving Exit Poll projections wrong
Kolkata: Several factors played a key role in the Trinamool Congress’ victory in West Bengal, that proved all Exit Poll projections wrong. Trinamool supremo Mamata Banerjee’s party bagged 29 out of 42…
