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Mahua flags religious bias against IAS, IPS officers to assns
West Bengal: Trinamool Congress (TMC) senior leader and Lok Sabha MP Mahua Moitra questioned IPS and IAS associations over their inability to address the alleged religious discrimination faced by senior Muslim officers…
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Mamata Banerjee’s niece found hanging in West Bengal
Kolkata: Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee’s niece was found hanging at her residence in West Bengal’s Birbhum district on Tuesday, September 1, police said. The body of Bristi Mukherjee ,28, was recovered…
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FIR against Mamata over ‘violation’ of HC order
Kolkata: The Kolkata Police on Saturday, August 29, registered a suo motu FIR against former West Bengal chief minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee for alleged violation of Calcutta High Court-imposed…
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No water since a month: Minority Kolkata colony alleges bias
Kolkata: Several hundred families in a minority-majority colony in West Bengal’s Kolkata have been living without water for nearly a month, with residents alleging links to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA Ritesh…
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Only 2 pc of Bengal SIR exclusion appeals decided so far
New Delhi: Barely 2 per cent of the nearly 38 lakh appeals filed by voters excluded from West Bengal’s electoral rolls after the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) had been decided as of August…
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4-year-old, eight others die in Kolkata hotel fire
Kolkata: At least nine people, including a four-year-old child, died and six were injured in an early Wednesday fire, August 19, at a dingy five-storey building on Mirza Galib Street in central…
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Bengal CM denies BJP role in attack on CJP volunteer, father
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari denied any role of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers in the attack on a Cockroach Janta Party volunteer that led to his father’s death. Adhikari…
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CJP volunteer Abdul’s father dies after assault by BJP workers
New Delhi: The Cockroach Janta Party on Sunday, August 16, demanded the immediate arrest of those responsible for the alleged assault that led to the death of Janab Mafik, the father of…
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Former Bengal deputy speaker found hanging at TMC office
Rampurhat: Former deputy speaker of West Bengal Assembly, Asish Banerjee, was found hanging at a TMC party office in Birbhum district on Sunday morning, police sources said. A purported suicide note was also…
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RG Kar case: Neighbour held over ‘hurried cremation’ of victim
Kolkata: Sanjeev Mukherjee, another co-accused in the conspiracy of the hurried cremation of the RG Kar rape-murder victim’s body in August 2024 at a crematorium at Panihati in North 24 Parganas district…
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Did you order removal of mosque loudspeakers?: HC to Bengal govt
Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Thursday, August 13, questioned the Bharatiya Janata Party-led West Bengal government on whether it had directed mosques to remove loudspeakers in the state. The division bench…
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Ex-TMC MLA arrested over ‘hurried cremation’ of RG Kar rape victim
Kolkata: Former Trinamool Congress MLA Nirmal Ghosh was arrested from Odisha on Thursday, August 13, over his alleged involvement in the “hurried cremation” of the junior doctor who was raped and murdered…
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Sahida Fakir sent to Bangladesh without notice or probe
Kolkata: Days after the Mumbai Police detained Sahida Fakir, branding her as a Bangladeshi, her husband, Jumman Fakir, received a call from her, claiming she had been sent to Bangladesh. On the…
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Abhishek Banerjee’s aide grilled for 6 hrs in land scam case
Kolkata: TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee’s aide Sumit Roy was on Sunday, August 9, questioned for around six hours by the CID in connection with an alleged land scam, a day after he…
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Mamata attacked during visit to deceased TMC worker’s house
Kolkata: Former West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee faced a hostile reception at Halisahar in North 24 Parganas district on Sunday, August 9, when protesters surrounded her vehicle, shouted ‘chor’ (thief) and…
