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Kolkata mayor Firhad Hakim visits BJP councillor injured during protest march

Kolkata: Kolkata Mayor Firhad Hakim on Wednesday visited BJP councillor Meena Devi Purohit at a hospital where she was admitted after suffering head injuries during the saffron party’s march to West Bengal…
What if WB followed UP’s bulldozer model: TMC’s Mohua Moitra on violence in BJP rally

Kolkata: A day after public properties were damaged in Kolkata and Howrah during the BJP’s mega protest march, TMC MP Mahua Moitra on Wednesday asked whether the West Bengal government should follow…

Video: Man with saffron shirt sets Kolkata police van on fire

Parts of Kolkata witnessed violence and hostility after a police vehicle’s windowpanes were smashed and the vehicle was torched. A video of a man lighting the fire with a lighter has been…
Kolkata: Pitched battles between BJP workers, police; PCR van torched

Howrah: Roads around the 19th century iconic Howrah Station resembled a battleground on Tuesday with brickbats aimed at police personnel flying thick and fast, and drenched protesters hit by water cannons limping…
BJP workers clash with cops during protest march in Bengal, several injured

Kolkata: Parts of Bengal turned into a battlefield on Tuesday as BJP activists clashed with the police during a protest march to the state secretariat. Several police officers and saffron camp members,…
BJP’s march to Bengal secretariat: Suvendu Adhikari arrested

Kolkata: BJP’s ‘march to the West Bengal secretariat’ against various issues of corruption on Tuesday afternoon received a setback much before its beginning as one of the three arms of the party…
17 crore cash, 16 hours: Know about ED raid on Kolkata businessman

Kolkata: It took over 16 hours and eight counting machines for the Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials to count the heap of cash that was recovered from the residence of a businessman in…

ED raids several places in Kolkata, estimated Rs 7 cr recovered

Kolkata: Enforcement Directorate (ED) teams conducted raids on Saturday at three separate places in Kolkata and recovered a huge amount of cash from the possession of a city-based businessman. Although the counting…
TMC initiates t-shirt fashion ahead of Durga puja to attack Amit Shah

Kolkata: Taking a leaf out of a global playbook, where fashion has long been used as a political statement, Trinamool Congress has designed a T-shirt for its workers to flaunt and attack…
Mamata pans Centre for not inviting her to be part of Bangladesh PM’s India visit

Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday slammed the Centre for not inviting her to be a part of Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s ongoing visit to India. Banerjee also…
48-hour dharna by TMC against release of convicts in Bilkis Bano rape case

Kolkata: The Trinamool Congress women’s wing Tuesday launched a 48-hour dharna in the city in protest against the release of 11 convicts in the Bilkis Bano gang rape case, calling it “shameful…
Netaji’s daughter says she’ll soon approach India, Japan for DNA test of ashes

Kolkata: Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s daughter Anita Bose Pfaff said she will soon approach the Indian and the Japanese governments for a DNA test of the ashes at Tokyo’s Renkoji Temple. In an…
CBI confiscates TMC leader Anubrata Mondal’s FDs worth over Rs 16 cr

Kolkata: Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) sleuths probing the multi-crore cattle smuggling case in West Bengal on Wednesday confiscated bank fixed deposits worth Rs 16.97 crore in the name of Trinamool Congress…
Kolkata firing: CISF jawan remanded to 14-day police custody

Kolkata: A lower court here on Sunday remanded Akshay Kumar Mishra, the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) jawan, who resorted to indiscriminate firing in the Indian Museum premises at busy Park Street in…
Kolkata: After last night firing, security beefed up at the museum

Kolkata: Security was heightened at the Indian Museum in Kolkata on Sunday after a CISF personnel killed a colleague and injured an assistant commandant of the force in indiscriminate firing. CISF head constable…