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West Bengal: CISF constable opens fire, colleague killed
Kolkata: A Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) trooper, who opened indiscriminate fire with his AK-47 rifle on Saturday evening, killing a colleague and critically injuring another, was neutralized and apprehended after over an…
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WBSSC scam: Woman hurls slipper on Partha Chatterjee
Kolkata: Partha Chatterjee, tainted in the multi-crore West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) crore scam, on Tuesday afternoon felt the heat of the public rage when a middle-aged woman hurled her slipper…
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I don’t support corruption: Mamata breaks silence on TMC min’s arrest
Kolkata: Amidst the ongoing probe into the SSC scam case in West Bengal where state minister Partha Chatterjee is one of the prime accused, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday…
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Teachers scam: ED arrests Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee
Kolkata: After over 24 hours of marathon grilling, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials probing the West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) recruitment irregularities scam, finally arrested state minister and the Trinamool Congress…
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280 arrested over Prophet row violence, Bengal govt tells Calcutta HC
Kolkata: The West Bengal government on Wednesday afternoon submitted to the Calcutta High Court a report on action taken by it on the incidents of violence in different parts of the state…
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Now Kolkata police summons suspended BJP leader Nupur Sharma
Kolkata: The Kolkata police have issued summons to the suspended BJP leader Nupur Sharma over her controversial comments about Prophet Muhammad which led to violence in certain pockets of West Bengal. The…
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Prophet row: Two top cops of Bengal’s Howrah district removed
Kolkata: Following the tension and violence in pockets of Kolkata’s adjacent Howrah district over the controversial comments on Prophet Muhammad during the last couple of days, the West Bengal government on Saturday…
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LGBTQ-friendly pan India Covid services locator launched in Kolkata
Kolkata: In the realisation that the pandemic situation caused people from the LGBTQ community great difficulties in accessing requisite medical services, three NGOs have come together to launch a pan-Indian COVID-19 services…
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West Bengal: Dilip Ghosh in no mood to abide by party gag order
Kolkata: BJP’s national Vice President and former West Bengal unit chief Dilip Ghosh seems to be in no mood to honour his party high command’s order barring him from making media statements…
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Bengal: BJP censors Dilip Ghosh, bars him from speaking to media
Kolkata: The BJP central leadership has censored Bengal MP Dilip Ghosh from speaking against a section of party leaders or making statement on any public forum against any of his party colleagues,…
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SpiceJet aircraft faces massive turbulence while landing; 40 injured
Kolkata: A passenger aircraft of SpiceJet experienced a massive mid-air turbulence while landing at Kazi Nazrul Islam Airport at Andal in West Burdwan district of West Bengal on Sunday evening. Around 40…
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Muslim student leader’s death sparks protests in West Bengal, CM orders probe
Anis Khan, a student of Aliah University in West Bengal, who had been an active part of the protests against the contentious CAA and NRC was found dead near his residence in…
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In pics: Karnataka hijab controversy protest in Kolkata
Kolkata: Aliah University Muslim Students’ Federation activists holding a banner raise slogans, during a protest rally over the ‘hijab’ controversy in Karnataka, in Kolkata, Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2022. (PTI Photo/Swapan Mahapatra) Kolkata:…
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Mamata blocks Guv Jagdeep Dhankhar’s Twitter account
Kolkata: A day when Trinamool Congress leader in the Parliament formally told President Ram Nath Kovind to remove West Bengal Governor, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee told in a press conference that she…
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Blind faith among Gangasagar pilgrims sees Covid safety norms given a go-by
Kolkata: Blind faith of the thousands of pilgrims thronging the city’s Babu-Ghat (Steps leading to the river Ganges named after its builder Baboo Raj Chandra ) en-route to Sagar Island for the…
