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Abhishek Banerjee called ‘Bangladeshi,’ attacked with stones, eggs; Mamata fumes

Kolkata: All India Trinamool Congress (TMC) national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee was roughed up on Saturday, May 30, allegedly by locals, when he visited West Bengal’s Sonarpur area to meet families of…
11 holding centres set up in Bengal, 335 suspected ‘infiltrators’ lodged

Kolkata: As part of its “detect, delete and deport” policy, the West Bengal government has so far set up 11 holding centres for suspected illegal immigrants, and 335 detainees are currently being…

Kolkata municipality serves demolition notices two days before Bakrid

Kolkata: With only two days for Bakrid, residents of Tiljala-Topsia neighbourhood in West Bengal’s capital city woke up to demolition notices pasted on their doors from the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC), declaring…
BJP sweeps Bengal’s Falta Assembly repoll by over one lakh votes

Kolkata: The BJP on Sunday swept the repoll to Bengal’s Falta Assembly seat with a victory margin of more than one lakh votes in the constituency long seen as a citadel of…
Bakrid: Calcutta HC reserves order on Bengal cattle slaughter restrictions

Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Thursday, May 21, reserved its order on a batch of petitions challenging a West Bengal government notification that restricts cattle slaughter ahead of Eid ul-Adha, with the…
BJP-led Bengal govt makes singing of Vande Mataram mandatory in all madrasas

Kolkata: The West Bengal government has made the singing of “Vande Mataram” at assembly prayers compulsory in all madrasas with immediate effect, according to an official order. The order by the Directorate…
West Bengal: Falta repoll sees over 60 p c polling till 1 pm

Kolkata: The repoll in the Falta Assembly constituency in West Bengal on Thursday, May 21, saw a voter turnout of over 60 per cent till 1 pm, with no untoward incident reported…

Withdrawing from repoll as CM promised special package for Falta: TMC’s Jahangir Khan

Falta: TMC’s Falta candidate Jahangir Khan on Tuesday, May 19 announced he was withdrawing from the May 21 re-election in the assembly segment, stating that Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari‘s promise of a…
West Bengal govt clears prosecution of ex-RG Kar principal

Kolkata: The West Bengal government on Monday, May 18, sanctioned the prosecution of former R G Kar Medical College and Hospital principal Sandip Ghosh in connection with a case of financial irregularities…
Suvendu Adhikari PA’s death case: 3 sharpshooters arrested in UP

Kolkata: Three persons were arrested from Uttar Pradesh in connection with the killing of Chandranath Rath, an aide of West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari, police said on Monday, May 11. The…
TMC says its panchayat member found dead in Hooghly, BJP denies role

Kolkata: The body of a man was found in Hooghly district on Sunday, May 10, with the TMC claiming that he was a party panchayat member and alleging that the number of…
Bengal Muslims weigh first BJP govt amid caution, pragmatism

Kolkata: As dusk settled over Metiabruz in southwest Kolkata on Saturday May 9, television screens inside crowded restaurants replayed visuals of Suvendu Adhikari taking oath as West Bengal’s first BJP chief minister,…
TMC faces existential crisis after BJP’s Bengal breakthrough

Kolkata: On a humid Saturday evening, barely hours after Suvendu Adhikari took oath as West Bengal’s first BJP chief minister at the Brigade Parade Grounds, the mood at several TMC offices across…
BJP supporters flood Kolkata’s Brigade Parade Grounds for CM oath ceremony

Kolkata: Jubilant scenes unfolded at the Brigade Parade Grounds in Kolkata on Saturday, May 9, as thousands gathered for the swearing-in ceremony of West Bengal’s first Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government, with…
Mamata updates bio on X, Facebook after Bengal poll defeat

Kolkata: Former West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday, May 9, updated her profile on social media platforms X and Facebook and described herself as “Founder Chairperson, All India Trinamool Congress.…