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Prophet Row: Bengal BJP chief arrested enroute tensed Howrah
Kolkata: West Bengal BJP President Sukanta Majumdar was arrested on Saturday afternoon while he was on his way to Howrah where tension has been brewing for the past few days over remarks…
- India
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…
- India
Prophet row: Bengal BJP leader asks Amit Shah to deploy central forces
Kolkata: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP and party’s West Bengal vice president Saumitra Khan on Saturday wrote to Union Home Minister Amit Shah and urged him to deploy central forces in the…
- Bangalore
Bengaluru: Man throws acid at lover for refusing to marry him
Bengaluru: In yet another shocking incident, a man on Friday attacked his married lover for refusing to marry him immediately. The Kumaraswamy Layout police have launched a hunt for the accused. This…
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BJP would have won Bengal polls, but Covid played spoilsport: Nadda
Kolkata: A year after the party’s defeat in the high-octane West Bengal Assembly polls, BJP president J P Nadda on Thursday claimed that the party would have come to power had the…
- India
Don’t raise separate statehood issue, Nadda tells Bengal BJP leaders
Kolkata: BJP President J.P. Nadda on Thursday gave strict instructions to the party leaders in West Bengal, especially the MPs and MLAs, to refrain from raising the separate statehood issue or making…
- India
Heatwave in northwestern and central India after brief respite: IMD
New Delhi: After a brief respite, northwestern and central parts of the country were back in the grip of a heatwave, with temperatures settling above 44 degrees Celsius across several towns and…
- India
Bill to replace Guv with CM as chancellor likely in Bengal Assembly next week
Kolkata: The proposed Bill to replace the Governor with the Chief Minister as the chancellor of all state-run universities in West Bengal will be tabled in the Assembly for clearance during the…
- India
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,…
- India
Emami Group to sponsor East Bengal FC: Mamata Banerjee
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday said that the Emami Group will sponsor the century-old East Bengal Football Club, ending uncertainty over whether it could play in the upcoming…
- Bangalore
Karnataka: House owner rapes student from Bengal; arrested
Bengaluru: A house owner was arrested on the charge of raping a student (his tenant) by threatening her with a pistol here, police said on Monday. Anil Ravishankar Prasad from Bihar has…
- Bangalore
Two dead as heavy rainfall pounds Bengaluru
Bengaluru: Bodies of two labourers were recovered on Wednesday morning as heavy rain pummeled the city throwing life out of gear. Heavy rainfall is likely to continue for three more days, the…
- India
Miscreants entering Bengal with firearms from Jharkhand, Bihar: Mamata
Kolkata: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday expressed concern over growing incidents of miscreants from neighbouring Jharkhand and Bihar coming to West Bengal carrying firearms. Her remarks have come at…
- India
Legal procedures not followed during raid at Anis Khan’s home: Bengal govt in court
Kolkata: The police raid at the residence of deceased student leader Anis Khan on February 18 was not done following proper legal procedures, the West Bengal government admitted to the Calcutta High…
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Release Bengal’s dues under MGNREGS, PM Awas Yojana now, Mamata tells PM
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has sent a strongly-worded letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi asking the Central government to immediately release the state’s dues for the Mahatma Gandhi National…