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Questions arise whether AISF will contest independently or ally with Left, Cong
Kolkata: While a seat-sharing agreement between Congress and CPI-M- led Left Front in West Bengal for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls is almost final, questions are arising whether the All India Secular…
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JU to hold crucial meeting on Friday on anti-ragging guidelines
Kolkata: The interim Vice Chancellor of Jadavpur University (JU), Buddhadeb Sau, has convened a crucial meeting of all the stakeholders of the university on Friday to finalise the steps to be adopted…
- Kolkata
Seven feared dead in firecracker factory blast in Bengal’s Duttapukur
Kolkata: At least seven people were killed and several others injured following a massive blast at an illegal firecracker factory at Duttapukur in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district on Sunday. The…
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Ragging death: Dissatisfied with reports, WBCRC sends fresh notice to JU
Kolkata: Dissatisfied with the report submitted by Jadavpur University on the death of a fresher on August 10, the West Bengal Child Rights Commission (WBCRC) has sent a fresh notice to the…
- India
TMC minister claims ISRO scientists not getting salaries regularly
Kolkata: West Bengal minister Aroop Biswas on Friday cited media reports to claim in the assembly that ISRO scientists, who have made the nation proud with the successful Moon mission, are not…
- India
WFI suspension: Mamata accuses Centre of letting down wrestlers; BJP hits back
Kolkata: Expressing concern over the suspension of WFI by United World Wrestling, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee accused the central government of disregarding the nation’s wrestlers, prompting criticism from the BJP,…
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Trinamool MLA’s remark on Chandrayaan-3 mission sparks row
Kolkata: At a time when the entire country is celebrating the success of the Chandrayaan-3 mission to moon, a controversial comment by a Trinamool Congress legislator has sparked a row in West…
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Mamata convenes all-party meet on Bengal Statehood day on Aug 29
Kolkata: Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has convened an- party meeting on August 29 to discuss the celebration of the “Statehood Day for West Bengal,” on the occasion of Poila Boishakh (Bengali New…
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Mamata lashes out at ED for its renewed search operations
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday launched a scathing attack against the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for the latter’s renewed raid and search operations in the state since Monday, just…
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Tiger cubs’ death in Bengal Safari Park: Forest department holds mother responsible
Kolkata: The West Bengal Zoo Authority, along with the state forest department, has come up with a face-saving report on the death of two tiger cubs at Bengal Safari Park at Siliguri…
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J&k: West Bengal man arrested with stolen pistol in Srinagar
Srinagar: A man from West Bengal was arrested on Thursday, August 17 with a pistol that he had stolen from a house here, police said. Lokesh Kumar, a native of West Bengal’s…
- Kolkata
If you have money, spend it before central agencies take it away: MP Arjun Singh
Kolkata: MP Arjun Singh on Wednesday said that politicians should spend their money as much as possible before any investigating central agencies like the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) or Enforcement Directorate…
- India
Let’s rise above divisions for better, brighter INDIA: Mamata
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday called for rising above divisions, casting aside differences, for a better and brighter INDIA. In a post on X, formerly known as Twitter,…
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This I-Day speech by PM Modi will be his last from Red Fort: Mamata
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday asserted that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Independence Day speech will be his last as the PM from the ramparts of the Red Fort…
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Bengal to set up super-specialty hospital for tigers in Sunderbans
Kolkata: In a first of its kind, the forest department of West Bengal in association with the state zoo authority has decided to set up a supers-specialty hospital in the Sunderbans with…