West Bengal
- India
BJP hopes Shah’s Bengal visit will place party in order
New Delhi: The West Bengal BJP hopes that Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s visit to the state will help the party to put the house in order. The saffron party feels that…
- India
Fake news: West Bengal BJP leader Kapil Mishra claims love jihad
A murder became political when a prominent Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) member Kapil Mishra claimed on Twitter that the act was actually “love jihad”. The Murder A 21-year-old student named Sutupa Chowdhury…
- Kolkata
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…
- Business
Gautam Adani promises Rs 10K cr investment in West Bengal
Kolkata: Adani Group will invest an amount of around Rs 10,000 crore in West Bengal in the next few years, according to the group chairman and founder, Gautam Adani. He made this…
- Politics
Bypolls defeat widen gap in West Bengal BJP
New Delhi: Recent defeat in bypolls of Asansol Lok Sabha and Ballygunge Assembly constituency has widened the gap in BJP’s West Bengal unit. Several district level office-bearers resigned from their post, while senior…
- India
Birbhum violence: CBI plea for polygraph test of accused challenged in court
Kolkata: The CBI’s appeal to allow the polygraph test of the eight individuals arrested in connection with the violence at Bogtui village in West Bengal’s Birbhum district last month has been challenged in…
- India
IIT-M Dalit scholar rape: Main accused arrested in West Bengal
Kingshuk Debsharma, a research scholar from the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IIT-M) who is an accused in the sexual assault case of a 30-year-old Dalit woman PHD scholar, was arrested on Sunday…
- India
Watch: BJP-TMC leaders clash in WB Assembly, 5 BJP MLAs suspended
Kolkata: The West Bengal Assembly plunged into pandemonium on Monday as ruling TMC and BJP MLAs exchanged blows after saffron party legislators demanded a statement by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee over the…
- India
Bharat bandh: State govt offices in West Bengal to remain open on March 28-29
Howrah: Following trade unions’ call for a nationwide bandh on March 28-29, the West Bengal government on Saturday said all offices will remain open on those days and mandated employees to report…
- India
NHRC seeks report from Bengal government on Birbhum shocker
New Delhi The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has taken the suo motu cognizance of incidents of violence in West Bengal’s Birbhum where 8 persons including women and children were allegedly burnt to…
- Hyderabad
Hyderabad: Drugs racket busted in Malkajgiri, 16 grams of Heroin seized
Hyderabad: Malkajgiri police on Friday busted a drugs racket and have arrested 4 people. 16 grams of Heroin were seized. On receiving the information, Rachakonda police busted 4 people attempting to bring…
- Elections
BJP gears up for bypolls in West Bengal
New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has geared up for the upcoming by-elections in a Lok Sabha seat and an Assembly constituency in West Bengal. The party appointed Suvendu Adhikari as…
- India
Mamata calls for opposition alliance to defeat the BJP in 2024
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday termed the BJP’s victory in assembly elections in four states as not a true reflection of people’s mandate and accused the saffron camp…
- India
Why Bengal is low on crime but high on political violence
Kolkata: In the recently concluded municipal polls, the Trinamool Congress won 102 of the 108 municipalities preceded by the resounding victory in the assembly elections, proclaiming an unquestionable political supremacy in the state.…
- Entertainment
Kacha Badam singer Bhuban meets with car accident
Mumbai: Internet sensation ‘Kacha Badam’ singer Bhuban Badyakar has reportedly met with a car accident while learning to drive new car that he purchased recently. The incident took place on Monday in…