Tag: Bengal

KOLKATA: The Bengal Imams’ Association has urged mosque and madrasa committees in the state to let out their premises for setting up of COVID-19 …

Kolkata: The Mamata Banerjee-led West Bengal government on Monday held a high-level meeting and came up with fresh guidelines to partially restore services across the …

Kolkata: The number of active coronavirus cases in West Bengal touched 300 on Wednesday with 26 more persons testing positive in the state, a top …

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday upheld a law framed by the West Bengal government in 2008 to constitute a Madrasah Service Commission in …

Kolkata: AIMIM’s top leader in West Bengal Zameerul Hasan has been arrested in connection with an illegal road blockade in south Kolkata last week, police …

Kolkata: Anti-Citizenship Amendment Act agitators threw stones at a local passenger train, and tried to block rail and road traffic in various districts of West …

Kolkata: Tension prevailed in West Bengal on Saturday, a day after protesters against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) blocked roads and vandalized railway stations, …

Kolkata: The price of onion is bringing tears in the eyes of its consumers in Bengal, with a kilo of the staple costing a whopping …

Kolkata: A day after her government brought back 133 workers, working as labourers in Jammu & Kashmir, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee announced on …

KOLKATA: A total of 138 labourers and workers, who had gone to Jammu and Kashmir to earn a living, were brought back from Srinagar …

Kolkata: Three police personnel including a sub-inspector were injured while chasing miscreants who fired at them in West Bengal’s 24 Parganas North district, a police …

Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday ruled out any possibility of detention centres coming up in West Bengal on the lines …

Kolkata:  The West Bengal Assembly on Friday approved a legislation that seeks to check mob lynching and contains provision for death sentence.Criminalising such offences, …

Kolkata: A fifteen-year-old girl who was out on a cycle ride with her boyfriend was allegedly sexually assaulted by four local boys in West …

Kolkata: The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) on Thursday seized 10,000 Yaba tablets along with Rs 1.96 lakh fake Indian currency notes (FICN) and arrested four …

Kolkata: A fifty-year-old worker of Bharatiya Janata Party died after miscreants hurled crude bombs towards him in West Bengal’s Birbhum district, police said on …

Kolkata: Six people were killed and 11 others injured when a speeding truck rammed into an SUV in West Bengal’s Malda district on Thursday, …

Kolkata: Accusing the Mamata Banerjee government of constantly “torturing and insulting” the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes in West Bengal, BJP’s SC Morcha on …

Kolkata: The West Bengal government on Friday said it has rolled out a crop insurance scheme, in collaboration with the Agriculture Insurance Company of …

New Delhi: Doctors of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) on Monday announced that they go on a strike in solidarity with …

Kolkata: Amid the ongoing post-poll violence in West Bengal, a woman BJP leader was allegedly shot dead in North 24 Parganas district, state BJP …

Kolkata: Train services were disrupted and normal life in West Bengal’s Basirhat sub-division was affected on Monday due to a 12-hour general strike called …

Kolkata: There is rising discontent in the West Bengal BJP against the induction of Trinamool Congress’ Labhpur legislator Monirul Islam, with a key district …

Kolkata: Amidst the violent clashes and political slugfest between West Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress and the BJP, the CPI-M has reclaimed and reopened around …

Kolkata: A Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) worker was shot dead in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district and two individuals have been detained, police …

Kolkata: A 25-year-old youth has been arrested after a man said to be a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) supporter was shot dead in West …

Kolkata: An earthquake measuring 4.8 on the Richter scale struck West Bengal’s Bankura district on Sunday, authorities said. According to Regional Meteorological Centre Kolkata, …

Kolkata: Amid widespread clashes between Trinamool Congress and BJP workers across West Bengal even after the Lok Sabha elections results were declared, a man …

Kolkata: As the BJP made stunning inroads in the Trinamool Congress-ruled West Bengal, winning an unprecedented 18 out of 42 Lok Sabha constituencies, IANS …