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‘Was gheraoed by mob of around 1K people’, says ED after its team attacked in Bengal
Kolkata: Trinamool Congress leader Sheikh Shahjahan, whose “supporters” allegedly attacked an ED team in West Bengal, locked himself at his home at Sandeshkhali in North 24 Parganas district, when the ED team…
- India
On eve of convocation ceremony, Bengal Guv removes JU’s interim VC
Kolkata: West Bengal Governor C.V. Ananda Bose on Saturday removed Buddhadeb Sau as the interim vice-chancellor of Kolkata’s Jadavpur University (JU). The development came on the eve of the convocation ceremony of…
- India
West Bengal will lead India: CM Mamata Banerjee
Kolkata: Days ahead of the opposition INDIA bloc meeting, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said that West Bengal will lead the country in every field and all will get their due…
- India
BJP plans series of protests across Bengal to highlight farmers’ plight
Kolkata: Following instructions from the party’s central leadership to launch an all-out attack against the ruling Trinamool Congress in West Bengal, the state unit of the BJP has decided hold a series…
- India
Bengal govt asks JU not to hold key meeting on technical grounds
Kolkata: The West Bengal government on Saturday asked Jadavpur University not to go ahead with scheduled meeting of the Executive Council, the highest decision-making body of the varsity, which was supposed to…
- India
ED raids offices, residence of flour mill owner, confidante of arrested Bengal min
Kolkata: Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials were on Saturday conducting raids and search operations at the residence and offices of a flour mill owner said to be a close confidante of West Bengal…
- Politics
Centre to intervene in case of constitutional crisis in Bengal: BJP
Kolkata: Taking a dig at the ruling TMC over the arrests of its ministers in corruption cases, the BJP on Monday suggested that the state of West Bengal may be on the…
- India
Will pray to Maa Durga that corruption, atrocities end soon in Bengal: Amit Shah
Kolkata: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday inaugurated a Durga Puja in Kolkata and said he would pray to the goddess that “corruption and atrocities” end soon in West Bengal. Shah,…
- India
TMC ends Raj Bhavan sit-in as Guv commits to take up MGNREGA dues issue with Centre
Kolkata: The five-day dharna’ staged by the TMC outside the Bengal Raj Bhavan ended Monday after Governor CV Amanda Bose met the party’s leader Abhishek Banerjee and gave an assurance of fulfilling…
- India
8 dead, 69 missing as flash flood wreaks havoc in Sikkim; Modi dials CM
Gangtok: At least eight people died and 69 others, including 22 army personnel, went missing on Wednesday after a cloudburst over Lhonak Lake in north Sikkim triggered a flash flood in the…
- India
Bengal: Pregnant woman murdered by husband, in-laws in anticipation of girl child
Kolkata: In a gruesome incident in West Bengal’s Malda district, a pregnant woman was brutally murdered by her husband and in-laws in anticipation that she might give birth to another girl child.…
- India
Choose between us and CPI(M) in Bengal: TMC to send feelers to Congress
Kolkata: Perceiving that an amicable seat sharing formula with Congress is not possible in in West Bengal, Trinamool Congress has decided to send feelers to the grand-old party to choose between it…
- India
Fresh row in Bengal as state Education Minister calls interim VCs ‘slaves’
Kolkata: A fresh row has erupted in West Bengal over the Raj Bhavan-State Secretariat tussle after Education Minister Bratya Basu described the interim Vice-Chancellors appointed by Governor C.V. Ananda Bose as “slaves”.…
- India
Raj Bhavan, Bengal govt stay mum on Guv’s letters, TMC lashes out at Bose
Kolkata: Nearly 20 hours since West Bengal Governor C V Ananada Bose sent two sealed missives to the central and state governments, neither Raj Bhavan nor the state secretariat divulged details of…
- Health
Dengue patient numbers rising in Bengal with every passing day
Kolkata: Dengue seems to be taking a serious turn in West Bengal, especially in the rural pockets of the state, with every passing day as the number of affected people crossed the…
