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Bengal school job case: ED summons Bhadra’s son-in- law, Ayan Sil’s son
Kolkata: Enforcement Directorate (ED) sleuths probing the multi-crore school recruitment case in West Bengal has summoned the son-in-law of Sujay Krishna Bhadra a.k.a. Kalighater Kaku (uncle of Kalighat) and son of private…
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School recruitment scam: Now ED summons Abhishek Banerjee for questioning on June 13
Kolkata: After the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has now summoned Trinamool Congress national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee for questioning in connection with the alleged multi-crore school recruitment…
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Centre trying to prevent truth behind Odisha train crash from coming out: Mamata
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday hit out at the BJP-ruled Centre alleging that there were attempts to suppress the cause of the train accident in Odisha. The Central…
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Mamata Banerjee demands proper probe into cause of Odisha train accident
Kolkata: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday demanded a proper probe to ascertain the exact cause of the tragic train accident in Odisha’s Balasore district that killed 261 people and…
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‘Our family is devastated’: 3 brothers lose lives in Odisha train crash
Baruipur: Three brothers from West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district, who were travelling to Tamil Nadu in search of work, lost their lives in the train crash in Odisha’s Balasore, officials said…
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Bengal Governor dismisses state’s claim of not being consulted on interim VC appointments
Kolkata: West Bengal Governor Dr CV Ananda Bose on Friday “dismissed” state Education Minister Bratya Basu’s claim that Bose had appointed interim vice-chancellors for 11 universities without consulting the state government. He implicitly…
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Raj Bhavan-Bengal govt tiff aggravates as Guv appoints interim VCs in 10 state varsities
Kolkata: The tiff between the Raj Bhavan and the state secretariat in West Bengal over the appointment of vice-chancellors (VCs) in different state universities aggravated further on Thursday over the decision of…
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Adhir lashes out at TMC for luring his party MLA
Kolkata: Congress’ West Bengal president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Monday hit out at party MLA from Sagardighi Bayron Biswas for joining the TMC saying that the party had decided to give him…
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Mamata Banerjee might reach Patna a day before Opposition party meeting
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress President Mamata Banerjee is likely to reach Patna a day in advance of the crucial meeting of all non-BJP parties convened by Bihar Chief…
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No central discrimination against Bengal: State BJP chief
Kolkata: West Bengal BJP president Sukanta Majumdar has asserted that Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s “pet phrase” of central discrimination against the eastern state was “wrong as facts and figures show the opposite”.…
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More the state govt resists, more will be BJP’s popularity in Bengal: Suvendu Adhikari
Kolkata: The more the West Bengal government tries to prevent the BJP from carrying out its political activities, the more the party’s popularity will rise, leader of opposition in West Bengal Assembly,…
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Bengal Raj Bhavan-State Secretariat row heading to court?
Kolkata: The Governor House-State Secretariat tiff in West Bengal is now probably heading for a legal encounter as the state education department is consulting its legal brains on how to counter the…
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Mamata Banerjee to skip Niti Aayog meeting on May 27
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has decided to skip the Niti Aayog meeting slated to be held in New Delhi on May 27, a senior official at the state secretariat…
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MiG-29’s additional fuel tank dislodges during training, falls in forest
Kolkata: An additional fuel tank of a MiG-29 aircraft of the Indian Air Force (IAF) got dislodged during a training session on Monday, and fell in a forest area near the Kalaikunda…
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Bengal Guv miffed with state varsity VCs over non-submission of weekly report to Raj Bhavan
Kolkata: West Bengal Governor C.V. Anand Bose has taken objection to the reluctance on the part of the vice-chancellors of different state universities in submitting weekly reports to the Raj Bhavan despite…