West Bengal
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Bengal to use only electric vehicles in administrative functioning
Kolkata: As a measure to control rising pollution levels in the state because of automobile fuel emission, the West Bengal government has taken a decision to only use electric vehicles for all…
- India
Bengal LoP files RTI seeking information among CM’s overseas tour
Kolkata: Leader of Opposition (LoP) in West Bengal Assembly Suvendu Adhikari has filed a petition under the Right to Information Act, 2005, on the amount spent from the state exchequer on Chief…
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CPI(M) will strengthen INDIA bloc nationally, fight TMC, BJP in Bengal: Senior leader
Kolkata: Senior CPI(M) leader Sujan Chakraborty on Tuesday said that the Left party will strengthen the opposition INDIA bloc nationally but will also continue its fight against both the BJP and the…
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Video: WB BJP workers lock up Union minister in protest
Bankura: BJP workers locked up Union minister Subhas Sarkar in their party office in West Bengal’s Bankura on Tuesday, alleging that he was being “dictatorial” in running the district unit. Sarkar, the…
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Mamata Banerjee leaves for 11-day tour of Spain, Dubai
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday morning left for an 11-day tour of Spain and Dubai, during which she will attend business summits to attract investments to the state. Banerjee…
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Bengal cabinet rejig: Portfolios of six ministers changed
Kolkata: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday brought a major reshuffle in the state cabinet bringing about crucial changes in the important departments of six ministers. Under the change the…
- India
Political slugfest in Bengal over fresh ED summons to Abhishek Banerjee
Kolkata: Political slugfest has started surfacing in West Bengal over the Enforcement Directorate (ED)’s fresh summons on Sunday evening to Trinamool Congress’ national general secretary and the party’s Lok Sabha member Abhishek…
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Calcutta HC allows Ganesha Puja on govt land in Bengal’s Durgapur
Kolkata: Calcutta High Court’s single-judge bench of Justice, Sabyasachi Bhattacharyya, has cleared docks for a community puja community to organise Ganesha Puja on a government land at the industrial township of Durgapur…
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Mamata to travel to New Delhi for president’s G20 dinner in afternoon
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will be travelling to New Delhi on Friday afternoon to attend President Droupadi Murmu’s dinner invitation on the occasion of the G20 meeting, officials said.…
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Assembly bypolls: High voter turnout in Kerala, Tripura, WB seats
Lucknow: High voter turnout was recorded in most of the seven assembly constituencies in six states where by-election was held on Tuesday, with Dhanpur in Tripura at the top with over 89…
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Deceased JU student’s parents meet Mamata; get assurance of job
Kolkata: The parents of an undergraduate student of Jadavpur University who died after being allegedly ragged, called on West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee at her office in the secretariat on Monday…
- Kolkata
Dhupguri bypoll in North Bengal puts INDIA bloc’s unity to test
Kolkata: The INDIA opposition bloc faces a crucial test in the upcoming bypoll in Dhupguri assembly segment as its important constituents, TMC and Congress-CPI(M) alliance, fight it out against each other to…
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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…
