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Calcutta HC rejects NHRC’s plea for appointing observer for panchayat polls
Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Wednesday rejected the National Human Right Commission (NHRC)’s plea for appointing an observer for July 8 West Bengal panchayat polls. Although the hearing in the matter…
- Kolkata
Mamata-Guv honeymoon over after row over panchayat polls, univ VCs
Kolkata: The signals were there for quite some time about the honeymoon period being over. But throughout the past week the tiff between Raj Bhavan and the state secretariat in West Bengal…
- India
Bengal Governor calls up Mamata after emergency landing
Kolkata: West Bengal Governor C.V. Ananda Bose on Tuesday called up Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee after her helicopter had to make an emergency landing at Sevak airbase to enquire about her condition.…
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Two goods train collide in West Bengal’s Bankura
Bankura: Several boggies derailed after two goods trains collided with each other near West Bengal’s Bankura, in the wee hours of Sunday, June 25, 2023. (PTI Photo) Bankura: Several boggies derailed after…
- India
Goods train hits stationary freight coaches in Bengal’s Bankura
Kolkata: A goods train collided with another stationary freight train at Onda in Bankura district of West Bengal on Sunday morning, a senior South Eastern Railway official said. No one was injured…
- India
WB: Man beaten to death after being caught stealing chickens from poultry farm
Jhargram: A man was allegedly beaten to death in West Bengal’s Jhargram district after he was caught stealing chickens from a poultry farm in the dead of the night, police said on…
- India
UPA-3 project in Bengal entangled in too many complications
Kolkata: Nowhere else in India is the anti-BJP opposition coalition as tangled with so many hitches and complications as it is in West Bengal. On the one hand West Bengal chief minister…
- India
Bengal CPI(M) leader questions Trinamool credibility as BJP challenger
Kolkata: Engaged in a bitter electoral war in the ongoing panchayat polls, the CPI(M) in West Bengal on Friday questioned TMC’s credibility as a “reliable challenger” to the BJP. Local leaders attacked…
- India
There will be no polls in future if this ‘dictatorial’ govt returns: Mamata at Oppn meet
Patna: There will be no more elections in future if this “dictatorial” government returns, West Bengal Chief Minister and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee warned on Friday while asserting that leaders of all…
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Panchayat poll violence: BJP office set ablaze in Bengal
Kolkata: A fresh political slugfest has erupted in West Bengal after a BJP office at Dabgram under the Siliguri Municipal Corporation in Darjeeling district was set ablaze by unknown miscreants late on…
- India
SC refuses to halt central forces’ deployment in West Bengal
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed pleas challenging a Calcutta High Court order directing the State Election Commission (SEC) to requisition and deploy central forces across West Bengal for the…
- India
Mamata shocked at governor’s announcement of Bengal’s foundation day
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in a letter to Governor CV Ananda Bose expressed “shock” at his “unilateral” decision to commemorate the state’s foundation day on Tuesday. Banerjee pointed out…
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I have very good working relationship with West Bengal govt: Governor
Kolkata: West Bengal Governor Dr CV Ananda Bose on Saturday said he has an “excellent working relationship” with the Mamata Banerjee government despite “agreements and disagreements.” Bose said there have been discussions…
- India
Complaint filed against Maharashtra woman for offensive tweet against Mamata
Kolkata: A complaint has been registered with the Cyber Crime Division of Howrah City Police in West Bengal against a Maharashtra-based woman for posting an ‘offensive’ tweet against Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.…
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ISF and TMC clash in West Bengal
South 24 Parganas: Police personnel keep a vigil during a clash between supporters of Indian Secular Front (ISF) and Trinamool Congress (TMC) in Bhangore area ahead of the upcoming Panchayat poll, in…
