West Bengal
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Bengal govt challenges Calcutta HC order on SIT probe of minor girl’s rape and murder
Kolkata: The West Bengal government on Wednesday approached a division bench of the Calcutta High Court challenging the decision of the single-judge bench of for constitution of a three-member Special Investigation Team…
- Hyderabad
Hyderabad: Girl who went missing from West Bengal traced in Narsingi
Hyderabad: A girl who went missing from West Bengal was rescued by the officials of Telangana Women Safety Wing on Tuesday from Narsingi police station limits. The units collaborated with the Anti-Human…
- India
‘The Kerala Story’ is based on manipulated facts: WB govt to SC
New Delhi: The West Bengal government has told the Supreme Court that the film ‘The Kerala Story’ is based on manipulated facts and contains hate speech that may hurt communal sentiments and…
- India
5 killed, 7 injured in massive explosion at illegal firecracker unit in WB
Kolkata: An explosion at an illegal firecracker unit located in Egra in Purba Medinipur district of West Bengal killed five people and injured seven others on Tuesday, police said. State Environment Minister…
- Politics
Mamata Banerjee offers conditional support to Congress
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday offered to extend support to Congress in states where the latter is strong, provided her Trinamool Congress is reciprocated in the same manner…
- India
Unable to pay ambulance fare, man travels 200 km by bus with son’s body in bag
Kolkata: A man in West Bengal after being unable to pay high ambulance fare, was forced to carry his five-month-old son’s body wrapped in a bag by bus from Siliguri (Darjelling district)…
- India
Kurmi movement in Bengal becomes a headache for Trinamool Congress
Kolkata: The simmering cold war between the West Bengal government and the people from the Kurmi community in the state over the latter’s demand for a Scheduled Tribe status seems to be…
- India
Karnataka spells ‘beginning of the end’ for BJP, says Mamata
Kolkata: The Karnataka electoral results are the “beginning of the end” for BJP, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee claimed on Saturday. Banerjee also asserted the moral of the Karnataka assembly poll…
- India
Calcutta HC orders cancellation of thousands of primary teachers’ jobs in West Bengal
Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Friday ordered cancellation of jobs of a large number of non-trained primary teachers, which may amount to above 30,000, in West Bengal government-sponsored and -aided schools,…
- India
‘Film running in peace…’, SC questions Mamata govt’s ban on ‘The Kerala Story’
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday posed a series of queries to the West Bengal government in connection with the ban on the film ‘The Kerala Story’, saying that the film…
- India
CBI makes two more arrests in Bengal coal smuggling case
Kolkata:The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) said on Thursday that it has made two fresh arrests in connection with the agency’s ongoing probe into the alleged multi-crore coal smuggling scam in West…
- India
Controversy as Mamata proposes introduction of 3-year diploma in medicine
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday directed state Health Secretary Narayan Swaroop Nigam to explore the possibilities of introducing a three-year diploma course in medicine in the state that…
- India
Calcutta High Court orders NIA probe into death of two students in 2018 ‘police firing’
Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Wednesday ordered a National Investigation Agency (NIA) investigation into the deaths of two students in alleged police firing at Darivit in Uttar Dinajpur district of West…
- India
‘The Kerala Story’: SC agrees to hear producers’ plea against ban by West Bengal
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to examine on Friday a plea by the makers of ‘The Kerala Story’ against the West Bengal government’s order against the screening of the…
- India
Battlelines over ‘Kerala Story’ harden as legal notice on ban is sent by filmaker
Kolkata: Amidst a raging controversy over West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s announced ban on the screening of the controversial film ‘The Kerala Story’ in the state, political battlelines hardened over the…
