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Prophet row: Bengal BJP leader asks Amit Shah to deploy central forces
Kolkata: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP and party’s West Bengal vice president Saumitra Khan on Saturday wrote to Union Home Minister Amit Shah and urged him to deploy central forces in the…
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BJP would have won Bengal polls, but Covid played spoilsport: Nadda
Kolkata: A year after the party’s defeat in the high-octane West Bengal Assembly polls, BJP president J P Nadda on Thursday claimed that the party would have come to power had the…
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Don’t raise separate statehood issue, Nadda tells Bengal BJP leaders
Kolkata: BJP President J.P. Nadda on Thursday gave strict instructions to the party leaders in West Bengal, especially the MPs and MLAs, to refrain from raising the separate statehood issue or making…
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Man chops off wife’s hand to stop her from taking govt job
Kolkata: In a shocking case of jealousy or sheer inferiority complex, a man in West Bengal on Monday chopped off his wife’s hand from the wrist to prevent her from joining a…
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West Bengal: Dilip Ghosh in no mood to abide by party gag order
Kolkata: BJP’s national Vice President and former West Bengal unit chief Dilip Ghosh seems to be in no mood to honour his party high command’s order barring him from making media statements…
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Bengal: BJP censors Dilip Ghosh, bars him from speaking to media
Kolkata: The BJP central leadership has censored Bengal MP Dilip Ghosh from speaking against a section of party leaders or making statement on any public forum against any of his party colleagues,…
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Why some people have become so greedy, asks Mamata
Kolkata: Issuing a warning to her party functionaries and a section of state government officials on the issue of corruption, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday said that she fails…
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Legal procedures not followed during raid at Anis Khan’s home: Bengal govt in court
Kolkata: The police raid at the residence of deceased student leader Anis Khan on February 18 was not done following proper legal procedures, the West Bengal government admitted to the Calcutta High…
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Modi urged to check authenticity of Mamata’s plea on central dues
Kolkata: Just 48 hours after West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi with the plea to initiate immediate release of the state’s dues for the Mahatma Gandhi…
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Bimal Gurung urges Mamata Banerjee to hold GTA polls
Kolkata: Gorkha Janmukti Morcha supremo Bimal Gurung has requested West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to defer the GTA poll until the memorandum of proposals submitted by the party is implemented in…
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Mamata Banerjee at an event in Kolkata
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee waves at her supporters during a state government programme organised to celebrate the completion of one year of the party’s victory in West Bengal for…
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BJP hopes Shah’s Bengal visit will place party in order
New Delhi: The West Bengal BJP hopes that Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s visit to the state will help the party to put the house in order. The saffron party feels that…
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Fake news: West Bengal BJP leader Kapil Mishra claims love jihad
A murder became political when a prominent Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) member Kapil Mishra claimed on Twitter that the act was actually “love jihad”. The Murder A 21-year-old student named Sutupa Chowdhury…