West Bengal
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West Bengal: CISF constable opens fire, colleague killed
Kolkata: A Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) trooper, who opened indiscriminate fire with his AK-47 rifle on Saturday evening, killing a colleague and critically injuring another, was neutralized and apprehended after over an…
- India
TMC MLA accused of beating up BJP supporters
Kolkata: Trinamool Congress MLA Asit Majumdar and his supporters were accused of beating up BJP workers in West Bengal’s Hooghly district on Friday. Denying the accusation, the TMC alleged that the legislator…
- India
West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee meets PM Modi
New Delhi: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee met Prime Minister Narendra Modi here on Friday, and the two leaders were believed to have discussed a host of issues. Banerjee arrived here…
- India
West Bengal cabinet reshuffle: Nine MLAs take oath as ministers
Kolkata: Nine MLAs, including Babul Supriyo, took oath as ministers in West Bengal on Wednesday, in a major reshuffle of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s cabinet. Supriyo, along with Snehasis Chakraborty, Partha Bhowmik,…
- India
Jharkhand crisis: Delhi police stops West Bengal CID team from conducting raid
Delhi police on Wednesday stopped the West Bengal CID team from conducting a search and raid related to the Jharkhand cash controversy case. The team was stopped despite carrying a court warrant.…
- India
CAA rules to be framed after precaution dose exercise: Amit Shah to Bengal BJP leader
New Delhi: BJP leader from West Bengal Suvendu Adhikari Tuesday urged Union Home Minister Amit Shah to implement the citizenship law CAA at the earliest, with the latter assuring him that rules…
- Sports
CWG 2022: Lifter Achinta Sheuli wins men’s 73kg, bags third gold medal for India
Birmingham: With an assured performance, India’s 20-year-old weightlifter Achinta Sheuli won gold in the men’s 73kg division at the Commonwealth Games 2022, lifting a new games record total of 313kg at the…
- India
Forced to use my flats as storehouses of illegal cash: Arpita Mukherjee confesses
Kolkata: In the wake of the two consecutive recoveries of massive amounts of cash and gold from two of her residences in Kolkata’s Tollygunge and Belgharia, Arpita Mukherjee on Thursday confessed to the…
- India
WBSSC scam: TMC leaders demand sacking of Partha Chatterjee
Kolkata: West Bengal’s industry minister Partha Chatterjee, arrested in the SSC scam, should be removed immediately from his post and expelled from the Trinamool Congress, TMC’s state general secretary Kunal Ghosh demanded on…
- India
Gold, Rs 28 crore in cash found at apartment linked to Bengal minister
Kolkata: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has recovered Rs 27.9 crore in cash, besides a massive amount of gold jewellery from an apartment linked to Arpita Mukherjee, considered a close associate of arrested…
- India
WBSSC scam: Address of firm with Arpita as director claimed fake
Kolkata: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) probing the multi-crore West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) recruitment irregularities scam, has received a complaint that the registered address of one of the companies which has…
- India
38 TMC MLAs in touch with BJP, claims Mithun Chakraborty
Kolkata: Actor-turned-politician Mithun Chakraborty, who had joined the BJP ahead of the West Bengal Assembly polls last year, on Wednesday claimed that 38 TMC MLAs are in touch with the saffron camp. Of…
- India
PIL in Calcutta HC against Mahua Moitra’s Goddess Kali comments
Kolkata: A public interest litigation (PIL) was filed in the Calcutta High Court on Tuesday against the recent comments by Trinamool Congress Lok Sabha member, Mahua Moitra associating Goddess Kali with alcohol…
- India
Will release revealing audio tape on cattle-coal smuggling soon: Abhishek
Kolkata: A day before Trinamool Congress’ Martyr’s Day rally in Kolkata, the party’s national General Secretary and Lok Sabha member, Abhishek Banerjee, threatened to make public an audio tape that will reveal…
- India
Stop persecution of Hindus in B’desh: WB BJP leader writes to PM
Kolkata: Senior BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, requesting him to intervene in the incidents of communal violence against the Hindus in neighbouring Bangladesh. Adhikari, also the…
