West Bengal
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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
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…
- India
‘A good man exits’: Jairam Ramesh on outgoing VP Naidu
New Delhi: With West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar nominated as NDA’s vice presidential candidate, Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on Saturday had words of praise for outgoing vice president M Venkaiah Naidu and…
- India
Babul Supriyo appointed Trinamool Congress national spokesperson
Kolkata: TMC MLA Babul Supriyo has been appointed as a national spokesperson of the party, sources in the Mamata Banerjee-led camp said. Supriyo, the former union minister, took to Twitter to thank…
- India
Mithun Chakraborty makes a comeback in Bengal politics
Kolkata: After going through a stormy campaign session in the 2021 West Bengal assembly elections on behalf of the BJP, Bollywood superstar Mithun Chakraborty went into hibernation. On Monday, he announced his…
- India
Trinamool MLA Nirmal Maji now accused of comparing Mamata Banerjee with Allah
Kolkata: Trinamool Congress legislator Nirmal Maji, who is already in the centre of a controversy after he described Mamata Banerjee as an incarnation of Maa Sarada, is now accused of comparing the…
- India
In line with Mamata’s Didi Ke Bolo’, Abhishek launches helpline number
Diamond Harbour: Trinamool Congress national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Saturday launched a helpline number to reach out to the people of his Lok Sabha constituency, on the lines of the Didi…