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  • News from West Bengal | 19 Aug, 2025 | ৪ ভাদ্র, ১৪৩২
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  • Citizen’s forum urges EC for urgent electoral roll revision in Bengal

    The All Bengal Citizens Forum has written to the Chief Election Commissioner in New Delhi, stressing the urgency of conducting a Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral roll in West Bengal.The purpose of the SIR, according to the ...

    8 August 2025 The Statesman
    From aluminium to rakhis, Durgapur exporters in a tizzy over Trump tariffs

    Bengal’s lone aluminum panel exporter and women Rakhi exporters based in the Durgapur region are in a quandary after the tariff blitzkrieg announced by US President Donald Trump, especially at a time when their maiden consignments have landed in ...

    8 August 2025 The Statesman
    Vinita Srivastava new DRM of Asansol division

    Vinita Srivastava, an Indian Railway Service of Mechanical Engineers (IRSME) of 1994 batch, SCRA 1991, has assumed the charge of divisional railway manager (DRM), Asansol Division of Eastern Railway today. She is the first ever woman DRM of Asansol ...

    8 August 2025 The Statesman
    In less than a month DVC released 27k lakh cubic metre of water: Jal Shakti min

    Trinamul Congress MP Ritabrata Banerjee, who has been regularly raising questions on Bengal, had raised a question in the Rajya Sabha to the minister of Jal Shakti if the DVC (Damodar Valley Corporation) had released to the state 27,000 ...

    7 August 2025 The Statesman
    Anti-Bengal sentiment: TMC MPs stage protest in Parliament

    Trinamul Congress MPs today staged a demonstration outside the Parliament House to protest against the attack on Bengal and Bengali-speaking migrant workers in different parts of the country.Trinamul Congress MPs held placards that read “Don’t Insult Bengal”.AdvertisementTrinamul Congress on ...

    7 August 2025 The Statesman
    Newborn rescued in Howrah

    A newborn girl was rescued by an e-rickshaw driver from a garbage dump in Howrah district on Wednesday morning. The baby was spotted when Chandan Mallick, the driver, was passing through Panchanantala in the Bally area and noticed something ...

    7 August 2025 The Statesman
    Closed mines to be developed as tourism spots: Coal minister

    Union coal minister G. Kishan Reddy announced today that the ministry of coal is taking steps to transform closed coal mines across India into tourism hotspots.Drawing inspiration from countries such as Germany, the United Kingdom, and Australia—where disused coal ...

    7 August 2025 The Statesman
    Dist push for agro-based food processing units

    The district administration has taken a significant step to promote agro-based food processing units in the region. Surplus food crops will be supplied to these units, which will not only create employment opportunities but also provide farmers with a ...

    7 August 2025 The Statesman
    Education conclave by BCREC

    Dr BC Roy Engineering College organised an education conclave “EduSaksham 2025” as a part of its yearlong Silver Jubilee celebrations on 4 August in Durgapur. The theme of the event was Bridging the Knowledge and Innovation, aiming to enrich ...

    6 August 2025 The Statesman
    Foundation laid for guest house and parking facility at Jayrambati-Kamarpukur

    Chief minister Mamata Banerjee today laid the foundation stone for an Atithi Nibas (guest house) and a vehicle parking facility at Jayrambati. The initiative is part of a broader development plan for the Jayrambati-Kamarpukur region, deeply rooted in the ...

    6 August 2025 The Statesman
    EC directs CS to file FIRs against 5 poll officials

    The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Tuesday has directed the West Bengal chief secretary Manoj Pant to lodge FIRs against two Electoral Registration Officers (EROs), who are WBCS executives, two Assistant Electoral Registration Officers (AEROs) and one casual ...

    6 August 2025 The Statesman
    Dr Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar appointed new chief whip in LS

    Dr Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar has been appointed as the new Chief Whip of All India Trinamul Congress parliamentary party in the Lok Sabha.She replaced Kalyan Banerjee, who resigned from the post of Chief Whip yesterday. Mamata Banerjee, Trinamul Congress ...

    6 August 2025 The Statesman
    CM happy with strong GST collection in state

    Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today expressed her satisfaction over West Bengal’s strong performance in gross Goods and Services Tax (GST) collections for July 2025, compared to the same month last year.In a post on her X handle, Miss Banerjee ...

    6 August 2025 The Statesman
    Sukanta accuses state of collecting ‘pilgrimage tax’

    The erstwhile state president of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has accused the ruling Trinamul Congress (TMC) government in West Bengal of targeting Hindu pilgrims with an “unauthorised tax” during one of the state’s largest religious festivals. Sukanta Majumdar, ...

    6 August 2025 The Statesman
    Suvendu’s convoy attacked in Cooch Behar

    Hundreds of Trinamul Congress supporters allegedly attacked the convoy of Leader of Opposition (LoP) Suvendu Adhikari at Khagrabari, the gateway to Cooch Behar town, on Tuesday, damaging his bulletproof car as he was en route to a political programme, ...

    6 August 2025 The Statesman
    Suvendu slams Bengal Govt for ‘blocking’ voter list revision

    Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari, on Tuesday accused the Trinamul Congress-led state government of deliberately not cooperating with the Election Commission of India (ECI) in executing the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls.Drawing a comparison with Bihar, ...

    6 August 2025 The Statesman
    Abhishek asks party leaders to work for party, bury hatchets

    Calling the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) as silent invisible rigging, Trinamul Congress national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee urged party workers to ensure that the name of not a single genuine voter is deleted from the voter list.Mr Banerjee today ...

    6 August 2025 The Statesman
    PM to visit Bengal on 20 Aug for Dum Dum event

    If everything goes as planned, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Bengal again on 20 August to attend a special programme in Dum Dum. The Assembly elections in the state are due next year. Despite the BJP’s vigorous efforts ...

    6 August 2025 The Statesman
    Opposition accuses TMC councillor of name duplication in voter list

    Opposition leader Shuvendu Adhikari has alleged that Kabirul Alam, Trinamul Congress councillor of Ward 19 of Dankuni Municipality, has his name listed twice in the voter rolls.In a Facebook post featuring Kabirul Alam’s name and photograph, Mr Adhikari claimed ...

    6 August 2025 The Statesman
    Abhishek new party leader in LS, replaces Sudip Bandyopadhyay

    Abhishek Banerjee, Trinamul Congress national general secretary and MP from Diamond Harbour has been appointed as the leader of the party in Lok Sabha.He replaced veteran party MP from north Kolkata Sudip Bandyopadhyay. Post the development Kalyan Bandyopadhyay resigned ...

    6 August 2025 The Statesman
    Trinamul lambastes Amit Malviya

    Trinamul Congress leaders have lambasted the BJP IT chief Amit Malviya after he wrote on social media that there is no language called Bengali. AdvertisementTrinamul Congress in its X handle wrote: “There is in fact no language called Bengali – ...

    6 August 2025 The Statesman
    In virtual meet with MPs, Mamata speaks on Abhishek’s new role as TMC Parliamentary party leader in Lok Sabha

    Mamata Banerjee, Trinamul Congress chairperson today instructed the Trinamul MPs to raise the issue on the attack of the Bengali speaking migrant labourers in the BJP-ruled states and foil the saffron party’s attempt to equate Bengali as Bangladeshi language.She ...

    6 August 2025 The Statesman
    West Bengal Sees 12 % Growth in GST Collections, Mamata Banerjee Shares Report

    West Bengal has reported a robust 12 per cent year-on-year growth in gross Goods and Services Tax (GST) collections for July 2025, with a total collection of Rs 5,895 crore, up from Rs 5,257 crore in the same month ...

    6 August 2025 The Statesman
    New lease of life to 17-yr girl after critical surgery

    A team of doctors comprising surgical gastroenterology experts and anaesthesiologists of SSKM Hospital as well as Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education & Research (IPGME&R) gave new lease of life after performing a critical surgery for more than eight ...

    5 August 2025 The Statesman
    Govt starts shuttle busses between Metro stations for passengers

    The state transport department today launched shuttle bus services between Shahid Khudram and Kavi Subhash metro stations to ease out last mile connectivity for citizens commuting between the two stations.The initiative comes in the background of the closure of ...

    5 August 2025 The Statesman
    Aromatic rice prices soar to 2.5 times in Burdwan

    Traders and consumers are struggling to cope with soaring prices of aromatic rice in the retail market – even at its birthplace in East Burdwan, Bengal’s rice bowl.Traders and rice millers have complained that unauthorised hoarding of paddy by ...

    5 August 2025 The Statesman
    CU refuses to reschedule exams on TMCP foundation day

    Calcutta University has decided to go ahead with undergraduate examinations on 28 August, the same day the Trinamul Congress Chhatra Parishad (TMCP), the student wing of the ruling Trinamul Congress party, observes its foundation day. The decision has set ...

    5 August 2025 The Statesman
    At Bankura’s biri factory, tradition of lectura still continues

    What is the common between Fidel Castro’s Cuba and Ram Kinkar Baij’s faraway red and dusty Bankura, the native places of two legends? Incidentally Cuba and Bankura have a common connection of a century-old tradition of ‘lectura’, where a ...

    5 August 2025 The Statesman
    Mamata, Abhishek Banerjee slam BJP as Delhi Police letter terms Bengali as Bangladeshi language

    West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and the Trinamool Congress general secretary Abhishek Banerjee, on Sunday, condemned the BJP after a letter from Delhi Police referred to Bengali as a “Bangladeshi language”.Both described the issue of such language by ...

    4 August 2025 The Statesman
    Corruption, crime against women to be BJP’s counter in Parliament to Trinamool’s ‘Bengali-harassment’ claims

    Rampant corruption, rising incidents of crime against women and the frequent communal violence in minority-dominated pockets of West Bengal will be the counter-attack points of the BJP Parliamentarians from West Bengal on the floor of the Parliament during the ...

    4 August 2025 The Statesman
    Crops damage in heavy rains causes vegetable prices to skyrocket in Bengal cities

    Continuous rains over West Bengal, coupled with the slowing down of the supply chain, have led to prices of vegetables skyrocketing in Kolkata markets, as well as in several other cities and towns across districts.In Kolkata markets, a cauliflower, ...

    4 August 2025 The Statesman
    Trinamool Congress highlights another instance of a Bengali migrant worker’s death in Haryana

    Trinamool Congress, on Sunday, highlighted another incident of a migrant worker from West Bengal being killed in a BJP-ruled state.In a social media post, the Trinamool Congress alleged that a migrant worker from the Chanchal area in Malda district ...

    4 August 2025 The Statesman
    Heavy rainfall in North Bengal, MeT office issues red alert

    The Meteorological (MeT) office, on Sunday, issued a red alert warning for rain in several North Bengal districts, with scattered thunderstorms likely to continue in South Bengal districts for the next few days.As the weather office has not predicted ...

    4 August 2025 The Statesman
    Kirti Azad seeks central probe into corruption in Eastern Coalfields

    Trinamul Congress MP Kirti Azad has written to Union coal and mines minister G Kishan Reddy demanding a comprehensive investigation by federal agencies, including CBI and ED into what he described as “pervasive and systemic corruption” within Eastern Coalfields ...

    3 August 2025 The Statesman
    6 month-old baby drowns in knee-deep waterlogged room

    In an apparently unheard-of incident a six month-old baby drowned in knee-deep water that has waterlogged her residence and most areas at Debinagar under the North Dum Dum Municipality on Saturday.The shocking incident that happened around 8.30 a.m. in ...

    3 August 2025 The Statesman
    Old building collapses in Maniktala

    Two children were injured after a portion of a dilapidated building in Maniktala collapsed this morning.Civic officials of the building department said a portion of a century-old two storey building collapsed this morning. The civic authorities had declared the ...

    3 August 2025 The Statesman
    Sealdah station earmarks platforms for different sections

    Commuters availing local EMUs towards various suburban sections from Sealdah station would not have to jostle through the crowd running to different platforms to catch trains.The zonal railway has decided to allocate specific platforms for different trains heading to ...

    3 August 2025 The Statesman
    Cops arrest three in murder of TMC panchayat member

    Police have arrested three individuals in connection with the murder of Kannaipur panchayat member Pintu Chakraborty. Biswanath Pramanik from the Sason area of Barasat, and Dipak Mondal from Barasat, both were identified as contract killers by the police. They ...

    3 August 2025 The Statesman
    Ranaghat-Krishnanagar 3rd line in final sanction stage

    Moving a step ahead in capacity enhancement, Eastern Railway’s proposed third line between Ranaghat and Krishnanagar City has reached the final stage of sanction after an approval from the Railway Board. According to official sources, the project under Sealdah ...

    3 August 2025 The Statesman
    ABVP’s meet in Siliguri focus on infiltration, women’s safety

    The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) convened its central working committee meeting in Siliguri on Saturday, marking a crucial two-day session aimed at shaping future academic, social, and cultural strategies.Delegates from across India attended the meet to share ...

    3 August 2025 The Statesman
    July alone records 82pc of rainfall

    July accounted for 82 per cent of the total monsoon precipitation this year in East Burdwan — one of Bengal’s key agricultural districts.The district received 497.1 mm of rainfall in July, against the monthly average of 273 mm. In ...

    3 August 2025 The Statesman
    TMC women wing protests atrocities on Bengali migrant workers

    Members of Trinamul Mahila Congress staged a sit-in demonstration at Gandhi statue in Mayo Road to protest against the attack on Bengali-speaking migrant labourers.Chandrima Bhattacharya, president Trinamul Mahila Congress said it was most unfortunate that Bengali-speaking migrant workers are ...

    3 August 2025 The Statesman
    High Court directs FIR against Asansol Municipal Corporation

    The Calcutta High Court has directed that an FIR be lodged against Asansol Municipal Corporation (AMC) for allegedly demanding Rs 20 lakh as a penalty for an illegal construction in a factory in Jamuria.Justice Gaurang Kanth ordered that an ...

    3 August 2025 The Statesman
    Students argue on indirect discrimination at moot court

    It was not only an intriguing fight for the right stand, but was also a show of team work to get the argument right before the judges. Students from 34 schools across India fought for and against the arguments ...

    3 August 2025 The Statesman
    TMC MPs protest in Parliament against SIR

    The Trinamul Congress wrote on its X handle: “The fight is no longer just about politics, it’s about the soul of our Constitution. ‘Special Intensive Revision’ is a calculated tool of exclusion and oppression, a dangerous legislative backdoor to ...

    2 August 2025 The Statesman
    Lady, B’deshi parner held for robbing man

    A Bangladeshi national and a woman were arrested from the airport area of the city for allegedly robbing a man they had targeted through a matrimonial website, police said on Friday.The victim had recently created a profile on a ...

    2 August 2025 The Statesman
    Rs 2.25 cr erosion protection plan for Bhagirathi banks

    After the heavy rains paused for a bit, the district authorities began work to prevent further damage of the Bhagirathi riverbank in certain areas yesterday.At Kishoreganj in Kalna’s Purbasthali – 1 block, cage-like bamboo structures and large boulder rocks ...

    2 August 2025 The Statesman
    Amartya Sen backs migrant workers amid language row

    Nobel Laureate Professor Amartya Sen has condemned the recent attacks on Bengali-speaking migrant workers and the Bengali language in states outside West Bengal. The veteran economist, who arrived in Santiniketan on Wednesday evening from the United States, told the media ...

    2 August 2025 The Statesman
    SIR, ECI BJP’s tools for silent rigging: TMC MP Ritabrata

    Raising the opposition against Special Intensive Review (SIR) within the Parliament precincts, the Trinamul Congress MPS are protesting with banners and slogans. Today too the party MPs were vocal in their united stand against the SIR implementation in Bihar.TMC ...

    2 August 2025 The Statesman
    CM Mamata likely to visit Ghatal

    Chief minister Mamata Banerjee is likely to visit a Ghatal in West Midnapore on 5 August to survey the flood-like situation there, said Nabanna sources.The visit, a day ahead of her proposed plan to visit Jhargram, on 6 August, ...

    2 August 2025 The Statesman
    CBI yet to conclude RG Kar probe, doctors’ forum demands answers

    Members of Abhaya Mancha, a doctors’ forum formed after last year’s rape and murder at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, staged a protest rally outside the CBI office at the CGO Complex in Salt Lake on Friday.Holding broomsticks, ...

    2 August 2025 The Statesman
    Students stir over delayed UG admissions at PU

    Members of the Students’ Federation of India (SFI) continued their sit-in demonstration at Kolkata’s Presidency University on Friday, demanding the immediate commencement of undergraduate admissions and timely publication of entrance examination results.The protest, which began on Thursday, centred around ...

    2 August 2025 The Statesman
    TMC organisation meeting advanced by 3 days

    The crucial organisation meeting of Trinamul Congress, convened by party general secretary and Lok Sabha member Abhishek Banerjee, has been advanced by three days.On Thursday, an information surfaced that the meeting, in virtual mode, will be organised on 8 ...

    2 August 2025 The Statesman
    Student council polls: HC defers hearing in absence of govt counsel

    A crucial hearing on the multiple public interest litigations seeking immediate conclusion of pending students’ union council elections in all colleges and universities in West Bengal was postponed on Friday as the state government counsel did not turn up ...

    2 August 2025 The Statesman
    TMC highlights another incident of atrocity against Bengalis in Surat

    The Trinamul Congress has been highlighting atrocities to Bengali-speaking migrant labourers in BJP-ruled states and branding them as Bangladeshis.On Thursday another such incident was flagged by the TMC regarding residents from Pingla in West Midnapore at Surat in its ...

    2 August 2025 The Statesman
    City gets no respite from rain till Tuesday: Met

    A cyclonic circulation hovering over the northwestern Bay of Bengal and adjoining coastal regions of Gangetic West Bengal and Odisha triggered heavy rainfall across the city and parts of West Bengal on Thursday, with the India Meteorological Department (IMD) ...

    1 August 2025 The Statesman
    Special postage stamp unveiled to mark India’s 30-yr mobile journey

    It has been three decades of mobile telephony in India with the historic first mobile call made on 31 July 1995 by then West Bengal chief minister Jyoti Basu to then telecom minister Sukh Ram using a Nokia handset ...

    1 August 2025 The Statesman
    KMC building dept asks engineers to look for old bldgs

    The building department of Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has asked all its engineers to keep a tab on old and dilapidated buildings in view of the ongoing heavy downpour which has lashed the city for the past couple of ...

    1 August 2025 The Statesman
    CPI-M alleges, YouTube, FB blocking their videos

    The West Bengal unit of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has accused social media giant Facebook of blocking the upload of a party-produced video highlighting the plight of migrant workers from the state, calling it a case of ...

    1 August 2025 The Statesman
    After Bolpur, Jhargram next stop for Mamata’s ‘Bhasha Andolan’ rally

    After Bolpur in Birbhum district, tribal dominated Jhargram district would be the next destination for Mamata Banerjee’s protest rally on the issue of the alleged harassment of Bengali-speaking people in BJP-ruled states, which the chief minister had described as ...

    1 August 2025 The Statesman
    Finally, WBJEE results on 7 Aug

    The results of the West Bengal Joint Entrance Examination (WBJEE) will be announced on 7 August, nearly three months after the engineering entrance test was held on 27 April, officials said on Wednesday.Sonali Chakraborty Banerjee, chairperson of the West ...

    1 August 2025 The Statesman
    New space for e-two wheelers in city

    After its recent global launch in Europe, Ultraviolette opened its state-of-the-art experience centre in Kolkata. This is part of its expansion plans across India and competing with other electric two-wheelers in India.The newly established UV Space Station will provide ...

    1 August 2025 The Statesman
    Crucial TMC meet on 8 Aug to set blueprint on SIR protest

    Trinamul Congress general secretary and the party’s Lok Sabha member, Abhishek Banerjee, has convened a crucial virtual meeting on 8 August to finalise the party’s blueprint on two crucial issues.The first issue is on how to organise mass movements ...

    1 August 2025 The Statesman
    Live broadcast of surgeries not for promotion: NMC

    In its strict advisory the National Medical Commission (NMC), sole regulatory body monitoring medical education and ethics across the country, says that live broadcasts of surgeries should not be used for promotion of the operating surgeon, hospital and product ...

    1 August 2025 The Statesman
    Bengal gets connectivity boost with new Aluabari Rd–NJP line

    West Bengal today got a connectivity boost as the cabinet approved railway projects worth over Rs 1,700 crore today.The approval was given by the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The committee today approved ...

    1 August 2025 The Statesman
    Stop divide-and-rule politics: Firhad Hakim

    Mayor Firhad Hakim today urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi and home minister Amit Shah to give up the divide-and-rule politics that will lead to disaster in future.Mr Hakim alleged that the Bengali-speaking poor migrant workers have been harassed in ...

    1 August 2025 The Statesman
    TMC leader murder case: Main accused nabbed in Birbhum

    Birbhum Police have arrested Sagar Sheikh, the prime accused in the murder of Trinamul Congress (TMC) leader Sheikh Baitullah, which took place in Mallarpur on 19 July.Chief minister Mamata Banerjee, during her administrative meeting in Bolpur, criticised the Birbhum ...

    31 July 2025 The Statesman
    Tram lovers set to protest decline of heritage network

    A group of tram enthusiasts in Kolkata are set to stage a sit-in outside the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) headquarters on 1 August, accusing civic and state authorities of systematically phasing out the city’s iconic tram network under the ...

    31 July 2025 The Statesman
    State lodges complaint over illegal plant on govt land

    The state land and land revenue department has filed a police complaint after the son of a local leader allegedly encroached upon vested government land in Ausgram, East Burdwan, to set up a fly-ash brick manufacturing unit. Officials from ...

    31 July 2025 The Statesman
    Residents urge CM to set up Durga Angan at Guptipara

    The recognition of Bengal’s Durga Puja by UNESCO has drawn global attention to the region’s traditional art, culture, literature, and rituals, showcased vividly through thematic pandals and the Durga Puja carnival.During her address on 21 July, the chief minister ...

    31 July 2025 The Statesman
    Safety first: State mulls helpline for female passengers

    The state transport department has decided to introduce helpline numbers for women travelling in buses, online app cabs and taxis.A high-level meeting on the subject was held by the department officials with the city police, officials of the city ...

    31 July 2025 The Statesman
    We will not allow SIR in Bengal: Abhishek

    Trinamul Congress national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee today said they [BJP] will desperately attempt to implement Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in Bengal, but it will only increase the trust and love people have for the TMC. If the ...

    31 July 2025 The Statesman
    AIIMS convocation: Prez urges young doctors to lead with compassion, integrity

    In her address to young doctors, President Droupadi Murmu today asked them to uphold the highest ideals of service and lead the nation’s healthcare transformation with humility, dedication, and lifelong learning.Speaking at the first convocation ceremony of AIIMS Kalyani, ...

    31 July 2025 The Statesman
    Metro’s repair & reconstruct of affected areas of Kavi Subhash station

    The Kolkata Metro Railway is considering plans to repair and reconstruct the affected parts of Kavi Subhash Metro station at a cost of around Rs 9 crore.The city Metro is said to have floated an e-tender for the work ...

    31 July 2025 The Statesman
    TMC highlights resident certificate to a tractor in Bihar

    Strange things are happening in Bihar where the Assembly election will be held later this year.After a dog, now a tractor has been issued a residential certificate.AdvertisementTrinamul Congress leadership in the party’s X handle wrote: “These very certificates ...

    31 July 2025 The Statesman
    Commuters face traffic disruptions over Murmu’s visit

    President Droupadi Murmu’s two-day visit to Kolkata has brought large parts of the city to a standstill, with widespread traffic restrictions and road closures causing severe inconvenience to commuters, particularly air passengers.Several travellers missed or nearly missed flights on ...

    31 July 2025 The Statesman
    Monsoon intensifies in city, heavy rains likely in south Bengal

    The monsoon regained momentum in Kolkata with the city recording 69.3 millimetres of rainfall between Monday and Tuesday morning, according to the India Meteorological Department (IMD).Skies are expected to remain mostly overcast over the next 24 hours, with the ...

    30 July 2025 The Statesman
    Jhalda martyr’s family finds closure after terrorists killed in Kashmir

    The family of Intelligence Branch (IB) officer Manish Ranjan Mishra (33), who was martyred in the Pahalgam terror attack, expressed relief and a sense of justice after assailants reportedly linked to the incident were gunned down by security forces ...

    30 July 2025 The Statesman
    Anubrata appointed convenor of TMC’s Birbhum core committee

    Following a meeting with Trinamul Congress (TMC) chairperson Mamata Banerjee at Ranga Bitan Guest House in Bolpur, Anubrata Mondal, former Birbhum district president of the party, has been appointed convenor of the district’s core committee.The post had previously been ...

    30 July 2025 The Statesman
    BJP MP urges Delhi police to probe assault claim on Bengali-speaking woman

    BJP MP Soumendu Adhikari has lodged a police complaint in Delhi against West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, alleging the dissemination of fabricated and communally provocative content through social media.Mr Adhikari urged the Delhi Police to register an FIR ...

    30 July 2025 The Statesman
    Suvendu alleges massive voter list manipulation, writes to EC

    Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari today alleged that I-PAC, the consultancy firm working with the Trinamul Congress (TMC), has inserted numerous fake names into the electoral rolls of every Assembly constituency in West Bengal.According to him, these voters do ...

    30 July 2025 The Statesman
    New devices on highways to check over speeding

    In a bid to control the speed of vehicles and avert accidents along the Kalyani Expressway, the Barrackpore Commissionerate today installed speed laser guns, a device that can detect speed of vehicles instantly.Stern action against the errant drivers and ...

    30 July 2025 The Statesman
    CM lays foundation stone, opens projects worth Rs 1,142 cr

    Chief minister Mamata Banerjee has laid foundation stones of over 1,000 projects virtually throughout the state worth Rs 1,142 crore from her meeting in Birbhum district today afternoon.Bridges, roads, water projects, primary health unit, community hall, boundary wall of ...

    30 July 2025 The Statesman
    Officials meet over proposed export hub

    A proposal to establish an export hub for the twin districts of East and West Burdwan was discussed at a preliminary meeting held here today.Chief minister Mamata Banerjee recently announced that four such hubs would be set up across ...

    29 July 2025 The Statesman
    Metro completes first phase of replacement in Blue Line

    The city Metro achieved a milestone last Saturday with the completion of the phase of replacement of the 38-year-old steel third rail with aluminium in the Blue Line.The change is anticipated to reduce 84 per cent energy loss amounting ...

    29 July 2025 The Statesman
    Commission helping BJP to win elections: Mamata

    Mamata Banerjee, Trinamul Congress chairperson, coming down heavily on the Election Commission of India (ECI) for training of BLOs (booth level officers), in New Delhi, without intimating her, said: “The Commission is helping the BJP to win the election. ...

    29 July 2025 The Statesman
    Abhishek points out discrepancies in Bihar SIR

    Coming down heavily on the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) by the Election Commission of India (ECI), Abhishek Banerjee, national general secretary of Trinamul Congress said a dog has been included in the voters’ list in Bihar at the cost ...

    29 July 2025 The Statesman
    Defence ministry confirms defence land and encroachment in Bengal

    The state BJP today expressed grave concern over the encroachment of the defence land in several parts of Bengal. BJP state president and Rajya Sabha MP Shamik Bhattacharya said that the defence ministry today confirmed that more than 1,500 ...

    29 July 2025 The Statesman
    Protest over sale of waqf land in Burdwan

    Around 3.59 acres of Waqf property, situated beside the old Grand Trunk Road in Burdwan town, have allegedly been illegally sold to private individuals, leading to the construction of various commercial establishments, the All Bengal Save Waqf Committee claimed ...

    29 July 2025 The Statesman
    TMC MP questions govt on security breach in Pahalgam

    Abhishek Banerjee, national general secretary of Trinamul Congress again posted his pointers over the Pahalgam terror attack. He wrote this on the day when a couple of terrorists falling to security forces’ bullets. He posed on X: “It has ...

    29 July 2025 The Statesman
    IIM-C allows rape-accused student to resume classes

    The Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIM-C) has allowed a second-year student, who was arrested earlier this month on charges of rape and is currently out on bail, to resume attending classes from Monday, an institute official said.The decision ...

    29 July 2025 The Statesman
    City to get heavy rains in next few days: Met

    The Regional Meteorological Centre in Alipore has forecast continued rainfall across Kolkata and parts of south Bengal due to a well-marked low-pressure area over central India and associated weather systems.The system will bring in rains in the city till ...

    29 July 2025 The Statesman
    Cracks on Metro station platform columns

    The city Metro decided to withdraw services after few cracks were observed in some columns on the UP platform of Kavi Subhash Metro station today. According to Kolkata Metro Railway, the cracks are suspected to have resulted from uneven ...

    29 July 2025 The Statesman
    EC helping BJP to win elections: Mamata

    Mamata Banerjee, Trinamul Congress chairperson, coming down heavily on the Election Commission of India (ECI) for training of BLOs (booth level officers), in New Delhi, without intimating her, said: “The Commission is helping the BJP to win the election. ...

    29 July 2025 The Statesman
    Mamata Banerjee targets BJP over ‘attack’ on Bengali migrant family in Delhi

    West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, on Sunday, launched a fresh attack against the BJP, accusing a state administration run by it of harassing and torturing a Bengali-speaking migrant family there.Her fresh target is the BJP-run Delhi government and ...

    28 July 2025 The Statesman
    Fresh drive to free Kolkata footpaths of vagrants

    The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has decided to launch a fresh drive to free Kolkata’s roads, passenger waiting areas, and footpaths of vagrants.A source at the KMC said on Sunday that the drive will be held in three phases ...

    28 July 2025 The Statesman
    CM Mamata Banerjee to start ‘Bhasha Andolan’ from Birbhum on Monday

    West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will on Monday kick off her “weekly protest movement” against the alleged harassment of Bengali-speaking people in BJP-ruled states.She will lead a protest rally there in Birbhum district. The reason for choosing Birbhum ...

    28 July 2025 The Statesman
    Depression moves out of West Bengal but more rain on the radar, says Met office

    The depression that triggered widespread rain in Kolkata and south Bengal districts moved past Jharkhand and was over Chhattisgarh.However, the Met Office on Sunday said that scattered rain will continue to occur in Kolkata and its adjoining areas, and ...

    28 July 2025 The Statesman
    Bengal LoP accuses Mamata govt of appointing temporary employees as BLOs

    The Leader of the Opposition in West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, on Sunday, alleged that the Mamata Banerjee-led West Bengal government appointed undeserving candidates as booth-level officers (BLOs).Speaking to media persons on Sunday, Adhikari claimed that despite having permanent ...

    28 July 2025 The Statesman
    Kolkata Police arrest four in cyber fraud case, recover items worth Rs 17 lakh

    Four persons were arrested and items worth Rs 17 lakh recovered following multiple raids in the city, said Kolkata Police on Sunday. The raids were carried out as part of the police investigation into a cyber-fraud case, which was ...

    28 July 2025 The Statesman
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