West Bengal Panchayat and Rural Development Minister Dilip Ghosh said that Beleghata MP Kunal Ghosh had predicted that he would be hit with eggs if he goes to former Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s residence but he did not expect ...
16 June 2026 The StatesmanTrinamool Congress (TMC) National General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee arrived at the West Bengal Crime Investigation Department (CID) headquarters in Bhabani Bhawan on Tuesday for questioning in connection with his alleged inflammatory statements during a campaign.This is the third time ...
16 June 2026 The StatesmanMaidul Islam, a close confidant of Trinamool Congress general secretary Abhishek Banerjee, was on Tuesday, June 16 arrested by the Diamond Harbour Police in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district.Islam, a popular face of TMC teachers’ cell, was initially ...
16 June 2026 The StatesmanFormer West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress (TMC) Chairperson Mamata Banerjee visited the Calcutta High Court on Tuesday to file a petition challenging the Bhabanipur assembly election result in which she was defeated by current West Bengal Chief ...
16 June 2026 The StatesmanTwo persons were arrested by Kolkata Police on Tuesday, June 16, for allegedly throwing eggs at TMC MLA Kunal Ghosh outside the residence of former Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in Kalighat, south Kolkata.Those arrested have been identified by police ...
16 June 2026 The StatesmanIf all goes as planned, Prime Minister Narendra Modi could give a green signal to at least three railway projects in West Bengal during his two-day visit to the state on 20 and 21 June.During his visit to West ...
16 June 2026 The StatesmanThe Institute of Engineering & Management (IEM), Kolkata, and the University of Engineering & Management (UEM), in association with SMART Society USA, successfully concluded the 2026 edition of their flagship Study Abroad Program (SAP), International Internship Initiative, and the ...
16 June 2026 The StatesmanFormer Sports Minister Aroop Biswas failed to appear before the Bidhannagar police on Monday, even after more than 48 hours have passed since the third notice was issued against him.The police had issued a third notice against Biswas requiring ...
16 June 2026 The StatesmanSenior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and West Bengal Urban Development Minister Agnimitra Paul seems to have brushed aside the mega political development which unfolded within the Trinamool Congress’s (TMC) parliamentary ranks on Sunday evening, saying that she is ...
16 June 2026 The StatesmanBharatiya Janata Party’s Siliguri organisational district president Arun Mandal has urged Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari to take up a series of ambitious development initiatives aimed at transforming north Bengal into a major economic and employment hub.In a letter addressed ...
16 June 2026 The StatesmanAs Kolkata observes its first International Day of Yoga after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has come to power in the state following the recently concluded assembly elections, the city’s iconic Red Road and its adjoining areas have greared ...
16 June 2026 The StatesmanIn a significant move aimed at ensuring transparency in government recruitment examinations, West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Monday announced that candidates will be allowed to take home their OMR answer sheets after appearing for government job exams.The ...
16 June 2026 The StatesmanThe Enforcement Directorate’s (ED) questionnaire to Trinamool Congress (TMC) general secretary Abhishek Banerjee stemmed from the third supplementary charge sheet filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in court, which references a 15-minute telephone conversation.According to ED sources, ...
16 June 2026 The StatesmanA team of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) visited the West Bengal Legislative Assembly on Monday afternoon as part of its ongoing probe into the alleged signature forgery case.The investigating officers arrived at the assembly premises on Monday and ...
16 June 2026 The StatesmanThe rebel Trinamool Congress (TMC) MPs whose number has now swelled to 22, have conglomerated at senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and West Bengal-in-charge Bhupender Yadav’s residence in Delhi, ahead of their meeting with Lok Sabha Speaker Om ...
15 June 2026 The StatesmanTrinamool Congress (TMC) MLA Kunal Ghosh appeared at the West Bengal Police’s Criminal Investigation Department (CID) headquarters at Bhabani Bhawan on Sunday afternoon. The party’s general secretary and second-in-command Abhishek Banerjee was already being grilled by investigators at the ...
15 June 2026 The StatesmanIn a major overhaul of the Kolkata Police the newly-formed Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in West Bengal has trasferred as many as 15 Officer-in-Charges (OC) in the city.The transferred OCs include Koushik Singha Roy, Lopsang Tshering Bhutia, Ramachandran Vinod ...
15 June 2026 The StatesmanTaking a leaf out of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘jhalmuri’ playbook, West Bengal Tourism Minister Shankar Ghosh relished a plate of ‘ghugni-muri’ at a roadside stall in Siliguri on Sunday.The white pea curry served along with puffed rice is ...
15 June 2026 The StatesmanRebel Trinamool Congress (TMC) MPs Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar and Deepak Adhikari aka Dev left for Delhi on Sunday as the ‘group of 20’ dissident parliamentarians are set to meet Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Monday.TMC MPs Mala Roy, ...
15 June 2026 The StatesmanTrinamool Congress (TMC) general secreatary Abhishek Banerjee arrived at the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) on Sunday for questioning before noon, the second time in four days. Security was beefed up outside the probe agency’s headquarters in Kolkata, Bhabani Bhawan, ...
15 June 2026 The StatesmanA fresh political flashpoint has gripped the Trinamool Congress (TMC) as Baidyanath Ghosh Dastidar, son of rebel TMC MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar, has moved a legal notice against former West Bengal Chief Minister and TMC chief Mamata Banerjee and ...
15 June 2026 The StatesmanAs the Trinamool Congress (TMC) political storm has reached its zenith in Delhi, its all-India party general secretary Abhishek Banerjee has written to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla asking him to treat the All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) as ...
15 June 2026 The StatesmanThe West Bengal Police have arrested two Bangladeshi nationals and detained a woman along with her minor son from the border-adjacent area in Murshidabad district on suspicion of being Bangladeshi citizens.According to police sources, the arrests were made on ...
14 June 2026 The StatesmanA new administrative culture appears to be taking shape in West Bengal. If former chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee’s governance philosophy was summed up by the phrase “Do It Now,” and Mamata Banerjee’s administration emphasised timely completion of work, the ...
14 June 2026 The StatesmanThe West Bengal police conducted a raid at Trinamool Congress (TMC) General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee‘s Kalighat residence in the early hours of Saturday. The cops went looking from the TMC second-in-command’s personal assistant Sumit Roy, tracking the last location ...
14 June 2026 The StatesmanIn a fresh allegation by the Enforcement Directorate (ED), Trinamool Congress (TMC) MLA Madan Mitra has been accused of being part of a civic body job recruitment scam.As per ED sources, the Kamarhati MLA has been accused of being ...
14 June 2026 The StatesmanRebel Trinamool Congress (TMC) MPs Satabdi Roy and Sudip Bandyopadhyay, who are now part of the group that have sided with the Bharitya Janata Party (BJP) led National Democratic Alliance (NDA), paid a visit to Union Minister and BJP’s ...
14 June 2026 The StatesmanThe West Bengal government is on its way to organise ‘Janakalyan’ camps at the block level on June 15, 16 and 17, to facilitate various schemes that have been launched or yet to be implemented.The mega camps, modeled around ...
14 June 2026 The StatesmanA fresh political message emerged from within the Trinamool Congress on Saturday as senior MP Kalyan Banerjee described party national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee as “like my son” and said it was a father’s duty to forgive a son’s ...
14 June 2026 The StatesmanFormer Trinamool Congress Minister Aroop Biswas was served notice for the third time in the case pertaining to the Messi fiasco at Salt Lake Stadium in Kolkata.The ex-Sports Minister has so far not responded to the earlier summons issued ...
14 June 2026 The StatesmanCorroborating The Statesman expose dated June 6, titled ‘The Great Bengal Liquor Loot: Excise Dept altered policy to siphon off thousands of crores to Abhishek Banerjee, says confidential report’, one of the biggest bodies representing foreign liquor retailers in ...
14 June 2026 The StatesmanSumit Das, a young mountaineer from West Bengal who aspired to put his life on the line for the nation by joining he Indian army, is now capable only of running his small photostat-xerox shop in Ilampur village of ...
14 June 2026 The StatesmanThe Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Saturday conducted searches at seven premises linked to Trinamool Congress MLA and former West Bengal minister Madan Mitra as part of its ongoing investigation into the alleged municipal recruitment scam.The action marks the latest ...
13 June 2026 The StatesmanTrinamool Congress national general secretary and MP Abhishek Banerjee on Friday attempted to defuse a growing controversy within the party after senior leader Kalyan Banerjee launched a sharp attack on him over the handling of a legal matter.Notably, TMC ...
13 June 2026 The StatesmanWest Bengal Police’s Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has issued a notice to TMC MLA Kunal Ghosh in connection with the forged-signature case.The Beleghata MLA has been directed to appear at Bhabani Bhaban on Sunday, June 14, while there is ...
13 June 2026 The StatesmanThe Calcutta High Court has granted conditional bail to Prasanna Roy on a bond of ₹1 lakh in connection with the two cases filed by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) regarding the recruitment scam.Prasanna had been in jail since February ...
13 June 2026 The StatesmanTrinamool Congress general secretary and Lok Sabha MP Abhishek Banerjee on Friday, June 12, said he has never shied away from any investigation and questioned the “double standard” of the BJP government. This came after the West Bengal Police’s ...
13 June 2026 The StatesmanThe city police have announced an eight-hour closure of Vidyasagar Setu this Sunday to enable repair and rehabilitation works on the bridge.According to a notification issued by the Kolkata Police, the bridge is to remain closed to vehicular traffic ...
13 June 2026 The StatesmanPandaveswar police under ADPC today arrested Trinamul Congress leader and schoolteacher Nitu alias Nitai Adhikary along with notorious coal and sand mafia Yudhisthir Ghosh. As they were being taken from Pandaveswar police station to Durgapur Court, agitated locals gathered, ...
13 June 2026 The StatesmanThe Railways has announced additional services for the aspirants of West Bengal Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination, 2024, to be held this Sunday.To facilitate ease of travel to the examinees, guardians and other commuters, Kolkata Metro Railway has announced additional ...
13 June 2026 The StatesmanIdentification of fake job cards and ensuring welfare benefits reach genuine beneficiaries emerged as a key focus at a high-level review meeting chaired by panchayat and rural development minister Dilip Ghosh in Siliguri on Friday.The meeting also reviewed the ...
13 June 2026 The StatesmanA pre-dawn search operation at the Kolkata residence of Trinamool Congress national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee triggered political attention on Saturday after police entered the premises while looking for his executive assistant, Sumit Roy, who is reportedly absconding in ...
13 June 2026 The StatesmanA Special Investigation Team (SIT) has been constituted by Kolkata Police to probe the major fire incident in Alipore.The four-member team comprises Assistant Commissioner of Police Sukhendu Mukhopadhyay, along with Inspector Hirak Dalapati, Inspector Arpan Das, and Sub-Inspector Suman ...
12 June 2026 The StatesmanIn what can be described as a page straight from the Shiv Sena split in 2022 in Maharashtra, West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari is all set to meet the rebel Trinamool Congress (TMC) leaders on June 14 (Sunday) ...
12 June 2026 The StatesmanThe West Bengal Criminal Investigation Department (CID) came knocking at Trinamool Congress (TMC) general secretary Abhishek Banerjee‘s gate on Friday, this time for a separate case.A team from the state police detective unit reached Abhishek’s Kalighat residence in the ...
12 June 2026 The StatesmanAmid continuing speculation over internal dissent and possible defections within the Trinamul Congress (TMC), senior party leaders on Friday mounted a strong defence of the organisation, with MPs Mahua Moitra and Saugata Roy launching sharp attacks on rebel legislators ...
12 June 2026 The StatesmanIn a significant revelation, a large stock of relief materials were recovered from Sreebhumi Sporting Club in Kolkata on Friday.The recovery included a large number of blankets, saris, tarpaulin and plastic buckets. The materials were allegedly meant for distribution ...
12 June 2026 The StatesmanA police complaint has been filed at the Hare Street police station in Kolkata against former West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee over allegations of making inflammatory remarks during the run-up to the assembly elections in 2026.The complaint filed ...
12 June 2026 The StatesmanAs The Statesman expose on the liquor scam in West Bengal has led to significant political rumblings in the state, senior Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) leader Tanmay Bhattachrya said that the erstwhile Trinamool Congress (TMC) led government ...
12 June 2026 The StatesmanThe fire at the Alipore government office in Kolkata was allegedly set to destroy the database related to poachers, investigators have reported in their findings, 48 hours after the incident.The investigators have reportedly submitted their findings to the South ...
12 June 2026 The StatesmanWest Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Friday announced a probe into the expenditure incurred on organising the Bengal Global Business Summit (BGBS) during the tenure of the previous Trinamool Congress (TMC) government in the state.Adhikari alleged that a ...
12 June 2026 The StatesmanAs the names of the rebel Trinamool Congress (TMC) MPs have come to light, one of the dissident MPs, Jagadish Barma Basunia, said that one of the grievances of the breakaway parliamentarians is that some heavyweight party leaders including ...
12 June 2026 The StatesmanWest Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Thursday pitched an ambitious development roadmap for his state at the 11th Governing Council meeting of NITI Aayog. He asserted that West Bengal is ready for a “new era of double-engine growth, ...
12 June 2026 The StatesmanThere was excitement in Rajarhat-Gopalpur on Thursday after relief materials allegedly meant for public distribution were recovered from the party office of former Trinamul Congress MLA and noted folk singer Aditi Munshi.The development came after BJP MLA Tarunjyoti Tewari ...
12 June 2026 The StatesmanIn a sharp swipe at the previous regime, finance minister Dr Swapan Dasgupta on Thursday asserted that the state’s first BJP government would prepare its budget through direct consultation with people and stakeholders rather than “on a treadmill”.Promising a ...
12 June 2026 The StatesmanSoon after assuming charge as minister for public health engineering and labour, Serampore MLA Bhaskar Bhattacharya outlined his policy priorities, stressing service to the common people.Mr Bhattacharya said the portfolio was crucial as it directly concerned the working class ...
12 June 2026 The StatesmanTrinamool Congress (TMC) general secretary Abhishek Banerjee arrived at the Crime Investigation Department (CID) headquarters at Bhabani Bhawan hours after he landed in Kolkata from the national capital.The TMC second-in-command acted as per the Calcutta High Court’s order which ...
12 June 2026 The StatesmanTrinamool Congress (TMC) leader Jahangir Khan, a close aide of party General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee, was paraded in shorts on the streets of Falta by cops on Thursday, days after he was arrested near the India-Nepal border.In the video ...
12 June 2026 The StatesmanTrinamool Congress (TMC) General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee has landed at the Kolkata airport on Thursday evening around 4 pm. The TMC second-in-command was surrounded by a huge crowd of reporters soon after he stepped out of the airport, asking ...
12 June 2026 The StatesmanTrinamool Congress (TMC) MP and senior advocate Kalyan Banerjee who has so far remained a Mamata Banerjee loyalist issued an ultimatum to the party supremo and former West Bengal Chief Minister saying that she should choose between him and ...
12 June 2026 The StatesmanThe Trinamool Congress (TMC) was hit by another resignation from its Rajya Sabha ranks on Thursday as popular Tollywood actor and Rajya Sabha MP Koel Mallick stepped down from the Upper House.Koel Mallick’s resignation comes after days of speculation ...
12 June 2026 The StatesmanSuvendu Adhikari-led West Bengal government has announced the observance of Paschimbanga Divas (West Bengal Day) on June 20 across the state.The BJP government stated that the occasion will be marked across all district headquarters and educational institutions in a ...
12 June 2026 The StatesmanThe allocation of portfolios in the expanded Cabinet of Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari saw three ministers, who had been assigned multiple departments earlier, shed some of the load today.However, one minister was relieved of a ministry, but simultaneously got ...
11 June 2026 The StatesmanThe Sikkim government is closely monitoring the aftermath of a major landslide that struck near Bhaley Dhunga in Yangang at around 1 a.m. on Wednesday following continuous heavy rainfall in the region.According to an official statement issued by the ...
11 June 2026 The StatesmanWith the arrival of the monsoons in parts of South Bengal, including Kolkata in the next few days, the Kolkata Municipal Corporation kicked off a borough wise course of action for the rainy season.On Monday, the KMC administrator Smita ...
11 June 2026 The StatesmanWest Bengal has fallen far behind in competition from companies from north India because the respective state governments created supportive policies, reasonable fees, and practical regulations, stated Homeopathic Manufacturers Association release.They complained that the previous state government, without considering ...
11 June 2026 The StatesmanAn FIR has been lodged against TMC General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee at the Diamond Harbour police station, which comes under his parliamentary constituency. This comes after BJP leader Abhijit Das, also known as Bobby, filed a complaint, which also ...
11 June 2026 The StatesmanTrinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee on Wednesday met Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi at 10 Janpath in New Delhi, a meeting that comes at a politically sensitive moment for the Mamata Banerjee-led party.The interaction follows ...
11 June 2026 The StatesmanThe BJP government in West Bengal on Wednesday announced the allocation of portfolios among members of the newly constituted Council of Ministers, with Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari retaining charge of several crucial departments, including Home and Hill Affairs, Power, ...
11 June 2026 The StatesmanTrinamool Congress found itself battling another political setback on Wednesday after Rajya Sabha MP Sushmita Dev resigned from both the party and the Upper House, adding to a string of departures that have rocked the organisation since its defeat ...
11 June 2026 The StatesmanThe Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the West Bengal Police has now started monitoring TMC General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee’s movements, amid ongoing investigation into the signature forgery case.Sources indicate that the state police’s detective department has already consulted the ...
11 June 2026 The StatesmanWest Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari received ‘Guard of Honour’ at Balaka Mancha in Kolaghat in the state’s Purba Medinipur district on Tuesday.Visuals from the spot show Adhikari standing on a raised platform and saluting police personnel while receiving ...
10 June 2026 The StatesmanTrinamool Congress (TMC) treasurer and former MP Subhasish Chakraborty engaged in a heated exchange with Crime Investigation Department (CID) officers as he initially denied them entry into the party office in Kalighat.Chakraborty argued that since both TMC supremo Mamata ...
10 June 2026 The StatesmanTen Bangladeshi nationals, including three children and women, who spent nearly four days and three nights stranded near Berubari on the Indo-Bangladesh border in north Bengal, have been brought back to India and shifted to a holding centre in ...
10 June 2026 The StatesmanMinister for urban development and municipal affairs, Agnimitra Paul, on Tuesday launched a sharp attack on the ruling Trinamul Congress (TMC) over the alleged signature forgery controversy in the Assembly.Speaking to reporters in Jalpaiguri, Ms Paul alleged that the ...
10 June 2026 The StatesmanThe Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Court at Diamond Harbour on Tuesday remanded TMC leader Jahangir Khan alias ‘Pushpa’ to five days of police custody in connection with a robbery case.Khan was arrested yesterday near the India-Nepal border in connection ...
10 June 2026 The StatesmanPassengers availing private and minibuses for their daily commute will very soon face a tough time availing buses. Increasing fuel prices, coupled with unchanged fare structures for around eight years, is forcing bus operators reduce their operational fleet.Last time ...
10 June 2026 The StatesmanAs the Crime Investigation Department (CID) tightens its noose on former West Bengal Sports Minister Aroop Biswas’s brother Swarup Biswas, officials from the probe agency took the former president of the Federation of Cine Technicians and Workers of Eastern ...
10 June 2026 The StatesmanRebel Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Satabdi Roy who was among the group of 20 dissident parliamentarians who snapped ties with the TMC parliamentary party said that “time will tell” what all is left to unfold within the Mamata Banerjee-led ...
10 June 2026 The StatesmanWest Bengal Cabinet Minister Sharadwat Mukherjee on Monday called for a high-level investigation into alleged irregularities in the state’s liquor trade, saying he would urge the Chief Minister, Suvendu Adhikari, to order a comprehensive probe into the matter.Speaking to ...
10 June 2026 The StatesmanWith Mamata Banerjee-led TMC continuing to implode and a faction of Lok Sabha MPs formally expressing their support to the BJP-led NDA group, senior party leader and Mamata loyalist Kirti Azad on Tuesday launched a scathing attack on rebel ...
10 June 2026 The StatesmanMs Paul, the minister for women and child development and social welfare, accompanied by local MP Raju Bista, inspected drinking water supply projects being implemented in the Mirik Municipality area under the Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation ...
9 June 2026 The StatesmanFormer West Bengal Excise Commissioner Randhir Kumar, during whose tenure the West Bengal State Beverages Corporation Limited (WBSBCL) was established in 2017, has corroborated The Statesman’s news report of a possible liquor scam in the state, suggesting that things ...
9 June 2026 The StatesmanAfter The Statesman expose, on the authority of a confidential report, of a possible liquor scam in West Bengal perpetrated by high-ranking excise department officials to the benefit of former Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s nephew Abhishek Banerjee in which ...
9 June 2026 The StatesmanReviving development schemes, strengthening border infrastructure and restoring accountability in rural administration are the focus areas of West Bengal’s new Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government, says panchayat and rural development minister Dilip Ghosh.According to the 61-year-old senior BJP leader, ...
8 June 2026 The StatesmanThe resignation of Trinamul Congress Rajya Sabha member Sukendu Sekhar Roy on Monday has ignited intense political speculation in West Bengal, raising questions about potential shifts within the state and at the national level.What might have been a routine ...
8 June 2026 The StatesmanSenior Trinamul Congress leader and former Kolkata Mayor Firhad Hakim met Opposition leader Ritabrata Banerjee at his chamber in the Assembly on Monday, triggering fresh political speculation amid the ongoing turmoil within the party.Hakim arrived at the Assembly in ...
8 June 2026 The StatesmanWith monsoons about to set in the state shortly, a high level meeting was held at Kolkata Municipal Corporation today to discuss the presentations for the forthcoming rainy season.Amid the political shift in the state, the monsoon meeting usually ...
8 June 2026 The StatesmanThe Trinamul Congress-led Memari Municipality effectively collapsed on Monday after 10 of its 15 TMC councillors, including the Chairman, submitted resignation letters to the Executive Officer.The 16-seat civic body comprises 15 TMC councillors and one Congress councillor. With the ...
8 June 2026 The StatesmanThe state government today formed a task force of 20 officials to work on expediting various railway projects.The formation of the task force comes two days after shift level meeting between Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari and railway minister Ashwini ...
8 June 2026 The StatesmanThe resignation of Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha member Sukendu Sekhar Roy on Monday has ignited intense political speculation in West Bengal, raising questions about potential shifts within the state and at the national level.What might have been a routine ...
8 June 2026 The StatesmanTrinamool Congress general secretary Abhishek Banerjee was served another notice by the Crime Investigation Department (CID) on Monday, asking him to appear before its headquarters Bhawani Bhavan on Tuesday (June 9, 2026).CID officials visited Banerjee’s residence on Monday while ...
8 June 2026 The StatesmanTrinamool Congress (TMC) MLA and former Kolkata Mayor Firhad Hakim met rebel TMC leader Ritabrata Banerjee at his chamber in the Assembly on Monday. The meeting has triggered fresh political speculation amid the ongoing turmoil within the Mamata Banerjee-led ...
8 June 2026 The StatesmanAt least 20 Trinamool Congress (TMC) Lok Sabha MPs, led by ‘new Didi’ Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar, have informed Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla that they want to be part of the BJP-NDA and snap ties with the TMC parliamentary ...
8 June 2026 The StatesmanTrinamool Congress (TMC) strongman from Falta Jahangir Khan who was arrested by the West Bengal Police Special Task Force (STF) on Monday from Panitanki Bazar in Darjeeling under the Kharibari Police Station in a joint raid with the Darjeeling ...
8 June 2026 The StatesmanTrinamool Congress (TMC) leader and Falta by-election candidate Jahangir Khan was arrested by the Special Task Force (STF) of the West Bengal police near the India-Nepal border on Monday.Police sources said that the TMC strongman is being brought to ...
8 June 2026 The StatesmanSeveral leaders of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have reacted strongly to the alleged liquor excise scam in West Bengal and criticised the previous Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress (TMC) government in the state.The liquor policy in Bengal was ...
8 June 2026 The StatesmanTrinamool Congress leader Kailash Mishra who has been a close aide of TMC general secretary Abhishek Banerjee was arrested by the West Bengal police in Bihar’s Madhubani, officials said on Sunday.Mishra had contested the Assembly elections from the Bally ...
8 June 2026 The StatesmanIn yet another fresh ‘egg attack’ in West Bengal, Trinamool Congress MLA Madan Mitra’s vehicle allegedly came under public wrath in West Bengal’s Kamarhati area.A video that has gone viral over social media showed some local youth chasing a ...
8 June 2026 The StatesmanThe West Bengal government plans to create an additional one lakh Self-Help Groups (SHGs) during the current year to further strengthen rural livelihoods and women’s economic empowerment, state panchayat and rural development minister Dilip Ghosh said on Saturday.Speaking at ...
7 June 2026 The Statesman