The Calcutta High Court imposed a stay on the Kolkata Municipal Corporation order directing the demolition of a rooftop restaurant in the city. While posting the matter for hearing on Thursday, the HC urged the KMC not to take ...
6 May 2025 Indian ExpressNearly a month after protests against the Centre’s Waqf law led to violence in parts of Murshidabad district of West Bengal, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday reached Berhampore, the administrative headquarters of the district, and accused the BJP ...
6 May 2025 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee appealed to the Central Government to bring back BSF jawan Purnam Kumar Sahu, who has been arrested by the Pakistani army.Constable Purnam Kumar Shaw, 40, who hails from Hooghly in West Bengal, was ...
6 May 2025 Indian ExpressChief Minister Mamata Banerjee has strongly criticised Odisha, addressing the ongoing controversy surrounding the Digha Jagannath Dham and the alleged mistreatment of Bengali migrant labourers.Regarding the Digha temple, she refuted accusations of theft, stating, “Jagannath Dham has massively affected you, ...
6 May 2025 Indian ExpressEarly on Monday morning, two persons died in an accident at the Ultadanga flyover, while two more were admitted to hospital in a critical condition, after the motorcycle they were all on hit a wall.Police said the four persons ...
6 May 2025 Indian ExpressWritten by Sharadiya MitraRooftop restaurant owners across Kolkata are reeling from the Kolkata Municipal Corporation’s (KMC) sudden order to shut down all their establishments. Many are left in a state of uncertainty as they grapple with a “lack of ...
6 May 2025 Indian ExpressThe Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has initiated a stringent crackdown on rooftop restaurants across the city, citing safety concerns and violations of regulations. Following a recent policy decision, the civic body has begun serving notices to numerous establishments, including ...
5 May 2025 Indian ExpressThe family of Haragobinda Das and Chandan Das, the father-son duo who were killed during the April 11 violence in Samserganj, Murshidabad, has written a letter to Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna, Chief Justice of Calcutta High Court ...
5 May 2025 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Police on Saturday arrested a Pakistani national, identified as Fatema Bibi, from Chandannagar, in the Hooghly district, for allegedly overstaying in India for nearly 45 years.The 60-year-old woman has been residing in her two-story residence located behind ...
5 May 2025 Indian ExpressWritten by Sharadiya MitraIn a major crackdown on smuggling, the Border Security Force (BSF) South Bengal Frontier recovered gold and silver worth over Rs 1.64 crore in two separate operations conducted Saturday along the India-Bangladesh border in West Bengal.In ...
5 May 2025 Indian ExpressA BTech student was found dead at IIT Kharagpur in the early hours of Sunday, officials said, adding that the 22-year-old student hailed from Bihar’s Sheohar district. The third-year student was found dead inside his hostel room in the SDS ...
5 May 2025 Indian ExpressBy Sharadiya MitraStaedtler’s exquisite “Bavaria” pen, adorned with 48 diamonds and featuring a hand-polished 18-karat gold nib and a palladium body with a blue lacquer finish, takes center stage at Pen Utsav 2025 in Kolkata.The pen’s craftsmanship honours Bavaria, ...
5 May 2025 Indian ExpressWest Bengal has issued strict guidelines for handling Pocso cases, underscoring that state-run hospitals must conduct medical tests on victims of child sex abuse even in instances where a complaint or FIR has not been lodged.In an order issued ...
5 May 2025 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is ‘scheduled’ to visit Murshidabad district, which witnessed violent clashes and acts of vandalism in protests against the Waqf (Amendment) Act, on May 5, Monday, said sources.However, the state administration is yet to ...
4 May 2025 Indian ExpressThe Kolkata Port Saturday successfully commenced night navigation in the upper reaches of the River Hooghly to the Bay of Bengal. This development will reduce turnaround time and pre-berthing detention of vessels.According to Syama Prasad Mookerjee Port, Kolkata (SMPK), ...
4 May 2025 Indian ExpressSENIOR CONGRESS leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Saturday hit out at West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee over her scheduled visit to Murshidabad district that witnessed three deaths in clashes amid protests over the Waqf law last month.“Didi is ...
4 May 2025 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Board of Secondary Education (WBBSE) (Madhyamik) 2025 results declared on Friday reveal a notable trend: despite Kolkata’s prominence, most top-ranking students (ranks 1-10) hail from district schools, showcasing rural Bengal’s performance. These high achievers attribute their success ...
4 May 2025 Indian ExpressIn the wake of a devastating fire in the Burrabazar area last month, Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) Mayor and Municipal Affairs and Urban Development Minister Firhad Hakim has ordered the immediate closure of all rooftop restaurants within the city.The ...
4 May 2025 Indian ExpressThe West Bengal police arrested two members of the Sanatani Ekta Manch on charges of trying to instigate communal violence in the Gopalnagar area of Bangaon police district on Friday.The police claimed the two had pasted a Pakistan flag ...
4 May 2025 Indian ExpressTHE CALCUTTA High Court on Friday issued rule of contempt against IPS officer Vishal Garg and six other police officers in connection with “untoward incidents” that took place on the premises of a court in Howrah in April last ...
4 May 2025 Indian ExpressA student of the Raiganj Coronation High School, Adrit Sarkar, secured the top rank in the Madhyamik (Class X) examinations with a score of 696 out of 700 (99.43%).Just moments after the official announcement, cameras and microphones descended upon ...
3 May 2025 Indian ExpressSenior Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Friday said the party would organise a rally in Murshidabad on Saturday, two days before Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is scheduled visit to the district that witnessed clashes amid protests over the ...
3 May 2025 Indian ExpressThe West Bengal Board of Secondary Education (WBBSE) declared the Madhyamik (Class 10) results 2025 on Friday, with 66 candidates securing the top 10 ranks. The overall pass percentage stands at 86.56 per cent, a slight increase from last ...
3 May 2025 Indian ExpressFormer BJP MP Dilip Ghosh on Thursday, without naming anyone, took aim at leaders within his own party, asserting his long-standing dedication to the BJP and saying, “Don’t lecture me on RSS, Hindutva.”This comes a day after Ghosh, along ...
3 May 2025 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday visited the fire-ravaged hotel at Kolkata’s Burrabazar and promised: “Nobody will be spared, whoever is involved in this fire, even if any people’s representative is involved.”On April 29, a massive fire ...
3 May 2025 Indian ExpressThe owner of Rituraj Hotel, Akash Chawla, and its Manager Gaurav Kapoor were arrested by the Kolkata Police early on Thursday morning.According to police sources, both the accused will be produced in the Bankshall court and the police will ...
3 May 2025 Indian ExpressA whirlwind tour by a family from Tamil Nadu ended in a tragedy on Tuesday night when T Prabhu found that he had lost his two small children – 8-year-old daughter Diya and less than four-year-old son P Rithan.“We ...
2 May 2025 Indian ExpressFor Akash Agarwal and his wife, it was a narrow escape. The Agarwal family, comprising Akash and his wife and their two children and a nephew, was visiting from Odisha, and waiting to check out of Rituraj Hotel in ...
2 May 2025 Indian ExpressThe West Bengal government ordered a probe by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) of Kolkata Police into the fire.“An SIT has been formed to probe the cause of the fire and to check the safety measures that were in ...
2 May 2025 Indian ExpressA wave of spiritual fervor swept across the seaside town of Digha on Wednesday, as Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee inaugurated the newly built Jagannath Dham, a replica of the iconic Jagannath Temple in Odisha’s Puri, on the auspicious occasion ...
1 May 2025 Indian ExpressTaking many by surprise and even a section of his party leaders, senior BJP leader and former state unit chief Dilip Ghosh on Wednesday evening reached Digha to attend the inauguration of Jagannath Dham, a project close to Chief ...
1 May 2025 Indian ExpressLocated around 350 kilometres from the iconic Jagannath Temple in Puri, the newly constructed Jagannath Dham in Digha, built on a sprawling 20-acre plot with an investment of nearly Rs 250 crore, offers a striking contrast to the original ...
1 May 2025 Indian ExpressAfter a fire at a hotel in Kolkata’s Burrabazar claimed at least 14 lives on Tuesday night, opposition parties in West Bengal attacked Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and state Fire Minister Sujit Bose, who were reportedly at the inauguration ...
1 May 2025 Indian ExpressExit gate locked, combustible materials piled up, firefighting systems like sprinklers that didn’t work, illegal construction blocking windows, and an expired no-objection certificate from the state fire department – it was this cocktail that possibly allowed the fire to ...
1 May 2025 Indian ExpressIt has been billed as the Trinamool Congress’s (TMC) “Ayodhya moment” and has the BJP in a bind just as it was looking to hit the accelerator against the Mamata Banerjee government in the aftermath of communal violence in ...
1 May 2025 Indian ExpressKolkata Hotel Fire Today: A fire that tore through a six-story hotel in one of Kolkata’s oldest and most congested neighbourhoods killed at least 15 people on Tuesday night, according to local authorities. Most of the victims died from ...
1 May 2025 Indian ExpressARRANGEMENTS WERE made for the ‘Maha Yajna’ on Tuesday evening at the newly built Jagannath temple in the seaside tourist town of Digha in Purba Medinipur, and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee took part in the rituals a day before ...
1 May 2025 Indian ExpressALL THE tourists – a large number of whom were stranded after a landslide in northern Sikkim due to heavy rain in the region – have now been safely evacuated and there are no casualties, officials said on Tuesday.The ...
30 April 2025 Indian ExpressONE PERSON was killed and several were injured after a major fire broke out at a six-storied hotel building in the densely populated Burrabazar area in Kolkata, police said on Tuesday. The cause of the blaze is yet to ...
30 April 2025 Indian ExpressThe coastal town of Digha in West Bengal, a long-time favourite for beachgoers, has a new attraction to draw attention: Jagannath Dham. The development has sparked a mix of hope and apprehension among local vendors.Tapan Jana, a 48-year-old lottery ...
30 April 2025 Indian ExpressAFTER THE terror attack at Pahalgam in Jammu & Kashmir on April 22 that killed 26 tourists, a major chunk of tourists from West Bengal who earlier planned to vacation in that state are now preferring to go to ...
30 April 2025 Indian ExpressThe West Bengal Council Higher Secondary Education (WBCHSE) announced that the Higher Secondary examination results for 2025 will be declared on May 7. According to a press release, the WBCHSE will announce the results at a press conference at 12.30 ...
30 April 2025 Indian ExpressBoth teaching and non-teaching staff — who claimed they were wrongly excluded from the West Bengal School Service Commission’s list of “untainted” staff members — protested at the Hazra crossing, 500 metres away from the Chief Minister’s residence on ...
30 April 2025 Indian ExpressResidents of southern West Bengal will finally receive much-needed respite from the severe heatwave, with the India Meteorological Department (IMD) issuing a forecast of continuous rainfall and thunderstorms across the region, starting Monday.The downpour is expected to last for ...
30 April 2025 Indian ExpressThe Calcutta High Court is set to begin hearing on May 7 the case of cancellation of 32,000 appointments in an alleged state primary teacher recruitment scam.In 2014, about 1.25 lakh candidates had passed the Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) ...
30 April 2025 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Monday arrived in Digha to oversee the preparations for the grand inauguration of the newly-built Jagannath Temple, scheduled for Akshaya Tritiya on Wednesday.Accompanied by state ministers Aroop Biswas and Chandrima Bhattacharya, and State ...
29 April 2025 Indian ExpressThe CPI(M) in West Bengal has expelled its three-time former MP from Asansol, Bansa Gopal Chowdhury, from the party over allegations that he sent obscene WhatsApp messages to a woman party colleague.Chowdhury, 65, who was the party’s Paschim Bardhaman ...
29 April 2025 Indian ExpressFive days after Border Security Force (BSF) constable Purnam Kumar Shaw, 40, was taken into custody by Pakistan Rangers, after he accidentally crossed the international border in Punjab’s Ferozepur district, where he was deployed with the 24th Battalion, the ...
29 April 2025 Indian ExpressBJP leader Suvendu Adhikari on Monday said the reconstruction and restoration of damaged temples in riot-hit Murshidabad district in West Bengal would commence on Akshaya Tritiya.Adhikari, the leader of the opposition in the assembly, said all rituals would be ...
29 April 2025 Indian ExpressThe West Bengal police have launched a YouTube series, Crime Chronicles, delving into real crime incidents through dramatised reconstructions and behind-the-scenes footage.The weekly series premiered on the YouTube channel titled Friends of West Bengal Police on Sunday, exploring the ...
29 April 2025 Indian ExpressSources in the West Bengal School Service Commission (SSC) Saturday informed that they have intimated the School Education Department about anomalies detected in the recently released list of ‘untainted’ teachers.The SSC had released a list of 15,403 candidates from ...
29 April 2025 Indian ExpressDays before the scheduled inauguration of the Jagannath temple in beach town Digha, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Sunday sounded hopeful about the impact of the newly constructed temple.CM Banerjee said, “The arrival of Lord Jagannath in Bengal ...
28 April 2025 Indian ExpressResearchers from the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI), Kolkata, have recently documented four notable spider species from Northeast India. This significant finding includes the description of two species previously unknown to science and the first-ever recorded presence of two ...
28 April 2025 Indian ExpressFor Debasish Bhattacharya and his family, it was their maiden visit to the Kashmir Valley. And it turned out to be a nightmare last Tuesday when they saw people being shot dead in front of their eyes in the ...
28 April 2025 Indian ExpressIn a relief to Group C and D non-teaching staff, whose appointments were cancelled by the Supreme Court and did not get reprieve like the teachers, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday announced financial assistance for them.She ...
28 April 2025 Indian ExpressDeath was just a bullet away from Debasish Bhattacharya, an Assam University professor who was on a six-day Kashmir tour with his family, on the fateful day when terrorists gunned down tourists in Pahalgam on April 22.Born to a ...
27 April 2025 Indian ExpressThe family of Haragobindo Das, 77, who was killed along with his 40-year-old son Chandan Das, during April 11 violence in the Samserganj area of Murshidabad district of West Bengal, on Saturday accepted Rs 20 lakh monetary help from ...
27 April 2025 Indian ExpressThe pregnant wife of Purnam Kumar Shaw, the Border Security Force (BSF) jawan detained by Pakistan Rangers, is set to visit Pathankot in Punjab with a plea for his safe return.Constable Purnam Kumar Shaw, 40, who hails from Hooghly ...
27 April 2025 Indian ExpressDays after communal violence broke out in parts of Murshidabad district, the West Bengal government on Friday transferred two Superintendents of Police from the region with immediate effect.According to a notification issued by the state secretariat, Nabanna, on Friday, ...
27 April 2025 Indian ExpressThe Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) has recently spotted blackflies, which serve as carriers of a worm causing human blindness, in many rivers flowing through the northern parts of West Bengal.Locally called ‘pipsa’ or ‘potu’, the blood-sucking flies were ...
27 April 2025 Indian ExpressTemperature at Kalaikunda in Bengal’s Paschim Medinipur reached a sweltering 41.5°C in the last 24 hours, marking a significant high as a heatwave continues to affect West Bengal. This intense heat, along with similar temperatures in Purulia (41.5°C) and ...
27 April 2025 Indian ExpressCricket star-turned-TMC MP Yusuf Pathan visited Murshidabad and asked people not to pay heed to fake news or rumours. He condemned the riots that took place in some parts of the district, but stated that one “should not tarnish ...
27 April 2025 Indian ExpressConstable Purnam Kumar Shaw, a head constable with the Border Security Force (BSF) from Hooghly, West Bengal, was captured by Pakistan rangers.Shaw reportedly inadvertently crossed the border on Wednesday near Ferozepur, amidst the ongoing India-Pakistan standoff after an attack ...
26 April 2025 Indian ExpressGrief swept through Nadia district’s Tehatta area in West Bengal on Thursday as locals mourned the death of Army soldier Havaldar Jhantu Ali Shaikh, who died during an anti-terror operation in Jammu and Kashmir’s Udhampur district.Shaikh was killed in ...
26 April 2025 Indian ExpressCountless mourners gathered in Jhalda town of Purulia district on Thursday to pay their final respects to Intelligence Bureau officer Manish Ranjan Mishra, who lost his life in Tuesday’s terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam.The mortal remains of ...
26 April 2025 Indian ExpressThe West Bengal Police on Thursday dismissed the allegations made by BJP MLA and Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari, who claimed that two Kashmiri men were involved in suspicious activities in Baruipur in South 24 Parganas district.In a post ...
25 April 2025 Indian ExpressUrging people to maintain calm, Speaker Biman Banerjee on Thursday said that Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari’s claims on suspicious activity in Baruipur and remarks on Kashmir attack were unfortunate.“We are deeply saddened by the incident of Kashmir. We ...
25 April 2025 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari alleged that two Kashmiri men “installed a NanoBeam 2AC compact and high-performance wireless network bridge at the rooftop” at their residence in Baruipur, located at the southern outskirts of Kolkata.Both the police ...
25 April 2025 Indian ExpressAfter the recent Supreme Court order which annulled the appointments of over 25,000 West Bengal school staff but said that “untainted” teachers could remain in service until December 31 this year, confusion had remained as to who the “untainted” ...
25 April 2025 Indian ExpressPost Covid-19 pandemic-induced lockdown, until Tuesday, the Kashmir Valley was one of the most sought-after tourist destinations. With summer holidays around the corner, many families had made plans and bookings for a trip to Kashmir — but after Tuesday’s ...
25 April 2025 Indian ExpressOn Wednesday night, when the bodies of Bitan Adhikari and Sameer Guha who died in the Pahalgam attack arrived at the airport, state Minister Aroop Biswas, Kolkata Mayor Firhad Hakim, Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari, BJP MP Abhijit Gangopadhyay, ...
25 April 2025 Indian ExpressThe recent terrorist attack in Pahalgam has sent shockwaves through the tourism sector in Kashmir, triggering a wave of cancellations and casting a shadow over what was anticipated to be a promising summer season. Tour and travel operators in ...
25 April 2025 Indian ExpressThe mortal remains of the two tourists from Kolkata — Sameer Guhar from Behala’s Sakher Bazar and Bitan Adhikari of Vaishnav Ghata, Patuli, arrived at Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport at 8 pm on Wednesday.Senior state ministers Aroop ...
24 April 2025 Indian ExpressThe West Bengal Education Department on Wednesday questioned before the Calcutta High Court the maintainability of a contempt petition that claimed non-compliance of its order regarding 26,000 school jobs in the state. The West Bengal School Service Commission (SSC) ...
24 April 2025 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Police arrested five more persons for their alleged involvement in the Murshidabad riots, taking the total number of arrests to 307, a senior officer said on Thursday.The arrested persons, nabbed from different places in the district on ...
24 April 2025 Indian ExpressWhat was meant to be the cherished final day of a family vacation in Kashmir, turned into a tragedy for the Guha family of Behala, Kolkata.Sameer Guha, a Central government employee, had travelled to Jammu and Kashmur with his ...
24 April 2025 Indian ExpressSoon after the terror attack in Pahalgam, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had posted on social media that her administration is making arrangements at the Delhi Airport to “help the family members of the victims and their onward ...
24 April 2025 Indian ExpressAfter being locked inside the Acharya Sadan West Bengal School Commission office for nearly 40 hours on Wednesday, the SSC Chairman Siddharta Majumdar was allowed to leave the building at around 9 pm.However, teachers say their protest will continue. ...
24 April 2025 Indian ExpressThe stalemate between the state government and the protesting school employees, who were terminated from services by the Supreme Court, continued on Tuesday night.There was no breakthrough in the talks between the officials of the School Service Commission and ...
24 April 2025 Indian ExpressAll morning, there has been a steady stream of visitors pouring into the Mishra residence on Baghmundi Road, ward number 5 of Purulia’s Jhalda town, and the house of Tage Hailyang at Tajang village in Arunachal Pradesh’s Lower Subansiri ...
24 April 2025 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday announced that she would visit violence-hit parts of Murshidabad district in the first week of May to assess the situation. Before that, she will be visiting Digha to inaugurate Jagannath temple.Reiterating ...
23 April 2025 Indian ExpressThirty-six-year-old Bitan Adhikari, who worked in the US and had returned to Kolkata to spend time with his wife and son, was among those killed in the terror attack on tourists in Pahalgam in Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday.A ...
23 April 2025 Indian ExpressState BJP president Sukanta Majumdar was detained by police on Tuesday evening while collecting money for the victims of Murshidabad violence from Hazra More in south Kolkata, close to the residence of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.He was later released ...
23 April 2025 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Education Minister Bratya Basu said that the state will not publish a list of “tainted” and “untainted” candidates of the 2016 recruitment process by the SSC, as their “legal counsel has stated it may lead to contempt ...
23 April 2025 Indian ExpressAs the sit-in protest of teachers who lost their jobs reaches the 30-hour mark in Kolkata, residents have opened their doors to help them, with many others bringing the protesters food.In front of the School Service Commission office in ...
23 April 2025 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said she will visit riot-torn Murshidabad after inaugurating Digha’s Jagannath Temple in May.She also said that the state government will bear all the educational expenses of the children of those who ...
23 April 2025 Indian ExpressHundreds of teachers Monday protested in front of the West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) office in Kolkata, and said they would not stop until the state government issues the list of eligible and ineligible teachers, as they called ...
23 April 2025 Indian ExpressWest Bengal BJP chief and Union Minister of State Sukanta Majumdar slammed Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for not visiting riot-affected areas of Murshidabad.He made the statement after visiting the troubled areas including Dhulian, Jafrabad and Bedbona areas in Samserganj.The ...
23 April 2025 Indian ExpressAmid the ongoing teachers’ protest over the SSC job cancellation and the recent communal violence in Murshidabad, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday hit out at her detractors, saying ‘we don’t just talk, we work”.After laying the foundation stone ...
23 April 2025 Indian ExpressThe West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) on Monday evening failed to release the list of 2016 SSC qualifiers (untainted candidates) whose jobs were annulled by the Supreme Court, prompting the protesting teachers to launch an indefinite sit-in outside ...
22 April 2025 Indian ExpressAs many as six new species of Sericinae bettle have been discovered by a team of researchers from the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) and the Museum A Koenig in Germany, underscoring the exceptional biodiversity of northeast India and ...
22 April 2025 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose was admitted to Eastern Command Hospital on Monday morning. Raj Bhavan, in a statement, said that Bose had a “mild shoulder pain”.He had returned to Kolkata from a tour of violence-hit Murshidabad and ...
22 April 2025 Indian ExpressTwo persons died in a fire that broke out at a garment warehouse in Kolkata on Sunday night.According to the Kolkata Police, the fire broke out on the fourth floor of the highrise godown which is also a residential ...
22 April 2025 Indian ExpressCricket fans heading to Eden Gardens for Mondays’s Indian Premier League (IPL) match between Kolkata Knight Riders and Gujarat Titans should brace themselves for hot and humid conditions.After a brief respite from the heat due to recent storms and ...
22 April 2025 Indian ExpressCPIM state secretary Mohammad Salim on Sunday called for a strong campaign to oust the Mamata Banerjee government in West Bengal during the 2026 Assembly elections, emphasising the need to start preparations immediately. “We have to start the 2026 ...
21 April 2025 Indian ExpressThe mega rally of CPI(M)’s frontal organisations at the Brigade Parade Grounds, in Kolkata on Sunday won the support of the Congress, and Indian Secular Front (ISF) parties.Emphasising on the Left’s secular credentials, Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury stated ...
21 April 2025 Indian ExpressCalling upon the West Bengal government to act swiftly to address the grievances of the riot-hit people in the Murshidabad district, National Commission for Women (NCW) chairperson Vijaya Rahatkar on Sunday said the panel is preparing a report which ...
21 April 2025 Indian ExpressThe family members of the father and son, who were killed during the Murshidabad violence refused to accept Rs 10 lakh compensation announced by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.On Sunday, a Trinamool Congress delegation including Rajya Sabha MP Samirul Islam, ...
21 April 2025 Indian ExpressIn an open letter to the people of West Bengal, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has urged them to stay united against the ‘battle for justice’ as well as maintain peace and harmony.The chief minister, in her two page letter, ...
21 April 2025 Indian ExpressTwo candidates from West Bengal, Devdutta Majhi and Archisman Nandy, are among the 24 candidates who have bagged a perfect 100 NTA score in the second edition of the Joint Entrance Exam (JEE)-Main.The National Testing Agency (NTA) announced results ...
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