The BJP on Tuesday dubbed it as a matter of “great shame” that the Trinamool Congress government in West Bengal was opposing the Calcutta High Court order to hand over the custody of suspended TMC leader Shahjahan Sheikh to ...
7 March 2024 Indian ExpressFrom a market named after him to hundreds of bighas of fisheries to brick kilns and guesthouses – Trinamool Congress strongman Shahjahan Sheikh’s empire touched almost every corner of West Bengal’s Sandeshkhali, even as his influence extended beyond the ...
7 March 2024 Indian ExpressTo woo women voters before the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday increased the remuneration of Asha and anganwadi workers by Rs 750 per month.The announcement came just before Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ...
7 March 2024 Indian ExpressThe Calcutta High Court on Wednesday granted leave to the ED to file a contempt petition against the West Bengal government over the state police not handing over custody of suspended TMC leader Shahjahan Sheikh to the CBI, despite ...
7 March 2024 Indian ExpressPrime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday hit out at the Trinamool Congress (TMC) for unleashing “a reign of terror” on women in West Bengal and said that the ripples of the Sandeshkhali issue will be felt across the state. ...
7 March 2024 Indian ExpressThe Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday got the custody of Sandeshkhali ED official attack case accused Shahjahan Sheikh, hours after a fresh directive by the Calcutta High Court earlier today. Sheikh was transferred to CBI custody at ...
7 March 2024 Indian ExpressChief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said if the Central government failed to release money for the welfare schemes in West Bengal, the Trinamool Congress government would fund these projects on its own.Addressing a public service distribution programme in ...
6 March 2024 Indian ExpressThe West Bengal government on Wednesday sought urgent listing of its plea in the Supreme Court challenging a Calcutta High Court order to transfer to the CBI the probe into an attack on Enforcement Directorate officials in Sandeshkhali on ...
6 March 2024 Indian ExpressPrime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday inaugurated India’s first underwater Metro line in Kolkata and took a ride on the train from Esplanade to Howrah Maidan along with several school students. Modi also virtually inaugurated several other Metro services ...
6 March 2024 Indian ExpressNational Commission for Women chairperson Rekha Sharma will meet President Droupadi Murmu on Tuesday to submit a report on the Sandeshkhali violence, sources said.An NCW team recently visited West Bengal’s Sandeshkhali to assess the situation and review actions taken ...
6 March 2024 Indian ExpressThe Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday provisionally attached movable and immovable assets worth Rs. 12.78 crore of former TMC member Shahjahan Sheikh under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act.In a statement, the ED said that the assets include 14 ...
6 March 2024 Indian ExpressComing down heavily on the West Bengal Police, who it called “totally biased”, the Calcutta High Court on Tuesday ordered the transfer of the probe into the January 5 attack on Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials in Sandeshkhali, as well ...
6 March 2024 Indian ExpressThe West Bengal government on Tuesday moved the Supreme Court challenging an order of the Calcutta High Court to transfer the probe into an attack on Enforcement Directorate officials at Sandeshkhali on January 5 to the CBI.The matter was ...
6 March 2024 Indian ExpressAfter three days of meetings with all stakeholders including representatives of political parties in West Bengal ahead of the Lok Sabha polls, the Election Commission of India (ECI) said that it will not tolerate any “partisan attitude” on the ...
6 March 2024 Indian ExpressCALLING THE West Bengal Police “totally biased”, the Calcutta High Court on Tuesday ordered that the investigation into the attack on Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials at Sandeshkhali on January 5 be transferred to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).The ...
6 March 2024 Indian ExpressFormer Calcutta High Court judge Abhijit Gangopadhyay said on Tuesday that he is likely to join the BJP on March 7 and the party will decide if he will contest the upcoming Lok Sabha elections or not.“I will join ...
6 March 2024 Indian ExpressChief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday raked up the issue of alleged malpractices in the counting of votes from the Nandigram seat during the 2021 state Assembly elections, asserting that the people of the constituency will give a befitting ...
5 March 2024 Indian ExpressAs the city braces for a warm week, Kolkata recorded a maximum temperature of 31 degree Celsius on Monday, with the maximum and minimum humidity levels reaching 83% and 43%, respectively, the weather department said.The temperature in most parts ...
5 March 2024 Indian ExpressThree-time Trinamool Congress (TMC) MLA Tapas Roy submitted his resignation to West Bengal Assembly Speaker Biman Bandopadhyay on Monday, in the run-up to the Lok Sabha polls.Roy is the deputy chief whip of the ruling party in the Assembly ...
5 March 2024 Indian ExpressInfluenced by his uncle’s collection, former teacher Debabrata Chatterjee’s love of books started from childhood. This passion for literature has shaped his life and surroundings, and led him to collect more than 14,000 books over the years. Now, he ...
5 March 2024 Indian ExpressRoom Number 17 of the Calcutta High Court, which has been the centre stage for litigants, lawyers and media for the past two years, witnessed an emotional scene on Monday, a day after Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay announced his decision ...
5 March 2024 Indian ExpressThe family and friends of 34-year-old classical dancer Amarnath Ghosh, who was shot dead in St Louis, Missouri, US, last week, said they have no information about his body and how to bring it back for cremation. They have ...
5 March 2024 Indian ExpressA six-member ‘fact-finding’ committee of an NGO on Sunday visited three villages in North 24 Parganas’ Sandeshkhali region, which had been at the centre of protests till last month over allegations of sexual harassment of local women and land ...
5 March 2024 Indian ExpressOpposition parties in West Bengal on Monday urged the Election Commission to ensure free, fair and peaceful Lok Sabha polls in the state and not trust the police for deployment of central forces.In separate delegations, parties opposed to the ...
5 March 2024 Indian ExpressThe full bench of the Election Commission of India (ECI) reached West Bengal on Sunday evening to take stock of the law and order situation and to look into the state’s poll preparedness ahead of the Lok Sabha polls.The ...
5 March 2024 Indian ExpressIn an unprecedented move, Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay, a sitting judge of the Calcutta High Court, said Sunday that he will resign as a judge and join politics.The judge, who is due to retire in August, has been at the ...
4 March 2024 Indian ExpressWest Bengal BJP state president Sukanta Majumdar narrowly escaped injury when his car collided with a police barricade on NH-34 in Shantipur, Nadia district, on Sunday, police said.Majumdar said the accident took place while his car was trying to ...
4 March 2024 Indian ExpressPrime Minister Narendra Modi will on Wednesday inaugurate the much-awaited Howrah Maidan-Esplanade section of the Kolkata Metro, a government release said on Sunday.The PM will also inaugurate the Kavi Subhash-Hemanta Mukhopadhyay and the Taratala-Majerhat metro sections, it said. “With ...
4 March 2024 Indian ExpressA DAY after the BJP announced his name as its candidate from Asansol, Bhojpuri singer-actor Pawan Singh Sunday said he will not contest from the Lok Sabha constituency in West Bengal. Although he did not give a reason, Singh’s ...
4 March 2024 Indian ExpressWEST BENGAL’S Minister for Information and Technology Babul Supriyo on Saturday appealed to people to invest in Bengal and contribute towards making the state the “next IT hub of the country.”Babul Supriyo was speaking at the 35th edition of ...
4 March 2024 Indian ExpressThe TMC Saturday claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s criticisms on corruption “sound hollow” as he shared the stage with leader of the opposition Suvendu Adhikari who is an accused in the Narada case.State Women and Child Development Minister ...
4 March 2024 Indian ExpressPrime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday criticised the Mamata Banerjee government in West Bengal over corruption charges, saying that it turns “every central scheme into a scam”.Addressing a public meeting at Krishnanagar in Nadia district, PM Modi said Trinamool ...
3 March 2024 Indian ExpressUnveiling development projects worth Rs 15,000 crore in sectors like power, railways and road during a public meeting at Krishnanagar in Nadia district, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Saturday said the projects would give “momentum to development in West Bengal”.Addressing ...
3 March 2024 Indian ExpressAfter Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s rally in Krishnanagar on Saturday, the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) in West Bengal said he not only failed to answer the questions of Bengali people on the MGNREGA job scheme, but also misled them.On ...
3 March 2024 Indian ExpressTHE IT sector in West Bengal has received investments of around Rs 14,000 crore in a span of eight years since the Mamata Banerjee-led TMC government came to power in the state, said Dr Amit Mitra, Principal Chief Adviser ...
3 March 2024 Indian ExpressLaying the foundation stone and dedicating multiple development projects to the nation, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said the Centre aims to modernise railways in West Bengal at the same pace as the rest of the country.The Prime ...
2 March 2024 Indian ExpressEven before the Lok Sabha election dates have been announced, Central Armed Police Force (CAPF) personnel on Friday started pouring into West Bengal, a state notorious for its poll-related violence. Nearly 100 companies of central forces are scheduled to ...
2 March 2024 Indian ExpressThe Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday wrote to the Calcutta High Court Chief Justice T S Sivagnanam seeking an urgent hearing in a case which stayed the formation of a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the January 5 ...
2 March 2024 Indian ExpressFive private bus operators organisations in West Bengal on Thursday called for a three-day shutdown of services in the middle of March to press for their demand for an extension of the 15-year deadline for scrapping diesel commercial vehicles.General ...
2 March 2024 Indian ExpressIndian Secular Front (ISF) leader Jubi Saha was arrested on Friday for allegedly inciting unrest and spreading violence in trouble-torn Sandeshkhali in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district.Saha, who has been gaining popularity within her organisation following protests demanding ...
2 March 2024 Indian ExpressAhead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to West Bengal, the Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Friday raised questions about “non-release” of MGNREGA dues to the state, allegedly withheld by the Centre.The TMC also launched a social media campaign with ...
2 March 2024 Indian ExpressWith a maximum speed of 35 kilometre per hour and a capacity to seat a driver and four passengers, totos have turned out to be a “great leveler” in violence-hit Sandeshkhali Island.From the Director General of Police, political leaders ...
1 March 2024 Indian ExpressLohia Matri Sewa Sadan Hospital, one of the oldest maternity hospitals in the city that has been lying non-functional for the past few years, will soon be transformed into a 200-bed super speciality hospital.With a 60-year lease, Charnock Hospital ...
1 March 2024 Indian ExpressTrinamool Congress (TMC) strongman Shahjahan Sheikh, who had been on the run for 55 days, was arrested by West Bengal Police on Thursday in connection with an attack in January on Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials who had gone to ...
1 March 2024 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Governor Governor C V Ananda Bose on Thursday welcomed the arrest of absconding Trinamool Congress leader and Sandeshkhali strongman Shahjahan Sheikh, saying that the move might be a new dawn of lawfulness in the state.“I told you ...
1 March 2024 Indian ExpressThe Trinamool Congress has decided to suspend for six years its party leader Shahjahan Sheikh, the main accused in the Sandeshkhali land-grab and sexual assault allegations, MP Derek O’Brien said on Thursday, hours after he was arrested.“We have decided ...
1 March 2024 Indian ExpressThe Calcutta High Court on Thursday requested the West Bengal government to make a subdivision-wise list of accused persons, who are in custody for over five years in the state, for completing the trials as quickly as possible.The court ...
1 March 2024 Indian ExpressAs the news of TMC leader Shahjahan Sheikh being arrested spread across Sandeshkhali in North 24 Parganas district, it was seen as a victory for the island’s many women who had suffered in silence for years. Sheikh and his ...
1 March 2024 Indian ExpressIn a boost for the Bengal unit of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, Kaliaganj MLA Soumen Roy, who had defected to the ruling TMC, returned to the saffron camp on Wednesday. At the same ...
1 March 2024 Indian ExpressDays after Leader of Opposition in Assembly Suvendu Adhikari compared the situation in unrest-hit Sandeshkhali to the Nandigram agitation, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Wednesday said the protests in Singur and Nandigram can’t be compared to the ones ...
29 February 2024 Indian ExpressThe Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday submitted a memorandum to the chief electoral officer (CEO) of West Bengal urging the Election Commission to remove the names of false/duplicate voters from the voters’ list.Leading a delegation of the state ...
29 February 2024 Indian ExpressPrime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to visit West Bengal for two days this week and address two public gatherings in Hooghly and Nadia districts as well as inaugurate numerous projects.The PM is scheduled to arrive on Friday afternoon ...
29 February 2024 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Congress leader Koustav Bagchi resigned from the party on Wednesday, accusing the party high command of seeing “the Trinamool Congress as its West Bengal unit” and being “more interested in forging a friendship with the TMC than ...
29 February 2024 Indian ExpressThe Calcutta High Court on Wednesday directed that absconding Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Shahjahan Sheikh can be arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), the Enforcement Directorate (ED) or the West Bengal Police.Sheikh and his aides are among ...
29 February 2024 Indian ExpressAn exhibition of Jamini Roy’s paintings in Kolkata has run into a controversy after a section of artists claimed that the artworks displayed at the exhibition were not original works.While a complaint has been filed at Park Street Police ...
29 February 2024 Indian ExpressFor the last few days, Trinamool Congress (TMC) functionary Haladhar Ari and his family members have hardly ventured out of their home at Bermajur village in Sandeshkhali, which has been witnessing protests and mob violence against local TMC leaders ...
29 February 2024 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Minister of Education Bratya Basu is not only a politician but also a filmmaker. After having acted in over 50 Bengali-language films, including Herbert and Asamapta, the actor-politician last month presented his fifth directorial film Hubba, based ...
29 February 2024 Indian ExpressWith the West Bengal government asking the Centre to release the state’s pending funds for Central schemes, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday hit out at the Mamata Banerjee government saying that she wouldn’t pay the taxpayers’ money ...
29 February 2024 Indian ExpressThe Calcutta High Court on Tuesday allowed a two-day sit-in demonstration by the BJP in Kolkata, while directing that the number of participants should not exceed 150 people.Allowing the demonstration in front of the Mahatma Gandhi statue in the ...
28 February 2024 Indian ExpressUnion Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday alleged that the ruling TMC in Bengal was depriving the poor of benefits of central government schemes for the “sake of politics”.She also claimed that issues like “poor law and order situation” ...
28 February 2024 Indian ExpressWith her party leaders facing heat over land grabbing charges in Sandeshkhali in North 24 Parganas district, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said land belonging to tribals would not be taken away in any condition.Speaking at ...
28 February 2024 Indian ExpressThe Calcutta High Court on Tuesday granted bail to CPI(M)’s former Sandeshkhali MLA Nirapada Sardar, who was taken into custody by police on charges of fomenting unrest in the trouble-torn area, with a division bench expressing surprise at his ...
28 February 2024 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Congress president Adhir Ranjan Choudhury on Tuesday accused the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) of running an autocratic regime where any dissenter is being framed in false cases.Chowdhury alleged that TMC leaders are casting a slur against women ...
28 February 2024 Indian ExpressWith the ongoing unrest in the Sandeshkhali area of the state’s North 24 Parganas district refusing to peter down, West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose on Monday pointed out that if the elected state government is not taking action ...
28 February 2024 Indian ExpressThe Calcutta High Court on Monday stayed proceedings for 12 weeks in an FIR registered against a senior official and host of a show at a Bengali news channel over reporting on violence-hit Sandeshkhali.The official had moved the HC ...
28 February 2024 Indian ExpressIndian Secular Front’s lone MLA Naushad Siddiqui was arrested on Tuesday when he was on his way to visit the trouble-torn Sandeshkhali area in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district.The police intercepted Siddiqui, MLA from the Bhangar constituency, in ...
28 February 2024 Indian ExpressThe National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested 16 persons for allegedly conspiring and carrying out a communal attack during a Ram Navami procession in the Dalkhola area of West Bengal’s Uttar Dinajpur district in March last year.In a press ...
27 February 2024 Indian ExpressThe city on Monday experienced a drop of two degrees Celsius in both the minimum and maximum temperatures, leaving a chill in the air. The minimum temperature recorded was 18.4 degrees Celsius while the maximum temperature was 26.1 degrees ...
27 February 2024 Indian ExpressA mob vandalised the house of another Trinamool Congress leader on Monday as protests and violence continued in the Sandeshkhali area of West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district over allegations of sexual harassment of women and land-grabbing against those ...
27 February 2024 Indian ExpressA 49-year-old Trinamool Congress leader from Ashoknagar in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district was shot dead by a group of men, following an altercation between them over a land deal on Sunday night.According to the police on Monday, ...
27 February 2024 Indian ExpressThe Calcutta High Court on Monday said there was no stay on the arrest of absconding Trinamool Congress leader Shahjahan Sheikh, clarifying that a stay on the investigation does not mean that there is a stay on the arrest ...
27 February 2024 Indian ExpressThe West Bengal Police on Monday morning arrested Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Ajit Maity from Sandeshkhali, three days after protesting local residents ransacked his house.Maity is the third TMC leader arrested in connection with the alleged atrocities by leaders ...
27 February 2024 Indian ExpressEven as TMC ministers visited unrest-hit Sandeshkali on Sunday to meet local residents, West Bengal police arrested six members of an ‘independent’ fact-finding committee in Bhojerhat while they were on their way to visit the riverine region, citing prohibitory ...
27 February 2024 Indian ExpressAccusing the BJP-led Centre of “depriving” West Bengal of its rightful dues, Trinamool Congress national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee said that his party would be holding a ‘Jana Garjan Sabha’ (roar of the masses) rally on March 10 at ...
26 February 2024 Indian ExpressIn the wake of mounting attacks from the BJP and other opposition parties on the Sandeshkhali issue, West Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Sunday announced a mega rally at the iconic Brigade Parade Ground here on March 10 ...
26 February 2024 Indian ExpressReferring to the Calcutta High Court decision to stay the joint SIT probe into the January 5 attack on ED officials allegedly by supporters of Shahjahan Sheikh in Sandeshkhali, TMC national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee Sunday said his party ...
26 February 2024 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday condoled the death of filmmaker Kumar Shahani.“Sad to know of the demise of the renowned filmmaker Kumar Shahani at Kolkata. Shahani was a noted and powerful film director, who had a ...
26 February 2024 Indian ExpressSix members of an independent fact-finding committee, led by former Chief Justice of Patna High Court Justice L Narasimha Reddy, were stopped and later arrested by the West Bengal Police on Sunday while they were going to violence-hit Sandeshkhali ...
26 February 2024 Indian ExpressA TMC delegation visited the trouble-torn Sandeshkhali in West Bengal for the second consecutive day on Sunday and heard the grievances of villagers who have been protesting against alleged atrocities by local leaders of the ruling party.The delegation, comprising ...
26 February 2024 Indian ExpressA week after the Kolkata Airport Environment Management Committee held a meeting on the menace of laser lights in the airport area, the pilot of a private airline who was momentarily blinded by one such beam has flagged the ...
26 February 2024 Indian ExpressPolice on Sunday arrested ISF leader Ayesha Bibi from the Sandeshkhali area in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district for her alleged involvement in burning poultry firms of arrested local TMC leader Shibaprasad Hazra, an officer said.Police also detained ...
25 February 2024 Indian ExpressA DAY after West Bengal DGP Rajeev Kumar assured Sandeshkhali residents that law and order would be restored in the area soon, protests against local TMC leaders in the unrest hit island of North 24 Parganas spread to Majherpara ...
25 February 2024 Indian ExpressProtests against alleged land-grabbing by TMC leaders spread to Majherpara and Halderpara localities in West Bengal’s Sandeshkhali block on Saturday. Protesters sought the arrest of fugitive TMC leader Sheikh Shahjahan and his brother Sheikh Sirajuddin.A woman protester in Majherpara ...
25 February 2024 Indian ExpressWritten by Taniya AcherjeeKolkata received rain in some pockets on Saturday and it is expected to last till the weekend, said the Met office. Rainfall since Friday amounted to 0.2 meters in the city, recording 93% humidity.The city recorded ...
25 February 2024 Indian ExpressAhead of the Lok Sabha elections, West Bengal Chief Election Officer (CEO) Aariz Aftab Saturday held a meeting with the District Magistrates (DMs) and Superintendents of Police (SPs) in the state and said the poll panel would not tolerate ...
25 February 2024 Indian ExpressA day that starts at 5am, followed by an hour of training, a sand bath to soothe those stiff muscles, and a hearty meal to make up for the early start – that’s what a typical day for Champion, ...
25 February 2024 Indian ExpressA DAY before All India Institute Of Medical Science (AIIMS) Kalyani in West Bengal is to be inaugurated virtually by Prime Minister Narendra Modi along with four other AIIMS branches in the country, the West Bengal Pollution Control Board ...
25 February 2024 Indian ExpressA team of National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) visited Sandeshkhali island and talked to the women who had accused local TMC leaders of sexual harassment and their families on Friday.The six-member team also talked to the local residents who ...
25 February 2024 Indian ExpressThe West Bengal Police recently arrested a person for allegedly promising to leak question papers of the ongoing higher secondary examination conducted by the state board.The accused, Rupam Sadhukhan, was nabbed from Goribpur in Nadia district. A complaint in ...
25 February 2024 Indian ExpressThe police Friday claimed to have arrested “a local BJP leader” along with 10 others on charges of running a sex racket in a hotel in West Bengal’s Howrah district, while the state’s main opposition party denied any association ...
25 February 2024 Indian ExpressAmid growing criticism faced by the party over the unrest in Sandeshkhali, TMC national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee is likely to address a rally in the troubled riverine region in March second week.TMC sources indicated that Banerjee, accompanied by ...
24 February 2024 Indian ExpressAs protests in Sandeshkhali spread to Belmajur on Friday where protestors allegedly beat up local TMC leader Ajit Maity, West Bengal Director General of Police (DGP) Rajeev Kumar said that he accepts that there has been “a mistake” but ...
24 February 2024 Indian ExpressBJP state president Sukanta Majumder protested outside the Sandeshkhali police station on Thursday to demand the arrest of absconding Zilla Parishad member and TMC strongman Shahjahan Sheikh. The Balurghat MP alleged that he along with other BJP leaders was ...
24 February 2024 Indian ExpressA seven-member delegation of Sikh community met Governor C V Ananda Bose at the Raj Bhavan on Thursday and expressed their dismay over a recent incident where an IPS officer was called ‘Khalistani’ during a protest led by BJP ...
24 February 2024 Indian ExpressProtests flared up once again in West Bengal’s Sandeshkhali on Friday afternoon as villagers in Belmajur ransacked local Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Ajit Maity’s house and assaulted him outside the island where the main agitation started two weeks ago. ...
24 February 2024 Indian ExpressThe West Bengal Police recently arrested a person for allegedly promising to leak question papers of the ongoing higher secondary examination conducted by the state board.The accused, Rupam Sadhukhan, was nabbed from his native village of Goribpur in Nadia ...
24 February 2024 Indian ExpressAn FIR has been registered against unnamed “BJP leaders” for allegedly using Khalistani slur against an IPS officer, a turbaned Sikh, during a protest in the Sandeshkhali area of West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district on Tuesday.Jaspreet Singh, a ...
24 February 2024 Indian ExpressThere’s a serpentine queue at the block development office (BDO) in West Bengal’s Sandeshkhali, a village that has been at the epicentre of a political firestorm ever since allegations emerged against TMC leaders of excesses against local residents — ...
24 February 2024 Indian ExpressGranting bail to a television journalist who was arrested in Sandeshkhali earlier this week, the Calcutta High Court on Thursday observed that the press should be allowed to function freely and independently, without any fear of reprisal or intimidation.The ...
24 February 2024 Indian ExpressA first-year Jadavpur University PG student accused a professor of “mental and sexual harassment”. Denying the charges, the professor asked the university authorities to conduct an investigation.In her complaint, mailed to the JU authorities, the student alleged that she ...
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