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  • Puja at Belur Math enters 125th year

    Ramakrishna Math and Mission will celebrate the 125th year of Durga Puja in 2025.Swami Vivekananda started the Durga Puja in 1901. As Ramakrishna Mission was run by the monks, the sankalpa was held in the name of Ma Sarada. ...

    20 September 2025 The Statesman
    TMC leader accuses BJP of misleading people on citizenship

    Senior Trinamul Congress leader and Bongaon Municipality chairman Gopal Seth has today alleged that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is misleading people on the issue of citizenship under the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA), triggering a fresh war of words ...

    20 September 2025 The Statesman
    Puja theme traces the evolution of Bengali language

    The theme of Chaltabagan Sarbojanin Durga Puja Committee is the history, evolution and development of Bengali language over decades.The committee is celebrating the Puja for the 81st year in 2025. Chaltabagan is one of the most popular community Puja ...

    20 September 2025 The Statesman
    New EMU local from Bidhannagar to ease passenger rush

    As a part of the plan to handle the increasing footfall brought by the full stretch operation of the Green Line Metro corridor, the Sealdah Division has decided to run one pair of new local EMU from Bidhannagar station ...

    20 September 2025 The Statesman
    More Metro Services in Green Line

    Good News for Metro commuters! Metro Railway is going to increase services on the Green Line from today (Saturday). On this line, 226 services will be operated daily from Monday to Saturday instead of 186 services. In the morning ...

    20 September 2025 The Statesman
    TMC leader gets bail within 12 hr of arrest

    Trinamul Congress leader Tridib Barui on Thursday was granted bail within 12 hours after his arrest by police on Wednesday evening for allegedly thrashing the acting headmaster Milankanti Pal of Birendra Vidyaniketan School in Kakdwip of South 24-Parganas district.Barui’s ...

    20 September 2025 The Statesman
    Mamata mentions about release of inmates from correctional homes

    The state government will set free 45 convicts serving life terms in different correctional homes in the state.They will be released following their “good conduct”. The correctional administration department watched them closely and expressed its satisfaction following which the ...

    20 September 2025 The Statesman
    Cabinet clears hand over of 193.7 acres of land to WBIDC

    The state cabinet, which met at Nabanna today under the leadership of chief minister Mamata Banerjee, decided in principle to hand over about 193.7 acres of land to West Bengal Industrial Development Corporation (WBIDC) for setting up the Tajpur-Dankuni-Raghunathpur ...

    20 September 2025 The Statesman
    Aspirants from SFI, Kurmi Samaj apply for Cong spokesperson’s post

    In a surprising development, members of the Students’ Federation of India (SFI), a Left-wing students’ organisation, and representatives of the Adivasi Kurmi Samaj appeared for interviews to select Congress spokespersons for south Bengal.Forty shortlisted candidates were interviewed today by ...

    19 September 2025 The Statesman
    LPG cylinder explodes, shop owner critically injured

    An LPG cylinder explosion at a cycle repair shop during Vishwakarma Puja triggered a fire that left the shop owner critically injured in a village near Durgapur last evening.Two fire tenders brought the blaze under control within an hour ...

    19 September 2025 The Statesman
    First female surgeon from north Bengal to receive FRCS from RCS, Glasgow

    In a landmark achievement for the region, Dr Neela Bhattacharya has been conferred the prestigious Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Glasgow (FRCS), becoming the first female surgeon from north Bengal to receive this international honour.Currently serving ...

    19 September 2025 The Statesman
    Kumartuli: A concoction of traditions & contradictions

    As the lanes of Kumartuli prepare for another season of Durga Puja, the centuries-old neighbourhood of idol-makers remains both indispensable and precarious. For the artisans, who are at the heart of the city’s most-celebrated festival, commercial sustenance has always ...

    19 September 2025 The Statesman
    Young minds from city school win laurels at IIT-Guwahati

    Two Class XI boys from Pramila Memorial Advanced School, an ISC school in Baguiati, were crowned champions of Technothlon 2025, organised by IIT Guwahati.The theme was “That’ll Spark Your Curiosity”.AdvertisementTechnothlon is an international school championship and a flagship event ...

    19 September 2025 The Statesman
    Tourist smart cards for Durga Puja

    Anticipating a footfall that could cross the one million mark during peak Durga Puja days, the Kolkata Metro Railway has decided to introduce Tourist Smart Cards. According to the city Metro office, to facilitate the travel of large ...

    19 September 2025 The Statesman
    Adhikari meets Shah, talks about BJP’s rise in Bengal

    West Bengal Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari met Union home minister Amit Shah in New Delhi on Monday and a day later, made a strong pitch for the BJP’s prospects in the 2026 Assembly elections.He declared that the party’s ...

    19 September 2025 The Statesman
    Work together to win all Birbhum seats, Abhishek tells district leaders

    Trinamul Congress All India General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee has directed the Birbhum district party leadership to stop factional feuds and work together, setting a target to win all the Assembly seats in the district in next year’s polls.Leaders of ...

    19 September 2025 The Statesman
    Depicting goddess Durga in different mediums

    A unique three-day exhibition on Ma Durga depicted through various mediums will be held at the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture from 18 September.The exhibition titled Mahamaya will showcase Ma Durga in old coins, lithographs among others. Three hundred-year-old ...

    19 September 2025 The Statesman
    SMPK signs concession agreement with JSW Infra

    In a landmark development for maritime infrastructure, Syama Prasad Mookerjee Port on Monday signed a concession agreement with JSW Infra Ltd. for the mechanisation and modernisation of Berths 7 and 8 at Netaji Subhas Dock (NSD) under the Kolkata ...

    19 September 2025 The Statesman
    PIL in HC for intervention in peaceful screening of ‘The Bengal Files’

    A public interest litigation was filed on Tuesday at the Calcutta High Court, seeking the court’s intervention in ensuring a smooth and peaceful screening of the Vivek Agnihotri-directed ‘The Bengal Files’ in cinema halls and multiplexes in West Bengal.At ...

    19 September 2025 The Statesman
    Mamata’s Rs 10 lakh gift for get together programme at SSKM

    Chief minister Mamata Banerjee, who also heads the state health department on Tuesday announced to give a financial gift of Rs 10 lakh to SSKM Hospital for a ‘get together’ programme among its doctors, administrative officials and other employees.The ...

    19 September 2025 The Statesman
    JU, Carring Minds International collaborate on seminar on suicide prevention, mental health

    Suicide and mental health are no longer conversations that can be delayed – they are urgent realities that cut across age, gender, and social backgrounds. Recognising this, Jadavpur University’s Centre for Studies in Cultural Diversity and Wellbeing and Carring ...

    18 September 2025 The Statesman
    Ex-Army man dies in freak accident

    A 52-year-old former Army jawan, now employed as a security guard at Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport, died in a freak accident on Wednesday afternoon when a stray Chinese kite string slit his throat as he rode his ...

    18 September 2025 The Statesman
    Coal India’s blood donation drive

    In a spirited display of social responsibility, Coal India Limited (CIL) successfully organised a Blood Donation Camp at its corporate headquarters as part of the nationwide Raktadan Amrit Mahotsav 2.0 initiative. The event, conducted in association with ABTYP, witnessed ...

    18 September 2025 The Statesman
    Documentary on Durga to be shown at Times Square, London

    For the first time a Bengali documentary on Durga Puja will be shown at Time Square, New York this year.The documentary titled, Durgotsav 432, will be screened on the day of Mahanabami on 1 October. The duration of the ...

    18 September 2025 The Statesman
    Fliers rush for selfies with PM Modi’s cut-out

    Hundreds of passengers at Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International (NSCBI) Airport jostled to take selfies beside a life-size cut-out of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday, coinciding with his 75th birthday.Airport authorities said the rush of passengers eager to ...

    18 September 2025 The Statesman
    Cuffs on school teacher on suspicion of murder

    A school teacher was arrested in Birbhum district after the dismembered remains of a missing Class VII pupil were recovered from a forest near Kullakata village early this morning.The accused, Manoj Kumar Pal, a physical science teacher, was taken ...

    18 September 2025 The Statesman
    State to give early salaries to its employees this month

    With the Pujas just around the bend, the state government has announced an advance disbursal of current month salaries for its employees between 24 and 25 September, this year.A government notification to this effect was issued by the state ...

    18 September 2025 The Statesman
    First consignment of 38 MT Hilsa from B’desh reaches state

    First consignment of Bangladeshi Hilsa reached West Bengal through Petrapole border on Wednesday eight days after the interim government of the Prime Minister Md Yunus on 8 September decided to export 1,200 MT silver fish of the Padma to ...

    18 September 2025 The Statesman
    Abhishek comes to rescue of migrant worker stuck in Odisha

    Ek dake Abhishek, an initiative taken by Abhishek Banerjee, national general secretary of Trinamul Congress has helped rescue a migrant Bengali-speaking worker, who was confined by the police and later brutally assaulted in Odisha.Family members of the migrant worker ...

    18 September 2025 The Statesman
    ‘Petition by industrialists against Bengal govt’s incentive scheme withdrawal was inevitable’

    Leader of the Opposition in West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, on Wednesday, observed that the decision by a group of industrialists to approach the Calcutta High Court against the decision of the state government to revoke an industry incentive ...

    18 September 2025 The Statesman
    GST reforms: Mother Dairy cuts prices of packaged milk, dairy products

    Mother Dairy on Tuesday announced a reduction in the prices of its packaged milk and several dairy products by up to Rs 2, following changes in the Goods and Services Tax (GST) structure.The revised prices will come into effect ...

    17 September 2025 The Statesman
    Trishakti warriors conquer high-altitude route march in Sikkim

    Troops of the Indian Army’s Trishakti Corps have successfully completed a gruelling high-altitude route march across Sikkim’s rugged terrain, reaffirming their operational readiness in one of the country’s most strategically sensitive regions.Conducted from 9-15 September, the six-day exercise saw ...

    17 September 2025 The Statesman
    AAI airports to mark Yatri Seva Diwas for passengers

    Airports Authority of India (AAI) will observe Yatri Seva Diwas on 17 September across its airports with a range of passenger-focused initiatives, officials said Wednesday.Nivedita Dubey, regional executive director of AAI’s eastern region, said the day will celebrate the ...

    17 September 2025 The Statesman
    CM inaugurates Woodburn 2 ‘Ananyo’ complex at SSKM

    Chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday inaugurated Woodburn 2 block ‘Ananyo’ inside the SSKM Hospital complex facing the Victoria Memorial with lush greeneries and Race course along the A J C Bose Road Flyover to provide corporate healthcare facilities ...

    17 September 2025 The Statesman
    Economist Prasenjit Bose joins Congress

    Economist and social activist Prasenjit Bose, once a prominent Left student leader at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), formally joined the Congress party in Kolkata on Monday, declaring that he was aligning with the fight to protect the Constitution and ...

    17 September 2025 The Statesman
    Kolkata Police issues guidelines to stop crime during Durga Puja

    Kolkata Police have taken special measures to ensure law and order across the city ahead of Durga Puja, with Police Commissioner Manoj Verma recently issuing several guidelines in this regard in the monthly crime meeting, a senior police official ...

    17 September 2025 The Statesman
    Calcutta HC concludes hearing on Partha Chatterjee’s bail plea in crucial school job case, reserves order

    The Calcutta High Court on Monday concluded hearing on the bail petition by former West Bengal Education Minister and Trinamool Congress Secretary General Partha Chatterjee in a crucial case registered against him by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) ...

    17 September 2025 The Statesman
    Artists push for dying hand-painted art at Tala Park

    Once upon a time, painters were much in demand for using their imagination to bring to life art works. Brushes and paints were their tools. Art was not only an expression of creativity, but also an important means of ...

    16 September 2025 The Statesman
    Taking steps to an advanced life

    With Durga Puja less than a fortnight away, hectic activities are on to give final touches to the clay idols and decorate the pandals with definite themes.The theme of 41 Palli Durga Puja Committee is Sopan, meaning staircase. With ...

    16 September 2025 The Statesman
    Trinamul lambasts MP govt over alleged gang-rape

    Trinamul Congress has lambasted the BJP-led Madhya Pradesh government after two minor girls were abducted and subsequently allegedly gang-raped in Singrauli.Trinamul Congress leaders said for the BJP Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao is just a slogan.AdvertisementThe party in its X ...

    16 September 2025 The Statesman
    Union minister alleges humiliation by state police during PM visit

    Union minister of state for education and development of North Eastern Region Sukanta Majumdar on Monday accused police authorities at Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International (NSCBI) Airport in Kolkata of deliberately humiliating him by blocking his convoy, while allegedly ...

    16 September 2025 The Statesman
    Teenager drowns in pond

    A 13-year-old boy, Ansh Prasad, drowned in a pond at Prabhas Nagar, Ward 29 of Serampore Municipality, on Sunday.Ansh, a Class VII student of Rishra Vidyapith Hindi High School, had gone to bathe in the Tarapukur pond when he ...

    16 September 2025 The Statesman
    Dakshineswar incident: Metro upgrades security at stations

    In the aftermath of the alleged stabbing and brutal murder of a student at Dakshineswar station on Friday, the Kolkata Metro Railway authorities have decided to strengthen security arrangements across its network.The city Metro is to induct 800 additional ...

    16 September 2025 The Statesman
    PM Modi to visit Bihar, West Bengal today, unveil development projects worth over Rs 3600 Cr

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi is on a high-profile visit to West Bengal and Bihar on Monday, where he is inaugurating key infrastructure and developmental projects aimed at enhancing India’s military preparedness, regional connectivity, and economic growth.Starting his day in ...

    15 September 2025 The Statesman
    3-century-old Seoraphuli Rajbari Durga Puja ‘bodhan’ held six days ahead of Mahalaya

    The three-century-old Durga Puja of Seoraphuli Rajbari has held fast to its unique traditional rituals and culture over the years. It does not run parallel with the usual Durga Puja rites and appearances. The uniqueness of this Puja has ...

    15 September 2025 The Statesman
    Abhishek sets age bar for TMC youth wing leaders

    Trinamul Congress national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee has said leaders above 40 years cannot head the youth wings anymore. However, those who reach 40 years will be absorbed in the main organisation. Also, the party is principally against the ...

    15 September 2025 The Statesman
    DRI crack down on drug racket, seizes narcotics worth Rs 26 cr

    The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI), Kolkata zonal unit, in its fight against illegal drug trafficking conducted a multi-pronged operation on 12 September.The DRI has seized narcotics worth around Rs 26 crore and arrested 10 persons including the mastermind.Advertisement“In ...

    15 September 2025 The Statesman
    Asansol ranks 20th in national clean air city survey

    Asansol has secured the 20th place in the National Clean Air City 2025 survey released by the ministry of environment, forests and climate change. West Bengal’s capital, Kolkata, ranked 38th, while neighbouring Howrah was placed 39th.The survey covered 140 ...

    15 September 2025 The Statesman
    Awareness campaign on financial inclusion, cyber security at Krishnagar

    Against the backdrop of rapid technological penetration in India’s hinterlands and the parallel rise of digital frauds, the Press Information Bureau (PIB) yesterday convened its regular outreach initiative Vartalap in Krishnagar, Nadia district, with a sharp focus on financial ...

    15 September 2025 The Statesman
    PM Modi’s second visit in city within a month commanders’ meet

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be on a two-day visit to Kolkata from Sunday, to inaugurate a three-day long Combined Commanders’ Conference (CCC) of the armed forces at Fort William in the city on Monday.Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, National ...

    15 September 2025 The Statesman
    Kaliganj blast case: Charge sheet filed against 10

    In a significant breakthrough in the Molandi blast case that killed 9-year-old Tamanna Khatun during by-election celebrations, Kaliganj police today filed a voluminous charge sheet running into 340 pages against ten accused persons, all residents of Molandi village under ...

    15 September 2025 The Statesman
    RK Mission Ashram hands out certificates for vocational training

    The Ramakrishna Mission Ashrama in Asansol successfully hosted its certificate distribution programme on 12 September as part of a significant SAIL ISP CSR initiative.The event celebrated the achievements of numerous students who completed vocational training. The atmosphere was one ...

    15 September 2025 The Statesman
    Abhishek sets target to win all nine West Burdwan Assembly seats

    Trinamul Congress (TMC) national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee has set a target to win all nine Assembly seats in West Burdwan in the 2026 Assembly elections.The announcement was made during a meeting with the district leadership held last evening. ...

    15 September 2025 The Statesman
    Traffic restrictions in Kolkata for PM visit

    According to notification issued by Kolkata Police (KP), movements of all types of goods vehicles will be restricted on key roads within the city police jurisdiction from 3.30 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Sunday and again from 7.30 a.m. ...

    15 September 2025 The Statesman
    Bengal Education Minister indirectly blames Guv for JU student’s death on Sep 11

    West Bengal Education Minister Bratya Basu on Saturday afternoon indirectly blamed Governor C.V. Ananda Bose for the lack of adequate security arrangements at Kolkata’s iconic Jadavpur University, which led to the death (due to drowning) of a third-year English ...

    15 September 2025 The Statesman
    Murshidabad police ensure early comeback for rescued minors

    At a time when there are reports of multiple cases of atrocities and detention of migrant labourers from Bengal in different states for speaking Bengali, there is something to cheer about.The good news is that three children from Murshidabad, ...

    15 September 2025 The Statesman
    Special metro services planned for Durga Puja

    Metro Railway, Kolkata has announced special operational measures to ensure smooth services during the forthcoming Durga Puja festivities.Following the suspension of Kavi Subhash station on the Blue Line since 28 July, reversal of empty rakes is being carried out ...

    14 September 2025 The Statesman
    Pujas focus on nature, eternal cycle of life to draw crowds

    As Mahalaya day (the sacred day when Devi Paksha starts) draws near, more and more Puja committees are unveiling their themes.Ahiritola Sarbojanin in north Kolkata is celebrating their 86th year of Durga Puja. The Puja, known for their traditional ...

    13 September 2025 The Statesman
    Tree plantation to mark birth anniversary of Bengali literary great

    On the occasion of the birth anniversary of the legendary Bengali literary figure Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay, Balagarh Bijoy Krishna Mahavidyalaya organised a tree plantation event as part of an academic and social initiative. Bandopadhyay is revered for his profound contribution ...

    13 September 2025 The Statesman
    Khangchendzonga tourism conclave opens in Gangtok

    The third Khangchendzonga International Tourism Conclave opened in Gangtok on Friday with a strong focus on developing rural tourism across the Eastern Himalaya.Sikkim tourism minister Tshering Thendup Bhutia, along with senior officials, inaugurated the two-day event organised by the ...

    13 September 2025 The Statesman
    Govt to train youth as tourist guides

    The state government has taken an initiative to provide training to the youths who are interested to work in the tourism sector.The step has been taken after Bengal is coming up as a major tourist destination in the country.AdvertisementThe ...

    13 September 2025 The Statesman
    Fear haunts 9 workers from Hooghly village still stuck in Nepal

    Nine labourers hailing from six families in Seora village in Hooghly’s Goghat area are passing days in great anxiety, holed up in their shelter at Urlabari in Morang district of Nepal for the past five days. They have been ...

    13 September 2025 The Statesman
    5 buried alive at stone quarry in Birbhum, four injured

    At least five people have been killed and few others are still trapped inside a stone quarry in Bahadurpur under Nalhati police station limits of Birbhum district today.Sources said that the accident occurred around afternoon today.AdvertisementThe bodies of five ...

    13 September 2025 The Statesman
    Jadavpur University student found dead inside campus, probe on

    A third-year English honours student of Jadavpur University was found dead late Thursday night in a pond inside the university campus, sparking outrage among students and fresh demands for stronger security measures.The student, identified as 21-year-old Anamika Mondal of ...

    13 September 2025 The Statesman
    Traffic regulation kicks off at Sealdah to manage increasing crowd at circulating area

    Maintaining resonance with the increasing passenger count following the commencement of revenue services in the entire Green Line, the Sealdah Division has chalked out a traffic regulation plan to enhance the circulating area around the canopy outside the main ...

    13 September 2025 The Statesman
    Student stabbed inside metro station, dies

    What began as a clash between two groups of students snowballed into an alleged murder at the busy Dakshineswar Metro station this afternoon. Reports claim that one student fatally stabbed another with a sharp weapon inside the station, ...

    13 September 2025 The Statesman
    Commercial services between Kolkata-Aizawl from 16 Sept

    Rail journeys in eastern India will take on a new dimension when Aizawl in Mizoram will be connected with the rest of the country tomorrow. With the inauguration of the final 51.38-km Bairabi to Sairang stretch by Prime Minister ...

    13 September 2025 The Statesman
    8 cyber criminals nabbed for Rs 4 lakh fraud

    The Asansol Durgapur Police Commissionerate (ADPC) has unearthed a major digital crime racket and arrested eight members involved, including its kingpin, who is on the wanted list of several cyber crime police stations across the country.Explaining the modus operandi ...

    13 September 2025 The Statesman
    BJP minister should apologise for disrespect to Tagore, Bankim: TMC

    Trinamul Congress has demanded unconditional apology from Sukanta Majumdar, Union minister of state for education after it was found out that photographs of Rabindranath Tagore and Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay were placed on the base of the dais, while the ...

    13 September 2025 The Statesman
    Bhabhadighi railway project at Goghat begins after 12-year delay

    The Bhabhadighi rail project, part of the stalled Tarakeswar–Bishnupur railway line in Goghat finally commenced today.It has been held up for the past twelve years.AdvertisementA section of locals, under the banner of the Bhabhadighi Bachao Committee, had been protesting ...

    13 September 2025 The Statesman
    Protests erupt over BJP MPs presence at event in Howrah’s

    A protest over months of unpaid wages at Arati Cotton Mill in Howrah on Thursday disrupted a programme attended by West Bengal BJP state president and Lok Sabha MP Shamik Bhattacharya, with workers surrounding his vehicle in Dasnagar and ...

    13 September 2025 The Statesman
    TET qualified candidates protest, demand job letters

    Hundreds of candidates, who qualified the Teachers Eligibility Test (TET) held in 2022 for Classes I to V on Thursday afternoon, brought out a protest march in the heart of the city demanding their appointment letters as teachers.The agitating ...

    12 September 2025 The Statesman
    Guv leaves for Delhi, CM returns to city after monitoring border situation

    West Bengal Governor Dr C V Ananda Bose and chief minister Mamata Banerjee left Siliguri on Wednesday after reviewing the situation along the Indo-Nepal border in the wake of recent unrest in Nepal.While Miss Banerjee flew to Kolkata from ...

    12 September 2025 The Statesman
    Metro to get more loco pilots to tide over manpower crunch

    The city Metro railway, presently struggling to stay onboard amid manpower shortage, is set to mitigate the situation soon. Loco pilots from Eastern Railway and South Eastern Railway are to join the Kolkata Metro Railway this week.According to sources ...

    12 September 2025 The Statesman
    Actor Rituparna’s poems now to get translated in French

    For a creative person like Rituparna Sengupta, expression can be in any form, any medium. She has donned many hats, of an actor, director and philanthropist, she now has turned author.Her book on poetry, My Balcony Sea and Other ...

    12 September 2025 The Statesman
    ECI rejects Bengal govt’s plea for inclusion of Swastha Sathi, ration cards as documents for SIR exercise

    The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Thursday rejected the plea from the West Bengal government for inclusion of Swastha Sathi and ration or PDS cards in the list of the documentary cards in case of the commission-proposed special ...

    12 September 2025 The Statesman
    Bengal school jobs case: Charges framed against 21 including ex-minister Partha Chatterjee

    The process of framing charges against a total of 21 accused individuals in the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)-registered cases in the alleged multi-crore West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) scam, was completed at a special CBI court here ...

    12 September 2025 The Statesman
    KMC makes it must for shops to have Bengali signage in prominence

    Amid the controversy around Bengali language, the Kolkata Municipal Corporation has made it mandatory for shop owners and traders to equalise Bengali fonts with other languages on sign boards.Earlier last week, the civic body had issued a notification instructing ...

    12 September 2025 The Statesman
    EC ‘kills’ live voter, complaint lodged

    At a time when many dead persons are coming alive on the voters’ lists, a living voter in Kalna has been declared ‘dead’ and his name has been deleted from the electoral rolls, much to everyone’s surprise.Seventy-year-old Khokon Das ...

    12 September 2025 The Statesman
    NSS supports migrant workers in Bengal

    In recent times, it has made headlines that in the name of SIR, a large number of Bengali workers engaged in jobs across different states of India are being questioned, detained, and harassed by the police on suspicion of ...

    12 September 2025 The Statesman
    Adhir Chowdhury meets President Murmu; seeks her intervention to stop harassment against Bengali workers

    Senior Congress leader and former MP Adhir Chowdhury met President Droupadi Murmu on Wednesday and raised his voice against the harassment of Bengali migrant workers in other states.Seeking her intervention to stop such incidents, Chowdhury alleged that Bengalis are ...

    12 September 2025 The Statesman
    BSF arrests smuggler along India-B’desh border, seizes gold valued at over Rs 55 lakh

    The Border Security Force (BSF) arrested a man and seized gold biscuits valued at over Rs 55 lakh from his possession along the India-Bangladesh border in West Bengal’s North 24-Parganas district, an official said on Wednesday.This is the second ...

    12 September 2025 The Statesman
    Met office forecast rains over south Bengal for next three days

    The Met office on Wednesday predicted light to moderate rain over south Bengal districts and Kolkata for the next three days, bringing relief as several districts there have been reeling under sweltering weather for the last few days.An official ...

    12 September 2025 The Statesman
    Calcutta HC orders Deputy Commissioner-rank probe into ‘attack’ on RG Kar victim’s mother

    The Calcutta High Court on Wednesday directed Kolkata Police Commissioner Manoj Kumar Verma to appoint an officer of the rank of Deputy Commissioner to investigate the alleged police attack on the RG Kar victim’s mother during Nabanna Abhijan.Justice Tirthankar ...

    12 September 2025 The Statesman
    ED moves Calcutta HC seeking cancellation of ex-Bengal minister Jyoti Priya Mallick’s bail

    The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has once again moved Calcutta High Court to cancel the bail of former state minister Jyoti Priya Mallick and his close aide Anisur Rahman, accused in the ration distribution irregularities case.The ED approached the High ...

    12 September 2025 The Statesman
    CM Mamata asks officials to arrange AADHAAR cards for people lacking them

    West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday directed the state administration to immediately arrange Aadhaar cards for those lacking the documentary identity evidence.She gave the direction considering the Supreme Court’s recent directive to include AADHAAR as documentary identity ...

    12 September 2025 The Statesman
    Bengal sand smuggling scam: Two kingpins had meteoric rise in financial fortune

    Two kingpins of the multi-crore sand smuggling rackets in West Bengal, which the officials of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) identified during their probe, experienced a meteoric rise in their financial fortunes within a very short period of time since ...

    12 September 2025 The Statesman
    Bengal cannot be run by remote control from New Delhi: Mamata Banerjee

    West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday claimed that the BJP and the Union government were trying to take indirect control of the state’s affairs from New Delhi, but asserted that their ploy will not work.At the same ...

    11 September 2025 The Statesman
    Voter list ‘tampering’: Bengal govt didn’t fully implement ECI’s order, Calcutta HC told

    The West Bengal government has not fully implemented the Election Commission of India’s (ECI) order, and if the court wants information about the tampering of the voter list, let it be sought from the state government, the Election Commission ...

    11 September 2025 The Statesman
    TMC MP Derek O’Brien offers 8 suggestions to VP-elect CP Radhakrishnan

    Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Derek O’Brien Wednesday extended his good wishes to CP Radhakrishnan, the newly elected Vice President of India, and offered eight suggestions to improve the functioning of the Rajya Sabha, where Radhakrishnan will also serve as ...

    11 September 2025 The Statesman
    Property of individual extorting businessmen, faking as ED official confiscated

    The Enforcement Directorate (ED) said on Tuesday that the officials of its Kolkata office have provisionally attached movable and immovable properties worth Rs 2.2 crore linked to one Sheikh Jinnar Ali, who had been accused of extorting businessmen posing ...

    10 September 2025 The Statesman
    Bengal Police bust illegal arms factory, arrest two for making firearms

    West Bengal Police on Tuesday said that they have busted an illegal arms factory in South 24 Parganas district and arrested two persons in connection with the incident. A large quantity of firearms manufacturing equipment was recovered from an ...

    10 September 2025 The Statesman
    Calcutta HC directs state varsity in Bengal to file affidavit against reappointment of tainted registrar

    A single-judge bench of the Calcutta High Court, on Tuesday, directed the authorities of a state university in West Bengal to file an affidavit to the court explaining why re-appointment was given to a former registrar of the same ...

    10 September 2025 The Statesman
    Security heightened at Indo-Nepal border in Bengal; trucks, tourists stranded

    Security has been stepped up at the Indo-Nepal border in West Bengal in the wake of the Gen Z movement in the Himalayan country that has claimed 19 lives and injured scores of people. At least 100 Indian truck ...

    10 September 2025 The Statesman
    Not months, but years required to complete SIR process: Mamata Banerjee

    West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, on Tuesday, once again made her stand clear that the special intensive revision (SIR) proposed by the Election Commission of India (ECI) could not be completed in haste, as the commission had been ...

    10 September 2025 The Statesman
    Top Cong leaders to visit Bengal to overhaul the party, prepare strategy for 2026 Assembly polls

    In a bid to accelerate the work of the West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee (WBPCC) and its organisation, the National President of the Congress’ organisational wing, K.C. Venugopal, Karnataka leader Nasir Hussain and Congress youth organisation leader, Kanhaiya Kumar, ...

    10 September 2025 The Statesman
    DMs told to send list of Durga Pujas to be inaugurated by VVIPs

    District Magistrates (DMs) across West Bengal have been asked to send lists of ‘preferred’ Durga Pujas from their respective districts as soon as possible so that VVIPs like chief minister Mamata Banerjee and other ministers can inaugurate the festival ...

    9 September 2025 The Statesman
    State attracted nearly Rs 1.25 L cr investment from ’21-22 to ’24-25: Study

    Bengal has attracted nearly Rs 1.25 lakh crore between 2021-22 to 2024-25, according to a study conducted by the MSME Export Promotion Council.AdvertisementIt was the second edition of the “Study on investment, development and growth in progressive West ...

    9 September 2025 The Statesman
    World applauds Purulia’s story told by filmmaker Anuparna Roy

    The feelings and experiences as she grew up in rural Bengal found reflection in her directorial feature film debut, which in turn has found major international recognition a couple of days back. At 31, Anuparna Roy of little-known Narayanpur ...

    9 September 2025 The Statesman
    DVC hosts HR meet on employee engagement & productivity

    Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) hosted the HR Meet 2025 on 5-6 September Kolkata. The two-day event brought together over 200 HR leaders and practitioners from industry and academia.The meet was inaugurated by chief guest P M Prasad, chairman & ...

    9 September 2025 The Statesman
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