Teams of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) began raids at multiple locations in the metropolis on Tuesday morning in connection with its ongoing probe into the multi-crore ration scam in West Bengal, a senior official said.Accompanied by central forces, the ...
13 February 2024 TelegraphThe BJP fielded Union minister for women and child development Smriti Irani in Delhi on Monday to turn Sandeshkhali into a national issue ahead of Lok Sabha polls.Steeped in communal overtones, Irani gave her version of the alleged sexual ...
13 February 2024 TelegraphMamata Banerjee on Monday announced that the state government would implement the Ghatal Master Plan with its own resources as the Centre is yet to respond to the longstanding demand, which local MP Deepak Adhikari aka Dev tried to ...
13 February 2024 TelegraphIn Darjeeling, the Bharatiya Gorkha Prajatantrik Morcha (BGPM) blew the Lok Sabha election bugle powered by the BJP because the saffron camp failed to deliver on its election promises.The BGPM started a three-day dharna across Darjeeling hills on Monday ...
13 February 2024 TelegraphA 34-year-old murder accused in Jalpaiguri is suspected to have committed suicide on Monday in police custody.His family members have accused the police of negligence. Senior police officers have said a judicial probe into the incident would be done.Sources ...
13 February 2024 TelegraphFour minor boys of a bordering village in North Dinajpur district died when a heap of earth fell on them on Monday afternoon while they were watching the work initiated by the BSF to deepen a drain near the ...
13 February 2024 TelegraphFour minor boys of a bordering village in North Dinajpur district died when a heap of earth fell on them on Monday afternoon while they were watching the work initiated by the BSF to deepen a drain near the ...
13 February 2024 TelegraphA 34-year-old murder accused in Jalpaiguri is suspected to have committed suicide on Monday in police custody.His family members have accused the police of negligence. Senior police officers have said a judicial probe into the incident would be done.Sources ...
13 February 2024 TelegraphIn Darjeeling, the Bharatiya Gorkha Prajatantrik Morcha (BGPM) blew the Lok Sabha election bugle powered by the BJP because the saffron camp failed to deliver on its election promises.The BGPM started a three-day dharna across Darjeeling hills on Monday ...
13 February 2024 TelegraphThe BJP fielded Union minister for women and child development Smriti Irani in Delhi on Monday to turn Sandeshkhali into a national issue ahead of Lok Sabha polls.Steeped in communal overtones, Irani gave her version of the alleged sexual ...
13 February 2024 TelegraphRahul Gandhi has written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging him to release funds for Bengal under MGNREGS so that the pending wages of workers can be cleared and demand for work under the 100 days’ jobs ...
13 February 2024 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday almost rolled out the party's Lok Sabha poll manifesto as she read out some of the provisions in the state budget on February 8 to remind people how she fulfilled her promises made ...
13 February 2024 TelegraphAbsconding Trinamul Congress leader Shajahan Sheikh is yet to appear before the Enforcement Directorate (ED) officers on Monday in connection with the third summon issued to him in the multi-crore ration scam, an officer said.ED officers are waiting with ...
13 February 2024 TelegraphWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday claimed that efforts are on to malign the Trinamul Congress government on false corruption charges though it has been working hard for the overall development of the state.Addressing a government programme ...
13 February 2024 TelegraphSenior BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari and several other MLAs of the party were stopped from visiting the unrest-hit Sandeshkhali area on Monday afternoon, with the police citing prohibitory orders under Section 144 of CrPC clamped in the area.Earlier in ...
13 February 2024 TelegraphSandeshkhali is closer to Calcutta than Lalgarh is. A 15-year time gap separates the erstwhile and current political hotspots in Bengal.The events unfolding in the village in Basirhat sub-division of North 24-Parganas close to the Sundarbans bear a slight ...
13 February 2024 TelegraphWest Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose on Monday visited the troubled pockets of Sandeshkhali in North 24 Parganas district, and spoke to women protestors who alleged sexual harassment and torture by absconding TMC leader Shajahan Sheikh and his associates.The ...
13 February 2024 TelegraphVeteran actor Mithun Chakraborty got discharged from hospital on Monday afternoon, with the BJP leader asserting that he was "absolutely fine" and would soon resume shooting for upcoming films.Chakraborty, 73, was admitted to a private hospital here on February ...
13 February 2024 TelegraphThe BJP on Monday launched a sharp attack on West Bengal Chief Minister and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee, alleging that she is known for "genocide of Hindus" and is now allowing her party's workers to sexually attack women.The strongly ...
13 February 2024 TelegraphA Trinamul Congress (TMC) delegation led by senior leader Partha Bhowmick is scheduled to visit Sandeshkhali in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas on Tuesday afternoon to take stock of the situation in the area where anger has been brewing ...
13 February 2024 TelegraphSix BJP MLAs, including Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari, were suspended from the West Bengal assembly over staging protests in the House in view of unrest in Sandeshkhali.Besides Adhikari, Agnimitra Pal, Mihir Goswami, Bankim Ghosh, Tapasi Mondal and Shankar ...
13 February 2024 TelegraphAbsconding Trinamul Congress leader Shajahan Sheikh is yet to appear before the Enforcement Directorate (ED) officers on Monday in connection with the third summon issued to him in the multi-crore ration scam, an officer said.ED officers are waiting with ...
13 February 2024 TelegraphSenior BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari and several other MLAs of the party were stopped from visiting the unrest-hit Sandeshkhali area on Monday afternoon, with the police citing prohibitory orders under Section 144 of CrPC clamped in the area.Earlier in ...
13 February 2024 TelegraphSandeshkhali is closer to Calcutta than Lalgarh is. A 15-year time gap separates the erstwhile and current political hotspots in Bengal.The events unfolding in the village in Basirhat sub-division of North 24-Parganas close to the Sundarbans bear a slight ...
13 February 2024 TelegraphWest Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose on Monday visited the troubled pockets of Sandeshkhali in North 24 Parganas district, and spoke to women protestors who alleged sexual harassment and torture by absconding TMC leader Shajahan Sheikh and his associates.The ...
13 February 2024 TelegraphVeteran actor Mithun Chakraborty got discharged from hospital on Monday afternoon, with the BJP leader asserting that he was "absolutely fine" and would soon resume shooting for upcoming films.Chakraborty, 73, was admitted to a private hospital here on February ...
13 February 2024 TelegraphThe Trinamul Congress on Sunday fielded journalist Sagarika Ghose for the Rajya Sabha along with three others for the upcoming polls to the upper house.Elections are to be held for five seats in Bengal which are to fall vacant ...
12 February 2024 TelegraphThe health condition of veteran actor and BJP leader Mithun Chakraborty has improved and he is "quite stable", an official said on Sunday.Chakraborty, 73, was admitted to a private hospital here on Saturday, after he complained of severe chest ...
12 February 2024 TelegraphMamata Banerjee is fielding three women — journalist Sagarika Ghose, Matua leader Mamata Bala Thakur and Northeast leader Sushmita Dev — and author-journalist Md Nadimul Haque from Trinamul as Rajya Sabha members for the four Upper House vacancies from Bengal to be ...
12 February 2024 TelegraphA 36-year-old woman constable of the state police is suspected to have committed suicide in Siliguri on Saturday evening.Constable Sushmita Mothe had been posted at Pradhannagar police station in the city for the past seven years. She used to ...
12 February 2024 TelegraphPolice on Sunday arrested former CPM MLA Nirapada Sardar and the BJP’s Basirhat district convener Bikash Sinha on charges of fomenting trouble at Sandeshkhali in North 24-Parganas. The development came a day after the arrest of Trinamul Congress leader ...
12 February 2024 TelegraphA tanker ploughed through vehicles and people at a fair in Ranipool near Sikkim capital Gangtok on Saturday evening, killing three and injuring 24.Sources said that a tanker veered toward the ground where a tambola game was being played ...
12 February 2024 TelegraphAll three major forces in the Bengal Opposition were seen on the same page on Sunday, taking to the streets and issuing bellicose statements to politically corner Trinamul over the two arrests in Sandeshkhali.The BJP and the CPM led ...
12 February 2024 TelegraphPosters against a BJP MP and the party on separate issues were put in Raiganj and in the hills on Sunday.In Raiganj, the posters were put in the name of “BJP workers”. In the hills, posters were put up ...
12 February 2024 TelegraphActivists of BJP Mahila Morcha in West Bengal on Sunday staged protests in front of various police stations in the northern part of the city, alleging harassment and torture of women by TMC leaders in Sandeshkhali.Women workers of the ...
12 February 2024 TelegraphA 36-year-old woman constable of the state police is suspected to have committed suicide in Siliguri on Saturday evening.Constable Sushmita Mothe had been posted at Pradhannagar police station in the city for the past seven years. She used to ...
12 February 2024 TelegraphA tanker ploughed through vehicles and people at a fair in Ranipool near Sikkim capital Gangtok on Saturday evening, killing three and injuring 24.Sources said that a tanker veered toward the ground where a tambola game was being played ...
12 February 2024 TelegraphPosters against a BJP MP and the party on separate issues were put in Raiganj and in the hills on Sunday.In Raiganj, the posters were put in the name of “BJP workers”. In the hills, posters were put up ...
12 February 2024 TelegraphAll three major forces in the Bengal Opposition were seen on the same page on Sunday, taking to the streets and issuing bellicose statements to politically corner Trinamul over the two arrests in Sandeshkhali.The BJP and the CPM led ...
12 February 2024 TelegraphPolice on Sunday arrested former CPM MLA Nirapada Sardar and the BJP’s Basirhat district convener Bikash Sinha on charges of fomenting trouble at Sandeshkhali in North 24-Parganas. The development came a day after the arrest of Trinamul Congress leader ...
12 February 2024 TelegraphThe special task force (STF) of Bengal police arrested an alleged trained militant of the Kamtapur Liberation Organisation (KLO) here on Friday.According to STF sources, Tapas Roy, 27, from Kumargram in Alipurduar, is a trained militant with links to ...
12 February 2024 TelegraphStruggling to gain political traction on issues of corruption, the West Bengal BJP is shifting its focus to emotive topics such as the Ram Temple in Ayodhya and the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) in a bid to achieve its ...
12 February 2024 TelegraphActivists of BJP Mahila Morcha in West Bengal on Sunday staged protests in front of various police stations in the northern part of the city, alleging harassment and torture of women by TMC leaders in Sandeshkhali.Women workers of the ...
12 February 2024 TelegraphThe Trinamul Congress on Sunday fielded journalist Sagarika Ghose for the Rajya Sabha along with three others for the upcoming polls to the upper house.Elections will be held for five seats in Bengal which are to fall vacant in ...
12 February 2024 TelegraphActor and Trinamul MP from Ghatal Dipak Adhikari aka Dev, who resigned from three government-nominated positions last week, met chief minister Mamata Banerjee and Trinamul Congress national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Saturday.A source in Trinamul said Dev, who ...
12 February 2024 TelegraphThe Trinamul Congress on Saturday took its first step towards damage control over the Sandeshkhali protests by suspending a North 24-Parganas zilla parishad member from the party for six years, following which he was arrested.The troubled zone remained largely ...
12 February 2024 TelegraphStruggling to gain political traction on issues of corruption, the West Bengal BJP is shifting its focus to emotive topics such as the Ram Temple in Ayodhya and the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) in a bid to achieve its ...
12 February 2024 TelegraphThe Bengal unit of the BJP is trying its best to use the Sandeshkhali incident to castle the Mamata Banerjee government ahead of forthcoming general elections by highlighting the "ongoing law-and-order crisis" in the area which has witnessed an ...
11 February 2024 TelegraphActor and Trinamul MP from Ghatal Dipak Adhikari aka Dev, who resigned from three government-nominated positions last week, met chief minister Mamata Banerjee and Trinamul Congress national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Saturday.A source in Trinamul said Dev, who ...
11 February 2024 TelegraphAround 450 petrol pumps located across north Bengal will observe a daylong strike on February 15 to demand the immediate payment of fuel bills from the administration and police of all eight districts of the region, due since the ...
11 February 2024 TelegraphThe Islamic Association for Peace, a Calcutta-based Muslim organisation, protested outside the Chinese consulate in Salt Lake here on Saturday morning against Beijing's alleged mistreatment of Muslim Uyghurs in Xinjiang.The protestors also decried China's "cartographic aggression", pointing to the ...
11 February 2024 TelegraphFamily members of an elderly migrant worker in Malda who died in Haryana on February 8, had to sell their agricultural land and also borrow cash from private lenders to arrange money to bring his body back home.Sources said ...
11 February 2024 TelegraphThe Kurseong Football Association (KFA) in association with the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) will organize the Gorkha Cheli Football Tournament, a soccer tournament for girls, in Kurseong from February 11 to 18.In recent years, the hill’s administrative body has ...
11 February 2024 TelegraphTwo middle-aged men were found hacked to death at a home in Raiganj on Saturday afternoon.Police have recovered their bodies and arrested a person known to the deceased in connection with the murders.Sources said that on afternoon, Tapan Dey, ...
11 February 2024 TelegraphPolice in Malda have arrested a man on Saturday for impersonating a food safety inspector in a bid to collect cash from traders.Sources said that Goutam Dutta, who is from Bhakuria under Behrampore police station of the neighbouring Murshidabad ...
11 February 2024 TelegraphPolice in Malda have arrested a man on Saturday for impersonating a food safety inspector in a bid to collect cash from traders.Sources said that Goutam Dutta, who is from Bhakuria under Behrampore police station of the neighbouring Murshidabad ...
11 February 2024 TelegraphThe Kurseong Football Association (KFA) in association with the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) will organize the Gorkha Cheli Football Tournament, a soccer tournament for girls, in Kurseong from February 11 to 18.In recent years, the hill’s administrative body has ...
11 February 2024 TelegraphFamily members of an elderly migrant worker in Malda who died in Haryana on February 8, had to sell their agricultural land and also borrow cash from private lenders to arrange money to bring his body back home.Sources said ...
11 February 2024 TelegraphThe Islamic Association for Peace, a Calcutta-based Muslim organisation, protested outside the Chinese consulate in Salt Lake here on Saturday morning against Beijing's alleged mistreatment of Muslim Uyghurs in Xinjiang.The protestors also decried China's "cartographic aggression", pointing to the ...
11 February 2024 TelegraphAround 450 petrol pumps located across north Bengal will observe a daylong strike on February 15 to demand the immediate payment of fuel bills from the administration and police of all eight districts of the region, due since the ...
11 February 2024 TelegraphThe Bengal unit of the BJP is trying its best to use the Sandeshkhali incident to castle the Mamata Banerjee government ahead of forthcoming general elections by highlighting the "ongoing law-and-order crisis" in the area which has witnessed an ...
11 February 2024 TelegraphProhibitory orders under Section 144 of CrPC were imposed and internet services suspended in Sandeshkhali in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district, where local women held protests demanding the arrest of absconding TMC leader Sheikh Shajahan and his aides, ...
11 February 2024 TelegraphIn a breakthrough for cancer treatment in India, Apollo Cancer Centres (ACCs) has unveiled the country's first 'Made in India' CAR-T cell therapy programme. This announcement comes hot on the heels of ACCs' successful completion of the CAR-T cell ...
11 February 2024 TelegraphLeader of the Opposition in West Bengal Assembly Suvendu Adhikari along with BJP MLAs on Saturday went to the Raj Bhavan here and submitted a memorandum demanding the intervention of Governor C V Ananda Bose to restore peace in ...
11 February 2024 TelegraphThe Mamata Banerjee-Abhishek Banerjee duo have, according to sources, decided to look past internal differences, at least for now, and agreed to waste no more time in diving headlong into the campaign and organisational preparations for the general elections.The ...
11 February 2024 TelegraphA large number of villagers, mostly tribals, continued to vent their ire against a few ruling party leaders for the third consecutive day by torching at least three poultry farms and the farmhouse of Trinamul block president and zila ...
11 February 2024 TelegraphThe Mamata Banerjee-Abhishek Banerjee duo have, according to sources, decided to look past internal differences, at least for now, and agreed to waste no more time in diving headlong into the campaign and organisational preparations for the general elections.The ...
10 February 2024 TelegraphEconomist and Balurghat BJP MLA Ashok Lahiri said on Friday that Bengal was in a fiscal crisis and the situation would worsen in the future if the state government continued with its current policy of high revenue expenditure without ...
10 February 2024 TelegraphA large number of villagers, mostly tribals, continued to vent their ire against a few ruling party leaders for the third consecutive day by torching at least three poultry farms and the farmhouse of Trinamul block president and zila ...
10 February 2024 TelegraphThe Trinamul Congress on Friday moved privilege motions against six BJP MLAs, including leader of the Opposition, Suvendu Adhikari, for dishonouring the National Anthem and the state song on Thursday on the floor of the Assembly. "We have given ...
10 February 2024 TelegraphBharatiya Gorkha Prajatantrik Morcha president Anit Thapa said on Friday that the BGPM would hold demonstrations across the Darjeeling hills from Monday if the Centre failed to get a bill passed in Parliament to grant Scheduled Tribe status to ...
10 February 2024 TelegraphTrinamul Congress is preparing to go big in their campaign for the general election with the Mamata Banerjee government’s decision to enhance the Lakshmir Bhandar monthly payout, while the BJP appears bent on fostering discontent among non-general category beneficiaries, ...
10 February 2024 TelegraphThe Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) ferried over 140 passengers of a train from Bangladesh in buses to their destinations on Friday after they were left stranded because of a blockade in Jalpaiguri district. Sources said Mitali Express which runs ...
10 February 2024 TelegraphThe Siliguri Municipal Corporation (SMC) has decided to provide free coaching to poor but meritorious Class XI students in the civic area.The free coaching is available for eligible students in all 42 wards of the SMC and will be ...
10 February 2024 TelegraphThe Siliguri Municipal Corporation (SMC) has decided to provide free coaching to poor but meritorious Class XI students in the civic area.The free coaching is available for eligible students in all 42 wards of the SMC and will be ...
10 February 2024 TelegraphThe Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) ferried over 140 passengers of a train from Bangladesh in buses to their destinations on Friday after they were left stranded because of a blockade in Jalpaiguri district. Sources said Mitali Express which runs ...
10 February 2024 TelegraphTrinamul Congress is preparing to go big in their campaign for the general election with the Mamata Banerjee government’s decision to enhance the Lakshmir Bhandar monthly payout, while the BJP appears bent on fostering discontent among non-general category beneficiaries, ...
10 February 2024 TelegraphBharatiya Gorkha Prajatantrik Morcha president Anit Thapa said on Friday that the BGPM would hold demonstrations across the Darjeeling hills from Monday if the Centre failed to get a bill passed in Parliament to grant Scheduled Tribe status to ...
10 February 2024 TelegraphThe Trinamul Congress on Friday moved privilege motions against six BJP MLAs, including leader of the Opposition, Suvendu Adhikari, for dishonouring the National Anthem and the state song on Thursday on the floor of the Assembly. "We have given ...
10 February 2024 TelegraphEconomist and Balurghat BJP MLA Ashok Lahiri said on Friday that Bengal was in a fiscal crisis and the situation would worsen in the future if the state government continued with its current policy of high revenue expenditure without ...
10 February 2024 TelegraphFive people went missing after a boat capsized in the Rupnarayan river in West Bengal's Howrah district, police said. A group of 19 people from Howrah district's Belgachia, Shibpur and Bagnan went to Tribeni Park in Paschim Medinipur district's ...
10 February 2024 TelegraphBJP legislators on Friday staged a walkout from the West Bengal Assembly over their demand for a discussion on land rights for tea garden workers in the state.Speaker Biman Banerjee did not allow an adjournment motion brought by BJP ...
10 February 2024 TelegraphPeople agitated in Sandeshkhali in North 24 Parganas district on Friday, demanding the arrest of absconding TMC leader Sheikh Shajahan and his aides.With sticks and brooms in their hands, locals took out processions in different areas of Sandeshkhali as ...
10 February 2024 TelegraphSenior Trinamul Congress leader Kunal Ghosh on Friday wondered if politics played any role behind the Narendra Modi government’s decision to confer 'Bharat Ratna' on former prime minister P V Narasimha Rao.Ghosh, however, said the party will officially react ...
10 February 2024 TelegraphBengal finance minister Chandrima Bhattacharya in the budget tabled on Thursday proposed to set up four new super-critical thermal power units to boost power production as part of the Mamata Banerjee government's focus on infrastructure development. "As part of ...
10 February 2024 TelegraphThe Bengal government has decided to revisit and examine the Urban Land Ceiling Act and land ceiling provisions under the West Bengal Land Ceiling Act in the budget tabled in the Assembly on Thursday. This is the first time ...
10 February 2024 TelegraphFive people went missing after a boat capsized in the Rupnarayan river in West Bengal's Howrah district, police said. A group of 19 people from Howrah district's Belgachia, Shibpur and Bagnan went to Tribeni Park in Paschim Medinipur district's ...
10 February 2024 TelegraphBJP legislators on Friday staged a walkout from the West Bengal Assembly over their demand for a discussion on land rights for tea garden workers in the state.Speaker Biman Banerjee did not allow an adjournment motion brought by BJP ...
10 February 2024 TelegraphThe Bengal government has announced another 4 per cent dearness allowance for its eight lakh employees in its budget statement tabled in the Assembly on Thursday, taking the total DA to 14 per cent with effect from May 2024.“To ...
9 February 2024 TelegraphThe Assembly saw stormy scenes on Thursday as members of the ruling Trinamul Congress exchanged words with the Opposition as BJP MLAs strongly objected to finance minister Chandrima Bhattacharya's reference to the Centre's "neglect" in disbursing funds. The ...
9 February 2024 TelegraphIndia’s decision to suspend the Free Movement Regime (FMR) with Myanmar has had a ripple effect in Darjeeling hills with a similar demand concerning Nepal.On Thursday, Union home minister Amit Shah announced the government’s decision through X. "It is ...
9 February 2024 TelegraphA hike in the monthly Lakshmir Bhandar payout; another instalment of dearness allowance; handouts for fishermen, weavers and artisans; a rise in allowances for civic volunteers and their rural counterparts; a pledge to implement, with the state’s money, the ...
9 February 2024 TelegraphThe Trinamul-led Bengal government in its budget on Thursday underscored its decision to give the tea garden residents land rights and provide them houses or cash aid to build houses, and simultaneously push tourism to bolster the economy of ...
9 February 2024 TelegraphThe Bengal government’s budget on Thursday announced aid of Rs 5,000 per month for fishermen during the period of fishing ban in the sea, apparently to woo the community that forms a major vote bank in three coastal districts.A ...
9 February 2024 TelegraphA large area of Sandeshkhali in North 24-Parganas erupted in protest on Thursday as hundreds of women armed with sticks, along with some men, hit the streets demanding the arrests of absconding Trinamul strongman Shahjahan Sheikh and his aides ...
9 February 2024 TelegraphThe state forest department released a pair of Himalayan Red Pandas from the Padmaja Naidu Himalayan Zoological Park (PNHZP) of Darjeeling at the Singalila National Park of the same district on Wednesday.This is the third time since 2022 that ...
9 February 2024 TelegraphThe Bengal government’s budget on Thursday announced aid of Rs 5,000 per month for fishermen during the period of fishing ban in the sea, apparently to woo the community that forms a major vote bank in three coastal districts.A ...
9 February 2024 TelegraphThe Trinamul-led Bengal government in its budget on Thursday underscored its decision to give the tea garden residents land rights and provide them houses or cash aid to build houses, and simultaneously push tourism to bolster the economy of ...
9 February 2024 TelegraphA large area of Sandeshkhali in North 24-Parganas erupted in protest on Thursday as hundreds of women armed with sticks, along with some men, hit the streets demanding the arrests of absconding Trinamul strongman Shahjahan Sheikh and his aides ...
9 February 2024 TelegraphIndia’s decision to suspend the Free Movement Regime (FMR) with Myanmar has had a ripple effect in Darjeeling hills with a similar demand concerning Nepal.On Thursday, Union home minister Amit Shah announced the government’s decision through X. "It is ...
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