Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday said her government has identified the land on which the country’s first-ever national security semiconductor fabrication plant under the transformative collaboration with the United States will be set up.The plant will produce chips ...
28 September 2024 Indian ExpressPolice have arrested two persons, allegedly linked to Bangla Pokkho — a group that claims to promote “Bengali nationalism” and “protect Bengali culture” — in connection with the heckling and harassment of two CISF job aspirants from Bihar in ...
28 September 2024 Indian ExpressAmid incessant rain across West Bengal, the Meteorological Department on Thursday issued a red alert for north Bengal, issuing a warning of intense rainfall for the next two days. It also extended the forecast for heavy rainfall in the ...
28 September 2024 Indian ExpressCPI(M)’s youth wing and junior doctor’s organisation on Thursday filed a petition in the Calcutta High Court challenging Kolkata Police notice disallowing any type of gathering in Kolkata and South 24 Parganas for the next two months.On Wednesday, Kolkata ...
28 September 2024 Indian ExpressIn the wake of the month-long protest by junior doctors over the rape and murder of a trainee doctor at the state-run RG Kar hospital, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday met health officials, principals of medical colleges and ...
28 September 2024 Indian ExpressBehind the corruption allegations surrounding the disposal of bio-medical waste from government hospitals in West Bengal — a key strand being probed by the CBI in the R G Kar Hospital case — is a booming grey market, with ...
27 September 2024 Indian ExpressThe Opposition BJP and CPI(M) on Wednesday alleged that Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee “lied” by claiming that DVC released water from its dams without informing her government, causing a “man-made flood” in parts of south Bengal.Waving a letter purportedly ...
27 September 2024 Indian ExpressTwo Kolkata Police officials have been arrested on charges of allegedly extorting around Rs 4 lakh from a taxi driver. The accused, Kaushik Ghosh and Mohammad Montil, were attached to the detective department.The duo allegedly threatened to frame the ...
27 September 2024 Indian ExpressThe CBI has alleged that false records were created at Kolkata’s Tala police station pertaining to the rape and murder of a junior doctor at R G Kar Medical College and Hospital last month.Seeking extended custody of former R ...
27 September 2024 Indian ExpressIrish artists Lisa Sweeney and Richard Babington have found themselves “captivated” by Kolkata on their five-week stay — they find a strong sense of community, even seeing a connection between the Irish goddess Danu and the Hindu goddess Maa ...
27 September 2024 Indian ExpressAn Iraqi Airways flight, flying from Baghdad to Guangzhou in China, was forced to divert to Kolkata on Wednesday night after a 16-year-old girl reportedly fell inside the aircraft. She was later pronounced dead at a Kolkata hospital.According to ...
27 September 2024 Indian ExpressTension returned to the state-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata on Wednesday as protesting junior doctors entered into a scuffle with a group of doctors, house staff, and interns who appeared before an internal inquiry committee ...
26 September 2024 Indian ExpressWith tram lovers in Kolkata planning to hold protests over any move to discontinue its existing rudimentary services in the city, state Transport Minister Snehashish Chakraborty on Wednesday said that while the government is keen on discontinuing tramways from ...
26 September 2024 Indian ExpressThe West Bengal government on Wednesday transferred 39 IAS officers, including K Radhika Aiyar, the district magistrate of Purba Bardhaman.Sources in the government said there were several complaints against the Purba Bardhaman district administration over tackling the flood situation. ...
26 September 2024 Indian ExpressA “sophisticated” illegal mini-gun factory was busted in a village in Bhagalpur district of Bihar during a joint operation of Kolkata and Bihar police, officials said on Wednesday.Five persons — four skilled arms workers and the land owner – ...
26 September 2024 Indian ExpressA woman in her 30s was beaten up by a mob on suspicion of stealing a gold necklace in a village in Purba Medinipur district of West Bengal on Sunday night, said police.After getting information about the assault, a ...
26 September 2024 Indian ExpressThe suicide attempt by a woman make-up artist over “financial distress” following her alleged suspension by the Cine and Video Hair Stylist Association has left the Bengali film industry — also known as Tollywood — in shock with allegations ...
26 September 2024 Indian ExpressWith tram lovers in Kolkata planning to hold protests over any move to discontinue its existing rudimentary services in the city, state Transport Minister Snehashish Chakraborty on Wednesday said that while the government is keen on discontinuing tramways from ...
26 September 2024 Indian ExpressWith a low-pressure area forming over the central-western Bay of Bengal on Wednesday, large parts of West Bengal are expected to receive light to moderate rainfall in the next two or three days, the Met office said on Tuesday. The ...
26 September 2024 Indian ExpressContinuing her attack on the Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) and the Centre over the flood situation in the state, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday announced Rs 2 lakh compensation for 28 people who died in the ...
26 September 2024 Indian ExpressThe West Bengal government has decided to discontinue the 150-year-old tram service in Kolkata soon, barring a solitary heritage stretch from Maidan to Esplanade, Transport Minister Snehasis Chakraborty said.Tram lovers, however, have decided to hit the streets in protest ...
25 September 2024 Indian ExpressThe India Meteorological Department’s Alipore unit predicted a new low-pressure area forming in the central-western Bay of Bengal on Wednesday, likely due to the influence of an ongoing cyclone in the central Bay of Bengal.Southern West Bengal is expected ...
25 September 2024 Indian ExpressAmid a grand reception from supporters, Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Anubrata Mondal on Tuesday returned to his home in Bolpur town in Birbhum district with his daughter, Sukanya, after both were granted bail by the courts in Delhi in ...
25 September 2024 Indian ExpressAT LEAST four girl students were allegedly molested at their hostel in Kolkata, police said on Monday. Three persons, including the husband of the hostel warden, have been arrested in connection with the case, officers said.“On Sunday evening, one ...
25 September 2024 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Leader of Opposition in state Assembly Suvendu Adhikari both thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Joe Biden after Biden and Modi announced plans to build India’s first-ever national security semiconductor ...
24 September 2024 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee again criticised the Central government and Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) over ongoing floods in her state, during an administrative meeting at Burdwan.However, while referring to the work her government has been doing for ...
24 September 2024 Indian ExpressA RELATIVE of a patient at Chanchal Super Specialty Hospital in Malda district has been arrested for allegedly threatening a nurse, police said on Sunday. The incident comes weeks after the rape and murder of a woman trainee doctor ...
24 September 2024 Indian ExpressAmid growing concerns over women’s safety in West Bengal after the rape and murder of a doctor in Kolkata’s R G Kar Medical College and Hospital, the state police have introduced “Pink Mobile” units in a few districts to ...
24 September 2024 Indian ExpressHours after a forensic medicine expert of Kolkata’s R G Kar Medical College and Hospital alleged that a former councillor, a distant relative of the family of the woman trainee doctor who was raped and murdered last month, forced ...
24 September 2024 Indian ExpressA hairstylist attempted suicide on Saturday after allegedly being deprived of work in the Bengali film industry. The incident has sparked outrage and calls for action against the alleged harassment and intimidation she faced from the hairdressers’ guild.The victim ...
24 September 2024 Indian ExpressChief Minister Mamata Banerjee has shot off a second letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, informing him that the West Bengal Government is immediately withdrawing from the Damodar Valley Reservoir Regulation Committee (DVRRC) in protest against “the lack of ...
23 September 2024 Indian Express“I THINK I got a rebirth. Never thought I will return home alive,” said Urgen Tamang (47) who left home in January and after being duped to join the Russian army was deployed for six months fighting in Ukraine, ...
23 September 2024 Indian ExpressWITH NO rainfall in the past 24 hours, the flood situation in South Bengal districts improved slightly on Saturday, officials said. According to sources in the Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC), the release of water was also decreased from Maithon ...
23 September 2024 Indian ExpressThe Kolkata Police has issued notices to five women involved in the “Reclaim the Night” protests against the RG Kar rape and murder case. The police argue that organizers must obtain permission before holding rallies or sit-ins.Protest organizers claim ...
23 September 2024 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee’s new president, Subhankar Sarkar, is known as the party’s soft face. He has replaced former Lok Sabha MP Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, who has maintained a firm stand against the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) in ...
22 September 2024 Indian ExpressA day after two students at Bankura Zilla Saradamani Mahila Mahavidyapith in West Bengal’s Bankura district were asked to leave their class allegedly because they participated in protests seeking justice in the Kolkata doctor rape-murder case, protests broke out ...
22 September 2024 Indian ExpressThe Opposition Saturday targeted Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee after the Bengal Government first put restrictions on movement of vehicles between Jharkhand and Bengal and then hurriedly lifted the restrictions after 12 hours.Taking to his X handle, Leader of Opposition ...
22 September 2024 Indian ExpressJunior doctors on Saturday rejoined their duties partially at various government-run hospitals in West Bengal after a hiatus of 42 days.They were on ‘cease work’ in protest against the rape and murder of an on-duty woman doctor at RG ...
22 September 2024 Indian ExpressThe flood situation in West Bengal improved on Saturday on the back of no rain in the affected districts in the last 24 hours. The Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) also reduced the release of water from the Maithon and ...
22 September 2024 Indian ExpressOn September 1, the Border Security Force (BSF) in Tarali, at the India-Bangladesh border, received a tip: there was likely going to be a major case of smuggling across the international border. A day later, on September 2, at ...
22 September 2024 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose has criticised the Mamata Banerjee-led state government for not tabling several Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) reports before the Assembly and has urged it to do so “to ensure fiscal prudence and ...
22 September 2024 Indian ExpressWITH CHIEF Minister Mamata Banerjee blaming Jharkhand and the Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) for the grim flood situation in south Bengal, and barring entry of commercial vehicles from the neighbouring state at three border points, the Centre Friday wrote ...
21 September 2024 Indian ExpressA Trinamool Congress councillor, Milan Sardar, was expelled from the party following his arrest by the CID on the charge of kidnapping a businessman from Tripura.Seven other people, including an ex-policeman, have already been arrested in the case.Kakoli Ghosh ...
21 September 2024 Indian ExpressIN A show of solidarity with the protesting junior doctors, a large number of people joined two separate marches in Kolkata on Friday, seeking justice for a woman trainee doctor who was raped and murdered at at R G ...
21 September 2024 Indian ExpressForty students were suspended from the state-run College of Medicine and JNM Hospital in West Bengal’s Kalyani following allegations against them of threatening fellow students and exam-related malpractices.As of Thursday, the students have been barred from the hostel, hospital, ...
21 September 2024 Indian ExpressAFTER AN impasse that lasted nearly 12 hours amid the flood situation in West Bengal, the TMC government in the state on Friday reopened the Bengal-Jharkhand border for goods transportation.Sajal Ghosh, general secretary, Federation of West Bengal Truck Operators ...
21 September 2024 Indian ExpressLeader of CPIM’s youth organisation, Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI), Kalatan Dasgupta was granted bail by the Calcutta High Court on Thursday, in a case of alleged conspiracy to attack junior doctors protesting the rape and murder of ...
21 September 2024 Indian ExpressHours before junior doctors in West Bengal partially lifted the month-long cease work on Thursday night following the rape and murder of their colleague at state-run RG Kar hospital in Kolkata, they alleged that their tents at the dharna ...
20 September 2024 Indian ExpressThe West Bengal Medical Council on Thursday cancelled the registration of Sandip Ghosh, the former principal of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, said an official, adding that he has been removed from the list of Registered Medical Practitioners ...
20 September 2024 Indian ExpressPanic call button, centralised helpline number, grievance redressal system — are some of the directives issued by the West Bengal government on Thursday for the safety, security and efficient functioning of healthcare professionals.The directive also mentions that the state ...
20 September 2024 Indian ExpressDAYS AFTER Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee gave in to their demand to shunt out senior police and health officials, protesting junior doctors on Thursday announcing a “partial” lifting of their “cease-work”, saying they would resume essential and emergency services ...
20 September 2024 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday said the flood-like situation in parts of south districts of the state was “man-made” caused by the release of excess water by dams in Jharkhand.Parts of Birbhum, Bankura, Howrah, Hooghly, North ...
20 September 2024 Indian ExpressAfter a marathon 6-hour-long meeting with the top officials of the West Bengal government, the junior doctors on Wednesday night said their cease work would continue as they received only “verbal assurances” on their demands.The junior doctors have been ...
20 September 2024 Indian ExpressIt was the most enduring image of the over month-long doctors’ protest against the RG Kar rape and murder. On September 14, a group of young doctors stood in the rain with their hands folded as Chief Minister Mamata ...
20 September 2024 Indian ExpressAs junior doctors’ protests continue, decorators on Wednesday night were seen removing tents, bamboo sticks, and pedestal fans from the protest site in front of Swasthya Bhavan.Protestors now claim that “external pressure” is causing decorators, who had installed fans ...
20 September 2024 Indian ExpressTMC MLA Swapan Debnath has courted controversy after stating that “women are going out to drink at night” in the name of protests and that parents should ask their daughters “where they are going at night”. A video of ...
20 September 2024 Indian ExpressAbhishek Banerjee, the TMC’s All India General secretary and a Lok Sabha MP, said that since the West Bengal government has transferred top health department officials and Kolkata police officers, protesting junior doctors should end their strike “as a ...
19 September 2024 Indian ExpressThe Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Tuesday told a special court in Sealdah that they had not found any evidence that the 31-year-old junior doctor at RG Kar Hospital was gangraped, but their investigation was still on.Seeking further ...
19 September 2024 Indian ExpressJunior doctors sought another meeting with the state government over their unfulfilled demands, including suspensions, security in hospitals, and the resignation of the state Health Secretary, on Wednesday.After their last meeting on Tuesday, junior doctors sent a fresh letter ...
19 September 2024 Indian ExpressAfter the Supreme Court pulled up the West Bengal government over its “Rattirer Sathi” project and fiving security of the hospitals through contractual security guards, the Opposition parties hit out at the TMC government in the state, saying it ...
19 September 2024 Indian ExpressIn less than 24 hours of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and the protesting junior doctors reaching an agreement after a month-long protest over the rape-murder incident at Kolkata’s R G Kar Hospital, the state government on Tuesday ...
18 September 2024 Indian ExpressSenior officers of Kolkata Police on Monday came out in support of Abhijit Mondal, the officer-in-charge (OC) of Tala Police who has been arrested by the CBI for allegedly tampering with evidence in the rape and murder of a ...
18 September 2024 Indian ExpressThe Enforcement Directorate (ED) launched raids at six locations in Kolkata and neighboring districts on Tuesday morning. Among the places being searched is the residence of Sudipta Roy, a Trinamool Congress MLA from Sreerampur and former chairman of the ...
18 September 2024 Indian ExpressThree trawlers carrying 49 fishermen have gone missing from West Bengal’s coastal waters. The vessels — Neelkanth with 16 fishermen, Shreehari with 19 fishermen, and MaaRiya with 14 — had departed from Diamond Harbour and Kakdweep on Saturday, officials ...
18 September 2024 Indian ExpressIn the first sign of a breakthrough, more than a month after protests began on August 9 over the rape-and-murder of a junior doctor at R G Kar Medical College and Hospital, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday announced ...
18 September 2024 Indian ExpressOnce again, the West Bengal government called junior doctors for a meeting at Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s residence in Kalighat.Through an email by state chief secretary Manoj Panth on Monday, it was communicated that “this is the fifth and ...
17 September 2024 Indian ExpressAmid the downpour on Saturday, IT engineer Biplab Saha reached Swasthya Bhavan, the headquarters of the state Health Department, in Salt Lake near Kolkata where junior doctors have been sitting on a dharna for the last few days over ...
17 September 2024 Indian ExpressA deep depression over the Gangetic West Bengal is expected to bring heavy rainfall and strong wind to the region over the next few days.According to the IMD, the deep depression is likely to move westwards across Jharkhand and ...
17 September 2024 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Saturday requested junior doctors standing outside her Kalighat residence in the downpour to come inside and have a cup of tea.The deliberations took place hours after the chief minister’s visit to the dharna ...
17 September 2024 Indian ExpressA TMC panchayat samiti member was arrested on the charge of raping a woman after locking her in his house. On Friday, when she said she ‘escaped’, this incident caused an uproar in West Bengal’s Sonamukhi of Bankura.The Trinamool ...
16 September 2024 Indian ExpressDay after the former principal of RG Kar Medical College Sandip Ghosh and Tala police station officer-in-charge Abhijit Mondol (MONDAL) were arrested in connection with the rape and murder of a junior doctor, they were remanded in CBI custody ...
16 September 2024 Indian ExpressTalks between the West Bengal government and doctors protesting the R G Kar rape and murder once again broke down on Saturday evening — hours after Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s visit to the protest site indicated a thaw in ...
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16 September 2024 Indian ExpressThe Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Saturday arrested Sandip Ghosh, the former principal of R G Kar Medical College and Hospital, as well as a police inspector in connection with the case of the rape and murder of a ...
16 September 2024 Indian ExpressA ragpicker got injured after a blast occurred while he was checking the contents of a discarded plastic gunny bag in central Kolkata on Saturday.The victim, identified as Bapi Das, 58, was admitted to the NRS Hospital for treatment. ...
15 September 2024 Indian ExpressAs protests over the RG Kar rape and murder case continue to escalate in West Bengal, a TMC panchayat samiti member from Bankura district was arrested on Friday on charges of raping a woman.“The accused was arrested after receiving ...
15 September 2024 Indian ExpressCPIM’s youth organisation DYFI leader and CPIM state committee member Kalatan Dasgupta was arrested on Saturday morning for allegedly plotting an attack on junior doctors’ ongoing dharna at West Bengal’s Salt Lake.On Friday, an audio clip went viral where ...
15 September 2024 Indian ExpressDays after talks broke down, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee invited protesting junior doctors to yet another meeting on Saturday evening. The invitation came hours after the CM visited the protest site outside the state health department – the first ...
15 September 2024 Indian ExpressSharing a purported video on his social media handle ‘X’, BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari Friday alleged that a TMC leader took her pet dog for treatment to a village government hospital at Amtala, South 24 Parganas, using a public ...
15 September 2024 Indian ExpressClaiming that 29 people lost their lives during more than a month-long strike by protesting junior doctors in the state-run hospitals, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday announced a “token” compensation of Rs 2 lakh to the ...
14 September 2024 Indian ExpressThe additional chief judicial magistrate (ACJM) court in Sealdah on Thursday rejected CBI’s plea for the narco-analysis test of Sanjay Roy, the main accused in the rape and murder of a junior doctor at Kolkata’s R G Kar Medical ...
14 September 2024 Indian ExpressClaiming that 29 people lost their lives due to the month-long strike by protesting junior doctors in the state-run hospitals, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday announced a “token” compensation of Rs 2 lakh to the family ...
14 September 2024 Indian ExpressA day after the protesting junior doctors refused to meet West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee with their demands, they have written to President Droupadi Murmu, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar, and Union Health Minister JP ...
14 September 2024 Indian ExpressThe state health department on Thursday removed Tapash Ghosh, dean of students’ welfare of Burdwan Medical College and Hospital (BMCH), after the junior doctors and students began an indefinite agitation demanding his resignation, claiming that he is a close ...
14 September 2024 Indian ExpressA relative of a patient at a private hospital in Kolkata allegedly threatened a woman doctor on Thursday after her friends and family got into an altercation with her over what they said was delayed treatment.After the incident, doctors ...
13 September 2024 Indian ExpressTHE OVER a month-long standoff between junior doctors and the West Bengal government worsened on Thursday as the protesters refused to join talks, following which Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee claimed that they wanted her “chair” not justice as she ...
13 September 2024 Indian ExpressStating that the state government has “failed in its duty” and not understood “the sentiments of the people and society”, West Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose said Thursday that he would “socially boycott” Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee who ...
13 September 2024 Indian ExpressThe Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday launched a multi-pronged search operation in Kolkata in connection with alleged misappropriation of funds by Sandip Ghosh, the former principal of R G Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata, and others in ...
13 September 2024 Indian ExpressWriting to agitating junior doctors, West Bengal Chief Secretary Manoj Panth invited a 15-member delegation to meet Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee at the state secretariat, Nabanna, at 5 pm on ThursdayThis is the third offer from the state government ...
13 September 2024 Indian ExpressSlamming the West Bengal government and the hospital authorities over the ongoing investigation into his daughter’s death at the RG Kar Hospital last month, the father of the victim on Wednesday said that the state government has used a ...
13 September 2024 Indian ExpressSandip Ghosh, the former principal of Kolkata’s R G Kar Medical College, has been placed in a solitary cell at Presidency Central Jail with a guard posted outside for 24 hours. His neighbour is Sudipto Sen, arrested in the ...
13 September 2024 Indian ExpressThe junior doctors’ protest against the rape and murder of their colleague at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospotal entered its 33rd day on Wednesday.In the latest development from today, the doctors have agreed to talks with the ...
12 September 2024 Indian ExpressThe West Bengal Police have sought a list of assistant sub-inspectors who should be transferred out for possible “harmful nexus harming effective policing”.A circular sent to all superintendents of police and commissioners from the office of the Additional Director-General ...
12 September 2024 Indian ExpressHours after protesting doctors rejected the health secretary’s proposal to hold talks with a 10-member delegation, they have once again been invited for negotiations – this time by the chief secretary.In an email sent to the protesters, Chief Secretary ...
12 September 2024 Indian ExpressThe West Bengal Cabinet on Tuesday gave its nod to a proposal to set up five more special POCSO courts in the state, taking the total number of such courts to 67 Minister of State for Finance Chandrima Bhattacharya ...
12 September 2024 Indian ExpressR G Kar Medical College authorities have sent notices to 51 doctors, house staff, and interns for allegedly “engaging in behaviour that promotes a culture of intimidation”, calling them to appear before an enquiry committee on September 11.The authorities ...
11 September 2024 Indian ExpressIgnoring the Supreme Court’s order asking them to resume duty by 5 pm Tuesday, junior doctors in West Bengal, protesting over the rape and murder of their colleague at state-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, rejected Chief Minister ...
11 September 2024 Indian ExpressThe Enforcement Directorate (ED) Tuesday claimed that former principal of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital Sandip Ghosh and his wife owned three flats and two houses in Kolkata, one flat at Murshidabad, and a farmhouse in South 24 ...
11 September 2024 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said Monday that Kolkata Police Commissioner Vineet Goyal had offered to resign, but that she could not accept his resignation at least until the end of the Durga Puja festivities next month.The Commissioner’s ...
11 September 2024 Indian ExpressThe mother of the 31-year-old trainee doctor, who was allegedly raped and murdered at RG Kar Hospital on August 9, on Monday said she was disappointed by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s remarks urging people to join the Puja festivities.Speaking ...
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