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  • News from West Bengal | 10 May, 2025 | ২৬ বৈশাখ, ১৪৩২
  • Had intel of escalation, so police were accordingly deployed: Govt to HC in Murshidabad violence case

    In its report to the Calcutta High Court on last week’s violence in Jangipur in Murshidabad district during a protest against the newly enacted Waqf law, the West Bengal government stated that following the April 8 violence in Raghunathganj ...

    19 April 2025 Indian Express
    Third arrest made in Murshidabad violence case: Priest ‘scared to come’, shradh of father-son duo could not be performed

    The Das family in Murshidabad’s Samserganj area could not perform the shradh ceremony of the father and son killed in last Friday’s violence as the priest didn’t turn up “out of fear”.On April 11, Harogobindo Das (70) and his ...

    18 April 2025 Indian Express
    BJP cites ‘citizen-driven’ campaign in West Bengal to attack TMC

    The BJP on Thursday cited a digital campaign against the Mamata Banerjee-led government in West Bengal as a spontaneous expression of people’s anger.“The people of West Bengal are finally raising their voices against the unimaginable atrocities, lawlessness, and rampant ...

    18 April 2025 Indian Express
    After Mamata’s call to ‘find out original culprits’, WB police forms SIT to probe Murshidabad incident

    A day after Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said “we will find out the original culprits”, responsible for the recent violence in the Murshidabad district, the West Bengal police on Thursday formed an Special Investigation Team (SIT) to investigate the ...

    18 April 2025 Indian Express
    Commuters halt Sealdah trains, allege reduction of general compartments; services affected

    Train services on the Diamond Harbour Line of the Sealdah South Branch in West Bengal were severely disrupted during rush hours Thursday as passengers staged a rail blockade at North Radhanagar Station.The protest, which lasted for two hours from ...

    18 April 2025 Indian Express
    Calcutta HC reserves order on extending CAPF stay in Murshidabad, state claims situation under control

    The Calcutta High Court on Thursday reserved its order on the continuation of central forces in violence-hit Murshidabad district of West Bengal.The court suggested that a three-member panel, comprising one member each from the National Human Rights Commission, the ...

    18 April 2025 Indian Express
    Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee urges Governor Bose to defer visit to riot-hit Murshidabad

    Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee urges Governor Bose to defer visit to riot-hit Murshidabad amid efforts to restore normalcy Kolkata, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday urged Governor C V Ananda Bose to defer his proposed visit to ...

    18 April 2025 Indian Express
    Murshidabad violence: NCW sets up 4-member inquiry panel, chairperson Vijaya Rahatkar to visit strife-hit areas

    The National Commission for Women (NCW) has taken suo motu cognizance of the recent violence that broke out in West Bengal’s Murshidabad and has formed a four-member inquiry committee to probe the matter. NCW Chairperson Vijaya Rahatkar will also ...

    17 April 2025 Indian Express
    After court nod to Mothabari visit, Suvendu Adhikari moves HC to visit 2 areas of violence-hit Murshidabad

    Leader of Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly Suvendu Adhikari Wednesday moved the Calcutta High Court seeking permission to visit the violence-affected Dhukiyan and Samshergunj areas in Murshidabad.The single bench of Justice Tirthankar Ghosh directed that the petition be ...

    17 April 2025 Indian Express
    Widespread storms, rain predicted across West Bengal this week

    The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued a forecast indicating a likelihood of storms and rains across several districts of West Bengal this week, coinciding with the beginning of the Bengali New Year.On Wednesday, April 16, there is a ...

    17 April 2025 Indian Express
    Jagannath Temple Digha: Mamata Banerjee to donate Rs 5,00,001 for golden broom

    Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday said that the senior officials of the West Bengal administration must learn from the Mahakumbh accident in Uttar Pradesh and take necessary measures to avoid any mishap during the inauguration of the Jagannath ...

    17 April 2025 Indian Express
    Mamata says Murshidabad violence ‘pre-planned’, asks PM to rein in Shah

    Claiming that the recent violence in Murshidabad during the Waqf law protest was “pre-planned”, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday alleged that the BSF, central agencies, and the BJP orchestrated tension in the district by facilitating outsiders ...

    17 April 2025 Indian Express
    Affected families and VHP move Calcutta HC for Central agency investigation into Murshidabad violence

    On Wednesday, a Public Interest Litigation was filed to Calcutta High Court’s division bench of Chief Justice T S Sivagnanam and Justice Chaitali Chatterjee demanding a National Investigation Agency (NIA) investigation and shelter for those left homeless in the ...

    17 April 2025 Indian Express
    TMC at forefront in fight against Waqf law, BJP trying to malign Bengal: Mamata Banerjee

    West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Wednesday held a meeting with Imams and assured that Trinamool Congress is at forefront in fight against the new Waqf law in the Parliament.Acknowledging that a few areas in Murshidabad district saw ...

    17 April 2025 Indian Express
    Day after violence, Bengal’s Bhangar limps back to normalcy; 9 arrested

    Tuesday morning revealed the extent of the previous day’s violence in Bhangar in South 24 Parganas of West Bengal. Charred remains of police vans, motorbikes kept outside the Uttar Kashipur police station were evidence of Monday’s mob frenzy when ...

    16 April 2025 Indian Express
    Before communal violence on Murshidabad streets, a foreshadowing on WhatsApp, social media

    Bengal Murshidabad Violence News: Rumours on WhatsApp groups, fake social media accounts and mass mobilisation came together to form the perfect storm in West Bengal’s Murshidabad, which was rocked by communal violence last week in the wake of the ...

    16 April 2025 Indian Express
    Out of jobs, school staff out on streets to press their demands

    While sweets were distributed and new clothes worn on Bengali New Year, the occasion looked different for state school staff who just lost their jobs due to a Supreme Court order.Surojit Pramanik, a non-teaching staff member at a school ...

    16 April 2025 Indian Express
    Bengal’s Bhangar slowly returns to normal after Waqf protest violence; arrests rise to 16

    Normalcy has gradually returned to Bhangar in the South 24 Paraganas district of West Bengal, after a violent protest on Monday led to the arrest of 16 individuals.The unrest, reportedly involving supporters of the Indian Secular Front (ISF), erupted ...

    16 April 2025 Indian Express
    ‘How will I pay for my mother’s cancer treatment?’: On Bengali New Year, a pall of gloom on teachers who lost their jobs

    While sweets are distributed and new clothes are worn on Bengali New Year, the occasion looks different for teachers and non-teaching staff in West Bengal who recently lost their jobs due to a Supreme Court order.Surojit Pramanik, a non-teaching ...

    16 April 2025 Indian Express
    Mamata’s Bengali New Year wish receives taunt from Oppn and an invitation to Murshidabad

    On the morning of Bengali New Year’s Day, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee took to X and wrote, “Ami Banglai gaan gai… (I sing in Bengali).”Soon after the post, a fresh war of words and jibes among the ...

    16 April 2025 Indian Express
    Bengal Governor sends report to Centre on situation in Murshidabad after protests over Waqf law

    Amid the unrest in Murshidabad over the Waqf (Amendment) Act, West Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose has initiated official communication with the Union Ministry of Home Affairs regarding the current situation in Murshidabad, sources said.Raj Bhawan sources said ...

    16 April 2025 Indian Express
    Father and son killed in violence-hit Murshidabad, two arrested

    The West Bengal police arrested two persons who were allegedly involved in the murder of a father and son in the violence-hit Samsherganj of Murshidabad district.ADG (South Bengal range) Supratim Sarkar said, “After verifying CCTV footage and other evidence, ...

    16 April 2025 Indian Express
    9 arrested in Bengal’s Bhangar after Waqf protestors clash with police

    Following Monday’s “hooliganism” in the Bhangar division, which erupted during protests demanding the withdrawal of the Waqf Amendment Act, Kolkata Police said they have made a total of nine arrests. According to police sources, eight individuals were arrested from ...

    16 April 2025 Indian Express
    Bengal CM to inaugurate Digha’s Jagannath Temple on April 30, preparations in full swing

    Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will inaugurate the Jagannath Dham, in the seaside town of Digha on April 30 and the administration is working round the clock to finalise arrangements for the grand event, including accommodations for a host of ...

    16 April 2025 Indian Express
    BJP and TMC allege ‘outsiders’ instigated violence at Murshidabad

    West Bengal Leader of Opposition and BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari claimed that at least 100 crore Hindu-owned properties had been damaged during religious clashes that turned violent in Murshidabad.He suggested that Bangladeshi outfit ‘Ansarulla Bangla Jamat’ was behind the ...

    15 April 2025 Indian Express
    Bengal communal violence: ‘We have become refugees in our own land… We may never return’

    Murshidabad Violence Update: Her eight-day-old baby in her lap, Saptami Mondol (24) sat on a tarpaulin sheet inside a classroom of a high school in Parlalpur, which has been converted into a shelter after communal violence broke out in ...

    15 April 2025 Indian Express
    Missing teachers, students on ‘exam duty’: How is Supreme Court verdict affecting Bengal schools

    Her room painted a cheerful yellow, Shephali Sarkar feels anything but happy after a call with an agitated parent.The headmistress at Dhamua Balika Vidyalaya, a high school with 1,300 girls in South 24 Parganas district’s Magrahat, around 55 km ...

    15 April 2025 Indian Express
    ‘Students can attend classes at other schools nearby’: West Bengal board recommends temporary solution for shortage of teaching staff

    In order to tackle the shortage of teachers after a Supreme Court verdict, the West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education (WBCHSE) has come up with a temporary solution.The Council recommended that students be able to attend classes at ...

    15 April 2025 Indian Express
    School staff who lost jobs in West Bengal head for Delhi’s Jantar Mantar to protest

    West Bengal’s teaching and non-teaching staff who lost their jobs after a Supreme Court verdict have decided to go on a month-long series of protests demanding for their jobs back with dignity.The Supreme Court had annulled the appointments of ...

    15 April 2025 Indian Express
    Waqf protests in Murshidabad: Over 200 arrested, police say ‘full normalcy expected soon’; internet remains suspended

    Over 200 people have now been arrested in connection with the recent violence and arson in West Bengal’s Murshidabad. The current focus of the police is to restore normalcy in the area, where tension persists after protests against the ...

    15 April 2025 Indian Express
    SSC sends list of ‘tainted and untainted’ candidates to Bengal education department

    Amidst ongoing protests by sacked teachers of secondary and higher secondary schools, the West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) has sent a list of ‘tainted’ and ‘untainted’ candidates to the state education department for cross-verification, a senior official said ...

    15 April 2025 Indian Express
    Protests against Waqf law | At Bengal’s Ground Zero, grief and fear cut across divide: ‘Who will give justice?’

    “We kept calling the police after the attacks started. No one answered. Even after they hacked my husband and father-in-law to death, the bodies lay near our house for three hours,” said 32-year-old Pinki Das, clutching her six-year-old daughter ...

    14 April 2025 Indian Express
    School jobs & Murshidabad violence: BJP holds mega rally demanding CM Mamata Banerjee’s resignation

    Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders in the state on Sunday took part in a rally in Kolkata protesting the violence and unrest in Murshidabad district and the recent Supreme Court ruling that annulled over 25,000 school staff appointments, ...

    14 April 2025 Indian Express
    Murshidabad Waqf protests: Senior BSF officer to reassess deployment of forces, Governor directs relief efforts

    Amidst a tense but reportedly controlled situation in Murshidabad and parts of Malda in West Bengal following violent protests against the Waqf (Amendment) Act, Ravi Gandhi, Additional Director General (ADG) of the Border Security Force (BSF) Eastern Command, is ...

    14 April 2025 Indian Express
    Kolkata corporation weighs introducing good touch-bad touch lessons in its schools

    An integral part of growing up for children is to know the difference between a good touch and a bad touch. The Kolkata Municipal Corporation has been preparing a blueprint for creating awareness about this in schools it runs, ...

    14 April 2025 Indian Express
    BJP MP urges Centre to declare 4 Bengal districts as ‘Disturbed Areas’ under AFSPA

    BJP’s Purulia MP Jyotirmay Singh Mahato has written to Union Home Minister Amit Shah urging the Centre to declare select bordering districts of West Bengal as “disturbed areas” under the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA), alleging repeated attacks ...

    14 April 2025 Indian Express
    Three school job losers end hunger strike in Kolkata to ‘start larger movement’

    Three teachers who were on a hunger strike after the Supreme Court rendered jobless 25,753 teaching and non-teaching staffers by terming their recruitment by West Bengal’s School Selection Commission (SSC) as “tainted beyond redemption” suspended their protest on Sunday.Pankaj ...

    14 April 2025 Indian Express
    Waqf protests: 5 more BSF companies deployed in violence-hit Murshidabad as tension persists

    After three people were killed amid protests against the new waqf law, the situation in West Bengal’s Murshidabad remains tense, necessitating the continued presence of security forces, the Border Security Force said on Sunday while announcing the deployment of ...

    14 April 2025 Indian Express
    Thunderstorm warning for all districts of South Bengal, including Kolkata

    The Regional Meteorological Centre in Kolkata Sunday issued a weather alert for West Bengal, forecasting thundershowers and gusty winds across the state until April 15.According to the weather office, an upper air cyclonic circulation has formed over Sub-Himalayan West ...

    14 April 2025 Indian Express
    CM Mamata to meet clerics to ‘draw a roadmap’ of new Waqf law protest

    After repeated “violent” protests in West Bengal against the amended Waqf Act passed in Parliament, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has decided to meet with the Imams, Muslim clerics and thought leaders to discuss about the roadmap of the protest ...

    14 April 2025 Indian Express
    Tollywood’s filmmakers move Calcutta HC against federation of film technicians for ‘interfering in work’

    Once again, Tollywood is in turmoil as Bidula Bhattacharjee, a young independent filmmaker, has moved Calcutta High Court against the industry’s federation of film technicians to “put a check” on the alleged interference of the federation in the work ...

    13 April 2025 Indian Express
    ‘Publishing list of tainted candidates would amount to contempt of court’: Legal experts on West Bengal’s statement

    On Friday, West Bengal Education Minister Bratya Basu in a statement said that the West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) may publish a list of “tainted” and “ untainted” teachers and non-teaching staff who were appointed by the Commission ...

    13 April 2025 Indian Express
    Protests against Waqf law in Bengal: HC orders deployment of Central forces in Murshidabad, rules ‘Can’t turn a blind eye’

    Stating that it “cannot turn a blind eye” to vandalism in parts of West Bengal, the Calcutta High Court on Saturday ordered the deployment of Central forces in the violence-hit district of Murshidabad where three people were killed and ...

    13 April 2025 Indian Express
    Bengal vandalism over Waqf Law: ‘Order NIA probe into vandalism of rail assets’ Suvendu tells Vaishnaw

    Leader of Opposition in Assembly Suvendu Adhikari on Saturday sought the transfer of investigation into the alleged vandalism and destruction of railway property by agitators protesting the amended Waqf law to the National Investigation Agency (NIA).In a letter to ...

    13 April 2025 Indian Express
    Bengal LoP Suvendu Adhikari visits Mothabari, meets violence-hit families, says, ‘here to stand with them’

    BJP MLA from Nandigram and Leader of Opposition in West Bengal Assembly Suvendu Adhikari on Friday visited Mothabari in Malda district, which recently saw communal clashes and stated that atrocities have been committed against Hindu community in the area.After ...

    13 April 2025 Indian Express
    Will publish list of eligible candidates, digital OMR sheets after legal advice: Bengal govt after SC verdict

    The West Bengal School Service Commission (SSC) is ready to publish the list of eligible and ineligible candidates as well as the digital mirror images of Optical Mark Recognition (OMR) sheets of all 22 lakh candidates, who appeared for ...

    13 April 2025 Indian Express
    Waqf protests turn violent in Bengal, father & son among 3 dead; 150 arrested

    THREE PERSONS, including a father-son duo, were killed as protests against the Waqf (Amendment) Act spiralled into violence in Murshidabad district of West Bengal on Friday. According to a government statement, over 150 people have been arrested.Appealing for calm, ...

    13 April 2025 Indian Express
    Former West Bengal Minister Abdur Rezzak Mollah, who once criticised his own Left party’s policies, passes away

    A former veteran minister of West Bengal’s Left Front regime as well as with TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee, Abdur Rezzak Mollah, passed away on Friday at around 11 am.His son Mostaq Ahmed told The Indian Express, “He was ill ...

    12 April 2025 Indian Express
    Police official ‘who kicked protesting teachers at Kasba’ made IO in the case against teachers; removed after objections

    The police personnel of Kolkata police who allegedly kicked protesting teachers in front of the DI office of Kasba on Wednesday was deputed as the Investigating Officer of the case lodged against the teachers. However, after a series of ...

    12 April 2025 Indian Express
    Protest against Waqf law turns violent in Murshidabad again, TMC MP’s office ransacked; BSF deployed

    Violence erupted in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district Friday again during a protest against the amended Waqf law as people torched a police jeep and ransacked several vehicles in Jangipur. The office of local TMC MP Khalilur Rehman was also ...

    12 April 2025 Indian Express
    Former West Bengal Minister Abdur Rezzak Mollah, who once criticised his own Left party’s policies, passes away

    A former veteran minister of West Bengal’s Left Front regime as well as with TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee, Abdur Rezzak Mollah, passed away on Friday at around 11 am.His son Mostaq Ahmed told The Indian Express, “He was ill ...

    12 April 2025 Indian Express
    Kolkata traffic pauses for hours amidst massive rallies against school jobs loss and Waqf Act amendment

    Commuters in Kolkata faced hours of traffic snarls on Thursday as major demonstrations converged on the city’s key arteries. Protests against the Waqf Act’s amendment and the Supreme Court annulling 25,752 school staff jobs threw traffic out of gear ...

    12 April 2025 Indian Express
    Bangladesh border port saw sharp uptick before India halted transshipment

    Before India terminated the transshipment facility for Bangladesh’s export cargo, trucks and consignments saw a sharp uptick at Petrapole, the nation’s largest land port, data shows.New Delhi halted transshipment facilities for the neighbouring country on April 8, days after ...

    12 April 2025 Indian Express
    IMD predicts rain relief, thunderstorms in West Bengal; Kolkata may see temperature dip

    As West Bengal grapples with intense summer heat, the IMD has forecast thunderstorms and rainfall across several districts. Northern West Bengal is expected to experience thunderstorms, while Southern West Bengal anticipates relief from the persistent heat through scattered showers.The ...

    11 April 2025 Indian Express
    Day after police action, teachers who lost job take out mega rally in Kolkata

    Braving the scorching Kolkata heat, close to 1,000 school staff who lost their jobs after a recent Supreme Court verdict hit the streets in a mega rally, demanding that a mirror image of the OMR sheet be published, and ...

    11 April 2025 Indian Express
    West Bengal school staff who lost their jobs sit overnight in front of SSC office in Kolkata

    On a hot Thursday, a group of teaching and non-teaching staff members sat in front of the School Service Commission office in Kolkata’s Salt Lake, before they joined a mega rally at Sealdah. They had been in front of ...

    11 April 2025 Indian Express
    After Punjab and UP, West Bengal govt to change selection process for Director General of Police

    After Punjab and Uttar Pradesh, the West Bengal government is now also introducing a selection committee to appoint the State’s Director General of Police (DGP) without relying on the Centre’s nod.On Tuesday, the State cabinet decided to constitute the ...

    11 April 2025 Indian Express
    Bengal school appointment row: Kolkata police chief says ‘not desirable’ on lathicharge against teachers

    Commissioner of Kolkata Police (CP) Manoj Verma on Wednesday said that the police’s use of force and lathicharge against protesting teachers who lost their jobs due to a Supreme Court ruling which annulled the appointments of over 25,000 West ...

    11 April 2025 Indian Express
    ‘Didi is here, will protect you and your property’: Mamata Banerjee’s promise to minorities amid concerns over Waqf law

    West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday promised to resolve the concerns of minorities and assured them of her support in the wake of the recently passed Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025.Declaring that it was her policy to allow ...

    10 April 2025 Indian Express
    WB school recruitment scam: CPI(ML) Liberation leader seeks President’s intervention

    Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation General Secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya has written to President Droupadi Murmu over the Supreme Court’s decision to terminate nearly 26,000 teachers in West Bengal, urging her intervention to save the teachers.In a letter, a ...

    10 April 2025 Indian Express
    West Bengal school teachers protesting job loss clash with police in Kolkata, face lathi charge

    A group of teachers and non-teaching staff who lost their jobs due to a Supreme Court ruling which annulled the appointments of over 25,000 West Bengal school staff clashed with the police outside the office of the district inspector ...

    10 April 2025 Indian Express
    ‘Why did they go to district inspector’s office?’: West Bengal minister Bratya Basu as teachers who lost jobs face lathi charge

    West Bengal Education Minister Bratya Basu on Wednesday questioned why a group of people who lost their jobs after the Supreme Court upheld the invalidation of more than 25,000 teaching and non-teaching appointments over irregularities in the recruitment process ...

    10 April 2025 Indian Express
    22 arrested over violence and arson during protests against Waqf Act in Bengal’s Murshidabad

    The police in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district arrested 22 people Wednesday in connection with the violence and arson during protests against the Waqf Act, even as the internet remained suspended in Jangipur and surrounding areas.Authorities clamped prohibitory orders in ...

    10 April 2025 Indian Express
    1 ‘mowed down’ by car driven by TV director: As Bengali entertainment industry raises questions, police say probe still on

    IN THE aftermath of a car crash in Thakurpukur market on Sunday morning, which claimed a life and injured several other persons, a wave of questions and concerns is emerging from Tollywood — or the Bengali entertainment industry — ...

    10 April 2025 Indian Express
    TMC’s Kunal Ghosh raises questions on Thakurpukur crash, demands arrest of other occupant in car

    Days after a vegetable vendor was killed and several others injured after a car crashed into them at a market in Kolkata’s Thakurpukur, Trinamool Congress (TMC) spokesperson Kunal Ghosh raised several questions on the probe into the accident, including ...

    10 April 2025 Indian Express
    After Ram Navami, Hindu outfit moves Calcutta High Court seeking permission for Hanuman Jayanti celebrations on Red Road

    On Tuesday, the Hindu Seva Dal approached the Calcutta High Court seeking permission to hold a procession at the Red Road for Hanuman Jayanti.According to the petitioners’ counsel Mayukh Mukherjee, “The petitioner wants to hold a colourful procession on ...

    9 April 2025 Indian Express
    Tollywood questions police handling of case after TV director drives through Kolkata market killing 1

    In the aftermath of the car crash in Thakurpukur market on Sunday morning, which claimed a life and injured several other persons, a wave of questions and concerns is emerging from Tollywood and social media.A day after a vegetable ...

    9 April 2025 Indian Express
    Protests over Waqf Act in Murshidabad turn violent, prohibitory orders imposed

    Police vehicles were torched and stones pelted as a group of protesters clashed with the police in Jangipur, Murshidabad, on Tuesday. The incident took place during protests against Waqf (Amendment ) law. A large police contingent has been posted ...

    9 April 2025 Indian Express
    Calcutta High Court grants LOP Suvendu Adhikari, BJP MLA permission to visit violence-hit Mothabari

    On Tuesday, Justice Tirthankar Ghosh of the Calcutta High Court granted permission to Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari and BJP MLA Ashok Dinda to visit the violence-hit Mothabari area of West Bengal on April 11.Mayukh Mukherjee, counsel for the ...

    9 April 2025 Indian Express
    West Bengal’s para-teachers go on 3-day strike, demand hike in salaries

    Amid a crisis after the Supreme Court verdict to terminate the services of almost 26,000 teachers in state/state-aided schools in West Bengal, para-teachers went on a three-day strike, demanding a hike in their salaries.According to the State school education ...

    9 April 2025 Indian Express
    Bengal school appointments row: ‘Thought tainted candidates will face sacking, but we (honest) are being punished instead’

    “They must give us a job… I am not a tainted candidate. I am the only breadwinner of my family. I have aged parents, a wife and a one-year-old child. What will I feed them now?” Surojit Malakar, a ...

    9 April 2025 Indian Express
    Bengal school appointments ‘scam’: BJP blames CM, asks her to quit

    The Opposition BJP on Monday blamed Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for the Supreme Court’s order annulling over 25,000 school jobs, asking why her government could not provide the court a list of teachers who were “genuine” and those who ...

    9 April 2025 Indian Express
    WBBSE appeals to SC for permission for ‘non-tainted’ teachers to continue jobs — ‘until end of academic year, or when fresh appointments are made’

    The West Bengal Board of Secondary Education (WBBSE) Monday appealed to the Supreme Court to allow teachers “not found to be tainted” to continue services until the end of the academic year “or until the process of fresh appointments ...

    8 April 2025 Indian Express
    Bengal school appointment ‘scam’: Sacking 17,206 teachers to hit schools hard, Board asks SC to let ‘untainted’ ones to stay

    Stating that the teacher’s strength in West Bengal government schools is already “strained’, the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education (WBBSE) on Monday moved a petition in the Supreme Court seeking modification of its April 3 order annulling appointments ...

    8 April 2025 Indian Express
    ‘Where is the state govt’s list of genuine teachers?’: West Bengal BJP leadership targets Mamata as party workers protest

    Minutes after West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee held a meeting on Monday with teachers who lost their jobs after a Supreme Court ruling, the Opposition BJP sharply criticised her, saying that she is “misleading” the candidates.State BJP leadership ...

    8 April 2025 Indian Express
    Police deployed near Kolkata stadium before Mamata’s address as section of teachers claims ‘did not get passes’

    Before West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee addressed the loss of jobs for teachers in her state at the Netaji Indoor stadium early Monday morning, a scuffle broke out between teachers who entered the stadium and a section of candidates ...

    8 April 2025 Indian Express
    Annulment of over 25,000 school jobs: Mamata tells sacked teachers to work voluntarily for now, vows to protect them

    Assuring to protect the jobs of government teachers whose appointments were cancelled by the Supreme Court last week, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday urged them to return to their respective schools and “voluntarily” resume duties while ...

    8 April 2025 Indian Express
    Kolkata: One killed, eight injured as film director drives through market, arrested

    A vegetable vendor has died of his injuries, and eight other people are critically injured, after a film and television director’s car allegedly veered into a crowded Kolkata market after he lost control of the wheel on Sunday morning.At ...

    8 April 2025 Indian Express
    Ram Navami: In Shibpur, hit by violence 2 yrs ago, drones, top cops keep vigil

    There was unprecedented security at Shibpur in Howrah district on Sunday for the Vishwa Hindu Parishad’s Ram Navami procession, which had got a nod from the Calcutta High Court.In 2023, Shibpur saw a mob go on a rampage, attacking ...

    8 April 2025 Indian Express
    ‘Will do everything to restore their dignity’: Mamata meets sacked Bengal teachers after SC verdict, vows support

    Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Monday extended her support to thousands of teaching and non-teaching staffers who recently lost their jobs in West Bengal’s government and aided schools, assuring them that she would do everything in her capacity to restore ...

    8 April 2025 Indian Express
    Bengal readies advisory to pharmacists over fake drugs — from QR codes of medicines to licence cancel

    In the wake of a recent seizure of a large amount of fake and substandard medicines from a warehouse in Titagarh, the West Bengal government is going to issue a strict advisory to all the pharmacists in the state.Sources ...

    7 April 2025 Indian Express
    West Gengal: Amid heavy bandobast, Ram Navami concludes peacefully

    Amid heavy police deployment, Ram Navami was celebrated peacefully in West Bengal. The past two years saw the festivities marred by violence in the state.On Sunday, as Ram Navami processions were taken out in different parts of the state, ...

    7 April 2025 Indian Express
    In a first, ABVP celebrates Ram Navami on Jadavpur University campus

    Ram Navami was celebrated on the Jadavpur University campus for the first time by students affiliated with the ABVP despite being denied permission by the university authorities. The celebrations took place at the Technology Bhawan entrance where the alleged ...

    7 April 2025 Indian Express
    Nandigram Ram temple: BJP’s Suvendu Adhikari lays foundation stone

    Leader of Opposition in West Bengal Assembly Suvendu Adhikari Sunday laid the foundation stone of a Ram Temple at Nandigram in Purba Medinipur district on the occasion of Ram Navami.Adhikari is the BJP MLA from Nandigram. The foundation stone ...

    7 April 2025 Indian Express
    Security tightened ahead of Ram Navami in West Bengal, 29 IPS officers deployed in sensitive areas

    The Kolkata Police and the West Bengal Police have tightened security in their respective jurisdictions ahead of Ram Navami on Sunday.According to sources, the West Bengal Police have deployed 29 IPS officers in 10 sensitive regions, including six police ...

    7 April 2025 Indian Express
    ‘Teacher strength to be reviewed and para teachers used’: Bengal higher secondary board after SC verdict ousts over 25,000 government teachers

    The recent Supreme Court verdict cancelling the appointment of over 25,000 Bengal government school teachers has not only put the future of the sacked teachers and their families in jeopardy but also left the schools grappling to complete the ...

    7 April 2025 Indian Express
    As over 65 rallies hit Kolkata streets on Ram Navami, security beefed up, Raj Bhawan reopens ‘peace room’

    With thousands of Ram Navami rallies scheduled to hit the streets on Sunday, the West Bengal secretariat at Nabanna remains open to monitor the situation. Raj Bhavan too has reactivated the 24×7 ‘peace room’ with ample manpower to take ...

    7 April 2025 Indian Express
    West Bengal teachers who lost jobs after Supreme Court judgment plan review petition

    A section of the West Bengal schoolteachers who lost their jobs when the Supreme Court upheld the invalidation of 25,753 teacher appointments over irregularities in the recruitment process is planning to file a review petition as well as to ...

    7 April 2025 Indian Express
    Parking quarrel turns fatal in Kolkata, 48-year-old beaten to death; 2 brothers held

    A 48-year-old man died after an alleged violent altercation over a parking space in Kolkata’s Tangra area on Sunday.Arun Kumar Gupta, a resident of Mathurbabu Lane in Tangra, was allegedly beaten up by Aryan Shaw and his brother when ...

    7 April 2025 Indian Express
    Rain and storms in West Bengal in the next few days; heat, humidity to ‘worsen discomfort’: IMD

    West Bengal is set to experience a period of fluctuating weather conditions in the coming days, with the IMD forecasting a mix of heatwaves, thunderstorms, and rainfall. While some regions may find temporary relief from the heat, the humidity ...

    7 April 2025 Indian Express
    SC order on teachers: BJP MP Abhijit Gangopadhyay proposes panel to ‘segregate’ candidates, TMC against it

    A war of words has erupted between the Trinamool Congress (TMC) and the BJP in West Bengal after former Calcutta High Court judge and BJP MP Abhijit Gangopadhyay on Friday proposed that a committee be set up to look ...

    7 April 2025 Indian Express
    West Bengal SSC to soon initiate fresh job drive for vacant school posts

    The West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) on Friday said it would abide by the Supreme Court directive and soon initiate the process of conducting fresh exams for all teaching and non-teaching candidates, who took part in the now-invalidated ...

    6 April 2025 Indian Express
    ‘How will we hold classes, check Madhyamik scripts?’: Heads of West Bengal schools face major crisis after SC order ousts 25,000 teachers

    “My science faculty is almost entirely gone. How will we run classes?” said Kakoli Chowdhury, headmistress of Sailaja Memorial Girls High School in Lalgola, Murshidabad, where the employment of 18 out of 46 teachers is to be cancelled after ...

    6 April 2025 Indian Express
    Stick to route given by police: HC on Ram Navami procession

    Dismissing a petition filed by the Ram Navami Celebration Committee, the Calcutta High Court on Thursday directed that the Ram Navami procession in Bankura Town will take the route proposed by the police, with a diversion of 100 m ...

    5 April 2025 Indian Express
    Reconstitute Women’s Police Station: HC on custodial torture allegation

    The Calcutta High Court on Thursday directed the state administration to reconstitute the Paschim Medinipur Women’s Police Station in the wake of the allegations of torture of students who were detained during a protest on the Vidyasagar University campus.Raising ...

    5 April 2025 Indian Express
    Supreme Court order unexpected , the fight should go on: Soma Das who retained her job

    Soma Das, the cancer survivor and the sole exception to the Calcutta High Court’s order nullifying the appointments of nearly 26,000 teachers and non-teaching staff, expressed her disappointment and empathy following the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the High ...

    5 April 2025 Indian Express
    ‘Cannot accept judgment’, says Mamata as SC upholds dismissal of over 25,000 teachers; BJP demands her resignation

    Moments after the Supreme Court upheld the Calcutta High Court’s verdict to dismiss almost 26,000 teachers and non-teaching staff across various schools run or aided by the West Bengal government, the state’s Opposition parties slammed the ruling TMC.Meanwhile, reacting ...

    4 April 2025 Indian Express
    ‘We are jobless, scapegoats, back to square 1’: Educators in West Bengal as SC upholds dismissal of over 25,000 teachers

    A wave of despair has washed over thousands of teachers in West Bengal following the Supreme Court’s decision to invalidate the appointments of nearly 26,000 teachers and staff in state-run and state-aided schools.For months, teachers have been meeting at ...

    4 April 2025 Indian Express
    VHP moves HC, seeks nod for Ram Navami rallies

    The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) approached the Calcutta High Court on Wednesday to seek permission to hold a Ram Navami procession in Bankura’s Saltora, on allegations that police did not give them permission.Justice Tirthankar Ghosh has given permission to ...

    4 April 2025 Indian Express
    In 2025 ‘bird festival’ of Sundarban Tiger Reserve, watchers spot 154 species

    The Sundarban Tiger Reserve (STR) has now also become a haven for birds. Recently, STR authorities made a report on the occasion of their third annual bird festival, which cites 154 sighted species of birds in the reserve — ...

    4 April 2025 Indian Express
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