The 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 ...
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 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 TelegraphEntrepreneur Akshay Satnaliwala could hardly imagine that a business proposal to Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on a paper napkin during a flight would spring the railway administration in action in no time.Eastern Railway general manager Milind K Deouskar and ...
9 February 2024 TelegraphWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday said her government has started transferring money to the bank accounts of 21 lakh people who worked for the 100 days' scheme but did not receive payments from the central government.The ...
9 February 2024 TelegraphWest Bengal Finance Minister Chandrima Bhattacharya on Thursday presented the budget for 2024-25 with a slew of policies for social welfare and employment generation, even as she accused the Centre of imposing a “financial blockade” on the state.Tabling a ...
9 February 2024 TelegraphThe Calcutta High Court on Thursday ordered transfer to a criminal division bench of a matter in which the amicus curiae claimed that some women prisoners lodged in West Bengal's correctional homes were getting pregnant and 196 babies were ...
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9 February 2024 TelegraphIn the budget for 2024-25 placed in the assembly on Thursday, the West Bengal government introduced a Gender and Child Budget with a view to uplifting the welfare of women and holistic development of children. ...
9 February 2024 TelegraphWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday criticised the BJP for bringing up the issues of CAA, NRC and Uniform Civil Code (UCC) before the Lok Sabha elections and asserted that Bengal will show the way on how ...
9 February 2024 TelegraphThe acrimony between the ruling Trinamul and Opposition BJP spilled o from the floor of the Assembly on to the grounds outside. Soon after the state song, "Banglar Mati, Banglar Jol", was played, BJP legislators led by leader of ...
9 February 2024 TelegraphA day after the Enforcement Directorate conducted raids in connection with the alleged irregularities in the 100 days’ job scheme across the state, chief minister Mamata Banerjee announced that her government would continue its effort to pay the dues ...
9 February 2024 TelegraphAbhishek Banerjee, the Trinamul national general secretary and MP, has decided to hold a major organisational meeting on the Lok Sabha polls with his party leadership down to the block level on February 16.The Diamond Harbour MP’s decision is ...
9 February 2024 TelegraphFour persons, including a civic volunteer, died and at least 15 people were injured, after a speeding truck rammed into two vehicles and turned turtle in West Bengal’s Uttar Dinajpur district, police said.The accident took place late on Wednesday ...
9 February 2024 TelegraphWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday said her government has started transferring money to the bank accounts of 21 lakh people who worked for the 100 days' scheme but did not receive payments from the central government.The ...
9 February 2024 TelegraphA day after the Enforcement Directorate conducted raids in connection with the alleged irregularities in the 100 days’ job scheme across the state, chief minister Mamata Banerjee announced that her government would continue its effort to pay the dues ...
8 February 2024 TelegraphTwo security guards of Eastern Coalfields Limited (ECL) and two policemen were injured in a clash when they had gone to stop the theft of coal from a mine near Asansol in West Burdwan district on Wednesday. Sources said ...
8 February 2024 TelegraphSpeaker Biman Banerjee on Wednesday said there was no illegality or anomaly in conducting the business of the Bengal Assembly, including tabling the Budget on Thursday, without the governor's speech and cited two prior incidents in Parliament as precedents. ...
8 February 2024 TelegraphSenior Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury demanded Sixth Schedule status for the Darjeeling hills, putting the spotlight on the issue that had been on the back burner for years.Chowdhury, while speaking in Parliament on Tuesday on statehood and the ...
8 February 2024 TelegraphA private tutor based in Malda, who is suspected to be the kingpin of a racket involved in leaking Madhyamik question papers, was arrested on Tuesday night.Jiban Das, who runs a private coaching centre at Balutola under the jurisdiction ...
8 February 2024 TelegraphLegislators and people can directly inform the state government of issues related to bad roads or drinking water problems through WhatsApp, state PWD minister Pulak Roy announced in the Assembly on Wednesday after launching three dedicated numbers. “We have ...
8 February 2024 TelegraphSpeaker Biman Banerjee on Wednesday questioned the absence of MLAs during Question Hour and warned them of steps to rein in truant legislators if the trend continued.The Speaker made the observation when he called BJP MLA Budhurai Tudu to ...
8 February 2024 TelegraphA government-run insurance company has launched a pilot project to provide crop insurance to small tea growers on Wednesday.The small tea sector, which contributes around half of India’s total tea production, has been demanding for long that they should ...
8 February 2024 TelegraphLegislators and people can directly inform the state government of issues related to bad roads or drinking water problems through WhatsApp, state PWD minister Pulak Roy announced in the Assembly on Wednesday after launching three dedicated numbers. “We have ...
8 February 2024 TelegraphThe Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) has introduced a training programme for Kalimpong’s unemployed youths interested in working as guides for adventure sports.The initiative, GTA sources said, has been taken for the first time to promote adventure sports in the ...
8 February 2024 TelegraphA government-run insurance company has launched a pilot project to provide crop insurance to small tea growers on Wednesday.The small tea sector, which contributes around half of India’s total tea production, has been demanding for long that they should ...
8 February 2024 TelegraphSpeaker Biman Banerjee on Wednesday questioned the absence of MLAs during Question Hour and warned them of steps to rein in truant legislators if the trend continued.The Speaker made the observation when he called BJP MLA Budhurai Tudu to ...
8 February 2024 TelegraphSenior Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury demanded Sixth Schedule status for the Darjeeling hills, putting the spotlight on the issue that had been on the back burner for years.Chowdhury, while speaking in Parliament on Tuesday on statehood and the ...
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