Mamata Banerjee on Saturday said the BJP would not be invincible if Opposition parties engage in an "all-out fight" in all states across the country. "I will fight all out against BJP and ensure victory (in the Lok Sabha ...
4 February 2024 TelegraphA 17-year-old boy who was returning home after taking the Madhyamik English examination died after he fell from a running train near Kankinara railway station in North 24-Parganas on Saturday afternoon.Police and eyewitnesses said Rajkumar Shaw, a resident of ...
4 February 2024 TelegraphThe Trinamul Congress on Sunday will organise a rally in Birbhum on the route that Congress leader Rahul Gandhi had taken on the final day of the Bengal leg of the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra in the district.On Friday. ...
4 February 2024 TelegraphAnit Thapa, the president of the Bharatiya Gorkha Prajatantrik Morcha (BGPM) and a key rival to the BJP in the hills, has apparently issued gag orders to his leaders from speaking about the party’s Lok Sabha candidate.Sources in the ...
4 February 2024 TelegraphThe Union railway ministry will build a road overbridge (ROB) along the railway level crossing in Rangapani on the southern outskirts of Siliguri and will entirely fund the project.Sandip Sharma, the principal chief engineer of the Northeast Frontier Railway ...
4 February 2024 TelegraphTourists and wildlife enthusiasts visiting the Padmaja Naidu Himalayan Zoological Park (PNHZP) in Darjeeling have another reason to roar.The hill park authorities released a pair Siberian tigers at the open enclosure for public viewing on Friday.Officials of the park ...
4 February 2024 TelegraphAnit Thapa, the president of the Bharatiya Gorkha Prajatantrik Morcha (BGPM) and a key rival to the BJP in the hills, has apparently issued gag orders to his leaders from speaking about the party’s Lok Sabha candidate.Sources in the ...
4 February 2024 TelegraphThe Union railway ministry will build a road overbridge (ROB) along the railway level crossing in Rangapani on the southern outskirts of Siliguri and will entirely fund the project.Sandip Sharma, the principal chief engineer of the Northeast Frontier Railway ...
4 February 2024 TelegraphA 17-year-old boy who was returning home after taking the Madhyamik English examination died after he fell from a running train near Kankinara railway station in North 24-Parganas on Saturday afternoon.Police and eyewitnesses said Rajkumar Shaw, a resident of ...
4 February 2024 TelegraphThe Trinamul Congress on Sunday will organise a rally in Birbhum on the route that Congress leader Rahul Gandhi had taken on the final day of the Bengal leg of the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra in the district.On Friday. ...
4 February 2024 TelegraphMamata Banerjee on Saturday said the BJP would not be invincible if Opposition parties engage in an "all-out fight" in all states across the country. "I will fight all out against BJP and ensure victory (in the Lok Sabha ...
4 February 2024 TelegraphChief Minister Mamata Banerjee's dharna, demanding West Bengal's "dues" from the Centre for various social welfare schemes, continued overnight amid the cold, following which she went for a walk on Saturday morning.Banerjee along with leaders of her party, the ...
4 February 2024 TelegraphThe CBI conducted searches at eight locations in Kolkata and 24 North Parganas district of West Bengal on Saturday over alleged forged use of domicile documents to take benefit available to border-area residents in Central Armed Police Forces recruitment, ...
4 February 2024 TelegraphWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday announced that her government would transfer funds to the bank accounts of 21 lakh unpaid MGNREGA workers in the state by February 21.Banerjee, who started a 48-hour-dharna in front of BR ...
4 February 2024 TelegraphExpressing displeasure at the medical termination of pregnancy of a rape victim by a team of doctors, the Calcutta High Court sought an explanation from them as to why it was done despite an order to only form a ...
4 February 2024 TelegraphWest Bengal Congress president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Saturday criticised TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee and alleged that her changing statements and shifting stance were indicative of her fear of the BJP.Chowdhury, who has been held responsible by the TMC ...
4 February 2024 TelegraphLeader of the Opposition Suvendu Adhikari on Friday alleged that BDOs and SDOs in connivance with district magistrates had intentionally removed the names of several BJP workers from the voter list, particularly in Abhishek Banerjee's Diamond Harbour constituency.Adhikari, who ...
4 February 2024 TelegraphMamata Banerjee on Friday held Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the comptroller and auditor general (CAG) responsible for the pause on the flow of funds to Bengal, making it clear that the narrative of central deprivation would be the ...
4 February 2024 TelegraphChief Minister Mamata Banerjee's dharna, demanding West Bengal's "dues" from the Centre for various social welfare schemes, continued overnight amid the cold, following which she went for a walk on Saturday morning.Banerjee along with leaders of her party, the ...
4 February 2024 TelegraphThe CBI conducted searches at eight locations in Kolkata and 24 North Parganas district of West Bengal on Saturday over alleged forged use of domicile documents to take benefit available to border-area residents in Central Armed Police Forces recruitment, ...
4 February 2024 TelegraphA pair of Royal Bengal Tigers, along with a pair of leopards and some birds, left the Bengal Safari Park, on the outskirts of Siliguri, for Tripura on Thursday, as a part of an animal exchange programme.In turn, a ...
3 February 2024 TelegraphA tug-of-war between between hill leaders Anit Thapa and Raju Bista has started over Union minister of women and child development Smriti Irani and her Bengal counterpart Shashi Panja in the Darjeeling hills after education criteria to promote anganvadi ...
3 February 2024 TelegraphThe BSF and the state police helped Madhyamik examinees in different locations of north Bengal in various ways as the secondary school board exams started across the state on Friday.While the central border force arranged transportation for students from ...
3 February 2024 TelegraphThe Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) on Friday launched its first electric passenger locomotive in Siliguri.Surendra Kumar, the divisional railway manager of the NFR’s Katihar division, flagged off the electric loco at the diesel loco shed of Siliguri Junction.“We are ...
3 February 2024 TelegraphA person was fatally shot and another got injured as goons fired at them while trying to loot a bag of cash from them in Malda on Thursday.Police sources said Chinmoy Barui, 47, the deceased, and Prasenjit Mudi, 29, ...
3 February 2024 TelegraphAt the Calcutta airport, passengers often complain about being unable to make smooth online transactions because of poor mobile phone network. The same problem is often faced by passengers at the parking lot of the airport.The issue was raised ...
3 February 2024 TelegraphThe Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) will build a rest house on the outskirts of Siliguri to provide accommodation to hill residents who visit the city for different purposes.GTA deputy chairman Rajesh Chouhan said the decision to construct the rest ...
3 February 2024 TelegraphThe Special Pocso (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act) Court in Malda on Friday sentenced five persons to rigorous imprisonment for 20 years and slapped a penalty of Rs 20,000 each on them for sexually assaulting two minor ...
3 February 2024 TelegraphThe BSF and the state police helped Madhyamik examinees in different locations of north Bengal in various ways as the secondary school board exams started across the state on Friday.While the central border force arranged transportation for students from ...
3 February 2024 TelegraphA tug-of-war between between hill leaders Anit Thapa and Raju Bista has started over Union minister of women and child development Smriti Irani and her Bengal counterpart Shashi Panja in the Darjeeling hills after education criteria to promote anganvadi ...
3 February 2024 TelegraphA pair of Royal Bengal Tigers, along with a pair of leopards and some birds, left the Bengal Safari Park, on the outskirts of Siliguri, for Tripura on Thursday, as a part of an animal exchange programme.In turn, a ...
3 February 2024 TelegraphChief minister and Trinamul supremo Mamata Banerjee appointed state power minister Aroop Biswas as the observer of East and West Burdwan at a meeting with the leaders of the two districts on Friday, on the sidelines of her dharna ...
3 February 2024 TelegraphThe Bengali question paper of the Madhyamik exam was leaked in at least two venues of Malda district on Friday, the first day of the exam.However, unlike earlier years, the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education (WBBSE) that conducts ...
3 February 2024 TelegraphThe Birbhum leg of Rahul Gandhi's Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra on Friday exited Bengal amid charges of new hurdles by state police, which issued new curbs on the Congress event citing Madhyamik exams.Madhyamik exams started in Bengal at 9.45am ...
3 February 2024 TelegraphCongress leader Rahul Gandhi's 'Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra' on Friday resumed from Nabagram in West Bengal's Murshidabad after the district administration asked the party to delay it owing to the class 10 state board examination, senior leader Adhir Ranjan ...
3 February 2024 TelegraphWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee began a dharna in Kolkata on Friday, demanding the state's "dues" from the Centre for various social welfare schemes.Banerjee along with leaders of her party, the TMC, started the demonstration in front of ...
3 February 2024 TelegraphThe Delhi High Court on Friday allowed expelled Lok Sabha MP Mahua Moitra to withdraw her petition challenging the eviction notice issued by the Directorate of Estates (DoE) asking her to vacate the government accommodation allotted to her.Moitra's counsel ...
3 February 2024 TelegraphCondemning the arrest of JMM leader Hemant Soren, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday said the people of Jharkhand will deliver a "resounding response" to it.Stating that Soren was a close friend, Banerjee "vowed" to stand "unwaveringly" ...
3 February 2024 TelegraphMaintaining that the INDIA alliance is for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections and not for assembly polls in any state, the Congress on Friday asserted that the Opposition bloc of 27 parties exists and will fight together. Bihar ...
3 February 2024 TelegraphWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday dubbed the interim budget for 2024-25 as the “antim” (last) budget of the BJP government at the Centre, indicating that the saffron party will taste defeat in the Lok Sabha polls ...
3 February 2024 TelegraphWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will stage a dharna here from Friday to protest against alleged withholding of the state's dues by the Centre.The issue of the Centre withholding the dues, particularly under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural ...
3 February 2024 TelegraphTrinamul Congress leader Derek O'Brien on Thursday accused Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury of working in "alliance" with the BJP and the CPI(M) in Baharampur and other seats. Baharampur is the Lok Sabha constituency of Chowdhury, who is ...
3 February 2024 TelegraphCongress leader Rahul Gandhi's 'Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra' on Friday resumed from Nabagram in West Bengal's Murshidabad after the district administration asked the party to delay it owing to the class 10 state board examination, senior leader Adhir Ranjan ...
3 February 2024 TelegraphCondemning the arrest of JMM leader Hemant Soren, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday said the people of Jharkhand will deliver a "resounding response" to it.Stating that Soren was a close friend, Banerjee "vowed" to stand "unwaveringly" ...
3 February 2024 TelegraphProtests, roadblocks and arson were witnessed in Malda district on Thursday as a nine-year-old girl who was abducted last Monday was found hacked and her body dumped in a locality here.Police had to rush to multiple locations to bring ...
2 February 2024 TelegraphThe former postmaster of a branch post office located on the outskirts of Cooch Behar town has been accused of siphoning funds of people who have savings accounts in the post office.Customers alleged that although the immediate past postmaster, ...
2 February 2024 TelegraphA day after a division bench headed by Justice Soumen Sen declined to hear appeals against the orders passed by Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay in cases related to alleged irregularities in hiring primary school teachers, a division bench headed by ...
2 February 2024 TelegraphFormer President Ram Nath Kovind, who leads the One Nation One Election panel, is scheduled to visit Calcutta between Friday and Sunday.According to sources in Nabanna, the former President is scheduled to reach the city on Friday morning and ...
2 February 2024 TelegraphThe Bengal CPM, visibly upbeat after arch-adversary Mamata Banerjee’s repeated public assertions of a virtual withdrawal from the INDIA grouping, on Thursday joined Rahul Gandhi in his Murshidabad leg of the Nyay Yatra.A day after Mamata accused the Marxists ...
2 February 2024 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday virtually announced that expelled MP Mahua Moitra would be renominated as the Trinamul candidate from Krishnanagar in the Lok Sabha polls and asserted that she would emerge victorious in the people’s court.Speaking at ...
2 February 2024 TelegraphWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will stage a dharna here from Friday to protest against alleged withholding of the state's dues by the Centre.The issue of the Centre withholding the dues, particularly under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural ...
2 February 2024 TelegraphTrinamul Congress leader Derek O'Brien on Thursday accused Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury of working in "alliance" with the BJP and the CPI(M) in Baharampur and other seats. Baharampur is the Lok Sabha constituency of Chowdhury, who is ...
2 February 2024 TelegraphShanti, a short Nepali film by Kurseong director Vivek Rai, has won the Silver Egg award for the second-best film at the prestigious Kustendorf International Film and Music Festival (KIFMF) held in Serbia in the last week of January.KIFMF, ...
2 February 2024 TelegraphA group of expelled BJP leaders in Raiganj performed “dandi,” usually an act of atonement in which one moves intermittently lying prostrate, demanding that the BJP and all other political parties field local people as candidates in the Raiganj ...
2 February 2024 TelegraphMamata Banerjee on Thursday attacked the BJP and the Congress in almost the same tone, accusing the party in power at the Centre of arresting Opposition leaders to win polls and blaming the top leadership of India's grand old ...
2 February 2024 TelegraphAn apolitical forum of 11 Gorkha communities flagged the longstanding demand for Scheduled Tribe status and warned the BJP that the party would face “challenges” if the ST tag was not conferred on them before the Lok Sabha elections.“For ...
2 February 2024 TelegraphCongress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday made an unscheduled stop at Madhupur village of Suti in Murshidabad to speak with half-a-dozen women binding bidis, was shocked to learn that they earned a pittance for their labour and tried in ...
2 February 2024 TelegraphMamata Banerjee's police have imposed an almost "complete restriction" on Rahul Gandhi's Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra on Friday in Birbhum, denying permission for events by citing that those would adversely impact Madhyamik examinees.Madhyamik exams start on Friday. Replying to ...
2 February 2024 TelegraphOver 160 students who had finished their post-graduation at the Darjeeling Hill University (DHU) in 2023 are confronting a crisis in further pursuing their studies as they have not yet received their final mark sheets and certificates. The ...
2 February 2024 TelegraphThe 'Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra' led by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi entered Murshidabad district in West Bengal on Thursday.The first phase of the yatra in West Bengal concluded on Monday, as it entered Bihar from Islampur.It re-entered West Bengal ...
2 February 2024 TelegraphThe West Bengal Commission for Women stall at the International Kolkata Book Fair received around 30 complaints related to domestic abuse and crime against women, an official said.Forms were kept the the West Bengal Commission of Women stall to ...
2 February 2024 TelegraphA day after her Jharkhand counterpart Hemant Soren was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in an alleged land scam case, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday alleged that the BJP was imprisoning opposition leaders to win ...
2 February 2024 TelegraphA record 29 lakh people visited the International Calcutta Book Fair which concluded on January 31, an official of organisers said on Thursday.The book fair recorded a sale of Rs 27 crore books which is higher than last year’s ...
2 February 2024 TelegraphFor this passenger in a wheelchair, two minutes inside a kiosk at the Calcutta airport’s domestic terminal security check-in turned traumatic, raising questions again on sensitization of security personnel to the needs of the specially abled. Gurgaon-resident Arushi Singh, ...
2 February 2024 TelegraphThe Congress on Thursday remained optimistic about clinching a mutually an acceptable seat-sharing arrangement with the TMC in West Bengal, despite TMC chief Mamata Banerjee's reluctance to concede seats to the grand-old party in the state.Addressing reporters in Murshidabad ...
2 February 2024 TelegraphThe Trinamul Congress on Thursday dubbed the interim budget as an "election gimmick" ahead of the Lok Sabha polls and urged the BJP to "stop political theatrics and prioritise human welfare".Senior TMC leader and minister in the West Bengal ...
2 February 2024 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee took a multi-pronged strategy on Wednesday to consolidate the support base of her party in the minority-dominated districts of Malda and Murshidabad and to pass a clear message to Congress that she has no less ...
2 February 2024 TelegraphThe shattered remains of the rear windshield of a black Toyota Innova Hycross on Wednesday curiously generated fragmented versions — at least four till the end of the evening — of what had caused it.The reason for the sensation: ...
2 February 2024 TelegraphThe 'Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra' led by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi entered Murshidabad district in West Bengal on Thursday.The first phase of the yatra in West Bengal concluded on Monday, as it entered Bihar from Islampur.It re-entered West Bengal ...
2 February 2024 TelegraphThe West Bengal Commission for Women stall at the International Kolkata Book Fair received around 30 complaints related to domestic abuse and crime against women, an official said.Forms were kept the the West Bengal Commission of Women stall to ...
2 February 2024 TelegraphA day after her Jharkhand counterpart Hemant Soren was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in an alleged land scam case, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday alleged that the BJP was imprisoning opposition leaders to win ...
2 February 2024 TelegraphA record 29 lakh people visited the International Calcutta Book Fair which concluded on January 31, an official of organisers said on Thursday.The book fair recorded a sale of Rs 27 crore books which is higher than last year’s ...
2 February 2024 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday iterated her pledge to take the BJP by the horns in the general election on her own in Bengal, indicating that the possibility of a rapprochement between the Trinamul Congress and the Congress ...
1 February 2024 TelegraphMamata Banerjee on Wednesday urged people, especially those affected by non-payment of funds under two major schemes — MGNREGA and PMAY —, to join her sit-in-demonstration from February 2 in Calcutta and directed Trinamul Congress leaders to ensure their ...
1 February 2024 TelegraphThe shattered remains of the rear windshield of a black Toyota Innova Hycross on Wednesday curiously generated fragmented versions — at least four till the end of the evening — of what had caused it.The reason for the sensation: ...
1 February 2024 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee took a multi-pronged strategy on Wednesday to consolidate the support base of her party in the minority-dominated districts of Malda and Murshidabad and to pass a clear message to Congress that she has no less ...
1 February 2024 TelegraphSudip Bandyopadhyay, the leader of the Trinamul Congress in the Lok Sabha, said he had approached the Prime Minister in Parliament on Wednesday and taken up with him the “non-payment of funds” by the Centre, but Narendra Modi had ...
1 February 2024 TelegraphA Birbhum court on Wednesday set aside a Visva-Bharati order that had asked Nobel laureate Amartya Sen to vacate 13 decimals of land, which according to the central university was under his illegal occupation, in Santiniketan."The court today set ...
1 February 2024 TelegraphThe Trinamul-run Siliguri Municipal Corporation (SMC) will provide land rights to people dwelling in 200-odd slums located across the city, mayor Gautam Deb said on Wednesday.“We have taken the task to expedite the process of providing land rights to ...
1 February 2024 TelegraphThe directorate of revenue intelligence (DRI), with the help of the Border Security Force (BSF), nabbed a gang of 27 Bangladeshi “smugglers” carrying betel nuts of Myanmar origin weighing over 70 metric tonnes and valued around Rs 5.5 crore ...
1 February 2024 TelegraphOver 160 students who had finished their post-graduation at the Darjeeling Hill University (DHU) in 2023 are confronting a crisis in further pursuing their studies as they have not yet received their final mark sheets and certificates. The ...
1 February 2024 TelegraphThe directorate of revenue intelligence (DRI), with the help of the Border Security Force (BSF), nabbed a gang of 27 Bangladeshi “smugglers” carrying betel nuts of Myanmar origin weighing over 70 metric tonnes and valued around Rs 5.5 crore ...
1 February 2024 TelegraphThe Trinamul-run Siliguri Municipal Corporation (SMC) will provide land rights to people dwelling in 200-odd slums located across the city, mayor Gautam Deb said on Wednesday.“We have taken the task to expedite the process of providing land rights to ...
1 February 2024 TelegraphSudip Bandyopadhyay, the leader of the Trinamul Congress in the Lok Sabha, said he had approached the Prime Minister in Parliament on Wednesday and taken up with him the “non-payment of funds” by the Centre, but Narendra Modi had ...
1 February 2024 TelegraphA Birbhum court on Wednesday set aside a Visva-Bharati order that had asked Nobel laureate Amartya Sen to vacate 13 decimals of land, which according to the central university was under his illegal occupation, in Santiniketan."The court today set ...
1 February 2024 TelegraphMamata Banerjee on Wednesday urged people, especially those affected by non-payment of funds under two major schemes — MGNREGA and PMAY —, to join her sit-in-demonstration from February 2 in Calcutta and directed Trinamul Congress leaders to ensure their ...
1 February 2024 TelegraphThe Indian army held an “Exercise Devil Strike,” a large-scale air exercise in north Bengal last week.According to army sources, the exercise, held between January 22 and 27, was planned to practise the entire spectrum of operations carried out ...
1 February 2024 TelegraphWest Bengal Chief Minister and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday began her 'Jonosanjog Yatra' at English Bazar in Malda district, where Congress' 'Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra' is also scheduled to enter during the day.The procession led by Banerjee ...
1 February 2024 TelegraphCongress leader Rahul Gandhi's vehicle allegedly came under attack in North Bengal’s Malda on Wednesday afternoon.Gandhi is in Malda as part his Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra, the second leg of which began from today and will cover Malda, Murshidabad ...
1 February 2024 TelegraphWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday said she would stage a demonstration in Kolkata from February 2 if the BJP-led Union government does not clear the state's dues by February 1.Speaking at a public distribution programme in ...
1 February 2024 TelegraphWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday accused the Congress of teaming up with the CPI(M) to strengthen the BJP in the state in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.Banerjee, who was speaking at a public distribution programme here, ...
1 February 2024 TelegraphWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday claimed that Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's vehicle was not attacked in the state but in Bihar.She, however, condemned the incident and said that the vehicle entered the state with its rear ...
1 February 2024 TelegraphThe cash-strapped Bengal government has asked the public works department to bring the expenditure for setting up infrastructures for chief minister’s meetings in districts below Rs 45 lakh, but officials are finding it difficult to meet the target. ...
1 February 2024 TelegraphMamata Banerjee on Tuesday walked with thousands at three locations in North Dinajpur, apparently part of a larger strategy to consolidate minority support.The district, with a minority population of around 49 per cent, had once been a Congress bastion. ...
1 February 2024 TelegraphWest Bengal Chief Minister and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday began her 'Jonosanjog Yatra' at English Bazar in Malda district, where Congress' 'Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra' is also scheduled to enter during the day.The procession led by Banerjee ...
1 February 2024 TelegraphCongress leader Rahul Gandhi's vehicle allegedly came under attack in North Bengal’s Malda on Wednesday afternoon.Gandhi is in Malda as part his Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra, the second leg of which began from today and will cover Malda, Murshidabad ...
1 February 2024 TelegraphWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday said she would stage a demonstration in Kolkata from February 2 if the BJP-led Union government does not clear the state's dues by February 1.Speaking at a public distribution programme in ...
1 February 2024 TelegraphWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday lambasted the BJP for raising the CAA issue ahead of the Lok Sabha polls, asserting that she will never allow its implementation in the state during her lifetime.Speaking at a public ...
31 January 2024 TelegraphThe cash-strapped Bengal government has asked the public works department to bring the expenditure for setting up infrastructures for chief minister’s meetings in districts below Rs 45 lakh, but officials are finding it difficult to meet the target. ...
31 January 2024 TelegraphMamata Banerjee on Tuesday walked with thousands at three locations in North Dinajpur, apparently part of a larger strategy to consolidate minority support.The district, with a minority population of around 49 per cent, had once been a Congress bastion. ...
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