The Border Security Force (BSF) on Friday, thwarted over a thousand men, who had assembled at the Indo-Bangla border in the Cooch Behar district, and wanted to enter India from Nkhoaeesh.According to sources in the BSF, since Friday morning ...
10 August 2024 Indian ExpressChief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday congratulated Nobel laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus for heading the interim government of Bangladesh and said that she was looking forward to an improved relationship between the two nations.“My sincere congratulations and best wishes ...
10 August 2024 Indian ExpressBuddhadeb Bhattacharya: One of the noblest persons, a principled man with no difference in words and deeds. Rarely can we find a parallel in the present day’s political arena. Since my student days, we have been greatly influenced by ...
10 August 2024 Indian ExpressA 31-year-old woman junior doctor was found dead at Kolkata’s state-run R G Kar Medical College & Hospital on Friday morning, triggering a political firestorm in West Bengal, with her family and the Opposition BJP alleging that she was ...
10 August 2024 Indian ExpressThe family of Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader and former West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and his party have turned down the state government’s offer of a gun salute to the leader claiming he was “against such ...
10 August 2024 Indian ExpressFormer Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee is fondly remembered as a man of empathy, a visionary leader, and a dedicated ideologue by those who knew him or were inspired by him. People recalled him as one of the compassionate political ...
10 August 2024 Indian ExpressBy Dipshita Dhar — Joint Secretary, SFIComrade Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee is no more. His party — the CPI(M) — had taught him to be a fighter and to continue fighting until the last breath. This is exactly what he did: ...
10 August 2024 Indian ExpressMild earthquake tremors were felt in Sikkim on Friday morning, as well as in northern Jalpaiguri in West Bengal, and across Nepal, Bhutan, and Bangladesh. The earthquake was of 4.4 magnitude, per the National Centre for Seismology.The tremors were ...
10 August 2024 Indian ExpressIn a testament to his humanitarian spirit, former West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee had donated his eyes and body for medical research. His mortal remains will be handed over to state government-run NRS Medical College and Hospital here ...
10 August 2024 Indian ExpressCapitalising on the land acquisition protests in Nandigram and Singur, it was Mamata Banerjee who ended the Left Front’s three-decade rule in West Bengal and succeeded Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee. And on Thursday morning, she was one of the first people ...
9 August 2024 Indian ExpressBengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Thursday went to the Palm Avenue residence of her predecessor Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee in Kolkata after learning about his demise.Banerjee later announced that she told the family members of the former CM that if they ...
9 August 2024 Indian ExpressLeaders across party lines Thursday expressed their condolences as former West Bengal Chief Minister and CPIM veteran Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee passed away.He was 80 and breathed his last at his residence in Kolkata’s Palm Avenue.President Droupadi Murmu wrote on X,”Saddened ...
9 August 2024 Indian ExpressIn a first incident of infiltration attempt after the unrest in Bangladesh, about 500 people from the neighbouring country tried to enter India through Jalpaiguri district of West Bengal. The attempt was thwarted by the Border Security Force (BSF), ...
9 August 2024 Indian ExpressSitting behind the glass counter, at his 10-foot by 15-foot shop, located on the way to Petrapole land port, 30-year-old Achintya Mondol rued that business has been “zero” since Monday. He also feared that Bangladeshi Taka, the currency with ...
9 August 2024 Indian ExpressFormer chief minister of West Bengal and veteran CPIM leader Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee passed away at 8.20 am Thursday at his residence in Kolkata’s Palm Avenue. Buddhadeb, who had been suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease for some years, was ...
9 August 2024 Indian ExpressAsking the West Bengal government to maintain communal harmony in the state, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) on Wednesday said those “involved in committing atrocities” in Bangladesh following the fall of the Sheikh Hasina government should not be allowed ...
8 August 2024 Indian ExpressThe TMC on Wednesday demanded Bharat Ratna or a President-nominated Rajya Sabha seat for ace wrestler Vinesh Phogat, who was disqualified from the Olympics, acknowledging the extraordinary mettle she has demonstrated.In a shocking reversal of fortunes, Phogat was disqualified ...
8 August 2024 Indian ExpressAlmost a month after West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee sent a proposal to Raj Bhavan for a Cabinet reshuffle, Governor C V Ananda Bose on Wednesday gave his assent, effecting the change in portfolios of four ministers.While no ...
8 August 2024 Indian ExpressThe Alipore weather department has issued a heavy rain warning for five districts in north Bengal — Darjeeling, Jalpaiguri, Kalimpong, Alipurduar, and Cooch Behar — for Wednesday and Thursday.In contrast, south Bengal is predicted to experience light to moderate ...
8 August 2024 Indian ExpressThe Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (IIT-KGP), last week hosted a four-day induction-cum-orientation programme for the students along with their parents to welcome its new batch of undergraduate students to the institute.This is for the first time the institute ...
8 August 2024 Indian ExpressBorder Security Force (BSF) Director General Daljit Singh Chawdhary on Tuesday reviewed security along the Indo-Bangladesh border in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district on the second day of his visit to the state in the wake of a ...
8 August 2024 Indian ExpressAfter getting her documents checked at the immigration counter of the Petrapole border check-post in North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal, 60-year-old Radharani hurriedly walked towards Bangladesh.“I am hearing that houses, shops and even temples are being ransacked. ...
8 August 2024 Indian ExpressThe Alipore Weather Department has issued a heavy rain warning for five districts in North Bengal — Darjeeling, Jalpaiguri, Kalimpong, Alipurduar, and Cooch Behar — for Wednesday and Thursday.This intense rainfall is expected to persist throughout the week, raising ...
8 August 2024 Indian ExpressThe Supreme Court on Tuesday sought the CBI’s response on the West Bengal government’s petition challenging the Calcutta High Court’s order directing a probe by the central agency into the 2021 post-poll violence in the state.Admitting the appeal, the ...
8 August 2024 Indian ExpressDirector Rahool Mukherjee on Tuesday resumed shooting of his upcoming movie ‘Production Number 171’ at a studio in south Kolkata after the shoot was boycotted by film technicians for days.The film starring Prosenjit Chatterjee, Anirban Bhattacharya and Priyanka Sarkar is ...
7 August 2024 Indian ExpressA Woman municipal employee was bitten by a pet dog allegedly unleashed by a woman resident during a dengue prevention survey in the Baguiati area of North 24 Parganas district.A complaint has been filed at the Baguiati police station ...
7 August 2024 Indian ExpressDirector Rahool Mukherjee has returned to the set of Shree Venkatesh Films’ (SVF) after days of controversy, in Kolkata. The shooting resumed on Tuesday morning at a South Kolkata studio in the presence of the actor Anirban Bhattacharya. Prosenjit ...
7 August 2024 Indian ExpressThe Visva-Bharati university in West Bengal’s Santiniketan on Tuesday said the annual tree plantation programme to mark the death anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore on August 7 will not be held at the Bangladesh Bhavan this year.This time, the ‘Briksha ...
7 August 2024 Indian ExpressMovement of goods through the Petrapole land port on the India-Bangladesh border has stopped on Monday, and the train service between Kolkata and Dhaka remained suspended, as the latest spurt of violence in Bangladesh claimed at least 300 lives ...
7 August 2024 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Monday appealed to political leaders to not make any provocative statements on the Bangladesh crisis and instead jeopardise peace in the state. She said the Centre will decide India’s stand on the crisis ...
7 August 2024 Indian ExpressIn a rare show of coordination between the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) and Opposition BJP, the West Bengal Assembly on Monday unanimously passed a resolution opposing any attempt to divide the state.The motion comes in the backdrop of statements ...
7 August 2024 Indian ExpressWest Bengal’s Minister for Correctional Administration or the Prison minister, Akhil Giri, who resigned Monday afternoon over a threat made to a woman forest officer, after he was told to do so by the Trinamool Congress (TMC) leadership, is ...
7 August 2024 Indian ExpressAfter his controversial remarks against a woman forest officer sparked a massive political row, Correctional Services minister Akhil Giri said Monday he had submitted his resignation to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.However, he also dug his heels saying he would ...
6 August 2024 Indian ExpressThe Enforcement Directorate (ED) has reportedly widened its net in the ongoing ration scam investigation in Bengal, with its focus now on hotels and properties in popular tourist destinations. Sources said the agency suspects that the proceeds of the ...
6 August 2024 Indian ExpressIn an unprecedented move, the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) in West Bengal on Sunday asked its minister Akhil Giri to resign and apologise to a woman forest officer whom he had threatened to beat with a stick a day ...
6 August 2024 Indian ExpressHeavy rain on Monday caused new landslides to completely block National Highway 10 near the 39-mile marker in West Bengal’s Kalimpong district. This disrupted traffic between Kalimpong and Siliguri, inconvenienced commuters, and affected essential supplies to Sikkim.Overall, the situation ...
6 August 2024 Indian ExpressStudents from TMCP, the students’ wing of Trinamool Congress, gheraoed Calcutta University’s Interim Vice-Chancellor Shanta Dutta on its College Street campus, allegedly locking the two main gates, another gate, and the door of the syndicate room, in which Datta ...
5 August 2024 Indian ExpressThe India Meteorological Department (IMD) has predicted heavy to very heavy rain in southern and northern Bengal on Tuesday and Wednesday. There will be slight relief on Monday, the first working day of the week. However, there is a ...
5 August 2024 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Sunday said she spoke with her Jharkhand counterpart Hemant Soren to discuss the flood situation in her state. The Banerjee-led government has been blaming the Centre-run Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) for aggravating the ...
5 August 2024 Indian ExpressThe Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has rolled out a new waiver policy on property tax from August 1, officials said on Friday. During the Covid-19 pandemic, the KMC started giving massive waivers on property tax so that those with ...
5 August 2024 Indian ExpressIn what could be a ray of hope for Urgen Tamang, the West Bengal man allegedly tricked and taken to Russia to fight the Ukraine war, and other Indians like him, Kalimpong municipality chairman Rabi Pradhan has claimed that ...
4 August 2024 Indian ExpressBengal Jail minister Akhil Giri landed in controversy after a video of him threatening an on-duty woman forest officer went viral on Saturday. The woman officer was heading a team tasked with clearing encroachments in Tajpur under the East ...
4 August 2024 Indian ExpressAmid water logging and floods in the southern part of West Bengal, the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) warned that heavy and moderate rainfall in the area will continue till at least Saturday.This warning comes after the rain has disrupted ...
4 August 2024 Indian ExpressTERMING THE Centre’s decision to impose 18 per cent Good and Services Tax (GST) on life insurance and health insurance policies as “anti-people”, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday wrote to Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, urging her to ...
4 August 2024 Indian ExpressA team of differently-abled mountaineers from the Himalayan Mountaineering Institute on Friday began an expedition from Kanchenjunga National Park to Mt. Kilimanjaro, the highest peak in the African continent, a statement issued by the institute said. The expedition will ...
4 August 2024 Indian ExpressTwo persons were killed in rain related incidents in south Bengal on Friday, said police. A 22-year-old woman was electrocuted to death in a waterlogged area in Howrah district while another person died due to a house collapse in ...
3 August 2024 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee urged the Central government to remove GST charges from life insurance and medical insurance, saying she will protest on “the road” if the Centre refuses to do so.Banerjee took to X on Thursday, ...
3 August 2024 Indian ExpressNearly two months after it was shut down following a fire, South Kolkata’s Acropolis Mall is set to reopen on Saturday.According to its management, the popular mall, which sees a daily average footfall of 15,000, has undergone extensive repairs. ...
3 August 2024 Indian ExpressThe Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday began questioning of Trinamool Congress leader Anisur Rahman and his brother in connection with the alleged irregularities in the public distribution system.According to the central probe agency, Anisur Rahman, who is the Deganga ...
3 August 2024 Indian ExpressCiting increasing population, rising vehicular traffic, and shrinking road space, the West Bengal government has decided to curtail tram routes within the city and ensure smooth traffic flow.The state Transport Department is set to propose a major reduction in ...
3 August 2024 Indian ExpressThe Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday arrested Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Anisur Rahman and his brother Alif Noor alias Mukul Rahman, a day after they were interrogated for 14 hours in connection with alleged irregularities in the West Bengal ...
3 August 2024 Indian ExpressThe West Bengal Assembly on Thursday passed a resolution seeking a review by the Central government of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, which were recently implemented in the country, replacing the IPC and the CrPC.Following a two-day discussion on the ...
2 August 2024 Indian ExpressLong wait for ambulances and instances of distraught relatives, unable to afford the exorbitant service fare, carrying ailing patients on their shoulders to hospitals in West Bengal are soon going to be a thing of the past. For, the ...
2 August 2024 Indian ExpressThe India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued a forecast of heavy to very heavy rainfall across South Bengal until Friday. Kolkata and its suburbs were drenched in heavy rain on Thursday, which also caused traffic congestion and disrupted daily ...
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2 August 2024 Indian ExpressThe ruling TMC on Wednesday moved a resolution in the West Bengal Assembly seeking a review of the three new criminal laws — Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam (BSA), and Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) — saying ...
2 August 2024 Indian ExpressA wagon of a goods train derailed near Rangapani station in New Jalpaiguri Rail Division on Wednesday, an official of the North-East Frontier Railway said, adding that there was no report of any injury or fatality in the incident. ...
2 August 2024 Indian ExpressTrain services in the Sealdah South section resumed on Wednesday morning, after protesters lifted their five hour-blockade on railway tracks at another station. In a bid to protest the regular delays in arrival of local trains, passengers squatted on ...
2 August 2024 Indian ExpressChief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday expressed concern after a goods train derailed near Rangapni station in the northern part of West Bengal on Wednesday.She wrote on X, “Another rail accident today, in the same Phansidewa/ Rangapani area in ...
1 August 2024 Indian ExpressKolkata Mayor and TMC minister Firhad Hakim’s remark at a religious event led to an uproar in the West Bengal Assembly on Wednesday as BJP legislators demanded his apology for his “communal speech” and threatened to boycott him.Hakim, who ...
1 August 2024 Indian ExpressServices in Sealdah South section were disrupted and then resumed Wednesday morning, due to a five-hour blockade by protestors on railway tracks at another station.Many passengers had squatted on the tracks of Diamond Harbour station of South 24 Parganas ...
1 August 2024 Indian ExpressLeading Bengali film actors Prosenjit Chatterjee, Dev and director Goutam Ghose on Tuesday met West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in an attempt to resolve the ongoing deadlock between directors and technicians over the boycott of shoots of filmmaker ...
1 August 2024 Indian ExpressWith the West Bengal government increasing excise duty, beer, Indian Made Foreign Liquor (IMFL), and country liquor will be more expensive in the state from August 14.While the price per bottle of beer will go up by Rs 20-25, ...
1 August 2024 Indian ExpressThe BJP on Tuesday filed a no-confidence motion against West Bengal Assembly Speaker Biman Banerjee seeking his removal from the post, alleging that he was acting in an arbitrary and partisan manner.A delegation led by Leader of Opposition Suvendu ...
1 August 2024 Indian ExpressThe Supreme Court on Tuesday granted bail to Trinamool Congress (TMC) strongman Anubrata Mondal, who was arrested by the CBI in connection with the investigation into a cross-border cattle smuggling case.A bench of Justices Bela M Trivedi and Satish ...
31 July 2024 Indian ExpressA nursing student, Srabani Roy, is among the thousands of train passengers caught in a travel nightmare due to the derailment of the Mumbai-Howrah Mail near Jharkhand’s Chakradharpur on Tuesday morning. With her exam scheduled for August 1, Roy ...
31 July 2024 Indian ExpressA local TMC leader and his associates were accused of beating up a man employed with a firm providing loans in the Rajarhat area of North 24 Parganas district, police said.The TMC leader, Raktim Kar, however, denied the allegations, ...
31 July 2024 Indian ExpressState minister Manas Bhunia on Monday moved a special notice in the Assembly condemning and expressing serious concerns that Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s microphone was “switched off” at the July 27 NITI Aayog meeting in New Delhi “when she ...
31 July 2024 Indian ExpressThe Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday conducted search operations at 10 locations across West Bengal, including properties linked to former minister Jyotipriya Mallick’s aide Barik Biswas, in connection with a case related to alleged corruption in ration distribution.Biswas is ...
31 July 2024 Indian ExpressA court in West Bengal sentenced two people to prison found guilty of forging fingerprints with the help of polymer sheets and using them to authenticate Aadhaar-enabled payments. The Special Public Prosecutor called it “one of the first Aadhaar ...
31 July 2024 Indian ExpressCiting annual flooding of northern parts of West Bengal during the monsoon, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday told the Assembly that she had demanded the creation of an India-Bhutan river commission at the NITI Aayog meeting in New ...
31 July 2024 Indian ExpressThe West Bengal government will consider lifting the embargo on potato supply to other states once its retail price “stabilises” to Rs 30/kg, it has been learned.The Mamata Banerjee government enforced a ban on the interstate supply of potatoes ...
30 July 2024 Indian ExpressWith the BJP being accused by the TMC of trying to “partition” West Bengal amid a series of statements made by its leaders, Leader of Opposition in the Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, on Monday said his party doesn’t support the ...
30 July 2024 Indian ExpressNetaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s grandnephew, Chandra Kumar Bose, wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday, urging him to bring back the freedom fighter’s mortal remains from Japan’s Renkoji by August 18. Chandra Kumar Bose, a former BJP leader, ...
30 July 2024 Indian ExpressAfter a video of a man beating a woman went viral, police in Purba Bardhaman district arrested a local TMC leader from Kalna on Saturday evening.The local TMC leader, Gopal Tiwari, seen in the purported video was released on ...
30 July 2024 Indian ExpressAmid the ongoing impasse over technicians’ refusal to work under a film director, the West Bengal Motion Pictures Artists Forum on Sunday offered to mediate for ending the impasse.Voicing apprehension that the boycott of the director by technicians and ...
30 July 2024 Indian ExpressFamous Kolkata Jewish bakery Nahoum and Sons has taken chicken items off its menu due to the unavailability of a kosher butcher. The 122-year-old bakery has also decided to keep the shop shut on Saturdays.According to an employee, the ...
30 July 2024 Indian ExpressFollowing its impressive win in the Lok Sabha polls, the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) is keen to hold the elections in the civic bodies, pending for nearly past two years, after the Durga Puja. There are at least 15 ...
29 July 2024 Indian ExpressCongress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Saturday wrote to President Droupadi Murmu, alleging that West Bengal is in an “anarchic condition” and sought her intervention to “restore law and order” in the state.Chowdhury, the president of the West Bengal ...
29 July 2024 Indian ExpressTHE CALCUTTA High Court on Friday said that West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee can make statements regarding Governor CV Ananda Bose as long as they “conform to the laws.”A division bench of the Calcutta High Court added that ...
28 July 2024 Indian ExpressFormer West Bengal minister and RSP leader Biswanath Chowdhury, 82, passed away in Kolkata on Saturday. He was suffering from cancer and was admitted to the state-run SSKM Hospital in the state capital.He was the state jail minister and ...
28 July 2024 Indian ExpressControversy over Bengali film director Rahool Mukherjee escalated on Saturday, with technicians remaining absent on the first day of the shoot of his unnamed film in Tollygunge studio in Kolkata – an act which the film directors termed “insulting” ...
28 July 2024 Indian ExpressThe Trinamool Congress-led West Bengal government is preparing to move a new motion on the Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita at the state legislative Assembly under Rule 169 on July 30, Tuesday, sources informed on Saturday.Earlier, during the monsoon session of ...
28 July 2024 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said that she would participate in the NITI Aayog meet on July 27 in Delhi, but only to register her protest. The West Bengal CM said that a minister had made statements to ...
27 July 2024 Indian ExpressUnion minister Sukanta Majumdar’s proposal for incorporating north Bengal into the Northeast has been backed by the BJP’s Darjeeling MP Raju Bista, and the party’s Murshidabad MLA supported Jharkhand MP Nishikant Dubey’s demand for a Union Territory that includes ...
27 July 2024 Indian ExpressIIT-Kharagpur honoured Google CEO Sundar Pichai with the Doctor of Science (Honoris Causa) Award and his wife Anjali Pichai with Distinguished Alumnus Award at a programme in San Francisco in the US, said a statement issued by the institute ...
27 July 2024 Indian ExpressSeveral parts of West Bengal are likely to receive light to moderate rainfall in the next seven days, as per the Alipore Meteorological Centre.The weather department has also predicted a cyclone over Gangetic West Bengal and adjoining Bangladesh. Monsoon ...
27 July 2024 Indian ExpressA Congress worker was beaten to death in Jalpaiguri on Wednesday night, said police, adding five persons have been arrested in connection with the incident.According to police, a group of people tied 48-year-old Manik Roy to a tree and ...
27 July 2024 Indian ExpressA Jadavpur University (JU) student suffered a panic attack after he was allegedly questioned by a group of students over a missing laptop, officials at the varsity said.The first-year post-graduate computer science student was admitted to a hospital on ...
26 July 2024 Indian ExpressA man in his early twenties allegedly stabbed a woman student on the campus of the Gour Banga University in Malda district on Thursday and then tried to kill himself with the same knife, police said.Both of them have ...
26 July 2024 Indian ExpressAn Indian man who has said he was duped into fighting for the Russian side in the war against Ukraine has again appealed to the Indian government to help him return home.Friends and family of Urgen Tamang (47), who ...
26 July 2024 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday postponed her visit to Delhi for the NITI Aayog meeting from Thursday to Friday.The meeting itself is to be held on Saturday, July 27.Banerjee’s decision, according to sources in her party ...
26 July 2024 Indian ExpressSome 100 kilometres south of Kolkata, in Baikuntapur village, deep inside India’s ecologically sensitive Sundarbans, 15-year-old Supriya Halder and her troupe of fellow students from neighbouring villages have put together a jatra performance, a popular form of folk theatre ...
26 July 2024 Indian ExpressBJP’s West Bengal unit president Sukanta Majumdar on Wednesday said he has urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to incorporate northern parts of the state into the North East region since the two have “many similarities”. This triggered a strong ...
26 July 2024 Indian ExpressWith the onset of monsoon, there has been a surge in dengue and malaria cases. So far, 2,100 dengue cases have been reported from across the state. However, health officials said the situation is not alarming as the number ...
26 July 2024 Indian ExpressPotato traders in West Bengal on Wednesday called off their indefinite strike following a meeting with state minister Becharam Manna.The Progressive Potato Traders’ Association had called for the strike on Sunday over their allegations of harassment by the state ...
25 July 2024 Indian ExpressBharatiya Janata Party’s West Bengal president Sukanta Majumdar said Wednesday that he has asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to make North Bengal a “part of Northeast states”.In a video statement issued from Delhi, Majumdar said, “I have met with ...
25 July 2024 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday moved a Division Bench of the Calcutta High Court, seeking a stay on a single bench order that restrained her and three other TMC leaders from making “defamatory or incorrect statements” ...
25 July 2024 Indian ExpressWith the onset of monsoon, the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) announced a significant decline in cases of malaria and dengue in the city compared to last year’s numbers.According to data from KMC officials, a reduction of 37% was recorded ...
25 July 2024 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee named award-winning filmmaker Goutam Ghose as committee chairman for the 30th edition of Kolkata International Film Festival (KIFF), scheduled to be held from December 4 to 11 this year.Speaking at the annual “Mahanayak ...
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