Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday alleged that the ruling TMC in Bengal was depriving the poor of benefits of central government schemes for the “sake of politics”.She also claimed that issues like “poor law and order situation” ...
28 February 2024 Indian ExpressWith her party leaders facing heat over land grabbing charges in Sandeshkhali in North 24 Parganas district, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said land belonging to tribals would not be taken away in any condition.Speaking at ...
28 February 2024 Indian ExpressThe Calcutta High Court on Tuesday granted bail to CPI(M)’s former Sandeshkhali MLA Nirapada Sardar, who was taken into custody by police on charges of fomenting unrest in the trouble-torn area, with a division bench expressing surprise at his ...
28 February 2024 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Congress president Adhir Ranjan Choudhury on Tuesday accused the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) of running an autocratic regime where any dissenter is being framed in false cases.Chowdhury alleged that TMC leaders are casting a slur against women ...
28 February 2024 Indian ExpressWith the ongoing unrest in the Sandeshkhali area of the state’s North 24 Parganas district refusing to peter down, West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose on Monday pointed out that if the elected state government is not taking action ...
28 February 2024 Indian ExpressThe Calcutta High Court on Monday stayed proceedings for 12 weeks in an FIR registered against a senior official and host of a show at a Bengali news channel over reporting on violence-hit Sandeshkhali.The official had moved the HC ...
28 February 2024 Indian ExpressIndian Secular Front’s lone MLA Naushad Siddiqui was arrested on Tuesday when he was on his way to visit the trouble-torn Sandeshkhali area in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district.The police intercepted Siddiqui, MLA from the Bhangar constituency, in ...
28 February 2024 Indian ExpressThe National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested 16 persons for allegedly conspiring and carrying out a communal attack during a Ram Navami procession in the Dalkhola area of West Bengal’s Uttar Dinajpur district in March last year.In a press ...
27 February 2024 Indian ExpressThe city on Monday experienced a drop of two degrees Celsius in both the minimum and maximum temperatures, leaving a chill in the air. The minimum temperature recorded was 18.4 degrees Celsius while the maximum temperature was 26.1 degrees ...
27 February 2024 Indian ExpressA mob vandalised the house of another Trinamool Congress leader on Monday as protests and violence continued in the Sandeshkhali area of West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district over allegations of sexual harassment of women and land-grabbing against those ...
27 February 2024 Indian ExpressA 49-year-old Trinamool Congress leader from Ashoknagar in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district was shot dead by a group of men, following an altercation between them over a land deal on Sunday night.According to the police on Monday, ...
27 February 2024 Indian ExpressThe Calcutta High Court on Monday said there was no stay on the arrest of absconding Trinamool Congress leader Shahjahan Sheikh, clarifying that a stay on the investigation does not mean that there is a stay on the arrest ...
27 February 2024 Indian ExpressThe West Bengal Police on Monday morning arrested Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Ajit Maity from Sandeshkhali, three days after protesting local residents ransacked his house.Maity is the third TMC leader arrested in connection with the alleged atrocities by leaders ...
27 February 2024 Indian ExpressEven as TMC ministers visited unrest-hit Sandeshkali on Sunday to meet local residents, West Bengal police arrested six members of an ‘independent’ fact-finding committee in Bhojerhat while they were on their way to visit the riverine region, citing prohibitory ...
27 February 2024 Indian ExpressAccusing the BJP-led Centre of “depriving” West Bengal of its rightful dues, Trinamool Congress national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee said that his party would be holding a ‘Jana Garjan Sabha’ (roar of the masses) rally on March 10 at ...
26 February 2024 Indian ExpressIn the wake of mounting attacks from the BJP and other opposition parties on the Sandeshkhali issue, West Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Sunday announced a mega rally at the iconic Brigade Parade Ground here on March 10 ...
26 February 2024 Indian ExpressReferring to the Calcutta High Court decision to stay the joint SIT probe into the January 5 attack on ED officials allegedly by supporters of Shahjahan Sheikh in Sandeshkhali, TMC national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee Sunday said his party ...
26 February 2024 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday condoled the death of filmmaker Kumar Shahani.“Sad to know of the demise of the renowned filmmaker Kumar Shahani at Kolkata. Shahani was a noted and powerful film director, who had a ...
26 February 2024 Indian ExpressSix members of an independent fact-finding committee, led by former Chief Justice of Patna High Court Justice L Narasimha Reddy, were stopped and later arrested by the West Bengal Police on Sunday while they were going to violence-hit Sandeshkhali ...
26 February 2024 Indian ExpressA TMC delegation visited the trouble-torn Sandeshkhali in West Bengal for the second consecutive day on Sunday and heard the grievances of villagers who have been protesting against alleged atrocities by local leaders of the ruling party.The delegation, comprising ...
26 February 2024 Indian ExpressA week after the Kolkata Airport Environment Management Committee held a meeting on the menace of laser lights in the airport area, the pilot of a private airline who was momentarily blinded by one such beam has flagged the ...
26 February 2024 Indian ExpressPolice on Sunday arrested ISF leader Ayesha Bibi from the Sandeshkhali area in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district for her alleged involvement in burning poultry firms of arrested local TMC leader Shibaprasad Hazra, an officer said.Police also detained ...
25 February 2024 Indian ExpressA DAY after West Bengal DGP Rajeev Kumar assured Sandeshkhali residents that law and order would be restored in the area soon, protests against local TMC leaders in the unrest hit island of North 24 Parganas spread to Majherpara ...
25 February 2024 Indian ExpressProtests against alleged land-grabbing by TMC leaders spread to Majherpara and Halderpara localities in West Bengal’s Sandeshkhali block on Saturday. Protesters sought the arrest of fugitive TMC leader Sheikh Shahjahan and his brother Sheikh Sirajuddin.A woman protester in Majherpara ...
25 February 2024 Indian ExpressWritten by Taniya AcherjeeKolkata received rain in some pockets on Saturday and it is expected to last till the weekend, said the Met office. Rainfall since Friday amounted to 0.2 meters in the city, recording 93% humidity.The city recorded ...
25 February 2024 Indian ExpressAhead of the Lok Sabha elections, West Bengal Chief Election Officer (CEO) Aariz Aftab Saturday held a meeting with the District Magistrates (DMs) and Superintendents of Police (SPs) in the state and said the poll panel would not tolerate ...
25 February 2024 Indian ExpressA day that starts at 5am, followed by an hour of training, a sand bath to soothe those stiff muscles, and a hearty meal to make up for the early start – that’s what a typical day for Champion, ...
25 February 2024 Indian ExpressA DAY before All India Institute Of Medical Science (AIIMS) Kalyani in West Bengal is to be inaugurated virtually by Prime Minister Narendra Modi along with four other AIIMS branches in the country, the West Bengal Pollution Control Board ...
25 February 2024 Indian ExpressA team of National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) visited Sandeshkhali island and talked to the women who had accused local TMC leaders of sexual harassment and their families on Friday.The six-member team also talked to the local residents who ...
25 February 2024 Indian ExpressThe West Bengal Police recently arrested a person for allegedly promising to leak question papers of the ongoing higher secondary examination conducted by the state board.The accused, Rupam Sadhukhan, was nabbed from Goribpur in Nadia district. A complaint in ...
25 February 2024 Indian ExpressThe police Friday claimed to have arrested “a local BJP leader” along with 10 others on charges of running a sex racket in a hotel in West Bengal’s Howrah district, while the state’s main opposition party denied any association ...
25 February 2024 Indian ExpressAmid growing criticism faced by the party over the unrest in Sandeshkhali, TMC national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee is likely to address a rally in the troubled riverine region in March second week.TMC sources indicated that Banerjee, accompanied by ...
24 February 2024 Indian ExpressAs protests in Sandeshkhali spread to Belmajur on Friday where protestors allegedly beat up local TMC leader Ajit Maity, West Bengal Director General of Police (DGP) Rajeev Kumar said that he accepts that there has been “a mistake” but ...
24 February 2024 Indian ExpressBJP state president Sukanta Majumder protested outside the Sandeshkhali police station on Thursday to demand the arrest of absconding Zilla Parishad member and TMC strongman Shahjahan Sheikh. The Balurghat MP alleged that he along with other BJP leaders was ...
24 February 2024 Indian ExpressA seven-member delegation of Sikh community met Governor C V Ananda Bose at the Raj Bhavan on Thursday and expressed their dismay over a recent incident where an IPS officer was called ‘Khalistani’ during a protest led by BJP ...
24 February 2024 Indian ExpressProtests flared up once again in West Bengal’s Sandeshkhali on Friday afternoon as villagers in Belmajur ransacked local Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Ajit Maity’s house and assaulted him outside the island where the main agitation started two weeks ago. ...
24 February 2024 Indian ExpressThe West Bengal Police recently arrested a person for allegedly promising to leak question papers of the ongoing higher secondary examination conducted by the state board.The accused, Rupam Sadhukhan, was nabbed from his native village of Goribpur in Nadia ...
24 February 2024 Indian ExpressAn FIR has been registered against unnamed “BJP leaders” for allegedly using Khalistani slur against an IPS officer, a turbaned Sikh, during a protest in the Sandeshkhali area of West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district on Tuesday.Jaspreet Singh, a ...
24 February 2024 Indian ExpressThere’s a serpentine queue at the block development office (BDO) in West Bengal’s Sandeshkhali, a village that has been at the epicentre of a political firestorm ever since allegations emerged against TMC leaders of excesses against local residents — ...
24 February 2024 Indian ExpressGranting bail to a television journalist who was arrested in Sandeshkhali earlier this week, the Calcutta High Court on Thursday observed that the press should be allowed to function freely and independently, without any fear of reprisal or intimidation.The ...
24 February 2024 Indian ExpressA first-year Jadavpur University PG student accused a professor of “mental and sexual harassment”. Denying the charges, the professor asked the university authorities to conduct an investigation.In her complaint, mailed to the JU authorities, the student alleged that she ...
23 February 2024 Indian ExpressTension gripped Sandeshkhali again Thursday after a group of residents staged fresh protests and allegedly set fire to an ‘alaghar’ (guard room) of a fishery that they claimed had been built on land grabbed by local TMC leaders. Following ...
23 February 2024 Indian ExpressAfter 2016-batch IPS officer Jaspreet Singh’s reaction over being called ‘Khalistani’ during a protest by BJP leaders, the West Bengal Police, senior police officers and political leaders, including Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, came out in his support. For many ...
23 February 2024 Indian ExpressThe host of a talk show telecast on a Bengali news channel was booked for allegedly “promoting enmity” and “conducting public mischief” while anchoring a programme on the recent violence in North 24 Parganas’ Sandeshkhali village.Suman Dey, who hosts ...
23 February 2024 Indian ExpressWest Bengal DGP Rajeev Kumar on Thursday said the police will listen to the complaints of every individual in Sandeshkhali, adding that strict action will be taken against those found guilty.“I came here to talk to my officers. It’s ...
23 February 2024 Indian ExpressSitting with her husband at their home in Noori Majherpukur village in West Bengal’s Purba Bardhaman district, Shila Sikdar (38) has been distraught ever since she received a letter from UIDAI six days ago. The letter says her and ...
23 February 2024 Indian ExpressPolice on Wednesday registered a second rape case against TMC zilla parishad leader Shibu Prasad Hazra and two others after a woman recorded her statement under Section 164 of the Code of Criminal Procedure before a magistrate.The development came ...
23 February 2024 Indian ExpressA day after a Sikh IPS officer hit out at a group of protesting BJP leaders over being called a “Khalistani” by them, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Wednesday criticised the opposition party and said there were attempts ...
22 February 2024 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday alleged that deactivating Aadhaar cards is a political game and asserted that her government has stopped that “conspiracy” of the central government.Addressing a programme organised on the occasion International Mother Language ...
22 February 2024 Indian ExpressThe Enforcement Directorate has filed a prosecution complaint under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) against Tower Infotech Ltd and its managing director Ramendu Chattopadhyay in the Sessions Court, Kolkata. The court took cognisance of ...
22 February 2024 Indian ExpressExpressing concern over the ensuing unrest in Sandeshkhali, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Wednesday trained its guns at the Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, saying that she would “have to pay for it” ...
22 February 2024 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose on Tuesday visited Chopra in Uttar Dinajpur district where four children, aged between five and 12, died allegedly after soil caved in during drainage expansion work near the India-Bangladesh border. It was ...
22 February 2024 Indian ExpressThe Calcutta High Court on Tuesday took an exception to the West Bengal Police’s inability to arrest Trinamool Congress strongman Shahjahan Sheikh who allegedly orchestrated an attack on an Enforcement Directorate team during a raid on his premises in ...
22 February 2024 Indian ExpressThe Basirhat sessions court on Tuesday granted three-day police custody of a journalist who was arrested by police while reporting live on television in the violence-hit Sandeshkhali area of North 24 Parganas district a day before.Santu Pan, who works ...
21 February 2024 Indian ExpressBJP legislator and Leader of Opposition in West Bengal Assembly Suvendu Adhikari on Tuesday visited violence-hit Sandeshkhali in North 24 Parganas district and claimed that a situation of complete lawlessness prevailed in the area as the Trinamool Congress government ...
21 February 2024 Indian ExpressUPSET OVER a “Khalistani” slur hurled at him, a Sikh IPS officer hit back at a group of protesting West Bengal BJP leaders and workers, who were being led by Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari, asking them not to ...
21 February 2024 Indian ExpressThe NHRC has sent a notice to the West Bengal’s police chief over a complaint alleging that a journalist covering the Sandeshkhali issue was “unlawfully detained,” officials said on Tuesday.The National Human Rights Commission in a statement said the ...
21 February 2024 Indian ExpressTrinamool Congress (TMC) councillor Ananya Bandyopadhyay was issued a show-cause notice after her controversial remarks related to the Christian community during the budget session of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) on Monday sparked protests.KMC Mayor Firhad Hakim issued the ...
21 February 2024 Indian ExpressAssuring complete support to the women in Sandeshkhali, Governor CV Ananda Bose on Monday launched a mission —Santosh-kali — that aims to protect the dignity of women.In his message to women in the restive-area, who have been subjected to ...
20 February 2024 Indian ExpressLeader of Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly Suvendu Adhikari and Brinda Karat of the CPI(M) were stopped by the police from visiting the troubled area of Sandeshkhali in the state’s North 24 Parganas district on Tuesday morning.According to ...
20 February 2024 Indian ExpressThe Calcutta High Court on Monday issued an interim stay of seven days on the imposition of Section 144 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) in the violence-hit Sandeshkhali area of West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district.The single ...
20 February 2024 Indian ExpressThe National Commission for Women chairperson Monday said she had received 18 complaints from the women of West Bengal’s Sandeshkhali, including two of rape, during a visit to the area. The chairperson, Rekha Sharma, also demanded President’s Rule in ...
20 February 2024 Indian ExpressThe Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has initiated a probe into the alleged disappearance of a 14-year-old tribal girl in West Bengal’s Purba Bardhaman district, days after the Calcutta High Court directed the agency to look into the case.The ...
20 February 2024 Indian ExpressChief Minister Mamata Banerjee has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi about the “deactivation” of Aadhaar cards in West Bengal and said her government will provide alternative identification cards in place of “deactivated” cards. She also said an Aadhaar ...
20 February 2024 Indian ExpressNational Commission for Women (NCW) chairperson Rekha Sharma on Monday alleged that the West Bengal Police tried to suppress the truth in Sandeshkhali and accused the Mamata Banerjee government of not allowing its officers to meet NCW representatives. The ...
19 February 2024 Indian ExpressKolkata police’s cyber cell has initiated a probe following a complaint from 58-year-old man from Beliaghata who was allegedly duped of Rs 20 lakh in online investment fraud. The complainant Pradip Sarkar alleged that he was duped by a ...
19 February 2024 Indian ExpressAccusing the BJP government at the Centre of “intentionally cancelling” people’s Aadhaar registrations “to deprive them of social schemes’ benefits”, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday said her government would not allow any state schemes to be ...
19 February 2024 Indian ExpressThe ‘Comics in Bengal’ exhibition which began Saturday offers visitors a peek into the rich history of comics in Bengali language and how they evolved over the years. Held jointly by the Kolkata Centre for Creativity and Comics Culture ...
19 February 2024 Indian ExpressOut of the 58 departments, the budgetary provisions for only three departments – agriculture; panchayat and rural development; and women and child development department — were laid in the West Bengal Assembly for discussion in the ongoing Budget session. ...
19 February 2024 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday accused the BJP of trying to incite a “riot” in Sandeshkhali in North 24 Parganas where protests broke out against alleged sexual harassment and land grabbing by local TMC leaders there ...
19 February 2024 Indian ExpressThree Trinamool Congress (TMC) ministers met the people of Sandeshkhali in West Bengal on Sunday and promised to resolve their problems. This was after the BJP and Congress leaders were earlier stopped from entering Sandeshkhali, which has been witnessing ...
19 February 2024 Indian ExpressPrime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to address a women’s rally in Barasat in West Bengal on March 7, amid a political row over allegations of sexual assault of women by members of the state’s ruling Trinamool Congress in ...
19 February 2024 Indian ExpressTrinamool Congress leader Shiba Prasad Hajra, one of the prime accused in the case of alleged land grab and sexual harassment of women in Sandeshkhali, was remanded to police custody for eight days by a court in West Bengal’s ...
19 February 2024 Indian ExpressA dedicated daily routine comprising six to eight hours of studies, with self-discipline and concentration – are some of the aspects that 17-year-old Irradri Basu Khaund attributed to his success in JEE Mains.Khaund, who recently became the JEE Main ...
18 February 2024 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has alleged that the Centre intentionally cancelled Aadhaar cards so that people will be deprived of the benefits of social schemes.Speaking at a public distribution programme in Birbhum, the Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader ...
18 February 2024 Indian ExpressPopular actor of yesteryears Anjana Bhowmick died on Saturday, family sources said. She was 79. Anjana, who had been ailing for some time, died at a private hospital at around 10:30 am, they said. She was admitted to the ...
18 February 2024 Indian ExpressIn a veiled attack at the BJP-led Centre, West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee Saturday said there were “attempts to change the spirit of the Indian Constitution” and that federalism in the country has been “totally bulldozed”.Banerjee made the remarks ...
18 February 2024 Indian ExpressIn a major reshuffle in its IPS cadre, the West Bengal government on Saturday removed senior officer Sumit Kumar from the post of DIG (Barasat Range) and made him DIG (Security), an official said.Kumar was replaced by DIG (Malda ...
18 February 2024 Indian ExpressA six-member delegation of State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (SCPCR) along with their chairperson Tulika Das visited Sandeshkhali on Saturday to ascertain the alleged complaints of child abuse in the restive area.The villagers have alleged that a ...
18 February 2024 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose on Saturday said the doors of Raj Bhavan are open for the women of trouble-torn Sandeshkhali who feel unsafe in their homes.Speaking to PTI, Bose, who considers himself the Rakhi brother of the ...
18 February 2024 Indian ExpressThe Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) has moved the Circuit Bench of Calcutta High Court in Jalpaiguri district against a lioness named after Goddess Sita and male lion named after Mughal emperor Akbar at the North Bengal Wild Animals Park ...
18 February 2024 Indian ExpressThe West Bengal Police on Saturday arrested Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader and North 24 Parganas Zilla Parishad member Shiba Prasad Hazra, against whom a section of women of Sandeshkhali had lodged a complaint of sexual harassment.The development comes on ...
18 February 2024 Indian ExpressThe inaugural edition of The Kolkata French Film Festival was launched at Nandan on Friday. Organised jointly by the West Bengal government and the Alliance Française du Bengale, the festival will continue till February 24.During the inaugural function, Bollywood ...
17 February 2024 Indian ExpressLeader of Opposition in West Bengal assembly Suvendu Adhikari on Friday moved Calcutta High Court seeking a direction to the state government to allow him to visit unrest-hit Sandeshkhali after being prevented by police from going there for the ...
17 February 2024 Indian ExpressSixty-two childbirths took place in the jails of West Bengal in the last four years with most of these women inmates already expecting at the time of being brought to prisons, says a report prepared on the basis of ...
17 February 2024 Indian ExpressThe BJP and the Congress hit out at West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Friday after their delegations were stopped by the police from visiting unrest-hit Sandeshkhali in North 24 Parganas district due to prohibitory orders.The six-member BJP delegation, ...
17 February 2024 Indian ExpressTrinamool Congress MLA Idris Ali, who has been suffering from several illnesses, died at a private hospital in West Bengal’s Howrah district on Friday, a party leader said.He was 73. Ali, the legislator from Bhagawangola in Murshidabad, breathed his ...
17 February 2024 Indian ExpressMonths after he was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in connection with the ration distribution ‘scam’, the West Bengal government on Friday allocated TMC leader Jyoti Priya Mallick’s forest department portfolio to Birbaha Hansda.Hansda is the Minister of ...
17 February 2024 Indian ExpressPumping saltwater into fields, land grabbing and forcing villagers to give up their wages and welfare payments – landowners in violence-hit Sandehskhali village have a long list of allegations against Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Shahjahan Sheikh and his aides.The ...
17 February 2024 Indian ExpressThe Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday conducted raids at six locations in West Bengal, including an office and three flats of a builder known to be close to former state education minister Partha Chatterjee, in connection with its probe ...
16 February 2024 Indian ExpressDays after four children died after a mound of soil caved in during drainage expansion by the Border Security Force in Uttar Dinajpur’s Chopra, a delegation of Trinamool Congress leaders met Governor CV Ananda Bose on Thursday and sought ...
16 February 2024 Indian ExpressA 35-year-old man was arrested after he allegedly killed his wife and was seen dancing with her head in a park in Purba Medinipur district on Wednesday, police said. The man, Gautam Guchhait, is a resident of Chistipur village ...
16 February 2024 Indian ExpressThe Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday issued summonses to two Trinamool Congress leaders, including MP and popular Bengali actor Dev, for questioning in connection with its probes into money laundering cases, an official said.The probe agency summoned TMC Ghatal ...
16 February 2024 Indian ExpressLight rain and thunder is likely to occur in most parts of Bengal including North 24 Parganas, South 24 Parganas, Purab and Paschim Medinipur, Howrah, Jhargram, Purab and Paschim Burdwan and Nadia till Friday, the weather office said on ...
16 February 2024 Indian ExpressLeader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari, who was stopped from visiting Sandeshkhali for the second time this week, on Thursday said that he would move Calcutta High Court seeking permission to visit the area.Adhikari was on his way to the ...
16 February 2024 Indian ExpressThe seat-sharing talks between the CPIM and the Congress for West Bengal did not materialise on Thursday as leaders of both the parties could not find time to hold a meeting, despite being present in the same district.CPI(M) state ...
16 February 2024 Indian ExpressWeeks after Union and state government officials met in New Delhi to discuss West Bengal’s pending funds, the Centre reminded the Mamata Banerjee-led government that the latter had accepted that “irregularities have been observed in the past” in the ...
16 February 2024 Indian ExpressWest Bengal BJP president Sukanta Majumdar was admitted to a hospital in Kolkata on Wednesday after he fell from the bonnet of a van during a scuffle with police at Taki in North 24 Parganas district. Majumdar, accompanied by ...
15 February 2024 Indian ExpressA woman priest performed Saraswati puja alongside a male priest at the Scottish Church Collegiate School in Kolkata to raise awareness about gender equality and cultural preservation.“For the past few years, we have seen changes in our society with ...
15 February 2024 Indian ExpressAs a political war wages between the ruling TMC and opposition BJP in West Bengal over allegations of women being sexually harassed by Trinamool strongmen in Sandeshkhali, at least five women The Indian Express spoke to claimed they had ...
15 February 2024 Indian Express