Senior BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari on Thursday wrote to Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, expressing fears that development and welfare funds intended for the people of West Bengal might be diverted and mismanaged to “delay” an impending financial crisis.Adhikari ...
12 July 2024 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has said that she will meet Sharad Pawar, Uddhav Thackeray and Akhilesh Yadav in Mumbai on Friday before attending the wedding of Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant. This will be the Trinamool Congress ...
12 July 2024 Indian ExpressAmid the arrest of one more aide of TMC strongman in Kamarhati in North 24 Parganas district following the surfacing of another video of torture, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday hit out at BJP IT cell chief Amit ...
12 July 2024 Indian ExpressAnother aide of TMC strongman Jayant Singh was arrested on Thursday in connection with a video that had surfaced online showing a teenager being sexually assaulted inside the Ariadaha Taltala Sporting Club in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district.Officials ...
12 July 2024 Indian ExpressAs four Assembly constituencies in West Bengal went to bypoll on Wednesday, the Opposition BJP filed nearly 100 complaints alleging violence, intimidation and bogus voting by the ruling TMC, prompting the Election Commission to seek an action taken report ...
12 July 2024 Indian ExpressA 22-year-old youth died days after he was released on bail in a theft case in the Dholahat area of Sundarban police district.The police have initiated a departmental inquiry based on a complaint of the family of the deceased, ...
11 July 2024 Indian ExpressCiting his complaint against Kolkata Police Commissioner Vineet Kumar Goyal and Deputy Commissioner of Police (Central) Indira Mukherjee, West Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose has asked Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to submit a report on the actions taken ...
11 July 2024 Indian ExpressAs more videos of atrocities inside a club in the Kamarhati-Ariadaha area of West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district have emerged, police have booked three cases against TMC strongman Jayant Singh and his aides and arrested seven people. Singh ...
11 July 2024 Indian ExpressWith rising prices of food items and vegetables, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has asked the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) and Enforcement Branch to raid markets. Blaming a section of businessmen for seeking more profit, she asked state ...
11 July 2024 Indian ExpressAn old video has surfaced of a person being brutally assaulted allegedly by the associates of a Trinamool Congress strongman inside a club in the Kamarhati area of West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district, sparking a political outrage.Two persons ...
10 July 2024 Indian ExpressThe Meteorological Department on Monday issued a red alert (heavy to very heavy rainfall) for three districts – Alipurduar, Jalpaiguri, and Cooch Behar – and said that the north Bengal region is likely to receive heavy rainfall for the ...
10 July 2024 Indian ExpressThe Opposition parties in West Bengal on Monday launched a fresh attack on the TMC government after the Supreme Court turned down the state’s government plea.Challenging the Calcutta High Court’s order for a CBI probe into allegations of land ...
10 July 2024 Indian ExpressWith parts of West Bengal, especially its northern districts, facing flood-like situation, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday held the Central government responsible, alleging that it did not consult the state government before renewing the Farakka treaty with Bangladesh.Addressing ...
10 July 2024 Indian ExpressTrinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra on Monday accused Union Minister Shantanu Thakur of issuing official passes for smugglers at the Indo-Bangladesh border. The minister oversees shipping, ports and waterways for West Bengal.Moitra shared an image of the “pass” on ...
10 July 2024 Indian ExpressThe West Bengal Police have booked CPI(M) state secretary Mohammed Salim and Amit Malviya, BJP co-observer for Bengal, for circulating the video of the Chopra public flogging.Police sources reported that a First Information Report (FIR) was filed based on ...
9 July 2024 Indian ExpressTHE CONDITION of former Railway minister and veteran politician Mukul Roy, who was admitted to a hospital last Thursday, after he fell down at his residence, is stable, doctors said on Sunday.Roy is admitted in the Intensive Therapy Unit ...
9 July 2024 Indian ExpressHeavy rainfall has led to a flood-like situation in several areas of north Bengal with the Meteorological Department on Sunday predicting heavy showers in the region in the days ahead.With several low-lying areas in Jalpaiguri district getting submerged in ...
9 July 2024 Indian ExpressDays after three members of a family died in a fire that burnt their house in Bolpur, police on Sunday said they have arrested a relative of the victims for conspiracy.According to police, Smriti Bibi, a relative of the ...
9 July 2024 Indian ExpressThe Union Home Ministry has initiated disciplinary action against Kolkata Police Commissioner Vineet Goyal and a DCP for allegedly maligning the office of the West Bengal Governor by promoting and spreading canards, a central government official said.The Union ministry ...
8 July 2024 Indian ExpressA man of about 50 was allegedly beaten to death on the suspicion of being a thief on Sunday morning at Bhangar in South 24 Paraganas district of West Bengal, where several cases of mob lynching due to rumours ...
8 July 2024 Indian ExpressTHE WEST Bengal CID on Friday arrested a couple from Delhi on charges of human trafficking.The police identified the couple as Buddhadeb Gan (31) and Sonia Fakir (28) who hail from Kanyani, Nadia district.The anti-human trafficking unit (AHTU) of ...
8 July 2024 Indian ExpressThe condition of former Railway minister and veteran politician leader Mukul Roy, who was admitted to a hospital on Thursday after he fell down at his residence, is critical, doctors said on Saturday.An official at the hospital said Roy ...
8 July 2024 Indian ExpressFor 66-year-old Supti Pande, the Trinamool Congress candidate from the Maniktala constituency, protecting the legacy of her late husband and former TMC and state minister Sadhan Pande, is more important than winning the Maniktala Assembly bypoll, scheduled on July ...
8 July 2024 Indian ExpressKolkata Mayor and state minister Firhad Hakim’s remarks at a function in Kolkata led to a political tussle on Saturday, with the BJP terming the same as “highly condemnable”.Speaking during the inaugural function of a Quran memorisation competition, Hakim, ...
8 July 2024 Indian ExpressLeader of Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly Suvendu Adhikari on Saturday alleged that the police is “victimising the victim” in their investigation into the alleged assault on a female minority morcha worker, saying the officers are “protecting the ...
7 July 2024 Indian ExpressChief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday announced that Rath Yatra will be held in Digha from next year on the lines of Puri.A Jagannath temple is being constructed at the coastal town in Purba Medinipur district.“Happy to announce that, ...
7 July 2024 Indian ExpressThe rain-drenched northern West Bengal is likely to receive more showers till July 9, the Met Department said on Friday. A trough from Rajasthan to the Northeast and an active monsoon over northern Bengal is likely to bring heavy ...
7 July 2024 Indian ExpressDays after the arrest of Tajimul Islam alias ‘JCB’ in connection with the public flogging of a couple, the police have arrested another local Trinamool Congress leader in connection with an assault case.According to sources, the arrested accused was ...
7 July 2024 Indian ExpressFor close to two decades, Dr Dablu Soren has struggled with getting access to manuscripts and documents that help tell the story of the Santal community in the Indian subcontinent. Since 2006, Soren, an independent scholar based in West ...
7 July 2024 Indian ExpressThe Calcutta High Court on Friday directed the CBI to diligently trace and retrieve the original or destroyed servers, discs, or mediums where the scanned OMR sheets of the Teachers’ Eligibility Test for 2014 were stored.The court also instructed ...
6 July 2024 Indian ExpressA man and a woman in South Kolkata were attacked by three men, one of whom they had appointed as a sweeper, in an alleged attempted robbery on Thursday. Police are investigating the couple’s allegation that a shot was ...
6 July 2024 Indian ExpressThe police and the Airforce on Friday jointly defused an undetonated World War II bomb found in Bhulanpur under West Bengal’s Jhargram district.The bomb was spotted on Thursday, following which residents in a 1-km radius of the site were ...
6 July 2024 Indian ExpressThe West Bengal Government on Thursday announced an increase in the ‘one-time benefit’ for the contractual employees of the school education department upon retirement.Issuing an order on Wednesday, the state finance department mentioned that retirement benefits for the contractual ...
6 July 2024 Indian ExpressWhen 75-year-old Bhagabati Mondal first saw her grandson Prasen (26) tied to a tree close to the local primary health centre at Polenite under the Electronic Complex police station in Bidhannagar, she hardly recognised him. Bloodied and bruised, he ...
6 July 2024 Indian ExpressThe impasse over the swearing-in of two newly elected Trinamool Congress (TMC) MLAs in West Bengal ended on Friday with Legislative Assembly Speaker Biman Banerjee administering the oath to Sayantika Banerjee of Baranagar and Reyat Houssen Sarkar from Bhagawangola.Though ...
6 July 2024 Indian ExpressNIA on Thursday filed the first supplementary chargesheet against three accused in the 2022 Bhupatinagar blast case, said officials. Three people were killed after a bomb exploded in a house near TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee’s rally venue in Purba ...
6 July 2024 Indian ExpressA “pre-wedding ceremony” of a Block Development Officer (BDO), allegedly organised by a local ruling TMC leader, has sparked a political controversy with the Opposition BJP calling it “unprecedented” and pointed to “politicisation of state’s bureacracy”.The viral video clip ...
6 July 2024 Indian ExpressIn a sign of an end to a month-long impasse over the swearing-in of two TMC MLAs, West Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose on Thursday authorised Deputy Speaker to administer the oath to the newly elected legislators on ...
5 July 2024 Indian ExpressPolice have arrested two more persons in connection with the public flogging of a couple over their alleged extramarital affair in Chopra in Uttar Dinajpur district.With this, the total number of people arrested for the June 28 incident has ...
5 July 2024 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Education Minister Bratya Basu said Wednesday that the state has become one of the most preferred destinations for higher education as over 87,000 undergraduate applications have been received by the higher education department’s admission portal, which was ...
5 July 2024 Indian ExpressThe Calcutta High Court on Thursday said it would hear the defamation suit filed by Governor CV Ananda Bose against Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on July 10.The Governor had filed the suit after the chief minister claimed last week ...
5 July 2024 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Legislative Assembly Speaker Biman Banerjee on Thursday summoned a special session of the Assembly on Friday and said that the functioning of the House is not solely dependent on the Governor.The statement from the Speaker came amid ...
5 July 2024 Indian ExpressMukul Roy, a former close associate of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, was hospitalised for a head injury after he fell down at his residence at Kanchrapara on Wednesday.The 70-year-old politician was admitted to a private hospital in ...
5 July 2024 Indian ExpressThe Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) started a raid Wednesday afternoon in a New Town’s apartment in Kolkata. Sources said the raid was in connection with an investigation into the NEET-paper leak.The New Town flat belonged to Amit Kumar, ...
5 July 2024 Indian ExpressA youth fired at his girlfriend and then killed himself by shooting with a pistol on Wednesday at a guest house in South Kolkata, said a senior police officer. Police have recovered a 9mm pistol from the spot.According to ...
5 July 2024 Indian ExpressA local Trinamool Congress leader, the prime accused in the Ariadaha mob assault case, surrendered to the police in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district on Thursday, four days after the attack on the teen and his mother. According ...
5 July 2024 Indian ExpressA woman died purportedly by suicide after she was beaten up by a group of people from her village panchayat in the Phulbari area of West Bengal’s Jalpaiguri district for allegedly having an extramarital affair, it is learnt.The incident ...
4 July 2024 Indian ExpressWest Bengal saw its first arrest under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) on Monday night when a man was held in South 24 Parganas district for allegedly molesting his minor daughter.According to the police, the man, who works in ...
4 July 2024 Indian ExpressThe Calcutta High Court adjourned the hearing of a defamation suit by Governor C V Ananda Bose Wednesday against Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee until Thursday. The Governor had filed the suit after the CM claimed last week that women ...
4 July 2024 Indian ExpressWEST BENGAL Governor C V Ananda Bose on Tuesday confirmed that he had filed a defamation case against Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee at the Calcutta High Court, and he would “treat her as an accused”.The case has been listed ...
4 July 2024 Indian ExpressThe North Dinajpur district leadership of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) issued a show-cause notice to local MLA Hamidul Rahman on Tuesday over the Chopra flogging incident which went viral on social media.Trinamool sources confirmed that the letter was sent ...
4 July 2024 Indian ExpressThe Calcutta High Court on Tuesday ordered an interim stay on further investigation into 47 FIRs lodged against some BJP workers, immediately before and after the Lok Sabha elections in Tamluk in West Bengal’s Purba Medinipur district.The court asked ...
4 July 2024 Indian ExpressA mother and son were allegedly severely beaten up by men Sunday night, days after the Chopra couple whipping incident, in Kamarhati municipality’s Ariadaha of North 24 Parganas, West Bengal.As the CCTV footage went viral on Tuesday, neighbours and ...
3 July 2024 Indian ExpressPolice have invoked sections of attempt to murder and molestation against a TMC functionary, who is accused of publicly flogging a man and a woman in West Bengal’s Uttar Dinajpur district over allegations of having an extramarital affair.The accused, ...
3 July 2024 Indian ExpressA man was beaten to death in Hooghly district last night, taking the total number of such deaths to five in the past few days in the state. According to police, Biswajit Manna, a resident of Naita Malpaharpur gram panchayat ...
3 July 2024 Indian ExpressThe dharna by two newly elected TMC MLAs on the Assembly premises demanding that they be administered the oath in the House rather than in Raj Bhavan as per Governor C V Ananda Bose’s invite entered its third day ...
3 July 2024 Indian ExpressThe BJP on Monday alleged that a woman was beaten up by some miscreants in Haroa under the Basirhat Lok Sabha constituency in West Bengal for voting in favour of the party in the Lok Sabha elections.BJP Basirhat district ...
3 July 2024 Indian ExpressA 23-year-old man was allegedly beaten to death by local residents and another person was seriously injured in Jhargram after they were suspected of mobile phone theft, police said on Sunday.Sources identified the deceased as Sourav Sau, a resident ...
2 July 2024 Indian ExpressTajimul Islam, better known as ‘JCB’ among the locals, who was arrested on Sunday for publicly whipping a woman and a man after a video of the incident surfaced on social media, is known for presiding over such ‘salishi ...
2 July 2024 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose has asked the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) government to issue a white paper stating the financial situation of the state.In a statement issued on Saturday night, the governor claimed that West Bengal is ...
2 July 2024 Indian ExpressThe ruling TMC in West Bengal came under attack Sunday from the Opposition BJP and CPM after a TMC functionary was captured on tape whipping and assaulting a woman and a man publicly over an alleged extramarital affair at ...
1 July 2024 Indian ExpressThe police on Sunday recorded the statement of a woman BJP worker, five days after she was assaulted allegedly by Trinamool Congress women activists. BJP’s Cooch Behar District Vice President Deepa Chakraborty and District General Secretary Biraj Bose accompanied ...
1 July 2024 Indian ExpressThe West Bengal Criminal Investigation Department (CID) brought Bihar-based criminal Subodh Singh to the state on Saturday and produced him in a court in Asansol on Sunday. According to CID sources, he was involved in several cases, and the ...
1 July 2024 Indian ExpressChief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday announced that for one month, the eviction of hawkers in the state will be halted, saying, “I have no right to make anyone unemployed.”On Thursday, Mamata Banerjee convened a meeting on hawker and ...
1 July 2024 Indian ExpressTwo newly-elected TMC MLAs, who could not take oath of office yesterday after an impasse between the West Bengal government and Raj Bhavan, sat on a dharna in the state Assembly on Thursday.TMC MLAs Sayantika Bandyopadhyay and Rayat Hossain ...
1 July 2024 Indian ExpressThe West Bengal government on Thursday informed the Calcutta High Court that Leader of Opposition in state Assembly Suvendu Adhikari would be allowed to stage a four-day dharna with victims of alleged post-poll violence outside Raj Bhavan, allocating him ...
1 July 2024 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Assembly Speaker Biman Banerjee Thursday wrote to President Droupadi Murmu seeking her intervention to resolve the impasse concerning the oath-taking ceremony of two newly elected TMC MLAs.The controversy over the venue for the swearing-in ceremony of the ...
1 July 2024 Indian ExpressHeavy rainfall is likely to occur across West Bengal from Friday, owing to strong southwesterly winds from the Bay of Bengal, the India Meteorological Department said on Thursday.One or two locations along the coastline are most likely to expect ...
1 July 2024 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose came out with a sharp attack against West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee over an oath-taking row between two TMC MLAs and Raj Bhavan, saying, “Raj Bhavan neither cares for the absurd machinations ...
1 July 2024 Indian ExpressThe CBI on Wednesday arrested a woman in a 19-year-old bank fraud case.The arrested accused, identified as Munmun Das, was designated as a Proclaimed Offender (PO) and she was absconding for several years.The CBI had registered a case on ...
1 July 2024 Indian ExpressThe Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued a notice saying that many areas of West Bengal will get relief from the humid heat due to the Southwest Monsoon on Friday. It has reportedly spread across the entire state, particularly ...
1 July 2024 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Assembly Speaker Biman Banerjee has sought Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar’s intervention to resolve the impasse over the oath-taking ceremony of two newly elected TMC MLAs, who staged a dharna for the second consecutive day on Friday on the ...
1 July 2024 Indian ExpressBJP Leader of Opposition in West Bengal Suvendu Adhikari on Friday alleged that a Muslim woman worker of his party’s Minority Morcha was stripped, dragged for a kilometre by her hair and thrashed by goons from the Trinamool Congress ...
1 July 2024 Indian ExpressTHE PUBLIC perception that adjournment is a “routine part” of the judicial system is “disheartening,” Chief Justice of India (CJI) D Y Chandrachud said on Friday. Chandrachud was speaking at a function organised as part of the bicentenary celebrations ...
1 July 2024 Indian ExpressWritten by Shreyashi NayekA high-power committee has decided to constitute three zones in the Kolkata Municipal Corporation area to restrict the business of hawkers.In a meeting convened on Friday, June 28, the committee decided to conduct a survey and ...
1 July 2024 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday called for an “absolutely pure and honest” judiciary, which is “free of political biases”.Speaking at the inauguration of the East Zone-II Regional Conference of National Judicial Academy in Kolkata, which was ...
1 July 2024 Indian ExpressChief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud on Saturday observed that it was dangerous to describe the court as a temple of justice and equate judges with gods.Addressing the East Zone-II Regional Conference of the National Judicial Academy in ...
1 July 2024 Indian ExpressChief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud on Saturday advocated for the adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the judicial system albeit in a measured way.Addressing the inaugural session of the two-day East Zone II Regional Conference of the ...
1 July 2024 Indian ExpressA scuffle broke out between shop owners and hawkers in Kolkata’s New Market area on Saturday, over a dispute on parking. The incident comes in the backdrop of a city-wide eviction drive by the police that saw the removal ...
1 July 2024 Indian ExpressA youth was beaten to death in the Salt Lake area near Kolkata on Saturday allegedly over suspicion of stealing a mobile phone. Three persons have been arrested in connection with the incident that took place late Friday night, ...
1 July 2024 Indian ExpressThe tussle between Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Governor CV Ananda Bose was tarnishing the image of West Bengal, state Congress president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury said on Sunday.Speaking to reporters on the defamation suit filed by Bose against Banerjee ...
1 July 2024 Indian ExpressA day after senior BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari alleged that the party’s Minority Morcha woman leader was beaten up, stripped and dragged by hair by TMC goons in Cooch Behar district on June 25, the BJP on Saturday demanded ...
1 July 2024 Indian ExpressThe India Meteorological Department (IMD) predicted heavy to very heavy rainfall accompanied by thunderstorms in West Bengal on Sunday after parts of the state received heavy showers on Saturday.A yellow alert has been issued for North Bengal, particularly Jalpaiguri, ...
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