TMC MPs holding the central government accountable through dozens of questions asked during Question Hour in both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha on Monday, the first day of Winter Session of Parliament.In the Lok Sabha, while Abhishek Banerjee asked ...
4 December 2025 The StatesmanKotwali police under Krishnagar Police District in Nadia arrested an Assam Rifles jawan on Tuesday night for allegedly abusing and assaulting on-duty police personnel in an intoxicated state.The accused, identified as Sujit Kumar Barman from Assam, had come to ...
4 December 2025 The StatesmanThe National Service Scheme of Balagarh Bijoy Krishna Mahavidyalaya celebrated the birth anniversary of martyr Khudiram Bose in a unique manner, organising a free winter clothing fair for migrant workers in his memory. The event had a special significance ...
4 December 2025 The StatesmanAiming to curb misuse of the tatkal ticketing facility, the railways is planning to implement a one-time-password based window tickets in the next few days. Earlier in July, the railways announced key modifications in the tatkal ticket booking system. ...
4 December 2025 The StatesmanTrinamul Congress MP Samirul Islam, who is also West Bengal Migrant Workers’ Welfare Board chairperson had been following the case on a daily basis. After the Supreme Court hearing today, Samirul said on Wednesday that it is a hard-fought ...
4 December 2025 The StatesmanChief Minister Mamata Banerjee today expressed her happiness over the overwhelming response of people to the Swasthya Bandhu mobile medical units, which were launched on 11 November. Miss Banerjee, in a post on her X handle, said: “The Swasthya ...
4 December 2025 The StatesmanSet a deadline by the Election Commission’s Special Roll Observer (SRO) of submitting the approximately 1.46 lakh remaining enumeration forms by tonight, the offices of the District Electoral Officer (DEO) and the Block Level Officers concerned were working late ...
4 December 2025 The StatesmanFrom this month, the Bengal BJP’s organisational functioning is set to come under the tight supervision of a fresh team of non-Bengali leaders deputed by the party’s central leadership — a move that has revived old resentments within the ...
3 December 2025 The StatesmanAhead of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s visit to Gazole in Malda on Wednesday, Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari on Tuesday challenged her to present a transparent “report card” on development before seeking votes for the 2026 Assembly elections.Even as ...
3 December 2025 The StatesmanIn a remarkable discovery that bridges colonial-era natural history with modern biodiversity research, scientists at the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI), Kolkata, have confirmed the presence of the Yunnan Keelback (Fowlea yunnanensis) within India’s administrative boundaries for the first ...
3 December 2025 The StatesmanWith the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls entering a crucial phase, the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of West Bengal has issued a comprehensive set of instructions to all District Magistrates of Bengal, asking them to utilise the ...
3 December 2025 The StatesmanIn a decisive step to pull Krishnagar municipality out of financial distress, municipal administrator and SDO (Sadar) Sharadwati Choudhury has issued an order that casual workers will no longer receive wages for holidays, including Sundays, unless they actually work ...
3 December 2025 The StatesmanDarjeeling MP Raju Bista on Monday flagged serious concerns over the utilisation of funds under the PM POSHAN (Mid-Day Meal) Scheme in Darjeeling and Kalimpong districts.Raising the issue during the ongoing Parliament session, Mr Bista sought clarity on the ...
3 December 2025 The StatesmanThe Election Commission of India (ECI) expects that roughly 43.30 lakh names will be dropped from West Bengal’s draft voters’ list, scheduled for publication on December 16, based on the current pace of digitising enumeration forms submitted by booth-level ...
3 December 2025 The StatesmanAsansol North police station has busted a major Ponzi scheme and arrested four persons from Kolkata in connection with a fraud estimated at over Rs 200 crore, affecting several thousand people.A team led by Officer-in-Charge SI Amit Haldar and ...
3 December 2025 The StatesmanThe Election Commission of India (ECI) has placed 2,208 polling booths in West Bengal under heightened scrutiny after discovering that each of them recorded 100 per cent distribution, collection, and digitisation of Special Intensive Revision (SIR) forms with not ...
3 December 2025 The StatesmanIn what comes as a major relief to the commuters availing Sealdah-Kalyani route, the Sealdah Division of the Eastern Railway is to commence the commercial services of the two new air-conditioned local trains between Sealdah and Kalyani and Sealdah ...
3 December 2025 The StatesmanAs many as six labourers suffered critical burn injuries while carrying out their scheduled work in two separate accidents at different factories in Durgapur industrial town today, highlighting the indifference of the respective plant authorities in maintaining proper safety ...
3 December 2025 The StatesmanAbhishek Banerjee, Trinamul Congress national general secretary today inaugurated Sebaashray 2 camps at Maheshtala in south 24-Parganas.As Sebaashray 2 officially rolled out across the Diamond Harbour Lok Sabha constituency, the initiative had its launch of a dedicated theme song. ...
3 December 2025 The StatesmanThe Border Security Force (BSF) is celebrating its 61st Raising Day today, marking six decades of exceptional service in securing India’s borders and maintaining National Security. Raised in 1965 in the aftermath of the Indo-Pakistan War, the BSF has ...
3 December 2025 The StatesmanIn a bid to ease congestion and provide timely updates to commuters and tourists, the Siliguri Metropolitan Police has introduced a new system to broadcast real-time traffic information through FM radio channels.The initiative aims to help travellers plan or ...
3 December 2025 The StatesmanComing down heavily on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s statement that the Opposition is doing drama in the Parliament, Trinamul Congress national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee said if raising the voice of the people is a drama then they will ...
3 December 2025 The StatesmanA fresh controversy has erupted at Jadavpur University after the Revolutionary Students’ Front (RSF), a Maoist-leaning students’ outfit, allegedly observed a symbolic “memorial event” for slain CPI (Maoist) leaders during its sixth state conference held at the university’s Vivekananda ...
3 December 2025 The StatesmanChief Minister Mamata Banerjee would be holding a meeting with all departmental secretaries on Tuesday at Nabanna Sabhaghar on the progress of the ongoing schemes and developmental projects in the state and is likely to release an annual report ...
3 December 2025 The StatesmanThe Election Commission of India (ECI) expects that roughly 43.30 lakh names will be dropped from West Bengal’s draft voters’ list, scheduled for publication on December 16, based on the current pace of digitising enumeration forms submitted by booth-level ...
3 December 2025 The StatesmanBeijing’s recent political conclave has found an unexpected reference point in Rabindranath Tagore. The Chinese Communist Party (CPC), during the Fourth Plenary Session of its 20th National Congress, invoked Tagore’s evocative remark describing India and China as “intimate relatives,” ...
3 December 2025 The StatesmanMore than 4,000 people visited the Sebaashray 2 camps at Maheshtala that falls under the Diamond Harbour Lok Sabha seat on Day 2. Since yesterday, 7,000 people have visited the camps.Abhishek Banerjee, Trinamul Congress national general secretary and MP ...
3 December 2025 The StatesmanThe officials of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) were on Monday conducting a marathon raid and search operations at the residence-cum-office of a local businessman at Gopiballavpur in Jhargram district of West Bengal in connection with the alleged multi-crore sand-smuggling ...
2 December 2025 The StatesmanThe main accused in the molestation of a young woman inside a moving car in Kolkata last week is part of a major financial fraud racket, according to the ongoing police investigation.According to police, Altaf, who was arrested in ...
2 December 2025 The StatesmanThe Calcutta High Court’s single-judge bench of Justice Amrita Sinha will be hearing a crucial case on the alleged and gross irregularities in the fresh recruitment of higher secondary teachers in the state-run schools of West Bengal.During the hearing ...
1 December 2025 The StatesmanA delegation Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led by the Leader of Opposition (LoP) in the West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, will be going to the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) on Monday and submit a complaint against ...
1 December 2025 The StatesmanWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will visit Cooch Behar next month and hold a public meeting at the Rash Mela ground, a Trinamool Congress leader said on Sunday.The district Trinamool leadership is in full swing around the Chief ...
1 December 2025 The StatesmanAROICON (the 45th Annual National Conference of the Association of Radiation Oncologists of India) is being held from 27-30 November at the Biswa Bangla Convention Centre. It is one of the largest oncology conferences in Asia, attended by more ...
1 December 2025 The StatesmanWith winter setting in and temperatures dipping to around 15°C in West Burdwan district, migratory birds have begun arriving in the region’s wetlands. Wildlife experts say that although the main winter migration will commence in another two weeks, the ...
1 December 2025 The StatesmanThe Press Information Bureau (PIB), Kolkata, organised ‘Vartalap’, an interactive session with media professionals, on Saturday in Siliguri to “strengthen the media-government interface.”Speaking at the one-day workshop, Darjeeling MP Raju Bista said the new labour law is welfare-oriented and ...
1 December 2025 The StatesmanTo combat the recurring problem of contractors supplying substandard materials for road construction in panchayat areas, the East Burdwan Zilla Parishad today introduced a new facility termed a civil laboratory to enable on-the-spot scrutiny of construction ingredients.At Kshetia Panchayat, ...
1 December 2025 The StatesmanMurshidabad police arrested 13 individuals, including twelve Bangladesh nationals and one Indian national, during a raid in Char Gopalpur village, under the Hurshi Gram Panchayat on Friday night.The operation targeted a location where foreign nationals were allegedly being sheltered ...
1 December 2025 The StatesmanGovernor CV Ananda Bose on Saturday renamed his official residence-cum-office in the heart of the city as the Lok Bhavan.Built in 1803, it was known as Government House during the Company rule in India and subsequently the British Raj. ...
1 December 2025 The StatesmanAn unmarried middle-aged woman, allegedly suffering from panic linked to the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process after her form could not be uploaded due to server problems, chose self-immolation at a village in the Bhatar block of East Burdwan ...
1 December 2025 The StatesmanState BJP president Shamik Bhattacharya remained firm on his earlier remark on Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar. On Saturday evening, while attending the Parivartan Sankalp Sabha held at Girja Mor on GT Road, Asansol (organised by the BJP’s Asansol ...
1 December 2025 The StatesmanThe Sonbhadra police have made a major breakthrough in the high-profile cough syrup smuggling case.Bhola Jaiswal, father of the alleged mastermind Shubham Jaiswal, has been taken into custody. He was intercepted at Kolkata Airport just before boarding a Kolkata–Thailand ...
1 December 2025 The StatesmanThe recent whiplash by top-level party leaders over the ongoing electoral roll revision exercise has made the West Burdwan Trinamul Congress district president disrupt an important meeting of the Asansol Municipal Corporation and summon the MMIC Health to a ...
1 December 2025 The StatesmanSwami Gautamanandaji Maharaj, president of Ramakrishna Math and Mission will inaugurate a new building of Mayer Bari named Ma Sarada Dham in north Kolkata tomorrow.29 November is the birth anniversary of Swami Premanandaji Maharaj, one of the direct disciples ...
29 November 2025 The StatesmanPrashant and Dipti Roy, residents of Sheoraphuli-Baidyabati in Hooghly, have their names on the voters’ list of 2002 as well as 2025, but the BLO issued the enumeration form only to the husband and not to the wife. On ...
29 November 2025 The StatesmanMore than one lakh students have so far received financial assistance under the Student Credit Card Scheme, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee announced today.In her X handle she wrote: “Happy to share that under our Student Credit Card Scheme, the ...
29 November 2025 The StatesmanA wave of joy is sweeping through Malda’s sericulture belt. For the first time in recent memory, a farmer has earned Rs 26,000 for just 40 kg of silk cocoons, marking one of the highest payouts in the district’s ...
29 November 2025 The StatesmanA day after the West Bengal government reshuffled 40 police officers, the state on Friday issued another sweeping set of transfer orders, this time shifting 57 officers in the ranks of ACP, SDPO, IC and Deputy SP across multiple ...
29 November 2025 The StatesmanWith the 2026 Assembly elections approaching, the Left Front last night initiated a move to build a broader Left alliance in Bengal, expanding beyond its existing partners. At a meeting of the Front, a preliminary decision was taken to ...
29 November 2025 The StatesmanA Booth Level Officer (BLO) died of cardiac arrest, allegedly due to the workload of the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR), in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district.The BLO died on Thursday night and was identified as Zakir Hossain, a teacher ...
29 November 2025 The StatesmanFresh from its decisive victory in Bihar, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has turned its full political attention to West Bengal with an eye on the crucial 2026 Assembly Election. At a high-level strategy meeting over dinner hosted at ...
29 November 2025 The StatesmanWest Bengal Clinical Establishment Regulatory Commission has slapped a fine of Rs 1,44,499 on Belle Vue Clinic for negligence and overbilling relating to two patients, who did in Covid in 2021.The commission also instructed the chief executive of Belle ...
29 November 2025 The StatesmanThe Election Commission of India (ECI) has issued a fresh directive to Kolkata Police Commissioner Manoj Verma on Friday night, instructing him to ensure the immediate relocation of the West Bengal Chief Electoral Officer’s (CEO) office to a secure ...
29 November 2025 The StatesmanEastern Fleet ships INS Khanjar and INS Kora, both frontline guided missile corvettes of the Eastern Naval Command, have docked at Kidderpore Dock since Thursday. Deployed in the Bay of Bengal as part of mission‑based deployments, the ships are ...
29 November 2025 The StatesmanBirik Dara remains one of the most fragile stretches along NH-10, having witnessed repeated landslides over the years, officials said. After taking over NH-10, NHIDCL has been working round-the-clock to ensure proper repair of this section to provide seamless, ...
28 November 2025 The StatesmanThe Indian Army has extended support to the local community of Yumthang Valley by providing specialised high-altitude adventure equipment to boost community-led tourism initiatives in the region, the PRO Defence said on Thursday.According to the PRO Defence, the equipment ...
28 November 2025 The StatesmanThe Calcutta High Court, on Thursday, directed the West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) to publish the optical mark recognition (OMR) sheets of all candidates appearing for the examinations for fresh recruitments for secondary and higher secondary teachers in ...
28 November 2025 The StatesmanA man carrying Rs 24 lakh in cash was detained at Kolkata airport on Wednesday afternoon, triggering fresh concerns over the frequent movement of unaccounted money and counterfeit currency across the state.CISF personnel, during routine surveillance at Netaji Subhas ...
28 November 2025 The StatesmanThe state government today appointed Ekam J. Singh, a 2020 batch IAS officer, as the Commissioner of Asansol Municipal Corporation. The Chief Executive Officer of Asansol Durgapur Development Authority (ADDA) Aditi Choudhury (2014 IAS batch) had been holding dual ...
28 November 2025 The StatesmanA Bangladeshi national, identified as Nadeem Sardar living for 15 years in the industrial town of Dankuni in Hooghly district, was arrested after his abortive attempt to fill up the enumeration form (SIR) in the name of a dead ...
28 November 2025 The StatesmanUnion minister and former West Bengal BJP chief Sukanta Majumdar faced “go back” slogans and a brief blockade of his convoy in Diamond Harbour, South 24-Parganas, triggering a fresh political confrontation between the BJP and the ruling Trinamul Congress ...
28 November 2025 The StatesmanSebaashray 2, an initiative to provide health care to the residents who stay in the areas under Diamond Harbour Lok Sabha seat will start from 1 December.Taking cue from the success of Sebaashray, which was launched in the areas ...
28 November 2025 The StatesmanThe agricultural marketing department at Khadya Bhawan has issued a notification regarding the extension of the potato storage period in the state’s cold storages.As per the notification, the statutory period for storing potatoes in cold storages under Rule 4(n), ...
28 November 2025 The StatesmanChief Minister Mamata Banerjee is scheduled to address a political public meeting at Gazole in Malda district tentatively on 3 December, amid the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.This comes at a time when the BJP leadership ...
28 November 2025 The StatesmanNames of the electorate in the Assembly constituencies in and around Kolkata are not matching with the voter list of 2002, sources in the office of Chief Electoral Officer Manoj Kumar Agarwal said.Currently, digitisation of the enumeration forms for ...
28 November 2025 The StatesmanA complaint has been lodged against actor and BJP leader Rudranil Ghosh at Barasat police station, accusing him of obstructing government work, trespassing and issuing threats inside Barasat Government Medical College and Hospital.Acting on the written complaint submitted by ...
27 November 2025 The StatesmanDarjeeling MP Raju Bista convened a multi-agency review meeting in Kalimpong on Wednesday with senior officials from the National Highways & Infrastructure Development Corporation (NHIDCL) responsible for national highway 717A and NH-10, the National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC), and ...
27 November 2025 The StatesmanTension flared up in Barasat on Tuesday after the family of a 34-year-old accident victim alleged that his eyes had been removed at Barasat Medical College and Hospital.The protest intensified to the extent that Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s convoy ...
27 November 2025 The StatesmanThe District Magistrate of Purulia, Sudhir Kontham, has directed the Sub-Divisional Magistrate (SDM) of Purulia Sadar, Tapan Kumar Ghosh, to investigate the alleged irregularities raised by a section of local residents regarding civic amenities provided by Purulia Municipality, and ...
27 November 2025 The StatesmanThe Mayor of Asansol Municipal Corporation (AMC), Bidhan Upadhyay, has laid the foundation stone for a new drinking water pipeline project under the AMRUT Scheme Phase III, at a cost of Rs 9 crore in Burnpur.The total length of ...
27 November 2025 The StatesmanThe Amader Para, Amader Samadhan (APAS) scheme is a flagship campaign launched by the West Bengal government.The APAS camps were held across various blocks of Hooghly district. Government officials, acting as facilitators rather than instructors, set a warm and ...
27 November 2025 The StatesmanWith the state government recently handing over a plot of land in Matigara, Siliguri, to a newly-formed trust for the construction of a Mahakal mandir, the Darjeeling District CPI-M has announced plans to launch a major public agitation ahead ...
27 November 2025 The StatesmanPrimary construction work for a coal museum, the first of its kind in eastern India, has begun in the Raniganj coalfields area, the mother region for coal mining in the country. The museum, according to Eastern Coalfields Limited authorities, ...
27 November 2025 The StatesmanOn the basis of a specific tip-off, the by Field ‘G’ Team of BSF at Kishanganj apprehended an Indian national, Ratan Bishra, (23), a resident of Goalpokher post station in North Dinajpur, at IBBF gate while he was returning ...
27 November 2025 The StatesmanElection Commission of India (ECI) has written to the city Commissioner of Police, Manoj Verma, asking for the action taken report (ATR) after a section of booth level officers (BLOs) protested in front of the Chief Electoral officer’s (CEO) ...
27 November 2025 The StatesmanOn the occasion of Constitution Day, West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee has called for a sustained struggle against “endangered and bulldozed” democracy, secularism, and federalism in the country.“Now, when democracy is at stake, when ...
27 November 2025 The StatesmanThe Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested Duronto Molla, a close associate of jailed Sheikh Shahjahan, in connection with an alleged assault on Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials during a raid in Sarberia, located in South 24 Parganas’ Sandeshkhali ...
27 November 2025 The StatesmanThe Election Commission of India on Wednesday wrote a letter to the Kolkata Police Commissioner, citing the law and order situation, and safety and security of its officers and staff in West Bengal.The letter, written on behalf of the ...
27 November 2025 The StatesmanChief Minister Mamata Banerjee congratulated the state government officials and tourism stakeholders after Bengal emerged as one of the most favoured international tourist destinations in the country, according to the India Tourism Data Compendium 2025 published by the ministry ...
27 November 2025 The StatesmanDays after being released on bail, former education minister Partha Chatterjee has written to Speaker Biman Banerjee expressing his desire to attend the upcoming Winter Session of the Assembly.The suspended Trinamul Congress MLA from Behala West has formally communicated ...
27 November 2025 The StatesmanEastern Railway observed Constitution Day throughout its jurisdiction today. Officers and staff at Eastern Railway headquarters, led by Sheelendra Pratap Singh, Additional General Manager, Eastern Railway read the Preamble to the Constitution on this occasion. Officers and staff at ...
27 November 2025 The StatesmanThree weeks into West Bengal’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR), the Election Commission of India is preparing for one of the state’s largest voter-roll clean-ups in over two decades.Preliminary data indicates that at least 10 lakh names, reflecting years of ...
26 November 2025 The StatesmanWith the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) nearing completion, the Trinamul Congress in Cooch Behar has intensified its public outreach. However, deep factionalism within the party has become increasingly visible, as two rival groups are conducting parallel campaigns—one through political ...
26 November 2025 The StatesmanIf you want to get medical advice from the best doctors in the city by paying just Rs 350 as consultation fee, avail the opportunity offered by the SSKM hospital at its newly-built Ananyo.Ananyo is called Woodburn II and ...
26 November 2025 The StatesmanAmid growing concerns over the deteriorating condition of India’s rivers, a day-long workshop at Raja Narendralal Khan Women’s College (Autonomous) in Midnapore on Monday brought together experts, students, and community representatives to emphasise the critical intersection of science, ecology, ...
26 November 2025 The StatesmanThe railway protection force of Sealdah Division under the Eastern Railway recovered 28.791 kg of a narcotic substance suspected to be ganja valued at approximately Rs 14,39,550.The recovery took place yesterday when officials of the Crime Intelligence Branch (CIB)/Sealdah, ...
26 November 2025 The StatesmanIn a major breakthrough against the rising menace of “digital arrest” cases, the Bidhannagar Commissionerate has arrested two persons from Karnataka for allegedly extorting nearly Rs 1.47 crore from a Rajarhat resident after posing as police officials and threatening ...
26 November 2025 The StatesmanAfter successful experimentation at Sealdah station, the divisional railway authorities have now decided to fix platforms at Bidhannagar and Dum Dum stations for effective handling of crowds.A few months back, the authorities fixed stations for local EMUs and long ...
26 November 2025 The StatesmanTransport minister Snehashish Chakraborty does not suspect any conspiracy behind the insurance lapse of the helicopter that was scheduled to fly Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to her Bongaon rally venue in North 24-Parganas this afternoon. “We will penalise the ...
26 November 2025 The StatesmanThe Chief Election Commission (CEC) of India has agreed to meet leaders of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) on November 28 at 11 AM, signalling a crucial dialogue amid mounting tension over the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls ...
26 November 2025 The StatesmanLeader of Opposition in Bengal Assembly Suvendu Adhikari has lodged a formal complaint with the Election Commission of India alleging that a state-level conference of women police personnel in Digha turned into a platform for political propaganda for ...
26 November 2025 The StatesmanThe Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) of India has agreed to meet leaders of the Trinamul Congress (TMC) on 28 November at 11 a.m, signalling a crucial dialogue amid mounting tensions over the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls ...
26 November 2025 The StatesmanFresh from the Bihar victory, the BJP has now turned its focus on the next set of important poll-bound states ~ West Bengal, Assam, and Tamil Nadu ~ and it in this connection that BJP president JP Nadda’s dinner ...
26 November 2025 The StatesmanAmong the twelve months of the Hindu calendar in India, Agrahāyaṇa holds a special place. The Sanskrit word Agrahāyaṇa literally means “the first month or season of the year.” During this month, the Hemanta (early winter) season begins, and ...
25 November 2025 The StatesmanAmid rising political friction over alleged cross-border intrusion and unrest linked to the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose on Monday visited the Hakimpur border in North 24-Parganas to take stock ...
25 November 2025 The StatesmanActress, former Rajya Sabha MP and member of the BJP’s national executive committee, Rupa Ganguly on Monday alleged that several artistes and technicians who had spoken out against the rape and murder of a PGT trainee doctor at RG ...
25 November 2025 The StatesmanAfter serving 14 years in a correctional home and being released early for good conduct, Shakuntala Lamchani (now 42) spent another year shuffling from one jail to another as she had no home or relatives in the outside world ...
25 November 2025 The StatesmanThe Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in West Bengal, conducted by the Election Commission of India (ECI), has fanned the flames of intense political controversy recently. Misinformation and distorted particulars have filled the minds of people with fear of the ...
25 November 2025 The StatesmanNinety three per cent of the trees, which had been translocated at Deocha Pachami in Birbhum, are alive, creating a world record.The district administration at Birbhum decided to translocate 992 trees from the site of Deocha Pachami, venue of ...
25 November 2025 The StatesmanThe state Cabinet, under the stewardship of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today cleared, in principle, a series of proposals ranging from clearance of lands required for setting up a Mahakal temple at Darjeeling. Furthermore, north Bengal would also get ...
25 November 2025 The StatesmanTrinamul Congress will intensify the movement to put pressure on the Centre to release the dues of the state government, Abhishek Banerjee, party’s national general secretary said today.Mr Banerjee today held a virtual meeting with functionaries of the party.AdvertisementThe ...
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