The financial bid for the civil construction of the new terminal building and allied infrastructure at the Bagdogra airport has been approved by the Airports Authority of India (AAI). After this, work is likely to begin soon at the ...
16 January 2024 TelegraphLakhs of pilgrims from across the country took the holy dip at the confluence of the river Ganga and the Bay of Bengal on the occasion of Makar Sankranti in the wee hours Monday, a senior official of the ...
16 January 2024 TelegraphDense fog disrupted ferry services to Gangasagar in West Bengal's South 24 Parganas district for about six hours on Monday, according to a police officer.On the occasion of Makar Sankranti, lakhs of pilgrims are flocking to Gangasagar to take ...
16 January 2024 TelegraphThe Enforcement Directorate on Monday raided several premises linked to an arrested TMC leader and his associates in connection with its probe into the alleged ration distribution scam in West Bengal.ED teams went to four premises in central Kolkata ...
16 January 2024 TelegraphThe Meteorological Department forecast rain in most districts of West Bengal, including Kolkata, from Wednesday.Cold wave conditions gripped the western district of Purulia, which recorded a minimum temperature of 6.1 degrees Celsius on Monday morning, six degrees below normal, ...
16 January 2024 TelegraphIn a move towards prioritising mental health on educational campuses, 11 top universities in West Bengal signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with 'The Art of Living' foundation on National Youth Day. The MOU is expected to benefit over ...
16 January 2024 TelegraphLakhs of pilgrims from across the country took a holy dip at the confluence of the Ganga and the Bay of Bengal on Makar Sankranti early Monday, a senior official said.Traditionally, every year during Makar Sankranti, lakhs of devotees ...
16 January 2024 TelegraphThe Bengal BJP is finding it difficult to identify 12 to 14 female candidates for the 42 parliamentary seats of the state, aligning with the central BJP's initiative to have around one-third of women candidates in most states for ...
16 January 2024 TelegraphLakhs of pilgrims from across the country took the holy dip at the confluence of the river Ganga and the Bay of Bengal on the occasion of Makar Sankranti in the wee hours Monday, a senior official of the ...
16 January 2024 TelegraphDense fog disrupted ferry services to Gangasagar in West Bengal's South 24 Parganas district for about six hours on Monday, according to a police officer.On the occasion of Makar Sankranti, lakhs of pilgrims are flocking to Gangasagar to take ...
16 January 2024 TelegraphNearly 65 lakh pilgrims from across the nation have visited Gangasagar and taken a holy dip at the confluence of the Ganga River and the Bay of Bengal so far this year, West Bengal minister Aroop Biswas said.Heavy security ...
15 January 2024 TelegraphThe Bangladesh government has given the go-ahead for the completion of the Bangladesh Bhavana museum in Santiniketan following Sheikh Hasina’s election victory.Bangladesh Bhavana was inaugurated on the Visva-Bharati campus in 2018 but its museum has remained a makeshift one.Bangladesh ...
15 January 2024 TelegraphThe Bengal BJP is finding it difficult to identify 12 to 14 female candidates for the 42 parliamentary seats of the state, aligning with the central BJP's initiative to have around one-third of women candidates in most states for ...
15 January 2024 TelegraphThe state government has placed floating boom barriers along the coastline from Beach-1 to Beach-6 of Gangasagar to collect flowers littered by the pilgrims after offering prayers to the water during the holy dip on the occasion of Makar ...
15 January 2024 TelegraphDistricts in south Bengal are shivering in mid-January, as Purulia at a minimum temperature of 6.5°C was as cold as Darjeeling on Sunday, and Bankura, Birbhum and West Burdwan were among places where the Celsius slid below 10 degrees.The ...
15 January 2024 TelegraphA rare and elusive bear — the Tibetan brown bear (Ursus arctos pruinosus) — has been sighted in Sikkim, making it the first confirmed record of the animal being sighted in India according to sources in the Sikkim forest ...
15 January 2024 TelegraphA 36-year-old man and his eight-year-old son were killed after their scooter was hit by a truck following which they were run over by several vehicles in West Bengal's Jalpaiguri district, police said.The deceased man's wife, who was also ...
15 January 2024 TelegraphTwo more persons were arrested on Sunday in connection with an attack on Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials at Sandeshkhali on January 5, taking the number of arrests in the case to four, a senior police officer said.The ED has ...
15 January 2024 TelegraphDistricts in south Bengal are shivering in mid-January, as Purulia at a minimum temperature of 6.5°C was as cold as Darjeeling on Sunday, and Bankura, Birbhum and West Burdwan were among places where the Celsius slid below 10 degrees.The ...
15 January 2024 TelegraphThe state government has placed floating boom barriers along the coastline from Beach-1 to Beach-6 of Gangasagar to collect flowers littered by the pilgrims after offering prayers to the water during the holy dip on the occasion of Makar ...
15 January 2024 TelegraphA rare and elusive bear — the Tibetan brown bear (Ursus arctos pruinosus) — has been sighted in Sikkim, making it the first confirmed record of the animal being sighted in India according to sources in the Sikkim forest ...
15 January 2024 TelegraphThe District Primary School Council (DPSC) of the Siliguri educational district has managed to maintain a steady trend of enrollment over the past couple of years at a time when state-aided primary schools are shutting because of paucity of ...
15 January 2024 TelegraphA 36-year-old man and his eight-year-old son were killed after their scooter was hit by a truck following which they were run over by several vehicles in West Bengal's Jalpaiguri district, police said.The deceased man's wife, who was also ...
15 January 2024 TelegraphTight security measures have been put in place at Gangasagar Mela for Makar Sankranti, a senior minister said.State Power and Sports Minister Aroop Biswas said 45 lakh pilgrims have taken a holy dip at Gangasagar from January 8 to ...
15 January 2024 TelegraphTwo more persons were arrested on Sunday in connection with an attack on Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials at Sandeshkhali on January 5, taking the number of arrests in the case to four, a senior police officer said.The ED has ...
15 January 2024 TelegraphTwo pilgrims were evacuated from the Gangasagar Mela by an air ambulance after they were taken ill and admitted to MR Bangur Hospital in Tollygunge here on Friday.Senior officers said Sumitra Devi, 55, from Sitamarhi in Bihar, was waiting ...
15 January 2024 TelegraphThe Bengal government has set up a team comprising officials from four departments — finance, panchayat and rural development, education and health — for talks with the Centre over the release of funds but Nabanna is yet to hear ...
15 January 2024 TelegraphTight security measures have been put in place at Gangasagar Mela for Makar Sankranti, a senior minister said.State Power and Sports Minister Aroop Biswas said 45 lakh pilgrims have taken a holy dip at Gangasagar from January 8 to ...
15 January 2024 TelegraphThe Bengal government has set up a team comprising officials from four departments — finance, panchayat and rural development, education and health — for talks with the Centre over the release of funds but Nabanna is yet to hear ...
14 January 2024 TelegraphThree sadhus travelling by car to Gangasagar from Uttar Pradesh were allegedly beaten up by a mob and their vehicle vandalised at a village in Purulia on Thursday on the suspicion that they were child-lifters.The incident occurred at Gaurangdi ...
14 January 2024 TelegraphTwo pilgrims were evacuated from the Gangasagar Mela by an air ambulance after they were taken ill and admitted to MR Bangur Hospital in Tollygunge here on Friday.Senior officers said Sumitra Devi, 55, from Sitamarhi in Bihar, was waiting ...
14 January 2024 TelegraphAjoy Edwards, the president of Hamro Party, left for Manipur capital Imphal on Saturday, to participate in Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra that is set to start from Manipur on Sunday. Rahul's Nyay Yatra aims to cover a ...
14 January 2024 TelegraphCongress leaders in north Bengal have started the groundwork to make the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra — a march by party leader Rahul Gandhi from Manipur to Mumbai — a success.The party is also banking on the march to ...
14 January 2024 TelegraphDistrict INTTUC leader in Jalpaiguri said on Saturday that the new company set to take over the two plants of Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages Private Limited, a subsidiary of The Coca-Cola Company, at Raninagar should engage all its existing workers ...
14 January 2024 TelegraphUnion information and broadcasting minister Anurag Thakur, in the state capital on Saturday, said the law and order in Bengal has reached a point that even Enforcement Directorate officials face attack when they go to investigate cases of corruption.Thakur ...
14 January 2024 TelegraphThe dip in mercury in the sub-Himalayan region in the past few days has prompted the authorities of the Bengal Safari Park, on the outskirts of Siliguri, to make arrangements for the animals so that they can keep themselves ...
14 January 2024 TelegraphThe dip in mercury in the sub-Himalayan region in the past few days has prompted the authorities of the Bengal Safari Park, on the outskirts of Siliguri, to make arrangements for the animals so that they can keep themselves ...
14 January 2024 TelegraphDistrict INTTUC leader in Jalpaiguri said on Saturday that the new company set to take over the two plants of Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages Private Limited, a subsidiary of The Coca-Cola Company, at Raninagar should engage all its existing workers ...
14 January 2024 TelegraphUnion information and broadcasting minister Anurag Thakur, in the state capital on Saturday, said the law and order in Bengal has reached a point that even Enforcement Directorate officials face attack when they go to investigate cases of corruption.Thakur ...
14 January 2024 TelegraphCongress leaders in north Bengal have started the groundwork to make the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra — a march by party leader Rahul Gandhi from Manipur to Mumbai — a success.The party is also banking on the march to ...
14 January 2024 TelegraphAjoy Edwards, the president of Hamro Party, left for Manipur capital Imphal on Saturday, to participate in Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra that is set to start from Manipur on Sunday. Rahul's Nyay Yatra aims to cover a ...
14 January 2024 TelegraphThree sadhus travelling by car to Gangasagar from Uttar Pradesh were allegedly beaten up by a mob and their vehicle vandalised at a village in Purulia on Thursday on the suspicion that they were child-lifters.The incident occurred at Gaurangdi ...
14 January 2024 TelegraphEnforcement Directorate teams accompanied by huge central paramilitary contingents raided the houses of a minister, an MLA and a former municipal chairman, all from Trinamul, in connection with a probe into alleged corruption in municipal recruitments.Those raided were state ...
14 January 2024 TelegraphA purported video of three monks being attacked by a mob in West Bengal’s Purulia over suspicion that they were “kidnappers in disguise” has triggered a political row, with opposition BJP alleging collapse of law and order in the ...
14 January 2024 TelegraphTrinamul Congress, which is abstaining from the virtual meeting of the INDIA bloc, Saturday affirmed its commitment to it but said that Congress should recognise its limitations in Bengal and permit the party to spearhead the political battle ...
14 January 2024 TelegraphUnion minister Anurag Thakur on Saturday flayed the TMC government in West Bengal, alleging a severe breakdown in law and order and unprecedented levels of corruption in the state.Thakur's remarks come in the wake of the recent controversy surrounding ...
14 January 2024 TelegraphProminent Maoist leader Sabyasachi Goswami aka Kishore was arrested from a hideout close to the Bengal-Jharkhand border on Thursday night. Police recovered Maoist literature and a 9mm pistol from Goswami, who was produced in court and remanded in police ...
14 January 2024 TelegraphThe Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday raided the residences of a Trinamul Congress minister, MLA and a municipal councillor, triggering a bellicose exchange of words between Bengal’s ruling party and the BJP.Competitive homage from the two parties to Swami ...
14 January 2024 TelegraphProminent Maoist leader Sabyasachi Goswami aka Kishore was arrested from a hideout close to the Bengal-Jharkhand border on Thursday night. Police recovered Maoist literature and a 9mm pistol from Goswami, who was produced in court and remanded in police ...
13 January 2024 TelegraphThe Bengal unit of the BJP on Friday activated its rank and file to observe the birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda at each of the 77,000-odd polling booths across the state, an attempt by the party to use the ...
13 January 2024 TelegraphSome fishermen in Nadia, Hooghly and parts of East Burdwan districts are ferrying passengers in their small country boats across the Hooghly and Bhagirathi rivers amid fog-induced low visibility in violation of government norms and putting their lives and ...
13 January 2024 TelegraphBJP candidate Dorjee Tshering Lepcha was elected uncontested to the Rajya Sabha on Friday with support from the ruling Sikkim Krantikari Morcha (SKM), but the Sikkim state BJP president came down sharply on its ally SKM, saying it “had ...
13 January 2024 TelegraphAn Indian woman from North Dinajpur district was nabbed by the BSF at the India-Bangladesh border on Thursday afternoon with around 6.5 lakh Bangladeshi taka.Sources said the woman from Karandighi had been to Bangladesh. On Thursday afternoon, as she ...
13 January 2024 TelegraphWork came to a halt at a tea estate in Jalpaiguri since Thursday as its workforce abstained from their duties after not being paid their wages and salaries.In Joypur tea estate, on the outskirts of Jalpaiguri town, 683 workers ...
13 January 2024 TelegraphA 40-year-old woman died of injuries after two groups of villagers clashed at a village in Cooch Behar on Thursday.Sources said the families of Shahjahan Mohammad and Jabeda Bibi, who reside in 25 Teesta Payasti village under Mekhliganj police ...
13 January 2024 TelegraphMembers of Dhupguri Nagarik Mancha, a citizens’ forum in Dhupguri town of Jalpaiguri district, launched a relay hunger strike on Friday, demanding an immediate notification from the state government for the creation of the new subdivision.“We want the state ...
13 January 2024 TelegraphAn Indian woman from North Dinajpur district was nabbed by the BSF at the India-Bangladesh border on Thursday afternoon with around 6.5 lakh Bangladeshi taka.Sources said the woman from Karandighi had been to Bangladesh. On Thursday afternoon, as she ...
13 January 2024 TelegraphA 40-year-old woman died of injuries after two groups of villagers clashed at a village in Cooch Behar on Thursday.Sources said the families of Shahjahan Mohammad and Jabeda Bibi, who reside in 25 Teesta Payasti village under Mekhliganj police ...
13 January 2024 TelegraphMembers of Dhupguri Nagarik Mancha, a citizens’ forum in Dhupguri town of Jalpaiguri district, launched a relay hunger strike on Friday, demanding an immediate notification from the state government for the creation of the new subdivision.“We want the state ...
13 January 2024 TelegraphBJP candidate Dorjee Tshering Lepcha was elected uncontested to the Rajya Sabha on Friday with support from the ruling Sikkim Krantikari Morcha (SKM), but the Sikkim state BJP president came down sharply on its ally SKM, saying it “had ...
13 January 2024 TelegraphSome fishermen in Nadia, Hooghly and parts of East Burdwan districts are ferrying passengers in their small country boats across the Hooghly and Bhagirathi rivers amid fog-induced low visibility in violation of government norms and putting their lives and ...
13 January 2024 TelegraphThe Bengal unit of the BJP on Friday activated its rank and file to observe the birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda at each of the 77,000-odd polling booths across the state, an attempt by the party to use the ...
13 January 2024 TelegraphWest Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose on Friday said he was "convinced" by the explanation given by senior state government officials on the delay in arresting TMC leader Shahjahan Sheikh for the attack on Enforcement Directorate officers during ...
13 January 2024 TelegraphThe 55th Garment Buyers and Sellers Meet of WBGMDA generated an estimated Rs 850 crore in business transactions in wholesale deals, an official said on Friday.Over 900 national and international brands participated in the three-day event of the West ...
13 January 2024 TelegraphWest Bengal Police have arrested Maoist leader Sabyasachi Goswami alias Kishore carrying a reward of Rs 10 lakh on his head from Purulia district, a senior police officer said on Friday.Goswami was arrested Thursday night from a jungle near ...
13 January 2024 TelegraphA week after violence in Sandeshkhali, North 24 Parganas left three ED officers injured from a mob attack, Bengal police make their first arrest.Early Friday morning, Nazat police arrested two suspects – Mehebur Mollah and Sukamal Sardar – for ...
13 January 2024 TelegraphA day-long and multi-pronged search operation at the residences of two ministers and a councillor by the Enforcement Directorate in connection with the Bengal civic body recruitment scam kept the state’s political circuit sizzling on an otherwise chilly winter ...
13 January 2024 TelegraphThe Supreme Court on Thursday sought the Bengal government’s response to the anticipatory bail plea of Union minister of state for home Nisith Pramanik in an attempt-to-murder case in Cooch Behar in 2018.A bench of Justices Bela M. Trivedi ...
13 January 2024 TelegraphThe Bengal BJP has decided to seek consent from homeowners before putting political messages on the walls of their properties in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.The decision, if implemented properly, might cause a big shift in Bengal’s outdoor poll ...
13 January 2024 TelegraphThe 55th Garment Buyers and Sellers Meet of WBGMDA generated an estimated Rs 850 crore in business transactions in wholesale deals, an official said on Friday.Over 900 national and international brands participated in the three-day event of the West ...
13 January 2024 TelegraphWest Bengal Police have arrested Maoist leader Sabyasachi Goswami alias Kishore carrying a reward of Rs 10 lakh on his head from Purulia district, a senior police officer said on Friday.Goswami was arrested Thursday night from a jungle near ...
13 January 2024 TelegraphWest Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose on Friday said he was "convinced" by the explanation given by senior state government officials on the delay in arresting TMC leader Shahjahan Sheikh for the attack on Enforcement Directorate officers during ...
13 January 2024 TelegraphBJP supporters led by the party’s Bengal president Sukanta Majumdar had a scuffle with police near Nazat police station in North 24-Parganas on Thursday afternoon when they were prevented from staging a demonstration demanding the arrest of Trinamul Congress ...
12 January 2024 TelegraphMamata Banerjee on Thursday rejected the BJP-led Centre’s "one nation, one election" proposal, alleging a "design to subvert" constitutional arrangements and allow in a presidential form of government through the backdoor."I also incidentally suspect that the instant design to ...
12 January 2024 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee stressed on issuing pattas — deeds of long-term settlement rights — to all residents of refugee colonies across Bengal during a cabinet meeting at Nabanna on Thursday.“Our government has given pattas to 99 per cent ...
12 January 2024 TelegraphThe Bengal cabinet on Thursday approved appointments to nearly 7,000 vacant seats in gram panchayats and panchayat samitis at the earliest.“These appointments will boost development at the grassroots level. The state will recruit 6,652 people to gram panchayats and ...
12 January 2024 TelegraphThe Bengal forest department arrested three men and seized two pairs of antlers from them in Jalpaiguri district on Wednesday night. The trio, the foresters said, had planned to smuggle the antlers, which are believed to be barking deer, ...
12 January 2024 TelegraphDarjeeling BJP MP Raju Bista met Union home minister Amit Shah for the third time in a month but is yet to extract a definite assurance that the BJP’s promises for the Darjeeling hills will be fulfilled before the ...
12 January 2024 TelegraphSix tourists and the driver of the SUV they were in got injured in western Dooars when the vehicle rammed into a tractor parked on the road near Gorumara National Park on Thursday morning.The incident has again bared the ...
12 January 2024 TelegraphThe Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday morning conducted raids at the residences of West Bengal Fire and Emergency Services Minister Sujit Bose, TMC MLA Tapas Roy and former North Dumdum Municipality chairman Subodh Chakraborty in connection with its probe ...
12 January 2024 TelegraphSix tourists and the driver of the SUV they were in got injured in western Dooars when the vehicle rammed into a tractor parked on the road near Gorumara National Park on Thursday morning.The incident has again bared the ...
12 January 2024 TelegraphDarjeeling BJP MP Raju Bista met Union home minister Amit Shah for the third time in a month but is yet to extract a definite assurance that the BJP’s promises for the Darjeeling hills will be fulfilled before the ...
12 January 2024 TelegraphThe Bengal forest department arrested three men and seized two pairs of antlers from them in Jalpaiguri district on Wednesday night. The trio, the foresters said, had planned to smuggle the antlers, which are believed to be barking deer, ...
12 January 2024 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee stressed on issuing pattas — deeds of long-term settlement rights — to all residents of refugee colonies across Bengal during a cabinet meeting at Nabanna on Thursday.“Our government has given pattas to 99 per cent ...
12 January 2024 TelegraphThe Bengal cabinet on Thursday approved appointments to nearly 7,000 vacant seats in gram panchayats and panchayat samitis at the earliest.“These appointments will boost development at the grassroots level. The state will recruit 6,652 people to gram panchayats and ...
12 January 2024 TelegraphBJP supporters led by the party’s Bengal president Sukanta Majumdar had a scuffle with police near Nazat police station in North 24-Parganas on Thursday afternoon when they were prevented from staging a demonstration demanding the arrest of Trinamul Congress ...
12 January 2024 TelegraphThe Calcutta High Court on Thursday ordered an interim stay on proceedings in an FIR against Enforcement Directorate (ED) officers who went to search the properties of TMC leader Shajahan Sheikh in Sandeshkhali on January 5.The ED moved the ...
12 January 2024 TelegraphTwo brothers were arrested with spurious cough syrup in West Bengal's Malda district, police said on Thursday.Amirul Sk, 34, and Ajij Sk, 27, were arrested from the Baishanbnagar police station area of the district that shares a border with ...
12 January 2024 TelegraphTrinamul Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Thursday wrote to the high-level committee on "One Nation, One Election" expressing her disagreement with the concept of simultaneous polls to the Lok Sabha and assemblies, and said it would be against the ...
12 January 2024 TelegraphThe Trinamul Congress will not send its representatives for any meeting with the Congress' national alliance committee on seat-sharing for the Lok Sabha elections as it has already conveyed its position to the grand old party, TMC sources said ...
12 January 2024 TelegraphBJP workers Thursday demonstrated near Nazat police station in North 24 Parganas district protesting against alleged police inaction in apprehending TMC youth leader Sahajahan Sheikh for the attack on Enforcement Directorate officials during a recent raid by the agency ...
12 January 2024 TelegraphWest Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamul Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee on Thursday refused to comment on the Sandeshkhali incident and the subsequent escape of party leader Shahjahan Sheikh saying the matter is under investigation."The matter is under investigation, I ...
12 January 2024 TelegraphMamata Banerjee on Wednesday asked Trinamul Congress leaders from West Midnapore to hit the streets against the BJP without any delay and intensify ground-level political activities ahead of the Lok Sabha polls, besides stressing the need to stop exposing ...
12 January 2024 TelegraphTwo brothers were arrested with spurious cough syrup in West Bengal's Malda district, police said on Thursday.Amirul Sk, 34, and Ajij Sk, 27, were arrested from the Baishanbnagar police station area of the district that shares a border with ...
12 January 2024 TelegraphThe Calcutta High Court on Thursday ordered an interim stay on proceedings in an FIR against Enforcement Directorate (ED) officers who went to search the properties of TMC leader Shajahan Sheikh in Sandeshkhali on January 5.The ED moved the ...
12 January 2024 TelegraphKurseong's BJP MLA Bishnu Prasad Sharma said he would be forced to contest the Lok Sabha polls as an Independent if his party nominates an "outsider" as its candidate in the Darjeeling seat.Sharma, a vocal advocate for a separate ...
12 January 2024 TelegraphTrinamul Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Thursday wrote to the high-level committee on "One Nation, One Election" expressing her disagreement with the concept of simultaneous polls to the Lok Sabha and assemblies, and said it would be against the ...
12 January 2024 TelegraphThe Trinamul Congress will not send its representatives for any meeting with the Congress' national alliance committee on seat-sharing for the Lok Sabha elections as it has already conveyed its position to the grand old party, TMC sources said ...
12 January 2024 TelegraphThe Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has summoned Ratna Chakraborty Bagchi, former secretary of the West Bengal Board of Primary Education, for questioning on Monday in connection with the ongoing probe into irregularities in recruitment in state-aided schools, senior ...
11 January 2024 TelegraphTrap cameras installed in the Neora Valley National Park in Kalimpong district have captured photos of other animals, apart from the royal Bengal tiger, indicating the rich biodiversity of the reserve forest.Officers of the Gorumara wildlife division said from ...
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