On the eve of India’s Independence Day, a young doctor found herself on the streets of Kolkata at midnight, not celebrating but demanding a fundamental right — safety. Unprecedented scenes were seen in Kolkata, in West Bengal, and beyond ...
16 August 2024 Indian ExpressAs midnight struck and India stepped into its 78th Independence Day, men, women, political leaders, and celebrities poured onto the streets, crossings and thoroughfares across West Bengal seeking justice and speedy investigation into the alleged rape and murder of ...
15 August 2024 Indian ExpressUNDER ATTACK from Opposition parties, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday alleged a “coordinated” effort by the BJP and CPI(M) to politicise the rape-murder of the junior doctor.Drawing parallels with the students’ unrest in Dhaka, she alleged ...
15 August 2024 Indian ExpressIn a late-night development, miscreants entered Kolkata’s R G Kar Medical College and Hospital and vandalised the area where people had gathered to protest against the rape and murder of a junior doctor who worked there.The miscreants allegedly attacked ...
15 August 2024 Indian ExpressAs doctors across the country remain up in arms, demanding justice for a 31-year-old doctor in Kolkata who was allegedly raped and murdered, the victim’s neighbours are reeling from shock.Fondly remembering the victim, the neighbours told The Indian Express ...
15 August 2024 Indian ExpressThe Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday took in its custody Sanjay Roy, the main accused in the alleged rape and murder of a trainee doctor at the state-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, a day after ...
15 August 2024 Indian ExpressWritten by Raajnandini MukherjeeA complaint has been filed against the former principal of Kolkata’s R G Kar Medical College and Hospital, Dr Sandip Ghosh, accusing him of disclosing the identity of the 31-year-old postgraduate trainee doctor who was allegedly ...
15 August 2024 Indian ExpressAhead of the 78th Independence Day, men, women, political leaders, and celebrities would seize the streets, crossings, and thoroughfares in West Bengal on Wednesday in a massive protest against the rape and murder of a woman doctor at the ...
15 August 2024 Indian ExpressIt was on May 13, 2023 that a complaint was lodged at Kalighat police station against Sanjay Roy, the man accused of raping and killing a junior doctor at Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College. It was from his wife, ...
15 August 2024 Indian ExpressLeft groups and the BJP on Tuesday accused authorities of Kolkata’s R G Kar Medical College and Hospital of attempting to tamper with evidence in connection with the rape and murder of a junior doctor on the campus.Pointing to ...
15 August 2024 Indian ExpressA special team of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) from Delhi along with forensic and medical experts landed in Kolkata on Wednesday to initiate a probe in the case of the alleged rape and murder of a junior ...
15 August 2024 Indian ExpressAl Amin Mollah and his wife Ayesha travelled for nearly three hours from Basirhat in North 24 Parganas district to Kolkata for scheduled follow-up of their four-month-old son who was operated at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital ...
14 August 2024 Indian ExpressEminent Bengali filmmaker and social activist Aparna Sen on Tuesday expressed solidarity with those staging a protest over the rape and murder of a junior woman doctors at Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College and Hospital by joining the demonstrators ...
14 August 2024 Indian ExpressExpressing displeasure over the handling of the case of the alleged rape and murder of a junior doctor at R G Kar Medical College and observing that “there appears to be no significant progress in the investigation”, the Calcutta ...
14 August 2024 Indian ExpressSenior BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari on Tuesday demanded the resignation of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for her alleged failure to ensure the safety and security of women doctors at state-run hospitals.Asking people to hit the streets demanding ...
14 August 2024 Indian ExpressWith resident doctors of all medical college hospitals in West Bengal ramping up their protests and staying away from work following the rape and murder of a junior woman doctor at R G Kar Medical College Hospital in Kolkata, ...
14 August 2024 Indian ExpressTaking suo motu cognisance of the alleged rape and murder of a woman at R G Kar Medical College Hospital in Kolkata, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Tuesday sent notices to the director general of police (DGP) ...
14 August 2024 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday said that if the police are unable to solve the case of the Kolkata medical college doctor’s rape and murder by the coming Sunday, the case would be handed over to ...
13 August 2024 Indian ExpressWith doctors from other hospitals and people from different walks of life joining in the ongoing demonstration, the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata on Monday turned into a centre of protests over the brutal rape and ...
13 August 2024 Indian ExpressAl Amin Mollah and his wife Ayesha frantically looked for a doctor to attend to their four-month-old baby before leaving R G Kar Medical College Hospital, where a postgraduate trainee doctor was raped and murdered last week.“Our baby was ...
13 August 2024 Indian ExpressStudents of Calcutta National Medical College (CNMC) protested on Tuesday against the transfer to their college of Dr Sandip Ghosh, who resigned as principal of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital after a postgraduate trainee doctor was raped and ...
13 August 2024 Indian ExpressAmid reports of attacks on Bengali migrant workers in Odisha, West Bengal Chief Mamata Banerjee dialled her Odisha counterpart Mohan Charan Majhi’s number to seek his intervention, The Indian Express has learnt. The attacks come at a time of ...
13 August 2024 Indian ExpressHours after Dr Sandip Ghosh stepped down as the principal of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on Monday following widespread protests over the rape and murder of a woman trainee doctor, the West Bengal Government appointed him as ...
13 August 2024 Indian ExpressThe principal of Kolkata’s R G Kar Medical College and Hospital, Professor Sandip Ghosh, resigned on Monday in the wake of massive protests by resident doctors over the alleged rape and murder of a 31-year-old woman doctor. Ghosh’s resignation ...
13 August 2024 Indian ExpressProtesting resident doctors in West Bengal on Sunday night demanded a fast-track judicial inquiry into the alleged rape and murder of a woman doctor at R G Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata, the resignation of the principal, ...
13 August 2024 Indian ExpressTwo days after the horrific rape and murder of a young woman doctor at Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College and Hospital came to light, the West Bengal government on Sunday removed hospital superintendent Sanjay Vashisth. Prof Bulbul Mukhopadhyay, Dean ...
12 August 2024 Indian ExpressKolkata Police investigating the alleged rape and murder of a young junior doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital said the preliminary findings suggest that the crime was committed “in a spontaneous manner” and the arrested accused, Sanjay ...
12 August 2024 Indian ExpressFrom making tickets in the Out-Patient Departments (OPDs) to providing elusive beds, to operation and tests — all possible but with a commission at Kolkata’s premier government hospital, R G Kar Medical College and Hospital, where a young woman ...
12 August 2024 Indian ExpressA day after the rape and murder of 31-year-old woman junior doctor at RG Kar Medical College, Opposition political parties including CPI(M), Congress and supporters took to the streets to protest against the incident.While CPIM state secretary Mohammed Salim ...
12 August 2024 Indian ExpressAmid protests against the rape and murder of a junior doctor at the state-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata, another civic volunteer who allegedly threatened a lady doctor at Bhatar state general hospital on Friday night ...
12 August 2024 Indian ExpressNo CCTV coverage in sensitive areas, tout rackets, no proper rest rooms for on-call doctors, and no screening for outsiders entering at night — the doctors protesting the rape and murder of their colleague have alleged that these factors ...
12 August 2024 Indian ExpressSix months ago, her father bought her a car. Given her erratic work hours, he hoped it would keep her safe when she was driven home in the night.On Friday, the junior doctor’s body was found at at Kolkata’s ...
12 August 2024 Indian ExpressThe Border Security Force (BSF) sent back over a thousand Bangladeshi individuals assembled along the India-Bangla border in the Cooch Behar district of West Bengal on Friday. The crowd was trying to enter India from Nkhoaeesh.Sources in the BSF ...
11 August 2024 Indian ExpressThe recent agitation by doctors in West Bengal bears similarity with the week-long protests that rocked medical colleges in the state in 2019.The ongoing protest started after the semi-naked body of a woman postgraduate trainee (PGT) doctor was discovered ...
11 August 2024 Indian ExpressThe Kolkata Police Commissioner Saturday confirmed that a junior doctor who was found dead at the state-run R G Kar Medical College and Hospital was raped and murdered.“This is an unfortunate incident. Yesterday, at 10:30 am, the Tala police ...
11 August 2024 Indian ExpressChief Minister Mamata Banerjee Saturday called the death of a 31-year-old junior doctor whose body was found in a Kolkata Hospital “despicable”, saying that the loss “felt personal”. She also said the doctors protesting over the incident were “free ...
11 August 2024 Indian ExpressThe protest against the alleged rape and murder of a junior woman doctor in Kolkata’s R G Kar Medical College and Hospital spread to most state-run medical colleges and hospitals in West Bengal on Saturday.Demanding justice for the victim ...
11 August 2024 Indian ExpressPolice on Saturday arrested a man identified as Sanjoy Roy in connection with the death of a junior doctor at Kolkata’s state-run R G Kar Medical College and Hospital.A murder case was registered and rape charges have been added. ...
11 August 2024 Indian ExpressTHOUSANDS OF people gathered at the CPI(M) state headquarters in Kolkata’s Alimuddin street on Friday morning to pay their final tribute to senior party leader and former chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee.The Marxist patriarch, who will be remembered both for ...
10 August 2024 Indian ExpressThe Border Security Force (BSF) on Friday, thwarted over a thousand men, who had assembled at the Indo-Bangla border in the Cooch Behar district, and wanted to enter India from Nkhoaeesh.According to sources in the BSF, since Friday morning ...
10 August 2024 Indian ExpressChief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday congratulated Nobel laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus for heading the interim government of Bangladesh and said that she was looking forward to an improved relationship between the two nations.“My sincere congratulations and best wishes ...
10 August 2024 Indian ExpressBuddhadeb Bhattacharya: One of the noblest persons, a principled man with no difference in words and deeds. Rarely can we find a parallel in the present day’s political arena. Since my student days, we have been greatly influenced by ...
10 August 2024 Indian ExpressA 31-year-old woman junior doctor was found dead at Kolkata’s state-run R G Kar Medical College & Hospital on Friday morning, triggering a political firestorm in West Bengal, with her family and the Opposition BJP alleging that she was ...
10 August 2024 Indian ExpressThe family of Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader and former West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and his party have turned down the state government’s offer of a gun salute to the leader claiming he was “against such ...
10 August 2024 Indian ExpressFormer Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee is fondly remembered as a man of empathy, a visionary leader, and a dedicated ideologue by those who knew him or were inspired by him. People recalled him as one of the compassionate political ...
10 August 2024 Indian ExpressBy Dipshita Dhar — Joint Secretary, SFIComrade Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee is no more. His party — the CPI(M) — had taught him to be a fighter and to continue fighting until the last breath. This is exactly what he did: ...
10 August 2024 Indian ExpressMild earthquake tremors were felt in Sikkim on Friday morning, as well as in northern Jalpaiguri in West Bengal, and across Nepal, Bhutan, and Bangladesh. The earthquake was of 4.4 magnitude, per the National Centre for Seismology.The tremors were ...
10 August 2024 Indian ExpressIn a testament to his humanitarian spirit, former West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee had donated his eyes and body for medical research. His mortal remains will be handed over to state government-run NRS Medical College and Hospital here ...
10 August 2024 Indian ExpressCapitalising on the land acquisition protests in Nandigram and Singur, it was Mamata Banerjee who ended the Left Front’s three-decade rule in West Bengal and succeeded Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee. And on Thursday morning, she was one of the first people ...
9 August 2024 Indian ExpressBengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Thursday went to the Palm Avenue residence of her predecessor Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee in Kolkata after learning about his demise.Banerjee later announced that she told the family members of the former CM that if they ...
9 August 2024 Indian ExpressLeaders across party lines Thursday expressed their condolences as former West Bengal Chief Minister and CPIM veteran Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee passed away.He was 80 and breathed his last at his residence in Kolkata’s Palm Avenue.President Droupadi Murmu wrote on X,”Saddened ...
9 August 2024 Indian ExpressIn a first incident of infiltration attempt after the unrest in Bangladesh, about 500 people from the neighbouring country tried to enter India through Jalpaiguri district of West Bengal. The attempt was thwarted by the Border Security Force (BSF), ...
9 August 2024 Indian ExpressSitting behind the glass counter, at his 10-foot by 15-foot shop, located on the way to Petrapole land port, 30-year-old Achintya Mondol rued that business has been “zero” since Monday. He also feared that Bangladeshi Taka, the currency with ...
9 August 2024 Indian ExpressFormer chief minister of West Bengal and veteran CPIM leader Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee passed away at 8.20 am Thursday at his residence in Kolkata’s Palm Avenue. Buddhadeb, who had been suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease for some years, was ...
9 August 2024 Indian ExpressAsking the West Bengal government to maintain communal harmony in the state, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) on Wednesday said those “involved in committing atrocities” in Bangladesh following the fall of the Sheikh Hasina government should not be allowed ...
8 August 2024 Indian ExpressThe TMC on Wednesday demanded Bharat Ratna or a President-nominated Rajya Sabha seat for ace wrestler Vinesh Phogat, who was disqualified from the Olympics, acknowledging the extraordinary mettle she has demonstrated.In a shocking reversal of fortunes, Phogat was disqualified ...
8 August 2024 Indian ExpressAlmost a month after West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee sent a proposal to Raj Bhavan for a Cabinet reshuffle, Governor C V Ananda Bose on Wednesday gave his assent, effecting the change in portfolios of four ministers.While no ...
8 August 2024 Indian ExpressThe Alipore weather department has issued a heavy rain warning for five districts in north Bengal — Darjeeling, Jalpaiguri, Kalimpong, Alipurduar, and Cooch Behar — for Wednesday and Thursday.In contrast, south Bengal is predicted to experience light to moderate ...
8 August 2024 Indian ExpressThe Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (IIT-KGP), last week hosted a four-day induction-cum-orientation programme for the students along with their parents to welcome its new batch of undergraduate students to the institute.This is for the first time the institute ...
8 August 2024 Indian ExpressBorder Security Force (BSF) Director General Daljit Singh Chawdhary on Tuesday reviewed security along the Indo-Bangladesh border in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district on the second day of his visit to the state in the wake of a ...
8 August 2024 Indian ExpressAfter getting her documents checked at the immigration counter of the Petrapole border check-post in North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal, 60-year-old Radharani hurriedly walked towards Bangladesh.“I am hearing that houses, shops and even temples are being ransacked. ...
8 August 2024 Indian ExpressThe Alipore Weather Department has issued a heavy rain warning for five districts in North Bengal — Darjeeling, Jalpaiguri, Kalimpong, Alipurduar, and Cooch Behar — for Wednesday and Thursday.This intense rainfall is expected to persist throughout the week, raising ...
8 August 2024 Indian ExpressThe Supreme Court on Tuesday sought the CBI’s response on the West Bengal government’s petition challenging the Calcutta High Court’s order directing a probe by the central agency into the 2021 post-poll violence in the state.Admitting the appeal, the ...
8 August 2024 Indian ExpressDirector Rahool Mukherjee on Tuesday resumed shooting of his upcoming movie ‘Production Number 171’ at a studio in south Kolkata after the shoot was boycotted by film technicians for days.The film starring Prosenjit Chatterjee, Anirban Bhattacharya and Priyanka Sarkar is ...
7 August 2024 Indian ExpressA Woman municipal employee was bitten by a pet dog allegedly unleashed by a woman resident during a dengue prevention survey in the Baguiati area of North 24 Parganas district.A complaint has been filed at the Baguiati police station ...
7 August 2024 Indian ExpressDirector Rahool Mukherjee has returned to the set of Shree Venkatesh Films’ (SVF) after days of controversy, in Kolkata. The shooting resumed on Tuesday morning at a South Kolkata studio in the presence of the actor Anirban Bhattacharya. Prosenjit ...
7 August 2024 Indian ExpressThe Visva-Bharati university in West Bengal’s Santiniketan on Tuesday said the annual tree plantation programme to mark the death anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore on August 7 will not be held at the Bangladesh Bhavan this year.This time, the ‘Briksha ...
7 August 2024 Indian ExpressMovement of goods through the Petrapole land port on the India-Bangladesh border has stopped on Monday, and the train service between Kolkata and Dhaka remained suspended, as the latest spurt of violence in Bangladesh claimed at least 300 lives ...
7 August 2024 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Monday appealed to political leaders to not make any provocative statements on the Bangladesh crisis and instead jeopardise peace in the state. She said the Centre will decide India’s stand on the crisis ...
7 August 2024 Indian ExpressIn a rare show of coordination between the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) and Opposition BJP, the West Bengal Assembly on Monday unanimously passed a resolution opposing any attempt to divide the state.The motion comes in the backdrop of statements ...
7 August 2024 Indian ExpressWest Bengal’s Minister for Correctional Administration or the Prison minister, Akhil Giri, who resigned Monday afternoon over a threat made to a woman forest officer, after he was told to do so by the Trinamool Congress (TMC) leadership, is ...
7 August 2024 Indian ExpressAfter his controversial remarks against a woman forest officer sparked a massive political row, Correctional Services minister Akhil Giri said Monday he had submitted his resignation to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.However, he also dug his heels saying he would ...
6 August 2024 Indian ExpressThe Enforcement Directorate (ED) has reportedly widened its net in the ongoing ration scam investigation in Bengal, with its focus now on hotels and properties in popular tourist destinations. Sources said the agency suspects that the proceeds of the ...
6 August 2024 Indian ExpressIn an unprecedented move, the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) in West Bengal on Sunday asked its minister Akhil Giri to resign and apologise to a woman forest officer whom he had threatened to beat with a stick a day ...
6 August 2024 Indian ExpressHeavy rain on Monday caused new landslides to completely block National Highway 10 near the 39-mile marker in West Bengal’s Kalimpong district. This disrupted traffic between Kalimpong and Siliguri, inconvenienced commuters, and affected essential supplies to Sikkim.Overall, the situation ...
6 August 2024 Indian ExpressStudents from TMCP, the students’ wing of Trinamool Congress, gheraoed Calcutta University’s Interim Vice-Chancellor Shanta Dutta on its College Street campus, allegedly locking the two main gates, another gate, and the door of the syndicate room, in which Datta ...
5 August 2024 Indian ExpressThe India Meteorological Department (IMD) has predicted heavy to very heavy rain in southern and northern Bengal on Tuesday and Wednesday. There will be slight relief on Monday, the first working day of the week. However, there is a ...
5 August 2024 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Sunday said she spoke with her Jharkhand counterpart Hemant Soren to discuss the flood situation in her state. The Banerjee-led government has been blaming the Centre-run Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) for aggravating the ...
5 August 2024 Indian ExpressThe Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has rolled out a new waiver policy on property tax from August 1, officials said on Friday. During the Covid-19 pandemic, the KMC started giving massive waivers on property tax so that those with ...
5 August 2024 Indian ExpressIn what could be a ray of hope for Urgen Tamang, the West Bengal man allegedly tricked and taken to Russia to fight the Ukraine war, and other Indians like him, Kalimpong municipality chairman Rabi Pradhan has claimed that ...
4 August 2024 Indian ExpressBengal Jail minister Akhil Giri landed in controversy after a video of him threatening an on-duty woman forest officer went viral on Saturday. The woman officer was heading a team tasked with clearing encroachments in Tajpur under the East ...
4 August 2024 Indian ExpressAmid water logging and floods in the southern part of West Bengal, the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) warned that heavy and moderate rainfall in the area will continue till at least Saturday.This warning comes after the rain has disrupted ...
4 August 2024 Indian ExpressTERMING THE Centre’s decision to impose 18 per cent Good and Services Tax (GST) on life insurance and health insurance policies as “anti-people”, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday wrote to Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, urging her to ...
4 August 2024 Indian ExpressA team of differently-abled mountaineers from the Himalayan Mountaineering Institute on Friday began an expedition from Kanchenjunga National Park to Mt. Kilimanjaro, the highest peak in the African continent, a statement issued by the institute said. The expedition will ...
4 August 2024 Indian ExpressTwo persons were killed in rain related incidents in south Bengal on Friday, said police. A 22-year-old woman was electrocuted to death in a waterlogged area in Howrah district while another person died due to a house collapse in ...
3 August 2024 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee urged the Central government to remove GST charges from life insurance and medical insurance, saying she will protest on “the road” if the Centre refuses to do so.Banerjee took to X on Thursday, ...
3 August 2024 Indian ExpressNearly two months after it was shut down following a fire, South Kolkata’s Acropolis Mall is set to reopen on Saturday.According to its management, the popular mall, which sees a daily average footfall of 15,000, has undergone extensive repairs. ...
3 August 2024 Indian ExpressThe Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday began questioning of Trinamool Congress leader Anisur Rahman and his brother in connection with the alleged irregularities in the public distribution system.According to the central probe agency, Anisur Rahman, who is the Deganga ...
3 August 2024 Indian ExpressCiting increasing population, rising vehicular traffic, and shrinking road space, the West Bengal government has decided to curtail tram routes within the city and ensure smooth traffic flow.The state Transport Department is set to propose a major reduction in ...
3 August 2024 Indian ExpressThe Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday arrested Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Anisur Rahman and his brother Alif Noor alias Mukul Rahman, a day after they were interrogated for 14 hours in connection with alleged irregularities in the West Bengal ...
3 August 2024 Indian ExpressThe West Bengal Assembly on Thursday passed a resolution seeking a review by the Central government of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, which were recently implemented in the country, replacing the IPC and the CrPC.Following a two-day discussion on the ...
2 August 2024 Indian ExpressLong wait for ambulances and instances of distraught relatives, unable to afford the exorbitant service fare, carrying ailing patients on their shoulders to hospitals in West Bengal are soon going to be a thing of the past. For, the ...
2 August 2024 Indian ExpressThe India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued a forecast of heavy to very heavy rainfall across South Bengal until Friday. Kolkata and its suburbs were drenched in heavy rain on Thursday, which also caused traffic congestion and disrupted daily ...
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2 August 2024 Indian ExpressThe ruling TMC on Wednesday moved a resolution in the West Bengal Assembly seeking a review of the three new criminal laws — Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam (BSA), and Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) — saying ...
2 August 2024 Indian ExpressA wagon of a goods train derailed near Rangapani station in New Jalpaiguri Rail Division on Wednesday, an official of the North-East Frontier Railway said, adding that there was no report of any injury or fatality in the incident. ...
2 August 2024 Indian ExpressTrain services in the Sealdah South section resumed on Wednesday morning, after protesters lifted their five hour-blockade on railway tracks at another station. In a bid to protest the regular delays in arrival of local trains, passengers squatted on ...
2 August 2024 Indian ExpressChief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday expressed concern after a goods train derailed near Rangapni station in the northern part of West Bengal on Wednesday.She wrote on X, “Another rail accident today, in the same Phansidewa/ Rangapani area in ...
1 August 2024 Indian ExpressKolkata Mayor and TMC minister Firhad Hakim’s remark at a religious event led to an uproar in the West Bengal Assembly on Wednesday as BJP legislators demanded his apology for his “communal speech” and threatened to boycott him.Hakim, who ...
1 August 2024 Indian ExpressServices in Sealdah South section were disrupted and then resumed Wednesday morning, due to a five-hour blockade by protestors on railway tracks at another station.Many passengers had squatted on the tracks of Diamond Harbour station of South 24 Parganas ...
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