Kolkata: Schools have started reopening after summer holidays but the sweltering heat, coupled with unbearable humidity, is forcing several institutes to tweak their schedules to spare the children the full onslaught of the hot spell. While one school has ...
12 June 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: It continued to be muggy in the city as the relative humidity in the air remained at a high 85% though the maximum temperature dipped a notch from Monday’s 37.6 ° C to 36.6 °C on Tuesday. The ...
12 June 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Kolkata Traffic Police has announced temporary shutdown of the Chetla Bridge on Sunday night to allow KMDA to carry out load testing of the structure. The KMDA said the test results would be crucial for repair work planned ...
12 June 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Doctors at IPGMER SSKM Hospital conducted eight joint replacement surgeries on Tuesday. It is the highest number of joint replacement surgeries to have been conducted at a govt hospital in Bengal. The patients will undergo rehabilitation training before ...
12 June 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Junior Union minister Sukanta Majumdar, who was given charge of education and development of north eastern region, joined office on Tuesday after seeking blessings from former Bengal BJP chief Dilip Ghosh. Majumdar later held a meeting of the ...
12 June 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Skill Online Games Institute (SOGI) has tied up with many IITs, IIMs and NUJS (Kolkata) to work on the technical and legal issues of online gaming. As per SOGI, the legal online gaming industry in India was worth ...
12 June 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: At least four passengers were injured— one of them seriously — after the door on the bus they were leaning on, collapsed and crashed onto the road on Tuesday. The driver was arrested. Cops said the incident was ...
12 June 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Traffic was partially hit on Camac Street, Park Street and even around Birla Planetarium for around 15 minutes when cops had to ensure the entry of fire engines to the Park Street-Camac Street crossing on Tuesday morning, almost ...
12 June 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: A fire broke out on Tuesday morning at a café located on the third floor of Park Centre, situated at the intersection of Park Street and Camac Street, in close proximity to Allen’s Park. The inferno commenced around ...
11 June 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: BJP's Basirhat candidate Rekha Patra, who had lodged an FIR alleging sexual abuse in Sandeshkhali, on Monday claimed her defeat in the Lok Sabha polls was due to "treason." This came days after former Bengal BJP president Dilip ...
11 June 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The average person in Bengal uses the largest chunk of monthly food expenditure on processed food and beverages, with an urban resident spending Rs 25 and a rural resident Rs 20 per every Rs 100 on this category. ...
11 June 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: A teacher at a private law college affiliated with the University of Calcutta resigned and ceased attending classes following an incident where the institute authorities allegedly asked her to refrain from wearing a hijab at work. However, as ...
11 June 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Followers of Dilip Ghosh and Suvendu Adhikari engaged in a social media war of words on Monday as questions arose over the next president of BJP’s state unit, with Sukanta Majumdar’s appointment as a junior minister.BJP veteran Dilip ...
11 June 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bombs were hurled and bullets flew in a quiet Indu Park in Kasba around 9.45pm on Sunday as around 30 armed men went on the rampage in a “battle” between two groups trying to establish dominance over the ...
11 June 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: After a three-day curb to facilitate platform upgrade that ended on Sunday, services to and from Sealdah station struggled to limp back to normal on Monday with several trains — local and long-distance — reporting delays. Most local ...
11 June 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Days after the conclusion of the Lok Sabha polls, the state govt on Monday appointed Purnendu Majhi as the new district magistrate (DM) of East Midnapore in place of Joyoshi Dasgupta. This is the second stint of Majhi ...
11 June 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: A section of students at Medical College Hospital Kolkata sat in protest on Monday, alleging they were threatened by some teachers of failing them in the examination if they refused to support a political party. The agitating students ...
11 June 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The state CID has received a primary forensic report that has confirmed that the body parts recovered from the septic tank of a Rajarhat complex last month and the bones recovered near Bagjola Canal in Bhangar on Sunday ...
11 June 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The sapping humidity and the rising temperature with the maximum hovering between 37°C and 39°C since Sunday has led to a spurt in patients suffering from heat-induced illnesses across Kolkata’s hospitals. Heat fever, dehydration, exhaustion and blackouts have ...
11 June 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The move to reserve KMC’s Ward 107 seat for women has now spiralled into a no-holds-barred conflict between councillors of two wards, with a protege taking on her one-time mentor. Trinamool MP Mala Roy trailed from this ward ...
11 June 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bongaon MP Shantanu Thakur retained the portfolio as a junior minister for ports, shipping and waterways in the third Modi-led NDA govt while Balurghat MP Sukanta Majumdar was made junior minister of education, and development of northeastern region. ...
11 June 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: A 70-year-old man underwent a state-of-the-art procedure to remove renal tumour in a Kolkata hospital. Dulal Dutta was discharged within five days after the Robotic Radical Nephrectomy with Inferior Vena Cava (IVC) Thrombectomy. His kidney size had enlarged ...
11 June 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: A man, identified as Sanatan Ghosh and claimed to be a Trinamool Congress (TMC) worker, was fatally shot at Hariharpara in West Bengal's Murshidabad district, according to the police on Monday. The victim’s mother said that her son’s ...
10 June 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: An illegal firecracker factory operating in a house in Prayag village, Kolaghat area of Purba Medinipur district in West Bengal experienced a severe blast late Sunday night. The explosion caused serious injuries to one person and extensively damaged ...
10 June 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Bongaon MP Shantanu Thakur and Bengal BJP president Sukanta Majumdar (elected from Balurghat) were appointed junior ministers in the Union cabinet, prompting Trinamool to ridicule NDA's lack of full ministerial berths for them with a sartorial dig: "half-pant ...
10 June 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: In what may prove to be a breakthrough in the probe into the murder of Bangladeshi MP Anwarul Azim Anar in a posh Kolkata flat on May 13, West Bengal CID reportedly recovered his body parts from Bagjola ...
10 June 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: A second complaint against actor-MLA from Chandipur, Soham Chakraborty, has been filed on Sunday at the Techno City PS by the New Town restaurant owner Anisul Alam stating that he was assaulted by the Trinamool MLA on Friday ...
10 June 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Online fraudsters are taking recourse increasingly to fake kidnapping/arrest cases to dupe victims, this modus operandi having taken pole position in the total number of cybercrimes reported in the city. Sextortion comes a close second along with the ...
10 June 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Flags fluttered, toasts were raised and cheers rose to deafening decibels as Kolkata celebrated the victory of the Men in Blue over arch-rivals Pakistan at the World Cup T20 clash in New York on Sunday night. Across clubs, ...
10 June 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: A sudden flow of moisture into south Bengal has left Kolkatans sweating profusely over the last five days, leading to a spread of viral infections that have laid thousands low with fever and cough. Hospitals have also been ...
10 June 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 26-year-old man residing at a housing complex in Narendrapur reportedly died by suicide after he jumped from Vidyasagar Setu around 6.20 pm on Friday. Police said the victim, Rohit Deb, had parked his two-wheeler on the flyover ...
10 June 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Port division police has arrested three persons for carrying out an early-morning robbery on Saturday.The accused had stopped a garments trader from Bihar on Akra Road in Metiabruz while he was on his way to buy clothes. ...
10 June 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Trinamool Congress MLA and actress Sayantika Banerjee, who won the Baranagar assembly bypoll with 69,251 votes recently, said a plantation drive would kick off in the 38 wards of Baranagar Municipality on the day she would take oath.According ...
10 June 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 72-year-old retired bank employee, a Dhakuria resident, allegedly jumped to death from the terrace of a six-storey apartment at Baranagar on Sunday morning. Police said the victim, identified as Manas Das, was a resident of Selimpur Lane. ...
10 June 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: On March 18, thirteen people were killed when a five-storey under-construction building collapsed on the neighbouring slum at Azhar Molla Bagan Lane in Garden Reach under ward 134. The tragedy left 22 families homeless. Eighty-nine of them had ...
10 June 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Hours before Narendra Modi was sworn in as PM on Sunday, the third Modi-led NDA govt allocated two ministers of state berths to Bengal. While Bongaon MP Shantanu Thakur was already an MoS, Bengal BJP president Sukanta Majumdar ...
10 June 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The INDIA bloc's decision not to stake any claim to form the govt today does not mean that it is not going to stake claim tomorrow, CM Mamata Banerjee has said, adding that TDP's Chandrababu Naidu and JD(U)'s ...
9 June 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The torment for train commuters — long distance and local — continued on Saturday as services to Sealdah remained disrupted for the second day running due to platform extension work. Platforms 1 to 5 are being extended to ...
9 June 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The metropolitan magistrate of Bankshall Court on Thursday recorded the statement of an 82-year-old US citizen — who had lost a few thousand dollars to a Kolkata-based cyber fraud gang last year — through audio-visual mode with the ...
9 June 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Mystery shrouds the death of a 48-year-old promoter in Baranagar whose body was found floating in the Hooghly near Dakshineswar on on Friday night after he had gone missing on Wednesday.Police, however, suspect that the victim — Bijay ...
9 June 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bengal cricket is set to get Wriddhiman Saha back as the wicketkeeper-batter will represent Rashmi Medinipur Wizards in the upcoming Bengal Pro T20 League beginning on Tuesday. After 15 years of service, the Siliguri boy formally parted ways ...
9 June 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: There appears to be no respite for residents of large parts of Behala and neighbourhoods off EM Bypass from waterlogging. Several parts of Behala are still lying dug up as drainage upgrade work under the Kolkata Environment and ...
9 June 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: A call from a Haridevpur resident about an illegal building that had been constructed without leaving the mandatory space around it led to mayor Firhad Hakim hauling up KMC buildings department officials and questioning why they continued to ...
9 June 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Five months after a Khelat Ghosh Lane (under Jorabagan police station) resident fell prey to sextortion over Skype call and had transferred Rs 10 lakh to the scamsters, police on Thursday finally recovered the swindled money.Probe is, however, ...
9 June 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: IT workers headed to Sector V and New Town may encounter a bottleneck at Nicco Park on Monday morning as Bidhannagar Police will shut one lane of the IT hub-bound flank of Salt Lake Bypass from Sunday as ...
9 June 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The mutation process for plots in BMC wards 27 and 28, covering Nayapatti and Mahisbathan in Sector V, has finally started.Once the mutation for the plot or building is done, BMC will send out its property tax bill, ...
9 June 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee was unanimously selected Trinamool parliamentary party chairperson on Friday. While Sudip Bandyopadhyay will lead the party in the Lok Sabha, Derek O’Brien will be the Rajya Sabha leader. Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar will be the ...
9 June 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The city continued to reel under stifling humidity which reached a maximum of 85% on a sultry Saturday. While the maximum temperature dropped marginally to 35.4°C, a drop of two degrees from Friday, the conditions remained extremely uncomfortable ...
9 June 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: With the monsoon still a few days away, Kolkatans are enduring a pressure cooker feel during day with relative humidity hovering around 90% and maximum temperature touching 37°C. There is no relief from the sweltering heat at night ...
9 June 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee will hold a meeting of senior TMC leaders and newly elected LS MPs on Saturday to decide the party's strategy in the Lok Sabha. The TMC maintained its dominance in the state ...
8 June 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: When India meets arch-rival Pakistan in the ICC T20 match in New York on Sunday, there will be several from Kolkata cheering for the Men In Blue from the stands of the Nassau Country Ground. Die-hard cricket fans, ...
8 June 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Bengal government will start processing Swasthya Sathi cards for 22 lakh migrant workers from the state, who are working outside Bengal, so that they can get free treatment in the states they are working. The state health department ...
8 June 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Former Bengal BJP chief Dilip Ghosh on Friday said there may have been a "deliberate plan" to get party veterans defeated in Bengal, even as Bankura MLA Niladri Sekhar Dana joined the chorus of criticism on how the ...
8 June 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Around three months after the collapse of an illegally constructed building that killed 13 people, Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) is planning to specify the “minor deviations” from building plans, which the civic body might consider for regularization. The ...
8 June 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Trinamool Congress now leads in 192 assembly constituencies and BJP in 90. While the Congress leads in 11, CPM leads in just one assembly seat in the 294-member assembly, the analysis of Lok Sabha results has revealed. While ...
8 June 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The state has announced a half-day closure of all govt offices and govt-aided institutes and agencies on Wednesday, June 12, for Jamai Shashthi. However, the offices of the registrar of assurances and collector of stamp revenue will stay ...
8 June 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Cyber fraudsters have been trying to cash in on the election season to dupe people with a fake mobile recharge scheme, which the crooks have been claiming are offered by Prime Minister Narendra Modi or chief minister Mamata ...
8 June 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Passengers had a harrowing time on Friday as train services in the Sealdah North suburban section were disrupted to facilitate extension of five platforms in one of India’s busiest railway stations.Commuters, especially those on their way to their ...
8 June 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Siam Hossain, one of the key accused in the Bangladeshi MP murder case, who reportedly fled to Nepal after committing the crime, has been traced near the international border. The process to formally arrest him has been initiated, ...
8 June 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Disruption in train services at Sealdah shifted the home-bound traffic on Friday to BT Road, leading to congestion along the arterial road that connects the city to the northern suburbs. The pain is likely to persist till Sunday. ...
8 June 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The detective department on Thursday raided a loan office in the Hare Street area and arrested three persons for allegedly duping an investor of Rs 9.5 lakh. The accused had approached the complainant as representatives of a subsidiary ...
8 June 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: In the absence of rain over the past few days, Kolkata has been reeling under scorching heat and high humidity, which have made it extremely uncomfortable, especially during the day. While the maximum temperature on Friday was 37.1°C, ...
8 June 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: In the backdrop of growing unease over CPM getting considerable elbow room in the INDIA bloc deliberations despite drawing a blank in Bengal, Trinamool Congress general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Thursday met SP chief Akhilesh Singh and AAP's ...
7 June 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Two teenagers died after being struck by lightning and three of their friends were injured when they were struck by lightning in a field in Narayanpur near Kolkata airport on Thursday. There was thunder-and-lightning in this part of ...
7 June 2024 Times of IndiaDARJEELING: The peak tourist season is nearing an end but Darjeeling is still jam-packed with holidayers as many people, a large number of them from Kolkata, deferred their vacation to the hill station till after the elections, which were ...
7 June 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Trinamool Congress on Thursday claimed that three newly elected BJP MPs from Bengal were in touch with the party. BJP won 12 seats in the state.A TMC senior said, "Three newly elected BJP MPs from Bengal are in ...
7 June 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Four students from the state Higher Secondary board, four from CBSE and two ISC examinees bagged the top 10 ranks of the West Bengal Joint Entrance Examination (WBJEE), the results for which were declared on Thursday. Led by ...
7 June 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The state PWD has started the process of removing the huge direction signboard on VIP Road to make way for construction of the last leg of the New Garia-Airport corridor. A much smaller ‘T’-shaped signage, directing motorists to ...
7 June 2024 Times of IndiaJalpaiguri: A BSF jawan was arrested in Alipurduar’s Babu Para on Thursday for allegedly molesting a woman, reports Pinak Priya Bhattacharya. Sona Ram had been deployed at Alipurduar University for poll counting day and was camping at Alipurduar Boys’ ...
7 June 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences (WBNUJS) will set up an Intellectual Property (IP) Facilitation Centre to promote innovation and awareness in the MSME sector. The university has received a grant of Rs 1 crore from ...
7 June 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: In a departure from the usual practice of each station being manned by a manager, the 50 metro stations that are currently in operation in Kolkata will be managed by 27 superintendents instead of 50.On Tuesday Metro Railway, ...
7 June 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Private hospitals are emphasising on a patient-centric service culture, which involves better interface in person and use of soft skills rather than an over-reliance on technology-driven interaction through AI or online exchange, with an eye on stemming patient ...
7 June 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bengal BJP functionaries on Thursday claimed that due to “post-poll violence” unleashed by Trinamool, several of their party workers from Sandeshkhali and other parts of Basirhat have taken refuge in Kolkata.Close to 50 workers have taken shelter at ...
7 June 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Shimul Bhuniya alias Amanullah, a prime suspect in the Bangladeshi legislator Anwarul Azim Anar homicide case who was apprehended along with accomplices from Dhaka earlier, confessed before a Dhaka court on Wednesday that he orchestrated the men who ...
7 June 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: After reviving clo-cks in several churches, Kolkata Restorers — a citizen’s group that is crowd-funding the initiative — has started restoring a 140-year-old clock at Magen David synagogue at the junction of Brabourne Road and Canning Street.Magen David ...
7 June 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Stories are an integral part of human evolution. India’s rich cultural heritage holds one such precious gem, Kavaad Katha. This ancient story telling tradition, which originated in Rajasthan over 500 years ago, is now an almost lost art, ...
7 June 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The BJP, which had a stellar rise in the Jangalmahal area in West Bengal since 2019, faced a decline in support base in 2024 Lok Sabha polls. While two Lok Sabha candidates from Bankura and Jhargram lost to ...
7 June 2024 Times of IndiaAn educational trust, founded by a Kolkata boy now teaching mathematics at a US university, is transforming the learning experience of science and math for city school students. The trust, led by an alumnus of Presidency College, recently conducted ...
7 June 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Nearly one out of five seats in Bengal witnessed a close contest with a margin of less than 50,000 votes. The average voter strength in a Lok Sabha constituency is 16 lakh in the state. Out of the ...
6 June 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Trinamool Congress general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Wednesday attended the INDIA bloc meeting at Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge's residence in Delhi. He was seen sitting beside Priyanka Gandhi Vadra during the meeting and stood beside Sonia Gandhi and ...
6 June 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: In almost a repeat of 2021, Trinamool Congress has managed to get leads in 26 out of 28 assembly segments in and around Kolkata this election season, auguring well for the party in the assembly polls that will ...
6 June 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Rumblings began in Bengal BJP on Wednesday, within 24 hours of its poor showing in the state, led by party seniors like Dilip Ghosh, Sukanta Majumdar and Saumitra Khan. The principal target of their ire seemed to be ...
6 June 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: An anganwadi worker, two doctors, four actors, one investment banker, three career politicians: the list of 11 MPs (out of a total 29) who will represent the Trinamool Congress in the Lok Sabha is an eclectic mix, showcasing ...
6 June 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Adventz Group’s Texmaco Rail & Engineering, one of the leading railway companies in the country, is acquiring a 51% stake in Saira Asia Interiors Private Limited from a clutch of private investors. Saira Asia is a railway interior ...
6 June 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: A lung transplant at Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education & Research (IPGMER) ensured a fresh lease of life for a 62-year-old Gopal Das on Tuesday. Das, a fish vendor from Howrah, had been battling lung failure for ...
6 June 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The gruelling one-and-a-half-month-long Lok Sabha elections may be over, but Bengal will soon witness bypolls for ten assembly seats. It was after five newly elected Trinamool MPs needed to resign from their MLA post, and three TMC candidates, ...
6 June 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The New Town Kolkata Development Authority (NKDA) held an orientation training programme on vector-control management with house-to-house survey teams on Wednesday. This move came before field surveyors start door-to-door visits in New Town to collect household data and ...
6 June 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Kolkata Mounted Police-run paddock will shift across Dufferin Road to a plot next to Shahid Minar in the Maidan to enable the construction of the terminal station of the Joka-Esplanade Metro line. The proposed paddock has already ...
6 June 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Around 3,500 buses and app cabs, except around 150 that are being used as quick response vehicles, were back on the city roads on Wednesday, providing much-needed relief to commuters. City Suburban Bus Service’s Titu Saha and Indranil ...
6 June 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: By June-end, all platforms of Sealdah railway station will be upgraded to accommodate 12-compartments in local trains, divisional railway manager (DRM), Sealdah, Dipak Nigam said on Wednesday. Platforms 1 to 5, which were smaller than the remaining 21 ...
6 June 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: It was Go Green for Trinamool workers across the city on Wednesday, while BJP party offices in many pockets stayed low-key as the LS election results did not meet their expectations.Trinamool party offices were abuzz with activity since ...
6 June 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Even as new pavements and railings have come up on either side of Anandapur Main Road near Ruby crossing off Eastern Metropolitan Bypass, pedestrians still have to jaywalk like before. The hawkers-turned vendors have almost turned the pavements ...
6 June 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Some hospitals in Kolkata took up different initiatives in the city on Wednesday to observe the World Environment Day. Manipal Hospitals hosted a health check-up camp for tram and bus operators in collaboration with the West Bengal Transport ...
6 June 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Some hospitals in Kolkata took up different initiatives in the city on Wednesday to observe the World Environment Day. Manipal Hospitals hosted a health check-up camp for tram and bus operators in collaboration with the West Bengal Transport ...
6 June 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: On World Environment Day on Wednesday, ITC Sonar and ITC Royal Bengal inaugurated a cutting-edge electric vehicle (EV) charging station on their premises.The newly-installed EV charging station is equipped with both AC and DC chargers, catering to different ...
6 June 2024 Times of IndiaWest Bengal is poised to play a significant role in India's transport electrification efforts, particularly in scaling up electric trucks, according to the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT), a non-profit, independent research institute for sustainable transportation. With the ...
6 June 2024 Times of IndiaNEW DELHI: The Lok Sabha election results, which came in on June 4, have yielded definitive outcomes for the 42 Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal. The All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) has emerged as the dominant force, securing ...
5 June 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: In his sixth Lok Sabha contest, veteran politician and Kolkata North candidate Sudip Bandyopadhyay, 75, snatched victory coming from behind for Trinamool in one of the toughest fights and keenly followed contests where he was not only fighting ...
5 June 2024 Times of India■ Dec 1984 : A young greenhorn Congress worker from Kalighat — wearing a sari and hawai chappals — has just done the unbelievable, defeating CPM veteran Somnath Chatterjee from Jadavpur, the reddest of red citadels. Mamata Banerjee herself ...
5 June 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Bengal's voters gave BJP a feeble mandate in 2024 Lok Sabha elections, helping Trinamool Congress (TMC) contain the saffron party largely to its pockets of influence and giving CM Mamata Banerjee the double delight of a weakened Centre ...
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