The Darjeeling district committee of the Congress has proposed to the national leadership Rahul Gandhi's public meeting near Siliguri during his Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra and the party's contest from Darjeeling and Raiganj Lok Sabha seats. Sankar Malakar, the ...
11 January 2024 TelegraphA murder in Cooch Behar took a political turn on Wednesday with the Trinamul Congress claiming that the deceased was its supporter and he had been killed by BJP workers.Police detained four persons. A section of Trinamul leaders announced ...
11 January 2024 TelegraphKalimpong is preparing for a five-day festivity starting from January 15 close on the heels of Darjeeling’s MELOtea festival last month.The organisers of the Maga Sagrati cultural festival have lined up a series of events on the Mela Ground, ...
11 January 2024 TelegraphA voluntary organisation that provides free legal aid to people and works against human trafficking is using play therapy to help trafficking survivors in their psychological and physical development.The Darjeeling District Legal Aid Forum, a Siliguri-based organisation, created a ...
11 January 2024 TelegraphThe Land Ports Authority of India (LPAI) which functions under the Union home ministry has taken the task of building an integrated check post (ICP) in Fulbari, a land port located on the southern outskirts of Siliguri in Jalpaiguri ...
11 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 ...
11 January 2024 TelegraphA murder in Cooch Behar took a political turn on Wednesday with the Trinamul Congress claiming that the deceased was its supporter and he had been killed by BJP workers.Police detained four persons. A section of Trinamul leaders announced ...
11 January 2024 TelegraphA voluntary organisation that provides free legal aid to people and works against human trafficking is using play therapy to help trafficking survivors in their psychological and physical development.The Darjeeling District Legal Aid Forum, a Siliguri-based organisation, created a ...
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 ...
11 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 TelegraphState BJP president Sukanta Majumdar on Wednesday said the Gangasagar Mela would become a congregation equivalent to Kumbh, an assurance that came after chief minister Mamata Banerjee accused the Narendra Modi government of undermining the Bengal pilgrimage that draws ...
11 January 2024 TelegraphThe Election Commission of India has directed the chief electoral officer (CEO) of Bengal to submit a comprehensive report on the state’s law and order daily.The directive was issued well in advance of the Lok Sabha poll announcement because ...
11 January 2024 TelegraphThe unprecedented rush at the Bengal Safari Park, the one-of-its-kind open-air zoological park in the region, on the outskirts of Siliguri these past few weeks has prompted park authorities to bring in six more buses for safari rides.“We are ...
11 January 2024 TelegraphAmid the impasse in Jadavpur University over the removal of officiating Vice-Chancellor Buddhadeb Sau by West Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose over two weeks back, the varsity teachers' association on Wednesday announced a sit-in demonstration on January 16 ...
11 January 2024 TelegraphWest Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose has asked senior state government officers including Chief Secretary BP Gopalika to brief him about the ration scam, an official said on Wednesday.Besides, Gopalika, Home Secretary Nandini Chakraborty and DGP Rajiv Kumar ...
11 January 2024 TelegraphThe West Bengal police on Wednesday could not record the statement of an Enforcement Directorate (ED) officer on the mob attack on the central agency’s officials during a raid on January 5, as the office-bearer concerned was "occupied", a ...
11 January 2024 TelegraphOn a day the Bengal police landed up at the Enforcement Directorate’s regional office at the CGO Complex in Salt Lake, purportedly to record statements of agency officers in connection with last week’s Sandeshkhali violence, the agency moved Calcutta ...
11 January 2024 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday made it clear that the party would make its opposition to the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), which the BJP is claiming to implement anytime now, as one of the mainstays of its Lok ...
11 January 2024 TelegraphMamata Banerjee, in her first unambiguous public response to the scheduled Ram temple inauguration at Ayodhya, said on Tuesday she believed festivals should be for everyone and suggested she had better things to do than comment on the “gimmick ...
11 January 2024 TelegraphAmid the impasse in Jadavpur University over the removal of officiating Vice-Chancellor Buddhadeb Sau by West Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose over two weeks back, the varsity teachers' association on Wednesday announced a sit-in demonstration on January 16 ...
11 January 2024 TelegraphThe West Bengal police on Wednesday could not record the statement of an Enforcement Directorate (ED) officer on the mob attack on the central agency’s officials during a raid on January 5, as the office-bearer concerned was "occupied", a ...
11 January 2024 TelegraphMamata Banerjee on Tuesday expressed her concern over the increasing trend of contract killing and directed police to arrest those hiring the murderers first to trace the source of money being allegedly used in such crimes.Speaking at a public ...
10 January 2024 TelegraphThe BJP is all set to win the sole Rajya Sabha seat of Sikkim as only one candidate of the party filed his nomination for the seat in the state till Tuesday, the last day to do so.The presence ...
10 January 2024 TelegraphThe nurses of Darjeeling district hospital have handed a bitter pill to one Manojit Mangar who was forced to fly from Bangalore and seek forgiveness by holding his ears and kneeling for making objectionable comments against the staff. Mangar, ...
10 January 2024 TelegraphA mob attacked a prominent girls’ school here on Tuesday after a Class VI student fell sick in her classroom and died after being rushed to the hospital.Sources said that around 12.40pm, Anushka Debnath, 11, a Class VI student ...
10 January 2024 TelegraphMinimum wage rate continued to elude over three lakh workers of the tea industry of the state as no decision was reached on the issue on Tuesday at the 18th meeting of the minimum wage advisory committee formed by ...
10 January 2024 TelegraphElection Commission records state that around 55 lakh voters in the age group of 18 to 30 had registered themselves between 2014 and 2019 Lok Sabha polls in Bengal and to target these young voters the BJP is planning ...
10 January 2024 TelegraphThe Siliguri Jalpaiguri Development Authority (SJDA) has decided to form a committee for a comprehensive survey of the Bidhan Market, Siliguri’s largest retail marketplace to solve the problems of hundreds of traders.Sourav Chakraborty, the chairman of SJDA, who held ...
10 January 2024 TelegraphAn entrepreneur in Malda who intends to set up a kindergarten school in the district has alleged that some goons are demanding money from him for the project.Subhankar Satiar, who said he planned to pump around Rs 50 lakh ...
10 January 2024 TelegraphThe Siliguri Jalpaiguri Development Authority (SJDA) has decided to form a committee for a comprehensive survey of the Bidhan Market, Siliguri’s largest retail marketplace to solve the problems of hundreds of traders.Sourav Chakraborty, the chairman of SJDA, who held ...
10 January 2024 TelegraphElection Commission records state that around 55 lakh voters in the age group of 18 to 30 had registered themselves between 2014 and 2019 Lok Sabha polls in Bengal and to target these young voters the BJP is planning ...
10 January 2024 TelegraphMinimum wage rate continued to elude over three lakh workers of the tea industry of the state as no decision was reached on the issue on Tuesday at the 18th meeting of the minimum wage advisory committee formed by ...
10 January 2024 TelegraphThe nurses of Darjeeling district hospital have handed a bitter pill to one Manojit Mangar who was forced to fly from Bangalore and seek forgiveness by holding his ears and kneeling for making objectionable comments against the staff. Mangar, ...
10 January 2024 TelegraphThe BJP is all set to win the sole Rajya Sabha seat of Sikkim as only one candidate of the party filed his nomination for the seat in the state till Tuesday, the last day to do so.The presence ...
10 January 2024 TelegraphMamata Banerjee on Tuesday expressed her concern over the increasing trend of contract killing and directed police to arrest those hiring the murderers first to trace the source of money being allegedly used in such crimes.Speaking at a public ...
10 January 2024 TelegraphWest Bengal minister Sovandeb Chattopadhyay on Tuesday courted controversy with his comments that the recent attack on ED officers during a raid in North 24 Parganas was a result of “explosion of public grievance”.Chattopadhyay, the state’s agriculture minister, also ...
10 January 2024 TelegraphWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday alleged that the BJP was indulging in a "gimmick show" through the inauguration of Ram Mandir in Ayodhya ahead of the Lok Sabha polls.The TMC supremo asserted that "she does not ...
10 January 2024 TelegraphThe 12th phase of 'Sagar Parikrama' which aims to resolve issues of fishermen and other stakeholders and facilitate their economic upliftment through various schemes, covering coastal regions of West Bengal, will kick-start on Wednesday, the government said on Tuesday. ...
10 January 2024 TelegraphThe health condition of music maestro Ustad Rashid Khan, who has been undergoing treatment at a Kolkata-based hospital for prostate cancer, deteriorated and is currently "very critical", an official of the medical establishment said on Tuesday.The 55-year-old musician is ...
10 January 2024 TelegraphMusic maestro Ustad Rashid Khan, who was undergoing treatment at a Kolkata-based hospital for prostate cancer, died at a Kolkata hospital this afternoon, officials said.The classical singer was 55. He is survived by his wife, two sons and a ...
10 January 2024 TelegraphCalling the upcoming inauguration of the Ram Mandir in Ayodhya on January 22 a “pre-election gimmick” which is being held “under a court order”, Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee lambasted the BJP for using the excuse to “divide the ...
10 January 2024 TelegraphFormer Calcutta Police commissioner Tushar Kanti Talukdar died at a city hospital on Tuesday following a prolonged illness, an official said.Talukdar, 85, was the commissioner of police from 1992 to 1996 during the erstwhile Left Front government.He was admitted ...
10 January 2024 TelegraphThe CBI on Tuesday filed a report before the Calcutta High Court on its investigation into the alleged irregularities in the recruitment of teaching and non-teaching staff in state-run schools in West Bengal.The School Service Commission (SSC) also submitted ...
10 January 2024 TelegraphA bank employee and his wife were killed when the car they were travelling in rammed into a passenger bus and burst into flames in West Midnapore on Monday evening. The accident occurred on a state highway near Bhadutala’s ...
10 January 2024 TelegraphThe Railway Protection Force (RPF) seized 99 Gangetic softshell turtles from a Malda-bound train from Delhi on Sunday night and arrested a person in this connection.Sources said a team of RPF from Malda and a team from its intelligence ...
10 January 2024 TelegraphStudents of mass communications at North Bengal University (NBU) — the oldest and largest varsity in north Bengal, located in the northwest of Siliguri — have taken up the task to recycle plastic bottles and garbage and make eco-bricks ...
10 January 2024 TelegraphThe Enforcement Directorate on Monday issued a statement saying Bengal police had diluted the charges against Shahjahan Sheikh and that the central agency’s complaint entailed more stringent sections.The more serious charges, the ED alleged, were not mentioned in the ...
9 January 2024 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday stressed her stand against bidding adieu to people with expertise and experience simply on account of their age, a day after her nephew and Trinamul national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee aired his views ...
9 January 2024 TelegraphThousands of devotees from the Hindi heartland have reached Ganagasagar a week before Makar Sankranti for the ritual holy dip, because this year they want to head for Ayodhya to visit the Ram temple soon after Prime Minister Narendra ...
9 January 2024 TelegraphState election commissioner Rajiva Sinha’s lawyer on Monday filed an affidavit before the division bench of the Chief Justice of Calcutta High Court in connection with the contempt case that BJP and Congress leaders Suvendu Adhikari and Adhir Ranjan ...
9 January 2024 TelegraphA group of former militants and linkmen of the Kamtapur Liberation Organisation (KLO), a proscribed terror outfit, urged chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday to expedite their recruitment as special homeguards.After being voted to power in 2011, Mamata had ...
9 January 2024 TelegraphThe Regional Research Institute for Homoeopathy (RRIH) was inaugurated by the central government on the outskirts of Siliguri on Monday.The institute, sources said, will work under the Central Council Research Homoeopathy, which functions under the Union ministry of AYUSH.Munjpara ...
9 January 2024 TelegraphStudents of mass communications at North Bengal University (NBU) — the oldest and largest varsity in north Bengal, located in the northwest of Siliguri — have taken up the task to recycle plastic bottles and garbage and make eco-bricks ...
9 January 2024 TelegraphA bank employee and his wife were killed when the car they were travelling in rammed into a passenger bus and burst into flames in West Midnapore on Monday evening. The accident occurred on a state highway near Bhadutala’s ...
9 January 2024 TelegraphFormer TMC Lok Sabha MP Mahua Moitra was issued a notice on Monday by the Directorate of Estates (DoE) for not vacating her government bungalow, a source in the Union Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry said. The Trinamul Congress ...
9 January 2024 TelegraphExpressing despair, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday said that though Gangasagar Mela was one of the largest religious congregations in the world, the Centre has not given it the due recognition.Speaking at an official programme at ...
9 January 2024 TelegraphOf all the fissures within the Trinamul Congress leadership that have cropped up in the recent past, the one between writer-turned-politician Manoranjan Bapari and a section of the party leadership in Hooghly’s Balagarh appears to be standing on a ...
9 January 2024 TelegraphThe Regional Research Institute for Homoeopathy (RRIH) was inaugurated by the central government on the outskirts of Siliguri on Monday.The institute, sources said, will work under the Central Council Research Homoeopathy, which functions under the Union ministry of AYUSH.Munjpara ...
9 January 2024 TelegraphA group of former militants and linkmen of the Kamtapur Liberation Organisation (KLO), a proscribed terror outfit, urged chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday to expedite their recruitment as special homeguards.After being voted to power in 2011, Mamata had ...
9 January 2024 TelegraphThousands of devotees from the Hindi heartland have reached Ganagasagar a week before Makar Sankranti for the ritual holy dip, because this year they want to head for Ayodhya to visit the Ram temple soon after Prime Minister Narendra ...
9 January 2024 TelegraphTrinamul Congress’s core committee for North 24-Parganas, constituted by Mamata Banerjee last week, will hold its first meeting on Monday in Madhyamgram as a damage-control exercise after the attack on an Enforcement Directorate contingent at Sandeshkhali and the arrest ...
9 January 2024 TelegraphThe Enforcement Directorate's unit in West Bengal has submitted a report to its headquarters about the attack on its team during a raid in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district last week, officials said on Monday.Three ED officers were ...
9 January 2024 TelegraphAmid the furore over the assault on three ED officials, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday said that those questioning West Bengal's law and order situation were trying to malign the state.Banerjee asserted that Calcutta has been adjudged the ...
9 January 2024 TelegraphOf all the fissures within the Trinamul Congress leadership that have cropped up in the recent past, the one between writer-turned-politician Manoranjan Bapari and a section of the party leadership in Hooghly’s Balagarh appears to be standing on a ...
9 January 2024 TelegraphEven as the prime accused in the assault on Enforcement Directorate officials in Sandeshkhali, Trinamul Congress leader Shahjahan Sheikh, continues to evade the police three days after the incident, the central agency practically pointed fingers at the district ...
9 January 2024 TelegraphExpressing despair, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday said that though Gangasagar Mela was one of the largest religious congregations in the world, the Centre has not given it the due recognition.Speaking at an official programme at ...
9 January 2024 TelegraphWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday described the Supreme Court's order as "strong and bold" after it quashed the remission to 11 men convicted of gangraping Bilkis Bano and murdering seven of her family members during the ...
9 January 2024 TelegraphFormer TMC Lok Sabha MP Mahua Moitra was issued a notice on Monday by the Directorate of Estates (DoE) for not vacating her government bungalow, a source in the Union Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry said. The Trinamul Congress ...
9 January 2024 TelegraphThe Enforcement Directorate's unit in West Bengal has submitted a report to its headquarters about the attack on its team during a raid in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district last week, officials said on Monday.Three ED officers were ...
9 January 2024 TelegraphAmid the furore over the assault on three ED officials, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday said that those questioning West Bengal's law and order situation were trying to malign the state.Banerjee asserted that Calcutta has been adjudged the ...
9 January 2024 TelegraphWest Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose has sought a report from the state government on action taken in response to a mob attack on ED officers, who conducted a raid at TMC leader Sahajahan Sheikh’s house in connection ...
9 January 2024 TelegraphSenior TMC leader Chandrima Bhattacharya has filed a police complaint against BJP leader Amit Malviya for allegedly making defamatory remarks against West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.Bhattacharya’s complaint was in response to Malviya's post on X where he claimed ...
9 January 2024 TelegraphEven as the prime accused in the assault on Enforcement Directorate officials in Sandeshkhali, Trinamul Congress leader Shahjahan Sheikh, continues to evade the police three days after the incident, the central agency practically pointed fingers at the district ...
9 January 2024 TelegraphWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday described the Supreme Court's order as "strong and bold" after it quashed the remission to 11 men convicted of gangraping Bilkis Bano and murdering seven of her family members during the ...
9 January 2024 TelegraphThe West Bengal government has undertaken essential dredging operations in the Muri Ganga river in South 24 Parganas district to remove sandbars that could hinder the movement of large vessels during the Gangasagar Mela, an official said on Sunday.According ...
8 January 2024 TelegraphThe Enforcement Directorate has sought BSF help in the search for Trinamul leader Shahjahan Sheikh, whom the central agency suspects to be hiding in the Sunderbans delta and looking to escape to Bangladesh.Shahjahan and his “associates” face a police ...
8 January 2024 TelegraphSenior TMC leader Chandrima Bhattacharya has filed a police complaint against BJP leader Amit Malviya for allegedly making defamatory remarks against West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.Bhattacharya’s complaint was in response to Malviya's post on X where he claimed ...
8 January 2024 TelegraphWest Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose has sought a report from the state government on action taken in response to a mob attack on ED officers, who conducted a raid at TMC leader Sahajahan Sheikh’s house in connection ...
8 January 2024 TelegraphThe CPM on Sunday used the Brigade Parade Ground’s big stage for twin purposes — to signal that the time was ripe to roll out its youth brigade for greater political responsibilities and to sound the bugle for the ...
8 January 2024 TelegraphTrinamul Congress national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee, the champion of the new guard in the raging nouveau versus vieux debate in Bengal’s ruling dispensation, on Sunday ruled out a rift with the old, led by his aunt and party ...
8 January 2024 TelegraphJalpaiguri police have registered a case against district BJP leaders for organising a public meeting led by state unit chief Sukanta Majumdar on a prominent thoroughfare of the town on Saturday which halted traffic, acting on a complaint by ...
8 January 2024 TelegraphA realtor and former Murshidabad general secretary of the Trinamul Congress, Sattyen Chowdhury, was murdered on Sunday by three unidentified persons here on Sunday afternoon.Chowdhury, who was in his early sixties, was sitting on a chair in an open ...
8 January 2024 TelegraphCPI(M) state secretary Mohammed Salim on Sunday vehemently criticised the ruling TMC in West Bengal and the BJP-led NDA government at the Centre, accusing them of "neglecting" livelihood issues and "misleading" people with communal politics and corrupt practices.Addressing a ...
8 January 2024 TelegraphA realtor and former Murshidabad general secretary of the Trinamul Congress, Sattyen Chowdhury, was murdered on Sunday by three unidentified persons here on Sunday afternoon.Chowdhury, who was in his early sixties, was sitting on a chair in an open ...
8 January 2024 TelegraphJalpaiguri police have registered a case against district BJP leaders for organising a public meeting led by state unit chief Sukanta Majumdar on a prominent thoroughfare of the town on Saturday which halted traffic, acting on a complaint by ...
8 January 2024 TelegraphTrinamul Congress’s core committee for North 24-Parganas, constituted by Mamata Banerjee last week, will hold its first meeting on Monday in Madhyamgram as a damage-control exercise after the attack on an Enforcement Directorate contingent at Sandeshkhali and the arrest ...
8 January 2024 TelegraphTrinamul Congress national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee, the champion of the new guard in the raging nouveau versus vieux debate in Bengal’s ruling dispensation, on Sunday ruled out a rift with the old, led by his aunt and party ...
8 January 2024 TelegraphThe CPM on Sunday used the Brigade Parade Ground’s big stage for twin purposes — to signal that the time was ripe to roll out its youth brigade for greater political responsibilities and to sound the bugle for the ...
8 January 2024 TelegraphA stationary cargo vessel on the Muri Ganga river in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district caught fire on Saturday, police said.Nobody was injured in the incident, they said.Fire tenders were immediately pressed into service to bring the blaze ...
8 January 2024 TelegraphExpressing concern that TMC leader Sahajahan Sheikh, the prime accused in the case of assault on ED officials, may have "crossed the border", West Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose has instructed authorities to arrest him immediately and investigate ...
8 January 2024 TelegraphCPI(M) state secretary Mohammed Salim on Sunday vehemently criticised the ruling TMC in West Bengal and the BJP-led NDA government at the Centre, accusing them of "neglecting" livelihood issues and "misleading" people with communal politics and corrupt practices.Addressing a ...
8 January 2024 TelegraphSenior Trinamul Congress leader Abhishek Banerjee on Sunday emphasised that the party was united under the leadership of supremo Mamata Banerjee and asserted there was no difference between the old guard and the new generation, amid reports of an ...
8 January 2024 TelegraphSenior Trinamul Congress leader Abhishek Banerjee on Sunday launched a pension scheme for senior citizens in his Diamond Harbour constituency ahead of the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.Opposition BJP, however, questioned the source of funds needed for the initiative.Under the ...
8 January 2024 TelegraphBihar chief minister and key leader of INDIA bloc Nitish Kumar is scheduled to visit Calcutta later this month to speak at a national symposium to commemorate the death anniversary of CPM patriarch Jyoti Basu.Nitish’s scheduled visit assumes significance ...
8 January 2024 TelegraphTwenty-four hours after the mob attack on Enforcement Directorate officials during a raid in connection with the PDS scam on Sheikh Shahjahan’s residence at Sandeshkhali in North 24-Parganas, large parts of the Trinamul strongman’s village Sarberia and adjacent Dhamakhali ...
8 January 2024 TelegraphA stationary cargo vessel on the Muri Ganga river in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district caught fire on Saturday, police said.Nobody was injured in the incident, they said.Fire tenders were immediately pressed into service to bring the blaze ...
8 January 2024 TelegraphTwenty-four hours after the mob attack on Enforcement Directorate officials during a raid in connection with the PDS scam on Sheikh Shahjahan’s residence at Sandeshkhali in North 24-Parganas, large parts of the Trinamul strongman’s village Sarberia and adjacent Dhamakhali ...
7 January 2024 TelegraphSukanta Majumdar, the Bengal BJP president, held a public meeting in Jalpaiguri on Saturday by blocking a prominent thoroughfare for over an hour.Trinamul termed the meeting illegal and alleged that Majumdar had resorted to such a move to provoke ...
7 January 2024 TelegraphThe DYFI will on Sunday mark the culmination of its 50-day Insaaf Yatra (the march for justice) at Brigade Parade Ground here with a rally to sharpen its fight against the "communal BJP and the corrupt Trinamul" ahead of ...
7 January 2024 TelegraphOnly 6,862 persons have received loans under the Bhabishyat Credit Card (BCC) scheme so far, a number way short of its target of providing loans to two lakh youths annually to help them generate livelihood opportunities.The figure was revealed ...
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