West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday promised to resolve the concerns of minorities and assured them of her support in the wake of the recently passed Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025.Declaring that it was her policy to allow ...
10 April 2025 Indian ExpressCommunist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation General Secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya has written to President Droupadi Murmu over the Supreme Court’s decision to terminate nearly 26,000 teachers in West Bengal, urging her intervention to save the teachers.In a letter, a ...
10 April 2025 Indian ExpressA group of teachers and non-teaching staff who lost their jobs due to a Supreme Court ruling which annulled the appointments of over 25,000 West Bengal school staff clashed with the police outside the office of the district inspector ...
10 April 2025 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Education Minister Bratya Basu on Wednesday questioned why a group of people who lost their jobs after the Supreme Court upheld the invalidation of more than 25,000 teaching and non-teaching appointments over irregularities in the recruitment process ...
10 April 2025 Indian ExpressThe police in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district arrested 22 people Wednesday in connection with the violence and arson during protests against the Waqf Act, even as the internet remained suspended in Jangipur and surrounding areas.Authorities clamped prohibitory orders in ...
10 April 2025 Indian ExpressIN THE aftermath of a car crash in Thakurpukur market on Sunday morning, which claimed a life and injured several other persons, a wave of questions and concerns is emerging from Tollywood — or the Bengali entertainment industry — ...
10 April 2025 Indian ExpressDays after a vegetable vendor was killed and several others injured after a car crashed into them at a market in Kolkata’s Thakurpukur, Trinamool Congress (TMC) spokesperson Kunal Ghosh raised several questions on the probe into the accident, including ...
10 April 2025 Indian ExpressOn Tuesday, the Hindu Seva Dal approached the Calcutta High Court seeking permission to hold a procession at the Red Road for Hanuman Jayanti.According to the petitioners’ counsel Mayukh Mukherjee, “The petitioner wants to hold a colourful procession on ...
9 April 2025 Indian ExpressIn the aftermath of the car crash in Thakurpukur market on Sunday morning, which claimed a life and injured several other persons, a wave of questions and concerns is emerging from Tollywood and social media.A day after a vegetable ...
9 April 2025 Indian ExpressPolice vehicles were torched and stones pelted as a group of protesters clashed with the police in Jangipur, Murshidabad, on Tuesday. The incident took place during protests against Waqf (Amendment ) law. A large police contingent has been posted ...
9 April 2025 Indian ExpressOn Tuesday, Justice Tirthankar Ghosh of the Calcutta High Court granted permission to Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari and BJP MLA Ashok Dinda to visit the violence-hit Mothabari area of West Bengal on April 11.Mayukh Mukherjee, counsel for the ...
9 April 2025 Indian ExpressAmid a crisis after the Supreme Court verdict to terminate the services of almost 26,000 teachers in state/state-aided schools in West Bengal, para-teachers went on a three-day strike, demanding a hike in their salaries.According to the State school education ...
9 April 2025 Indian Express“They must give us a job… I am not a tainted candidate. I am the only breadwinner of my family. I have aged parents, a wife and a one-year-old child. What will I feed them now?” Surojit Malakar, a ...
9 April 2025 Indian ExpressThe Opposition BJP on Monday blamed Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for the Supreme Court’s order annulling over 25,000 school jobs, asking why her government could not provide the court a list of teachers who were “genuine” and those who ...
9 April 2025 Indian ExpressThe West Bengal Board of Secondary Education (WBBSE) Monday appealed to the Supreme Court to allow teachers “not found to be tainted” to continue services until the end of the academic year “or until the process of fresh appointments ...
8 April 2025 Indian ExpressStating that the teacher’s strength in West Bengal government schools is already “strained’, the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education (WBBSE) on Monday moved a petition in the Supreme Court seeking modification of its April 3 order annulling appointments ...
8 April 2025 Indian ExpressMinutes after West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee held a meeting on Monday with teachers who lost their jobs after a Supreme Court ruling, the Opposition BJP sharply criticised her, saying that she is “misleading” the candidates.State BJP leadership ...
8 April 2025 Indian ExpressBefore West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee addressed the loss of jobs for teachers in her state at the Netaji Indoor stadium early Monday morning, a scuffle broke out between teachers who entered the stadium and a section of candidates ...
8 April 2025 Indian ExpressAssuring to protect the jobs of government teachers whose appointments were cancelled by the Supreme Court last week, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday urged them to return to their respective schools and “voluntarily” resume duties while ...
8 April 2025 Indian ExpressA vegetable vendor has died of his injuries, and eight other people are critically injured, after a film and television director’s car allegedly veered into a crowded Kolkata market after he lost control of the wheel on Sunday morning.At ...
8 April 2025 Indian ExpressThere was unprecedented security at Shibpur in Howrah district on Sunday for the Vishwa Hindu Parishad’s Ram Navami procession, which had got a nod from the Calcutta High Court.In 2023, Shibpur saw a mob go on a rampage, attacking ...
8 April 2025 Indian ExpressChief Minister Mamata Banerjee Monday extended her support to thousands of teaching and non-teaching staffers who recently lost their jobs in West Bengal’s government and aided schools, assuring them that she would do everything in her capacity to restore ...
8 April 2025 Indian ExpressIn the wake of a recent seizure of a large amount of fake and substandard medicines from a warehouse in Titagarh, the West Bengal government is going to issue a strict advisory to all the pharmacists in the state.Sources ...
7 April 2025 Indian ExpressAmid heavy police deployment, Ram Navami was celebrated peacefully in West Bengal. The past two years saw the festivities marred by violence in the state.On Sunday, as Ram Navami processions were taken out in different parts of the state, ...
7 April 2025 Indian ExpressRam Navami was celebrated on the Jadavpur University campus for the first time by students affiliated with the ABVP despite being denied permission by the university authorities. The celebrations took place at the Technology Bhawan entrance where the alleged ...
7 April 2025 Indian ExpressLeader of Opposition in West Bengal Assembly Suvendu Adhikari Sunday laid the foundation stone of a Ram Temple at Nandigram in Purba Medinipur district on the occasion of Ram Navami.Adhikari is the BJP MLA from Nandigram. The foundation stone ...
7 April 2025 Indian ExpressThe Kolkata Police and the West Bengal Police have tightened security in their respective jurisdictions ahead of Ram Navami on Sunday.According to sources, the West Bengal Police have deployed 29 IPS officers in 10 sensitive regions, including six police ...
7 April 2025 Indian ExpressThe recent Supreme Court verdict cancelling the appointment of over 25,000 Bengal government school teachers has not only put the future of the sacked teachers and their families in jeopardy but also left the schools grappling to complete the ...
7 April 2025 Indian ExpressWith thousands of Ram Navami rallies scheduled to hit the streets on Sunday, the West Bengal secretariat at Nabanna remains open to monitor the situation. Raj Bhavan too has reactivated the 24×7 ‘peace room’ with ample manpower to take ...
7 April 2025 Indian ExpressA section of the West Bengal schoolteachers who lost their jobs when the Supreme Court upheld the invalidation of 25,753 teacher appointments over irregularities in the recruitment process is planning to file a review petition as well as to ...
7 April 2025 Indian ExpressA 48-year-old man died after an alleged violent altercation over a parking space in Kolkata’s Tangra area on Sunday.Arun Kumar Gupta, a resident of Mathurbabu Lane in Tangra, was allegedly beaten up by Aryan Shaw and his brother when ...
7 April 2025 Indian ExpressWest Bengal is set to experience a period of fluctuating weather conditions in the coming days, with the IMD forecasting a mix of heatwaves, thunderstorms, and rainfall. While some regions may find temporary relief from the heat, the humidity ...
7 April 2025 Indian ExpressA war of words has erupted between the Trinamool Congress (TMC) and the BJP in West Bengal after former Calcutta High Court judge and BJP MP Abhijit Gangopadhyay on Friday proposed that a committee be set up to look ...
7 April 2025 Indian ExpressThe West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) on Friday said it would abide by the Supreme Court directive and soon initiate the process of conducting fresh exams for all teaching and non-teaching candidates, who took part in the now-invalidated ...
6 April 2025 Indian Express“My science faculty is almost entirely gone. How will we run classes?” said Kakoli Chowdhury, headmistress of Sailaja Memorial Girls High School in Lalgola, Murshidabad, where the employment of 18 out of 46 teachers is to be cancelled after ...
6 April 2025 Indian ExpressDismissing a petition filed by the Ram Navami Celebration Committee, the Calcutta High Court on Thursday directed that the Ram Navami procession in Bankura Town will take the route proposed by the police, with a diversion of 100 m ...
5 April 2025 Indian ExpressThe Calcutta High Court on Thursday directed the state administration to reconstitute the Paschim Medinipur Women’s Police Station in the wake of the allegations of torture of students who were detained during a protest on the Vidyasagar University campus.Raising ...
5 April 2025 Indian ExpressSoma Das, the cancer survivor and the sole exception to the Calcutta High Court’s order nullifying the appointments of nearly 26,000 teachers and non-teaching staff, expressed her disappointment and empathy following the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the High ...
5 April 2025 Indian ExpressMoments after the Supreme Court upheld the Calcutta High Court’s verdict to dismiss almost 26,000 teachers and non-teaching staff across various schools run or aided by the West Bengal government, the state’s Opposition parties slammed the ruling TMC.Meanwhile, reacting ...
4 April 2025 Indian ExpressA wave of despair has washed over thousands of teachers in West Bengal following the Supreme Court’s decision to invalidate the appointments of nearly 26,000 teachers and staff in state-run and state-aided schools.For months, teachers have been meeting at ...
4 April 2025 Indian ExpressThe Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) approached the Calcutta High Court on Wednesday to seek permission to hold a Ram Navami procession in Bankura’s Saltora, on allegations that police did not give them permission.Justice Tirthankar Ghosh has given permission to ...
4 April 2025 Indian ExpressThe Sundarban Tiger Reserve (STR) has now also become a haven for birds. Recently, STR authorities made a report on the occasion of their third annual bird festival, which cites 154 sighted species of birds in the reserve — ...
4 April 2025 Indian ExpressAfter the Supreme Court upheld the Calcutta HC’s verdict to dismiss almost 26,000 teachers and non-teaching staff across various schools run or aided by the West Bengal government, the state’s Opposition parties slammed the ruling TMC.In April 2024, a ...
4 April 2025 Indian ExpressCHIEF MINISTER Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday hit out at the Centre over the hike in medicine prices and announced that her party, the TMC, would protest across the state on Friday and Saturday. She also urged all section of ...
3 April 2025 Indian ExpressIn anticipation of the upcoming Ram Navami celebrations, the West Bengal Police has cancelled all leaves for its personnel across the state until April 9.An order signed by the Additional Director General of Law and Order came into effect ...
3 April 2025 Indian ExpressTHE POLICE on Wednesday said they arrested one person – Chandrakant Banik – in connection with an explosion in the Dholahat area of West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district that claimed the lives of eight other members of the ...
3 April 2025 Indian ExpressJUST LIKE a middle-aged woman character catches the eye of a policeman when she solves a theft case in a popular Bengali TV serial, the Kolkata police found some help from a woman that led to the arrest of ...
3 April 2025 Indian ExpressA devastating explosion ripped through a house in South 24 Paraganas district, West Bengal, late Tuesday night, claiming the lives of eight persons of a family, including young children. While authorities are yet to determine the exact cause, local ...
3 April 2025 Indian ExpressIn a first, the Paschim Banga Samagra Shiksha Mission (PBSSM) has issued a directive to all District Education Officers for the implementation of safety measures for preventing stray dog attacks on children in West Bengal.According to the directive, state ...
3 April 2025 Indian ExpressAs Bengal police beef up security for the upcoming Ram Navami celebrations, the West Bengal Police have cancelled all leaves for its personnel across the state until April 9.An order signed by the Additional Director General of Law and ...
3 April 2025 Indian ExpressTwo days were left for his retirement when loco-pilot Gangeswar Mal died in a train accident. On Tuesday, two goods trains clashed near the Barhat Station in Sahibganj district of Jharkhand.Mal (65), who was a resident of Bhatapara in ...
3 April 2025 Indian ExpressThe Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) approached the Calcutta High Court on Wednesday to seek permission to hold a Ram Navami procession in Bankura’s Saltora, on allegations that police did not give them permission.Justice Tirthankar Ghosh has given permission to ...
3 April 2025 Indian ExpressThe Bar Library Club, the Bar Association and the Incorporated Law Society of the Calcutta High Court Tuesday observed a token protest in court regarding the transfer of Judges from Delhi High Court to the Calcutta High Court.Recently, the ...
3 April 2025 Indian ExpressA day after an explosion inside a house in Dholahat, South 24 Parganas, police have filed a case against two brothers. The family had been allegedly involved in the fireworks business for more than a decade, reportedly holding a ...
3 April 2025 Indian ExpressAs the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) plans for over 2,000 rallies, 200 tableaus and Sree Ram Mahostav at 5,000 locations for Ram Navami in West Bengal, the organisation says it is concerned about “security” in the state.Chandranath Das, VHP ...
2 April 2025 Indian ExpressLeader of Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly Suvendu Adhikari moved the Calcutta High Court Tuesday after police denied him permission to visit Mothabari and to hold a protest rally at Kanthi concerning the recent communal clashes and violence ...
2 April 2025 Indian ExpressThe death toll in the blast at a firecracker manufacturing unit housed in a residence in the Patharpratima area of South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal has risen to eight. The death toll includes four children.On Monday night, ...
2 April 2025 Indian ExpressPrivate bus owners in the state strongly opposed the decision of the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) to hike toll tax by 5 per cent, scheduled to come into effect from April 1.The Joint Council of Bus Syndicates, ...
2 April 2025 Indian ExpressTo protest or not to protest has divided the TMC leaders over the heckling of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee allegedly by SFI members at an event in Oxford last week. While a section of TMC leaders have vociferously condemned ...
1 April 2025 Indian ExpressWhile discounting Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s weeklong visit to the United Kingdom (UK) as “nothing” but a few “controversies and dramas”, senior Congress leader Adhir Chowdhury on Monday came out in support of her on the Oxford incident, saying ...
1 April 2025 Indian ExpressAt least seven persons, including four children, were killed in a blast at a house with a firecracker manufacturing unit in the Patharpratima area of South 24 Parganas district, West Bengal, on Monday night.Police said that many people are ...
1 April 2025 Indian Express“Dispute over payment” with someone he met through a gay dating app led to the murder of a 22-year-old house help in the Charu Market area of Kolkata, police said on Monday after arresting a 30-year-old man from Baruipur ...
1 April 2025 Indian ExpressA section of TMC leaders “did not stand behind (West Bengal CM) Mamata Banerjee” after an incident at Oxford University where she faced protests from students, said youth TMC leader and in-charge of party IT-cell Debangshu Bhattacharya.He also alleged ...
1 April 2025 Indian ExpressA 22-YEAR-OLD man was found dead in an apartment on Deshpran Sasmal Road area in Kolkata’s Charu Market on Saturday, police said. Police identified the deceased as Abinash Bauri from Barakar, Asansol, adding that it is likely that he ...
1 April 2025 Indian ExpressIN RESPONSE to a number of ‘suicide pact’ and murder cases reported in the city over the apst few weeks, the Kolkata Police have launched an “urgent” campaign to promote their mental health helpline and offer support to citizens.Using ...
1 April 2025 Indian ExpressDays after communal tension in West Bengal’s Malda district, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday urged people not to fall for provocations that could incite communal violence and emphasised her government’s commitment to protecting social harmony.Addressing an Eid event ...
1 April 2025 Indian ExpressA 22-year-old man — the only breadwinner for his mother, uncle, and aunt — died on Sunday near Cuttack station, when the Bengaluru-Kamakhya AC Express derailed.Subhankar Roy had been on the train with his mother, Chitra Roy, returning home ...
1 April 2025 Indian ExpressThe West Bengal government has sought the cooperation of the Bihar and Uttar Pradesh governments in its investigation of spurious drugs recovered from various places including in North 24 Parganas and Malda, stating that many such medicines were made ...
1 April 2025 Indian ExpressAmid communal tensions in Mothabari in the Malda district of West Bengal, the police Sunday stopped a BJP delegation under the leadership of president and Union minister Sukanta Majumdar, citing prohibitory orders in the area.Internet services were suspended, and ...
31 March 2025 Indian ExpressAn order was issued from the West Bengal Raj Bhavan Saturday requesting a refund of the expenses incurred for the 2024 convocation ceremony of Jadavpur University. The letter was sent two days after Bhaskar Gupta was removed from his ...
31 March 2025 Indian ExpressThe India Meteorological Department has issued heatwave warnings for four South Bengal districts for Sunday: North 24 Parganas, South 24 Parganas, West Midnapore, and West Burdwan. Temperatures are likely to drop by two to three degrees only after April ...
31 March 2025 Indian ExpressTMC MLA Akhil Giri was injured as violence marred the elections for the 13 board members of a co-operative bank in Contai in Purba Medinipur district on Saturday.Leader of Opposition and BJP MLA Suvendu Adhikari is the chairman of ...
31 March 2025 Indian ExpressAmid tension in Mothabari in Malda, the West Bengal Police on Saturday urged people to not pay heed to rumours and incitement on social media, and warned “miscreants” against trying to create trouble during the upcoming Eid and Ram ...
31 March 2025 Indian ExpressWith the early onset of summer and prevailing heatwave conditions across large parts of West Bengal, the state primary education department has ordered schools to modify school timings without disrupting the academic calendar.According to the Meteorological Department, heatwave conditions ...
30 March 2025 Indian ExpressIt was an end to a six-day ordeal for Hariprasad, a naughty pet dog that gobbled up a cotton furred foot of Donald Duck that he was playing with. In a rare feat, an expert team of vets from ...
30 March 2025 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Leader of the Opposition Suvendu Adhikari wrote to External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Friday, urging him to prevent Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee from travelling abroad in the future “to ensure she does not get the opportunity ...
30 March 2025 Indian ExpressTHE CALCUTTA High Court on Friday, during a hearing in the RG Kar rape and murder case, asked the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to submit the case diary in connection with the first five days of the investigation ...
30 March 2025 Indian ExpressA fast-track court in Purba Bardhaman district on Friday evening ordered jail sentence to 13 TMC leaders and party workers, including the chairperson of Burdwan Development Authority (BDA), after convicting them in an eight-year-old murder attempt case.While BDA chairperson ...
30 March 2025 Indian ExpressINTERNET SERVICES have been suspended and prohibitory orders were issued in the Mothabari area and surrounding areas of West Bengal’s Malda following clashes between two communities on Thursday. A large contingent of police personnel has been posted in the ...
30 March 2025 Indian ExpressBefore leaving London, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday in her “X” handle post expressed pride over her experience at the Oxford University and also said that she would not backtrack in the wake of the protests ...
30 March 2025 Indian ExpressThe Internet has been suspended and prohibitory orders were issued in the Mothabari area and surrounding areas of West Bengal’s Malda following clashes between two communities. A large contingent of policemen has been posted in the area and 34 ...
29 March 2025 Indian ExpressThe students’ wing of the CPI(M), Student Federation of India (SFI), took responsibility for the protest during West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s speech at Oxford University’s Kellogg College in England. The TMC sharply criticised the SFI.A statement by ...
29 March 2025 Indian ExpressAfter the R G Kar rape and murder case in August 2024, where a postgraduate trainee doctor was found dead in a seminar hall of the medical college, protests broke out across West Bengal. The state’s Chief Minister, on ...
29 March 2025 Indian ExpressAfter completing a six-day London visit, the West Bengal Chief Minister is returning to Kolkata on Saturday. During her visit, CM Mamata Banerjee raised some issues concerning her state. On the other hand, she faced criticism and protests as ...
29 March 2025 Indian ExpressOn Thursday, Jadavpur University interim Vice Chancellor Bhaskar Gupta was removed from his post — four days before his retirement.The University has been in turmoil since March 1, when protests for students’ elections turned violent — after a WBCUPA ...
29 March 2025 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee faced protesters as she delivered an address at Kellogg College at the University of Oxford in England on Thursday where she faced questions on the RG Kar rape-murder and Singur issue, among others.In ...
29 March 2025 Indian ExpressThe Calcutta High Court on Thursday directed Jadavpur University (JU) administration to not invite any political functionary to programmes organised on the campus. Instead, the High Court said, the university should invite only academicians.A Division Bench of Chief Justice ...
28 March 2025 Indian ExpressWEST BENGAL Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee highlighted her government’s work for the development of women and underlined her fight for unity among all communities as she addressed a packed hall in Oxford University’s Kellogg College on Thursday.“India is a ...
28 March 2025 Indian ExpressAmid the ongoing protests by a section of students of the Rabindra Bharati University (RBU) against Interim Vice-Chancellor Shubhra Kamal Mukherjee, the Calcutta High Court on Thursday ordered that no outsider should be allowed to enter the university’s campuses.Justice ...
28 March 2025 Indian ExpressGoing beyond conventions, Anirban Ghosh uses more than one media to create a single work of art or a series of works.At “Inscribed Imaging”, a multimedia artwork currently being exhibited in Kolkata, Ghosh makes it essential for the viewers ...
28 March 2025 Indian ExpressOnce again, the issue of a separate state of Gorkhaland, or a “permanent political solution” for the Hills, is in focus as the Union Home Ministry called for tripartite talks. The long-standing demand to grant Scheduled Tribe (ST) status ...
28 March 2025 Indian ExpressThe West Bengal government has decided to provide alternative housing to families who lost their houses last week due to land subsidence in Belgachia Vagar area, Howrah district, and also stop dumping garbage in the landfill.On Thursday morning, a ...
28 March 2025 Indian ExpressState Irrigation Minister Manas Bhuiyan on Wednesday said a unique model for dredging operations is being implemented on a pilot basis in which no cost will be incurred by the state exchequer.Addressing mediapersons in Kolkata, the minister said that ...
28 March 2025 Indian ExpressShots were allegedly fired and bombs thrown near the home of Arjun Singh, a former member of Parliament and leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), in West Bengal’s Bhatpara, North 24 Parganas district, police reported. The incident occurred ...
28 March 2025 Indian ExpressThe West Bengal government has decided to provide alternate housing to families who lost their houses in Howrah district’s Belgachhia Vagar area, and stop dumping garbage in the landfill.On Thursday morning, a landslide in the area at the edge ...
28 March 2025 Indian ExpressThe Cyber Crime Wing (CCW) of West Bengal Police on Wednesday said that it has busted a fake call centre in the Lake Town area of Kolkata and arrested 21 people, including four women.In a statement, the police said ...
28 March 2025 Indian ExpressWith the monsoon season approaching, the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) is ramping up its efforts to prevent outbreaks of dengue and malaria, declaring 68 out of its 144 wards as “dangerous” zones.This announcement, made by Deputy Mayor Atin Ghosh, ...
27 March 2025 Indian ExpressStating that Interim Vice-Chancellor of Rabindra Bharati University (RBU) Shubhra Kamal Mukherjee cannot be stopped from entering the campus amid the ongoing protests by a group of students, the Calcutta High Court on Tuesday directed the police to submit ...
27 March 2025 Indian ExpressStating that “the spring of China-India relations is arriving”, Chinese Consul General in Kolkata Xu Wei on Tuesday said the two countries are working towards resuming direct flights and would jointly hold events to celebrate 75th anniversary of diplomatic ...
27 March 2025 Indian ExpressAlmost after 150 hours, the students of Kolkata’s Presidency University have withdrawn their sit-in citing partial acceptance of their demands.The protest, led by nearly 50 members of the Students Federation of India (SFI), began on March 20 on the ...
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