Ahead of the Lok Sabha polls, the West Bengal government has signed a tripartite wage agreement for jute mill workers, officials said.The pact, which was signed on Wednesday, will impact over 3 lakh workers across 113 jute mills in ...
5 January 2024 TelegraphThe West Bengal government on Thursday told the Supreme Court that it has filed an appeal challenging a Calcutta High Court judgement which advised adolescent girls to "control sexual urges" and young men to train themselves to respect women.The ...
5 January 2024 TelegraphEnforcement Directorate sleuths on Thursday collected voice samples of Sujay Krishna Bhadra, one of the arrested accused in the school jobs scam, an ED official said. Bhadra, popularly known as 'Kalighat er Kaku' (uncle from Kalighat), is said to ...
5 January 2024 TelegraphFissures appear to have emerged in the INDIA alliance as its two key allies, the Congress and the Trinamul Congress, on Thursday clashed over seat sharing for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls in West Bengal.State Congress president Adhir Ranjan ...
5 January 2024 TelegraphThe Sikkim forest and environment department has claimed that a royal Bengal tiger and a gaur, photos of which have been recently clicked by trap cameras in the upper reaches of the state, have set new national and world ...
5 January 2024 TelegraphThe Bengal BJP leadership will have to seek the approval of the party's central screening committee before inducting leaders from rival parties seeking to join it. Taking lessons from induction exercises held in the past, the BJP wants to ...
5 January 2024 TelegraphAhead of the Lok Sabha polls, the West Bengal government has signed a tripartite wage agreement for jute mill workers, officials said.The pact, which was signed on Wednesday, will impact over 3 lakh workers across 113 jute mills in ...
5 January 2024 TelegraphTwo policemen, including a sub-inspector, were killed and three others were injured when a speeding vehicle rammed into their stationary patrolling van in West Bengal's Howrah district on Thursday, an officer said.The incident took place on National Highway 16 ...
5 January 2024 TelegraphThe perceived “rift” between the Trinamul Congress’s so-called old-guard and young brigade, playing out in public spats between followers of Mamata Banerjee and her nephew Abhishek, was marked by a fresh twist on Wednesday with a senior MLA joining ...
4 January 2024 TelegraphThe Bengal BJP leadership will have to seek the approval of the party's central screening committee before inducting leaders from rival parties seeking to join it. Taking lessons from induction exercises held in the past, the BJP wants to ...
4 January 2024 TelegraphThe election for the sole Rajya Sabha seat from Sikkim will be held on January 19. The Sikkim Legislative Assembly secretariat issued a notification in this regard on Tuesday.The election, sources said, will be conducted as the seat will ...
4 January 2024 TelegraphA firearm was seized from the schoolbag of a Class IX student in South Dinajpur on Tuesday afternoon.Police took the minor boy into custody and on Wednesday produced him before the juvenile justice board.Arrangements are being made to send ...
4 January 2024 TelegraphThe Left-backed youth organisation DYFI has taken inspiration from an age-old small savings tradition prevalent in Bengal households to raise funds for its January 7 rally at Brigade Parade Ground to celebrate its Insaaf Yatra (march for justice). The ...
4 January 2024 TelegraphThe Sikkim forest and environment department has claimed that a royal Bengal tiger and a gaur, photos of which have been recently clicked by trap cameras in the upper reaches of the state, have set new national and world ...
4 January 2024 TelegraphA migrant worker from Malda died in an accident in Nepal on Sunday.On Tuesday, the mortal remains of Mukesh Sai, who was in his late twenties, were brought to Khaspara, his native village in the Nagharia area of Englishbazar ...
4 January 2024 TelegraphOrnithologists and bird enthusiasts based in north Bengal, who started the annual waterfowl count on Wednesday, expressed fears of a drop in the turnout of migratory birds across different water bodies of the region this year.The reasons, they said, ...
4 January 2024 TelegraphA migrant worker from Malda died in an accident in Nepal on Sunday.On Tuesday, the mortal remains of Mukesh Sai, who was in his late twenties, were brought to Khaspara, his native village in the Nagharia area of Englishbazar ...
4 January 2024 TelegraphThe election for the sole Rajya Sabha seat from Sikkim will be held on January 19. The Sikkim Legislative Assembly secretariat issued a notification in this regard on Tuesday.The election, sources said, will be conducted as the seat will ...
4 January 2024 TelegraphA firearm was seized from the schoolbag of a Class IX student in South Dinajpur on Tuesday afternoon.Police took the minor boy into custody and on Wednesday produced him before the juvenile justice board.Arrangements are being made to send ...
4 January 2024 TelegraphA wild leopard was rammed to death by a vehicle on Asian Highway 48 in Alipurduar on Tuesday evening. Around 7.30pm, the incident occurred near Garganda bridge. The leopard, sources said, was male and around two years old. ...
4 January 2024 TelegraphOrnithologists and bird enthusiasts based in north Bengal, who started the annual waterfowl count on Wednesday, expressed fears of a drop in the turnout of migratory birds across different water bodies of the region this year.The reasons, they said, ...
4 January 2024 TelegraphThe Left-backed youth organisation DYFI has taken inspiration from an age-old small savings tradition prevalent in Bengal households to raise funds for its January 7 rally at Brigade Parade Ground to celebrate its Insaaf Yatra (march for justice). The ...
4 January 2024 TelegraphA tribal youth was bludgeoned to death near Raiganj in North Dinajpur on Monday when he reportedly tried to stop criminals from snatching his cellphone, the murder sparking tension in the area.On Tuesday, a section of villagers ransacked and ...
4 January 2024 TelegraphA section of students and teachers at Jadavpur University (JU) have threatened to launch a stir if the imbroglio over the appointment of a regular vice-chancellor did not end soon.Confusion has prevailed after Professor Buddhadeb Sau was removed from ...
4 January 2024 TelegraphSudipta Das, an assistant professor of Visva-Bharati's Japanese department, experienced first-hand the devastating Japan earthquake on Monday.Das, on a research assignment at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, along with his wife Sangita and four-month-old daughter Sanvika, on Monday ...
4 January 2024 TelegraphThe sudden outburst of “internal democracy” in Trinamul — in the form of statements flying thick and fast over the debate on the nouveau versus vieux — is deferring the party’s plans to dive headlong into Lok Sabha poll ...
4 January 2024 TelegraphDistrict police in Alipurduar launched an awareness drive in picnic spots on New Year’s Day to prevent drivers from drinking and driving while carrying picnickers.In the district, a number of road accidents occur during winter as some drivers carrying ...
3 January 2024 TelegraphThe sudden outburst of “internal democracy” in Trinamul — in the form of statements flying thick and fast over the debate on the nouveau versus vieux — is deferring the party’s plans to dive headlong into Lok Sabha poll ...
3 January 2024 TelegraphSuvendu Adhikari, leader of the Opposition in Bengal, on Tuesday termed "illegal" appointment of Nandini Chakravorty, a 1994-batch IAS officer, as the home secretary. Suvendu threatened to move the court alleging the state government elevated a relatively junior officer ...
3 January 2024 TelegraphA rise in the tiger population is pushing the big cats to newer terrain in the Sunderbans, foresters said.Dhanchi, a small forest island on the eastern side of G-Plot beach on the edge of the Bay of Bengal, and ...
3 January 2024 TelegraphThe management of the Tirrihannah tea estate located in Darjeeling district’s Siliguri subdivision on Tuesday alleged that high-handedness of some leaders of Trinamul’s trade union forced them to close the garden.For the past 45 days, the 1,300-acre garden, some ...
3 January 2024 TelegraphSudipta Das, an assistant professor of Visva-Bharati's Japanese department, experienced first-hand the devastating Japan earthquake on Monday.Das, on a research assignment at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, along with his wife Sangita and four-month-old daughter Sanvika, on Monday ...
3 January 2024 TelegraphThe Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) said it would consider increasing the speed of trains along the Dooars route once a system was installed on the tracks to prevent the death of wild animals. The Dooars tracks, which connect Siliguri ...
3 January 2024 TelegraphThe Sikkim government’s multi-crore Sikkim Creatorprenuer Yojana announced by chief minister Prem Singh Tamang (Golay) to promote the state’s digital creators is now being doubted after the arrest of a vlogger from Nepal by Sikkim police.The Sikkim Creatorprenuer Yojana, ...
3 January 2024 TelegraphA tribal youth was bludgeoned to death near Raiganj in North Dinajpur on Monday when he reportedly tried to stop criminals from snatching his cellphone, the murder sparking tension in the area.On Tuesday, a section of villagers ransacked and ...
3 January 2024 TelegraphThe Sikkim government’s multi-crore Sikkim Creatorprenuer Yojana announced by chief minister Prem Singh Tamang (Golay) to promote the state’s digital creators is now being doubted after the arrest of a vlogger from Nepal by Sikkim police.The Sikkim Creatorprenuer Yojana, ...
3 January 2024 TelegraphThe Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) said it would consider increasing the speed of trains along the Dooars route once a system was installed on the tracks to prevent the death of wild animals. The Dooars tracks, which connect Siliguri ...
3 January 2024 TelegraphThe management of the Tirrihannah tea estate located in Darjeeling district’s Siliguri subdivision on Tuesday alleged that high-handedness of some leaders of Trinamul’s trade union forced them to close the garden.For the past 45 days, the 1,300-acre garden, some ...
3 January 2024 TelegraphA rise in the tiger population is pushing the big cats to newer terrain in the Sunderbans, foresters said.Dhanchi, a small forest island on the eastern side of G-Plot beach on the edge of the Bay of Bengal, and ...
3 January 2024 TelegraphSuvendu Adhikari, leader of the Opposition in Bengal, on Tuesday termed "illegal" appointment of Nandini Chakravorty, a 1994-batch IAS officer, as the home secretary. Suvendu threatened to move the court alleging the state government elevated a relatively junior officer ...
3 January 2024 TelegraphDistrict police held a drive against illegal cannabis plantations on Monday and destroyed hundreds of cannabis plants grown across plots.A team from Dinhata police station, along with some senior police officers of the district, reached Ruerkuthi village and launched ...
3 January 2024 TelegraphThe ongoing rift between two groups within the ruling Trinamul Congress — the party’s old guard and its younger lot — took a turn on Monday as a section of senior party leaders engaged in a war of words ...
2 January 2024 TelegraphPiyali Basak, a debt-trapped mountaineer from Hooghly's Chandernagore who has conquered six of the 10 highest peaks in the world, opened a stall at a bookfair in her hometown to guide people in rock climbing and sell mountaineering equipment. ...
2 January 2024 TelegraphA Darjeeling resident has lifted his intermittent hunger strike near MP Raju Bista’s residence at Matigara here after the BJP legislator wrote to the agitator on Sunday about his efforts to fulfil the party’s promise of finding a “permanent ...
2 January 2024 TelegraphThe recent arrest of Uma Chamling Rai, a vlogger from Nepal, by Sikkim police and her subsequent pushback to her country has created a flutter on both sides of the international border.The events also gave an insight into the ...
2 January 2024 TelegraphA police constable was killed in a road accident when he was on night patrol duty on a national highway in Purulia shortly after the celebrations that marked the arrival of the New Year.Bablu Gorai,30, succumbed to injuries hours ...
2 January 2024 TelegraphResidents of Malbazar town in Jalpaiguri district had a big New Year surprise on Monday in the shape of a wild elephant.On Monday, around 5.45am, the elephant entered Malbazar, which is in the western Dooars, and started roaming around.“I ...
2 January 2024 TelegraphMalda police have identified a Bihar-based gang of criminals allegedly involved in the loot of a jewellery shop on Christmas.On December 25 evening, a gang of nine armed criminals entered a jewellery shop — part of a chain of ...
2 January 2024 TelegraphResidents of South Dinajpur, a district that shares borders with Bangladesh, got the first direct train to Calcutta on the first day of the New Year.On Monday, Union railway minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, virtually flagged off the Balurghat-Sealdah Express from ...
2 January 2024 TelegraphResidents of Malbazar town in Jalpaiguri district had a big New Year surprise on Monday in the shape of a wild elephant.On Monday, around 5.45am, the elephant entered Malbazar, which is in the western Dooars, and started roaming around.“I ...
2 January 2024 TelegraphMalda police have identified a Bihar-based gang of criminals allegedly involved in the loot of a jewellery shop on Christmas.On December 25 evening, a gang of nine armed criminals entered a jewellery shop — part of a chain of ...
2 January 2024 TelegraphA police constable was killed in a road accident when he was on night patrol duty on a national highway in Purulia shortly after the celebrations that marked the arrival of the New Year.Bablu Gorai,30, succumbed to injuries hours ...
2 January 2024 TelegraphResidents of South Dinajpur, a district that shares borders with Bangladesh, got the first direct train to Calcutta on the first day of the New Year.On Monday, Union railway minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, virtually flagged off the Balurghat-Sealdah Express from ...
2 January 2024 TelegraphThe recent arrest of Uma Chamling Rai, a vlogger from Nepal, by Sikkim police and her subsequent pushback to her country has created a flutter on both sides of the international border.The events also gave an insight into the ...
2 January 2024 TelegraphA Darjeeling resident has lifted his intermittent hunger strike near MP Raju Bista’s residence at Matigara here after the BJP legislator wrote to the agitator on Sunday about his efforts to fulfil the party’s promise of finding a “permanent ...
2 January 2024 TelegraphBhangar will come under Calcutta police on Tuesday when chief minister Mamata Banerjee is scheduled to inaugurate four police stations.These police stations — Chandaneswar, Bhangar, Polerhat and Uttar Kashipur — will comprise the 10th division of Calcutta police and ...
2 January 2024 TelegraphWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday congratulated TMC workers on the occasion of the party's foundation day, emphasising a steadfast commitment to resist any evil force and persist in the ongoing struggle to safeguard the democratic rights ...
2 January 2024 TelegraphRailway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw will on Monday flag-off the Balurghat-Sealdah Express, which will connect the South Dinajpur district with state capital Calcutta.Vaishnaw will flag-off the train through video conferencing at 12 pm, an official statement said.The new train will ...
2 January 2024 TelegraphAs the Trinamul Congress turned 27 on Monday, the debate over whether veterans should make way for the young brigade raged, with supremo Mamata Banerjee backing the seasoned leaders, while her nephew Abhishek advocating the retirement of elderly politicos.The ...
2 January 2024 TelegraphThe air quality in Calcutta worsened on New Year's Day, mainly due to the bursting of firecrackers at midnight, an official of the West Bengal Pollution Control Board (WBPCB) said.Immediately after the midnight celebrations, the air quality index (PM ...
2 January 2024 TelegraphUnion home minister Amit Shah and BJP national president J.P. Nadda formed a 15-member poll management committee last Tuesday, but given the shape of the organisation and factionalism in the Bengal BJP unit, several party leaders doubt if the ...
2 January 2024 TelegraphWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday congratulated TMC workers on the occasion of the party's foundation day, emphasising a steadfast commitment to resist any evil force and persist in the ongoing struggle to safeguard the democratic rights ...
2 January 2024 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday postponed her administrative and political activities scheduled for the first week of the New Year, including her visit to Sagar Island to oversee the preparedness for the mega annual congregation there, and rescheduled ...
2 January 2024 TelegraphAs the Trinamul Congress turned 27 on Monday, the debate over whether veterans should make way for the young brigade raged, with supremo Mamata Banerjee backing the seasoned leaders, while her nephew Abhishek advocating the retirement of elderly politicos.The ...
2 January 2024 TelegraphWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's scheduled programmes over the next one week were on Sunday postponed after she was advised to rest by doctors following a medical procedure on her right shoulder, an official said.Banerjee was supposed to ...
1 January 2024 TelegraphNandini Chakravorty, a 1994-batch IAS officer, took over as Bengal home secretary on Sunday from the incumbent B.P. Gopalika, who was promoted to chief secretary with H.K. Dwivedi retiring.The elevation of Chakravorty, principal secretary (tourism), to the second-most coveted ...
1 January 2024 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday postponed her administrative and political activities scheduled for the first week of the New Year, including her visit to Sagar Island to oversee the preparedness for the mega annual congregation there, and rescheduled ...
1 January 2024 TelegraphThe Bengal government has recently approved proposals for 17 new cold storage units across the state, which will help potato farmers store an additional 17,000 tonnes of the tuber."The proposals for the construction of 17 new cold storage units ...
1 January 2024 TelegraphThe Bengal forest department has announced a 25 per cent fee waiver for students for educational trips in reserve forests across the state.Debal Ray, the principal chief wildlife warden in Bengal, said on Sunday that the waiver would start ...
1 January 2024 TelegraphAnit Thapa, the Bharatiya Gorkha Prajatantrik Morcha president and GTA head, on Sunday made public his family outing to south India after five days of being away from the public eye.After Christmas, Thapa was not seen in public, giving ...
1 January 2024 TelegraphThe Bengal government is exploring the scope of tourism, clubbing heritage sites located in and around the Dhanyakuria — the village of European-style castles — in Basirhat in North 24-Parganas.A team of West Bengal Heritage Commission led by chairman ...
1 January 2024 TelegraphUnion home minister Amit Shah and BJP national president J.P. Nadda formed a 15-member poll management committee last Tuesday, but given the shape of the organisation and factionalism in the Bengal BJP unit, several party leaders doubt if the ...
1 January 2024 TelegraphHundreds of truck and commercial vehicle drivers protesting the new penal laws for hit and run cases blocked the national highway number 2 near Dankuni toll plaza in West Bengal's Hooghly district on Sunday for around two hours, police ...
1 January 2024 TelegraphThe Bengal government is exploring the scope of tourism, clubbing heritage sites located in and around the Dhanyakuria — the village of European-style castles — in Basirhat in North 24-Parganas.A team of West Bengal Heritage Commission led by chairman ...
1 January 2024 TelegraphBhangar will come under Calcutta police on Tuesday when chief minister Mamata Banerjee is scheduled to inaugurate four police stations.These police stations — Chandaneswar, Bhangar, Polerhat and Uttar Kashipur — will comprise the 10th division of Calcutta police and ...
1 January 2024 TelegraphThe Bengal forest department has announced a 25 per cent fee waiver for students for educational trips in reserve forests across the state.Debal Ray, the principal chief wildlife warden in Bengal, said on Sunday that the waiver would start ...
1 January 2024 TelegraphThe Bengal government has recently approved proposals for 17 new cold storage units across the state, which will help potato farmers store an additional 17,000 tonnes of the tuber."The proposals for the construction of 17 new cold storage units ...
1 January 2024 TelegraphAnit Thapa, the Bharatiya Gorkha Prajatantrik Morcha president and GTA head, on Sunday made public his family outing to south India after five days of being away from the public eye.After Christmas, Thapa was not seen in public, giving ...
1 January 2024 TelegraphBengal BJP chief Sukanta Majumdar on Saturday appointed Lok Sabha in-charges or prabharis for the 42 parliamentary constituencies in the state, the move close on the heels of Amit Shah and J.P. Nadda coming down to Calcutta and forming ...
1 January 2024 TelegraphPeople from all walks of life made a beeline to various tourist destinations in Kolkata and other parts of West Bengal on Sunday to make the most of the last day of the year.Tourist hotspots such as Alipore Zoo, ...
1 January 2024 TelegraphHundreds of truck and commercial vehicle drivers protesting the new penal laws for hit and run cases blocked the national highway number 2 near Dankuni toll plaza in West Bengal's Hooghly district on Sunday for around two hours, police ...
1 January 2024 TelegraphRaids, cash hauls, arrest of a cabinet minister and questioning of senior Trinamool Congress Abhishek Banerjee marked the central agencies' probe into several scams in West Bengal this year.However, the probes by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and ...
1 January 2024 TelegraphThe West Bengal government on Sunday appointed BP Gopalika as the new chief secretary of the state, an official notification said.He replaced HK Dwivedi, whose extended term ended on December 31.Unless given an extension like his predecessor, Gopalika, a ...
1 January 2024 TelegraphRSS chief Mohan Bhagwat, who is on a two-day visit to Kolkata, met tabla maestro Bickram Ghosh and veteran actor Victor Banerjee on Sunday.Bhagwat visited Ghosh's Salt Lake residence, and held a closed-door meeting."He listened to performances by me, ...
1 January 2024 TelegraphThe West Bengal government has declared 'Poila Boisakh', the first day of the Bengali New Year, as the State Day and 'Banglar Mati Banglar Jal' written by Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore as the State Song, an official notification said.The ...
1 January 2024 TelegraphBengal BJP chief Sukanta Majumdar on Saturday appointed Lok Sabha in-charges or prabharis for the 42 parliamentary constituencies in the state, the move close on the heels of Amit Shah and J.P. Nadda coming down to Calcutta and forming ...
1 January 2024 TelegraphThe Bengal government has issued a notice to temporarily halt marriage registrations from January 2 to 5.The office of the Registrar General of Marriages, West Bengal, has issued letters to around 1,000 marriage officers in the state, citing maintenance ...
1 January 2024 TelegraphThe Bengal forest department has installed 30 Artificial Intelligence (AI) enabled cameras to track the real-time movement of elephants at strategic points on the elephant corridor in Jhargram as part of a pilot project to minimise human deaths because ...
1 January 2024 TelegraphThe West Bengal government on Sunday appointed BP Gopalika as the new chief secretary of the state, an official notification said.He replaced HK Dwivedi, whose extended term ended on December 31.Unless given an extension like his predecessor, Gopalika, a ...
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