Darjeeling Himalayan Railway (DHR) enthusiasts have expressed their concern over the recent derailments of toy trains in the hills.Since December 15, at least four incidents of derailment and an incident of technical snag in the loco have been reported ...
7 January 2024 TelegraphJohn Barla, the Alipurduar BJP MP and Union minister of state for minority affairs, visited two closed tea gardens in Jalpaiguri on Saturday and slammed the Mamata Banerjee government for not taking steps to reopen the gardens.Barla went to ...
7 January 2024 TelegraphFriday’s attack on Enforcement Directorate officials during a raid on the home of Trinamul leader Shahjahan Sheikh in Sandeshkhali has had Bengal’s ruling party in a quandary, forced to put up a brave face in public but acknowledging the ...
7 January 2024 TelegraphBengal police have registered three cases in connection with the Enforcement Directorate raid in Sandeshkhali on Friday and the mob fury the team faced. One of those cases is against the ED itself.The police said a case under sections ...
7 January 2024 TelegraphJohn Barla, the Alipurduar BJP MP and Union minister of state for minority affairs, visited two closed tea gardens in Jalpaiguri on Saturday and slammed the Mamata Banerjee government for not taking steps to reopen the gardens.Barla went to ...
7 January 2024 TelegraphDarjeeling Himalayan Railway (DHR) enthusiasts have expressed their concern over the recent derailments of toy trains in the hills.Since December 15, at least four incidents of derailment and an incident of technical snag in the loco have been reported ...
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 ...
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 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 TelegraphA BJP MLA in Cooch Behar had to face angry villagers on Saturday over the Centre’s decision to freeze funds for the 100 days' job scheme.Baren Chandra Barman, the BJP MLA of Sitalkuchi, accused Trinamul of orchestrating the protests ...
7 January 2024 TelegraphThe Enforcement Directorate (ED) arrested Bongaon Municipality's former chairman Shankar Adhya in the early hours of Saturday in connection with the alleged ration scam in West Bengal, officials said.Adhya, a TMC leader in the North 24 Parganas district, was ...
7 January 2024 TelegraphThe health condition of three ED officers, who were injured in mob attacks during a raid at the residence of a TMC leader in West Bengal a day before, has improved and they are now stable, an official of ...
7 January 2024 TelegraphThe Trinamul Congress on Saturday said it has an "open heart" for the Congress regarding seat-sharing in West Bengal for the Lok Sabha elections, but it was also prepared to go solo if the talks fail.Speaking to PTI, TMC's ...
7 January 2024 TelegraphA day after a mob assaulted ED officers during a raid at the residence of TMC leader Shahjahan Sheikh in West Bengal, the central agency on Saturday issued a lookout notice for him, an official said.There are apprehensions that ...
7 January 2024 TelegraphA day after demanding the President’s rule in West Bengal for the attack on ED officials at Sandeshkhali, the BJP on Saturday said the TMC leaders arrested by central agencies in connection with various scams should be lodged in ...
7 January 2024 TelegraphAmid the uncertainty over the authority of “removed” officiating vice-chancellor Buddhadeb Sau, Jadavpur University on Saturday confirmed having received a letter from the West Bengal government stating that he will continue to discharge his responsibilities.Governor CV Ananda Bose, as ...
7 January 2024 TelegraphCalcutta High Court on Friday directed the Bengal administration to allow the leader of the Opposition, Suvendu Adhikari, to go to Netai for an hour on January 7, which is observed as Netai Day.On January 7, 2011, armed goons ...
7 January 2024 TelegraphThe Enforcement Directorate has mentioned in a report, which central agency sources said was drawn up hours after the attack on ED officials and CRPF personnel at Sarberia in North 24-Parganas, that police did not come to the rescue ...
7 January 2024 TelegraphThe Enforcement Directorate (ED) arrested Bongaon Municipality's former chairman Shankar Adhya in the early hours of Saturday in connection with the alleged ration scam in West Bengal, officials said.Adhya, a TMC leader in the North 24 Parganas district, was ...
7 January 2024 TelegraphThe Trinamul Congress on Saturday said it has an "open heart" for the Congress regarding seat-sharing in West Bengal for the Lok Sabha elections, but it was also prepared to go solo if the talks fail.Speaking to PTI, TMC's ...
7 January 2024 TelegraphAn Enforcement Directorate team that had raided a Trinamul leader’s home in North 24-Parganas to probe allegations of corruption in ration distribution was attacked by a mob of around 200 men and women who beat them, smashed their cars ...
6 January 2024 TelegraphA 22-year-old hula party member was trampled to death by a wild elephant early on Friday when he was trying to divert a herd approaching a potato field in Jhargram’s Chitalbani village. A hula party is a group of ...
6 January 2024 TelegraphThe Sandeshkhali violence on Friday united the BJP, CPM and the Congress in denouncing the state of law and order under the Mamata Banerjee government, prompting Trinamul to hit back with matching belligerence.The BJP demanded the resignation of the ...
6 January 2024 TelegraphThe Nadia district administration’s adoption of a sustainable approach to branding and awareness activities —utilising eco-friendly materials for flexes, banners, posters, bags and other items — for the Lok Sabha polls has set a precedent for Bengal and the ...
6 January 2024 TelegraphA tiger is suspected to have sneaked out of a forest in Sunderbans on Thursday before going back again on Friday, said forest officials.On Thursday, pugmarks were found outside Herobhanga 9 forest compartment as well as another patch of ...
6 January 2024 TelegraphThe Trinamul Congress held a demonstration in front of Dinhata police station in Cooch Behar district on Friday, demanding the immediate arrest of local BJP MP and Union minister of state for home Nisith Pramanik. The demonstration was organised ...
6 January 2024 TelegraphA group of Bengal ministers and a Rajya Sabha member held a meeting in Calcutta on Friday to review the condition of the tea industry and recommended the cancellation of the lease of a garden if it was closed ...
6 January 2024 TelegraphThe management of Tirrihannah tea estate located in the Siliguri subdivision of Darjeeling district abstained from a tripartite meeting convened by the state labour department here on Friday to facilitate the reopening of the garden.Representatives of the operating trade ...
6 January 2024 TelegraphA tiger is suspected to have sneaked out of a forest in Sunderbans on Thursday before going back again on Friday, said forest officials.On Thursday, pugmarks were found outside Herobhanga 9 forest compartment as well as another patch of ...
6 January 2024 TelegraphThe management of Tirrihannah tea estate located in the Siliguri subdivision of Darjeeling district abstained from a tripartite meeting convened by the state labour department here on Friday to facilitate the reopening of the garden.Representatives of the operating trade ...
6 January 2024 TelegraphA 22-year-old hula party member was trampled to death by a wild elephant early on Friday when he was trying to divert a herd approaching a potato field in Jhargram’s Chitalbani village. A hula party is a group of ...
6 January 2024 TelegraphA group of Bengal ministers and a Rajya Sabha member held a meeting in Calcutta on Friday to review the condition of the tea industry and recommended the cancellation of the lease of a garden if it was closed ...
6 January 2024 TelegraphThe Trinamul Congress held a demonstration in front of Dinhata police station in Cooch Behar district on Friday, demanding the immediate arrest of local BJP MP and Union minister of state for home Nisith Pramanik. The demonstration was organised ...
6 January 2024 TelegraphFrom an autorickshaw operators’ union leader backed by the CPM to a zilla parishad member and an indispensable person for the Trinamul Congress in a large part of North 24-Parganas, Sheikh Shahjahan’s rise is envious even for his party ...
6 January 2024 TelegraphED officers were on Friday assaulted and their vehicles were damaged allegedly by supporters of TMC leader Sheikh Sajahan when they tried to raid his residence in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district in connection with their probe into ...
6 January 2024 TelegraphTMC leader Kalyan Banerjee on Friday lauded Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar’s “great gesture” of wishing him on his birthday, days after the MP’s mimicry of the Rajya Sabha chairman snowballed into a political storm.Banerjee also stressed the importance of ...
6 January 2024 TelegraphIn an unprecedented development, one which is likely to have far reaching consequences, search team officials of the Enforcement Directorate were attacked, mercilessly assaulted and forced to flee for their lives while attempting to conduct a raid at the ...
6 January 2024 TelegraphAuthorities of Calcutta’s iconic Indian Museum on Friday received an email claiming bombs were planted inside, prompting police to launch a search operation at the over 200-year-old repository, officials said.Personnel of the bomb squad of Calcutta Police are carrying ...
6 January 2024 TelegraphWest Bengal Governor Dr CV Ananda Bose on Friday condemned the attack on Enforcement Directorate (ED) officers by supporters of a TMC leader when they went to his Sandeshkhali residence in the state, and hit out at the state ...
6 January 2024 TelegraphPrime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday greeted West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on her birthday.Banerjee, who is also the chief of the All India Trinamool Congress, turned 69 on Friday.In a post on 'X', Modi said, "Best wishes ...
6 January 2024 TelegraphThe assault on ED officers in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district on Friday sparked a political slugfest, with the BJP and Congress calling for imposition of President's rule, even as the ruling TMC accused the central agency sleuths ...
6 January 2024 TelegraphIn a strongly worded statement on the unprecedented violence against Enforcement Directorate officers, Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose put the state administration in the dock and warned the Mamata Banerjee government of “Constitutional consequences” if it “failed to act ...
6 January 2024 TelegraphNisith Pramanik, the Union minister of state for home affairs and the BJP MP of Cooch Behar, faced a setback on Thursday as a division bench at the Jalpaiguri Circuit Bench of Calcutta High Court refused to grant him ...
6 January 2024 TelegraphWest Bengal Education Minister Bratya Basu on Thursday said he is not sure if there can be a code of conduct about activities of teachers outside school hours.His statement came as a video purportedly showing the headmaster of a ...
6 January 2024 TelegraphTMC leader Kalyan Banerjee on Friday lauded Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar’s “great gesture” of wishing him on his birthday, days after the MP’s mimicry of the Rajya Sabha chairman snowballed into a political storm.Banerjee also stressed the importance of ...
6 January 2024 TelegraphIn an unprecedented development, one which is likely to have far reaching consequences, search team officials of the Enforcement Directorate were attacked, mercilessly assaulted and forced to flee for their lives while attempting to conduct a raid at the ...
6 January 2024 TelegraphAuthorities of Calcutta’s iconic Indian Museum on Friday received an email claiming bombs were planted inside, prompting police to launch a search operation at the over 200-year-old repository, officials said.Personnel of the bomb squad of Calcutta Police are carrying ...
6 January 2024 TelegraphWest Bengal Governor Dr CV Ananda Bose on Friday condemned the attack on Enforcement Directorate (ED) officers by supporters of a TMC leader when they went to his Sandeshkhali residence in the state, and hit out at the state ...
6 January 2024 TelegraphThe infighting in the Trinamul Congress in Hooghly district reached a new low after “unknown” people vandalised the office of the party’s Balagarh MLA Manoranjan Byapari late on Wednesday night. While Byapari blamed his rival in the party, Hooghly ...
5 January 2024 TelegraphAn eight-year-old student died in Murshidabad's Daultabad area when what he thought was a toy exploded late on Thursday afternoon.Muklesur Rahaman of Chaudanga village was a Class II student of Chaudanga Primary School. Local sources said that after returning ...
5 January 2024 TelegraphA toy train of the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway (DHR) derailed near Darjeeling town on Thursday, making it the fourth such incident in the past 20 days.Since December 15, toy trains of the DHR, which has been recognised as a ...
5 January 2024 TelegraphThe Bengal government on Wednesday raised the minimum daily wage of jute labourers at the entry level to Rs 485 from the existing Rs 370 and offered multiple financial benefits by signing a tripartite agreement with the jute industry ...
5 January 2024 TelegraphThe Centre has sanctioned Rs 90 crore for the construction of a road overbridge at the railway level crossing in Birpara, Alipurduar district.Located in the central Dooars, it is one of the busiest level crossings in the region. Every ...
5 January 2024 TelegraphBengal BJP president Sukanta Majumdar on Thursday attacked the Mamata Banerjee government, accusing it of failing to either reopen closed tea gardens or develop health infrastructure in the north Bengal tea belt.Majumdar, however, dodged a direct reply as to ...
5 January 2024 TelegraphWorkers of a closed tea garden on the outskirts of Jalpaiguri on Thursday held a ration dealer captive, alleging that the district food and supplies department was not distributing foodgrain properly to them.The irate workers refused to accept rice ...
5 January 2024 TelegraphThe state transport department is mulling a proposal to introduce the electronic surveillance system in Siliguri to curb road accidents and detect and intercept vehicles that violate speed limits.State transport minister Snehasish Chakraborty, who was here on Thursday, said ...
5 January 2024 TelegraphA toy train of the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway (DHR) derailed near Darjeeling town on Thursday, making it the fourth such incident in the past 20 days.Since December 15, toy trains of the DHR, which has been recognised as a ...
5 January 2024 TelegraphThe state transport department is mulling a proposal to introduce the electronic surveillance system in Siliguri to curb road accidents and detect and intercept vehicles that violate speed limits.State transport minister Snehasish Chakraborty, who was here on Thursday, said ...
5 January 2024 TelegraphThe infighting in the Trinamul Congress in Hooghly district reached a new low after “unknown” people vandalised the office of the party’s Balagarh MLA Manoranjan Byapari late on Wednesday night. While Byapari blamed his rival in the party, Hooghly ...
5 January 2024 TelegraphThe Bengal government on Wednesday raised the minimum daily wage of jute labourers at the entry level to Rs 485 from the existing Rs 370 and offered multiple financial benefits by signing a tripartite agreement with the jute industry ...
5 January 2024 TelegraphThe Centre has sanctioned Rs 90 crore for the construction of a road overbridge at the railway level crossing in Birpara, Alipurduar district.Located in the central Dooars, it is one of the busiest level crossings in the region. Every ...
5 January 2024 TelegraphBengal BJP president Sukanta Majumdar on Thursday attacked the Mamata Banerjee government, accusing it of failing to either reopen closed tea gardens or develop health infrastructure in the north Bengal tea belt.Majumdar, however, dodged a direct reply as to ...
5 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. ...
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 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 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, ...
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