The Bangladesh government has summoned Shikder Mohammad Ashrafur Rahman, mission head of the country’s Deputy High Commission in Kolkata, for “urgent meeting” following protests over attacks on Hindu minorities, sources said on Friday.Mission head Rahman, who holds the portfolio ...
7 December 2024 Indian ExpressBJP MP Jyotirmoy Singh Mahato on Friday appealed to the Norwegian Nobel Committee to reassess the legacy of Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus, who is the chief of the interim government of Bangladesh.Singh put up a letter he wrote to ...
7 December 2024 Indian ExpressTaking action for defying its guidelines, the West Bengal government has slapped a fine of Rs 20 lakh each on 31 resident doctors who did not serve in rural areas.As part of their degree course, the doctors are mandated ...
7 December 2024 Indian ExpressSix Trinamool Congress (TMC) MLAs from Nadia district have sent a written complaint to party supremo and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee against Mahua Moitra, the party MP from Krishnanagar, accusing her of promoting factionalism in the party.In the complaint, ...
7 December 2024 Indian ExpressAs allegations emerge against its director of “favouritism”, “vindictiveness in faculty selection”, and failure to build a hospital on campus, the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, has responded by issuing show cause notices to as many as 85 faculty ...
6 December 2024 Indian ExpressA motion was passed unanimously in the West Bengal assembly on Thursday, urging the Union government to “lure” airlines to operate direct international flights to Europe and the US from Kolkata.State minister Chandrima Bhattacharya, who moved the motion in ...
6 December 2024 Indian ExpressA physical Education Instructor of Scottish Church College in Kolkata has been suspended following allegations of harassment by a student. The student claimed that the teacher sent obscene messages and threatened to ruin her future if it was reported. ...
6 December 2024 Indian ExpressChief Minister Mamata Banerjee extended an invitation to international filmmakers to collaborate with West Bengal during the inaugural ceremony of the 30th Kolkata International Film Festival (KIFF) 2024 on Wednesday, while also acknowledging and appreciating the talented local filmmakers ...
6 December 2024 Indian ExpressHotels in Malda district, on the India-Bangladesh border, have decided not to accommodate Bangladesh nationals from Wednesday, in the wake of the protests against the arrest of ISKCON monk Chinmoy Krishna Das, the continuing atrocities on minorities in Bangladesh ...
6 December 2024 Indian ExpressAmid a standoff between the IIT-Kharagpur (KGP) administration and its teachers’ association (IITTA), the institute has extended the deadline for the IITTA to provide documents supporting their allegations against the institute’s administration to December 13.The IITTA wrote to the ...
6 December 2024 Indian ExpressThe state government has decided to appoint legal advisers in every sub-division to assist police in sexual assault cases like rape, molestation.The decision to appoint legal advisers in every sub-division of the state stems from the police “mishandling” of ...
6 December 2024 Indian ExpressDays after West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee announced to “completely reshuffle” the CID – the Criminal Investigation Department of the state police – the state Home Department on Wednesday removed R Rajasekaran from the post of State Police ...
5 December 2024 Indian ExpressAs ISKCON alleged that lawyers in Bangladesh representing Hindu monk Chinmoy Krishna Das were assaulted, ISKCON Kolkata vice president and spokesperson Radharamn Das on Tuesday urged devotees and monks in the neighbouring country to be discreet and not wear ...
5 December 2024 Indian ExpressThe Directors Association of Eastern India (DAEI) is all set to file a case with the Competition Commission of India (CCI) against the Federation of Cine Technicians and Workers of Eastern India (FCTWEI) accusing it of trying to monopolise ...
5 December 2024 Indian ExpressLeader of Opposition in West Bengal Assembly and BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari on Tuesday appealed to international human rights organisations to intervene in Bangladesh, claiming the “fundamentalist forces” in the neighbouring country were worse than the Taliban or the ...
5 December 2024 Indian ExpressJunior doctors in Kolkata hit the streets on Tuesday over the reinstatement of Avik De and Birupaksha Biswas in the West Bengal Medical Council.The duo was previously ousted for allegedly promoting a culture of intimidation and corruption in the ...
5 December 2024 Indian ExpressRashik Chandra Mondol, 104, doesn’t remember why he went to jail 36 years ago. Having been released on parole Monday, this resident of Paschim Narayanpur village in Manikchowk block in Malda district, who was accused of murdering his brother ...
5 December 2024 Indian ExpressAs part of its nationwide crackdown, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) raided eight private medical colleges in West Bengal over alleged irregularities in allocation of NRI quota seats.The central agency initiated simultaneous searches at these institutions and the residences of ...
4 December 2024 Indian ExpressThe West Bengal government will take strict action against those not properly implementing the Jal Jeevan Mission, Chief Minister on Monday said.During a review meeting, the CM expressed her displeasure over the progress of the project. “I will not ...
4 December 2024 Indian ExpressKolkata, the City of Joy, turned into a time machine as a spectacular fourth annual EIMG Vintage Car Fiesta presented by Club De Golf took place on Sunday.The event, a nostalgic journey through automotive history, captivated the city’s residents ...
4 December 2024 Indian ExpressISKCON Kolkata spokesperson Radharamn Das on Tuesday said he has urged its monks and followers from Bangladesh to avoid wearing saffron robes and ’tilak’ in public, advising them to practice their faith discreetly amid safety concerns following targeted attacks ...
4 December 2024 Indian ExpressThe bail hearing for Hindu monk Chinmoy Krishna Das, which was scheduled to be held on Tuesday at a court in Bangladesh’s Chattogram, has been postponed to January 2 as there was no lawyer to represent him, sources in ...
3 December 2024 Indian ExpressAs Tarak Mondol hauled his luggage — a backpack and two duffel bags — towards the immigration centre at the Petrapole-Benapole checkpoint on the India-Bangladesh border, it could not have been more disappointing for the 38-year-old.For, Mondol, a resident ...
3 December 2024 Indian ExpressA 21-year-old Indian tourist, Sayan Ghosh, who had visited Bangladesh multiple times and always admired its warm hospitality, says he has been left deeply scarred after facing a recent attack in the country.“I was in love with the hospitality ...
3 December 2024 Indian ExpressISKCON Kolkata spokesperson Radharamn Das has alleged that Advocate Ramen Roy was brutally attacked in Bangladesh for representing Hindu monk Chinmoy Krishna Das in a legal case. Das claimed Roy is critically injured and currently receiving treatment in an ...
3 December 2024 Indian ExpressLeading a march of BJP workers, members of Hindu outfits and monks to the Petrapole border checkpost in North 24 Parganas district, Leader of Opposition in Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, on Monday threatened to impose an “indefinite export embargo” if ...
3 December 2024 Indian ExpressA 52-year-old man, Kalu Sheikh, was allegedly beaten to death by a local Trinamool Congress worker, Mithu Sheikh, in the Mithipur area of Raghunathganj in Murshidabad district on Saturday, over a monetary dispute related to the Pradhan Mantri Awas ...
3 December 2024 Indian ExpressWest Bengal is currently experiencing cloudy skies and mild temperatures, which may witness a slight dip in the coming days, owing to the influence of cyclone Fengal.The Alipore Meteorological Department Monday reported a minimum temperature of 20 degrees Celsius ...
3 December 2024 Indian ExpressExpressing concern over the recent political turmoil in Bangladesh, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday urged the Centre to ask the United Nations to send its peacekeeping forces to the country.Speaking at the West Bengal Legislative Assembly, ...
3 December 2024 Indian ExpressOver 1,000 monks from across West Bengal are taking part in a demonstration at the Petrapole border in North 24 Parganas on Monday to protest against the attacks on minority Hindus in Bangladesh, and the release of arrested spiritual ...
3 December 2024 Indian ExpressMore than 63 monks were stopped at Benapole land port in Bangladesh over the weekend and not allowed to enter India, claimed a spokesperson of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (Iskcon) in Kolkata.Meanwhile, all eyes are on Bangladesh’s ...
3 December 2024 Indian ExpressAir India Express launched daily flights between Kolkata and Port Blair, with the inaugural flight taking off from NSC Bose International Airport at 5:40 am on Sunday.The return flight left Port Blair at 12.20 pm.“AAI wishes all the best ...
2 December 2024 Indian ExpressAfter having apologised for his remarks questioning the party leadership, TMC MLA from Bharatpur, Humayun Kabir, has ruffled the senior leaders again, asserting that he would contest from two constituencies — Beldanga and Reginagar — in the next Assembly ...
2 December 2024 Indian ExpressFormer IPS officer and head of CID, West Bengal Police, Pankaj Dutta died on Saturday at a hospital in Varanasi where he was admitted a month ago after suffering a cerebral attack during an event. Dutta was 73.Serving as ...
2 December 2024 Indian ExpressPotato traders in West Bengal are planning to go on strike starting Monday night in response to the state government’s decision to suspend potato exports to other states. This measure, intended to stabilise local prices, has caused significant disruptions ...
2 December 2024 Indian ExpressAt the entrance of a doctor’s private practice in Siliguri, the Tricolour has been put up with a printed message near it. The message in Bengali demands that everyone, “especially Bangladeshi patients”, offer “pranam” to the flag before being ...
2 December 2024 Indian ExpressTrinamool Congress (TMC) national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Saturday said that only a “strong law” can effectively eliminate the menace of rape in the country.While addressing a doctors’ convention, organised to announce the launch of ‘Sebaashray’ health camp ...
2 December 2024 Indian ExpressTMC MLA Humayun Kabir has apologised to the party’s leadership for his recent comment that a “coterie” was influencing Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s key decisions.Kabir, the MLA of Bharatpur in Murshidabad district, expressed his apology on Friday in reply ...
2 December 2024 Indian ExpressA man was arrested in West Bengal’s Darjeeling district with confidential DRDO documents and a large quantity of radioactive materials, police said on Friday.The accused was identified as Francis Ekka. He is the husband of Amrita Ekka, a TMC ...
1 December 2024 Indian ExpressWith a pair of White tigers – Akash, 4, and Nagamani, 7 – arriving from Hyderabad on Thursday evening, Darjeeling’s Padmaja Naidu Himalayan Zoological Park (PNHZP) has become the only zoo in the country to have three varieties of ...
1 December 2024 Indian ExpressDAYS AFTER Hindu monk Chinmoy Krishna Das was arrested and charged with sedition in Bangladesh, the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), Kolkata, said that two monks who had gone to give him medicines in jail were also arrested ...
1 December 2024 Indian ExpressA Kolkata hospital has announced that it will not treat any Bangladeshi patients as a sign of protest over the manner in which “the national flag of India has been desecrated in various places” in the neighbouring country.“Country is ...
1 December 2024 Indian ExpressThe Kolkata police on Friday night arrested a Bangladeshi national who had been living in Central Kolkata under a fake identity for the past two years.Following a tip-off, a team from Park Street police station raided a hotel in ...
1 December 2024 Indian ExpressThe Enforcement Directorate (ED) has arrested the promoters of M/s Prayag Group of Companies, Basudeb Bagchi and Avik Bagchi, in connection with a money laundering case related to a chit fund scam.The father-son duo is accused of defrauding the ...
30 November 2024 Indian ExpressTo enhance road safety and prioritise passenger security, the transport department has drafted a standard operating procedure (SOP) for bus operators. The SOP is aimed at sensitising all stakeholders, including passengers, drivers, conductors, pedestrians and vehicle owners/operators, about road ...
30 November 2024 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Assembly Speaker Biman Banerjee on Friday rejected the opposition’s adjournment motion on “religious intolerance” on the grounds that it had “already been discussed during the Constitution Day debate”.On Friday morning, after a question-answer session of the Assembly, ...
30 November 2024 Indian ExpressThe CBI on Friday filed a chargesheet in a case related to corruption and financial irregularities at R G Kar Medical College in Kolkata. In its chargesheet, the CBI named the then principal of the medical college and hospital ...
30 November 2024 Indian ExpressAS A prelude to the coming Bengal Global Business Summit (BGBS) 2025, the West Bengal government , in partnership with FICCI, hosted a Diplomats’ Roundtable on Friday in New Delhi in the morning as well as in Kolkata later ...
30 November 2024 Indian ExpressMembers of Bangiya Hindu Jagaran Manch on Thursday organised a protest march to the office of Bangladesh Deputy High Commissioner in Kolkata protesting atrocities on the Hindu community and arrest of spiritual leader Chinmoy Krishna Das in the neighbouring ...
30 November 2024 Indian ExpressDesignated feeding areas in cities and towns for feeding street dogs, feeding timings before 7am and after 7pm, caregivers to clean the area after each use as well as dietary guidelines – the West Bengal government has established a ...
30 November 2024 Indian ExpressThe 30th edition of the Kolkata International Film Festival (KIFF) is gearing up to celebrate the rich tapestry of international cinema, with a special focus on French cinema. The festival, scheduled from December 4 to 11, will showcase a ...
30 November 2024 Indian ExpressThe West Bengal Jamiat-e-Ulema held a rally at Esplanade in Kolkata on Thursday, where senior state Minister Siddiqullah Chowdhury said that they will “not allow” the implementation of the Waqf (Amendment) Bill.“Today, when the Assembly winter session is on, ...
30 November 2024 Indian ExpressA court in Chinsurah in Hooghly district on Thursday sentenced seven persons, including local gangster Vishal Das, to death for killing a 23-year-old youth and chopping his body in October 2020. One of the accused was sentenced to seven ...
29 November 2024 Indian ExpressChief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday said that there was a surge in expenses under the Swasthya Sathi scheme across the state during the protests against the rape-murder of a junior woman doctor at the RG Kar Medical College ...
29 November 2024 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday launched a scathing attack on the Centre for introducing the Waqf Amendment Bill, 2024, saying it was a “political decision” to “snatch the power of Muslims”. She also alleged that the ...
29 November 2024 Indian ExpressThe brewing cyclone in the Bay of Bengal has indirectly impacted the onset of winter in West Bengal. While the state is unlikely to experience direct effects, the IMD has forecast light to moderate rain over the weekend in ...
29 November 2024 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Thursday condemned the arrest of Hindu ISKCON monk Chinmay Krishna Das in Bangladesh, saying that she will support whatever decision the Centre takes on the issue.“Attacks on any religion are condemnable, we always ...
29 November 2024 Indian ExpressThe Dhaka High Court on Thursday refused to pass a suo moto order to ban the International Society of Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) in Bangladesh. A day before, a petitioner had appealed to the High Court for the ban and ...
29 November 2024 Indian ExpressThe Ministry of Women and Child Development in collaboration with the Border Security Force organised a special programme on Wednesday to stop child marriages across the Indo-Bangladesh border region of North and South 24 Parganas districts in the state.The ...
29 November 2024 Indian ExpressTwo days after West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee set up three disciplinary committees in the Trinamool Congress’ national executive committee meeting, the party on Wednesday decided to send a show cause notice to Humayun Kabir, TMC MLA from ...
28 November 2024 Indian ExpressThe West Bengal BJP has upped the ante on protests demanding the release of Chinmoy Krishna Das Brahmachari, an ISKCON monk arrested in Bangladesh.The state unit led a march to the Bangladesh Deputy High Commission in Kolkata and Leader ...
28 November 2024 Indian ExpressThe National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Tuesday filed a chargesheet against 12 persons in a case relating to the attack on the convoy of BJP leader Priyangu Pandey and his associates in Bhatpara area of North 24 Parganas district ...
28 November 2024 Indian ExpressUnderlining the secular identity of India, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said it is a matter of pride that the Constitution has completed 75 years of its journey since adoption on November 26, 1949.Speaking to mediapersons ...
28 November 2024 Indian ExpressChief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday expressed displeasure over the Public Health Engineering (PHE) Department’s ‘Jal Jeevan Mission’ work, asking the officials concerned to check whether water is reaching the households or not.Banerjee, who held a meeting at Nabanna ...
28 November 2024 Indian ExpressDemanding direct flights from Kolkata to cities in the United States of America and European countries, the West Bengal government is all set to present a resolution in the Assembly. The move, according to political experts, is to create ...
27 November 2024 Indian ExpressInstead of the usual March or April, the West Bengal government has decided to distribute a new set of school uniforms in January, which is the beginning of the next year’s academic session. The orders to the tune came ...
27 November 2024 Indian ExpressBJP MLAs on Tuesday staged a protest in the West Bengal Assembly complex demanding the release of Hindu priest Chinmoy Krishna Das Brahmachari, also known as Krishna Prabhu Das, who was arrested in Bangladesh a day before on charges ...
27 November 2024 Indian ExpressThe CBI arrested a Trinamool Congress leader, a close aide of former Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee, for his alleged involvement in the school jobs scam, an official said.The TMC leader from Behala, Santu Ganguly, was held on Monday evening ...
27 November 2024 Indian ExpressA student of the state-run Aliah University in New Town near Kolkata was found dead in his hostel room, police said on Tuesday.The body of Abdul Rahman (24), a resident of Malda, was found in his hostel room around ...
27 November 2024 Indian ExpressIn a bid to curb dissension, the leadership of the ruling TMC in West Bengal on Monday decided to form three disciplinary committees comprising veteran loyalists — one for MPs, another for MLAs, and the third for state party ...
26 November 2024 Indian ExpressMore than 4,000 cases of dengue were recorded in West Bengal in the last two weeks alone, taking this season’s total tally of the disease to over 27,000.Also, a concerning shift in the dengue outbreak has emerged, with more ...
26 November 2024 Indian ExpressA special ED court in Kolkata on Monday granted bail to Arpita Mukherjee, a close associate of former education minister Partha Chatterjee, in the West Bengal school jobs scam case, nearly two-and-a-half years after her arrest.Arpita and Partha Chatterjee ...
26 November 2024 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose found himself in the middle of a row on Monday after pictures of him unveiling his own bust was shared by the Indian Museum.“In alignment with (his) vision to foster creativity and ...
26 November 2024 Indian ExpressVikash Mishra, a key accused in the West Bengal coal smuggling case, was on Sunday arrested by the Kolkata Police in a recently registered case under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO).Mishra, who was out on ...
26 November 2024 Indian ExpressSenior BJP leader Tathagata Roy said on Thursday that the party’s poor performance in the West Bengal bypolls was due to a lack of coordination and supervision.Roy, a former Tripura and Meghalaya governor, referred to the BJP state president ...
26 November 2024 Indian ExpressBuoyed by its emphatic win in the Assembly bypolls in West Bengal, sweeping all the six seats, despite the outrage against the government following the rape-murder of a junior doctor at RG Kar Hospital in Kolkata and the corruption ...
26 November 2024 Indian ExpressA day after a four-year-old boy went missing while playing outside his house, his body was recovered Sunday from a makeshift toilet near his home in Hooghly’s Guptipara.The body of the child was reportedly spotted by his grandmother, although ...
26 November 2024 Indian ExpressEVEN AS the ruling TMC claimed on Saturday that the bypoll results were proof that the people have “rejected” the BJP’s “false narrative” in the R G Kar rape and murder case and also termed the results as the ...
26 November 2024 Indian ExpressIn a major setback for the BJP, the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) swept bypolls in West Bengal on Saturday by retaining all five seats and for the first time wrested its stronghold in Madarihat in North Bengal.In the Madarihat ...
25 November 2024 Indian ExpressFOR THE ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC), a winning margin of 10,112 votes in the 2021 Assembly polls that increased to 29,000 in the Lok Sabha election earlier this year has now jumped to 1,30,156 in the bypoll in the ...
25 November 2024 Indian ExpressVictory in the bypolls to all six Assembly seats in West Bengal has further consolidated the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress’s (TMC) position in the state which is headed to polls in another two years. The TMC also increased its ...
24 November 2024 Indian ExpressNine people were arrested after a government hospital in Kolkata’s Behala area was allegedly vandalized on Friday night over the death of a patient, police said on Saturday.The incident occurred at Vidyasagar State General Hospital, and some relatives of ...
24 November 2024 Indian ExpressA DAY after Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee strongly criticised lower-level officers in the West Bengal Police, accusing them of being “corrupt” and facilitating illegal activities such as “coal and sand smuggling,” the Asansol-Durgapur Police Commissionerate suspended sub-inspector (S-I) Manoranjan ...
24 November 2024 Indian ExpressSandakphu in Darjeeling, which is the highest point in West Bengal, saw the season’s first snowfall in the state on Thursday. Last year, snow first fell on December 7.Around 2 pm on Thursday, the small hamlet and tourist resort, ...
24 November 2024 Indian ExpressWith the counting of votes of the by-elections to the six Assembly seats of West Bengal slated for Saturday, the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) is confident of sweeping it all. However, the BJP is pinning its hope on public ...
24 November 2024 Indian ExpressNearly a week after two groups clashed over an “objectionable” message on a digital display board at a temporary gate of a Kartik Puja pandal on Saturday night in Murshidabad district’s Beldanga area, senior Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury ...
23 November 2024 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday strongly criticised lower-level police officers, accusing them of involvement in corruption and facilitating illegal activities like coal and sand smuggling.Following these allegations, the Asansol-Durgapur Police Commissionerate suspended sub-inspector Manoranjan Mondal who ...
23 November 2024 Indian ExpressAccusing a section of the police force of being corrupt and giving a bad name to her government, West Bengal Chief Minister on Thursday said she would completely reshuffle the CID, the Criminal Investigation Department, of the state police.After ...
23 November 2024 Indian ExpressAfter key officers of Kolkata and Howrah police were transferred, BJP West Bengal president Sukanta Majumder alleged that the transfer of key Kolkata and Howrah police officials was due to “pressure from unknown forces”, targeting the ruling party Trinamool ...
22 November 2024 Indian ExpressIn a curious move, BJP MP Jyotirmoy Singh Mahato from Purulia wrote a letter to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, demanding that the money for the state’s Lakshmir Bhandar scheme be doubled to a monthly Rs 2,000 per ...
22 November 2024 Indian ExpressIn just 72 hours since November 18, the West Bengal government has arrested at least 64 people from across the state along with arms.The arrests are a part of a larger crackdown on people with criminal antecedents which saw ...
22 November 2024 Indian ExpressA deep depression forming in the Bay of Bengal has halted the winter chill in Kolkata, raising temperatures from 18 to 19 degrees Celsius. As per the IMD, all districts of West Bengal will experience dry weather in the ...
22 November 2024 Indian ExpressBJP’s West Bengal President Sukanta Majumdar was arrested on Wednesday while on his way to Beldanga in Murshidabad district to “assess” the situation following alleged communal clashes in the area.According to local eyewitnesses, Majumdar’s convoy was stopped by a ...
22 November 2024 Indian ExpressThe Friday’s attempt on TMC councillor Sushant Ghosh’s life in Kasba, Kolkata, was not the first. It was the third murder attempt on him in the last five months, according to Kolkata Police. Also, all the three attempts on ...
21 November 2024 Indian ExpressKolkata residents are grappling with soaring vegetable prices, particularly for potatoes and onions. Despite government intervention, prices remain high, causing significant financial strain on households.A recent surprise inspection by a state task force, led by Ravindra Koley, revealed significant ...
21 November 2024 Indian ExpressPeeved with the Purba Medinipur district authorities’ decision to demolish 140 hotels and resorts allegedly built illegally on the sea beach of Mandarmani, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday stalled the move, saying “no bulldozers will be allowed”. According ...
21 November 2024 Indian ExpressPurulia district in south West Bengal recorded a significantly lower temperature than several hill stations in the north on Tuesday as the mercury dipped to 12.1 degrees Celsius. On the other hand, Kalimpong, a hill station in the northern ...
21 November 2024 Indian ExpressDays after two groups in Murshidabad’s Beldanga clashed over an “objectionable” message on a digital display board at a temporary gate of a Kartik Puja pandal, miscreants pelted stones at the car of the Murshidabad district magistrate Rajarshi Mitra, ...
20 November 2024 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is peeved with the state’s Purba Medinipur district administration for issuing a demolition notice to “illegal” hotels and resorts on Mandarmani beach.A notice to 140 hotels from the district administration on November 11 ...
20 November 2024 Indian ExpressPurulia district in southern West Bengal recorded a significantly lower temperature than several hill stations in the state. On Tuesday, the mercury dipped to a chilling 12.1 degrees Celsius, surpassing the lowest temperature recorded in Kalimpong at 14.3 degrees ...
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