In a sign of an end to a month-long impasse over the swearing-in of two TMC MLAs, West Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose on Thursday authorised Deputy Speaker to administer the oath to the newly elected legislators on ...
5 July 2024 Indian ExpressPolice have arrested two more persons in connection with the public flogging of a couple over their alleged extramarital affair in Chopra in Uttar Dinajpur district.With this, the total number of people arrested for the June 28 incident has ...
5 July 2024 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Education Minister Bratya Basu said Wednesday that the state has become one of the most preferred destinations for higher education as over 87,000 undergraduate applications have been received by the higher education department’s admission portal, which was ...
5 July 2024 Indian ExpressThe Calcutta High Court on Thursday said it would hear the defamation suit filed by Governor CV Ananda Bose against Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on July 10.The Governor had filed the suit after the chief minister claimed last week ...
5 July 2024 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Legislative Assembly Speaker Biman Banerjee on Thursday summoned a special session of the Assembly on Friday and said that the functioning of the House is not solely dependent on the Governor.The statement from the Speaker came amid ...
5 July 2024 Indian ExpressMukul Roy, a former close associate of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, was hospitalised for a head injury after he fell down at his residence at Kanchrapara on Wednesday.The 70-year-old politician was admitted to a private hospital in ...
5 July 2024 Indian ExpressThe Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) started a raid Wednesday afternoon in a New Town’s apartment in Kolkata. Sources said the raid was in connection with an investigation into the NEET-paper leak.The New Town flat belonged to Amit Kumar, ...
5 July 2024 Indian ExpressA youth fired at his girlfriend and then killed himself by shooting with a pistol on Wednesday at a guest house in South Kolkata, said a senior police officer. Police have recovered a 9mm pistol from the spot.According to ...
5 July 2024 Indian ExpressA local Trinamool Congress leader, the prime accused in the Ariadaha mob assault case, surrendered to the police in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district on Thursday, four days after the attack on the teen and his mother. According ...
5 July 2024 Indian ExpressA woman died purportedly by suicide after she was beaten up by a group of people from her village panchayat in the Phulbari area of West Bengal’s Jalpaiguri district for allegedly having an extramarital affair, it is learnt.The incident ...
4 July 2024 Indian ExpressWest Bengal saw its first arrest under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) on Monday night when a man was held in South 24 Parganas district for allegedly molesting his minor daughter.According to the police, the man, who works in ...
4 July 2024 Indian ExpressThe Calcutta High Court adjourned the hearing of a defamation suit by Governor C V Ananda Bose Wednesday against Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee until Thursday. The Governor had filed the suit after the CM claimed last week that women ...
4 July 2024 Indian ExpressWEST BENGAL Governor C V Ananda Bose on Tuesday confirmed that he had filed a defamation case against Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee at the Calcutta High Court, and he would “treat her as an accused”.The case has been listed ...
4 July 2024 Indian ExpressThe North Dinajpur district leadership of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) issued a show-cause notice to local MLA Hamidul Rahman on Tuesday over the Chopra flogging incident which went viral on social media.Trinamool sources confirmed that the letter was sent ...
4 July 2024 Indian ExpressThe Calcutta High Court on Tuesday ordered an interim stay on further investigation into 47 FIRs lodged against some BJP workers, immediately before and after the Lok Sabha elections in Tamluk in West Bengal’s Purba Medinipur district.The court asked ...
4 July 2024 Indian ExpressA mother and son were allegedly severely beaten up by men Sunday night, days after the Chopra couple whipping incident, in Kamarhati municipality’s Ariadaha of North 24 Parganas, West Bengal.As the CCTV footage went viral on Tuesday, neighbours and ...
3 July 2024 Indian ExpressPolice have invoked sections of attempt to murder and molestation against a TMC functionary, who is accused of publicly flogging a man and a woman in West Bengal’s Uttar Dinajpur district over allegations of having an extramarital affair.The accused, ...
3 July 2024 Indian ExpressA man was beaten to death in Hooghly district last night, taking the total number of such deaths to five in the past few days in the state. According to police, Biswajit Manna, a resident of Naita Malpaharpur gram panchayat ...
3 July 2024 Indian ExpressThe dharna by two newly elected TMC MLAs on the Assembly premises demanding that they be administered the oath in the House rather than in Raj Bhavan as per Governor C V Ananda Bose’s invite entered its third day ...
3 July 2024 Indian ExpressThe BJP on Monday alleged that a woman was beaten up by some miscreants in Haroa under the Basirhat Lok Sabha constituency in West Bengal for voting in favour of the party in the Lok Sabha elections.BJP Basirhat district ...
3 July 2024 Indian ExpressA 23-year-old man was allegedly beaten to death by local residents and another person was seriously injured in Jhargram after they were suspected of mobile phone theft, police said on Sunday.Sources identified the deceased as Sourav Sau, a resident ...
2 July 2024 Indian ExpressTajimul Islam, better known as ‘JCB’ among the locals, who was arrested on Sunday for publicly whipping a woman and a man after a video of the incident surfaced on social media, is known for presiding over such ‘salishi ...
2 July 2024 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose has asked the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) government to issue a white paper stating the financial situation of the state.In a statement issued on Saturday night, the governor claimed that West Bengal is ...
2 July 2024 Indian ExpressThe ruling TMC in West Bengal came under attack Sunday from the Opposition BJP and CPM after a TMC functionary was captured on tape whipping and assaulting a woman and a man publicly over an alleged extramarital affair at ...
1 July 2024 Indian ExpressThe police on Sunday recorded the statement of a woman BJP worker, five days after she was assaulted allegedly by Trinamool Congress women activists. BJP’s Cooch Behar District Vice President Deepa Chakraborty and District General Secretary Biraj Bose accompanied ...
1 July 2024 Indian ExpressThe West Bengal Criminal Investigation Department (CID) brought Bihar-based criminal Subodh Singh to the state on Saturday and produced him in a court in Asansol on Sunday. According to CID sources, he was involved in several cases, and the ...
1 July 2024 Indian ExpressChief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday announced that for one month, the eviction of hawkers in the state will be halted, saying, “I have no right to make anyone unemployed.”On Thursday, Mamata Banerjee convened a meeting on hawker and ...
1 July 2024 Indian ExpressTwo newly-elected TMC MLAs, who could not take oath of office yesterday after an impasse between the West Bengal government and Raj Bhavan, sat on a dharna in the state Assembly on Thursday.TMC MLAs Sayantika Bandyopadhyay and Rayat Hossain ...
1 July 2024 Indian ExpressThe West Bengal government on Thursday informed the Calcutta High Court that Leader of Opposition in state Assembly Suvendu Adhikari would be allowed to stage a four-day dharna with victims of alleged post-poll violence outside Raj Bhavan, allocating him ...
1 July 2024 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Assembly Speaker Biman Banerjee Thursday wrote to President Droupadi Murmu seeking her intervention to resolve the impasse concerning the oath-taking ceremony of two newly elected TMC MLAs.The controversy over the venue for the swearing-in ceremony of the ...
1 July 2024 Indian ExpressHeavy rainfall is likely to occur across West Bengal from Friday, owing to strong southwesterly winds from the Bay of Bengal, the India Meteorological Department said on Thursday.One or two locations along the coastline are most likely to expect ...
1 July 2024 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose came out with a sharp attack against West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee over an oath-taking row between two TMC MLAs and Raj Bhavan, saying, “Raj Bhavan neither cares for the absurd machinations ...
1 July 2024 Indian ExpressThe CBI on Wednesday arrested a woman in a 19-year-old bank fraud case.The arrested accused, identified as Munmun Das, was designated as a Proclaimed Offender (PO) and she was absconding for several years.The CBI had registered a case on ...
1 July 2024 Indian ExpressThe Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued a notice saying that many areas of West Bengal will get relief from the humid heat due to the Southwest Monsoon on Friday. It has reportedly spread across the entire state, particularly ...
1 July 2024 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Assembly Speaker Biman Banerjee has sought Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar’s intervention to resolve the impasse over the oath-taking ceremony of two newly elected TMC MLAs, who staged a dharna for the second consecutive day on Friday on the ...
1 July 2024 Indian ExpressBJP Leader of Opposition in West Bengal Suvendu Adhikari on Friday alleged that a Muslim woman worker of his party’s Minority Morcha was stripped, dragged for a kilometre by her hair and thrashed by goons from the Trinamool Congress ...
1 July 2024 Indian ExpressTHE PUBLIC perception that adjournment is a “routine part” of the judicial system is “disheartening,” Chief Justice of India (CJI) D Y Chandrachud said on Friday. Chandrachud was speaking at a function organised as part of the bicentenary celebrations ...
1 July 2024 Indian ExpressWritten by Shreyashi NayekA high-power committee has decided to constitute three zones in the Kolkata Municipal Corporation area to restrict the business of hawkers.In a meeting convened on Friday, June 28, the committee decided to conduct a survey and ...
1 July 2024 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday called for an “absolutely pure and honest” judiciary, which is “free of political biases”.Speaking at the inauguration of the East Zone-II Regional Conference of National Judicial Academy in Kolkata, which was ...
1 July 2024 Indian ExpressChief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud on Saturday observed that it was dangerous to describe the court as a temple of justice and equate judges with gods.Addressing the East Zone-II Regional Conference of the National Judicial Academy in ...
1 July 2024 Indian ExpressChief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud on Saturday advocated for the adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the judicial system albeit in a measured way.Addressing the inaugural session of the two-day East Zone II Regional Conference of the ...
1 July 2024 Indian ExpressA scuffle broke out between shop owners and hawkers in Kolkata’s New Market area on Saturday, over a dispute on parking. The incident comes in the backdrop of a city-wide eviction drive by the police that saw the removal ...
1 July 2024 Indian ExpressA youth was beaten to death in the Salt Lake area near Kolkata on Saturday allegedly over suspicion of stealing a mobile phone. Three persons have been arrested in connection with the incident that took place late Friday night, ...
1 July 2024 Indian ExpressThe tussle between Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Governor CV Ananda Bose was tarnishing the image of West Bengal, state Congress president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury said on Sunday.Speaking to reporters on the defamation suit filed by Bose against Banerjee ...
1 July 2024 Indian ExpressA day after senior BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari alleged that the party’s Minority Morcha woman leader was beaten up, stripped and dragged by hair by TMC goons in Cooch Behar district on June 25, the BJP on Saturday demanded ...
1 July 2024 Indian ExpressThe India Meteorological Department (IMD) predicted heavy to very heavy rainfall accompanied by thunderstorms in West Bengal on Sunday after parts of the state received heavy showers on Saturday.A yellow alert has been issued for North Bengal, particularly Jalpaiguri, ...
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