Kolkata: Newly appointed commerce and industry minister Tapas Roy has said he has instructed officials to prepare a white paper on the Bengal Global Business Summit (BGBS), detailing how many editions of the summit have been held, the expenditure ...
12 June 2026 Times of IndiaSiliguri: Bengal finance minister Swapan Dasgupta said on Thursday that north Bengal was a priority for the state govt, and his department had been reaching out to people from different sectors to understand their expectations before presenting the budget ...
12 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Trinamool Congress descended into deeper crisis on Thursday after its Rajya Sabha MP Prakash Chik Baraik resigned from the party and Upper House, making him the third to do so since Monday.With its Lok Sabha MPs Saayoni Ghosh ...
12 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Calcutta High Court on Thursday asked the Bengal assembly speaker if an expelled MLA can be appointed leader of the opposition.The HC — hearing a Trinamool Congress challenge to speaker Rathindra Bose's order appointing Ritabrata Banerjee as LoP ...
12 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bengal assembly is set to undergo a major digital transformation, with a newly signed tripartite MoU paving the way for the House to function as a fully paperless ‘e-assembly'.The initiative will bring all legislative business, including bills, notices ...
12 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Kolkata Police has detained two individuals following a violent clash between BJP and Trinamool workers at Brahmapur in the Bansdroni area.While the BJP alleged that two of its members were severely assaulted for trying to stop an extortion ...
12 June 2026 Times of IndiaFalta: Trinamool functionary and Falta candidate Jahangir Khan, who was nicknamed ‘Pushpa’ during the assembly election, was paraded through the Falta and Saharahat areas of South 24 Parganas in Bermudas and a T-shirt by the Diamond Harbour Police on ...
12 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: In a fresh crackdown on illegal arms and ammunition stockpiles in Sandeshkhali, a team of West Bengal Special Task Force (STF) on Thursday recovered a massive cache of weapons and ammunition from the Nazat area, once considered a ...
12 June 2026 Times of IndiaA political controversy erupted in Rajarhat-Gopalpur on Thursday after govt relief materials were allegedly recovered from the office of former Trinamool MLA Aditi Munshi. Following a tip-off, BJP MLA Tarunjyoti Tewari visited the premises near Baguiati bus stand on ...
12 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Tension gripped north Kolkata’s Jorabagan area after a mob allegedly assaulted a former Trinamool Congress councillor and her family member, pelting them with eggs and bricks and reportedly vandalising her property.According to the police complaint, the incident took ...
12 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Anandapur police cops lodged yet another FIR against Trinamool (TMC) Kasba ex-councillor Sushanta Ghosh and four of his aides for allegedly defrauding a resident of Rs 7.7 lakh by selling a footpath stall using forged KMC documents.The ...
12 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Senior advocate Dhiraj Kumar Trivedi was appointed as additional solicitor general (ASG) for high court on Tuesday. His appointment would be effective for three years from June 9. Trivedi was previously the deputy solicitor general in Calcutta high ...
11 June 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Calling the Messi fiasco at the Salt Lake stadium a “blot” on the city’s image, the Calcutta high court on Wednesday slammed former state sports minister Aroop Biswas’s “close proximity” to football great Lionel Messi. Though Justice Saugata ...
11 June 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: At a time when the FIFA World Cup is expanding its footballing map, Kolkata-based notaphilist Anindya Kar has built a paper trail of the tournament through currency.Kar’s collection brings together bank notes representing all 48 participating countries of ...
11 June 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Senior Trinamool Congress leader and MP Kalyan Banerjee on Thursday escalated his public criticism of party national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee, accusing him of “arrogance” and a “fluctuating mindset”.According to news agency PTI, the senior advocate said he ...
11 June 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Trinamool Congress leader Jahangir Khan, also known as ‘Pushpa’, was paraded through the Falta area by police on Thursday after his arrest in connection with extortion and other charges.In the video, Khan is seen walking through Falta under ...
11 June 2026 Times of IndiaSiliguri: Bengal’s unique feature of the Himalayas on one side and the coastline on the other gave the state enormous tourism potential, said the new tourism minister, Sankar Ghosh, who is also the Siliguri MLA, on Wednesday. He urged ...
11 June 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: In another setback for Mamata Banerjee-led TMC, Rajya Sabha MP Prakash Chik Baraik resigned from the Upper House on Thursday, becoming the third TMC member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha to quit amid signs of growing unrest ...
11 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Swapan Samaddar, the KMC ward 56 municipal councilor and MMiC (environment and bustee) ,was arrested on Wednesday on charges of carrying out post-poll violence in 2022.On Wednesday morning, Narkeldanga cops detained him from his home in the Phoolbagan ...
11 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Rooting out corrupt practices from the state sports arena and bringing glory to Bengal were his main tasks now, said Indranil Khan, after becoming the minister of state (independent charge) for sports and youth affairs and consumer affairs ...
11 June 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Bengal’s first BJP govt announced the distribution of cabinet portfolios on Wednesday, putting qualified ministers and veteran politicians in charge of critical departments like health, education, finance and commerce and industry.CM Suvendu Adhikari kept the key home portfolio ...
11 June 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Congress and Trinamool Congress on Wednesday denied there was any proposal or discussion about the Mamata Banerjee-headed party merging with Congress even as TMC national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee met Lok Sabha leader of opposition Rahul Gandhi for ...
11 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: After the change of govt, Pramod Swain, the canteen operator at Presidency University who had been evicted in 2017, wrote to VC Nirmalya Narayan Chakraborty, requesting the necessary steps to allow him to run the canteen on campus ...
11 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A formal police complaint was lodged on Wednesday against former mayor Firhad Hakim at Bidhannagar South Police Station on Wednesday, accusing him of making derogatory remarks against women and PM Narendra Modi. The complaint, filed by BJP worker ...
11 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Cops on Wednesday nabbed Sujit Kumar Pal alias Bachchan, from Kolkata airport. Pal is the right-hand man of Kasba councillor Sushanta Ghosh, who is currently on the run. Cops have formed multiple teams to conduct raids to nab ...
11 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The state on Tuesday transferred and appointed 18 IAS officers to key positions in various departments, marking the first significant administrative reshuffle of secretary-level officers since the BJP formed the govt on May 9. The reshuffle occurred in ...
11 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A govt employee, Hafijur Rahaman (32), was allegedly assaulted and wrongfully restrained by a group of men inside an Entally office while performing official duties on Tuesday afternoon. Police have arrested the prime accused, Avijit Das (36), and ...
11 June 2026 Times of IndiaHowrah: A 38-year-old man, Gopal Sarkar, accused of running a sex trafficking racket was found dead and wrapped in a saree near the Dhulagarh truck terminal in Howrah on Tuesday night. Police arrested Happy Singh, who allegedly confessed to ...
11 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Four members of a family and their associate were arrested on Wednesday for allegedly attacking a police officer, SI Rajib Roy, during a legal eviction drive in central Kolkata's Taltala area. SI Roy sustained injuries and was taken ...
11 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A squall lashed Kolkata and the neighbouring districts of North and South 24 Parganas and Howrah with the wind speed gusting at 60 kmph early on Wednesday evening. The KMC drainage pumping stations recorded 96 mm of rainfall ...
11 June 2026 Times of IndiaDarjeeling: Gorkhaland Territorial Administration chief executive Anit Thapa met Centre-appointed interlocutor Pankaj Kumar Singh on Wednesday. The meeting assumed significance because Thapa's party — Bharatiya Gorkha Prajatantrik Morcha (BGPM) — has been an ally of Trinamool and Thapa had ...
11 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: With state lawyers absent, Calcutta HC deferred the MLA ‘Signgate' case in which Trinamool MP Abhishek Banerjee is an accused, and is likely to hear it now on Thursday. The court also refused urgent hearing to Trinamool over ...
11 June 2026 Times of IndiaMalda: Another holding centre for illegal Bangladeshi immigrants opened in Malda on Wednesday, the third in the district, reports Subhro Maitra.The new centre has come up in Bamangola. The first holding centre in Malda opened at English Bazar while ...
11 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: An extortion case has been registered by Lake Town police against a history-sheeter and his associate for allegedly demanding Rs 10 lakh from a trader and threatening to kill him if the money was not paid within seven ...
11 June 2026 Times of IndiaTMC national general secretary and Diamond Harbour MP Abhishek Banerjee has been named in an FIR alongside 41 party members for an alleged attack on a BJP worker nearly eight years ago.The complaint was lodged at Diamond Harbour police ...
11 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: After filing a police complaint alleging Suruchi Sangha has encroached upon a 23-cottah land in New Alipore, the Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) has sought assistance from the KMC assessment department to reclaim the plot. The current ...
11 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Calling the Messi fiasco at the Salt Lake stadium a “blot” on the city’s image, the Calcutta High Court on Wednesday slammed former state sports minister Aroop Biswas’s “close proximity” to football great Lionel Messi. Justice Saugata Bhattacharyya ...
11 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Officers from the New Alipore PS on Wednesday took arrested Trinamool functionary Swarup Biswas to the Federation of Cine Technicians and Workers of Eastern India (FCTWEI) office at Tollygunge Technician Studio, where locks were broken in his presence ...
11 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Rooting out corrupt practices from the state sports arena and bringing glory to Bengal were his main tasks now, said Indranil Khan, after becoming the minister of state (independent charge) for sports and youth affairs and consumer affairs ...
11 June 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The Calcutta high court on Wednesday granted interim protection to former West Bengal sports minister Aroop Biswas from any coercive action in connection with the chaos during Lionel Messi’s event at Salt Lake Stadium in December.While granting relief, ...
11 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 17-year-old has been apprehended for allegedly raping and murdering a two-year-old in Tangra on April 23 this year. An FIR was filed at the Tangra police station 41 days after the incident, only after the final postmortem ...
10 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bengal CM Suvendu Adhikari accepted Odisha CM Mohan Charan Majhi's appeal to drop "dham" from the name of the Jagannath temple complex at Digha, announcing that the Digha Jagannath Cultural Centre would henceforth be known as Digha Jagannath ...
10 June 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: In a major push to establish this Bengal district as the undisputed "Mango Capital of India," the Malda district administration has unveiled a comprehensive blueprint called "Aamar Malda" (a clever portmanteau of Aam meaning mango, and Malda). The ...
10 June 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Newly inducted West Bengal industries minister Tapas Roy on Wednesday said the BJP government would make efforts to bring the Tata Group back to the state and revive investor confidence, as he pitched Bengal as a destination for ...
10 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Cybercrime syndicates targeted the city's senior citizens over the week, collectively swindling them of over Rs 56.6 lakh in two separate incidents of investment and pension fraud, police said on Tuesday.In the first incident, a 65-year-old resident of ...
10 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A forgery-and-impersonation racket has allegedly emerged in Tangra after restaurant owner Monica Liu claimed a fake power of attorney was registered by someone posing as her, then used to secure a mutation at KMC in favour of multiple ...
10 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Mangalam Vidya Niketan has joined the global shift toward cleaner energy with the installation of rooftop solar panels. This marks the first time a school in North Kolkata has adopted such an initiative. The photovoltaic system converts sunlight ...
10 June 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: In a scene rarely witnessed in Bengal, a 30-member CID team accompanied by central force personnel entered former chief minister Mamata Banerjee's 30B Harish Chatterjee Road address on Tuesday and searched the party office adjoining her home. They ...
10 June 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Former Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation (BMC) chairperson Sabyasachi Dutta, who was also a Trinamool Congress (TMC) MLA for two terms, was pelted with eggs, cow dung and tomatoes outside Bidhannagar North police station after he was arrested early on ...
10 June 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The Bengal cabinet portfolio allocation would be happening soon, most likely this week, state BJP seniors said late on Tuesday. Chief minister Suvendu Adhikari was slated to keep the critical home department, BJP seniors indicated, adding that other ...
10 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A modest party office on a pavement in central Kolkata became the centre of a significant political development as Congress workers on Monday evening reclaimed the premises at 48, Zakaria Street near Mohammad Ali Park in Ward 44 ...
10 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A customer at a popular optical store at AE Block in Salt Lake was arrested on Tuesday after he allegedly misbehaved with a sub-divisional officer, used objectionable words and made offensive gestures at her.The accused, Anirban Banerjee, was ...
10 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: West Bengal chief minister adviser Subrata Gupta met BJP MLAs Roopa Ganguly, Papiya Adhikary, Hiran Chatterjee and Rudranil Ghosh on Monday to map out the future of the film industry’s guilds.The state’s intervention follows widespread panic after Adhikary’s ...
10 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: To clear the backlog of passport applications, the regional passport office (RPO) in Kolkata announced a ‘Passport Mela’ to be held on Saturday.The single-day drive will be organised at the Passport Seva Kendra in Anandpur, where 2,000-odd appointments ...
10 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolaghat/Kolkata: CM Suvendu Adhikari on Tuesday listed his administration's move on several issues, ranging from census work to land to BSF for Bangla border fencing, stressing how the new BJP govt has managed to break the deadlock during the ...
10 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: CM Suvendu Adhikari held a meeting at Nabanna on Tuesday ahead of International Yoga Day on June 21, which will be attended by PM Narendra Modi. It was attended by Union ministers Mansukh Mandaviya and Prataprao Jadhav.The PM, ...
10 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: To bring in more transparency and curb irregularities in the allocation of work under rural job schemes, state govt has directed all districts to implement mandatory attendance recording through face authentication on the National Mobile Monitoring System (NMMS) ...
10 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: To bring in more transparency and curb irregularities in the allocation of work under rural job schemes, state govt has directed all districts to implement mandatory attendance recording through face authentication on the National Mobile Monitoring System (NMMS) ...
10 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: State govt will support industries and remove all obstacles to investment, said state cabinet minister Dilip Ghosh at an event. He was speaking at the inauguration of India Global Grand Trade Fair (IGGTF), organised by Bharat Chamber of ...
10 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Rebel Trinamool MPs, who have formed a separate parliamentary bloc and extended support to NDA, will not be accommodated in BJP, said Bengal BJP chief Samik Bhattacharya. BJP will also assess what these rebel MPs are asking for ...
10 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: State govt has formed a committee to implement Centre's Pradhan Mantri Cha Shramik Protsahan Yojana, paving the way for the release of Rs 314 crore earmarked for the welfare of tea garden workers.The central scheme aims to support ...
10 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Trinamool's rebel bloc members may have extended support to the NDA, but several of them are opposed to replicating the Maharashtra model in Bengal and staking claim to the TMC party name and symbol.The Maharashtra model refers to ...
10 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Centre has approved the construction of 10 lakh houses under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) in Bengal, while sanctioning total funds of Rs 4,000 crore for rural roads, pensions, rural employment schemes and agriculture development.Of this, Rs ...
10 June 2026 Times of IndiaKrishnanagar (Nadia): Former state minister Ujjal Biswas was arrested on Tuesday evening after police registered a case over allegations that tarpaulins meant for public distribution had been illegally stocked at his residence and were being diverted elsewhere. The arrest ...
10 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Students at state-run schools have started practising yoga in their physical education (PE) classes in the run-up to the International Day of Yoga on June 21. For classes IX to XI, which do not have PE periods, separate ...
10 June 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Trinamool Congress national general secretary and Diamond Harbour MP Abhishek Banerjee on Tuesday skipped the state CID’s third summons in the alleged signature forgery case, citing prior engagements in Delhi. He also said his appeal against the case ...
10 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: An FIR has been registered at the Bowbazar PS against former Bengal minister Indranil Sen, his wife Madhuchhanda Sen, and several top officials of the cultural organization “MassArt” for their alleged involvement in a financial racket centered on ...
10 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: “Is there any right of the encroacher to be rehabilitated and then evicted?” Calcutta High Court on Tuesday questioned the encroachers adjacent to the Konnagar railway station, who approached HC against the railway’s eviction notice. The HC directed ...
10 June 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Sushmita Bhattacharya Chatterjee, councillor of KMC ward 63 and borough VII chairperson, and her husband, Salil Chatterjee, an insurance agent, have been arrested on charges of extorting from a senior citizen in Watgunge.“Allegations include extortion, threat and cheating ...
10 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: YouTuber and journalist Prabir Biswas, who is a known face on digital platform, was arrested on Tuesday following a complaint against him. He will be produced before a local court soon. While the exact charges leading to his ...
10 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A Trinamool functionary from Barrackpore, who went into hiding in Jammu & Kashmir, was arrested by the detective wing of the Barrackpore Police Commissionerate on Tuesday in connection with multiple cases, including extortion and criminal intimidation. The accused ...
10 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Encroachments outside Tala Park were removed with payloaders on Saturday. The operation was carried out in the presence of local Cossipore-Belgachhia MLA Ritesh Tiwari. On Monday, a high-level delegation visited Kashipur Ghat, and officials indicated that illegal occupation ...
9 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Regional Passport Office (RPO) in Kolkata announced the resumption of the walk-in appointment system. Starting June 15, the passport office at 4, Brabourne Road, will strictly limit walk-in entry to just three days a week — Monday, ...
9 June 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Half a century after Satyajit Ray’s Sonar Kella (The Golden Fortress) immortalised the desert landscapes of Rajasthan and cemented the legendary sleuth Feluda in the Bengali psyche, a unique literary tribute has taken the city's Feluda lovers by ...
9 June 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The CID of West Bengal Police on Tuesday carried out raids at two key Trinamool Congress offices in Kolkata — one near former chief minister Mamata Banerjee's Kalighat residence and another on Camac Street linked to Abhishek Banerjee ...
9 June 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: In a bitter twist of fate for Anik Dutta’s controversially “banned” film, ‘Bhobisyoter Bhoot’ (BB), a planned tribute screening at Kolkata’s Nandan screening complex has been abruptly cancelled.'Repeated calls from TOI to Nandan CEO went unanswered. On June ...
9 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A midnight bulldozer drive cleared “encroachers”, mostly engaged in construction materials business, on the precincts of Jadavpur railway station in the intervening night between Sunday and Monday. Around 35-40 “illegal structures” were razed on the land adjacent to ...
9 June 2026 Times of IndiaFrom Annapurna Yojana to border fencing, crackdowns on TMC leaders to mandatory Vande Mataram — here is what Bengal's first BJP government has done in its first 30 daysExactly one month since CM Suvendu Adhikari was sworn in, Bengal's ...
9 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Trinamool national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee was on Monday served a third notice by the state CID, directing him to appear before it by 5 pm on Tuesday. The state investigating agency said it found little ground to ...
9 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: There was high drama at New Alipore on Monday morning after a large police contingent along with central forces personnel reached the Sahapur Colony residence of arrested Trinamool functionary Swarup Biswas and his brother, former state minister Aroop ...
9 June 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Bidhannagar Police arrested senior TMC leader and Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation chairman Sabyasachi Dutta in a late-night operation on allegations of extortion and criminal intimidation, in the latest controversy involving leaders of the ruling party.He is the second prominent ...
9 June 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: A full-blown revolt inside the Trinamool Congress is threatening to alter the balance of power in Parliament, with rebel MPs claiming the support of 20 Lok Sabha members and seeking recognition as a separate bloc that would extend ...
9 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The city endured another scorching day with the maximum temperature soaring to 35.4°C. The maximum relative humidity touched the 97% mark.With moisture flowing in from the Bay of Bengal, humidity remained high, making conditions extremely harsh, said weathermen. ...
9 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The state on Monday formally joined Ayushman Bharat, the Centre’s flagship health insurance scheme, enabling residents of the state to access cashless treatment at over 36,000 empanelled hospitals across the country. Bengal was the only remaining state/UT that ...
9 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The state govt on Monday sought to dispel confusion surrounding the application process for Annapurna Yojana, with state minister Agnimitra Paul clarifying that a single application form is sufficient for an entire family. The clarification came after Chief ...
9 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: West Bengal’s state transport undertakings are scrambling to maximise the number of their buses on the roads following a significant surge in commuters after the state’s announcement of free bus rides for women.Transport officials are rapidly repairing and ...
9 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A severe clay shortage has stalled Durga Puja preparation in Kumartuli, while also affecting the production of other earthen products. Artisans organised a rally on Monday from Ramlila Maidan to the Kolkata Municipal Corporation building to demand regularisation ...
9 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: In a shift in political messaging by the one-month-old BJP govt in Bengal, municipal affairs and urban development minister Agnimitra Paul has called for the participation of Muslim boys and girls in the state's development journey.Bengal's progress requires ...
9 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: On a day Trinamool's Lok Sabha MPs split to form a rebel bloc, its Rajya Sabha MP Sukhendu Sekhar Ray resigned with nearly three years of his parliamentary term remaining.A vocal critic of the TMC leadership, Ray on ...
9 June 2026 Times of IndiaHowrah: Police on Monday arrested three Trinamool workers in connection with the public humiliation of TMC neta Sannyasi Manna in Amradaha, Shyampur, after his wife Sabita Manna identified them in her complaint, officers said.Arun Roy, Tridib Samanta and Bikash ...
9 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Confederation of Indian Small Tea Growers' Associations (CISTA) has written to CM Suvendu Adhikari, urging him to set up a small tea growers' development board. It has suggested that the board should have representatives from Tea Board, ...
9 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The state govt on Monday dissolved the Trinamool Congress-run Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) board and appointed municipal commissioner Smita Pandey as the administrator of the civic body, formalising the authority she has effectively exercised since the assembly election ...
9 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Former Kolkata mayor Firhad Hakim spent 70 minutes with ‘expelled' Trinamool MLA and leader of opposition (LoP) Ritabrata Banerjee in the assembly on Monday, and stepped out to claim that he wanted "the party to remain one". The ...
9 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The relentless implosion of Trinamool Congress continued on Monday with four-time MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar writing a letter "with 19 other MPs' signatures" to Lok Sabha speaker Om Birla, saying they would like to be considered as a ...
9 June 2026 Times of IndiaJalpaiguri: India stepped in on Monday to provide shelter and food to a Bangladeshi family of 10 who had been stranded in no-man's land for days near the Shyam border outpost in Sakati, Jalpaiguri Sadar block, after Bangladesh refused ...
9 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bengal presents a starkly divided picture of development, showcasing strides in farming and public health while displaying a collapse in environmental management and infrastructure, a study revealed.The study report titled ‘State of India's Environment 2026: In Figures' , ...
9 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Now the Purple Line, too, has gathered steam. The railway ministry has issued land acquisition notices for the Purple Line’s extension to Diamond Park, via IIM-Calcutta.A gazette notification to acquire land for Phase 1 of Kolkata Metro’s Joka-Diamond ...
9 June 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Rebel TMC MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar on Monday said she would not bow to political pressure after announcing that a group of 20 MPs has approached the Lok Sabha Speaker seeking separate seating arrangements in Parliament. Speaking to ...
9 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: CPM youth leader Dipsita Dhar approached Calcutta High Court on Monday, alleging doctored videos from a political rally speech are doing the rounds on social media.Dhar’s counsel, submitted before Justice Saugata Bhattacharyya that Dipsita might be ‘lynched’ anytime ...
9 June 2026 Times of IndiaDarjeeling: A 5.7-magnitude earthquake that shook Darjeeling and large parts of North Bengal late Sunday night has once again brought into sharp focus the region’s growing seismic vulnerability, particularly after the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), under the revised ...
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