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  • BJP launches website: ‘People who couldn’t vote can register complaints’

    Alleging that “genuine Hindu voters” were not allowed to vote in the recent Lok Sabha elections and the just concluded bypoll in four Assembly constituencies in West Bengal, the BJP on Tuesday launched a web portal where people who ...

    18 July 2024 Indian Express
    Calcutta High Court restrains Mamata Banerjee: No defamatory remarks against Governor Ananda Bose

    THE CALCUTTA High Court on Tuesday restrained West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and three Trinamool Congress leaders from making any “defamatory or incorrect statement” against Governor C V Ananda Bose until August 14 when the matter will be ...

    18 July 2024 Indian Express
    After TMC sweeps bypolls in Bengal, Leader of Opposition launches portal for ‘lakhs of Hindus who failed to vote’

    After West Bengal’s ruling party Trinamool Congress swept the bypolls for four constituencies in the state, the Leader of Opposition, Suvendu Adhikari, has introduced a portal where people who “failed” to cast their vote could register.The BJP leader on ...

    17 July 2024 Indian Express
    I ask the govt to curtail militant support base in J&K: Father of Army officer killed in Doda

    The father of the Army officer killed during an encounter with militants in Jammu and Kashmir’s Doda called on the government to “curtail the support base of militants” in J&K.Captain Brijesh Thapa (27) was among four soldiers killed on ...

    17 July 2024 Indian Express
    Panchayat Department Review Meeting: 75% funds unspent, BDOs told to use money for rural projects within 15 days

    The state Panchayat department on Monday directed the BDOs (Block Development Officers) to finalise tenders for rural projects by July 31 in order to utilise 75 per cent unspent funds allotted under the 15th Finance Commission.Sources in the department ...

    17 July 2024 Indian Express
    Flogging to threats, the writ of Bengal’s rural kangaroo courts

    Sitting at a bus stand in West Bengal’s Purba Bardhaman district, Sheikh Boshir Ali, 31, and his mother Sahanara Khatun, 55, say they haven’t gone home since June 15. The previous night, a group of men had allegedly barged ...

    17 July 2024 Indian Express
    Mob attacks police, frees accused in Kultali

    A mob attacked a police team and freed a man arrested in a cheating case at Jalaberia village in the Kultali area of South 24 Parganas district on Monday.According to police, the police team had gone to arrest Saddam ...

    17 July 2024 Indian Express
    Governor’s defamation suit against Bengal CM: Mamata’s remarks echoed fears of women, her counsel tells HC

    West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, through her counsel, Monday told the Calcutta HC that she stood by her statement that women had expressed fears about visiting Raj Bhavan in Kolkata and there was nothing defamatory in her comment.During ...

    17 July 2024 Indian Express
    ‘Will conduct if he doesn’t answer’: West Bengal Speaker to ask Governor C V Bose who will administer oath for MLAs elected in bypolls

    The Speaker of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly on Monday said that Governor CV Ananda Bose will be asked to administer the oath of four newly elected four MLAs. He added that if the Governor does not respond, the ...

    16 July 2024 Indian Express
    Bengal Panchayat dept to BDOs: Disburse 75% of Fifteenth Finance Commission funds by July 31

    In a meeting with the Block Development Officers (BDOs) on Monday, the West Bengal Panchayat department directed that 75 per cent of the funds under the Fifteenth Finance Commission be disbursed by July 31.Otherwise, the Central Government may stop ...

    16 July 2024 Indian Express
    Convicted Maoist leader Arnab Dam enrols in Bengal’s Burdwan University for six-month Phd course

    Convicted and jailed Maoist leader Arnab Dam on Monday, under police watch, attended the counselling and took admission in the PhD course at Burdwan University, West Bengal. The admissions were earlier stalled by university authorities citing security concerns.At around ...

    16 July 2024 Indian Express
    With bypoll results out, Rajeev Kumar reinstated as DGP of West Bengal

    After the bypolls of four assembly constituencies concluded in West Bengal, Rajeev Kumar was reinstated as the Director General of West Bengal Police, a post he had been removed from after the Lok Sabha polls this year.On Monday, forty-eight ...

    16 July 2024 Indian Express
    No Bill is pending with Raj Bhavan as claimed by Bengal govt: Governor CV Ananda Bose

    West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose on Sunday rejected the allegation that eight Bills passed by the state assembly are pending with the Raj Bhavan. Out of the eight Bills, six were reserved for the consideration of President Draupadi Murmu, ...

    16 July 2024 Indian Express
    Convicted Maoist leader gets interim parole, likely to enroll for PhD today

    Convicted Maoist leader Arnab Dam, whose enrollment for PhD at Burdwan University was paused last week, will now appear for counselling on Monday, after the state correctional home Saturday approved his interim parole, allowing Dam to be transferred to ...

    16 July 2024 Indian Express
    2022 Bogtoi case: CBI frames charges against 23 accused

    The CBI has framed charges against 23 accused persons in the 2022 Bogtui killings case in a Rampurhat court. According to sources, the 23 persons were produced in the court to frame charges. During the hearing, six persons appealed ...

    16 July 2024 Indian Express
    For ageing witnesses in rural West Bengal, a World War II bomb found in Jhargram triggers memories of the war years

    On a July morning, 108 year-old Mahadev Sahu sits on the small porch of his home in West Bengal’s Jhargram district, recalling the day some eight decades ago, when he was out working in cucumber fields as a young ...

    16 July 2024 Indian Express
    Train collides with two cars at West Bengal railway crossing

    A passenger train collided with two cars at Khardah Railway Station on Sunday night, narrowly escaping a major accident. The Hazarduari Express had been heading towards Kolkata as two vehicles drove onto the track, striking the back of an ...

    16 July 2024 Indian Express
    Ex-Bengal FM Amit Mitra tests positive for Covid-19, hospitalised

    Former West Bengal finance minister Amit Mitra was hospitalised on Monday after he tested positive for Covid-19, an official said.The septuagenarian is being treated at an isolated intensive care unit, he said.“Mr Mitra was hospitalised this afternoon after he ...

    16 July 2024 Indian Express
    Prime accused arrested in assault on Kolkata realtor who rejected ‘extortion bid’

    Police on Sunday arrested the prime accused in a case in which a realtor was beaten up and his office ransacked in North Kolkata allegedly after he refused to pay Rs 5 lakh demanded by a worker of the ...

    15 July 2024 Indian Express
    BJP to observe ‘Murder of Democracy Day’ in Bengal on July 21, says Opposition leader Suvendu Adhikari

    Bengal BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari on Sunday announced that the party will observe ‘Murder of Democracy Day’ on July 21 to protest against the alleged reign of terror unleashed by the Trinamool Congress (TMC).Speaking to media persons, Adhikari said, ...

    15 July 2024 Indian Express
    Trinamool Congress leader shot dead at eatery in Bengal’s North Dinajpur district

    A youth leader of the ruling Trinamool Congress was shot dead and another injured at Islampur in West Bengal’s North Dinajpur district around 9 pm on Saturday, after the results of the Assembly bypolls were announced.Bapi Roy and Mohammad ...

    15 July 2024 Indian Express
    2 held in Kolkata after realtor ‘beaten up’, his office vandalised

    A REALTOR was allegedly beaten up and his office was vandalised in Cossipore area of North Kolkata on Friday, police said on Saturday.Identified as Abhijit Sarkar, the realtor has been admitted to a private hospital with serious injuries, officers ...

    15 July 2024 Indian Express
    6 killed as truck-ambulance collide in West Bengal

    Six persons, including four of a family, were killed when the ambulance they were traveling in collided with a truck in West Bengal’s Paschim Medinipur district on Friday night, police said.According to a senior police officer from the district, ...

    15 July 2024 Indian Express
    As cataract surgeries lead to eye infections, Health Dept probes

    The West Bengal health department launched an investigation, after at least 35 patients, who underwent cataract surgeries at state-run Metiabruz Super Speciality Hospital, in Garden Reach area on June 28-29, as part of a special camp, complained of blurred ...

    14 July 2024 Indian Express
    In repeat of LS show, TMC sweeps Assembly bypolls in West Bengal, wins all 4 seats

    The Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Saturday swept the Assembly bypolls in West Bengal after its candidates won all four seats that went to polls. In all four seats, the BJP came a distant second while Left-Congress alliance candidates lost ...

    14 July 2024 Indian Express
    Frequent Cyclones A Cause Of Worry: How Asia’s largest Botanical Garden is reviving trees uprooted by cyclones

    When Cyclone Remal hit West Bengal two months ago, the historic Botanical Garden in Howrah’s Shibpur was battle-ready. Teams were deployed from 6 in the morning to keep a close watch on the trees as gusty winds reaching a ...

    14 July 2024 Indian Express
    Convicted Maoist in West Bengal begins fast as his PhD admission process pauses

    Convicted Maoist leader Arnab Dam, who had topped the interviews list to pursue PhD in History from Burdwan University in West Bengal, went on a token fast at the Hooghly correctional home on Thursday after the university paused admissions ...

    14 July 2024 Indian Express
    North 24 Parganas | People taking law in hands concerning, guidelines sent to police stations: ADG

    Amid incidents of mob lynching and the surfacing of videos of public flogging and torture in the state, the West Bengal Police on Thursday admitted that people taking the law into their hands was concerning and said that guidelines ...

    13 July 2024 Indian Express
    ‘13 of 15 non-Russians in military unit dead’: Indians seek return

    Two Indian men fighting for Russia in its war against Ukraine have appealed to Indian authorities to help them get back home as they described the “horrific” situation on the frontlines, with one of them saying 13 of 15 ...

    13 July 2024 Indian Express
    Another aide of TMC strongman Jayant Singh held over torture video

    One more aide of TMC strongman Jayant Singh has been arrested in connection with a video of a teenager being sexually assaulted in the Kamarhati-Ariadaha area of North 24 Parganas district.According to Barrackpore police, accused Prasen Das alias Laltu, ...

    13 July 2024 Indian Express
    Leader of Bengal opposition Suvendu Adhikari meets MoHA Amit Shah: ‘Gave him footage of mob violence in WB’

    Suvendu Adhikari, Leader of the Opposition in the West Bengal assembly, gave Union Home Minister Amit Shah in Delhi “a USB drive with video footage” of various alleged incidents of “mob violence” perpetrated in West Bengal.This was Adhikari’s first ...

    13 July 2024 Indian Express
    Hundreds of West Bengal land officials transferred after complaints of ‘illegal land occupation’

    The West Bengal government ordered the transfer of 384 officials in the Land and Land Reforms department by July 12 and 72 more revenue officers by July 15. In a notification issued on Wednesday, the government further ordered departmental ...

    12 July 2024 Indian Express
    BJP’s Suvendu Adhikari meets Nirmala Sitharaman, fears impending financial crisis in Bengal

    Senior BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari on Thursday wrote to Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, expressing fears that development and welfare funds intended for the people of West Bengal might be diverted and mismanaged to “delay” an impending financial crisis.Adhikari ...

    12 July 2024 Indian Express
    Mamata to meet Sharad Pawar, Uddhav Thackeray and Akhilesh Yadav in Mumbai before attending Ambani wedding

    West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has said that she will meet Sharad Pawar, Uddhav Thackeray and Akhilesh Yadav in Mumbai on Friday before attending the wedding of Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant. This will be the Trinamool Congress ...

    12 July 2024 Indian Express
    Mob assault: Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee says BJP, media fuelling controversies, warns of legal action

    Amid the arrest of one more aide of TMC strongman in Kamarhati in North 24 Parganas district following the surfacing of another video of torture, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday hit out at BJP IT cell chief Amit ...

    12 July 2024 Indian Express
    Fresh video of assault on boy with tong: another aide of TMC strongman Jayant Singh arrested

    Another aide of TMC strongman Jayant Singh was arrested on Thursday in connection with a video that had surfaced online showing a teenager being sexually assaulted inside the Ariadaha Taltala Sporting Club in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district.Officials ...

    12 July 2024 Indian Express
    Bengal Assembly Bypoll: As BJP alleges bogus voting, intimidation, EC seeks report

    As four Assembly constituencies in West Bengal went to bypoll on Wednesday, the Opposition BJP filed nearly 100 complaints alleging violence, intimidation and bogus voting by the ruling TMC, prompting the Election Commission to seek an action taken report ...

    12 July 2024 Indian Express
    Theft suspect dies days after release on bail; kin allege custodial torture

    A 22-year-old youth died days after he was released on bail in a theft case in the Dholahat area of Sundarban police district.The police have initiated a departmental inquiry based on a complaint of the family of the deceased, ...

    11 July 2024 Indian Express
    Bengal Governor seeks report from CM Mamata on actions taken against Kolkata Police chief and DCP on his complaint

    Citing his complaint against Kolkata Police Commissioner Vineet Kumar Goyal and Deputy Commissioner of Police (Central) Indira Mukherjee, West Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose has asked Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to submit a report on the actions taken ...

    11 July 2024 Indian Express
    As more atrocity videos surface, Bengal police book 3 cases against TMC strongman Jayant Singh and aides

    As more videos of atrocities inside a club in the Kamarhati-Ariadaha area of West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district have emerged, police have booked three cases against TMC strongman Jayant Singh and his aides and arrested seven people. Singh ...

    11 July 2024 Indian Express
    ‘Prices to come down within ten days’: West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee asks police and EB to raid markets

    With rising prices of food items and vegetables, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has asked the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) and Enforcement Branch to raid markets. Blaming a section of businessmen for seeking more profit, she asked state ...

    11 July 2024 Indian Express
    Video of TMC strongman’s aides assaulting person in Bengal’s Ariadaha club surfaces, 2 held

    An old video has surfaced of a person being brutally assaulted allegedly by the associates of a Trinamool Congress strongman inside a club in the Kamarhati area of West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district, sparking a political outrage.Two persons ...

    10 July 2024 Indian Express
    Red alert for heavy rainfall issued for 3 districts in north Bengal, water level in rivers to rise further

    The Meteorological Department on Monday issued a red alert (heavy to very heavy rainfall) for three districts – Alipurduar, Jalpaiguri, and Cooch Behar – and said that the north Bengal region is likely to receive heavy rainfall for the ...

    10 July 2024 Indian Express
    Opp welcomes Supreme Court’s Sandeshkhali order, slams govt

    The Opposition parties in West Bengal on Monday launched a fresh attack on the TMC government after the Supreme Court turned down the state’s government plea.Challenging the Calcutta High Court’s order for a CBI probe into allegations of land ...

    10 July 2024 Indian Express
    West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee blames Centre for flooding: ‘No dredging done, treaties being signed without consulting the state’

    With parts of West Bengal, especially its northern districts, facing flood-like situation, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday held the Central government responsible, alleging that it did not consult the state government before renewing the Farakka treaty with Bangladesh.Addressing ...

    10 July 2024 Indian Express
    TMC MP Mahua Moitra says Union Minister Shantanu Thakur ‘issued passes for smugglers on border’, Thakur says ‘ issued to prevent BSF harassment’

    Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra on Monday accused Union Minister Shantanu Thakur of issuing official passes for smugglers at the Indo-Bangladesh border. The minister oversees shipping, ports and waterways for West Bengal.Moitra shared an image of the “pass” on ...

    10 July 2024 Indian Express
    Mohammed Salim, Amit Malviya booked by Bengal Police for circulating video of Chopra public flogging after victim complains: ‘I have been defamed’

    The West Bengal Police have booked CPI(M) state secretary Mohammed Salim and Amit Malviya, BJP co-observer for Bengal, for circulating the video of the Chopra public flogging.Police sources reported that a First Information Report (FIR) was filed based on ...

    9 July 2024 Indian Express
    Mukul Roy stable, responding to treatment, says hospital

    THE CONDITION of former Railway minister and veteran politician Mukul Roy, who was admitted to a hospital last Thursday, after he fell down at his residence, is stable, doctors said on Sunday.Roy is admitted in the Intensive Therapy Unit ...

    9 July 2024 Indian Express
    North Bengal hit by incessant rainfall, flood-like situation in Jalpaiguri

    Heavy rainfall has led to a flood-like situation in several areas of north Bengal with the Meteorological Department on Sunday predicting heavy showers in the region in the days ahead.With several low-lying areas in Jalpaiguri district getting submerged in ...

    9 July 2024 Indian Express
    Relative of victims held for death of 3 family members in Bolpur fire

    Days after three members of a family died in a fire that burnt their house in Bolpur, police on Sunday said they have arrested a relative of the victims for conspiracy.According to police, Smriti Bibi, a relative of the ...

    9 July 2024 Indian Express
    Union Home Ministry initiates disciplinary action against Kolkata CP, DCP for ‘maligning’ Raj Bhavan

    The Union Home Ministry has initiated disciplinary action against Kolkata Police Commissioner Vineet Goyal and a DCP for allegedly maligning the office of the West Bengal Governor by promoting and spreading canards, a central government official said.The Union ministry ...

    8 July 2024 Indian Express
    Amid several lynching spree in Bengal, now, man ‘beaten to death’ in Bhangar on suspicion of theft

    A man of about 50 was allegedly beaten to death on the suspicion of being a thief on Sunday morning at Bhangar in South 24 Paraganas district of West Bengal, where several cases of mob lynching due to rumours ...

    8 July 2024 Indian Express
    After girl from Bangladesh intercepted, Bengal couple held for ‘human trafficking’ in Delhi

    THE WEST Bengal CID on Friday arrested a couple from Delhi on charges of human trafficking.The police identified the couple as Buddhadeb Gan (31) and Sonia Fakir (28) who hail from Kanyani, Nadia district.The anti-human trafficking unit (AHTU) of ...

    8 July 2024 Indian Express
    Mukul Roy critical, in ICU: Doctors

    The condition of former Railway minister and veteran politician leader Mukul Roy, who was admitted to a hospital on Thursday after he fell down at his residence, is critical, doctors said on Saturday.An official at the hospital said Roy ...

    8 July 2024 Indian Express
    Maniktala Assembly bypoll: Late minister’s legacy key to TMC success; BJP hopes to highlight post-poll violence

    For 66-year-old Supti Pande, the Trinamool Congress candidate from the Maniktala constituency, protecting the legacy of her late husband and former TMC and state minister Sadhan Pande, is more important than winning the Maniktala Assembly bypoll, scheduled on July ...

    8 July 2024 Indian Express
    Row erupts over Bengal minister’s remarks at Muslim religious event, BJP says ‘highly condemnable’

    Kolkata Mayor and state minister Firhad Hakim’s remarks at a function in Kolkata led to a political tussle on Saturday, with the BJP terming the same as “highly condemnable”.Speaking during the inaugural function of a Quran memorisation competition, Hakim, ...

    8 July 2024 Indian Express
    ‘Assault’ on BJP minority morcha worker: Bengal LoP Suvendu Adhikari says police is ‘protecting the perpetrators’

    Leader of Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly Suvendu Adhikari on Saturday alleged that the police is “victimising the victim” in their investigation into the alleged assault on a female minority morcha worker, saying the officers are “protecting the ...

    7 July 2024 Indian Express
    Rath Yatra to be held in Digha from next year: Mamata Banerjee

    Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday announced that Rath Yatra will be held in Digha from next year on the lines of Puri.A Jagannath temple is being constructed at the coastal town in Purba Medinipur district.“Happy to announce that, ...

    7 July 2024 Indian Express
    Weather department forecasts more rainfall in north Bengal

    The rain-drenched northern West Bengal is likely to receive more showers till July 9, the Met Department said on Friday. A trough from Rajasthan to the Northeast and an active monsoon over northern Bengal is likely to bring heavy ...

    7 July 2024 Indian Express
    After ‘JCB’ Tajimul’s arrest in flogging case, another TMC strongman booked under attempt to murder, kidnapping and Arms Act

    Days after the arrest of Tajimul Islam alias ‘JCB’ in connection with the public flogging of a couple, the police have arrested another local Trinamool Congress leader in connection with an assault case.According to sources, the arrested accused was ...

    7 July 2024 Indian Express
    In West Bengal, for the first time, an Adivasi scholar’s digital archive is documenting rare Santali manuscripts

    For close to two decades, Dr Dablu Soren has struggled with getting access to manuscripts and documents that help tell the story of the Santal community in the Indian subcontinent. Since 2006, Soren, an independent scholar based in West ...

    7 July 2024 Indian Express
    Calcutta HC directs CBI to retrieve TET 2014 OMR sheets

    The Calcutta High Court on Friday directed the CBI to diligently trace and retrieve the original or destroyed servers, discs, or mediums where the scanned OMR sheets of the Teachers’ Eligibility Test for 2014 were stored.The court also instructed ...

    6 July 2024 Indian Express
    Couple ‘attacked’ in their Kolkata apartment by sweeper and two others, allege ‘shot fired’

    A man and a woman in South Kolkata were attacked by three men, one of whom they had appointed as a sweeper, in an alleged attempted robbery on Thursday. Police are investigating the couple’s allegation that a shot was ...

    6 July 2024 Indian Express
    Undetonated World War II bomb found in Bengal’s Jhargram, later defused

    The police and the Airforce on Friday jointly defused an undetonated World War II bomb found in Bhulanpur under West Bengal’s Jhargram district.The bomb was spotted on Thursday, following which residents in a 1-km radius of the site were ...

    6 July 2024 Indian Express
    Govt hikes retirement benefits of contractual & school teachers

    The West Bengal Government on Thursday announced an increase in the ‘one-time benefit’ for the contractual employees of the school education department upon retirement.Issuing an order on Wednesday, the state finance department mentioned that retirement benefits for the contractual ...

    6 July 2024 Indian Express
    ‘I begged them to stop’ — how rumours of bachha chor, mobile chor led to spate of mob lynchings in Bengal

    When 75-year-old Bhagabati Mondal first saw her grandson Prasen (26) tied to a tree close to the local primary health centre at Polenite under the Electronic Complex police station in Bidhannagar, she hardly recognised him. Bloodied and bruised, he ...

    6 July 2024 Indian Express
    West Bengal: Oath-taking impasse ends, 2 TMC MLAs sworn in

    The impasse over the swearing-in of two newly elected Trinamool Congress (TMC) MLAs in West Bengal ended on Friday with Legislative Assembly Speaker Biman Banerjee administering the oath to Sayantika Banerjee of Baranagar and Reyat Houssen Sarkar from Bhagawangola.Though ...

    6 July 2024 Indian Express
    Bhupatinagar blast: NIA files first supplementary chargesheet against 3

    NIA on Thursday filed the first supplementary chargesheet against three accused in the 2022 Bhupatinagar blast case, said officials.  Three people were killed after a bomb exploded in a house near TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee’s rally venue in Purba ...

    6 July 2024 Indian Express
    Purba Bardhaman: Row over BDO feasting video with TMC leader

    A “pre-wedding ceremony” of a Block Development Officer (BDO), allegedly organised by a local ruling TMC leader, has sparked a political controversy with the Opposition BJP calling it “unprecedented” and pointed to “politicisation of state’s bureacracy”.The viral video clip ...

    6 July 2024 Indian Express
    Bengal impasse to end as Governor Ananda Bose allows Deputy Speaker to give oath to 2 MLAs

    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 Express
    2 more arrested in Chopra flogging case; NHRC team meets victims, their families

    Police 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 Express
    West Bengal gets over 87,000 applications from other states for UG courses

    West 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 Express
    HC to hear Governor’s defamation suit against CM on July 10 

    The 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 Express
    West Bengal Speaker calls special Assembly session tomorrow amid oath-taking row

    West 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 Express
    Former TMC leader Mukul Roy sustains head injury, has blood clot removed

    Mukul 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 Express
    NEET paper leak: CBI raids apartment in New Town, Kolkata

    The 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 Express
    Man shoots girlfriend, kills self in Kolkata guest house: Police

    A 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 Express
    Main accused in Bengal’s Ariadaha assault case surrenders 4 days after attack

    A 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 Express
    Another case of kangaroo court in Bengal, woman dies by suicide

    A 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 Express
    Man held for molesting daughter in West Bengal’s first arrest under BNS

    West 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 Express
    Calcutta HC adjourns Governor’s defamation suit against Mamata Banerjee

    The 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 Express
    Bengal Governor Ananda Bose files defamation suit against Mamata Banerjee

    WEST 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 Express
    TMC showcauses North Dinajpur MLA Hamidul Rahman over flogging incident

    The 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 Express
    Calcutta HC stays further probe in 47 FIRs against BJP workers in Nandigram

    The 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 Express
    Woman, son beaten up by local goon’s aides in Bengal’s North 24 Parganas

    A 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 Express
    Couple whipped in Bengal: Police add sterner sections of attempt to murder, molestation

    Police 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 Express
    Man beaten to death in Hooghly village, 2 held

    A 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 Express
    As 2 TMC MLAs resume dharna, Speaker tells Governor: Don’t make it ego issue

    The 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 Express
    BJP alleges woman beaten up in Bengal for voting for party in LS polls, police deny charge

    The 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 Express
    Man lynched on mobile theft suspicion in West Bengal’s Jhargram: Police

    A 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 Express
    Bengal whipping incident: For accused, ‘playing JCB’, holding kangaroo courts routine, say residents

    Tajimul 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 Express
    Issue white paper on state’s financial situation, Governor urges Bengal govt

    West 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 Express
    Couple whipped in public by TMC worker, Oppn in Bengal targets Mamata over ‘Taliban-like rule’

    The 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 Express
    5 days after she was assaulted, police record statement of woman BJP worker in West Bengal’s Cooch Behar district

    The 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 Express
    Bihar-based gangster Subodh Singh brought to West Bengal in connection with several cases

    The 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 Express
    West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee suspends eviction drive for a month, asks to identify hawker zone

    Chief 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 Express
    ‘Scared to go to Governor’s house for oath taking’: TMC MLAs sit on dharna

    Two 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 Express
    Leader of WB Opposition Suvendu Adhikari ‘allowed’ to stage dharna against post-poll violence: Bengal govt

    The 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 Express
    Bengal Speaker seeks President’s help to end deadlock over MLAs’ swearing-in

    West 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 Express
    Heavy rain likely in Bengal from today: IMD

    Heavy 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 Express
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