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  • News from West Bengal | 10 May, 2025 | ২৭ বৈশাখ, ১৪৩২
  • ‘Great relief, hope to recover the rest’: Bidhannagar police returns over Rs 2 crore to victims of cyber fraud

    Last September, 75-year-old Subhash Chandra Sarkar, a retired petrochemical company employee, became a victim of cyber fraud, losing his life savings and fixed deposits. A phone call originating from Jharkhand led to the theft of Rs 13.5 lakh. With ...

    11 March 2025 Indian Express
    Sunny Holi expected in Kolkata; city sees 33 degrees with no rain

    Southern West Bengal is expected to have dry weather during Holi (on Friday), with no rain in most areas. Kolkata will have sunny and dry conditions throughout the week. The city’s temperatures are gradually rising, with the maximum reaching ...

    11 March 2025 Indian Express
    2 BJP MLAs expelled from West Bengal Assembly session, another suspended for a month

    The BJP-led Opposition walked out from the West Bengal Assembly after Speaker Biman Banerjee asked a marshal to escort BJP MLAs Manoj Oraon and Shankar Ghosh out of the session and suspended another party MLA, Dipak Barman, for a ...

    11 March 2025 Indian Express
    In the run-up to Assembly Polls: BJP MLA No. 12 joins TMC, setback to Adhikari on home turf

    Two-time Haldia MLA and BJP leader Tapasi Mondal on Monday joined the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) — her second switch in the last five years.Mondal, who was previously with the Communist Party of India (Marxist), is considered close to ...

    11 March 2025 Indian Express
    Section of JU students move Calcutta High Court alleging ‘police harassment’

    A section of students from the Jadavpur University on Monday moved a petition in the Calcutta High Court alleging harassment by police personnel.The counsel of the petitioners submitted in court that the police are repeatedly issuing summons to some ...

    11 March 2025 Indian Express
    Over a year before RG Kar case, former principal was under scanner over ‘illegal’ movement of bodies from mortuary

    MONTHS BEFORE the RG Kar rape and murder case of a junior doctor in Kolkata sent shockwaves throughout the state in August last year, the former principal of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, Dr Sandip Ghosh, was already ...

    11 March 2025 Indian Express
    TMC labour union leader shot at in Kolkata’s Belgharia, onlooker also injured

    A Trinamool Congress-backed labour union leader was shot at by unidentified assailants in Belgharia in the northern suburbs of Kolkata late Saturday evening, said the police. The incident led to injury to another man having tea with his wife ...

    10 March 2025 Indian Express
    Bengal: Suvendu hits out at CPM and TMC over ‘setting’ on Jadavpur University campus

    The West Bengal Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday held a protest rally from Nabina Cinema to Jadavpur Police Station, against the violence that occurred inside the Jadavpur University campus on March 1 after the visit by State Education ...

    10 March 2025 Indian Express
    ‘Drunk’ Kolkata Police constable collapses while on duty outside hospital emergency department

    An on-duty Kolkata Police constable, who was allegedly heavily inebriated at the time, collapsed outside the emergency department of the Calcutta Medical College on Saturday night, police sources said.The incident occurred between 10 pm and 10:30 pm, when the ...

    10 March 2025 Indian Express
    20 shops gutted in fire at Kolkata slum

    Nearly 20 shops were destroyed in a fire that broke out at Santoshpur Railway Station’s platform number 2 on Sunday, an official said.Three fire engines soon reached the spot, and after a 90-minute operation, firefighters were able to contain ...

    10 March 2025 Indian Express
    TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee to review progress in identifying ‘fake voters’, hold virtual meeting on March 15

    Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP and party general secretary Abhishek Banerjee would soon take stock of the progress in identifying ‘fake’ voters in Bengal.According to sources, a virtual meeting in this regard will take place on March 15 at 4 ...

    10 March 2025 Indian Express
    Jadavpur University violence: Police begin probe after Calcutta HC order, record statements of injured student, TMC leader

    Three days after a Calcutta High Court directive, the Kolkata Police on Saturday began an investigation in an FIR against State Education Minister Bratya Basu in connection with the recent violent protests at Jadavpur University on March 1- during ...

    10 March 2025 Indian Express
    Bengal: Muslim groups to protest against Waqf Amendment Bill on Monday

    MUSLIM ORGANISATIONS of West Bengal, under the aegis of All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB), will on Monday organise a protest against the Waqf Amendment Bill, at Kolkata’s Metro Channel.In a press conference on Saturday, representatives of several ...

    10 March 2025 Indian Express
    Centre clears appointment of three advocates as additional judges to Calcutta High Court

    Union Law and Justice Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal Saturday announced the appointment of three advocates as additional judges to the Calcutta High Court. Smita Das De, Reetobroto Kumar Mitra and Om Narayan Rai were among the five recommended for ...

    10 March 2025 Indian Express
    Murdered Bengal woman’s body returns home from Portugal, family waiting for answers

    The body of Shobha Ray Hazra, 44, arrived in a coffin Friday at her residence in Shantipur under Bengal’s Nadia district almost 20 days after she was murdered in Portugal.Speaking to The Indian Express, Shobha Ray Hazra’s elder daughter ...

    9 March 2025 Indian Express
    Kolkata parking row: Cab driver dies days after ‘attack’

    A 38-year-old cab driver who was allegedly beaten up by a group of unidentified persons in Bijoygarh, Kolkata, on Wednesday late evening died at a hospital on Saturday, police said. Police identified the deceased as Jayanta Sen.On Wednesday evening, ...

    9 March 2025 Indian Express
    Bengal govt to launch more Bangla Sahayata Kendra outlets this year: Sources

    The Bengal government has decided to increase the number of Bangla Sahayata Kendra (BSK) outlets across the state, government sources said.They informed that the decision was taken after the state earned Rs 303 crore revenue from BSK centres last ...

    9 March 2025 Indian Express
    ‘The Golden Voice of Sikkim’: 1,300 sign up for Army-backed singing competition in Sikkim

    The Indian Army’s 33 Corps, under ‘Operation Sadbhavna’, has organised “The Golden Voice of Sikkim,” a large-scale singing talent hunt that has drawn an overwhelming response from aspiring singers across the state.Nearly 1,340 singers from Sikkim’s four districts registered ...

    9 March 2025 Indian Express
    ‘Remove stagnant water, report high fever’: Bengal School Education Department issues circular to schools on dengue prevention

    The Bengal School Education Department recently issued a directive to all schools asking them to maintain cleanliness and remove stagnant water from campuses to prevent the spread of dengue.The circular comes ahead of the pre-monsoon season when the Aedes ...

    9 March 2025 Indian Express
    Days after JU unrest, Governor calls for action on campus violence

    A meeting convened on Friday by Governor C V Ananda Bose, who is also Chancellor of all universities in the state, days after the violent protests on the Jadavpur University (JU) campus in Kolkata, was marked by the notable ...

    9 March 2025 Indian Express
    Bengal chemists’ association flag ‘47% rise’ in fake medicines post-Covid

    The Bengal Chemists & Druggists Association (BCDA) has expressed concen over figures that indicate a 47 per cent increase in counterfeit drug circulation in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, with chemists attributing the surge to the implementation of ...

    9 March 2025 Indian Express
    Bengal schools jobs case: CBI transcript of ‘phone calls’ between accused mentions ‘Abhishek’ 70 times

    The CBI, along with its supplementary chargesheet in connection with its probe into “iregularities” in the Teachers’ Eligibility Test (TET) 2014, has submitted a transcription of a purported conversation between several of the accused, including Sujoy Krishna Bhadra, Kuntal ...

    8 March 2025 Indian Express
    Kolkata set to sizzle at temperatures higher than 35°C soon, could reach 38°C in the districts: IMD

    Southern West Bengal is expected to experience a significant temperature surge with weather experts predicting extreme heat in March, potentially peaking before the Dol Yatra and Holi festivals. Kolkata’s temperature is expected to surpass 35 degrees Celsius, while temperatures ...

    8 March 2025 Indian Express
    Indian Air Force’s AN-32 craft crash lands in West Bengal’s Bagdogra airport, crew safe

    An Indian Air Force (IAF) AN-32 transport aircraft crash landed at the Bagdogra Airport in West Bengal on Friday. Officials have confirmed that there has been no death in the incident and the crew members are unharmed.“There is no ...

    8 March 2025 Indian Express
    Denied entry to Bengal village temple, 130 Dalit families wage battle for rights

    “We don’t even have the right to climb the steps, let alone enter the temple and pray. Even a meeting with the administration couldn’t change that,” said 50-year-old Ekkori Das, standing in Daspara area of Gidhagram village in West ...

    8 March 2025 Indian Express
    Sourav Ganguly’s cameo in Netflix series Khakee? Dada responds as rumour sets fans buzzing

    Amidst speculation that he has a cameo in the upcoming web series Khakee: The Bengal Chapter, former Indian cricketer Sourav Ganguly said he is promoting the series, but not acting in it.Filmmaker Neeraj Pandey is all set to return ...

    8 March 2025 Indian Express
    ‘No point staying’: After JU fiasco, worker of theatre group where WB minister Bratya Basu is chairman resigns

    A theatre worker and member of the Minerva Repertory Theatre group, Swagata Chakraborty resigned and said that after the incident at Jadavpur University, where students’ protests against the group’s Chairman and state education minister Bratya Basu turned violent, “there ...

    8 March 2025 Indian Express
    ‘Meeting not for any conclusion’: Joint River Commissions of India, Bangladesh meet in Kolkata to discuss Ganga Water Treaty

    A 11-member Bangladeshi delegation of the Joint Rivers Commission arrived in Kolkata on Monday morning to attend the 86th meeting of the India-Bangladesh Joint River Commission.The delegation led by Md. Abul Hossan visited the Farakka barrage in Bengal to ...

    8 March 2025 Indian Express
    ‘I want to confess my crime’: Prasun Dey, accused in killing three of his family, says in open court in Kolkata

    Prasun Dey, the arrested accused in the Tangra triple murder case, on Thursday told the Sealdah court that he wants to “confess to my crime”, in connection with the murder of his wife, sister-in-law and teenage daughter last month.The ...

    8 March 2025 Indian Express
    Kasba family deaths: Primary probe points to suicide pact, boy’s murder; police investigate abetment and financial strain

    Preliminary police investigations into the Kasba family deaths in Kolkata, supported by initial post-mortem examinations, suggested that the couple died by suicide. However, the exact circumstances surrounding their son’s death remained unclear, particularly regarding which parent was responsible for ...

    7 March 2025 Indian Express
    785 phone numbers under the name of a 24 year old housewife: Police crack down SIM card racket in Bengal

    Deblina Chakraborty, 24, who was recently arrested by the Kolkata Police, has a unique ‘identity’. In fact, she apparently has several – with nearly 800 SIM cards in her name. According to the police, she changed her addresses frequently ...

    7 March 2025 Indian Express
    TMC seeks unique ID for voter cards, claims BJP ‘manipulating’ voter rolls

    A DELEGATION of the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Thursday met the chief electoral officer (CEO) of West Bengal, demanding that “unique ID” be introduced on voter cards to prevent the induction of fake voters in the electoral rolls.Earlier ...

    7 March 2025 Indian Express
    2026 Assembly polls in sight, Amit Shah to visit West Bengal this month to chalk out strategies

    Union Home Minister Amit Shah is likely to visit West Bengal in the last week of March to chalk out a blueprint for the 2026 Assembly elections in the state, sources said. Though the final date of Shah’s visit ...

    7 March 2025 Indian Express
    Bratya Basu gets ‘Z’ category security; protests enter third day

    Days after a protest broke out in Jadavpur University during state education minister Bratya Basu’s visit to the campus, the West Bengal government on Wednesday decided to upgrade his security to the “Z” category.A senior official of the state ...

    7 March 2025 Indian Express
    Mamata likely to visit London, give lecture at Oxford University this month

    Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is likely to visit London for a week and deliver a lecture at the University of Oxford later this month.According to the state administration sources, CM Banerjee has been invited by the Oxford University in ...

    7 March 2025 Indian Express
     Kolkata 76 year old loses ₹11 lakh after ‘digital arrest’, accused nabbed in Rajasthan

    A 20-year-old man was arrested in Rajasthan’s Alwar on Tuesday by Kolkata’s Laketown police station officials in connection with a cyber fraud case, said police.The man identified as Mahesh Kumar belongs to Baskripalnagar, Kishangarh in Rajasthan.Last year, in December ...

    7 March 2025 Indian Express
    ‘Reluctance to work’: Calcutta HC pulls up police over ‘one-sided investigation’ in JU fiasco

    The Calcutta High Court on Wednesday said that Kolkata police’s intelligence branch may have had a “failure” while handling the protests against Bengal Education Minister Bratya Basu in Jadavpur University last Saturday while hearing a matter of alleged police ...

    6 March 2025 Indian Express
    Bengal Panagarh Accident Case: Family of victim moves Calcutta HC, seeks detailed probe

    Week after a 27-year-old woman Sutandra Chattopadhyay was killed after her car met with an accident, allegedly while trying to flee from inebriated men in the Panagarh area of in Paschim Bardhaman district, the mother of the deceased woman ...

    6 March 2025 Indian Express
    ZSI scientists discover soil nematode species in Odisha

    Scientists from the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI), Kolkata, have announced the discovery of a species of soil-dwelling nematode in the Deccan Peninsular biogeographic zone of Odisha’s Keonjhar district.The newly identified species, Crassolabium dhritiae, is named in the honour ...

    6 March 2025 Indian Express
    Cigarette butts, audio clip unravel 2020 Habra double murder, three get life term

    A DNA analysis of cigarette butts recovered from the crime scene led the police to three persons behind the 2020 double murder of a couple, Ram Krishna and Lila Rani Mondal, officers said.On March 3, a court in Barasat ...

    6 March 2025 Indian Express
    Car crash death: Victim car driver held after mom’s complaint

    In a turn of events, police have arrested the driver of the head of an event management firm who died after a high-speed car chase in Paschim Bardhaman district’s Panagarh on February 24.The driver, identified as Rajdeo Sharma. was ...

    6 March 2025 Indian Express
    Kolkata triple murder: Family was under Rs 16 crore debt, had tried to die by suicide too, police learn

    The police investigation into the triple murder that shocked Kolkata last month has revealed that it was a staggering debt of Rs 16 crore that served as a catalyst for the deaths of Sudeshna Dey, sister-in-law Romi Dey, and ...

    6 March 2025 Indian Express
    Kolkata triple murder: Accused sent to police custody till March 6, refuses free legal aid

    A day after Prasun Dey, one of the accused in the Tangra triple murder case was arrested by the Kolkata Police in connection with the murder of his wife, sister-in-law and teenage daughter, he was produced in Sealdah Court ...

    6 March 2025 Indian Express
    Jadavpur University students firm on election demand; minister reaches out to kin of injured

    A minister’s visit to Jadavpur University descended into chaos that left two students injured while days later fresh violence boiled over after members of two student unions clashed at one of the entrances of the university.Walking in through gate ...

    5 March 2025 Indian Express
    Kolkata: Amid Tangra triple murder probe, 3 of family, including toddler son, found dead in Kasba, say police

    Three members of a family, including a two-and-a-half-year old boy, were found dead in their house in Kolkata’s Kasba area on Tuesday, police said.“Bodies of three persons namely Somnath Roy (40), Sumitra Roy (35) and their toddler son Rudranil ...

    5 March 2025 Indian Express
    For first time in 100 yrs, West Bengal to create new mouza or cadastral maps

    For the first time in a century, the West Bengal government is preparing new cadastral or mouza maps for the state. According to the state government, the character of mouzas has changed within these hundred years, with a survey ...

    5 March 2025 Indian Express
    Cigarette butts, audio clip unravel 2020 double murder, 3 get life term in Bengal

    A DNA analysis of cigarette butts recovered from the crime scene led the police to three persons behind the 2020 double murder of a couple, Ram Krishna and Lila Rani Mondal, officers said.On March 3, a court in Barasat ...

    5 March 2025 Indian Express
    Kolkata triple-murder: Discharged from hospital, family member arrested, say police

    A WEEK after the triple murders in Kolkata’s Tangra area, one person – Prasun Dey – was on Monday arrested by the city police in connection with the murder of his wife, sister-in-law and teenage daughter.The arrest was made ...

    5 March 2025 Indian Express
    Jadavpur University protests case | ‘No one will be spared’: Police step up search for accused

    THE KOLKATA Police said on Monday that the search for those responsible in the Jadavpur University (JU) unrest case, said police. Following Saturday’s unrest Police are actively working to identify all involved individuals. Already, seven First Information Reports have ...

    5 March 2025 Indian Express
    Final higher secondary exams begin: Nearly 6 lakh to appear this year

    THE FINAL Higher Secondary (HS) examinations under the annual system began on Monday and will conclude on March 18. This year, 509,000 candidates are appearing for the exams across 2,089 centres in the state. This year also, like the ...

    5 March 2025 Indian Express
    ‘Shouldn’t be in team’: After Congress leader, TMC MP stirs row with comments on Rohit Sharma

    Trinamool Congress MP Saugata Roy sided with Congress spokesperson Shama Mohammed as he questioned India men’s cricket captain Rohit Sharma’s performance, stating that the team wins because of other players, while the skipper “doesn’t contribute much.”His remarks came amid ...

    4 March 2025 Indian Express
    Kolkata: Several injured in fresh violence at Jadavpur University as ABVP, SFI supporters clash

    FRESH violence broke out on the Jadavpur University (JU) campus in Kolkata on Monday evening when members of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) allegedly tried to enter the campus and Students Federation of India (SFI) supporters tried to ...

    4 March 2025 Indian Express
    Kolkata trolley-bag murder case: Police conduct identification parade of arrested mother-daughter duo

    Days after a woman and her daughter were allegedly found dragging a trolley bag with a body in it near Kumartuli Ghat on Strand Bank Road, the police conducted a test identification parade (TIP) on the women.According to police ...

    4 March 2025 Indian Express
    PILs filed in Calcutta High Court in the Jadavpur University protests case, demanding police security for students

    Two Public Interest Litigations have been filed at a Calcutta High Court division bench of Chief Justice T S Sivagnanam and Justice Chaitali Chatterjee (Das) regarding the security of students and the “issue” of a students’ election in Jadavpur ...

    4 March 2025 Indian Express
    7 FIRs filed; 1 former Jadavpur University student held for arson incident: Police

    A day after violent protests against State Education Minister Bratya Basu at Jadavpur University (JU) in Kolkata on Saturday, sevens FIRs were filed on Sunday at the local police station in connection with the incident and a former JU ...

    4 March 2025 Indian Express
    CBI summons 11 Kolkata cops for questioning in RG Kar ‘evidence tampering’ case

    The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) summoned 11 Kolkata police officers for questioning on Monday and Tuesday, as part of its ongoing investigation into the alleged criminal conspiracy and tampering of evidence surrounding the rape and murder of a ...

    4 March 2025 Indian Express
    ‘EC statement on duplicate EPIC numbers confirms voter list anomalies in Bengal’: TMC state general secretary Kunal Ghosh

    The ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) in West Bengal said the Election Commission’s statement that duplicate numbers do not necessarily imply fake voters backed its claims about the inclusion of non-resident voters in the state’s electoral list to help a ...

    4 March 2025 Indian Express
    Bengal Assembly polls 2026: Two-day RSS meet concludes in Howrah

    AT THE Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh’s (RSS) two-day coordination meeting, or ‘Samanya Baithak’, which concluded on Sunday in Tantiberia, Uluberia, in Howrah, the main focus was on the West Bengal Assembly Elections in 2026.According to sources, several key decisions were ...

    3 March 2025 Indian Express
    New Town rape-murder: Over 100 CCTVs to be installed in Bidhannagar Commissionerate, ‘dark areas’ in focus

    The Bidhannagar Commissionerate has begun installing over 100 CCTVs at strategic locations under its jurisdiction after the rape and murder of a 14-year-old girl in New Town last month.According to a senior police officer, they are prioritising ‘dark areas’ ...

    3 March 2025 Indian Express
    SFI demands Bengal Education Minister Bratya Basu’s arrest, says he tried to crush Jadavpur University students

    CPI(M)-affiliated Students Federation of India (SFI) Sunday demanded the arrest of Bengal Education Minister Bratya Basu for allegedly injuring students inside the Jadavpur University (JU) campus in Kolkata on Saturday.An SFI-led protest demanding student union polls was held in ...

    3 March 2025 Indian Express
    ‘CPI(M) only party with clear plan that addresses dangers posed by fascist organisations’: Mohammad Salim

    CPI(M)’s West Bengal state secretary Mohammad Salim speaks to Atri Mitra about the initiatives that the party is planning to take in the run-up to the 2026 Assembly polls in a bid to revive its electoral fortunes in a ...

    3 March 2025 Indian Express
    JU fiasco: CPI(M) draws parallel with Lakhimpur Kheri, TMC backs Education Minister Bratya Basu

    A day after Bengal Education Minister Bratya Basu’s car ran through a demonstration at the Jadavpur University (JU) in Kolkata, CPI(M) students wing Students’ Federation of India (SFI) held agitations in different parts of West Bengal Sunday to condemn ...

    3 March 2025 Indian Express
    Bengal: RSS begins two-day meet in Howrah to discuss 2026 Aseembly poll strategy

    The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) on Saturday began its two-day coordination meeting ‘Samanya Baithak’, in Tantiberia, Uluberia, in Howrah, focussing on the upcoming West Bengal Assembly Elections in 2026.According to sources the meeting will focus on how to strengthen ...

    3 March 2025 Indian Express
    New fleet of 20 yellow taxis hit Kolkata streets

    In an effort to revive the iconic yellow taxis which are dwindling in numbers with time, the West Bengal government in association with a private company, has launched a fleet of 20 modern cars.The hatchback cars were flagged off ...

    3 March 2025 Indian Express
    Bengal education minister Bratya Basu ‘heckled’ and his car ‘vandalised’, students injured as vehicle drives through JU protestors

    A massive student protest erupted at the Jadavpur University (JU) in Kolkata on Saturday during State Education Minister Bratya Basu’s visit to the campus, where some students allegedly gheraoed and vandalised the minister’s car and also allegedly physically manhandled ...

    2 March 2025 Indian Express
    Bengal Assembly polls 2026: TMC begins voter list verification drive; poll panel issues notice

    Days after Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee alleged that BJP is adding fake voters in voter lists, the Trinamool Congress leaders, councillors and panchayat members on Saturday began their door-to-door campaign to scrutinise the voter lists in their area, ahead ...

    2 March 2025 Indian Express
    Class 12 students in West Bengal to have multiple question paper sets in third-semester exams

    The West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education (WBCHSE) has decided that there will be multiple sets of question papers for the third-semester examinations of Class 12 students in the 2025-26 academic session. This will the first batch of ...

    2 March 2025 Indian Express
    Bodies of man, 22-year-old autistic daughter found at his Kolkata office

    A man and his 22-year-old autistic daughter were found dead at his office in Kolkata’s Shakuntala Park area under Parnasree police station limits late on Friday evening.According to police sources, Swajan Das, 53, who ran a water purifier and ...

    2 March 2025 Indian Express
    Kolkata, South Bengal to see rise in temperature in next 48 hours

    West Bengal is likely to experience a significant rise in temperatures in March with prolonged dry spells and increasing heat predicted in the southern districts, including Kolkata, according to the latest weather update from the India Meteorological Department.The IMD ...

    2 March 2025 Indian Express
    Trinamool deleting genuine voters from state’s rolls, claims BJP

    A DAY after Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee alleged that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is adding “fake voters”, in West Bengal, the BJP on Friday alleged that the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) wants to delete voters from a particular ...

    2 March 2025 Indian Express
    Dhankhar lauds ‘forerunner’ Bengal’s culture, says ‘Bharat is spiritual centre of the world’

    Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Friday emphasised the significance of India’s spiritual consciousness in shaping its enduring civilizational ethos, highlighting that this consciousness has remained unwavering throughout the ages.Addressing a gathering on the occasion of the 150th birth anniversary of ...

    2 March 2025 Indian Express
    West Bengal LoP Adhikari writes to Chief Election Commissioner against CM Mamata’s ‘EC full of BJP people’ comment

    Suvendu Adhikari, Leader of the Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly, on Friday wrote to Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar complain against Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s statement about Kumar’s appointment.“The Trinamool Congress chief accused the BJP of trying to ...

    1 March 2025 Indian Express
    Saradha Chit Fund scam: Submit report on pending cases against Sudipto Sen in 4 weeks, HC orders govt

    The Calcutta High Court has directed the state government to submit a report within four weeks, detailing the number of pending cases against Sudipto Sen, the kingpin behind the Saradha scam, who has been in custody since 2013.During the ...

    1 March 2025 Indian Express
    Car Chase death: Police track down, arrest key accused from Asansol

    The prime accused in the case of an alleged high-speed car chase in Panagarh of Paschim Bardhaman district, which led to the death of a 27-year-old woman, has been arrested. Bablu Yadav, the alleged owner of the white car ...

    1 March 2025 Indian Express
    Search on for more donors as Golden Retriever Coco donates blood to save Doberman Leo in Kolkata

    This week, Kolkata witnessed a rare blood transfusion when five-year-old Coco, a Golden Retriever, donated blood to give a new lease of life to Leo, a 10-month-old Doberman suffering from renal issues. While the medical procedure came as a ...

    1 March 2025 Indian Express
    Tangra Family Deaths: Child rights panel advisor says minor survivor blamed uncle for murders: ‘Tried to smother him too’

    A week after the murder of two women and a minor girl in Kolkata’s Tangra area, the minor boy of the Dey family on Thursday reportedly in a statement to child rights panel alleged that his “uncle Prasun Dey ...

    1 March 2025 Indian Express
    Blue and white markings on Bengal roads: Calcutta HC seeks report on their scientific basis from state

    A Calcutta High Court division bench of Chief Justice TS Sivagnanam and Justice Chaitali Chatterjee has sought a report from the state government in six weeks regarding the blue and white paint markings on the streets throughout the city ...

    28 February 2025 Indian Express
    Woman’s death after car chase: West Bengal police track down and arrest key accused

    The prime accused in the case of an alleged high-speed car chase in Paschim Bardhaman district’s Panagarh, which led to the death of a 27-year-old woman, has been arrested. Bablu Yadav, the alleged owner of the white car that ...

    28 February 2025 Indian Express
    Bengal HS Boards from March 3: In a first, exam centres printed on admit cards ‘to avoid confusion’

    The West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education (WBCHSE) for the first time have printed the venue of the examination in the admit cards to prevent any confusion regarding centres for examinees, this year.Council president Chiranjeeb Bhattacharya on Wednesday ...

    28 February 2025 Indian Express
    Mamata hits out at EC over ‘fake voters’: Won’t allow it in Bengal

    Setting the tone for the 2026 Assembly polls in West Bengal, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday exhorted Trinamool Congress (TMC) workers to win more than 215 seats, at least one more than the previous election tally in the ...

    28 February 2025 Indian Express
    Abhishek Banerjee reiterates allegiance to Mamata, says ‘will identify’ party traitors

    TMC MP and the party’s all-India general secretary Abhishek Banerjee said he will “continue to expose traitors” within the party, while addressing rumours that he would join the BJP or form a new party.“In the past too, I had ...

    28 February 2025 Indian Express
    Bengal school jobs ‘scam’: CBI names ‘Abhishek Banerjee’ in chargesheet, TMC MP’s lawyer calls it ‘fishing expedition’

    The lawyer of Trinamool Congress general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Wednesday accused the CBI of going on a “fishing expedition” to harass his client after it came to light that the central probe agency in its supplementary chargesheet in ...

    27 February 2025 Indian Express
    Centre drops 32 BJP leaders from its security cover list; party calls it ‘Routine Exercise’

    The Union Home Ministry on Wednesday withdrew the security cover of 32 Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders in West Bengal.According to sources, the review committee of the Ministry of Home Affairs issued the list on Wednesday, which included the ...

    27 February 2025 Indian Express
    Trolley-bag murder case: Mother-daughter duo spent 40 hours with the body before trying to dispose it in Kolkata

    As Kolkata Police is still trying to piece together the murder of a 50-year-old woman, whose body was found in a trolley bag as it was being disposed of in the Hooghly river by a mother-daughter duo, investigation so ...

    27 February 2025 Indian Express
    KMC showcauses officer for cancelling Biswakarma Puja holiday to add one extra off day in Eid at Hindi medium schools

    The Chief Manager (Education) of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) was showcaused after the West Bengal BJP criticised the cancellation of school holiday for Biswakarma Puja on September 17 and allocating that holiday to Eid ul Fitr, from March ...

    27 February 2025 Indian Express
    Bengal BJP to soon announce new district presidents this week, state president by March

    The West Bengal BJP after a two-day marathon meeting over the weekend, is set to announce their district presidents in a day or two, said party insiders on Tuesday.Sources said that by the end of this month or the ...

    27 February 2025 Indian Express
    Bengal woman’s death: Police raid house, factory of owner of SUV involved in Panagarh ‘car chase’

    Police on Tuesday visited the residence and factory of the owner of the Hyundai Creta SUV involved in an alleged high-speed car chase that left a 27-year-old woman owner of an event management firm dead and four others injured ...

    27 February 2025 Indian Express
    West Bengal: BJP to name its new district chiefs ‘as early this weekend’

    The West Bengal unit of the BJP is likely to announce its district presidents after a two-day marathon meeting over the weekend, it is learnt. Also, the party will announce its new state president by the end of this ...

    27 February 2025 Indian Express
    West Bengal CPIM re-elects Md Selim as state secretary

    Md Selim was re-elected as the state secretary of the West Bengal unit of the CPI(M) on Tuesday. After a four-day state party conference at Dankuni, the CPI(M) announced an 80-member state committee which was elected from the conference ...

    27 February 2025 Indian Express
    On revival mode ahead of Bengal polls, CPI(M) holds special session in state conference | Survey report, roadmap to 2026, and more discussed

    With an aim to revive the party from its present position in West Bengal, the CPI(M) state leadership organised a special session for its members on Monday. State secretary Md Selim termed the special session as a first-of-its-kind in ...

    26 February 2025 Indian Express
    R G Kar victim’s parents to visit Delhi today to seek audience with PM, Shah, CBI director

    The parents of the victim of the R G Kar Medical College rape-murder will visit New Delhi on Thursday to seek an audience with President Droupadi Murmu, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah, and the CBI director.Speaking ...

    26 February 2025 Indian Express
    Mamata Banerjee to meet TMC leaders, start preparing for 2026 Bengal Assembly elections

    West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee will meet party leaders at Kolkata’s Netaji Indoor stadium on February 27. Sources from the TMC said Banerjee will start preparations for the 2026 Assembly elections at this meeting.A ...

    25 February 2025 Indian Express
    ‘Probe on, supplementary chargesheet soon’: CBI files status report in RG Kar evidence tampering case

    The CBI on Monday submitted a status report in a court in Kolkata’s Sealdah in the case of alleged tampering of evidence in the rape and murder of a trainee doctor at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital ...

    25 February 2025 Indian Express
    Need to strengthen CPIM to safeguard interests of Bengal people, says CPIM state secretary

    The party has to be made stronger while ensuring greater unity of the Leftist forces in the state to safeguard the interest of the people of West Bengal, CPIM state secretary Mohammed Salim on Monday said.Addressing a press conference ...

    25 February 2025 Indian Express
    Two women detained while ‘trying to dispose body’ in Hooghly river in West Bengal

    Two women were detained after Madhyamgram residents discovered a body stuffed inside a trolley bag that the women were allegedly attempting to discard into the Hooghly River (Ganga) near Kumartuli Ghat in North 24 Parganas district on Tuesday morning.The ...

    25 February 2025 Indian Express
    Mamata revokes suspension of 12 doctors over ‘expired saline’ death

    More than a month after 12 doctors, including six post-graduate trainees, of Midnapore Medical College and Hospital (MMCH) were suspended over the death of a woman allegedly after being administered expired saline, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday revoked ...

    25 February 2025 Indian Express
    CM Mamata Banerjee announces salary hike for WB doctors, healthcare professionals

    In her first major address to doctors since the R G Kar rape-murder case, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Monday announced a substantial salary increment for senior resident doctors, interns, postgraduates, and other healthcare professionals in West Bengal.The announcement was ...

    25 February 2025 Indian Express
    Woman dies in Bengal after car overturns ‘while fleeing from drunk miscreants’, police deny eve-teasing charge

    A 27-year-old woman died on Sunday night after her car met with an accident, allegedly while trying to flee from inebriated men in West Bengal’s Paschim Bardhaman district.The deceased has been identified as Sutandra Chattopadhyay, a resident of Chandannagar ...

    25 February 2025 Indian Express
    Demand strict punishment for those behind R G Kar incident: Bengal CM Mamata

    West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday referred to the murdered woman doctor of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital as her “sister” and extended deepest condolences to the victim’s parents.She also demanded strict punishment for those responsible ...

    25 February 2025 Indian Express
    TMC worker beaten to death in Bengal’s Birbhum: Police

    A TRINAMOOL Congress (TMC) worker was allegedly beaten to death in Birbhum district, police said on Saturday.Sheikh Niamul, who was on his motorcycle, was stopped near the bus stop at Kankartala on Friday night by some men, and then ...

    24 February 2025 Indian Express
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