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  • News from West Bengal | 10 May, 2025 | ২৭ বৈশাখ, ১৪৩২
  • 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
    Bengal reports 4th suspected GBS death this year, victim passes away at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata

    West Bengal Friday recorded the fourth suspected death from the Guillain Barre Syndrome (GBS) this year.The victim, Sk Khairul, 22, a resident of Suti in Murshidabad district, died at the RG Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata.According to hospital ...

    24 February 2025 Indian Express
    Ahead of meeting with Mamata Banerjee, Bengal doctors demand infrastructure upgrades, recruitments and end to political interference

    A day before West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s scheduled meeting with healthcare professionals from private and state-run institutions, a coalition of doctors, including the Joint Platform of Doctors and Abhaya Mancha, sent her letter highlighting severe deficiencies in ...

    24 February 2025 Indian Express
    7 months after RG Kar rape-murder, junior doctor’s parents say yet to get her death certificate

    The parents of the 32 year-old junior doctor, who was raped and killed at the state-run RG Kar hospital last year August, have said they are yet to receive her death certificate and have been running from pillar to ...

    24 February 2025 Indian Express
    West Bengal Assembly polls: Eye on growth, regaining foothold; CPI(M)’s 4-day conference begins

    A FOUR-DAY state conference of the CPI(M) commenced on Saturday at Dankuni in Hooghly district to chalk out the party’s strategy for the West Bengal Assembly elections to be held next year as it aims at regaining its footing ...

    24 February 2025 Indian Express
    TMC blames BJP for including ‘ghost voters’ in Bengal electoral rolls, BJP hits back

    The Trinamool Congress (TMC) Saturday alleged that the BJP was trying to win elections in Opposition-ruled states by enlisting ‘ghost voters’ with the help of the Election Commission.Attacking the BJP, the TMC wrote, “4,500 Ghost Voters Added to Bengal’s ...

    23 February 2025 Indian Express
    Kolkata triple murder: Cops may arrest 2 brothers

    Kolkata Police on Saturday ruled out the role of outsiders in connection with the triple murder of two women and a minor girl, in Kolkata’s Tangra area earlier this week.According to police sources, the husbands of the two women, ...

    23 February 2025 Indian Express
    A ‘dreamland’ for elephants to come up in 22 ‘microhabitats’ inside West Bengal forests

    Imagine a serene area deep within the forest where elephants can feast on their favourite fruits, grass, bark, and bamboo and enjoy refreshing summer baths in expansive ponds. This vision is set to be a reality for the elephants ...

    23 February 2025 Indian Express
    Behind 3 deaths & car crash: A Kolkata family’s dwindling fortunes

    The three-storey house of the Dey family on Atul Sur Road has been drawing several onlookers, curious to get a glimpse inside. A prominently displayed nameplate that says ‘PK Dey’, accompanied by two smaller nameplates — saying ‘Ma-Babar Ashirwad’ ...

    23 February 2025 Indian Express
    Thunderstorms in South Bengal, possibility of snowfall in the hills; IMD’s weather prediction for the weekend

    In Sub-Himalayan West Bengal, on Saturday, light rain or snow is possible in one or two locations of Darjeeling and Kalimpong districts, while Jalpaiguri and Malda districts may experience light rain or thunderstorms. The rest of Sub-Himalayan West Bengal ...

    23 February 2025 Indian Express
    Not just mother tongue, respect all other languages as well, says Mamata Banerjee

    Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday said people should respect other languages as much as they respect their mother tongue.Addressing a programme on the occasion to celebrate International Mother Language Day, organised at Deshapriya Park in Kolkata, the chief ...

    23 February 2025 Indian Express
    Sourav Ganguly’s SUV meets with accident on Durgapur Expressway; no injuries reported

    Former Indian cricket captain and ex-Board of Control for Cricket in India president Sourav Ganguly was involved in an accident on Thursday after his Range Rover and another vehicle collided on Durgapur Expressway in West Bengal. Ganguly, who was ...

    22 February 2025 Indian Express
    Police recover bodies of mother and children from house in West Bengal

    Police recovered the bodies of a mother and her two children from their house at Mohammad Bazar of Birbhum district on Friday.Mallarpur police station filed an FIR of murder against unknown persons and started an investigation. The bodies, which ...

    22 February 2025 Indian Express
    Preliminary autopsy of 3 of Kolkata family points to ‘homicide’, say police

    The preliminary post-mortem examination of the three female members of a family whose bodies were recovered from a three-storey house in Tangra neighbourhood of east Kolkata on Wednesday has pointed to “homicide”, officials investigating the matter said on Thursday.The ...

    22 February 2025 Indian Express
    North Bengal deprived of development, declare it a separate state: BJP MLA

    BJP MLA from Dabgram-Phulbari constituency in Jalpaiguri district Sikha Chatterjee on Thursday demanded that North Bengal should be declared a separate State. During the ongoing West Bengal Assembly session, Chatterjee alleged that the people of North Bengal have been ...

    22 February 2025 Indian Express
    Chief Justice-led Calcutta HC bench to not hear PIL against former police commissioner Vineet Goyal who ‘revealed R G Kar rape-murder victim’s name’

    The Calcutta High Court division bench of Chief Justice T S Sivagnanam and Justice Chaitali Chatterjee on Thursday released a PIL filed against former Police Commissioner Vineet Goyal for allegedly revealing the name of the R G Kar rape ...

    21 February 2025 Indian Express
    A bounced cheque, family’s debt, car’s location: Police probe into Kolkata ‘suicides’, accident continues

    A day after a car crash resulted in the discovery of three bodies in a three-storey building in Kolkata’s Tangra, the police on Thursday are investigating multiple angles, including the family’s business dealings and the whereabouts of the vehicle ...

    21 February 2025 Indian Express
    Kumbh remark row | BJP complains to Governor; Mamata says: ‘I respect all religions, cultures’

    The BJP on Thursday complained to Governor CV Ananda Bose against Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, seeking his intervention to expunge her remarks on Maha Kumbh deaths in the Assembly.While state BJP chief and Union Minister Sukanta Majumdar wrote a ...

    21 February 2025 Indian Express
    Kolkata and South Bengal lashed by heavy rains, IMD forecasts more thunderstorms

    Kolkata and several other districts in southern West Bengal experienced heavy rainfall and thunderstorms Thursday morning. The skies over Kolkata have been overcast since morning. The IMD has issued an orange alert for South Bengal, warning of continued thunderstorms ...

    21 February 2025 Indian Express
    TMC MLA demands state flag for West Bengal at Assembly

    Balagarh TMC MLA Manoranjan Byapari on Wednesday demanded that West Bengal have a state flag. In the Assembly, he said, “If we have a state day and state song, we should also have a separate flag for our state. ...

    21 February 2025 Indian Express
    Bird flu outbreak in Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, chicken off Bengal zoo menu

    The West Bengal Zoo Authority (WBZA) has stopped incorporating chicken into the diet of animals in state zoos as a preventive measure after the outbreak of bird flu. According to sources, eleven state-run zoos (including mini zoos) are instead ...

    20 February 2025 Indian Express
    Bengal Budget Session: ‘Baseless… Show proof, will quit’, says Mamata on BJP’s charge of links with terror outfits

    Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday admonished the BJP and Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari for alleging that she has links with terror groups of Bangladesh and Jammu & Kashmir, and challenged them to bring proof.Speaking in the Assembly, ...

    20 February 2025 Indian Express
    A car crash and a ‘suicide plot’ – how an accident sent Kolkata Police into a whirl

    Suicide or murder? That’s what the Kolkata Police are now investigating after a bizarre sequence of events that started with a car crash culminated in the discovery of three bodies in a multi-storeyed apartment building.On February 19, a car ...

    20 February 2025 Indian Express
    AI, data science, aquaculture among new subjects introduced in West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education curriculum

    This year, the West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education (WBCHSE) has introduced five new subjects in the Higher Secondary (HS) curriculum: artificial intelligence and data science, environmental science, fisheries and aquaculture, business mathematics, and basic statistics as well ...

    20 February 2025 Indian Express
    Ahead of 2026 Bengal polls, BJP begins poll prep with overhaul of mandal chiefs, but not without local dissent

    As the BJP kickstarted its preparations for the next year’s Assembly elections in West Bengal, the party leadership’s decision to overhaul the organisation, beginning with the appointment of over 1,000 mandal presidents, has led to protest by party workers ...

    20 February 2025 Indian Express
    Man convicted of raping 7-month-old toddler in Kolkata gets death sentence

    A special POCSO court in Kolkata on Tuesday awarded death sentence to a man a day after he was convicted of raping a seven-month-old child in the city on November 30 last year.The Protection of Children from Sexual Offences ...

    20 February 2025 Indian Express
    Day after his suspension, TMC moves privilege motion against LoP Suvendu over remarks

    The ruling Trinamool Congress on Tuesday moved a privilege motion in the West Bengal Assembly against Leader of Opposition (LoP) Suvendu Adhikari for his remarks allegedly describing the state government as “communal” and a “government of terrorists”.This comes a ...

    19 February 2025 Indian Express
    Rain and thunderstorm likely in Kolkata, South Bengal for 2 days; Darjeeling may get snow: IMD

    Rainfall and thunderstorms are expected in Kolkata and several districts of South Bengal from February 19 to 20 (Wednesday to Thursday), the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Tuesday.The IMD has indicated that light to moderate rainfall, accompanied by ...

    19 February 2025 Indian Express
    ‘Do not scold children’: Mamata Banerjee tells guardians of West Bengal state board examinees

    “Do not scold children, they will do well,” said West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to the guardians of Madhyamik examinees on Tuesday. She visited the United Missionaries Secondary School on the way to the West Bengal Legislative Assembly.The ...

    19 February 2025 Indian Express
    Mamata Banerjee slams UP govt over Maha Kumbh stampede deaths, alleges attempts to hide death toll; BJP hits back

    Accusing the BJP government in Uttar Pradesh of hiding the “actual” death toll in the January 29 stampede at Maha Kumbh, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said it was “deeply heartbreaking” that many people died at ...

    19 February 2025 Indian Express
    Attack on ED Team in Bengal’s Sandeshkhali: Suspended TMC leader moves High Court for bail

    Suspended TMC leader Sheikh Shahjahan has moved the Calcutta High Court for bail in the case involving an alleged attack on Enforcement Directorate officers when they had gone to raid his residence on January 5 last year. The case ...

    19 February 2025 Indian Express
    Illegal Bangladeshis have got Aadhar, voter cards, some even pay Income Tax: Calcutta HC judge

    Justice Debangsu Basak of the Calcutta High Court on Monday claimed that all Bangladesh nationals entering India illegally have got Aadhar card, Indian voter card, and ration cards made for themselves.While hearing a bail plea of a couple arrested ...

    18 February 2025 Indian Express
    West Bengal: State committee by his side, CPIM’s district secretary ousted via election

    In a first in the party, CPIM delegates in North 24 Parganas voted out Mrinal Chakraborty as the district committee secretary even as the party’s state leadership wanted him to continue in the post.During the party’s three-day conference starting ...

    18 February 2025 Indian Express
    After residents of Bengal village claim ‘fatwa banning music’ issued, SDO orders probe

    Residents of Kumarsanda village in West Bengal’s Rampurhat sub-division claimed that a “fatwa banning music and band parties” during any marriage or celebration was issued by “senior people” at the local madrasa last Saturday.The residents claimed that the ‘fatwa’ ...

    18 February 2025 Indian Express
    In a first, batteries to power Kolkata Metro in event of grid failures

    In a first in the country, the Kolkata Metro will be installing a battery-based power system to provide critical back up in the event of grid failures. Metro officials said that in the event of grid failures, the Metro trains ...

    18 February 2025 Indian Express
    Aired state govt’s views in my Assembly speech, not the policies of Raj Bhavan: Bengal Governor Bose

    Governor C V Ananda Bose on Sunday dismissed criticism over his speech in the assembly on the first day of the budget session, asserting that his address was a reflection of the state’s government’s policies and not a Raj ...

    18 February 2025 Indian Express
    Four BJP MLAs, including LoP Suvendu Adhikari, suspended from West Bengal Assembly

    Four BJP MLAs — Leader of Opposition in West Bengal Assembly Suvendu Adhikari, Agnimitra Paul, Vishwanath Karak, and Bankim Ghosh — were suspended from the House on Monday.Sources said the suspension for 30 days followed a motion raised by ...

    18 February 2025 Indian Express
    Live cartridges, firearms used in shootouts seized, 5 men arrested: Bengal police STF

    The Special Task Force (STF) of the West Bengal Police on Sunday said that it has arrested five persons from the Jibantala area of South 24 Parganas district and recovered a huge cache of live cartridges and firearms.A series ...

    18 February 2025 Indian Express
    2021 Jaggadal bomb blast: 2 sentenced to 10 yrs in jail

    A special NIA court in Kolkata has sentenced two men to 10 years’ rigorous imprisonment for their involvement in the 2021 Jaggadal bomb blast case, an official statement said Sunday.The court sent Chand alias Arif Akhtar and Rahul Pasi ...

    17 February 2025 Indian Express
    Kolkata: As 10 buildings tilt, panel reconstituted to examine unauthorised construction

    After at least 10 buildings in and around Kolkata were found tilted in the last one month, the state Urban Development and Municipal Affairs Department has reconstituted the State Level Building Committee (SLBC) with the task of examining “minor ...

    17 February 2025 Indian Express
    Kolkata minor’s rape-murder: New measures at New Town, from women cops in plainclothes to night patrolling team

    In the wake of the rape and murder of a minor by a Toto driver in New Town, a satellite city of Kolkata, police have brought in additional measures for the safety of women – from deploying woman police ...

    17 February 2025 Indian Express
    In a first, Darjeeling Zoo gets biobank to collect cell, tissue samples

    As part of a national programme, the country’s first ‘bio bank’ in a zoo is up and running at Padmaja Naidu Himalayan Zoological Park, better known as Darjeeling Zoo, officials said.Officials pointed out this is the first time in ...

    17 February 2025 Indian Express
    Bengal school jobs case: CBI report lists names of candidates ‘recommended’ by political leaders

    The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), as part of its investigation into the cash-for-school-jobs case, has compiled a fresh list of candidates allegedly recommended for school jobs by some political leaders in Bengal, including former and current Trinamool Congress ...

    17 February 2025 Indian Express
    Kolkata: Singer Pratul Mukhopadhyay dies at 83; body donated to SSKM hospital

    Well-known Bengali singer Pratul Mukhopadhyay known for ‘Ami Banglay Gaan Gai’, passed away at the SSKM hospital in Kolkata on Saturday. He was suffering from different age-related ailments.The 83-year-old singer is survived by his wife.His mortal remains were accorded ...

    17 February 2025 Indian Express
    West Bengal Madhyamik exams: Girls outnumber boys in continuation of trend

    The West Bengal Board of Secondary Education’s Madhyamik Class 10 exams began on February 10. This year, 9,84,910 students are participating in the exams. Approximately 5,55,000 are girls, and 4,28,000 are boys. This means that girl candidates outnumbered boy ...

    17 February 2025 Indian Express
    Mohan Bhagwat calls for Hindu unity at RSS event in Bengal, says Hinduism accepts diversity

    Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat Sunday addressed a conference of RSS volunteers in Bardhaman in West Bengal, where he emphasised the importance of Hindu unity and the need to embrace diversity.“Hinduism progresses by accepting the world’s diversity, ...

    17 February 2025 Indian Express
    In Kolkata, state-run SSKM Hospital’s push to cut backlog of gallstone cases: 200 surgeries in 4 days

    IN A unique initiative, SSKM Hospital, a premier hospital run by the West Bengal government, has launched a week-long surgical drive to tackle a mounting backlog of gallstone cases. Over the past four days, nearly 200 patients have undergone ...

    16 February 2025 Indian Express
    Eminent Bengali singer Pratul Mukherjee dies in Kolkata, body to be donated to SSKM hospital

    Eminent Bengali singer Pratul Mukherjee, 83, known for ‘Ami Banglay Gaan Gai’, passed away at the SSKM hospital in Kolkata on Saturday. He was suffering from different age-related ailments.Following Mukherjee’s demise, Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee wrote on social ...

    16 February 2025 Indian Express
    Calcutta High Court allows RSS rally in Burdwan

    The Calcutta High Court on Friday gave permission to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh’s (RSS) West Bengal unit to hold a rally at Sai Complex in Burdwan on February 16. However, the single bench of Justice Amrita Sinha stipulated conditions ...

    16 February 2025 Indian Express
    West Bengal: Youth held for ‘sexually assaulting’ teen

    A teenage girl was allegedly sexually assaulted by a youth who threatened her with acid attacks if she resisted, South 24 Parganas police said on Friday. The accused has been arrested, police said.According to police sources, the accused had ...

    16 February 2025 Indian Express
    Bengal IPS officer Tripathi called to Delhi, set to join CISF as DIG

    IPS officer Nagendra Tripathi, currently posted in West Bengal, has been asked to report to the Union Home Ministry. He will be posted as the Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF).Under Secretary of the ...

    16 February 2025 Indian Express
    Denied to use sound box at Bhagwat meet for Board exams, RSS moves HC

    The West Bengal unit of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) on Thursday approached a single judge bench of Justice Amrita Sinha of the Calcutta High Court alleging that they were denied permission to use sound boxes in a meeting ...

    15 February 2025 Indian Express
    Abhishek Banerjee hints at keeping door open for alliance talks with Congress in Bengal

    While reiterating party chief Mamata Banerjee’s position that the TMC would fight alone in the next year’s Assembly elections in West Bengal, the party’s national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Thursday hinted at keeping the door open for discussions.“In ...

    15 February 2025 Indian Express
    Revive murder cases of 2007 Nandigram land stir: High Court

    The Calcutta High Court has held that accused persons in ten criminal cases pertaining to murders in Nandigram and Khejuri during an anti-land acquisition movement in 2007 must stand trial, directing that the cases be revived and they should ...

    15 February 2025 Indian Express
    Abhishek hits out at BJP for criticising state Budget: ‘Union Budget anti-Bengal, deceptive’

    Trinamool Congress (TMC) general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Thursday hit out at the Opposition BJP for criticising the state Budget, presented in the Assembly a day ago.“The same people who once said they would scrap ‘Lakshmir Bhandar’ are now ...

    15 February 2025 Indian Express
    TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee files complaint with Meta over ‘removal of AITC from Facebook bio, unauthorised access of account’

    TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee has filed a formal complaint with Meta (formerly Facebook) regarding an alleged unauthorised breach of his official Facebook page.The issue came to light on February 11, when Banerjee’s supporters noticed a change in the bio ...

    14 February 2025 Indian Express
    Govt gone bankrupt: BJP; CPM says no roadmap for delivering promises

    The Opposition BJP on Wednesday called the state Budget “anti-people”, claiming it proved that the TMC government has gone “bankrupt.”Walking out of the Assembly with party MLAs during the Budget speech, Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari said: “The state ...

    14 February 2025 Indian Express
    We deliver, you promise: Bengal CM contrasts state, Union budget

    Contrasting TMC government’s social welfare schemes with that of the BJP-led government at the Centre, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday said while we deliver, the Union Budget only makes promises.Addressing a press conference after the presentation ...

    14 February 2025 Indian Express
    Snowfall predicted in Darjeeling, fog alert for South Bengal: IMD

    Darjeeling will likely experience snowfall on Thursday and Friday and light rain is predicted for Jalpaiguri and Kalimpong, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said. Dense fog warnings have been issued for Darjeeling, Jalpaiguri, and Cooch Behar, potentially reducing visibility ...

    14 February 2025 Indian Express
    Clash over ‘control of illegal sand mine’ injures 2 in West Bengal, 10 held

    A violent clash involving throwing of crude bombs between two groups —allegedly backed by rival Trinamool Congress (TMC) factions — over control of illegal sand mining operations broke out on Tuesday in Birbhum’s Kankartala area.The clash allegedly stemmed from ...

    14 February 2025 Indian Express
    ‘Need time to go through voluminous documents’: Ex-R G Kar principal Sandip Ghosh’s counsel tells court in CBI graft case

    On Wednesday, the counsel of former RG Kar principal Sandip Ghosh informed the Special CBI Court that they would require time to go through the “voluminous documents” provided by the CBI in the financial irregularities case.The court said the ...

    13 February 2025 Indian Express
    Job creation, rural infra thrust in TMC’s last Budget before Bengal polls

    In the last full-fledged Budget before West Bengal goes to Assembly polls early next year, the TMC government, led by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, on Wednesday laid out a series of infrastructure and agriculture projects focusing on the state’s ...

    13 February 2025 Indian Express
    Dhankhar expresses desire to deliver speech in Bengal Assembly, Speaker examines provisions

    Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Tuesday sent a special messenger to West Bengal Speaker Biman Banerjee expressing his desire to deliver a speech in the Legislative Assembly, officials said.Dhankhar, who remained West Bengal governor from 2019 to 2022 before ...

    13 February 2025 Indian Express
    Former President Pranab Mukherjee’s son back in Congress: ‘Soon after joined TMC, I realised I did wrong’

    Former President Pranab Mukherjee’s son Abhijit Mukherjee rejoined the Congress on Wednesday after a four-year-long placid stint in the Trinamool Congress.The former Lok Sabha MP was given the Congress membership at the party’s state headquarters here in the presence ...

    13 February 2025 Indian Express
    Court pulls up CBI for not handing all documents to Sandip Ghosh

    The counsel of former principal of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, Sandip Ghosh, on Monday accused the CBI of not providing all the documents related to the chargesheet in the case of alleged financial irregularities at the state-run ...

    12 February 2025 Indian Express
    Congress can’t spoil our chances in Bengal, we’ll win: CM Mamata Banerjee

    Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday told her party MLAs not to get worried by the BJP’s win in Delhi Assembly elections, saying the Congress was not in a position of strength in West Bengal to spoil TMC’s chances ...

    12 February 2025 Indian Express
    Tiger which attacked forest guard held after 12 hours’ search in Sunderbans

    After more than 12 hours of search, the West Bengal Forest department finally managed to catch the Royal Bengal Tiger which attacked and injured a forest guard in the Sunderbans on Monday.Around 3.30 am on Tuesday, forest guards were ...

    12 February 2025 Indian Express
    Prime accused in Naihati TMC worker’s murder arrested from UP: SIT

    More than a week after a TMC worker was shot dead in broad daylight in Naihati in North 24 Parganas district, the SIT of West Bengal Police arrested the prime accused, Rajesh Shaw, and his accomplice, Vishal, from a ...

    12 February 2025 Indian Express
    Budget session begins: Despite no Central funds, Bengal govt didn’t back out from ensuring employment and housing to rural poor: Governor

    West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose on Monday said that “despite financial constraints and non-receipt of Central funds”, the TMC government in the state “has not backed out from its commitment to ensuring employment and housing for our rural ...

    12 February 2025 Indian Express
    Forest guard injured in Royal Bengal tiger attack in Sundarbans

    A West Bengal forest guard was severely injured after a Royal Bengal tiger attacked him during a search operation for the tiger. He was admitted to Kolkata’s SSKM hospital with injuries on his forehead.Police said the incident occurred at ...

    12 February 2025 Indian Express
    ZSI, University of Calcutta, others develop novel technique for fruit fly control

    In a collaborative study led by researchers from the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI), the University of Calcutta and other institutions have developed a novel technique for fruit fly control which they say can potentially revolutionise global efforts to ...

    11 February 2025 Indian Express
    ‘Will keep fighting’: RG Kar victim’s kin on her birthday

    “When she was a student, she would always tell me to make payasam (rice-milk pudding) for her. I can never make that again,” says the mother of the junior doctor who was raped and killed at the state-run RG ...

    11 February 2025 Indian Express
    Bengal: Polls a year away, welfare schemes to get Budget push

    With the Assembly elections in West Bengal due early next year, the TMC government in the state is planning to allocate more money in social security and welfare schemes in this year’s Budget – the last one before the ...

    11 February 2025 Indian Express
    Toto driver arrested for New Town girl’s rape and murder in ‘den of anti-socials’

    A minor girl from Gouranganagar, New Town, near Kolkata, was found murdered early on Friday, around 6 km from her home, which she left after an argument with her mother and sister late on Thursday. Her body was discovered ...

    11 February 2025 Indian Express
    ED attaches 36 bank accounts linked to TMC leader Anubrata Mondal in cattle smuggling case

    The Enforcement Directorate has frozen 36 bank accounts belonging to Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Anubrata Mondal and his family, with a balance of Rs 25.86 crore, in connection with the cattle smuggling case. The ED arrested Mondal in November ...

    11 February 2025 Indian Express
    Mamata announces formation of single-window interface for industry approvals, says promise kept

    The West Bengal government has published a notification to form the State Level Investment Synergy Committee to “simplify and expedite” the processes for obtaining approvals to set up and operate industrial projects and other investments.“As I promised in the ...

    10 February 2025 Indian Express
    After massive fire in Kolkata’s Narkeldanga slum, locals allege fire brigade was late

    Early on Sunday morning, the Narkeldanga slum in Kolkata was still covered in white smoke from the previous night’s massive fire, with scores of helpless people seen sitting on the road with hands on heads, having lost all money, ...

    10 February 2025 Indian Express
    BJP hails party’s performance in Delhi polls, sets sights on Bengal

    The West Bengal BJP unit on Saturday acclaimed the party’s good performance in the Delhi Assembly elections, terming it as a rejection of corruption.The Bharatiya Janata Party is poised to form a government in Delhi after more than 26 ...

    10 February 2025 Indian Express
    RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat meets RG Kar rape-murder victim’s parents in Kolkata

    Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat on Saturday met the parents of the RG Kar Hospital rape and murder victim in Kolkata and reportedly assured them that he would do whatever he could to help them get justice. ...

    9 February 2025 Indian Express
    West Bengal Board of Secondary Education bans invigilators from carrying mobiles, smartphones inside exam halls

    The West Bengal Board of Secondary Education (WBBSE) has banned teachers from carrying any electronic gadgets during invigilation duty in the upcoming Madhyamik (Class 10 board) examination.The WBBSE recently released guidelines stating that invigilators must submit their mobile phones ...

    9 February 2025 Indian Express
    West Bengal Fire Brigade contradicts civic body, claims blast-ripped Kalyani firecracker unit was illegal

    A day after a massive blast ripped through a firecracker factory killing four people in West Bengal’s Kalyani, the Fire Brigade Saturday stated that the factory lacked proper certification to produce firecrackers.On Friday, the local civic body had claimed ...

    9 February 2025 Indian Express
    Impasse ends in Bengali film and TV industry; directors’ body agrees to resume shooting from Monday

    The prevailing impasse in the Bengali film and television industry that started following the ‘disruption’ of director Srijit Roy’s shooting earlier this month ended Saturday. The Directors Association of Eastern India (DAEI), which had called for an indefinite strike ...

    9 February 2025 Indian Express
    Bengal Global Business Summit yields Rs 4.4-lakh crore bids, Mamata says Bengal a growth powerhouse

    West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday described the state as having “emerged as a powerhouse of growth and opportunity” and said this year’s Bengal Global Business Summit (BGBS) yielded “212 MoUs and Letters of Intent, with investment ...

    9 February 2025 Indian Express
    4 dead in explosion at firecracker factory in West Bengal’s Nadia district

    A huge explosion at a firecracker factory at Nadia district’s Kalyani on Friday killed four persons, including two women, the police said.After the explosion, senior police officers rushed to the spot with the fire brigade. Residents said the fire ...

    9 February 2025 Indian Express
    Govt employee goes on stabbing spree, injures 4 colleagues’; held

    A state government employee posted at the Karigori Bhawan in Kolkata on Thursday allegedly stabbed his four colleagues with a knife in a fit of rage, the police said.  The man, identified as Amit Sarkar was arrested by Bidhannagar ...

    8 February 2025 Indian Express
    RG Kar rape-murder case: Calcutta HC allows CBI plea, dismisses state’s appeal challenging life term to convict Sanjoy Roy

    The Calcutta High Court Friday admitted CBI’s appeal challenging the life imprisonment sentence awarded to Sanjoy Roy for the rape and murder of a junior doctor at Kolkata’s R G Kar Medical College and Hospital, and dismissed the West ...

    8 February 2025 Indian Express
    With West Bengal tourism sector ‘growing at 15%’, state govt signs 7 MoUs, announces policy change for tea plantations

    Kolkata is rapidly gaining traction as a prime destination for tourism investment, securing at least seven Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) at the Bengal Global Business Summit (BGBS), 2025. This surge in interest signals a shift in investor focus, ...

    8 February 2025 Indian Express
    RG Kar Corruption case: HC gives 1 week time to Ghosh, framing of charges put on hold

    A Division Bench of the Calcutta High Court on Thursday gave seven days to Sandip Ghosh, the former principal of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, to read the documents submitted by the CBI as part of the chargesheet ...

    8 February 2025 Indian Express
    Madan Tamang murder case: After 7 years on the run, prime accused arrested in Bengaluru

    The CBI on Thursday arrested a man from Bengaluru who was wanted in connection with the murder case of Madan Tamang, the then president of the Akhil Bharatiya Gorkha League (ABGL) who was killed in broad daylight in Darjeeling ...

    7 February 2025 Indian Express
    In MoU with Amazon, pitch to sell Bengal’s MSME items to world

    Amazon India on Thursday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Department of Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) and Textile, Government of West Bengal, on the second day of the Bengal Global Business Summit in Kolkata.  As ...

    7 February 2025 Indian Express
    Business Summit Concludes | Over Rs 4.40 lakh cr investment offered, Bengal prime place for business: Mamata

    As the eighth edition of Bengal Global Business Summit (BGBS) concluded in Kolkata on Thursday, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee hailed the two-day conclave a success and said the state received investment proposals of over Rs 4.40 lakh ...

    7 February 2025 Indian Express
    ‘Non-veg food should be banned in India’: TMC MP Shatrughan Sinha

    TMC MP Shatrughan Sinha, who is an actor and former BJP leader, stated that “non-vegetarian food should be banned across the country”, leading to sharp criticism from the Opposition in West Bengal as well as putting TMC leadership in ...

    7 February 2025 Indian Express
    R G Kar rape-murder victim’s parents call for protest against ‘delay in justice’ on her birthday

    The parents of the deceased R G Kar doctor have appealed to people to “hit the streets” on her birthday, February 9, to protest “the delay in justice” for her.In a video statement, the mother of the rape-murder case ...

    7 February 2025 Indian Express
    At BGBS, Mamata Banerjee urges British delegation to establish direct flight connection between Kolkata and Europe

    West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee urged the British delegation at the Bengal Global Business Summit (BGBS) 2025 on Thursday to consider starting direct flights to Europe from Kolkata, citing the long travel time.During an international session on Wednesday, ...

    7 February 2025 Indian Express
    ‘Can you not use your own saline?’: Calcutta HC asks Bengal govt as it submits lab report in expired IV fluid case

    The West Bengal government Thursday submitted a laboratory report before the Calcutta High Court stating there was no issue with the intravenous fluid given at Midnapore Medical College and Hospital, where four new mothers were allegedly administered expired Ringer’s ...

    7 February 2025 Indian Express
    West Bengal govt employee stabs 4 colleagues in Kolkata, says they joked about his father

    A middle-aged West Bengal government employee posted at the Karigori Bhawan in Kolkata on Thursday stabbed his four colleagues, reportedly in a fit of rage, the police said.The man, identified as Amit Sarkar, allegedly stabbed his colleagues because they ...

    7 February 2025 Indian Express
    Bengal witnessing economic renaissance, best time to invest: Ambani lauds Mamata at 8th Bengal Global Business Summit

    Lauding Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for being a “tireless leader and one of the most-ablest administrators in the country”, Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani on Wednesday said that West Bengal was experiencing a “renaissance in economy and business” and ...

    7 February 2025 Indian Express
    RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat to visit West Bengal for 10 days

    Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat is expected to visit West Bengal on a 10-day tour for organisational work, as informed by the RSS West Bengal unit on February 5.In a press conference held by Jishnu Basu, general ...

    7 February 2025 Indian Express
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