Swapan Banerjee, the 52-year old brother of chief minister Mamata Banerjee, flipped and flopped on Wednesday after an irate Mamata snapped all ties with him for going public with his grievances against the Trinamul’s Howrah nominee and sitting MP ...
14 March 2024 TelegraphTrinamul Congress (TMC) candidates in several Lok Sabha constituencies on Wednesday embarked on the 'Banglar Adhikar Yatra', advocating for the rights of the people of West Bengal.They alleged that the BJP government at the Centre was attempting to undermine ...
14 March 2024 TelegraphThe CBI on Wednesday summoned a brother of suspended Trinamul Congress leader Shajahan Sheikh and a few others close to him for questioning in connection with the mob attack on Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials in West Bengal’s Sandeshkhali on ...
14 March 2024 TelegraphThe Union home ministry has issued a release making it clear that Indian Muslims need not worry after the implementation of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), 2019, as it has no provision that will affect the citizenship of 18 ...
14 March 2024 TelegraphMamata Banerjee on Tuesday vowed that she wouldn’t allow the saffron regime’s contentious citizenship matrix in Bengal and asserted her willingness to sacrifice her life for the cause.The Bengal chief minister pulled no punches in her attack on the ...
14 March 2024 TelegraphThe body of a missing businessman was recovered from underneath a water tank on the outskirts of the city, a police officer said on Wednesday.The body of Bhavo Lakhani, who lived in Ballygunge area here, was found in a ...
14 March 2024 TelegraphWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday asserted that the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) is linked with the National Register of Citizens (NRC) and that is the reason why she is opposing the new legislation.The TMC supremo said ...
14 March 2024 TelegraphWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will on Wednesday lead a roadshow in Siliguri against the implementation of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act 2019.Banerjee, who has been vocal against its implementation, on Tuesday claimed that the rules notified were "unconstitutional ...
13 March 2024 TelegraphMamata Banerjee on Tuesday vowed that she wouldn’t allow the saffron regime’s contentious citizenship matrix in Bengal and asserted her willingness to sacrifice her life for the cause.The Bengal chief minister pulled no punches in her attack on the ...
13 March 2024 TelegraphThe Union home ministry has issued a release making it clear that Indian Muslims need not worry after the implementation of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), 2019, as it has no provision that will affect the citizenship of 18 ...
13 March 2024 TelegraphMamata Banerjee held a meeting with members of various communities based in the hills and the plains of north Bengal, while her nephew Abhishek met around 3,500 Scheduled Caste (SC) and Scheduled Tribe (ST) leaders in Calcutta on Tuesday ...
13 March 2024 TelegraphAbhijit Gangopadhyay’s candidacy has not been announced yet but the former judge of Calcutta High Court visited Tamluk on Tuesday to get a feel of his possible "battleground".Guided by leader of the Opposition, Suvendu Adhikari, the potential BJP candidate ...
13 March 2024 TelegraphThe Bengal government has reconstituted the Kamtapuri Bhasa Academy and brought in several political faces, including the head of a Rajbanshi political outfit. On March 7, the state issued a notification, saying the academy would have an 11-member committee ...
13 March 2024 TelegraphThe Trinamul Congress and the Bharatiya Gorkha Prajatantrik Morcha (BGPM) are set to kick-start their joint Lok Sabha election campaign from near Sandakphu, which is the highest point in Bengal.BGPM leader Gopal Lama will contest from the Darjeeling Lok ...
13 March 2024 TelegraphThe Supreme Court on Monday refused to stay the Calcutta High Court order directing CBI probe into the Sandeskali violence in which ED officials were allegedly attacked by Trinamul leader Sheikh Shahjahan whose followers also reportedly subjected several local ...
13 March 2024 TelegraphJohn Barla, the Alipurduar MP and a Union minister of state, changed his tune on Tuesday and said he would campaign for the party's nominee. The BJP has fielded Manoj Tigga, Madarihat BJP MLA and the party's chief whip ...
13 March 2024 TelegraphThe Trinamul Congress and the Bharatiya Gorkha Prajatantrik Morcha (BGPM) are set to kick-start their joint Lok Sabha election campaign from near Sandakphu, which is the highest point in Bengal.BGPM leader Gopal Lama will contest from the Darjeeling Lok ...
13 March 2024 TelegraphThe Bengal government has reconstituted the Kamtapuri Bhasa Academy and brought in several political faces, including the head of a Rajbanshi political outfit. On March 7, the state issued a notification, saying the academy would have an 11-member committee ...
13 March 2024 TelegraphAbhijit Gangopadhyay’s candidacy has not been announced yet but the former judge of Calcutta High Court visited Tamluk on Tuesday to get a feel of his possible "battleground".Guided by leader of the Opposition, Suvendu Adhikari, the potential BJP candidate ...
13 March 2024 TelegraphMamata Banerjee held a meeting with members of various communities based in the hills and the plains of north Bengal, while her nephew Abhishek met around 3,500 Scheduled Caste (SC) and Scheduled Tribe (ST) leaders in Calcutta on Tuesday ...
13 March 2024 TelegraphTension sparked at Tinbatti More on the southern part of Siliguri on Monday afternoon as supporters and members of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) organised a march towards Uttarkanya to protest the atrocities in Sandeshkhali and crimes reported ...
13 March 2024 TelegraphThe United Front for Separate State (UFSS), a joint forum of nine organisations demanding a north Bengal state, wants Bimal Gurung, the president of Gorkha Janmukti Morcha, to contest the Darjeeling Lok Sabha seat.Roshan Giri, the general secretary of ...
13 March 2024 TelegraphMd Mehedi Hasan, 27, from Narsingdi district in Bangladesh, was nabbed by the BSF in Jalpaiguri district on Sunday evening as he tried to infiltrate India.Some Indian currency, two cell phones and Indian ID proofs were found on him.During ...
13 March 2024 TelegraphAttacking the BJP-led government at the Centre over the implementation of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act or CAA, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday claimed the rules notified were "unconstitutional and discriminatory".Addressing an official programme at Habra in ...
13 March 2024 TelegraphThe implementation of the CAA by the Centre just ahead of the Lok Sabha polls is anticipated to intensify communal polarization, significantly influencing the electoral discourse in West Bengal with both the opposition BJP and the ruling TMC poised ...
13 March 2024 TelegraphA sub-divisional court at Basirhat on Tuesday remanded three alleged associates of the now suspended TMC leader Sheikh Shajahan to ten days CBI custody following their arrest by the central agency in connection with the January 5 attack on ...
13 March 2024 TelegraphSenior TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee on Tuesday slammed the BJP over the implementation of the CAA rules ahead of the Lok Sabha polls and asserted that there is no clarity regarding the legislation which has been brought hurriedly.As per ...
13 March 2024 TelegraphA day after finding himself out of favours from the TMC top brass for a ticket to contest the Barrackpore Lok Sabha seat, disgruntled leader Arjun Singh on Tuesday said he felt "betrayed" and left enough hints for his ...
13 March 2024 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee will be in Siliguri on a two-day visit on Tuesday, three days after Prime Minister Modi's much-publicised March 9 visit.Ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, she will meet representatives of different communities and members of ...
13 March 2024 TelegraphThe United Front for Separate State (UFSS), a joint forum of nine organisations demanding a north Bengal state, wants Bimal Gurung, the president of Gorkha Janmukti Morcha, to contest the Darjeeling Lok Sabha seat.Roshan Giri, the general secretary of ...
13 March 2024 TelegraphThe CBI on Monday arrested three close aides of Sandeshkhali strongman Sheikh Shahjahan. Jiauddin Mollah, Didarbaksh Mollah and Faruque Akunji were arrested for their alleged role in the attack on a visiting ED team at Sandeshkhali on January 5.The ...
13 March 2024 TelegraphThe Centre’s notification to implement the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019, on Monday evening set the decibel soaring as the Matua community broke into celebrations at Thakurbari, their holy abode in North 24-Parganas’ Thakurnagar.Around 1,000 Matua members gathered at Thakurbari ...
13 March 2024 TelegraphBarrackpore MP Arjun Singh, who left the BJP for Trinamul in 2022, on Monday regretted his decision to join Mamata Banerjee’s party after his name did not feature among the 42 party candidates that Trinamul leader Abhishek Banerjee announced ...
13 March 2024 TelegraphThe Jalpaiguri district administration will launch a drive on Tuesday to check the safety measures in all the cold storages of the district, following the incident of ammonia leak at a cold storage unit which led to a worker's ...
13 March 2024 TelegraphThe CBI on Monday arrested three alleged associates of suspended TMC leader Shahajahan Sheikh including his security guard in connection with the January 5 attack on an Enforcement Directorate team, officials said.The agency took into custody Sheikh's security guard ...
12 March 2024 TelegraphThe CBI on Monday arrested three close aides of Sandeshkhali strongman Sheikh Shahjahan. Jiauddin Mollah, Didarbaksh Mollah and Faruque Akunji were arrested for their alleged role in the attack on a visiting ED team at Sandeshkhali on January 5.The ...
12 March 2024 TelegraphThe Centre’s notification to implement the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019, on Monday evening set the decibel soaring as the Matua community broke into celebrations at Thakurbari, their holy abode in North 24-Parganas’ Thakurnagar.Around 1,000 Matua members gathered at Thakurbari ...
12 March 2024 TelegraphTrinamul Congress on Sunday announced the list of its 42 Lok Sabha nominees for Bengal, with a mix of the old and the new, including cricketers, academics and Tollywood celebrities. However, much interest lay in 14 names picked by ...
12 March 2024 TelegraphThe CBI has summoned nine close aides and associates of suspended TMC leader Shahjahan Sheikh to appear before the agency on Monday, officials said. The agency suspects that these nine individuals were allegedly part of the attack on Enforcement ...
12 March 2024 TelegraphThe CBI visited Bongaon in North 24 Parganas district on Monday in connection with its investigation into the attack on an Enforcement Directorate (ED) team that went to arrest TMC leader Shankar Adhya on January 5, officials said.The ED ...
12 March 2024 TelegraphIn a setback to the West Bengal government, the Supreme Court on Monday dismissed its plea challenging a Calcutta High Court order transferring to the CBI the probe into the January 5 attack on an Enforcement Directorate (ED) team ...
12 March 2024 TelegraphWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday said she would fiercely oppose the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) if she found it to be discriminatory against groups of people living in India and if it curtailed their existing citizenship ...
12 March 2024 TelegraphThe Enforcement Directorate on Monday attached a demand draft of Rs 10.29 crore issued to the Trinamul Congress by the Alchemist Group, which is under probe by the central agency, just ahead of the Lok Sabha polls.“The ED, Delhi ...
12 March 2024 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee has said that the Citizenship Amendment Act and the National Registry of Citizens will not be allowed in Bengal.“This is not freedom at midnight. This is an eyewash being played by the BJP ahead of ...
12 March 2024 TelegraphWest Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose on Monday said the notification of rules of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act is a "logical conclusion" and example of "good governance in India".The CAA paves the way for citizenship to undocumented non-Muslim migrants ...
12 March 2024 TelegraphThe BJP on Sunday picked up the Lok Sabha candidates’ list of the Trinamul Congress to counter the ruling party’s charge that the BJP was anti-Bengal and Prime Minister Narendra Modi was an outsider to the state. Speaking on ...
12 March 2024 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee and Trinamul MP Abhishek Banerjee both tore into ex-judge Abhijit Gangopadhyay on Sunday, a day after he was seen clad in saffron and bowing before Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the BJP’s Siliguri rally.A day ...
12 March 2024 TelegraphTrinamul Congress on Sunday announced the list of its 42 Lok Sabha nominees for Bengal, with a mix of the old and the new, including cricketers, academics and Tollywood celebrities. However, much interest lay in 14 names picked by ...
12 March 2024 TelegraphTrinamul on Sunday created a record of sorts in Indian politics when party supremo and Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee walked on a pair of cross ramps with 42 party nominees to introduce them to party workers and supporters, ...
12 March 2024 TelegraphThe flamboyant stage presence and performance of Abhishek Banerjee, the indisputable Number Two of the Trinamul Congress, on the Brigade Parade Grounds on Sunday appeared to match those of his aunt and chief minister Mamata Banerjee in terms of ...
12 March 2024 TelegraphThe CBI has summoned nine close aides and associates of suspended TMC leader Shahjahan Sheikh to appear before the agency on Monday, officials said. The agency suspects that these nine individuals were allegedly part of the attack on Enforcement ...
12 March 2024 TelegraphThe Trinamul Congress (TMC), which unveiled its candidate lineup for all 42 Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal, has introduced six political newcomers, among them former cricketer Yusuf Pathan and Padma Shri recipient Kalipada Soren.The other fresh faces are ...
11 March 2024 TelegraphAs a cricketer, Yusuf Pathan was known for hitting big sixes. He will now be trying his luck on a different pitch, against a seasoned opponent.The former India cricketer will be Trinamul candidate from Behrampore, fief of Bengal Congress ...
11 March 2024 TelegraphWhen commercial Metro services start between Howrah Maidan and Esplanade along the East-West corridor, the trains will run at around 70kmph, Metro officials said.But while crossing the 520m stretch under the Hooghly riverbed, the trains will travel at around ...
11 March 2024 TelegraphA Christian organisation has demanded the Other Backward Class (OBC) status for the community in the state and the formation of a development body for Christians in north Bengal. The All Christian Minority Organisation (ACMO) also requested the state ...
11 March 2024 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee and Trinamul MP Abhishek Banerjee both tore into ex-judge Abhijit Gangopadhyay on Sunday, a day after he was seen clad in saffron and bowing before Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the BJP’s Siliguri rally.A day ...
11 March 2024 TelegraphTo mark the 64th Tibetan Uprising Day on Sunday, protesters, which included Tibetan nationals, gathered outside the Chinese consulate in Salt Lake to raise their voices against Beijing’s alleged human rights violation and cultural genocide in Tibet.Led by the ...
11 March 2024 TelegraphPermanent political solution (PPS), an undefined term in the 2019 BJP’s Lok Sabha election manifesto that powered Darjeeling politics for the past five years, appears to have become unpalatable for BJP partner Gorkha National Liberation Front (GNLF) ahead of ...
11 March 2024 TelegraphThe BJP on Sunday picked up the Lok Sabha candidates’ list of the Trinamul Congress to counter the ruling party’s charge that the BJP was anti-Bengal and Prime Minister Narendra Modi was an outsider to the state. Speaking on ...
11 March 2024 TelegraphThe Covid-19 pandemic created distress across the globe but those trying times successfully milked entrepreneurship among residents of the far-flung village of Lower Marming in the Kurseong subdivision of Darjeeling district.With dairy farmers finding it difficult to sell milk ...
11 March 2024 TelegraphThe TMC on Sunday announced the candidate list for all 42 Lok Sabha seats of West Bengal, dropping a few sitting MPs and bringing in several new faces such as former cricketers Yusuf Pathan and Kriti Azad.The party renominated ...
11 March 2024 TelegraphClaiming that "Modi ki guarantee" has "zero warranty", TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee on Sunday labelled BJP leaders as "outsiders and anti-Bengal", who only visit the state during elections.Banerjee, the TMC national general secretary, asserted that the people of the ...
11 March 2024 TelegraphThe Trinamul all-India general secretary Abhishek Banerjee used the “outsider” card against the BJP at the party’s “Jonogorjon” rally on Sunday.“Whose guarantee do you believe in? Modi or Didi? Didi promised Kanyashree, it happened. She said free ration will ...
11 March 2024 TelegraphA court in West Bengal's Basirhat on Sunday extended the CBI custody of Shahjahan Sheikh, key accused in a mob attack on ED officials at Sandeshkhali, by another four days on a prayer by the central agency.The Central Bureau ...
11 March 2024 TelegraphStating that Prime Minister Narendra Modi protested against atrocities on women at Sandeshkhali from all four rallies he addressed in West Bengal recently, BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari on Sunday claimed that Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee did not find it ...
11 March 2024 TelegraphMamata Banerjee on Sunday walked along a 300-plus feet ramp built on the Brigade Parade ground with candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls, a first of its kind show that indicated the Trinamul Congress's resolve to contest from ...
11 March 2024 TelegraphPrime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday reached out to the Gorkha population in north Bengal and asserted that the BJP was “very close” to meeting their "longstanding demand".Modi simultaneously made a slew of announcements for the small tea growers ...
11 March 2024 TelegraphA former judge, clad in a saffron kurta, bent halfway forward and tightly grasped with both his hands Prime Minister Narendra Modi's outstretched palm.If one image stood out at Modi's Siliguri rally on Saturday, it was not Abhijit Gangopadhyay's ...
11 March 2024 TelegraphThe Trinamul all-India general secretary Abhishek Banerjee used the “outsider” card against the BJP at the party’s “Jonogorjon” rally on Sunday.“Whose guarantee do you believe in? Modi or Didi? Didi promised Kanyashree, it happened. She said free ration will ...
11 March 2024 TelegraphA court in West Bengal's Basirhat on Sunday extended the CBI custody of Shahjahan Sheikh, key accused in a mob attack on ED officials at Sandeshkhali, by another four days on a prayer by the central agency.The Central Bureau ...
11 March 2024 TelegraphA former judge, clad in a saffron kurta, bent halfway forward and tightly grasped with both his hands Prime Minister Narendra Modi's outstretched palm.If one image stood out at Modi's Siliguri rally on Saturday, it was not Abhijit Gangopadhyay's ...
10 March 2024 TelegraphPrime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday reached out to the Gorkha population in north Bengal and asserted that the BJP was “very close” to meeting their "longstanding demand".Modi simultaneously made a slew of announcements for the small tea growers ...
10 March 2024 TelegraphIsha Khan Choudhury, a former Congress MLA and the only son of Malda South MP Abu Hasem Khan Choudhury aka Dalu, alleged on Saturday that political conspiracies were being hatched to malign the family of late Congress patriarch Barkat ...
10 March 2024 TelegraphThe BJP sought to play the development card to draw votes in north Bengal as Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated a slew of infrastructural projects here on Saturday.“We inaugurated projects worth Rs 4,500 crore in north Bengal today (Saturday). ...
10 March 2024 TelegraphJhargram BJP MP Kunar Hembram has sent a letter to the party, saying he is disassociating himself from the organisation for personal reasons."This is to formally inform you that I disassociate myself from the party effective immediately. The decision ...
10 March 2024 TelegraphThe spectre of Sheikh Shahjahan and his aides had reportedly kept the CPM away from Sandeshkhali for over a decade.Now, bolstered by the Trinamul strongman’s arrest, the CPM is trying to regain lost ground by reopening party offices, taking ...
10 March 2024 TelegraphThe proposed mega show of the Trinamul Congress on Sunday at Brigade Parade grounds is likely to witness a thin attendance from north Bengal districts, considered to be a BJP stronghold, as Mamata Banerjee party's plan to bring its ...
10 March 2024 TelegraphTraders and industrialists of India and Bangladesh, for the first time, jointly organised a four-day Harmony Fair in Malda town for the display and sale of goods produced in two countries.The Harmony Fair started at Malda College ground on ...
10 March 2024 TelegraphIsha Khan Choudhury, a former Congress MLA and the only son of Malda South MP Abu Hasem Khan Choudhury aka Dalu, alleged on Saturday that political conspiracies were being hatched to malign the family of late Congress patriarch Barkat ...
10 March 2024 TelegraphJhargram BJP MP Kunar Hembram has sent a letter to the party, saying he is disassociating himself from the organisation for personal reasons."This is to formally inform you that I disassociate myself from the party effective immediately. The decision ...
10 March 2024 TelegraphTraders and industrialists of India and Bangladesh, for the first time, jointly organised a four-day Harmony Fair in Malda town for the display and sale of goods produced in two countries.The Harmony Fair started at Malda College ground on ...
10 March 2024 TelegraphThe proposed mega show of the Trinamul Congress on Sunday at Brigade Parade grounds is likely to witness a thin attendance from north Bengal districts, considered to be a BJP stronghold, as Mamata Banerjee party's plan to bring its ...
10 March 2024 TelegraphThe spectre of Sheikh Shahjahan and his aides had reportedly kept the CPM away from Sandeshkhali for over a decade.Now, bolstered by the Trinamul strongman’s arrest, the CPM is trying to regain lost ground by reopening party offices, taking ...
10 March 2024 TelegraphThe BJP sought to play the development card to draw votes in north Bengal as Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated a slew of infrastructural projects here on Saturday.“We inaugurated projects worth Rs 4,500 crore in north Bengal today (Saturday). ...
10 March 2024 TelegraphThe first under-river metro tunnel inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on March 6 in Kolkata might not have become a reality today had a judge not taken a keen interest in it, experts associated with the project said. ...
10 March 2024 TelegraphWest Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee president Adhir Chowdhury on Saturday questioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi's frequent visits to the state for poll campaigns, suggesting that if he was confident about BJP's growing support, such repeated trips wouldn't be necessary.Speaking ...
10 March 2024 TelegraphThe Trinamul Congress (TMC) on Saturday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi's frequent visits to the state would not sway West Bengal voters in favour of the saffron camp.Instead, these visits would only strengthen the resolve of voters to reject ...
10 March 2024 TelegraphPrime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday unveiled infrastructure projects worth more than Rs 4,500 crore in northern West Bengal.The PM unveiled the projects at a programme in Siliguri, the region's largest city, during his third visit to the state ...
10 March 2024 TelegraphPrime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday upped the ante against the TMC on the issue of corruption and dynasty politics and said the opposition alliance INDIA parties such as the Trinamool Congress and the Congress are bothered only about ...
10 March 2024 TelegraphThe West Bengal government on Saturday transferred Biswajit Shanpui, the officer-in-charge of Sandeshkhali police station, amid the ongoing furore over allegations of sexual abuse and land grabbing against local TMC leaders.Gopal Sarkar, who previously served as OC in the ...
10 March 2024 TelegraphWith dynasty on his lips, Narendra Modi stepped up the attack on the Trinamul and the Congress as he dragged the Gandhi and Banerjee families during his Vijay Sankalp rally speech in North Bengal on Saturday.“Trinamul has concerns ...
10 March 2024 TelegraphThe Trinamul Congress (TMC) on Saturday labeled Prime Minister Narendra Modi as a 'migratory bird' who only surfaces before elections and accused the ruling BJP at the Centre of consistently depriving West Bengal economically.In a sharp retort, TMC Rajya ...
10 March 2024 TelegraphSheikh Shahjahan had spoken to several persons, including Sandeshkhali Trinamul Congress MLA Sukumar Mahata, on the day of the attack on a visiting team of Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials on January 5, the preliminary investigation by the CBI has ...
10 March 2024 TelegraphThe BJP has plans to bring around two lakh people to the public meeting of Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Kawakhali in Siliguri on Saturday to drive home the point that its support base in the region, where the ...
10 March 2024 TelegraphBJP MP from West Bengal's Jhargram Kunar Hembram on Saturday said he has resigned from his party for "personal reasons".Hembram, who had in the morning said that he was resigning from the Lok Sabha as well, in the afternoon ...
10 March 2024 TelegraphThe Trinamul Congress (TMC) on Saturday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi's frequent visits to the state would not sway West Bengal voters in favour of the saffron camp.Instead, these visits would only strengthen the resolve of voters to reject ...
10 March 2024 TelegraphThe first under-river metro tunnel inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on March 6 in Kolkata might not have become a reality today had a judge not taken a keen interest in it, experts associated with the project said. ...
10 March 2024 TelegraphWest Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee president Adhir Chowdhury on Saturday questioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi's frequent visits to the state for poll campaigns, suggesting that if he was confident about BJP's growing support, such repeated trips wouldn't be necessary.Speaking ...
10 March 2024 TelegraphPrime Minister Narendra Modi will visit northern West Bengal on Saturday, which will be his third trip to the state this month.During the visit, the PM will unveil infrastructure projects worth more than Rs 4,500 crore in Siliguri, the ...
9 March 2024 TelegraphRival supporters of Darjeeling’s BJP MP Raju Bista and former foreign secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla are competing to build up their own leader’s claim to nomination from Darjeeling ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s March 9 Siliguri visit.Shringla’s team ...
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