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  • News from West Bengal | 11 May, 2025 | ২৮ বৈশাখ, ১৪৩২
  • Bengal Cabinet approves 0.9 acres for BSF for border outpost in Nadia

    THE WEST BENGAL Cabinet on Monday approved the allocation of around 0.9 acres of land in Nadia district’s Karimpur to the Border Security Force (BSF), potentially for setting up outposts or installing wired fences, a senior official said.The paramilitary ...

    29 January 2025 Indian Express
    To mend frayed ties, TMC launches health association

    AMID THE stand-off between the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress (TMC) government and a section of members of the medical fraternity in Bengal, the TMC has formed a new association to “work as a bridge between the government and medical ...

    29 January 2025 Indian Express
    ZSI identifies 23 species of blood-sucking flies in Andaman and Nicobar Islands, 5 of them carry Blue Tongue disease

    The Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) has identified 23 species of blood-sucking flies belonging to the Culicoides genus in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, with 13 of them being reported for the first time in India.Known locally as “Bhusi ...

    29 January 2025 Indian Express
    Tracking SIM used by Saif attack accused, Mumbai Police questions woman in Bengal village near Bangladesh border

    A Mumbai Police team, investigating the attack on Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan earlier this month, questioned a resident of West Bengal’s Nadia district on Monday in connection with the SIM card that was allegedly being used by the ...

    28 January 2025 Indian Express
    Convict in minor’s rape-murder appeals against death sentence, alleges ‘hasty trial’

    Mostakin Sardar, the 19-year-old man sentenced to death in a swift trial for the rape and murder of a minor girl in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district, has appealed against the verdict in the Calcutta High Court, arguing ...

    28 January 2025 Indian Express
    West Bengal expired saline death case: Calcutta High Court calls for case diary

    The Calcutta High Court on Monday called for the case diary in the case of expired saline allegedly being administered to new mothers at Midnapore Medical College.Jayanti Narayan, the counsel representing suspended anaesthetist Pallavi Bandhopadhay, submitted to the single ...

    28 January 2025 Indian Express
    ‘Not in favour of capital punishment’: Counsel of RG Kar victim’s family as Calcutta HC reserves order

    The Calcutta High Court on Monday concluded the hearing in the RG Kar rape and murder case regarding whether the application of the state for capital punishment for convict Sanjay Roy is admissible. The order has been reserved. Advocate General ...

    28 January 2025 Indian Express
    ‘Will express grievances in constructive manner’: TMC MP Kalyan Banerjee apologises for criticising party colleagues

    After criticising his colleagues, who are a part of the West Bengal Cabinet under Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, TMC MP Kalyan Banerjee has backtracked his statement, apologising for his remarks.Taking to social media platform X on Saturday, Kalyan said, ...

    28 January 2025 Indian Express
    Sarod player Pt Tejendra Narayan Majumdar honoured with Padma Shri: ‘Such a big endorsement to classical music’

    Pandit Tejendra Narayan Majumdar was performing with Pt Bickram Ghosh at the IIT Kharagpur’s Spring Fest when he came that he was among those conferred with the Padma Awards this year.An exponent of the Maihar Gharana, Majumdar, 63, started ...

    28 January 2025 Indian Express
    Kolkata Police band ‘stopped’ from performing at Raj Bhawan on R-Day; Mamata Banerjee confronts Bengal governor

    Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday verbally confronted Governor CV Ananda Bose as a band of Kolkata police was stopped from entering Raj Bhawan premises to perform on the occasion of Republic Day. Instead of them, the BSF performed ...

    28 January 2025 Indian Express
    ‘My daughters are very excited,’ says Kolkata-based industrialist Sajjan Bhajanka on winning Padma Shri

    Reacting to the news of him being conferred with the Padma Shri award, Kolkata-based industrialist Sajjan Bhajanka Sunday said his family was delighted with the development.“My daughters are very excited,” added Bhajanka, Executive Chairman, Century Plyboards (India) Ltd.“Yesterday (Saturday) ...

    27 January 2025 Indian Express
    ‘My birthday was on the 7th and this is the most prestigious gift’: Mamata Shankar on Padma Shri

    A day after she was honoured with the Padma Shri, Mamata Shankar, who has stood out through her performances in critically acclaimed films, said Sunday she didn’t “expect anything like this”.Among the nine people from West Bengal who were ...

    27 January 2025 Indian Express
    ‘Dhaki Samrat’ Gokul Chandra Das gets Padma Shri, says will dedicate award to his guruji

    Gokul Chandra Das, who ended gender bias in Dhak beat by training 400 women, has been named among this year’s Padma Shri awardees.Speaking to The Indian Express, Das said, “I cannot express my happiness in words. After hearing that, ...

    27 January 2025 Indian Express
    Padma Shri honour for Bharat Sevashram monk Kartik Maharaj who locked horns with Mamata Banerjee last year

    Among the nine Padma awardees from West Bengal is Bharat Sevashram Sangha monk Swami Pradiptananda, also known as Kartik Maharaj, who had sent a legal notice to Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo Mamata Banerjee last year seeking ...

    27 January 2025 Indian Express
    RG Kar protest movement: State medical council seeks details on junior doctor at forefront of stir

    The West Bengal Medical Council has sought detailed information about a postgraduate trainee (PGT) doctor Kinjal Nanda at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata, from the college principal, seeking documents that confirm whether Nanda obtained permission from the ...

    26 January 2025 Indian Express
    Jailed ex-West Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee admitted to ICCU as health worsens

    West Bengal’s former education minister Partha Chatterjee, prime accused in the cash-for-job scam in the education department, was admitted to the ICCU of the SSKM Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata, Thursday night after his health deteriorated. A medical team ...

    26 January 2025 Indian Express
    North winds to bring cold back to Bengal, foggy conditions to continue

    Cold air from the north is expected to return to Bengal starting Sunday, leading to a drop of 3 to 4 degree Celsius in the minimum temperature by Tuesday, said the weather office on Saturday.The minimum temperature in Kolkata ...

    26 January 2025 Indian Express
    Kalyan Banerjee criticises conduct of TMC leaders as internal tension in party appears to continue simmering

    The tension within the Trinamool Congress (TMC) in West Bengal appears to continue brewing with its Lok Sabha MP Kalyan Banerjee openly criticising the conduct of some party leaders, including their failure to defend the party during the RG ...

    26 January 2025 Indian Express
    Midnapore College woman death: BJP demands CM’s resignation; seeks Rs 1 crore compensation for family of deceased

    Leader of Opposition in State Assembly Suvendu Adhikari, along with other BJP leaders, on Friday took out a protest rally from College Street in Kolkata, demanding the resignation and arrest of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and health secretary NS ...

    26 January 2025 Indian Express
    BSF crackdown on drugs leads to underground bunkers near Bangladesh border in Bengal

    In a major operation, the Border Security Force (BSF) uncovered a large-scale smuggling racket involving underground bunkers in the Nadia district of West Bengal, used for storing contraband items. BSF personnel seized a massive consignment of 62,200 bottles of ...

    26 January 2025 Indian Express
    ‘30 Kolkata buildings are tilted, 90% due to faulty engineering’: Mayor Firhad Hakim

    Kolkata Mayor Firhad Hakim on Friday said 30 buildings in Kolkata are currently tilted, with 90 percent of these cases attributed to “faulty engineering”.Hakim’s remarks came in the backdrop of an under-construction building in Tangra leaning towards an adjacent ...

    25 January 2025 Indian Express
    Republic Day parade in Delhi: Bengal’s tableau to highlight state’s schemes, rich folk heritage

    During the Republic Day Parade this year at the Kartavya Path in New Delhi on Sunday, West Bengal’s tableau will showcase ‘Lakshmir Bhandar’ and ‘Lok Prasar Prakalpa’ as themes, in a bid to highlight the “empowerment and self-reliance” in ...

    25 January 2025 Indian Express
    Bengal: CID interrogates two suspended Midnapore Medical College doctors

    The CID on Friday interrogated two doctors in connection with the death of a woman and four other women falling critically ill following childbirth after they were allegedly administered ‘expired’ intravenous (IV) fluid at the Midnapore Medical College and ...

    25 January 2025 Indian Express
    RG Kar rape and murder case: Lawyer meets convict Sanjoy Roy twice in jail, wants to represent him pro bono

    Sanjoy Roy, who has been sentenced to life imprisonment for the rape and murder of a junior doctor at R G Kar Medical College and hospital, has been approached by a private counsel to represent him in court.This comes ...

    25 January 2025 Indian Express
    Woman’s body with throat slit found in Kolkata house: Police

    An unidentified body of a woman was found at the ground floor of a two-storied residential building in Diamond Park, in Kolkata on Thursday, said officials of the Haridevpur police station.A team of investigators from the homicide department, along ...

    25 January 2025 Indian Express
    Forward Bloc announces rally on Jan 29

    The All India Forward Bloc (AIFB) has announced a rally on January 29, from Mahajati Sadan to Dharmatala, to mark the birth week of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose who founded the party.“The rally will be held against the Central ...

    25 January 2025 Indian Express
    After state govt, CBI moves Calcutta High Court seeking death penalty for R G Kar convict

    The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) moved the Calcutta High Court demanding maximum punishment for convict Sanjoy Roy in the RG Kar rape and murder case.The matter was presented to the division bench of Justice Debangshu Basak by Deputy ...

    25 January 2025 Indian Express
    R G Kar Rape-Murder case: Opposition questions govt’s push for Sanjoy Roy’s death penalty

    Days after the verdict in the R G Kar rape and murder case was announced against convict Sanjoy Roy, where the Sealdah Court awarded him life imprisonment “until his last breath”, the Opposition has questioned the West Bengal government’s rush ...

    24 January 2025 Indian Express
    Panic over ‘illegal’ buildings tilting in Kolkata, officials take action

    Panic spread in Kolkata after two multi-storied buildings tilted against each other in the city, after previous reports of similar incidents in recent days.Located in East Kolkata’s Tangra, on Christopher Road in Ward 58 of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation ...

    24 January 2025 Indian Express
    In Saif Ali Khan stabbing probe, SIM card link leads to a Bengal village near Bangladesh border

    At first glance, it is difficult to fathom how a SIM card from this village in West Bengal’s Nadia district, near the border with Bangladesh, could find its way to the man accused of stabbing actor Saif Ali Khan.Villagers, ...

    24 January 2025 Indian Express
    ‘Bhumi Pujan’ done, foundation stone laid for Ram Mandir replica in Murshidabad

    A ‘Bhumi Pujan’ was performed and foundation stone was laid down Wednesday for the eight-inch Ram Lalla statue, the temple for which is being constructed on the lines of Ayodhya’s Ram Mandir, in Murshidabad.The foundation stone was laid down ...

    24 January 2025 Indian Express
    72 flights affected due to dense fog at Kolkata airport

    Flight operations at Kolkata’s Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International (NSCBI) Airport were disrupted on Thursday due to dense fog, affecting the movement of at least 72 flights, officials said.Kolkata Airport director Pravat Ranjan Beuria said 39 departures and 21 ...

    24 January 2025 Indian Express
    Former BJP MP John Barla spotted at Mamata’s programme, says ‘will work for TMC if she blesses me’

    Former BJP MP and Union minister John Barla was spotted at a government programmed headed by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday, sparking speculations that he is soon joining the Trinamool Congress (TMC).When asked, Barla said, “The ...

    24 January 2025 Indian Express
    West Bengal expired saline death case: Suspended doctor moves Calcutta HC to quash CID case against her

    One of the doctors suspended over the death of a new mother at the Midnapore Medical College due to administration of expired saline on Wednesday moved the Calcutta High Court to quash the CID’s case against her. The matter ...

    23 January 2025 Indian Express
    Poster’s wordings at guesthouse irks CM Mamata Banerjee: ‘Is this a language?’

    Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who was in Alipurduar on Wednesday to address an administrative meeting expressed her strong disapproval over the language on a ‘poster’ on display at the guest house where she was residing.The CM who photographed the ...

    23 January 2025 Indian Express
    ‘Will hear victim’s family and convict’: Calcutta HC questions whether state can challenge RG Kar rape-murder verdict

    The Calcutta High Court Wednesday questioned whether the West Bengal government has the right to challenge the judgment of a lower court in the RG Kar rape and murder case.The division bench of Justice Debangshu Basak, while hearing the ...

    23 January 2025 Indian Express
    Illegal Bangladeshi immigrant ‘who changed appearance before visa interview’ arrested in West Bengal passport scam

    Kolkata Police have arrested an alleged Bangladeshi national who had been “illegally” residing in India and had altered his appearance before a visa interview in connection with a “massive” passport scam in the state.The arrest comes as part of ...

    23 January 2025 Indian Express
    RG Kar Rape-Murder: CBI moves HC against life sentence to convict after objecting to state govt’s similar plea

    The CBI on Thursday filed an appeal in the Calcutta High Court, challenging the life imprisonment sentence awarded by the trial court to Sanjoy Roy, who was convicted of the rape and murder of a junior doctor at Kolkata’s ...

    23 January 2025 Indian Express
    Hard labour with daily wage of Rs 105 – how RG Kar rape convict Sanjay Roy will spend time in jail

    Sanjay Roy, the man convicted for raping and murdering a junior doctor at Kolkata’s RG Kar medical college and hospital, will be made to undergo “hard labour” inside the Presidency central jail premises and get a daily wage of ...

    23 January 2025 Indian Express
    RG Kar Rape-Murder: Bengal govt moves HC against life sentence to convict, to seek death penalty

    Within 24 hours of a Sealdah court sentencing Sanjoy Roy to life imprisonment for the rape and murder of a junior doctor at the state-run RG Kar College and Hospital on August 9 last year, the West Bengal government ...

    22 January 2025 Indian Express
    Judge flags lapses in RG Kar verdict: ‘Kolkata Police treated case in indifferent manner; seems principal wanted to suppress something’

    In a scathing criticism of the initial probe by Kolkata Police into the rape and murder of a junior doctor at state-run RG Kar Medical College & Hospital, the trial court in its judgment said the police treated the ...

    22 January 2025 Indian Express
    Bengal: Missing girl found dead, 2 arrested

    The body of a 12-year-old girl, who had gone missing on January 9, was found from a paddy field near her home in a village in Basanti area of South Parganas district on Monday. The family of the girl ...

    22 January 2025 Indian Express
    From Crime To Punishment: RG Kar rape and murder case timeline

    2024August 9: Body of trainee doctor found in seminar hall on third floor of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata.August 10: Kolkata Police arrests civic volunteer Sanjoy Roy; describes him as the only accused in the case. ...

    22 January 2025 Indian Express
    RG Kar case | As Mamata calls for death penalty, victim’s father reacts: ‘She should not do anything more… her police tampered with evidence’

    Within 24 hours of a Sealdah court sentencing Sanjoy Roy to life imprisonment for the rape and murder of a junior doctor at RG Kar Hospital on August 9 last year, the West Bengal government on Tuesday approached the ...

    22 January 2025 Indian Express
    Conspiracy to fan tension between India, Bangladesh: Mamata Banerjee calls for restraint

    Days after a clash erupted between villagers along the India-Bangladesh border in Malda district, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Monday advised restraint and asked people not to give into provocation and venture into the neighbouring country.She alleged that there was ...

    22 January 2025 Indian Express
    RG Kar rape-murder case | Duty is to ensure justice based on evidence, not public sentiment: Court

    The additional district and sessions court of Sealdah Monday stressed on the primary responsibility of the judiciary to “ensure justice based on evidence, not public sentiment” as it delivered the verdict in the RG Kar rape-murder case that triggered ...

    22 January 2025 Indian Express
    ‘Can’t believe it’s not rarest of rare’ — Mamata seeks death penalty in RG Kar rape and murder, promises to appeal ruling

    “I’m not satisfied,” Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said Monday after a Sealdah court sentenced Sanjay Roy — convicted in the rape and murder of a junior doctor in Kolkata’s state-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital — to life ...

    21 January 2025 Indian Express
    At RG Kar, a sealed door, a symbolic bust — and signs of disappointment

    Outside the seminar hall at Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, a white-and-blue tape has the words ‘Kolkata Police do not cross’. At any time of the day, the brown door with a wooden signboard is guarded by ...

    21 January 2025 Indian Express
    Massive security at Sealdah court ahead of RG Kar rape-murder accused’s sentencing: 500 cops, 3-tier barricades

    The entire Sealdah court area in Kolkata was cordoned off on Monday morning, with a three-tier barricade system and massive police deployment, ahead of the sentencing of the prime accused in the R G Kar rape-murder case.At 10.40 am, ...

    21 January 2025 Indian Express
    Life sentence for RG Kar convict as Kolkata court denies it is ‘rarest of the rare’ crime

    A court in Kolkata’s Sealdah Monday sentenced Sanjoy Roy to life imprisonment “until his last breath” for the rape and murder of a junior doctor at the state-run RG Kar College and Hospital.Roy, a 35-year-old civic volunteer, was convicted ...

    21 January 2025 Indian Express
    Verdict in 3 rape-murder cases after RG Kar in which death was the punishment

    Even as the RG Kar rape and murder case dominated headlines for months, sparking widespread outrage, in three other cases of sexual assault in West Bengal, the fast-track courts awarded death penalty to the convicts.Rape-murder of teen in SiliguriOn ...

    21 January 2025 Indian Express
    Revoke suspensions of 7 PGTs, probe matter: Midnapore junior doctors write to director of medical education

    The junior doctors at the Midnapore Medical College and Hospital (MMCH), in Paschim Medinipur, have demanded for the withdrawal of the suspension orders of the seven postgraduate trainees at the hospital, who were suspended last week by the state ...

    20 January 2025 Indian Express
    Kolkata rape-murder: Court to pronounce quantum of punishment, convict Sanjoy Roy’s fate to be decided today

    Whether Sanjoy Roy, convicted of raping and killing a junior doctor at the state-run R G Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata, will be awarded death sentence or life-term imprisonment will be known on Monday when Additional Sessions ...

    20 January 2025 Indian Express
    Bengal gets first glimpse of tiger from Jharkhand through trap cameras amid efforts to capture it

    West Bengal got its first glimpse of a tiger coming from Jharkhand as a trap camera was able to capture its picture on Saturday night. This comes as an army of forest officials, guards and a special team with ...

    20 January 2025 Indian Express
    Life or death for RG Kar rape and murder convict Sanjoy Roy? All eyes on Sealdah court

    After Sealdah Additional Sessions Judge Anirban Das on Saturday found Kolkata Police civic volunteer Sanjoy Roy guilty of the rape and murder of a 31-year-old doctor of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, all are eagerly waiting for the ...

    20 January 2025 Indian Express
    R G Kar rape and murder case: I have three daughters, can understand the pain, says Sanjoy Roy’s mother after his conviction

    Sitting near the door to her home in Sambhunath Pandit Lane, some 6 km from the Sealdah court, Malati Roy had been waiting for the verdict in the R G Kar Hospital rape-murder case in which her son Sanjoy ...

    20 January 2025 Indian Express
    BSF: Indian, Bangladesh villagers clash, situation under control

    An altercation between villagers living on the Indian and Bangladesh side near the international border in Malda district of West Bengal led to a clash and stone-pelting on Saturday afternoon, the BSF said.According to the BSF, the clash erupted ...

    20 January 2025 Indian Express
    Verdict in Kolkata rape-murder: ‘Many questions still unanswered, motive not clear’, say Jr doctors, to continue their fight

    The junior doctors who have been protesting against the rape and murder of the trainee woman doctor at the state-run R G Kar Hospital in Kolkata, have expressed dissatisfaction over the trial court’s verdict convicting Sanjoy Roy on Saturday. ...

    20 January 2025 Indian Express
    RG Kar rape-murder accused guilty, sentencing tomorrow

    Five months after the rape and murder of a young doctor at the state-run R G Kar Hospital in Kolkata shook the city and sparked protests across the country, a Kolkata court Saturday declared prime accused Sanjoy Roy guilty ...

    19 January 2025 Indian Express
    RG Kar rape and murder case: ‘We want Sanjay Roy hanged,’ slogans ring loud outside Sealdah court ahead of verdict

    Over 300 police personnel stood guard outside the Sealdah court complex on Saturday as prime accused in the R G Kar rape and murder case Sanjay Roy was taken inside ahead of the verdict.Justice Anirban Das, while delivering the ...

    19 January 2025 Indian Express
    A murder, a movement, and the search for justice: A timeline of events in the RG Kar Medical College rape and murder case

    It was a crime that shook the nation to its core.On an August morning, the body of a 31-year-old junior doctor was found in the seminar hall of the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata.More than six ...

    19 January 2025 Indian Express
    Uttar Dinajpur: Undertrial, who shot at 2 cops, killed in encounter, say police

    An undertrial who had escaped three days ago after he fired at two policemen, was killed in an encounter in Uttar Dinajpur district early Saturday, said police, adding he was trying to cross over to Bangladesh.The undertrial’s escape had ...

    19 January 2025 Indian Express
    Bengal: As curtains drawn on Gangasagar Mela, Sagar Island returns to fishing

    As the Gangasagar Mela festivities drew to a close, Subhodip, a young fisherman with weathered hands, eagerly cast off the lines from his boat, his eyes gleaming with anticipation. The 10-day hiatus imposed by the festival finally ended, and ...

    18 January 2025 Indian Express
    Private hospital in Kolkata launches rooftop helipad for emergencies

    A private hospital in Kolkata launched its rooftop helipad with a successful trial run on Friday. An Agusta 109 SP helicopter took off from Behala Flying Club and landed smoothly on the hospital’s helipad, marking a milestone in emergency ...

    18 January 2025 Indian Express
    Bengal passport scam: Accused made copies of documents & replaced photographs, say police

    Investigators probing the illegal passport racket in West Bengal said the recent arrest of a Barasat resident in the case has revealed the modus operandi of the criminals.The accused, Samir Das, allegedly posed as a clerk at the Barasat ...

    18 January 2025 Indian Express
    Death of woman in Bengal hospital: Junior doctors at Midnapore medical college begin ‘partial’ cease work

    A DAY after the West Bengal government suspended 12 doctors including six postgraduate trainees of the Midnapore Medical College and Hospital (MMCH), for “negligence” in the wake of the death of a woman after she gave birth, the junior ...

    18 January 2025 Indian Express
    Bengal: Man with ‘MPhil degree from JNU’ among 3 held for impersonating MHA officials, say police

    Three men were arrested in the Birbhum district on Wednesday for allegedly impersonating officials from the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA). They were produced before the local court and remanded in police custody for three days.The arrested accused were ...

    18 January 2025 Indian Express
    Denied Rs 10,000 loan, 38-year-old kills aunt: Police

    A 38-year-old man allegedly killed his aunt after she refused to give him Rs 10,000 and hid the body under a bed in her house in the Golf Green area of Kolkata, police said on Thursday.  Police arrested the ...

    18 January 2025 Indian Express
    RG Kar rape-murder case: Verdict likely today, victim’s father says ‘ready to wait for 5 years, snatch justice if needed’

    EVEN AS the verdict in the R G Kar rape and murder case is expected to be delivered by a Sealdah court on Saturday, the father of the victim – who was a junior doctor – said on Friday ...

    18 January 2025 Indian Express
    Junior doctors at Medinipur Medical College go on strike after Mamata Banerjee suspends their colleagues

    Junior doctors at Midnapore Medical College and Hospital (MMCH) in West Bengal have launched an indefinite strike, demanding the withdrawal of suspension orders issued against six of their colleagues by the state government. This action follows the alleged administering ...

    18 January 2025 Indian Express
    ‘Ram Lalla’ in Murshidabad ready for ‘bhumi pujan’, trust says idols will ‘reflect Bengali culture’

    An eight-inch Ram Lalla statue made of “asthadhatu” and hailing from Kanchi Kamkoti Peetham is ready, as trust members prepare to go ahead with the Bhumi Pujan for a Ram Mandir replica on January 22 in Murshidabad.However, the organiser, ...

    18 January 2025 Indian Express
    West Bengal: Ram Temple replica set for bhoomi pujan on Jan 22, Trust says idols will ‘reflect Bengali culture’

    AN EIGHT-inch Ram Lalla idol made of “asthadhatu” and hailing from Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham in Tamil Nadu, is ready, as the Trust members are preparing for ‘Bhoomi Pujan’ of a Ram Temple replica on January 22 in Murshidabad.The Bongiyo ...

    18 January 2025 Indian Express
    Bengal man held for renting house on fake identity

    A man from West Bengal was arrested on Thursday on charges of cheating and forgery for staying in Surat with a fake identity, said police.Officials said the man, Musibul Shaikh (26), told police that he had got a fake ...

    18 January 2025 Indian Express
    Kolkata building collapse: Mayor blames ‘Left era’, orders demolition; promoter arrested

    The absconding promoter of a four-storey building that partially collapsed in Vidyasagar Colony, Baghajatin, Kolkata, on Tuesday, was arrested by the Kolkata Police after a tip-off Thursday, from a resort in Bakkhali, in South 24 Parganas district.It was unoccupied ...

    17 January 2025 Indian Express
    Midnapore hospital death: Adequately compensate families of affected women, HC directs govt

    The Calcutta High Court on Thursday ordered the West Bengal government to provide compensation to the families of the victims who were allegedly administered expired Ringer’s Lactate saline in the Midnapore Medical College and Hospital, in Paschim Medinipur, last ...

    17 January 2025 Indian Express
    ‘We will retaliate four times if a criminal fires on us‘: Bengal DGP goes ‘Dabang‘ after under trial shot and injured two cops

    In a stern warning directed at criminal elements following an attack on two policemen in Uttar Dinajpur district, West Bengal Director General of Police Rajeev Kumar on Thursday said: “If someone fires at police, we will respond with four ...

    17 January 2025 Indian Express
    Rs 6,000 cr bank fraud case: ED conducts raids in Kolkata, Howrah

    The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday conducted simultaneous raids at three places in Kolkata and Howrah in connection with the ongoing investigation into an alleged Rupees 6, 000 crore bank fraud involving at least 16 banks across the country, ...

    17 January 2025 Indian Express
    ‘Anti-national, dangerous’: Mamata Banerjee on RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat’s statement on India’s ‘true independence’

    West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday criticised RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat’s recent statement that India’s “true independence” was established on the day of the Ayodhya Ram Temple’s consecration, and called his remarks “anti-national and dangerous”.On Monday, Bhagwat ...

    17 January 2025 Indian Express
    Calcutta High Court directs Bengal government provide compensation to families of new mothers ‘administered expired saline’ in Midnapore hospital

    The Calcutta High Court on Thursday ordered the West Bengal government to provide compensation to the families of the victims who were allegedly administered expired Ringer’s Lactate saline in the Midnapore Medical College and Hospital, in Paschim Medinipur, last ...

    17 January 2025 Indian Express
    In Mamata’s push for Gangasagar Mela, thrust on infra development

    Santosh Singh’s face, etched with worry, softened as he boarded the helicopter with his ailing father. “I never imagined such swift and compassionate support,” he said, his voice filled with gratitude.Prem Singh, 85, had cherished a lifelong dream of ...

    17 January 2025 Indian Express
    Death of woman in Bengal hospital: 12 doctors, PG students suspended, CM says probe found negligence on their part

    West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday suspended 12 senior doctors and post-graduate trainees of Midnapore Medical College and Hospital for “negligence” in the wake of the death of a woman after delivery, and said that the CID ...

    17 January 2025 Indian Express
    Gangasagar Mela broke records, 1.10 cr pilgrims took dip: Bengal

    West Bengal officials have said that the Gangasagar Mela, which began on January 1, has broken records with an unprecedented one crore 10 lakh pilgrims in attendance this year.The Minister of Power and Youth Affairs, Aroop Biswas, who lauded ...

    17 January 2025 Indian Express
    Woman’s Death After Childbirth: CID takes over probe, questions hospital staff who were on duty

    Launching its probe into the death of a woman following childbirth at the Midnapore Medical College and Hospital (MMCH), the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of West Bengal Police has recorded statements of the Resident Medical Officer (RMO), two junior ...

    16 January 2025 Indian Express
    Internal rifts bound to happen in big party, just like in families: Abhishek Banerjee

    Amid the simmering dispute between party leaders allied to him and his aunt and party supremo Mamata Banerjee, Abhishek Banerjee, the de facto second-in-command in the ruling TMC, on Wednesday compared the “internal rifts” in the party to those ...

    16 January 2025 Indian Express
    1 held for TMC worker’s murder in Malda, search on for prime accused

    A day after a TMC worker was killed and two others were injured in a daylight attack in Malda’s Kaliachak town, police on Wednesday arrested one person who is said to be a close associate of Zakir Sheikh, the ...

    16 January 2025 Indian Express
    Ex-minister Jyotipriya Mallick gets bail in ration scam after 14 months in jail

    Former West Bengal Forest Minister Jyotipriya Mallick was on Wednesday granted bail by an Enforcement Directorate (ED) special court in connection with an alleged ration distribution scam on a personal bond of Rs 50 lakh.The former minister has also ...

    16 January 2025 Indian Express
    Apartment building collapses in south Kolkata, no one injured

    An apartment building collapsed in south Kolkata’s Bagha Jatin area on Tuesday while work was underway to strengthen its foundation, officials said.The incident happened around 1.30 pm in Kolkata Municipal Corporation’s ward 99 near the SC Mallick Road, they ...

    16 January 2025 Indian Express
    Can Wear Salwar-Kameez: Bengal Police relaxes uniform rules for staff during pregnancy & postpartum periods

    The West Bengal Police has relaxed uniform norms for its women personnel during their pregnancy and postpartum periods, allowing them to wear white or khaki salwar-kameez instead of the standard shirt and trousers.In a notification, the department said, “It ...

    16 January 2025 Indian Express
    ‘Internal rifts normal in big parties, we need to be humble’: TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee

    All India General Secretary of the Trinamool Congress and Member of Parliament Abhishek Banerjee on Wednesday said when a “party starts to grow, then internal rifts are bound to happen, but this does not allow anyone to do anything ...

    16 January 2025 Indian Express
    CID begins probe into Midnapore saline death case even as 3 other new mothers remain critical

    The West Bengal CID has begun its investigation into the death of a new mother at the Medinipur Medical College and Hospital (MMCH). This comes at a time when three new mothers are undergoing treatment in a “very critical ...

    16 January 2025 Indian Express
    IIT-Kharagpur asks students to flag signs of depression among batchmates after student suicide

    IIT-Kharagpur Acting Director Amit Patra has held a meeting with a section of students, asking them to bring to the notice of the institute authorities if any hostel inmate showed symptoms of depression, an official said on Tuesday.The meeting ...

    15 January 2025 Indian Express
    Gangasagar will be given ‘national fair’ status only if BJP comes to power in Bengal: Puri Shankaracharya

    Puri Shankaracharya Swami Nischalananda Saraswati said the Gangasagar mela should be given the status of “national mela” — but that it may only happen if the BJP comes to power in West Bengal. The Shankaracharya said this during his ...

    15 January 2025 Indian Express
    Over 30 lakh pilgrims take dip at Gangasagar

    An estimated 30 lakh pilgrims took holy dip at Gangasagar, the confluence of the Hooghly river and the Bay of Bengal, in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district on the occasion of ‘Makar Sankranti’ on Tuesday, officials said.Braving the ...

    15 January 2025 Indian Express
    Bengal govt orders CID probe after woman’s death after delivery at Midnapore hospital

    The West Bengal government on Monday ordered an inquiry by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) into an incident wherein a woman died and three others were in a critical condition following their delivery at the Midnapore Medical College and ...

    15 January 2025 Indian Express
    Bangladesh going back on its words on border fencing, feels BSF

    A day after the Bangladesh foreign ministry summoned Indian High Commissioner over the issue of border fencing, sources in the Border Security Force (BSF) on Monday said the neighbouring country was reneging on its commitment over the fencing work ...

    15 January 2025 Indian Express
    TMC worker shot dead, party zonal chief among 2 injured in Bengal’s Malda

    A Trinamool Congress (TMC) worker was killed while a party zonal president (anchal sabhapati) and another activist were injured after two unidentified motorcycle-borne assailants opened fire at them in Kaliachak town of West Bengal’s Malda district on Tuesday, police ...

    15 January 2025 Indian Express
    ‘Stop using Ringer’s Lactate saline; Don’t allow PG students to conduct surgery, anaesthesia alone’: Bengal Health dept notice to medical colleges

    The West Bengal Health department has issued a memo to all Chief Medical Officers of health in the districts and principals of all medical colleges to stop using Ringer’s Lactate (RL) saline. In a separate notice, the department said ...

    15 January 2025 Indian Express
    Sealdah & Esplanade Metro stations finally linked, KMRCL seeks Green Line closure for 45 days

    The Sealdah and Esplanade Metro stations have finally been connected as all irritants related to the Bowbazar tunnelling work were resolved, officials said. The officials associated with the project said the electrical works pertaining to the aluminum third rails are ...

    15 January 2025 Indian Express
    With traps, smart cameras, and experts, West Bengal forest dept begins hunt for tiger from Jharkhand

    With 90 pairs of camera traps placed inside the forest area of the Jhargram and Purulia district border, six smart cameras with live feeds, an expert team from Sunderbans with two tranquiliser guns, and teams of forest officials and ...

    14 January 2025 Indian Express
    90 pairs of camera traps, teams with darts: Bengal starts hunt for tiger which strayed from Jharkhand

    With 90 pairs of camera traps inside the forest area of the Jhargram and Purulia district border, six smart cameras with live feeds, an expert team from Sunderbans with two tranquilizer guns, and teams of forest officials and guards ...

    14 January 2025 Indian Express
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