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  • News from West Bengal | 09 May, 2025 | ২৬ বৈশাখ, ১৪৩২
  • Cricket star-turned-TMC MP Yusuf Pathan visits Murshidabad, asks people not to pay heed to fake news

    Cricket star-turned-TMC MP Yusuf Pathan visited Murshidabad and asked people not to pay heed to fake news or rumours. He condemned the riots that took place in some parts of the district, but stated that one “should not tarnish ...

    27 April 2025 Indian Express
    ‘We want his safe return’: Bengal family’s plea after Pakistan captures BSF jawan

    Constable Purnam Kumar Shaw, a head constable with the Border Security Force (BSF) from Hooghly, West Bengal, was captured by Pakistan rangers.Shaw reportedly inadvertently crossed the border on Wednesday near Ferozepur, amidst the ongoing India-Pakistan standoff after an attack ...

    26 April 2025 Indian Express
    After Army Havildar from Nadia killed in Udhampur encounter, Mamata offers condolences and support

    Grief swept through Nadia district’s Tehatta area in West Bengal on Thursday as locals mourned the death of Army soldier Havaldar Jhantu Ali Shaikh, who died during an anti-terror operation in Jammu and Kashmir’s Udhampur district.Shaikh was killed in ...

    26 April 2025 Indian Express
    Pahalgam attack | In Jhalda, a tearful farewell: ‘My whole world is shattered… he was brightest son’

    Countless mourners  gathered in Jhalda town of Purulia district on Thursday to pay their final respects to Intelligence Bureau officer Manish Ranjan Mishra, who lost his life in Tuesday’s terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam.The mortal remains of ...

    26 April 2025 Indian Express
    Post Pahalgam terror attack | Police debunk Adhikari’s claim on ‘Kashmiris’ in Baruipur: No suspicious activity

    The West Bengal Police on Thursday dismissed the allegations made by BJP MLA and Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari, who claimed that two Kashmiri men were involved in suspicious activities in Baruipur in South 24 Parganas district.In a post ...

    25 April 2025 Indian Express
    Adhikari trying to instigate violence, unfortunate: Speaker Biman Banerjee

    Urging people to maintain calm, Speaker Biman Banerjee on Thursday said that Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari’s claims on suspicious activity in Baruipur and remarks on Kashmir attack were unfortunate.“We are deeply saddened by the incident of Kashmir. We ...

    25 April 2025 Indian Express
    Suvendu Adhikari says ‘Kashmiris’ installed ‘high-performance wireless network’ at Baruipur home; police say they are from Bhopal, find no foulplay

    West Bengal Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari alleged that two Kashmiri men “installed a NanoBeam 2AC compact and high-performance wireless network bridge at the rooftop” at their residence in Baruipur, located at the southern outskirts of Kolkata.Both the police ...

    25 April 2025 Indian Express
    Who is ‘untainted’? Confusion brews as West Bengal begins teacher verification process

    After the recent Supreme Court order which annulled the appointments of over 25,000 West Bengal school staff but said that “untainted” teachers could remain in service until December 31 this year, confusion had remained as to who the “untainted” ...

    25 April 2025 Indian Express
    In Bengal, families cancel Kashmir travel plans, others who returned before the Pahalgam attack are ‘in shock’

    Post Covid-19 pandemic-induced lockdown, until Tuesday, the Kashmir Valley was one of the most sought-after tourist destinations. With summer holidays around the corner, many families had made plans and bookings for a trip to Kashmir — but after Tuesday’s ...

    25 April 2025 Indian Express
    TMC and BJP leaders stand with families of Pahalgam attack victims, as the bodies arrive at Kolkata airport

    On Wednesday night, when the bodies of Bitan Adhikari and Sameer Guha who died in the Pahalgam attack arrived at the airport, state Minister Aroop Biswas, Kolkata Mayor Firhad Hakim, Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari, BJP MP Abhijit Gangopadhyay, ...

    25 April 2025 Indian Express
    ‘25-30% of Kashmir’s tourists are from Bengal’: State’s tour operators to take out protest march against Pahalgam attack

    The recent terrorist attack in Pahalgam has sent shockwaves through the tourism sector in Kashmir, triggering a wave of cancellations and casting a shadow over what was anticipated to be a promising summer season. Tour and travel operators in ...

    25 April 2025 Indian Express
    Kashmir terror attack: Bodies of two victims brought to Kolkata amid tears and anger

    The mortal remains of the two tourists from Kolkata — Sameer Guhar from Behala’s Sakher Bazar and Bitan Adhikari of Vaishnav Ghata, Patuli, arrived at Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport at 8 pm on Wednesday.Senior state ministers Aroop ...

    24 April 2025 Indian Express
    Bengal Education Department questions maintainability of contempt petition

    The West Bengal Education Department on Wednesday questioned before the Calcutta High Court the maintainability of a contempt petition that claimed non-compliance of its order regarding 26,000 school jobs in the state.  The West Bengal School Service Commission (SSC) ...

    24 April 2025 Indian Express
    Murshidabad violence: Five more held for rioting, total arrests now at 307

    West Bengal Police arrested five more persons for their alleged involvement in the Murshidabad riots, taking the total number of arrests to 307, a senior officer said on Thursday.The arrested persons, nabbed from different places in the district on ...

    24 April 2025 Indian Express
    ‘Everything was over in an instant’: Wife recounts death of Kolkata man in Pahalgam terror attack

    What was meant to be the cherished final day of a family vacation in Kashmir, turned into a tragedy for the Guha family of Behala, Kolkata.Sameer Guha, a Central government employee, had travelled to Jammu and Kashmur with his ...

    24 April 2025 Indian Express
    TMC leaders turn up heat against Centre over Pahalgam terror attack as Mamata Banerjee assures help to kin of victims

    Soon after the terror attack in Pahalgam, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had posted on social media that her administration is making arrangements at the Delhi Airport to “help the family members of the victims and their onward ...

    24 April 2025 Indian Express
    SSC Chairman leaves office after 40 hours of lock-down by protesting teachers

    After being locked inside the Acharya Sadan West Bengal School Commission office for nearly 40 hours on Wednesday, the SSC Chairman Siddharta Majumdar was allowed to leave the building at around 9 pm.However, teachers say their protest will continue. ...

    24 April 2025 Indian Express
    Stalemate outside SSC: No breakthrough in talks as Mamata & Bratya make appeal

    The stalemate between the state government and the protesting school employees, who were terminated from services by the Supreme Court, continued on Tuesday night.There was no breakthrough in the talks between the officials of the School Service Commission and ...

    24 April 2025 Indian Express
    United in grief: Among Pahalgam victims, an IB officer in West Bengal & an IAF corporal from Arunachal Pradesh

    All morning, there has been a steady stream of visitors pouring into the Mishra residence on Baghmundi Road, ward number 5 of Purulia’s Jhalda town, and the house of Tage Hailyang at Tajang village in Arunachal Pradesh’s Lower Subansiri ...

    24 April 2025 Indian Express
    Nearly a month after violence, Bengal CM to visit Murshidabad in early May

    West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday announced that she would visit violence-hit parts of Murshidabad district in the first week of May to assess the situation. Before that, she will be visiting Digha to inaugurate Jagannath temple.Reiterating ...

    23 April 2025 Indian Express
    Pahalgam terror attack: Kolkata man who died ‘had returned from US to spend time with family’

    Thirty-six-year-old Bitan Adhikari, who worked in the US and had returned to Kolkata to spend time with his wife and son, was among those killed in the terror attack on tourists in Pahalgam in Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday.A ...

    23 April 2025 Indian Express
    Murshidabad violence: BJP chief detained, later released; ‘is it a crime to ask for funds?’, asks Sukanta

    State BJP president Sukanta Majumdar was detained by police on Tuesday evening while collecting money for the victims of Murshidabad violence from Hazra More in south Kolkata, close to the residence of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.He was later released ...

    23 April 2025 Indian Express
    ‘No list of ‘tainted’ candidates will be published as it will be contempt of court’: West Bengal Minister Bratya Basu

    West Bengal Education Minister Bratya Basu said that the state will not publish a list of “tainted” and “untainted” candidates of the 2016 recruitment process by the SSC, as their “legal counsel has stated it may lead to contempt ...

    23 April 2025 Indian Express
    People open doors, provide food for teachers on strike in front of West Bengal SSC office in Salt Lake

    As the sit-in protest of teachers who lost their jobs reaches the 30-hour mark in Kolkata, residents have opened their doors to help them, with many others bringing the protesters food.In front of the School Service Commission office in ...

    23 April 2025 Indian Express
    Will visit Murshidabad in May, govt will provide education to kids who lost parents in violence: Mamata Banerjee

    West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said she will visit riot-torn Murshidabad after inaugurating Digha’s Jagannath Temple in May.She also said that the state government will bear all the educational expenses of the children of those who ...

    23 April 2025 Indian Express
    After nightlong ‘gherao’ of SSC Kolkata office, Bengal ‘eligible’ teachers to hold rally today

    Hundreds of teachers Monday protested in front of the West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) office in Kolkata, and said they would not stop until the state government issues the list of eligible and ineligible teachers, as they called ...

    23 April 2025 Indian Express
    Bengal BJP president visits riot-hit Murshidabad: ‘CM should visit these places’

    West Bengal BJP chief and Union Minister of State Sukanta Majumdar slammed Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for not visiting riot-affected areas of Murshidabad.He made the statement after visiting the troubled areas including Dhulian, Jafrabad and Bedbona areas in Samserganj.The ...

    23 April 2025 Indian Express
    In Salboni for thermal plant, Bengal CM hits out at critics: ‘We don’t talk, we work’, lays foundation stone for 1600 MW power project

    Amid the ongoing teachers’ protest over the SSC job cancellation and the recent communal violence in Murshidabad, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday hit out at her detractors, saying ‘we don’t just talk, we work”.After laying the foundation stone ...

    23 April 2025 Indian Express
    SSC fails to publish list of ‘untainted’ candidates, protesting school staff lay siege of headquarters

    The West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) on Monday evening failed to release the list of 2016 SSC qualifiers (untainted candidates) whose jobs were annulled by the Supreme Court, prompting the protesting teachers to launch an indefinite sit-in outside ...

    22 April 2025 Indian Express
    Six new beetle species discovered in northeast India

    As many as six new species of Sericinae bettle have been discovered by a team of researchers from the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) and the Museum A Koenig in Germany, underscoring the exceptional biodiversity of northeast India and ...

    22 April 2025 Indian Express
    Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose hospitalised, Raj Bhavan says he had ‘mild shoulder pain’

    West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose was admitted to Eastern Command Hospital on Monday morning. Raj Bhavan, in a statement, said that Bose had a “mild shoulder pain”.He had returned to Kolkata from a tour of violence-hit Murshidabad and ...

    22 April 2025 Indian Express
    Fire breaks out at Kolkata warehouse-cum-residential building, kills two

    Two persons died in a fire that broke out at a garment warehouse in Kolkata on Sunday night.According to the Kolkata Police, the fire broke out on the fourth floor of the highrise godown which is also a residential ...

    22 April 2025 Indian Express
    Sweltering heat and humid conditions expected during IPL match at Kolkata’s at Eden Gardens

    Cricket fans heading to Eden Gardens for Mondays’s Indian Premier League (IPL) match between Kolkata Knight Riders and Gujarat Titans should brace themselves for hot and humid conditions.After a brief respite from the heat due to recent storms and ...

    22 April 2025 Indian Express
    Have to start fight for 2026 polls from today: CPIM Bengal secy Mohammad Salim

    CPIM state secretary Mohammad Salim on Sunday called for a strong campaign to oust the Mamata Banerjee government in West Bengal during the 2026 Assembly elections, emphasising the need to start preparations immediately. “We have to start the 2026 ...

    21 April 2025 Indian Express
    Bengal: Congress and ISF extend support to CPIM’s Brigade Parade rally

    The mega rally of CPI(M)’s frontal organisations at the Brigade Parade Grounds, in Kolkata on Sunday won the support of the Congress, and Indian Secular Front (ISF) parties.Emphasising on the Left’s secular credentials, Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury stated ...

    21 April 2025 Indian Express
    Govt should ensure safety & justice of riot-hit people, says NCW chief

    Calling upon the West Bengal government to act swiftly to address the grievances of the riot-hit people in the Murshidabad district, National Commission for Women (NCW) chairperson Vijaya Rahatkar on Sunday said the panel is preparing a report which ...

    21 April 2025 Indian Express
    ‘Won’t accept compensation’: Family of father-son duo killed in Murshidabad violence

    The family members of the father and son, who were killed during the Murshidabad violence refused to accept Rs 10 lakh compensation announced by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.On Sunday, a Trinamool Congress delegation including Rajya Sabha MP Samirul Islam, ...

    21 April 2025 Indian Express
    ‘Fighting a battle for justice’: Mamata in open letter to people, slams BJP & RSS

    In an open letter to the people of West Bengal, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has urged them to stay united against the ‘battle for justice’ as well as maintain peace and harmony.The chief minister, in her two page letter, ...

    21 April 2025 Indian Express
    JEE Main 2025 session 2 results: Two from Bengal score perfect 100, both hail from districts

    Two candidates from West Bengal, Devdutta Majhi and Archisman Nandy, are among the 24 candidates who have bagged a perfect 100 NTA score in the second edition of the Joint Entrance Exam (JEE)-Main.The National Testing Agency (NTA) announced results ...

    21 April 2025 Indian Express
    Bengal passport scam: ED says proceeds of crime ‘sent to Bangladesh through Hawala route’

    In the fake passport ‘scam’ case in West Bengal, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has begun investigating a money-laundering angle of the case, and said it has got some leads and clues which suggest that proceeds of the crime had ...

    21 April 2025 Indian Express
    Mamata Banerjee to lay foundation stone for Rs 16,000 crore thermal power plant in West Bengal village

    Salboni of West Bengal’s Paschim Medinipur is poised for a significant industrial resurgence as Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee prepares to lay the foundation stone for a massive 1600 MW thermal power plant on Monday.The Rs 16,000 crore project, undertaken ...

    21 April 2025 Indian Express
    West Bengal BJP plans outreach to villages and rural areas ahead of 2026 Assembly polls

    With the state’s Assembly elections just around the corner, West Bengal BJP leadership has planned a programme called ‘Gram Chalo’ to reach the grassroots levels in villages.According to sources, the BJP’s aim is to make the party’s urban leaders ...

    21 April 2025 Indian Express
    Need permanent BSF camps for our safety: Murshidabad violence victims to NCW chief

    A delegation of the National Commission for Women (NCW), led by chairman Vijaya Kishore Rahatkar, met the riot-affected people in the Jafrabad and Samsergunj areas of Murshidabad district on Saturday and assured them that all steps would be taken ...

    21 April 2025 Indian Express
    Bengal SSC prepares new recruitment rules focusing on transparency in light of recent Supreme Court order

    The West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) is now preparing new recruitment rules, based on transparency, for assistant teachers in classes 9 to 12 in state-run schools in the wake of the recent Supreme Court order that invalidated the ...

    20 April 2025 Indian Express
    Loudspeaker in hand, Bengal Governor tours areas singed by violence after Waqf protests

    Armed with a handheld loudspeaker, Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose toured the communal violence-hit Dhulian and Samsergunj areas of Murshi-dabad district on Saturday with a message: “Ab se karwahi hogi(action will be taken).”“I have seen what has happened ...

    20 April 2025 Indian Express
    Day after his wedding to party colleague, former BJP MP Dilip Ghosh celebrates birthday during morning walk

    BJP leader and former MP Dilip Ghosh, who married party worker Rinku Majumder on Friday, had a low-key birthday celebration at Eco Park in New Town on Saturday.As usual, Ghosh arrived at the park early in the morning for ...

    20 April 2025 Indian Express
    Kolkata civic body to use sprinkler vans at Dhapa dumping ground to prevent fires due to methane build-up

    The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) is taking proactive steps to prevent untoward incidents at its Dhapa garbage dumping ground in the wake of the recent land subsidence in Howrah’s Belgachia Vagar area. The KMC will spend Rs 21 lakh ...

    20 April 2025 Indian Express
    NCW team meets riot-affected people in Bengal’s Murshidabad

    A delegation of the National Commission for Women (NCW), led by its chairman Vijaya Rahatkar, met the riot-affected people in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district on Saturday and assured them that all steps would be taken by the Centre to ...

    20 April 2025 Indian Express
    Murshidabad violence: NCW & NHRC members also visit Malda camp, say ‘unimaginable trauma’

    Apart from Governor C V Ananda Bose, teams of National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) and National Commission for Women (NCW) also on Friday visited the Malda camp where people from violence-hit areas of Murshidabad have taken shelter.A team, led ...

    20 April 2025 Indian Express
    Bengal Governor meets riot-hit people at Malda shelter: ‘They will get justice’

    Defying Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s plea, West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose on Friday reached Malda and visited a temporary relief camp where people from violence-hit Murshidabad have taken shelter since last week’s clashes that left three persons dead ...

    19 April 2025 Indian Express
    Former BJP MP Dilip Ghosh ties knot to Rinku Majumder at 61

    Bharatiya Janata Party leader and former MP Dilip Ghosh has married a party worker Rinku Majumder at his New Town residence near Kolkata on Friday.On Thursday morning, as preparations for the ceremony were underway, BJP state president Sukanta Majumder ...

    19 April 2025 Indian Express
    Week after Murshidabad violence, West Bengal Police replace Samsherganj and Suti OCs

    A week after violence broke out in Jangipur area of Murshidabad district during a protest against the newly enacted Waqf law, the West Bengal Police has replaced the OCs (officers in-charge) of Samserganj and Suti police stations.A notification issued ...

    19 April 2025 Indian Express
    West Bengal extends Class XI marks submission deadline in wake of teacher shortage, Murshidabad violence, festivals

    The West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education (WBCHSE) has extended the deadline for the online submission of Class XI semester examination marks. The move comes after the Advanced Society for Headmasters and Headmistresses (ASFHM) submitted a formal request, ...

    19 April 2025 Indian Express
    Murshidabad violence | HC no to NIA probe: ‘Centre free to order’

    Refusing to order probe by National Investigation Agency (NIA) into the last week’s violence in Murshidabad district during a protest against the new Waqf law, the Calcutta High Court on Thursday ordered the formation of a three-member committee for ...

    19 April 2025 Indian Express
    Bengal Governor shrugs off Mamata’s request, to visit Murshidabad today

    Dismissing Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s request, West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose has decided to visit violence-hit areas of Murshidabad on Friday morning.  Raj Bhavan officials said that the Governor might leave for Murshidabad Thursday night itself.After returning from ...

    19 April 2025 Indian Express
    Had intel of escalation, so police were accordingly deployed: Govt to HC in Murshidabad violence case

    In its report to the Calcutta High Court on last week’s violence in Jangipur in Murshidabad district during a protest against the newly enacted Waqf law, the West Bengal government stated that following the April 8 violence in Raghunathganj ...

    19 April 2025 Indian Express
    Third arrest made in Murshidabad violence case: Priest ‘scared to come’, shradh of father-son duo could not be performed

    The Das family in Murshidabad’s Samserganj area could not perform the shradh ceremony of the father and son killed in last Friday’s violence as the priest didn’t turn up “out of fear”.On April 11, Harogobindo Das (70) and his ...

    18 April 2025 Indian Express
    BJP cites ‘citizen-driven’ campaign in West Bengal to attack TMC

    The BJP on Thursday cited a digital campaign against the Mamata Banerjee-led government in West Bengal as a spontaneous expression of people’s anger.“The people of West Bengal are finally raising their voices against the unimaginable atrocities, lawlessness, and rampant ...

    18 April 2025 Indian Express
    After Mamata’s call to ‘find out original culprits’, WB police forms SIT to probe Murshidabad incident

    A day after Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said “we will find out the original culprits”, responsible for the recent violence in the Murshidabad district, the West Bengal police on Thursday formed an Special Investigation Team (SIT) to investigate the ...

    18 April 2025 Indian Express
    Commuters halt Sealdah trains, allege reduction of general compartments; services affected

    Train services on the Diamond Harbour Line of the Sealdah South Branch in West Bengal were severely disrupted during rush hours Thursday as passengers staged a rail blockade at North Radhanagar Station.The protest, which lasted for two hours from ...

    18 April 2025 Indian Express
    Calcutta HC reserves order on extending CAPF stay in Murshidabad, state claims situation under control

    The Calcutta High Court on Thursday reserved its order on the continuation of central forces in violence-hit Murshidabad district of West Bengal.The court suggested that a three-member panel, comprising one member each from the National Human Rights Commission, the ...

    18 April 2025 Indian Express
    Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee urges Governor Bose to defer visit to riot-hit Murshidabad

    Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee urges Governor Bose to defer visit to riot-hit Murshidabad amid efforts to restore normalcy Kolkata, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday urged Governor C V Ananda Bose to defer his proposed visit to ...

    18 April 2025 Indian Express
    Murshidabad violence: NCW sets up 4-member inquiry panel, chairperson Vijaya Rahatkar to visit strife-hit areas

    The National Commission for Women (NCW) has taken suo motu cognizance of the recent violence that broke out in West Bengal’s Murshidabad and has formed a four-member inquiry committee to probe the matter. NCW Chairperson Vijaya Rahatkar will also ...

    17 April 2025 Indian Express
    After court nod to Mothabari visit, Suvendu Adhikari moves HC to visit 2 areas of violence-hit Murshidabad

    Leader of Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly Suvendu Adhikari Wednesday moved the Calcutta High Court seeking permission to visit the violence-affected Dhukiyan and Samshergunj areas in Murshidabad.The single bench of Justice Tirthankar Ghosh directed that the petition be ...

    17 April 2025 Indian Express
    Widespread storms, rain predicted across West Bengal this week

    The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued a forecast indicating a likelihood of storms and rains across several districts of West Bengal this week, coinciding with the beginning of the Bengali New Year.On Wednesday, April 16, there is a ...

    17 April 2025 Indian Express
    Jagannath Temple Digha: Mamata Banerjee to donate Rs 5,00,001 for golden broom

    Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday said that the senior officials of the West Bengal administration must learn from the Mahakumbh accident in Uttar Pradesh and take necessary measures to avoid any mishap during the inauguration of the Jagannath ...

    17 April 2025 Indian Express
    Mamata says Murshidabad violence ‘pre-planned’, asks PM to rein in Shah

    Claiming that the recent violence in Murshidabad during the Waqf law protest was “pre-planned”, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday alleged that the BSF, central agencies, and the BJP orchestrated tension in the district by facilitating outsiders ...

    17 April 2025 Indian Express
    Affected families and VHP move Calcutta HC for Central agency investigation into Murshidabad violence

    On Wednesday, a Public Interest Litigation was filed to Calcutta High Court’s division bench of Chief Justice T S Sivagnanam and Justice Chaitali Chatterjee demanding a National Investigation Agency (NIA) investigation and shelter for those left homeless in the ...

    17 April 2025 Indian Express
    TMC at forefront in fight against Waqf law, BJP trying to malign Bengal: Mamata Banerjee

    West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Wednesday held a meeting with Imams and assured that Trinamool Congress is at forefront in fight against the new Waqf law in the Parliament.Acknowledging that a few areas in Murshidabad district saw ...

    17 April 2025 Indian Express
    Day after violence, Bengal’s Bhangar limps back to normalcy; 9 arrested

    Tuesday morning revealed the extent of the previous day’s violence in Bhangar in South 24 Parganas of West Bengal. Charred remains of police vans, motorbikes kept outside the Uttar Kashipur police station were evidence of Monday’s mob frenzy when ...

    16 April 2025 Indian Express
    Before communal violence on Murshidabad streets, a foreshadowing on WhatsApp, social media

    Bengal Murshidabad Violence News: Rumours on WhatsApp groups, fake social media accounts and mass mobilisation came together to form the perfect storm in West Bengal’s Murshidabad, which was rocked by communal violence last week in the wake of the ...

    16 April 2025 Indian Express
    Out of jobs, school staff out on streets to press their demands

    While sweets were distributed and new clothes worn on Bengali New Year, the occasion looked different for state school staff who just lost their jobs due to a Supreme Court order.Surojit Pramanik, a non-teaching staff member at a school ...

    16 April 2025 Indian Express
    Bengal’s Bhangar slowly returns to normal after Waqf protest violence; arrests rise to 16

    Normalcy has gradually returned to Bhangar in the South 24 Paraganas district of West Bengal, after a violent protest on Monday led to the arrest of 16 individuals.The unrest, reportedly involving supporters of the Indian Secular Front (ISF), erupted ...

    16 April 2025 Indian Express
    ‘How will I pay for my mother’s cancer treatment?’: On Bengali New Year, a pall of gloom on teachers who lost their jobs

    While sweets are distributed and new clothes are worn on Bengali New Year, the occasion looks different for teachers and non-teaching staff in West Bengal who recently lost their jobs due to a Supreme Court order.Surojit Pramanik, a non-teaching ...

    16 April 2025 Indian Express
    Mamata’s Bengali New Year wish receives taunt from Oppn and an invitation to Murshidabad

    On the morning of Bengali New Year’s Day, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee took to X and wrote, “Ami Banglai gaan gai… (I sing in Bengali).”Soon after the post, a fresh war of words and jibes among the ...

    16 April 2025 Indian Express
    Bengal Governor sends report to Centre on situation in Murshidabad after protests over Waqf law

    Amid the unrest in Murshidabad over the Waqf (Amendment) Act, West Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose has initiated official communication with the Union Ministry of Home Affairs regarding the current situation in Murshidabad, sources said.Raj Bhawan sources said ...

    16 April 2025 Indian Express
    Father and son killed in violence-hit Murshidabad, two arrested

    The West Bengal police arrested two persons who were allegedly involved in the murder of a father and son in the violence-hit Samsherganj of Murshidabad district.ADG (South Bengal range) Supratim Sarkar said, “After verifying CCTV footage and other evidence, ...

    16 April 2025 Indian Express
    9 arrested in Bengal’s Bhangar after Waqf protestors clash with police

    Following Monday’s “hooliganism” in the Bhangar division, which erupted during protests demanding the withdrawal of the Waqf Amendment Act, Kolkata Police said they have made a total of nine arrests. According to police sources, eight individuals were arrested from ...

    16 April 2025 Indian Express
    Bengal CM to inaugurate Digha’s Jagannath Temple on April 30, preparations in full swing

    Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will inaugurate the Jagannath Dham, in the seaside town of Digha on April 30 and the administration is working round the clock to finalise arrangements for the grand event, including accommodations for a host of ...

    16 April 2025 Indian Express
    BJP and TMC allege ‘outsiders’ instigated violence at Murshidabad

    West Bengal Leader of Opposition and BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari claimed that at least 100 crore Hindu-owned properties had been damaged during religious clashes that turned violent in Murshidabad.He suggested that Bangladeshi outfit ‘Ansarulla Bangla Jamat’ was behind the ...

    15 April 2025 Indian Express
    Bengal communal violence: ‘We have become refugees in our own land… We may never return’

    Murshidabad Violence Update: Her eight-day-old baby in her lap, Saptami Mondol (24) sat on a tarpaulin sheet inside a classroom of a high school in Parlalpur, which has been converted into a shelter after communal violence broke out in ...

    15 April 2025 Indian Express
    Missing teachers, students on ‘exam duty’: How is Supreme Court verdict affecting Bengal schools

    Her room painted a cheerful yellow, Shephali Sarkar feels anything but happy after a call with an agitated parent.The headmistress at Dhamua Balika Vidyalaya, a high school with 1,300 girls in South 24 Parganas district’s Magrahat, around 55 km ...

    15 April 2025 Indian Express
    ‘Students can attend classes at other schools nearby’: West Bengal board recommends temporary solution for shortage of teaching staff

    In order to tackle the shortage of teachers after a Supreme Court verdict, the West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education (WBCHSE) has come up with a temporary solution.The Council recommended that students be able to attend classes at ...

    15 April 2025 Indian Express
    School staff who lost jobs in West Bengal head for Delhi’s Jantar Mantar to protest

    West Bengal’s teaching and non-teaching staff who lost their jobs after a Supreme Court verdict have decided to go on a month-long series of protests demanding for their jobs back with dignity.The Supreme Court had annulled the appointments of ...

    15 April 2025 Indian Express
    Waqf protests in Murshidabad: Over 200 arrested, police say ‘full normalcy expected soon’; internet remains suspended

    Over 200 people have now been arrested in connection with the recent violence and arson in West Bengal’s Murshidabad. The current focus of the police is to restore normalcy in the area, where tension persists after protests against the ...

    15 April 2025 Indian Express
    SSC sends list of ‘tainted and untainted’ candidates to Bengal education department

    Amidst ongoing protests by sacked teachers of secondary and higher secondary schools, the West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) has sent a list of ‘tainted’ and ‘untainted’ candidates to the state education department for cross-verification, a senior official said ...

    15 April 2025 Indian Express
    Protests against Waqf law | At Bengal’s Ground Zero, grief and fear cut across divide: ‘Who will give justice?’

    “We kept calling the police after the attacks started. No one answered. Even after they hacked my husband and father-in-law to death, the bodies lay near our house for three hours,” said 32-year-old Pinki Das, clutching her six-year-old daughter ...

    14 April 2025 Indian Express
    School jobs & Murshidabad violence: BJP holds mega rally demanding CM Mamata Banerjee’s resignation

    Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders in the state on Sunday took part in a rally in Kolkata protesting the violence and unrest in Murshidabad district and the recent Supreme Court ruling that annulled over 25,000 school staff appointments, ...

    14 April 2025 Indian Express
    Murshidabad Waqf protests: Senior BSF officer to reassess deployment of forces, Governor directs relief efforts

    Amidst a tense but reportedly controlled situation in Murshidabad and parts of Malda in West Bengal following violent protests against the Waqf (Amendment) Act, Ravi Gandhi, Additional Director General (ADG) of the Border Security Force (BSF) Eastern Command, is ...

    14 April 2025 Indian Express
    Kolkata corporation weighs introducing good touch-bad touch lessons in its schools

    An integral part of growing up for children is to know the difference between a good touch and a bad touch. The Kolkata Municipal Corporation has been preparing a blueprint for creating awareness about this in schools it runs, ...

    14 April 2025 Indian Express
    BJP MP urges Centre to declare 4 Bengal districts as ‘Disturbed Areas’ under AFSPA

    BJP’s Purulia MP Jyotirmay Singh Mahato has written to Union Home Minister Amit Shah urging the Centre to declare select bordering districts of West Bengal as “disturbed areas” under the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA), alleging repeated attacks ...

    14 April 2025 Indian Express
    Three school job losers end hunger strike in Kolkata to ‘start larger movement’

    Three teachers who were on a hunger strike after the Supreme Court rendered jobless 25,753 teaching and non-teaching staffers by terming their recruitment by West Bengal’s School Selection Commission (SSC) as “tainted beyond redemption” suspended their protest on Sunday.Pankaj ...

    14 April 2025 Indian Express
    Waqf protests: 5 more BSF companies deployed in violence-hit Murshidabad as tension persists

    After three people were killed amid protests against the new waqf law, the situation in West Bengal’s Murshidabad remains tense, necessitating the continued presence of security forces, the Border Security Force said on Sunday while announcing the deployment of ...

    14 April 2025 Indian Express
    Thunderstorm warning for all districts of South Bengal, including Kolkata

    The Regional Meteorological Centre in Kolkata Sunday issued a weather alert for West Bengal, forecasting thundershowers and gusty winds across the state until April 15.According to the weather office, an upper air cyclonic circulation has formed over Sub-Himalayan West ...

    14 April 2025 Indian Express
    CM Mamata to meet clerics to ‘draw a roadmap’ of new Waqf law protest

    After repeated “violent” protests in West Bengal against the amended Waqf Act passed in Parliament, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has decided to meet with the Imams, Muslim clerics and thought leaders to discuss about the roadmap of the protest ...

    14 April 2025 Indian Express
    Tollywood’s filmmakers move Calcutta HC against federation of film technicians for ‘interfering in work’

    Once again, Tollywood is in turmoil as Bidula Bhattacharjee, a young independent filmmaker, has moved Calcutta High Court against the industry’s federation of film technicians to “put a check” on the alleged interference of the federation in the work ...

    13 April 2025 Indian Express
    ‘Publishing list of tainted candidates would amount to contempt of court’: Legal experts on West Bengal’s statement

    On Friday, West Bengal Education Minister Bratya Basu in a statement said that the West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) may publish a list of “tainted” and “ untainted” teachers and non-teaching staff who were appointed by the Commission ...

    13 April 2025 Indian Express
    Protests against Waqf law in Bengal: HC orders deployment of Central forces in Murshidabad, rules ‘Can’t turn a blind eye’

    Stating that it “cannot turn a blind eye” to vandalism in parts of West Bengal, the Calcutta High Court on Saturday ordered the deployment of Central forces in the violence-hit district of Murshidabad where three people were killed and ...

    13 April 2025 Indian Express
    Bengal vandalism over Waqf Law: ‘Order NIA probe into vandalism of rail assets’ Suvendu tells Vaishnaw

    Leader of Opposition in Assembly Suvendu Adhikari on Saturday sought the transfer of investigation into the alleged vandalism and destruction of railway property by agitators protesting the amended Waqf law to the National Investigation Agency (NIA).In a letter to ...

    13 April 2025 Indian Express
    Bengal LoP Suvendu Adhikari visits Mothabari, meets violence-hit families, says, ‘here to stand with them’

    BJP MLA from Nandigram and Leader of Opposition in West Bengal Assembly Suvendu Adhikari on Friday visited Mothabari in Malda district, which recently saw communal clashes and stated that atrocities have been committed against Hindu community in the area.After ...

    13 April 2025 Indian Express
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