Close to a year after the Sandeshkhali unrest, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has announced that she will be visiting the violence-hit village on December 30 and participate in a government distribution programme. Leader of Opposition and BJP ...
29 December 2024 Indian ExpressThree people including a woman were seriously injured during a blast at a cracker factory in West Bengal’s Champahati on Saturday afternoon.All three injured were shifted to the nearby government hospital and are said to be in critical condition.The ...
29 December 2024 Indian ExpressThe passport verification process has come under the scanner of the Kolkata Police following the revelation that 73 Indian passports were issued to Bangladeshi citizens based on fake documents.Sources said the police department had sought information from various municipalities ...
29 December 2024 Indian ExpressSecurity has been stepped up in Kolkata ahead of New Year revelry, following the arrest of two Bangladeshi infiltrators from the heart of the city, Police Commissioner Manoj Kumar Verma said on Saturday. Verma said individuals arriving from foreign ...
29 December 2024 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Government will launch a toll-free number next week for the beneficiaries of the ‘Banglar Bari’ scheme that was recently inaugurated by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to provide houses for the poor.According to government sources, the toll free ...
29 December 2024 Indian ExpressA wolf was beaten to death by locals in the Budbud area of Paschim Bardhaman, forest officials said on Friday.According to the forest department sources, nearly 20 persons in Debshala village were injured by the wolf attack in the ...
29 December 2024 Indian ExpressTHE LAWYER of jailed Bangladesh monk Chinmoy Krishna Das, Rabindra Ghosh, on Thursday said that he would fight for his client in a court in the neighbouring country on January 2 and also alleged that efforts were being made ...
28 December 2024 Indian ExpressThe police in Paschim Medinipur have launched the state’s first announcement drone, which will serve as a public address system in addition to surveillance.Inaugurated during the annual sports competition of Paschim Medinipur District Police on Tuesday, with Superintendent of ...
28 December 2024 Indian ExpressThe Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday submitted a supplementary chargesheet in the school jobs case against former education minister Partha Chatterjee and two other accused in the case, Ayan Sheel and Santu Gangopadhyay.The central agency submitted the ...
28 December 2024 Indian ExpressA day after three-year-old female tiger Zeenat, who had strayed out of Odisha’s Similipal National Park earlier this month, was located, in the Bandwan area, the forest officials on Friday said that it has now moved to Manbazar area ...
28 December 2024 Indian ExpressThe Intelligence Bureau (IB) of the Ministry of Home Affairs has sent an alert to West Bengal Police, warning of a possible attack by Bangladesh terror outfits on Leader of the Opposition in Assembly and BJP MLA Suvendu Adhikari, ...
28 December 2024 Indian ExpressKolkata police on Wednesday night arrested three men from the MLA hostel on Kid Street, Kolkata, who were allegedly attempting to extort Rupees 5 lakh from Kalna Municipality chairman Ananda Dutta by falsely claiming to represent Trinamool Congress leader ...
28 December 2024 Indian ExpressSitting in a wheelchair at her residence in South Kolkata’s Tollygunge, Gobind Kaur, sister of late former prime minister Manmohan Singh, cannot believe that Papaji (as she fondly called her eldest brother) is no more. Her eyes moist, she ...
28 December 2024 Indian ExpressThe West Bengal Police on Thursday night arrested a Bangladeshi national who has been illegally living in Kolkata city for the past one year.They have also seized a fake Aadhaar card and PAN card from the accused identified as ...
28 December 2024 Indian ExpressWest Bengal MLA Nikhil Ranjan Dey on Friday accused the Trinamool Congress (TMC) of trying to tarnish the BJP’s name after three men allegedly attempting to extort money by falsely claiming to represent TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee were arrested ...
28 December 2024 Indian ExpressChief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday said she will visit Sandeshkhali in North 24 Parganas district on December 30 to chair a public distribution programme.“I will visit Sandeshkhali on December 30 to chair a public distribution programme. People had ...
27 December 2024 Indian ExpressThe Purulia district administration has imposed prohibitory orders in the Bandwan area where a three-year-old female tiger, who had strayed out of Odisha’s Similipal National Park earlier this month, is presently located.This comes as forest departments of West Bengal ...
27 December 2024 Indian ExpressThe Enforcement Directorate (ED), probing the alleged money laundering angle in the schools jobs case, on Thursday told the trial court here that former education minister Partha Chatterjee used the “scam money” to buy properties and floated several benami ...
27 December 2024 Indian ExpressThe Kolkata police detective department arrested a 42-year-old man, Moktar Alam, from his Duttapukur residence in North 24 parganas district early Wednesday morning in the fake passport case.According to police sources, documents such as fake PAN cards, voter IDs ...
27 December 2024 Indian ExpressAfter the arrest of a suspected operative of terror outfit Tehreek-ul-Mujahideen (TuM) from Canning in West Bengal, the West Bengal Special Task Force (STF) is investigating the possible reasons behind the suspect’s presence in the state.According to STF sources, ...
27 December 2024 Indian ExpressTRINAMOOL CONGRESS MLA and actor Kanchan Mullick has triggered a controversy over the ‘submission’ of a hospital bill of Rs 6 lakh for reimbursement to the West Bengal Assembly on Tuesday, following the birth of his child at a ...
27 December 2024 Indian ExpressThe crime scene in the RG Kar case “was not in well-preserved condition, there were evidences of disturbances evident on the scene”, a team from the Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL), Delhi, has said in its report, which is ...
27 December 2024 Indian ExpressAfter recent instances of suspected militants being arrested from West Bengal, the Trinamool Congress and the BJP have been engaged in a war of words, with the state’s ruling party holding the Centre responsible for “terrorists infiltrating” Bengal, and ...
27 December 2024 Indian ExpressUNION MINISTER and BJP’s state president Sukanta Majumdar on Wednesday said that West Bengal has become a “safe haven for terrorists and jihadi elements” under the Mamata Banerjee-led TMC government.Majumdar hit out at the government over reports of the ...
26 December 2024 Indian ExpressActor-turned-MLA Kanchan Mallick is again in the news, this time over a hospital bill he is said to have submitted to the West Bengal Assembly after the birth of his child at a private hospital.Mallick, Trinamool Congress MLA for ...
26 December 2024 Indian ExpressThe Calcutta High Court on Tuesday rejected the bail applications of former education minister Partha Chatterjee and four former government officials — Subiresh Bhattacharjee, Ashok Kumar Saha, Kalyanmoy Ganguly and Santi Prasad Sinha – jailed in connection with the ...
26 December 2024 Indian ExpressThe Jadavpur University (JU) on Tuesday held its annual convocation despite objections from Governor C V Anand Bose, the chancellor of the state university.On Monday, Raj Bhavan had issued a letter to interim vice-chancellor Bhaskar Gupta, dubbing the December ...
26 December 2024 Indian ExpressAmid attempts to capture three-year-old female tiger Zeenat, which strayed out of Similipal National Park in Odisha two weeks ago, forest officials on Tuesday said that she made her first kill.“She has killed a goat, which had strayed into ...
26 December 2024 Indian ExpressWest Bengal marked Christmas by welcoming two red pandas from the Netherlands, the first such acquisition from a foreign country in a decade.Escorted by zookeepers and vets, the two animals are on their way to Padmaja Naidu Himalayan Zoological ...
26 December 2024 Indian ExpressAfter having not received money from the Centre for the MGNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme) for three consecutive financial years, the West Bengal government is now apprehensive that they would not be allocated the MGNREGA funds ...
25 December 2024 Indian ExpressThe Jadavpur University (JU) on Tuesday held its annual convocation despite objections from Governor C V Anand Bose, the chancellor of the state university.On Monday, Raj Bhavan issued a letter to interim vice-chancellor Bhaskar Gupta, dubbing the December 24 ...
25 December 2024 Indian ExpressA special court here in Kolkata on Monday could not proceed ahead with the framing of charges against former education minister Partha Chatterjee, his close aide Arpita Mukherjee and 52 others booked in the school jobs case.A majority of ...
25 December 2024 Indian ExpressExiled Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasrin accused the West Bengal government of stifling the voice of artists and writers, claiming that the play ‘Lajja’ (Shame), adapted from her novel, was forced to be canceled at two theatre festivals in the ...
25 December 2024 Indian ExpressA single judge bench of the Calcutta High Court on Tuesday told the counsel of the parents of RG Kar rape-murder victim to seek a clarification from the bench of Chief Justice T S Sivagnanam whether it could hear ...
25 December 2024 Indian ExpressThe Calcutta High Court has rejected the bail pleas of former education minister Partha Chatterjee and four others in the School Service Commission (SSC) recruitment scam case which is being investigated by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).The others ...
25 December 2024 Indian ExpressIn a gesture of goodwill, India released 12 Bangladeshi fishermen jailed in West Bengal. The fishermen are now on their way back home.This was after the Central government asked the West Bengal government to “withdraw from prosecution” of the ...
25 December 2024 Indian ExpressA day after the Special Task Force (STF) of West Bengal Police announced the arrest of a Pakistan-trained IED expert and a member of banned terror outfit Tehreek-ul-Mujahideen (TuM), the investigators are trying to find out the waterway route, ...
24 December 2024 Indian ExpressThe formation of a new political front — Indian Gorkha Janashakti Front — in the Hills of Darjeeling has brought to fore once again the demand for the separate statehood of Gorkhaland in West Bengal.Ajoy Edwards, who dissolved his ...
24 December 2024 Indian ExpressWith special drones aided with thermal imagery, night vision equipment, cages with fresh baits and tranquiliser teams, the officials of Forest Department of Odisha and West Bengal are trying their best to capture three-year-old female tiger, Zeenat.Zeenat, brought to ...
24 December 2024 Indian ExpressPolitical leaders of West Bengal became vocal after a video of Bangladesh went viral where a veteran “Muktijoddha” was allegedly heckled, and forced to put a garland of shoes around his neck.In the video, which has not been independently ...
24 December 2024 Indian ExpressQuick thinking, a 33-second CCTV clip, and hitch-free coordination helped the police of two districts in West Bengal to recover a 7-year-old kidnapped girl in just four hours. At 11 am Saturday, two men on a motorbike with no ...
24 December 2024 Indian ExpressFor the first time, stalls from Bangladesh are missing in two of Kolkata’s major fairs — the International Kolkata Book Fair and the Bidhannagar Mela Utsav, which is organised by the Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation (BMC).Every year since 1996, when ...
24 December 2024 Indian ExpressA special task force of West Bengal is looking into the waterway route that was allegedly routinely taken by a suspected terrorist of the banned Tehreek-ul-Mujahideen (TuM), Javed Ahmed Munshi, from West Bengal to Bangladesh.On Monday, in a joint ...
24 December 2024 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose on Monday wrote to Jadavpur University’s interim vice chancellor Bhaskar Gupta, dubbing its December 24 convocation “illegal”, and directed the varsity authorities to follow all the rules and regulations to secure the future ...
24 December 2024 Indian ExpressThe Uttar Dinajpur district administration in West Bengal has undertaken the ‘GYANALAY’ project to improve government school infrastructure in a phased manner.In the first phase, initially, 98 schools were selected, which is one school in every gram panchayat. The ...
23 December 2024 Indian ExpressThe Special Task Force (STF) of West Bengal Police on Sunday said that it has arrested a Kashmir-based militant from Canning in South 24 Parganas district, bordering Bangladesh.According to the STF, Javed Munshi, a Pakistan-trained IED expert, was planning ...
23 December 2024 Indian ExpressForest personnel are monitoring the movement of the three-year-old tigress Zeenat, which strayed from Odisha’s Similipal Tiger Reserve (STR), is currently in Purulia district, an official said.On Sunday morning, it entered Bandwan in Purulia district from Jhargram. Travelling from ...
23 December 2024 Indian ExpressAs part of the Centre’s plan to transform the Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport (NSCBI) into a hub for international flights, Union Civil Aviation Minister Kinjarapu Rammohan Naidu on Saturday announced that 100 flights will soon operate from ...
23 December 2024 Indian ExpressA major fire broke out in a slum near New Alipore Bridge in Kolkata, close to BP Poddar Hospital, on Saturday evening around 7PM, gutting around 40-50 shanties, a fire brigade official said, adding no one was injured in ...
23 December 2024 Indian ExpressISKCON Saturday condemned the “murder” of a Hindu priest allegedly by “Bangladeshi extremists” in Natore and accused the country’s interim government of failing to protect religious minorities, who continue to face “unabated torture and killings” following the fall of ...
23 December 2024 Indian ExpressA group of local BJP workers in Kolkata’s Mukundapur area launched a protest platform called ‘Salute Tiranga’ on Saturday, demanding that a private hospital in the area refuse treatment to non-Hindu patients from Bangladesh.The move comes amid a strain ...
22 December 2024 Indian ExpressKolkata woke up to a foggy and rainy Saturday morning as predicted, with further rain expected across South Bengal in the day. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has, meanwhile, issued a yellow alert for Kolkata for Sunday, December 22.The ...
22 December 2024 Indian ExpressWest Bengal forest officials have issued an alert in villages, hotels and resorts in Jhargram district after three-year-old tigress Zeenat crossed over to the state from Jharkhand on Friday, covering a total distance of over 50 km from Simlipal ...
22 December 2024 Indian ExpressThe Trinamool Congress on Friday suspended two leaders who were part of two of its teachers’ cells for their involvement in “anti-party activities”, party leader and state education minister Bratya Basu said.Manishankar Mondal was assistant president of the TMC’s ...
22 December 2024 Indian ExpressChief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday called for statewide protests on December 23 against the BJP, accusing the party of insulting Dr BR Ambedkar, the architect of the Constitution. In a strongly worded statement shared on social media, Banerjee ...
22 December 2024 Indian ExpressA day after the Special Task Force of Assam and West Bengal arrested two persons from Murshidabad, the West Bengal police on Friday said that the two have links with banned militant outfit Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT) and a ...
22 December 2024 Indian ExpressThe Calcutta High Court on Friday granted permission to the West Bengal Joint Platform of Doctors, a group of senior medical professionals, to hold a protest against the bail granted to two accused — Sandip Ghosh and Abhijit Mondal ...
21 December 2024 Indian ExpressTHE WEST Bengal government is focusing on human capital and the state is the pivot, Amit Mitra, principal adviser to the Chief Minister and the finance department, said on Friday.Addressing the Rising Asia-BBC&I Summit, Mitra said Kolkata is considered ...
21 December 2024 Indian ExpressA century ago, some of India’s most recognised political leaders came together to organise library movements, believing that the knowledge and education acquired and facilitated through these institutions would help their fight against the British. This thought led to ...
21 December 2024 Indian ExpressA fire broke out at the Topsia Basti near Science City on Friday morning, leaving nearly 200 shanties reduced to ashes. Eight fire engines have been dispatched to the scene, with police from the Pragati Maidan police station also ...
21 December 2024 Indian ExpressSunil Kumar Shaw, who shares his name with a doctor, was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly forging documents under the doctor’s name and copying his registration number. The arrest came after Dr Sunil Shaw filed a complaint, accusing Sunil ...
21 December 2024 Indian ExpressUnion Home Minister Amit Shah, during his visit to Siliguri, said that the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) arrested 4,000 smugglers and traffickers and seized 16,000 kg of narcotics in 2024.Shah is in Siliguri to attend the 61st Raising Day ...
21 December 2024 Indian ExpressFor the first time, stalls from Bangladesh are missing in the Bidhannagar Mela Utsav organised by the Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation (BMC). A rerun of the absence is also expected at the International Kolkata Book Fair.The absence of the stalls ...
20 December 2024 Indian ExpressIn a joint operation, the Special Task Force of Assam and West Bengal police have arrested two suspected militants from Murshidabad’s Hariharpara on Thursday. Those arrested have been identified as Abbas Sheikh, a resident of Baharan area and Minarul ...
20 December 2024 Indian ExpressA day after the Kolkata Police launched a major passport fraud investigation, the police on Tuesday night arrested a man, Dipankar Das from Becharam Chatterjee Street in the Parnasree Thana area in connection with the case. He was produced ...
20 December 2024 Indian ExpressChief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday said that she was shocked at Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s recent remarks about B R Ambedkar and the way he was being “belittled”.Addressing a gathering during the inauguration of the ‘Kolkata Christmas ...
20 December 2024 Indian ExpressThe parents of the R G Kar rape and murder victim have moved the Calcutta High Court, seeking a fresh investigation into the murder of their daughter.In court, their counsel stated that the parents do not have confidence in ...
20 December 2024 Indian ExpressThe Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday night arrested industrialist and owner of Concast Steel and Power Limited, Sanjay Sureka, in connection with a bank fraud case, an official said.Jewellery worth Rs 4.5 crore and several foreign-made luxury cars were ...
20 December 2024 Indian Express“I am not a coward. I have not fled Bangladesh. I will return to my country and continue fighting for justice and release of ISKCON monk Chinmoy Krishna Das,” says 75-year-old Rabindra Ghosh seated in the terrace of his ...
20 December 2024 Indian ExpressChief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday extended an invitation to industrialists to collaborate with West Bengal and said that Bengal Silicon Valley has a potential of Rs 27,000 crore in investments and ability to generate 75,000 job opportunities. Urging ...
20 December 2024 Indian ExpressAmidst rising tensions in Bangladesh, a major passport fraud investigation has been launched in Kolkata after it was discovered that 73 Indian passports were allegedly issued to Bangladeshi nationals using “forged documents”, the police said on Wednesday.The regional passport ...
19 December 2024 Indian ExpressAn 8-year-old boy fell unconscious after getting entangled in the rope of a swing tied to a tree in front of his house on Monday. On Tuesday, he succumbed while undergoing treatment at the Ranaghat Sub-District Hospital in West ...
19 December 2024 Indian ExpressThe Calcutta High Court on Tuesday completed the bail hearings of former West Bengal education minister Partha Chatterjee and four other ex-public servants in a CBI case over an alleged school jobs recruitment scam.Justice Tapabrata Chakraborty reserved order on ...
19 December 2024 Indian ExpressA delegation of BJP leaders, including Arjun Singh, along with Hindu monk Kartick Maharaj on Tuesday met Bangladeshi lawyer Rabindra Ghosh, who has been defending jailed Hindu monk Chinmoy Krishna Das, in North 24 Parganas district. They felicitated Ghosh ...
19 December 2024 Indian ExpressForest officials and guards have formed a human shield cordoning off the area in Jharkhand where Zeenat, a three-year-old tigress, has been currently located. While special tracking units and tranquilizing teams, both from Odisha and Jharkhand are on their ...
19 December 2024 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who has been accusing the BJP government at the Centre of not sending funds to the state under PM Awas Yojana, on Tuesday launched a housing scheme, ‘Banglar Bari’, funded entirely by her ...
18 December 2024 Indian ExpressIt’s a league of its own where two former ministers of Mamata Banerjee Cabinet Partha Chatterjee and Jyotipriya Mallick are mentors of a cricket team and terror attack convicts Jamaluddin Naser and Aftab Ansari are players.Every year, Kolkata’s Presidency ...
18 December 2024 Indian ExpressFormer President Ram Nath Kovind on Tuesday said that once the ‘One nation, one election’ becomes functional, it would galvanise the election process and help in the economic growth of the country.Kovind, who was the chairman of the high-level ...
18 December 2024 Indian ExpressA new species of parasitic wasp has been discovered in Nagaland by the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI).The species — Ceraphron initium — was discovered during a Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB)-funded field survey in the northeastern state. ...
18 December 2024 Indian ExpressAt The Indian Express Round Table Conference, held in Kolkata on Monday, speakers described Maha Kumbh as a cultural experience, and a melting pot of culture.The theme of the discussion was “Maha Kumbh: A confluence of culture and modern ...
18 December 2024 Indian ExpressIn less than 24 hours of backing its senior party leader Firhad Hakim, the TMC on Monday distanced itself from his remarks on “majority Muslims” and said that such statements will be met with ‘strict measures’.In a post on ...
18 December 2024 Indian ExpressPurulia, a district typically associated with scorching heat, has unexpectedly turned into one of the coldest spots in West Bengal. In fact, the district is battling it out with the traditionally chilly hill station of Darjeeling for the title ...
18 December 2024 Indian ExpressBitter enemies in Delhi and West Bengal — the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Trinamool Congress — entered a seat adjustment alliance for elections for a small co-operative in Nandigram. Out of 54 seats, the TMC won 32 and ...
18 December 2024 Indian ExpressTrouble mounted for Kolkata-based businessman Sujay Krishna Bhadra Monday after the Division Bench of the Calcutta High Court rejected his anticipatory application in connection with the Central Bureau of Investigation’s probe into alleged irregularities in a teachers’ recruitment scam.Bhadra, ...
17 December 2024 Indian ExpressThe West Bengal Joint Platform of Doctors (WBJPD) was planning to begin a sit-in demonstration in the heart of Kolkata from Tuesday over the CBI investigation into the Kar hospital rape and murder case, in which two key suspects ...
17 December 2024 Indian ExpressAmid escalating tensions between India and Bangladesh, war veterans of 1971 gathered at Fort William in Kolkata as part of the Vijay Diwas celebration by the Indian Army’s Eastern Command on Monday.“You can change your family, but geographically, your ...
17 December 2024 Indian ExpressWith his purported remarks on Muslim majority triggering a backlash from Opposition BJP and Hindu monks, Urban Development minister Firhad Hakim on Sunday said that he has a “strong belief in strong and patriotic values”.Speaking on the sidelines of ...
16 December 2024 Indian ExpressThe ruling TMC swept the Contai Cooperative Bank election on Sunday, winning 101 of the total 108 seats. The voting was held earlier in the day with the Central forces deployed in the booths on the direction of the Supreme ...
16 December 2024 Indian ExpressInfosys co-founder N R Narayana Murthy on Sunday emphasized the importance of compassionate capitalism and highlighted the role of technology in India’s future.Speaking at the centenary celebration of the Indian Chamber of Commerce (ICC) at Calcutta Town Hall, Murthy ...
16 December 2024 Indian ExpressIt was two years ago that Sekhar Chakrabarti first visited the Indian Army’s Command Museum in Fort William in Kolkata. An author and vexillologist, it was Chakrabarti’s interest in military history and the flags on display at the museum ...
16 December 2024 Indian ExpressSporadic violence was reported during the Contai Cooperative Bank election in West Bengal’s Purba Medinipur district on Sunday, with several polling stations witnessing Trinamool Congress-BJP scuffles despite tight security provided by central and state police forces.In a heated verbal ...
16 December 2024 Indian ExpressKolkata Mayor Firhad Hakim found himself at the centre of a political storm after a video went viral recently in which he is heard saying that “We will soon be majority”. Opposition BJP has objected to his remarks and ...
16 December 2024 Indian ExpressWritten by Tanusree BoseElections to Contai Cooperative Bank (CCB) in West Bengal’s Purba Medinipur district were held peacefully under the supervision of central paramilitary forces on Sunday based on a Supreme Court directive. Contai falls under Leader of Opposition ...
16 December 2024 Indian ExpressA preparatory run on the Noapara-Jai Hind stretch of Kolkata Metro’s yellow line was successful on Saturday. This 6.2-km stretch will have four stations: Noapara, Dum Dum Cantonment, Jessore Road and Jai Hind Airport, which will connect the metro ...
16 December 2024 Indian ExpressIn connection with a severed head of a woman found in a garbage dump in South Kolkata’s Tollygunge area, a person was arrested on Saturday, police said.The arrested man was identified as the brother-in-law of the deceased woman, they ...
16 December 2024 Indian ExpressA day after two key suspects in the rape and murder of a doctor at the RG Kar hospital got bail, the Left parties and the Congress on Saturday took out protest rallies at various locations in Kolkata, alleging ...
15 December 2024 Indian ExpressAt a time when the RG Kar rape and murder trial has hit the headlines once again with former principal of the institute, Sandip Ghosh, and former officer-in-charge of Tala police station, Abhijit Mondal, securing bail, The Indian Express ...
15 December 2024 Indian ExpressAmid the ongoing investigation into the online fraud involving the West Bengal government’s ‘Taruner Swapno’ scheme, the state police has registered a total of 142 cases and arrested at least 38 people, for allegedly siphoning off funds meant for ...
15 December 2024 Indian ExpressWritten by Tanusree BoseWhile the West Bengal BJP awaits its new state president, the party unit has extended its membership drive till the end of the year as the number of registered members is reportedly much lower than the ...
15 December 2024 Indian ExpressLast week, when three newborn tiger cubs died at Bengal Safari Park in Siliguri, West Bengal, after their mother accidentally bit them on their necks while trying to shift them to the night shelter by grabbing them in her ...
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