Matua-majority Thakurnagar area in West Bengal witnessed dramatic scenes as supporters of BJP MP Shantanu Thakur and TMC MP Mamata Bala Thakur came face to face over the control of a house where community matriarch Binapani Devi, popularly known ...
9 April 2024 Indian ExpressAccusing the BJP of “hatching a conspiracy with the NIA” to target TMC workers, the TMC on Sunday alleged that days ahead of Central probe agency arresting two persons in connection with 2022 Bhupatinagar blast, BJP leader Jitendra Tiwari ...
9 April 2024 Indian ExpressA day after a National Investigation Agency (NIA) team was attacked in Bhupatinagar in West Bengal’s Purba Medinipur district where it had gone to probe a 2022 crude bomb blast, the officers on Sunday were booked for allegedly harassing ...
9 April 2024 Indian ExpressHours after a team of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) investigating the 2022 blast in West Bengal’s East Medinipur was attacked on Saturday, the district police booked them under charges of molestation.East Midnapore police registered a First Information Report ...
8 April 2024 Indian ExpressHitting out at the West Bengal government over Saturday’s mob attack on an NIA team in Purba Medinipur, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday accused the TMC government of trying to “unleash a reign of terror” in the state.Campaigning ...
8 April 2024 Indian ExpressAs Kolkata swelters under rising mercury levels, the Met office has forecast thunderstorms in the state capital on Sunday owing to the formation of a cyclonic circulation over north Bangladesh.The weather office forecast thunderstorms with lightning in the region ...
8 April 2024 Indian ExpressA total of 100 more companies of central forces would arrive in West Bengal next week, with the Election Commission planning to deploy 277 companies in the first phase of polling in the state on April 19, an official ...
8 April 2024 Indian ExpressA two-member TMC delegation is scheduled to visit Bhupatinagar in West Bengal’s Purba Medinipur district on April 7, where a National Investigation Agency (NIA) team was attacked by a mob while arresting two key conspirators in a 2022 blast ...
8 April 2024 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Chief Minister and TMC leader Mamata Banerjee and the Opposition BJP were locked in a new blame game Saturday after a team of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) was attacked by a crowd while arresting two men ...
7 April 2024 Indian ExpressWEEKS AFTER the launch of the country’s first underwater Metro in Kolkata, the Metro Railway authorities have implemented specialised “anti-littering” initiatives aimed at deterring “disruptive behaviour” within station premises, officials said on Friday. The focus would primarily be on ...
7 April 2024 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose has ordered a judicial inquiry into the “corruption, violence and misuse” of university campuses in the state for “electioneering and political purposes”, sources in the Raj Bhavan said.The inquiry will be conducted ...
7 April 2024 Indian ExpressA National Investigation Agency (NIA) team investigating a 2022 blast in West Bengal’s East Medinipur district was attacked in Bhupatinagar on Saturday, resulting in minor injuries to two officials. The car in which the officials were travelling was also ...
7 April 2024 Indian ExpressThe National Investigation Agency (NIA) said on Saturday that it has arrested two key conspirators in the 2022 Bhupatinagar blast case in West Bengal “amid stiff resistance from an unruly crowd”. Three people were killed in the December 2022 ...
7 April 2024 Indian ExpressThe Election Commission of India (ECI) on Wednesday ordered to furnish details on the incidents of violence during last year’s panchayat election in West Bengal to district election officers (DEOs) and general observers ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha ...
6 April 2024 Indian ExpressA day after West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose released a “status report” on universities, he has asked the state government to remove Education Minister Bratya Basu from the Cabinet for allegedly violating the Model Code of Conduct (MCC), ...
6 April 2024 Indian ExpressThe BJP has lodged a complaint with the Election Commission of India (ECI) against West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for using offensive language against Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a public meeting in Cooch Behar on Thursday and ...
6 April 2024 Indian ExpressAddressing a rally in Tufanganj under the Alipurduar Lok Sabha constituency on Friday, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee claimed that the BJP intentionally fixed the first phase of parliamentary polls on April 19 as it wanted to benefit ...
6 April 2024 Indian ExpressIn his first election rally in West Bengal after the Lok Sabha poll schedule was announced on March 16, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said that for India to become the world’s third largest economy, there is a ...
6 April 2024 Indian Express“Why is this still not getting resolved? Haye Allah!,” says 62-year-old Syeda Tarat Begum, an 11th generation descendant of Mir Jafar, out of exasperation. Her uncle, Wakir Ali Meerza, walks around their small courtyard, watching in despair as monkeys ...
5 April 2024 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on Thursday that the BJP must be taught a lesson because it did not respect the model code of conduct and was misusing central agencies. She also targeted Union minister Nisith Pramanik, ...
5 April 2024 Indian ExpressSeeking accountability on the alleged sexual harassment of women in West Bengal’s Sandeshkhali by men linked to suspended Trinamool Congress strongman Shahjahan Sheikh, the Calcutta High Court Thursday said even if 1% of the allegations are true, it is ...
5 April 2024 Indian ExpressDays ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, a Trinamool Congress (TMC) worker was murdered in Nakashipara in West Bengal’s Nadia district on Wednesday night while he was returning home after attending a party meeting.The deceased has been identified as ...
5 April 2024 Indian ExpressWith the first phase of the Lok Sabha elections drawing close, the state’s Trinamool Congress and principal Opposition BJP are leaving no stone unturned to get the upper hand on social media.Though not really uncommon a development, the two ...
4 April 2024 Indian ExpressBharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) Barrackpur candidate and the sitting MP from the seat Arjun Singh Wednesday accused the ruling Trinamool Congress of using police to install 82 CCTV cameras around his home in Bhatpara and tracking his movements.Talking to ...
4 April 2024 Indian ExpressThe India Meteorological Department (IMD) has predicted heatwave conditions in some areas of West Bengal such as Purulia, Jhargram, West Midnapore, Bankura, and West Burdwan until Sunday. The weather condition will spread across the entire south of the state, ...
4 April 2024 Indian ExpressLand grabbing, laundering money through his fishery business, and creating an atmosphere of terror — these allegations figure among submissions made by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in court while seeking custody of suspended Trinamool Congress strongman Sheikh Shahjahan.According to ...
4 April 2024 Indian ExpressExpressing concerns regarding the escalating anti-Christian activities in states across the country in the recent years, the Bangiya Christiya Pariseba (BCP) in collaboration with — All India Christian Council, National Christian Council and United Christian Forum, New Delhi, – ...
4 April 2024 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose on Wednesday termed the state government’s decision to reinstate Rajat Kishor Dey as the Gour Banga University vice-chancellor “uncalled for” and “questionable”. Releasing a “status paper” on universities, he hit out at the ...
4 April 2024 Indian ExpressThe Election Commission of India (ECI) has removed two senior officers – additional chief electoral officer Amit Roy Chowdhury and joint chief electoral officer Rahul Nath – from poll management duties in West Bengal.The order in this regard came ...
4 April 2024 Indian ExpressNearly 5,000 houses and crops sown on scores of acres of farmland have been damaged in the powerful storm that struck Jalpaiguri district and parts of neighbouring Cooch Behar and Alipurduar on Sunday, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on ...
4 April 2024 Indian ExpressThe body parts of an unidentified woman aged around 35 years were found in three black polythene bags lying in an abandoned CISF barrack in Kolkata on Tuesday, officials said. The police have retrieved the head, and parts of ...
4 April 2024 Indian ExpressThe National Commission for Backward Classes has sent a notice to the West Bengal police chief seeking action against TMC leader Pijush Panda over his “objectionable and casteist” remarks about Prime Minister Narendra Modi ahead of the 2024 Lok ...
4 April 2024 Indian ExpressBharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) Barrackpur candidate and the sitting MP from the seat Arjun Singh Wednesday accused the ruling Trinamool Congress of installing 82 CCTV cameras around his home in Bhatpara and tracking his movements.Talking to reporters at his ...
4 April 2024 Indian ExpressThe BJP has approached the Election Commission against Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Piyush Panda in connection with his allegedly derogatory remarks over Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s caste ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. On Monday, the party submitted ...
4 April 2024 Indian ExpressThe maximum temperature touched 40 degrees Celsius in several southern parts of West Bengal on Monday, making the Met Department to issue a heat wave warning in various districts.While Bankura and Bishnupur recorded 40 degrees Celsius temperature, the maximum ...
3 April 2024 Indian ExpressA day after five people died and 200 people were left homeless after a Nor’wester (storm) hit parts of Jalpaiguri district of north Bengal, the area has been visited by political leaders turning it into a focal point for ...
3 April 2024 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday met the families affected by a heavy storm that wreaked havoc in Jalpaiguri a day before, leaving at least five persons dead, and issued directions to the district administration to conduct ...
3 April 2024 Indian ExpressThree women students of Visva-Bharati university have lodged a complaint against a guest professor, alleging that he sought sexual favours for passing them in the semester examination.Police have registered an FIR and said they are investigating the matter. In ...
2 April 2024 Indian ExpressHours after West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose on Monday removed Rajat Kishore Dey from the post of vice-chancellor of Gour Banga University for allegedly violating the Model Code of Conduct (MCC), the TMC government in the state reinstated ...
2 April 2024 Indian ExpressTMC supremo Mamata Banerjee criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday over the BJP’s Kirshnanagar candidate, Amrita Roy, a member of an erstwhile royal family whose ancestors she said had sided with Lord Clive to defeat Siraj-ud-Daulah, Bengal’s last ...
2 April 2024 Indian ExpressFormer IPS officer and BJP’s Jhargram candidate Debashish Dhar Sunday said his suspension letter did not mention the Sitalkuchi firing incident and instead stated that he was being suspended as didn’t “act properly” to control the violence that followed ...
2 April 2024 Indian ExpressThe Inda Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued an alert for more tornadoes in West Bengal after five people were killed and over 100 were injured in the Jalpaiguri district on Sunday in a nor’wester.According to IMD Delhi, tornadoes are ...
2 April 2024 Indian ExpressWest Bengal minister Udayan Guha has alleged that his car was attacked by BJP workers late on Sunday evening in the Ghugumari area as he was travelling from Dinhata to Cooch Behar town, prompting the Trinamool Congress (TMC) to ...
2 April 2024 Indian ExpressAt least five persons were killed and around 30 were injured on Sunday after a Nor’wester hit parts of Jalpaiguri district of north Bengal, officials said. Among the most affected areas were Rajarhat, Barnish, Bakali, Jorpakdi, Madhabdanga and Saptibari, ...
2 April 2024 Indian ExpressAlthough the India Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecast sporadic rains over Kolkata and southern districts of West Bengal over the next few days, the highest temperature in the western districts of Purulia, Bankura, West Midnapore and West Burdwan is ...
1 April 2024 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee came down heavily on the BJP as well as the CPM and the Congress on Sunday during her first Lok Sabha election rally since suffering a head injury earlier this month. She said ...
1 April 2024 Indian ExpressA woman was killed in the North Dum Dum area after a small part of an under-construction house fell on her on Saturday night, days after an illegal five-storied building collapsed in Kolkata’s Garden Reach area killing at least ...
1 April 2024 Indian ExpressThe BJP on Saturday announced its candidates for two more seats in West Bengal for Lok Sabha polls, taking the total number of candidates announced in the state to 40. The party will field Pranat Tudu, who is a ...
1 April 2024 Indian ExpressThe Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Saturday questioned suspended Trinamool Congress leader Shajahan Sheikh in the Basirhat Correctional Home in connection with cases involving land grabbing and financial irregularities in Sandeshkhali, an official said.Sheikh, who is currently in judicial custody, ...
1 April 2024 Indian ExpressTMC national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee Saturday challenged the BJP to launch a scheme like ‘Lakshmir Bhandar’ in states where it is in power and give beneficiaries a monthly allowance of Rs 1,500.Launched in 2021, ‘Lakshmir Bhandar’ is a ...
31 March 2024 Indian ExpressThe Communist Party of India (Marxist) has introduced an artificial intelligence (AI) anchor named ‘Samata’, meaning equality, ahead of Lok Sabha elections 2024. Sources said the anchor is experimental and that the party will use it for election campaigns.A ...
31 March 2024 Indian ExpressThe Election Commission (EC) has barred former Indian cricketer Yusuf Pathan, the Trinamool Congress (TMC) candidate from West Bengal’s Baharampur, from using photos of the Indian cricket team’s 2011 World Cup winning moments and the national flag while campaigning ...
31 March 2024 Indian ExpressThe TMC and the Left Front Friday announced candidates for the West Bengal Assembly bypolls and the seven-phase Lok Sabha elections, respectively.The ruling TMC will field actor-turned-politician Sayantika Bandyopadhyay and Reyat Hossain Sarkar for the bypolls in Baranagar and ...
31 March 2024 Indian ExpressWith the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) predicting a rise in mercury levels, Kolkata residents are unlikely to get any respite from the heat over the next few days. On Friday, the maximum temperature in the city was recorded as ...
31 March 2024 Indian ExpressThe NIA on Friday again summoned eight Trinamool Congress leaders for questioning in connection with a blast that occurred at Bhupatinagar in West Bengal’s Purba Medinipur district in 2022, an official said on Friday.The TMC accused the BJP of ...
30 March 2024 Indian ExpressThe Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Friday strongly condemned the comments made against West Bengal by Sanjeev Sanyal, member of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EAC-PM), in an interview and termed him a “modern-day Mir Jafar” over ...
30 March 2024 Indian ExpressThe Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) slammed the Trinamool Congress (TMC) Friday over a cartoon shared by the ruling party on social media purportedly showing West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee kicking a ladder on which Prime Minister Narendra Modi ...
30 March 2024 Indian ExpressAccusing Prime Minister Narendra Modi of resorting to corrupt practices “by bribing and creating undue influences”, the Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Thursday lodged a complaint with the Election Commission (EC) over the PM’s phone call to BJP’s Krishnanagar candidate ...
30 March 2024 Indian ExpressRekha Patra, the BJP candidate from Bashirhat Lok Sabha seat and one of the woman protesters from Sandeshkhali who had alleged sexual harassment, on Thursday lodged a complaint with the National Commission of Women and the National Commission for ...
30 March 2024 Indian ExpressIn the last 12 days since the Lok Sabha elections were announced on March 16, more than Rs 7 crore in cash and liquor worth more than Rs 30.96 crore has been seized from West Bengal, Additional Chief Electoral ...
30 March 2024 Indian ExpressAccusing Prime Minister Narendra Modi of resorting to corrupt practices “by bribing and creating undue influences”, the Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Thursday lodged a complaint with the Election Commission (EC) over the PM’s phone call to BJP’s Krishnanagar candidate ...
30 March 2024 Indian ExpressThe West Bengal Congress on Wednesday lodged a complaint with the Election Commission of India (ECI) against TMC Baharampur candidate Yusuf Pathan, accusing the former cricketer of violating the Model Code of Conduct (MCC) by using posters of national ...
29 March 2024 Indian ExpressThe Trinamool Congress (TMC) has decided to lodge a complaint with the Election Commission (EC) against former High Court judge and BJP candidate Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay for his comments against Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.Speaking to a Bengali news channel, ...
29 March 2024 Indian ExpressKolkata is likely to see rain from Saturday, and maximum temperatures will hover around 30 degrees Celsius in most parts of West Bengal. On Thursday, the city might see a slight rise in temperature with wind speeds of ...
29 March 2024 Indian ExpressThe West Bengal Police have booked former BJP state chief Dilip Ghosh over his controversial remarks about West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.Ghosh, who is the BJP’s candidate from Bardhaman Durgapur in the Lok Sabha elections 2024, was earlier ...
29 March 2024 Indian ExpressKolkata’s skyline is now lit up by illuminated heritage buildings that were barely visible at night not so long ago. Spearheading the initiative is Mudar Patherya, a prominent figure in Kolkata’s heritage preservation efforts who vowed to “illuminate the ...
29 March 2024 Indian ExpressTMC leader Mahua Moitra has said she will campaign in her Krishnanagar constituency on Thursday, giving a miss to the Enforcement Directorate summons that asked her to appear for questioning at the ED office in New Delhi.“I will be ...
29 March 2024 Indian ExpressA 70-year-old woman was found dead and her husband, an eye surgeon, was found unconscious inside their house in Kolkata’s Salt Lake area on Wednesday morning. A blood-stained knife was recovered by the woman’s side, the police said, adding ...
28 March 2024 Indian ExpressGourango Basak is among the last of his kind. Sitting in his one-room workshop with a loom spinning a pure Tangail saree, the 71-year-old weaver has stuck to the traditional methods of making this textile in West Bengal’s Phulia ...
28 March 2024 Indian ExpressPrime Minister Narendra Modi in a telephonic conversation with the BJP’s Krishnanagar candidate for the Lok Sabha elections, “Rajmata” Amrita Roy, said he is exploring legal options to return the money seized by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) during raids ...
28 March 2024 Indian ExpressA 75-year-old woman was found dead with stab wounds, while her husband was found lying unconscious at their Salt Lake residence in Kolkata on Wednesday morning.Police said that the 84-year-old husband, identified as retired Army doctor Jadunath Mitra, has ...
28 March 2024 Indian ExpressRamakrishna Mission president Swami Smarananandaji Maharaj died on Tuesday at the age of 94. He was admitted to the Ramkrishna Mission Seva Pratisthan hospital over age-related ailments.The Ramakrishna Mission Ashram said in a statement, “Srimat Swami Smarananandaji Maharaj, most ...
28 March 2024 Indian ExpressSporadic incidents of violence were reported from different parts of South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal on Tuesday with the campaigning for the Lok Sabha elections gaining pace in the state.In Bhangor, supporters of the Indian Secular Front ...
28 March 2024 Indian ExpressPresident of Ramakrishna Mission Swami Smaranananda died due to old age ailments at the age of 95 on Tuesday night.He became the 16th president of the order in 2017, the RK Mission said in a statement.“Srimat Swami Smarananandaji Maharaj, ...
28 March 2024 Indian ExpressPrime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday telephoned BJP’s Basirhat candidate Rekha Patra, one of the protesters against alleged sexual harassment of women and incidents of land-grabbing in Sandeshkhali by a section of Trinamool Congress leaders, and called her “shakti ...
27 March 2024 Indian ExpressHours after the Trinamool Congress (TMC) filed a complaint of poll code violation with the Election Commission (EC) against Dilip Ghosh, the BJP’s Bardhaman-Durgapur candidate, over alleged derogatory comments against West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, BJP national president ...
27 March 2024 Indian ExpressA 47-year-old ex-serviceman from West Bengal has claimed to have been tricked and taken to Russia to fight the Ukraine war. Urgen Tamang, one of the many Indians cheated by travel agents under the pretext of job recruitments, has ...
27 March 2024 Indian ExpressThe body of an unidentified man was found inside the Victoria Memorial ground in South Kolkata on Monday and the police sent it for autopsy to SSKM Hospital.After receiving information about the body, personnel from Kolkata police’s homicide department ...
27 March 2024 Indian ExpressThe Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday fielded one of its popular faces in West Bengal, Sajal Ghosh, from the Baranagar Assembly constituency which will see a bypoll on June 1. In the Bhagawangola Assembly seat, which will see ...
27 March 2024 Indian ExpressTrinamool Congress candidate from Krishnanagar Lok Sabha constituency and former MP Mahua Moitra on Sunday wrote to the Election Commission of India, alleging that the “CBI is harassing me and throttling my election campaign efforts”.This comes a day after ...
26 March 2024 Indian ExpressFollowing the death of 12 persons due to the collapse of an “illegally built” building in Garden Reach, the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has issued a 10-point list of standard operating procedures (SOPs) for the early detection and demolition ...
26 March 2024 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Education Minister Bratya Basu has accused Governor C V Ananda Bose of creating an unprecedented crisis in the functioning of state universities which have remained without permanent vice chancellors for the past 9-10 months.Basu said such a ...
26 March 2024 Indian ExpressA BJP worker was found dead under mysterious circumstances in West Bengal’s Paschim Medinipur district on Saturday. The incident has triggered a war of words between the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) and the BJP.The deceased has been identified as ...
26 March 2024 Indian ExpressThe death toll from the collapse of an illegal building in Garden Reach of Kolkata last week has risen to 12, after a woman succumbed to her injuries at a city hospital on Saturday, as local authorities said they ...
25 March 2024 Indian ExpressDays after the data released by the State Bank of India (SBI) showed that the Trinamool Congress (TMC) received Rs 1,610 crore in donations through electoral bonds, the ruling party Saturday said it did not know about the identities ...
25 March 2024 Indian ExpressIn a report submitted to President Droupadi Murmu, the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has accused the Mamata Banerjee-led state government of “neglecting the best interests of children” and “not acting as per its responsibilities” under ...
25 March 2024 Indian ExpressTrinamool Congress (TMC) Spokesperson Kunal Ghosh on Saturday claimed the party did not know which organisations or persons donated money to it under the electoral bond scheme.Talking to reporters, Ghosh said, “The Trinamool did not know how much money ...
24 March 2024 Indian ExpressThe Income Tax department’s marathon searches at Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Swarup Biswas’ residence in Kolkata over alleged tax evasion came to an end after around 70 hours on Saturday with the officials leaving the premises with several documents. ...
24 March 2024 Indian ExpressThe CPI(M)-led Left Front on Saturday announced four more candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha election. According to the names, CPI(M) state secretary Md Salim will fight from the Murshidabad seat.In these four seats, two are new candidates while ...
24 March 2024 Indian ExpressA day after the Trinamool Congress (TMC) lodged a complaint with the Election Commission of India against West Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose, he emphasised that he will be available to the people and there is no interference ...
24 March 2024 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose on Friday gave his assent to ‘The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (Amendment) Bill, 2023’, which exempts schools from paying property tax, a senior official said.“It is considered necessary and expedient to amend the Kolkata ...
24 March 2024 Indian ExpressA body, dripping with blood, was recovered by a group of sweepers while they opened a red trolley bag lying abandoned in a canal in Kolkata on Saturday, the police said.The workers who were clearing the bushy vegetation ...
24 March 2024 Indian ExpressFour days after a five-storey building collapsed in the Garden Reach area of Kolkata, the death toll in the incident reached 11 on Friday after rescue workers found another body buried under the debris.On Monday, a five-storey under-construction building ...
24 March 2024 Indian ExpressA joint ‘fact-finding’ team on Friday highlighted how land issues aggravated by “political pressures” have led to significant “environmental damage” in Sandeshkhali and nearby areas, based on the findings of a survey conducted by it.Located in North 24 Parganas ...
23 March 2024 Indian ExpressAam Aadmi Party (AAP) workers Friday alleged that they were manhandled by BJP members after they held a demonstration outside the party’s office against the arrest of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal by Enforcement Directorate (ED). Around noon, a ...
23 March 2024 Indian ExpressPointing to the launch of the “Log Sabha” portal by the Raj Bhavan to connect with the people during the Lok Sabha elections, the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Friday lodged a complaint with the Election Commission of India ...
23 March 2024 Indian ExpressHours after a 31-year-old man was found hanging in Subhashgram area of South 24 Parganas district, his family alleged that he “died by suicide over panic due to the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA),” police said on Thursday.Police said the ...
23 March 2024 Indian ExpressThe Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday conducted searches at the residence of West Bengal minister Chandranath Sinha in Bolpur in Birbhum district. The searches are being carried out in connection with the central agency’s investigation into the alleged SSC ...
23 March 2024 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday condemned the arrest of her Delhi counterpart Arvind Kejriwal by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday night, terming it “a blatant assault on democracy”.Taking to her X handle, Mamata posted, “I ...
23 March 2024 Indian ExpressHeavy snowfall in West Bengal’s highest Himalayan destination Sandakphu stranded at least 40 tourists, who were evacuated to safer places, a Darjeeling district official said on Friday.The hamlet, which offers a stunning view of the Kanchenjunga, the Everest and ...
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