The Coromandel Express, country’s one of the flagship super fast trains has resumed its journey on the tracks after the horrific 2 June Balasore tragedy, but, it seems, the authorities might have shillyshallied, especially on the 370-km Odisha stretch, ...
9 June 2023 StatesmanTrinamool Congress national general secretary, Abhishek Banerjee’s wife, Rujira Banerjee, on Thursday stepped out of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) office after being questioned for over four hours in connection with the alleged coal smuggling case.Earlier, on Tuesday, Rujira was ...
9 June 2023 StatesmanThe Enforcement Directorate on Thursday issued a summon to Trinamool Congress national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee to appear before it on June 13 in connection with the alleged teacher recruitment scam.Reacting to this, Banerjee, while addressing to Media in ...
9 June 2023 StatesmanPassengers were heard battling fear and challenges of survival and finally overcome apprehensions to be able to make a living, as the Coromandel Express chugged out of Shalimar station on the up journey at 3.25 pm today after days ...
8 June 2023 StatesmanThree Balasore train accident survivors taken to a Burdwan nursing home by their family members complained of siphoning of blood by the health care unit, which sparked off tension in the town today. Three accident survivors, Sabuj Sheikh, Nasrul ...
8 June 2023 StatesmanThe Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) initiated a comprehensive investigation into a multi-crore recruitment scam in the state municipalities. On Wednesday, the CBI conducted simultaneous raids and search operations in various locations across the state. Accompanied by Central armed ...
8 June 2023 StatesmanAngry at the CBI raids on at least 14 civic bodies, chief minister Mamata Banerjee took a swipe at the CBI alacrity and wondered if the agency would now raid the washrooms in pursuit of its investigation. "Since morning, ...
8 June 2023 StatesmanAfter a month-long uncertainty, the Governor House in West Bengal has ultimately cleared the name of retired Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer and former state chief secretary Rajiva Sinha as the new state elections commissioner.The chair of the West ...
8 June 2023 StatesmanStepping up her attack on the Central government, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday slammed the Railway Board’s decision to hand over the inquiry into the Odisha train accident to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) saying ...
6 June 2023 StatesmanA public interest litigation (PIL) was filed in the high court on Monday challenging Governor CV Ananda Bose’s decision to appoint interim vicechancellors (VC) of 11 universities. Dr Bose has also been made a party in the case. A retired ...
6 June 2023 StatesmanRujira Narula Banerjee, wife of Trinamul Congress’ national general secretary and Lok Sabha MP Abhishek Banerjee was stopped by the immigration department at the Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport (NSCBI) in Kolkata from boarding a flight to Thailand. ...
6 June 2023 StatesmanThe eastern zone of the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC), has introduced two more Bharat Gaurav Special Tourist Train packages from Kolkata. The first trains from Kolkata, under the latest addition to the Bharat Gaurav initiative, are ...
6 June 2023 StatesmanThe Calcutta High Court on Monday sought to know how a privately outsourced agency got access to the “confidential section” of West Bengal Board of Primary Education (WBBPE), as the optical mark recognition (OMR) sheets used in the recruitment ...
6 June 2023 StatesmanChief minister Mamata Banerjee said this afternoon that 62 people from Bengal died in the tragic train accident in Odisha, as per the latest count. With at least 182 of the 275 people who died in the mishap not ...
5 June 2023 StatesmanRubbishing the claims being circulated on social media that around 3,000 people had died during the time when Mamata Banerjee was the railways minister, she said it was most unfortunate that to cover up its own faults the saffron ...
5 June 2023 StatesmanEastern Railway team provided yeoman service in rescue and restoration work following derailment of Train No. 12841 Shalimar-Chennai Coromandel Express and Train No. 12864 Sir M Visvesvaraya (Bengaluru) – Howrah Superfast Express near Bahanaga Bazar railway station around 7pm ...
5 June 2023 StatesmanThe Tea Association of India (TAI) representing tea producers in Assam and West Bengal have expressed concern over the climate change coupled with subdued international and domestic markets. Erratic weather patterns, extreme temperature and insufficient rainfall have severely affected ...
5 June 2023 StatesmanThe Supreme Court on Friday declined an early listing of the West Bengal government’s plea against the high court’s order allowing the Central Bureau of Investigation and the Directorate of Enforcement to investigate allegations of irregularities in the recruitment ...
3 June 2023 StatesmanA day after state education minister Bratya Basu had termed the appointments of vice-chancellors (VCs) in 11 universities by the Governor CV Ananda Bose as “illegal”, as it was done sans any consultation with the government, the chancellor of ...
3 June 2023 StatesmanIn an apparently unheard of incident, the state health department cancelled the transfer order of Dr Sandip Ghosh, principal of RG Kar Medical College Hospital, within 24 hours. The latter was transferred to the Murshidabad Medical College Hospital (MMCH) as ...
3 June 2023 StatesmanTaking another step towards saving the environment, the Kolkata Municipal Corporation today announced a contest for encouraging creative use of plastic bottles instead of being thrown away and increasing environmental hazards, on the occasion of World Environment Day, 5 ...
3 June 2023 StatesmanThe West Bengal government has moved the Supreme Court against the Calcutta High Court order refusing an interim stay on the previous order of its single-judge bench allowing the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and ED to investigate the ...
3 June 2023 StatesmanThe Supreme Court on Friday declined an early listing of the West Bengal government’s plea against the State High Court’s order allowing the Central Bureau of Investigation and the Directorate of Enforcement to investigate allegations of irregularities and wrong ...
3 June 2023 StatesmanChief minister Mamata Banerjee today sent out a clear message to the students community that the government would not allow financial constraints to come in the way of their fulfilling their academic aspirations. Instead the government would be the ...
2 June 2023 StatesmanThis month, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP national president JP Nadda will participate in several major events in Bengal to launch the party’s Lok Sabha election campaign in the state. According to sources, ...
2 June 2023 StatesmanWith Trinamul Congress national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee embarking on a 20-km walk in Nandigram as part of Tinamoole Nabo Jowar outreach campaign on Thursday, there was a lot of buzz around it. Even the social media buzzed with ...
2 June 2023 StatesmanTrinamul Congress spokesperson Mr Kunal Ghosh has urged the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to interrogate him and Mr Suvendu Adhikari, BJP MLA and Leader of the Opposition, together to probe the mystery behind the Saradha Group chief Mr ...
2 June 2023 StatesmanChief Minister Mamata Banerjee today demanded the arrest of Brij Bhusan Swaran Singh, president of the Wrestling Federation of India and BJP MP, for allegedly sexually harassing some of the country"s top women wrestlers. Miss Banerjee took part in ...
1 June 2023 StatesmanSujay Krishna Bhadra, aka Kalighater Kaku, who was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) Tuesday night, following 12-hour marathon interrogation, was taken to ESI Joka for medical tests and then presented at ED Special court, Bankshall on Wednesday. He ...
1 June 2023 StatesmanIn a bid to improve quality of leadership and services, the Ramakrishna Mission is sending a monk to the Harvard Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Swami Chidekananda and Swami Harinamananda had earlier been sent to the school. Swami Sarvapriyananda, ...
1 June 2023 StatesmanNational general secretary of Trinamul Congress Abhishek Banerjee had visited Sujoy Krishna Bhadra’s residence at Behala several times on different occasions, claimed Bhadra, elder brother on Wednesday. Sujoy alias Kaligater Kaku, who is close to Mr Banerjee, was arrested ...
1 June 2023 StatesmanWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday joined a rally to protest against the recent manhandling of the wrestlers by Delhi Police. On Tuesday only, she had advised state sports Minister Arup Biswas to organise the protest rally ...
1 June 2023 StatesmanKeeping an eye on the upcoming panchayat elections, chief minister Mamata Banerjee today announced a big recruitment drive with around 1.25 lakh people to be recruited within this year. The process for filling up vacancies would begin within the ...
31 May 2023 StatesmanA decision on the appointment of new state election commissioner in West Bengal will be taken at appropriate time, Governor CV Ananda Bose said on Tuesday. However, he did not give any specific deadline by when his office will ...
31 May 2023 StatesmanIf all goes as planned, vehicle owners might have to pay revised charges for parking in the limits of Kolkata Municipal Corporation. Going a step ahead in its plan of revising the rates, the civic body has sent a ...
31 May 2023 StatesmanThe Trinamul Congress, led by Mamata Banerjee serves BJP’s objectives by doing politics of ‘poaching’ in West Bengal and other states, said Congress leader Jairam Ramesh. A day after its lone MLA Bayron Biswas joined Trinamul Congress on Monday the ...
31 May 2023 StatesmanChief minister Mamata Banerjee, today apologised to the residents of Khadikul village for a fatal explosion that occurred at an illegal firecracker factory in the village, located within Egra police station limits in East Midnapore earlier this month. The ...
28 May 2023 StatesmanChief Minister Mamata Banerjee, today, accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of attempting to replicate the ethnic violence witnessed in Manipur within her state. She condemned the attack on state minister Birbaha Hansda’s vehicle and asserted that it was ...
28 May 2023 StatesmanThe two men arrested in connection with the robbery carried out at a jewellery store in Barrackpore that left one person dead had planned to pull another heist at a jewellery store in Kadamtola, Howrah, but changed their minds, ...
28 May 2023 StatesmanThe state-owned South Bengal State Transport Corporation (SBSTC) plans to set up three CNG fuelling stations of its own in Asansol, Durgapur and Arambagh in the coming months. Today at a function in Asansol bus stand, law, judiciary and ...
28 May 2023 Statesman