Maverick TMC MLA Madan Mitra, who is popular among a cross section of netizens for his regular Facebook live shows, has announced on the networking site that he would be deactivating his profile for five months in accordance with ...
22 January 2022 TelegraphAt 87, Manik Ranjan Chakraborty is possibly the oldest campaigner on the streets across all parties in this civic election. “My official age is 83. Char bochhor jol meshano achhe,” he grins. Whichever figure one takes into consideration, his ...
22 January 2022 TelegraphIn a crack in Left Front unity, partners CPM and CPI are facing off in Ward 32, comprising Karunamoyee, EE and DL blocks, where both have fielded candidates. And what has given things a more serious turn is the ...
22 January 2022 TelegraphA motley group of five presses the door bell and as an elderly lady opens the door, the party workers greet her: “Nomoskar. Our candidate is here to seek your blessings.” This is the cue for the candidate to ...
22 January 2022 TelegraphThe Darjeeling hills received snowfall for the third time in less than a month on Thursday afternoon as the mercury dipped across north Bengal since Wednesday night.A number of locations in the adjoining foothills also experienced a sudden bout ...
21 January 2022 TelegraphCalcutta High Court on Thursday directed the Bengal government to provide facilities enjoyed by state ministers to Opposition leader Suvendu Adhikari.Following a petition by Adhikari, Justice Rajasekhar Mantha also directed the government to ensure that loudspeakers were not used ...
21 January 2022 TelegraphBickering within the Bengal BJP aggravated on Thursday as four MLAs from Bankura wrote to the party’s national president J.P. Nadda seeking the removal of the Bankura organisational district chief.A day earlier, five of the six BJP MLAs from ...
21 January 2022 TelegraphThe Supreme Court on Thursday granted interim protection to Trinamul Congress leader Sheikh Sufiyan from arrest in a case registered by the CBI in connection with a murder following the publication of Assembly poll results in Bengal in May.Sufiyan ...
21 January 2022 TelegraphConservancy workers of Kurseong municipality organised a clean-up drive in the civic area of the hill town on Thursday and cleared garbage from drains and streams.Kurseong is located around 40km from Siliguri.It is because of the clogging of the ...
21 January 2022 TelegraphThree persons, all residents of north India, were arrested after around 48 kilos of pangolin scales were recovered from their possession in Siliguri early on Thursday.According to forest sources, a team of Baikunthapur forest led by range officer Sanjay ...
21 January 2022 TelegraphTwo migrant workers from North 24-Parganas’ Hasnabad, and their family members, who were allegedly misled and roped into a situation of bondage at a brickfield in Andhra Pradesh in December were rescued and returned home last week following initiatives ...
21 January 2022 TelegraphA herd of tuskers trampled to death a person and injured two at a village in Bankura’s Jhagrapur area early on Thursday.Sources said a herd of seven adult tuskers and four calves wandered into the Chhapna village and attacked ...
21 January 2022 TelegraphOver a hundred contractual workers posted at the Malda Medical College & Hospital (MMCH), who were laid off from service from August last year demonstrated till midnight in front of the office of the vice principal, who is also ...
21 January 2022 TelegraphNorth Bengal reported 2,210 fresh Covid-19 cases on Thursday.Among the districts, the highest number of cases have been reported in Malda (480), followed by Jalpaiguri (468) and Darjeeling (386) districts.Two Covid-19 patients, one each from Darjeeling and Malda districts, ...
21 January 2022 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee, in a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has expressed her reservations to the proposed changes in rules for deputation of IAS officers from state governments.“The moot point of the further revised draft amendment proposal ...
21 January 2022 TelegraphGorkha Janmukti Morcha leader Bimal Gurung has hinted at going alone in hill politics, one-and-a-half-years after dumping the BJP and joining hands with the Trinamul Congress.Many hill politicians, however, consider the statement as a Freudian slip on Gurung’s part.“In ...
20 January 2022 TelegraphA number of candidates contesting the civic polls in Siliguri and Chandernagore have been infected by Covid-19, much to the concern of their parties and supporters who have to redraw campaign plan as they have the option to reach ...
20 January 2022 TelegraphMembers of families, which had donated land to set up various government projects earlier but were yet to get promised government jobs, agitated in front of the Birbhum district magistrate’s office on Wednesday.They were demanding jobs and questioned the ...
20 January 2022 TelegraphThree police personnel, including an assistant sub-inspector, posted at Kaliachak police station in Malda district have been suspended for allegedly stealing Rs 25 lakh and gold worth around Rs 14 lakh from the house of a labour contractor on ...
20 January 2022 TelegraphBengal on Wednesday reported 11,447 Covid-19 infections, including 2,154 from Calcutta.In 24 hours till 9am on Wednesday, the state also logged 15,418 recoveries and 38 deaths, resulting in a drop in the total of active cases by 4,009 to ...
20 January 2022 TelegraphA labour unrest that disrupted production at the Exide battery factory in Haldia on Monday and Tuesday and a subsequent complaint by the company to Mamata Banerjee prompted the arrest of four prominent leaders of Trinamul’s trade union, law ...
20 January 2022 TelegraphA preliminary report prepared by the Northeast Frontier Railway on the derailment of the 15633 Bikaner-Guwahati Express has revealed that its electric loco was not checked as scheduled earlier this month, said sources who are in the know of ...
20 January 2022 TelegraphA 21-year-old youth from Cooch Behar, who had cycled for over 10,000km and covered 19 states while imparting messages of peace, amity, integrity and education for all, was felicitated by the Trinamul Congress upon the completion of the journey ...
20 January 2022 TelegraphWorkers laying a road in West Midnapore stumbled upon a sack full of arms and ammunition on Wednesday afternoon after a pay loader hit a heavy object.The cache found at Nalbona village in Goaltore, nearly 170km from Calcutta, was ...
20 January 2022 TelegraphBJP IT cell in-charge Amit Malviya, who has been tweeting about the alleged rift between Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and her nephew, Trinamool Congress national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee, on Wednesday accused the Diamond Harbour MP of running a ...
20 January 2022 TelegraphTrinamul Congress supporters allegedly vandalised a BJP office, ransacked leaders’ vehicles, hurled stones and roughed up rival activists at Gayeshpur near Kalyani in Nadia on Tuesday evening.According to sources, about 300 Trinamul activists gheraoed BJP’s Bongaon organisational district committee ...
19 January 2022 TelegraphA businessman and his alleged woman companion were arrested on the charges of killing his eight-month pregnant wife and portraying the murder as a result of a highway robbery.Ekramul Haque, 28, owns a shopping complex at his native place ...
19 January 2022 TelegraphJunior Union minister and Bongaon BJP MP Santanu Thakur will soon embark on a rally across his Lok Sabha constituency to demonstrate “his strength and acceptability’’ among the electorate, said a source close to the young leader.Thakur recently emerged ...
19 January 2022 TelegraphThe Padmaja Naidu Himalayan Zoological Park here has released four captive-born red pandas into the wild after a gap of almost 17 years.The Darjeeling zoo was the first one in the country to release captive-bred animals into the wild. ...
19 January 2022 TelegraphAs many as 97 green parrot hatchlings seized from smugglers recently turned out to have died in the custody of customs authorities in North 24-Parganas’s Tentulia.The incident reportedly came to light on Monday when the Basirhat ACJM court made ...
19 January 2022 TelegraphThe Mamata Banerjee government is set to launch a drive to link Aadhaar cards to the bank accounts of those who avail themselves of the state’s pension schemes by March 31 in an apparent bid to ensure that all ...
19 January 2022 TelegraphThe state government will launch this month technical training for youths in the area for the proposed Deocha-Pachami coal mine so that they can get jobs when the project starts.Officials said the government would organise training camps on motor-mechanism, ...
19 January 2022 TelegraphThe Samajwadi Party said on Tuesday that Mamata Banerjee would conduct two sets of joint public meetings and news conferences with Akhilesh Yadav in Uttar Pradesh’s Lucknow and Varanasi virtually next month ahead of the Assembly polls in the ...
19 January 2022 TelegraphMamata Banerjee on Tuesday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi registering her “strong reservations” over the proposed amendments to the IAS (Cadre) Rules, 1954, and urged him to roll back the decision and uphold the “spirit of co-operative federalism”.“Not ...
19 January 2022 TelegraphBengal on Tuesday reported 10,430 Covid-19 cases, including 2,205 from Calcutta.In 24 hours till 9am on Tuesday, the state also logged 13,308 recoveries and 34 deaths, resulting in a drop in the total of active cases by 2,912 to ...
19 January 2022 TelegraphNarayan Debnath, the creator of Bengali comics based on the immortal characters of Bantul and Nonte & Fonte, died of age-related health complications here on Tuesday. He was 96.Debnath was admitted to a private hospital near Minto Park in ...
19 January 2022 TelegraphA three-member team of experts from the State Forensic Science Laboratory (SFSL) in Calcutta visited the train accident site at Domohoni on Monday.They examined the derailed coaches, various dismantled parts and collected samples from different places which would be ...
18 January 2022 TelegraphA crab hunter was mauled to death by a royal Bengal tiger in the Sunderbans on Monday morning.Jahangir Baulia, 31, from Kalitala village near Hemnagar was killed in the Jhila (zone 6) forest. The victim, along with Manoranjan Mondal ...
18 January 2022 TelegraphA 28-year-old social worker and trader from East Burdwan’s Palla Road, Sandipan Sarkar, has invited 400 people for his wedding on the evening of January 24, but without flouting the 200-head ceiling set by the state government for such ...
18 January 2022 TelegraphViolence rocked the Kadamtala area of Ghughumari near Cooch Behar on Monday morning as a section of locals who had resorted to a road blockade attacked a police team. Police had to resort to lathicharge and also burst teargas shells ...
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