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SC silent on Bengal’s Pegasus probe panel
A two-man commission set up by the Mamata Banerjee government to investigate alleged phone tapping of various persons of West Bengal using Pegasus software is functioning as usual as the Supreme Court did not say anything on the panel ...
29 October 2021 TelegraphState: Cops arrest Covid norm violators
The police are keeping a close watch on public movements in Kolkata, South 24 Parganas, North 24 Parganas and Hooghly places that have largely contributed to the spike in COVID-19 cases post Durga puja -- and have arrested people ...
29 October 2021 TelegraphCongress limited to Twitter : TMC
The Trinamul Congress (TMC) on Thursday launched a fresh attack on the Congress, accusing the grand old party of "limiting itself to Twitter space" instead of firming up an opposition alliance against the BJP.As West Bengal Chief Minister and ...
29 October 2021 TelegraphGovt meeting hits hill traffic
Commuters between the Darjeeling hills and the plains were beleaguered with the state government holding an administrative meeting in Kurseong, as the local administration decided to divert most vehicles through the Mirik route.This meant travellers from Darjeeling to Siliguri, ...
28 October 2021 TelegraphShortage of Urdu-speaking teachers
A large number of Urdu medium schools in the state may find it difficult to hold classes when they reopen on November 16 because of shortage of teachers allegedly because of the state government’s reservation matrix.The state has at ...
28 October 2021 TelegraphInitiative to prevent trafficking in tea estates
The Dooars Branch of Indian Tea Association (DBITA) has launched a project in association with the Unicef to prevent human trafficking, especially of women and children, from the Dooars tea belt.The pilot project to curb trafficking of women and ...
28 October 2021 TelegraphFlood cloud on school opening
Administrators of several schools in parts of East Midnapore are unsure of how to implement the Bengal government’s plan to reopen schools in mid-November as many school buildings are still waterlogged from the floods of last month or used ...
28 October 2021 TelegraphHC ruling next week on Alapan case shift
A division bench of Calcutta High Court on Wednesday questioned the lawyer representing the principal bench of Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) on his client’s urgency to shift the case filed by Alapan Bandyopadhyay, former chief secretary and now chief ...
28 October 2021 TelegraphMLA who quit BJP joins TMC
Krishna Kalyani, the Raiganj MLA who won the Assembly polls on a BJP ticket, but quit the party on October 1, joined Trinamul on Wednesday. By doing so, he became the fifth MLA to defect from the saffron camp since ...
28 October 2021 Telegraph5 tourists die in Uttarakhand
Five tourists from West Burdwan were killed and seven injured when their van fell into a gorge after ramming into another one of their convoy that had turned turtle on a hilly road in Uttarakhand’s Bageshwar district on Wednesday ...
28 October 2021 TelegraphBJP acid test in Dinhata bypoll
The Dinhata bypoll on October 30 is an acid test for the saffron camp in Cooch Behar.At the Assembly elections this year, the BJP had fielded Nisith Pramanik, its Cooch Behar MP, from the seat. Pramanik managed to topple ...
28 October 2021 TelegraphAsok’s wife no more
Ratna Bhattacharya, the wife of veteran CPM leader and former MLA and mayor of Siliguri Asok Bhattacharya, died at a private nursing home in Calcutta on Wednesday morning. She was 69.Party leaders said she was ailing for some time.Sharing the ...
28 October 2021 TelegraphActive Covid cases rise again
Bengal on Wednesday reported 976 new Covid-19 infections, 837 recoveries and 15 deaths, resulting in a rise by 124 in its active cases to 7,973.Bengal now has 5.02 per cent of the national total of active cases, or Covid ...
28 October 2021 Telegraph'Chomok bhora dhanteras' turns 16
Shyam Sundar jewellers like every year have a number of gifts, collections and special editions of jewellery, gems and more on offer for its annual Diwali presentations – Chomok Bhora Dhanteras.For those visiting this Gariahat outlet between October 26 ...
28 October 2021 TelegraphTMC: Goa BJP tore Mamata posters
Trinamul on Tuesday accused the BJP’s Pramod Sawant government in Goa of damaging its publicity materials two days ahead of Mamata Banerjee’s proposed visit to launch her party’s bid for power in the western state.It tweeted that the BJP ...
27 October 2021 TelegraphGTA polls after voter list: Didi
Chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday announced that elections to Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) would be held soon and initiative would also be taken to hold panchayat elections.Her announcement assumes significance as this is the first formal declaration that ...
27 October 2021 TelegraphMamata focus on hill industry
Chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday spoke extensively on the need to set up small-scale industries in the hills, the stress on industry in a region traditionally starved of organised sector employment indicating a strategy to woo voters in ...
27 October 2021 TelegraphTourist hub at India-Bhutan border
Come Diwali, and tourists intending to travel to the Dooars — particularly the eastern parts of the region that fall in Alipurduar district — will have the option to enjoy the enchanting landscape of the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan ...
27 October 2021 Telegraph4 arrested with 15kg cannabis
Police arrested four Meghalaya residents, including a woman, after 15 kilos of cannabis was seized from their vehicle in Jalpaiguri on Monday night.Police sources said they had information that an illegal consignment of narcotics would be smuggled to Bihar ...
27 October 2021 TelegraphDip in active Covid cases for second day on trot
Bengal on Tuesday reported 806 new Covid-19 infections, 811 recoveries and 15 deaths, resulting in a drop, for the second consecutive day, by 20 in its active cases to 7,849.Bengal now has 5 per cent of the national total ...
27 October 2021 TelegraphPrivate schools await circular on reopening
Authorities of private schools in Siliguri and in the hills of north Bengal are waiting for an official circular of the state government to decide if they will reopen their institutions, at least for Classes IX to XII, along ...
27 October 2021 Telegraph‘Unsafe’ in Valley, workers return
Asgar Ali, a 28-year-old who worked at an apple orchard in Kulgam district of Kashmir, returned to his village in Malda district four days ago.Ali, who had worked in Kashmir for over four years, felt unsafe in the Valley ...
27 October 2021 TelegraphNH10 reopens, bridge repair starts
Traffic along the damaged stretch of NH10, which links Sikkim and Bengal’s Kalimpong district with the rest of the country, resumed on Tuesday afternoon after a gap of six days.Since August 20, vehicular movement had come to a halt ...
27 October 2021 TelegraphAlapan moves Calcutta HC
Alapan Bandyopadhyay, former Bengal chief secretary and current chief adviser to the chief minister, moved Calcutta High Court on Tuesday challenging a decision to shift a case he had filed before the Central Administrative Tribunal bench in Calcutta to ...
27 October 2021 TelegraphMamata wary of BSF 'torture'
Continuing her tirade against the Union government over its decision to extend BSF's jurisdiction, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday alleged that the move was meant to torture common people.Banerjee also said that she respects the border ...
27 October 2021 TelegraphRonaldinho touch in Merlin sports township
Chief minister Mamata Banerjee could soon have a date with the Brazilian world-cupper and former Barcelona star Ronaldinho.The Calcutta-based real estate major, Merlin Group, is bringing three sporting icons and a martial arts exponent together at Eastern India’s first ...
27 October 2021 TelegraphCentre to Bengal: review Covid cases
Amid rise in Covid-19 cases in West Bengal, the Centre has asked the state government to immediately undertake a review of cases and deaths, and stressed on the importance of ensuring Covid-safe festivities.In a letter to the West Bengal health secretary, ...
27 October 2021 TelegraphTMC takes Tripathis from UP Congress
Trinamul Congress on Monday inducted Congress leaders from Uttar Pradesh, after similar exercises in Tripura, Assam and Goa, with Mamata Banerjee underscoring her party’s ultimate objective of ousting the BJP from the Centre.In Siliguri, Rajeshpati Tripathi and Laliteshpati Tripathi ...
26 October 2021 TelegraphCovid: 805 new cases, 11 deaths
Bengal on Monday reported 805 new Covid-19 infections, 807 recoveries and 11 deaths.The total of active cases fell by 13 to 7,869 — a drop after six consecutive days of rise.A minister said the number of new infections reported ...
26 October 2021 TelegraphBJP MPs shun poll grind in Santipur and Naihati
The beleaguered Bengal BJP is struggling to put up a united front ahead of the October 30 by-elections with the apparent reluctance of party MPs — Jagannath Sarkar and Nisith Pramanik — to campaign hard for Santipur and Dinhata, ...
26 October 2021 TelegraphGurung to focus on hill solution not GTA polls
Bimal Gurung, president of the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha, on Monday said that he would not contest the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) elections but would instead work for a “permanent political solution” with the state government.Many believe that Gurung might ...
26 October 2021 TelegraphWorry over schools in contain zones
Several government-aided schools will not be able to reopen from November 16 as they are within containment zones, set up recently after Covid-19 cases started rising in Bengal again, officials said.On Saturday, the chief secretary had asked districts to ...
26 October 2021 TelegraphProtesters ransack bank over aid delay
Over 500 women beneficiaries of Lakshmir Bhandar scheme allegedly ransacked a branch of a nationalised bank at Bongaon in North 24-Parganas on Monday morning and raised a blockade in Bongaon town accusing the bank authorities for non-cooperation in maintaining ...
26 October 2021 TelegraphTeacher assault cuffs
A local Trinamul leader and former councillor of Englishbazar municipality in Malda district, who was accused of assaulting a tribal schoolteacher after branding him a thief, was arrested from the railway station here on Monday.Paritosh Choudhury had reached Malda ...
26 October 2021 TelegraphFemale jumbos rescued near Jalpaiguri, 4 held
The state forest department rescued two female elephants on Sunday night while the animals were being taken to Jamnagar in Gujarat from Arunachal Pradesh in a truck.Four persons, including a mahout, have been arrested in this connection.On Monday, the ...
26 October 2021 TelegraphArt exhibition opens in Darjeeling
A major art exhibition was organised after a gap of 12 years in Darjeeling on Monday.The Annual Art Exhibition 2021 organised by the Himalayan Art Academy in association with Sahitya Kala Prakostha, Darjeeling, was thrown open to the public ...
26 October 2021 TelegraphSchools, colleges to reopen from Nov. 16
Mamata Banerjee on Monday announced that Classes IX to XII at state-run and state-aided schools will reopen across Bengal from November 16 along with colleges and universities, some 20 months after the pandemic forced them to close.The decision doesn’t ...
26 October 2021 TelegraphBengal: schools, colleges to reopen mid-November
Educational institutions in Bengal will open from mid-November, as announced on Monday by chief minister Mamata Banerjee at Siliguri, amid a rise in Covid cases across the state post-Durga Puja.“Schools and colleges should be reopened from November 15 onwards. ...
26 October 2021 TelegraphDidi fires BSF land-grab gun, asks PM to pull back jurisdiction
Chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to immediately withdraw a Union home ministry notification that extends the jurisdiction of the Border Security Force (BSF) from 15km to 50km within Indian territory from the international ...
25 October 2021 TelegraphFish 'taller than a man' trapped in Gosaba
A team of five fishermen — Bikash Burman, Rahul Burman, Saikat Burman, Kamalesh Burman and Kalipad Barr — from Sonagaon village of Gosaba island, South 24-Parganas, trapped a Bhola fish “taller than a man” from a creek linked to ...
25 October 2021 Telegraph