Trinamool Congress MLA Madan Mitra and former party leader Sovan Chatterjee, who were arrested by the CBI in the Narada sting case, were admitted to a hospital here early on Tuesday after their health condition deteriorated in a correctional ...
19 May 2021 TelegraphThe arrest of four top Trinamul leaders, including two ministers, in connection with the Narada sting operation was the springboard for drama of all varieties, namely, political, medical and a domestic one.In the wee hours of Tuesday, two of those arrested, MLA Madan Mitra and former mayor Sovan Chatterjee, were brought ...
19 May 2021 TelegraphThe Calcutta High Court is likely to hear petitions by two Bengal ministers, a Trinamul Congress MLA and a former party leader on Wednesday seeking recall of its order staying their bail granted by a CBI court in connection ...
19 May 2021 TelegraphOfficials at two Covid vaccination centres run by the New Town Kolkata Development Authority (NKDA) are calling up potential recipients to tell them their respective time slots for inoculation to prevent crowding at the centres.The NKDA official said the ...
18 May 2021 TelegraphAt least three private hospitals in and around Calcutta are under the scanner of the health department for allegedly indirectly forcing some patients’ families to procure remdesivir from certain quarters at a higher price, a health department official said.According ...
18 May 2021 TelegraphThe West Bengal Clinical Establishment Regulatory Commission has asked three hospitals in Behala, Park Circus and New Town to stop admitting patients after allegations of overbilling and seeking deposit before admission surfaced against them on social media.The commission, which ...
18 May 2021 TelegraphHalf the Covid vaccination centres across Bengal, including those in Calcutta, were closed on Monday because of unavailability of doses and the latest change to the Covishield dosing schedule.Many people were inconvenienced as they visited the centres amid the ...
18 May 2021 TelegraphArchbishop Thomas D’Souza has asked parish priests and council members to initiate steps to identify the people who need help with regards to oxygen, medicines, Covid test and food and stand by them.The archbishop on Monday issued a circular ...
18 May 2021 TelegraphDhritiman Chatterjee, one of Satyajit Ray’s actors who worked with him in the 1970s in ‘Pratidwandi’ and then after 20 years in ‘Ganashatru’ and finally ‘Agantuk’, finds Ray and his last three films to be highly relevant in the ...
18 May 2021 TelegraphMany Covid-19 patients in home isolation in Taratala, New Alipore and Behala are heading to a gurdwara instead of a hospital when gasping for breath.Once at the gurdwara, a patient’s vital parameters are being checked by a team of ...
18 May 2021 TelegraphAn ex-serviceman was lynched allegedly by his neighbours after he protested against their goats eating up his jute saplings at Swaruppur village in Murshidabad’s Hariharpara on Monday afternoon.Sources said Abul Kalam Sheikh, 49, had retired as a soldier few ...
18 May 2021 TelegraphThe Narada sting operation, inseparable from Bengal’s political discourse and popular imagination since the summer of 2016, has been one of the two major “scams” — the other being the Saradha Group’s deposit-mobilisation default case — that the Opposition ...
18 May 2021 TelegraphThe Bengal cabinet on Monday cleared a proposal to set up a Bidhan Parishad in the state, upper House of the Assembly, which the chief minister had proposed ahead of the polls.“A proposal to set up the Bidhan Parishad ...
18 May 2021 TelegraphThe first weekday after the state government imposed stricter restrictions to combat Covid-19 was lost on Monday as far as the fight against the disease was concerned as politics behind the arrests of two ministers in the Narada case ...
18 May 2021 TelegraphThe recent Assembly polls could not bring non-BJP parties in Bengal on the same page, but the CBI’s arrest of three Trinamul leaders — including two state ministers — and a former Calcutta mayor on Monday could do that.The ...
18 May 2021 TelegraphThe CBI arrested two Bengal ministers, a Trinamul MLA and a former Calcutta mayor on Monday in the Narada case, the crackdown coming days after the BJP’s crushing Assembly poll defeat and just when the state government is battling ...
18 May 2021 TelegraphThe Trinamul Congress came out firing on all cylinders on Monday, sustaining pressure and building momentum through the day, in taking on the “politically motivated” Narada-related hyperactivity of the CBI — backed fiercely by the saffron ecosystem — thinking ...
18 May 2021 TelegraphFor a change, those who were not arrested drew almost the same, if not more, degree of attention as those who were arrested.The exclusion of the names of Suvendu Adhikari and Mukul Roy from the CBI chargesheet in the ...
18 May 2021 TelegraphA special CBI court here granted interim bail to Bengal ministers and two others in the Narada case, but within hours, Calcutta High Court overturned the order.The CBI had arrested ministers Subrata Mukherjee and Firhad Hakim, Trinamul Congress MLA ...
18 May 2021 TelegraphBengal on Monday recorded a drop in total active Covid-19 cases — by 245 to 1,31,560 — for the second consecutive day after a 65-day spell of relentless rise in the figure.On Monday, the state reported 19,003 infections and ...
18 May 2021 TelegraphA couple and their three children arrived at Howrah station from Delhi on Sunday morning and were stuck because of lack of public transport before being helped by police to reach Sealdah station on their way home.Priyanka Singh, a ...
18 May 2021 TelegraphTwo ministers, an MLA and a former mayor of Calcutta were brought to the CBI office here at Nizam Palace on Monday morning in connection with the five-year-old Narada scam, amid deteriorating relations between Bengal and the Centre.The current mayor and the state transport ...
18 May 2021 TelegraphTwo Trinamul Congress ministers, a legislator and a former first citizen of Calcutta were arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation on Monday morning, hours after they were brought to the agency’s office at Nizam Palace here in connection ...
18 May 2021 TelegraphHundreds of TMC activists on Monday took out protest rallies in the city and elsewhere in West Bengal, thumbing their noses at lockdown regulations, after the CBI arrested two state ministers, an MLA, and a former party leader in ...
18 May 2021 TelegraphA 66-year-old city businessman who left his south Calcutta home early on Sunday for his daily walk did not return home and was allegedly spotted jumping from the Howrah-bound flank of Vidyasagar Setu, police said.A body was recovered from ...
17 May 2021 TelegraphThe health department and police officers have advised Covid vaccine recipients to visit centres near home over the next fortnight, when public transport will largely remain off the road as part of the Covid containment measures of the Bengal ...
17 May 2021 TelegraphThe principal of Techno India Group Public School Garia, Sujata Ghatak, passed away early on Sunday.Ghatak, 52, had tested positive for Covid and was under treatment at a hospital over the past 20 days. She is survived by her ...
17 May 2021 TelegraphPeople living in shanties near Ballygunge railway station will get hot khichdi from Wednesday evening.Slum dwellers around Jadavpur railway station will get cereals and pulses from this week.The Covid containment measures announced by the state government, and which came ...
17 May 2021 TelegraphHours after the death of a 46-year-old Covid patient admitted in a small hospital in north Calcutta, his family alleged that the hospital did not administer remdesivir even after they procured six vials of the medicine.A complaint has been ...
17 May 2021 TelegraphA supplier of stationery to schools whose business has been closed for more than a year visited an NGO in Entally and donated 50kg of potatoes and 25kg of rice.A group of parents whose children have just started school ...
17 May 2021 TelegraphWhen you call up The Home Matters, a home kitchen, a young, enthusiastic voice answers. It is not the “professional”, bland voice that often greets a client, but one that actually seems interested in the caller.The owner of the ...
17 May 2021 TelegraphThree BJP MLAs descended on the deserted Hill Cart Road here on Sunday morning and held a sit-in demonstration to protest alleged mishandling of Covid-19 by the Mamata Banerjee government.Police arrested Shankar Ghosh, Shikha Chatterjee and Anandamoy Barman, the ...
17 May 2021 TelegraphThree children drowned in a crater filled with water at a brickfield in Ranitala of Murshidabad district on Saturday.The deceased were Sadikul Sheikh, 8, Asha Khatun, 8, and Rohit Sheikh, 6. Sadikul and Asha are Class II students, while ...
17 May 2021 TelegraphBengal’s active Covid-19 cases dropped by 143 on Sunday after a 65-day spell of relentless rise in the figure.As the state reported 19,117 infections on Sunday, the number of active patients was 1,31,805. Bengal also logged 147 deaths, the ...
17 May 2021 TelegraphA team of officers from the CID’s Special Investigation Team will reach Sitalkuchi in Cooch Behar on Monday to probe into the April 10 firing by CISF personnel, which had killed four voters during the fourth phase of elections ...
17 May 2021 TelegraphOver 400 migrant workers packed in 10 buses coming from Assam were not allowed to cross into Alipurduar district in Bengal as none of them could produce Covid-19 negative certificate, a pre-condition to enter Bengal since stricter restrictions had ...
17 May 2021 TelegraphA Covid-19 patient hospitalised in Darjeeling — a district headquarter — has no access to a ventilator, a situation that is reflective of the health care in the hills.The Darjeeling district hospital has eight beds in the Critical Care ...
17 May 2021 TelegraphA team of the Red Volunteers — an initiative spearheaded by the CPM’s student and youth wings — in Nadia’s Ranaghat rushed with aid and assistance to help the BJP’s newly Ranaghat Northwest MLA Parthasarathi Chatterjee, who developed respiratory ...
17 May 2021 TelegraphTwo BJP leaders were manhandled by their colleagues inside the state headquarters of the party here on May 10, multiple sources in the BJP have told The Telegraph.A senior state BJP functionary said on condition of anonymity that the ...
17 May 2021 TelegraphMost of the people who were out in the morning on Sunday, the first of the 15 days of strict Covid control measures in Bengal, were those heading for the market.As the day progressed, the roads became deserted. Most ...
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