Amid allegations of rampant illegal constructions in Calcutta's Garden Reach area, where a tragic under-construction building collapse claimed at least four lives and left several injured, the Calcutta High Court is set to hear two Public Interest Litigations (PILs) ...
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19 March 2024 TelegraphAt least seven people, including two women, were killed and several others injured after an under-construction five-storey building collapsed in the Garden Reach area of Kolkata, police said on Monday.The toll could go up since at least four people ...
19 March 2024 TelegraphThe death of five persons in the collapse of an under-construction building here has triggered a political duel between the TMC and the opposition in poll-bound Bengal with the saffron camp dubbing it as a "TMC-made disaster" and the ...
19 March 2024 TelegraphCriticising the removal of West Bengal DGP Rajeev Kumar, the Trinamul Congress on Monday claimed it was a glaring example of BJP's "control" over the Election Commission (EC).Addressing a press conference, TMC general secretary Kunal Ghosh claimed that BJP ...
19 March 2024 TelegraphClaiming that the collapsed under-construction building at Garden Reach was coming up during the last couple of years only, CPI(M) Rajya Sabha member and former Calcutta mayor Bikash Bhattacharya on Monday accused the ruling Trinamul Congress of blaming the ...
19 March 2024 TelegraphFollowing the instruction of the Election Commission of India (ECI), the West Bengal government on Monday appointed Vivek Sahay as the new DGP of the state, according to sources.The appointment was made within hours after the poll panel removed ...
19 March 2024 TelegraphTrinamul Congress MP Saket Gokhale on Monday filed a complaint against Prime Minister Narendra Modi alleging that he violated the poll code by using an Indian Air Force helicopter to attend an election rally in Andhra Pradesh. ...
19 March 2024 TelegraphThe state government has released funds worth Rs 29 crore, sent by the Centre, to the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) for hill panchayats.A letter dated March 12 from the office of the special secretary of the panchayat and rural ...
19 March 2024 TelegraphVisva-Bharati’s festival of colours, Basanta Utsav, which coincides with Holi, is not likely to take place this month for the fifth consecutive year as varsity authorities are wary of any damage to the campus, which is a Unesco-recognised world ...
19 March 2024 TelegraphTrinamul Congress on Sunday strongly criticised veteran BJP leader and former Meghalaya governor Tathagata Roy for his controversial remarks about determining one's religion and grant citizenship accordingly.In a post on X, the party condemned Roy's remarks, stating that he ...
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19 March 2024 TelegraphAmid allegations of rampant illegal constructions in Calcutta's Garden Reach area, where a tragic under-construction building collapse claimed at least four lives and left several injured, the Calcutta High Court is set to hear two Public Interest Litigations (PILs) ...
19 March 2024 TelegraphAt least seven people, including two women, were killed and several others injured after an under-construction five-storey building collapsed in the Garden Reach area of Kolkata, police said on Monday.The toll could go up since at least four people ...
19 March 2024 TelegraphWithin 24 hours of the announcement of poll dates for general elections, West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose on Sunday launched a portal 'Log Sabha' to listen to the grievances of voters and directly connect with them during the ...
18 March 2024 TelegraphThe CPM conceded to ally RSP’s demand for the Alipurduar Lok Sabha constituency on Sunday, for which the name of Mili Oraon was announced, after hectic parleys through the day.At the bipartite meetings between the CPM and the other ...
18 March 2024 TelegraphRehena Bewa of Subhrajpur village in Thanarpara, Nadia, broke down on Friday morning when she heard that her “sister” Manjushree Mandal had died at a hospital.The 61-year-old Bewa rushed to the Mandal home — the lone Hindu household in ...
18 March 2024 TelegraphThe All India Matua Mahasangha has decided to advise community members not to submit citizenship applications till a new government is formed and simplifies the process.The decision by the community’s apex organisation comes at a time many Matuas’ attempts ...
18 March 2024 TelegraphTwo persons died and seven others were injured as an under-construction five-storeyed building collapsed in the Garden Reach area of Kolkata, city mayor Firhad Hakim said on Monday.Hakim apprehended that some more people might still be trapped under the ...
18 March 2024 TelegraphThe state government has released funds worth Rs 29 crore, sent by the Centre, to the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) for hill panchayats.A letter dated March 12 from the office of the special secretary of the panchayat and rural ...
18 March 2024 TelegraphVisva-Bharati’s festival of colours, Basanta Utsav, which coincides with Holi, is not likely to take place this month for the fifth consecutive year as varsity authorities are wary of any damage to the campus, which is a Unesco-recognised world ...
18 March 2024 TelegraphBimal Gurung, who once lorded over Darjeeling hills, has started an outreach ahead of the Lok Sabha polls after lying low for years.Gurung's outreach comes at a time when the United Front for Smaller States (UFSS) — a forum ...
18 March 2024 TelegraphBengal, along with Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, will vote in every leg of the seven-phase Lok Sabha polls that will begin on April 19 and continue till June 1, the longest stretch of parliamentary polls that the state has ...
18 March 2024 TelegraphWest Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose has constituted a team of experts to conduct a study of the lands in Sandeshkhali that were illegally grabbed from villagers and turned into fish farms, and suggest ways to utilise them, an ...
18 March 2024 TelegraphBimal Gurung, who once lorded over Darjeeling hills, has started an outreach ahead of the Lok Sabha polls after lying low for years.Gurung's outreach comes at a time when the United Front for Smaller States (UFSS) — a forum ...
18 March 2024 TelegraphThe CBI on Saturday arrested Sheikh Alamgir, brother of recently arrested Sandehskhali strongman Sheikh Shahjahan, and two others for allegedly spearheading an attack on the visiting ED team on January 5.Alamgir evaded questions and tried to mislead investigators, central ...
18 March 2024 TelegraphElections to the Sikkim Assembly and Lok Sabha will be held on April 19, the first of the seven phases of the 2024 general elections."The president of Sikkim Krantikari Morcha (SKM) and also the chief minister of Sikkim is ...
18 March 2024 TelegraphGopal Lama, the Darjeeling Trinamul Congress candidate from its hill ally, the Bharatiya Gorkha Prajatantrik Morcha (BGPM), kick-started his campaign from the Terai region of the constituency with “development” on his lips. Trinamul has never won the Darjeeling Lok ...
18 March 2024 TelegraphWest Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose has constituted a team of experts to conduct a study of the lands in Sandeshkhali that were illegally grabbed from villagers and turned into fish farms, and suggest ways to utilise them, an ...
18 March 2024 TelegraphEstablished in 1774 by the then Governor General of Bengal, Warren Hastings, Kolkata GPO holds the distinction of being India's first general post office. Over its 250-year history, it has served as a testament to the evolution of postal ...
18 March 2024 TelegraphMembers of about a dozen civil society groups on Saturday decided to reach out to the Matua community in Bengal to explain why they should not apply for citizenship under the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), which came into effect ...
18 March 2024 TelegraphElections to the Sikkim Assembly and Lok Sabha will be held on April 19, the first of the seven phases of the 2024 general elections."The president of Sikkim Krantikari Morcha (SKM) and also the chief minister of Sikkim is ...
18 March 2024 TelegraphThe CBI on Saturday arrested Sheikh Alamgir, brother of recently arrested Sandehskhali strongman Sheikh Shahjahan, and two others for allegedly spearheading an attack on the visiting ED team on January 5.Alamgir evaded questions and tried to mislead investigators, central ...
18 March 2024 TelegraphThe BJP is facing a bizarre situation in Darjeeling with two of its MLAs threatening to contest as Independents in this Lok Sabha election for contrasting reasons.Neeraj Zimba, the two-time Darjeeling MLA on a BJP ticket, on Saturday said ...
18 March 2024 TelegraphAbhishek Banerjee, Trinamul’s national general secretary, at Belda, West Midnapore, on Saturday, came down heavily on the BJP-led centre for not releasing MGNREGS wages in Bengal, making it clear that the Centre's funds freeze was a major Trinamul poll ...
18 March 2024 TelegraphThe Trinamul Congress on Saturday said the seven-phase polls in Bengal would work to the advantage of the BJP which got more financial resources and slammed the Election Commission of India (ECI) for not considering its demand for the ...
18 March 2024 TelegraphThe Howrah Maidan-Esplanade metro section, which passes below the Hooghly river through the country's first under-water transportation tunnel, carried more than 70,000 passengers on the first day of its operation, an official said on Saturday.Commercial operation on the stretch ...
17 March 2024 TelegraphBengal, along with Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, will vote in every leg of the seven-phase Lok Sabha polls that will begin on April 19 and continue till June 1, the longest stretch of parliamentary polls that the state has ...
17 March 2024 TelegraphAbhishek Banerjee, Trinamul’s national general secretary, at Belda, West Midnapore, on Saturday, came down heavily on the BJP-led centre for not releasing MGNREGS wages in Bengal, making it clear that the Centre's funds freeze was a major Trinamul poll ...
17 March 2024 TelegraphThe Trinamul Congress on Saturday said the seven-phase polls in Bengal would work to the advantage of the BJP which got more financial resources and slammed the Election Commission of India (ECI) for not considering its demand for the ...
17 March 2024 Telegraph