Members of the Kishan community in Malda district have expressed disgruntlement with the Trinamul Congress for not meeting their longstanding demand for the Scheduled Tribe (ST) status.On Friday, representatives of the Malda Jela Kishan Janajati Seba Samity, which represents ...
16 March 2024 TelegraphThe BJP’s plan to start an early campaign for the Lok Sabha elections in Bengal has suffered a setback in 23 constituencies, especially in six seats where the party won in 2019, because of a delay in the announcement ...
16 March 2024 TelegraphJustice Amrita Sinha of Calcutta High Court, who is dealing with the alleged scam in the primary teachers’ recruitment, observed on Friday that the quantum of money laundered was mindboggling and for the sake of a better probe, she ...
16 March 2024 TelegraphTrinamul’s second-in-command Abhishek Banerjee, in Jalpaiguri on Thursday, took a dig at the BJP's Lok Sabha poll slogan “Modi Ki Guarantee (Modi’s guarantee)", pitting it against “Didir Guarantee (the guarantee of chief minister and Trinamul chief Mamata Banerjee)".“Modi’s guarantee ...
16 March 2024 TelegraphGopal Lama, the candidate of the Trinamul Congress-Bharatiya Gorkha Prajatantrik Morcha alliance for the Darjeeling Lok Sabha seat, seems to have made a false start to his campaign by stating there would be no “issues left” if development is ...
16 March 2024 TelegraphThe North Bengal University (NBU), the oldest varsity in the region, has been running without administrative officials, much to the concern of faculty members, employees and students.According to them, the situation will worsen in the next month as the ...
16 March 2024 TelegraphCommercial services of the country's first underwater metro train commenced in Calcutta on Friday with hundreds of passengers erupting into jubilation on their first ride.A train began its journey from the Howrah Maidan station on the East-West metro corridor ...
16 March 2024 TelegraphA day after stating that West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had a fall at her Kalighat residence "due to some push from behind" leading to injuries on forehead and nose, state-run SSKM Hospital director Manimoy Bandyopadhyay on Friday ...
16 March 2024 TelegraphTwo sitting parliamentarians from the Trinamul Congress -- Barrackpur MP Arjun Singh and Tamluk MP Dibyendu Adhikari -- joined the Bharatiya Janata Party on Friday. Arjun Singh, who had earlier joined the BJP in 2019 after quitting TMC and ...
16 March 2024 TelegraphGopal Lama, the candidate of the Trinamul Congress-Bharatiya Gorkha Prajatantrik Morcha alliance for the Darjeeling Lok Sabha seat, seems to have made a false start to his campaign by stating there would be no “issues left” if development is ...
16 March 2024 TelegraphTrinamul’s second-in-command Abhishek Banerjee, in Jalpaiguri on Thursday, took a dig at the BJP's Lok Sabha poll slogan “Modi Ki Guarantee (Modi’s guarantee)", pitting it against “Didir Guarantee (the guarantee of chief minister and Trinamul chief Mamata Banerjee)".“Modi’s guarantee ...
16 March 2024 TelegraphBarrackpore MP Arjun Singh on Thursday announced his decision to rejoin the BJP but refrained from discussing the possibility of contesting from the same seat as the party's nominee. "I am aligning with the BJP. Today, I am heading ...
16 March 2024 TelegraphA team of seven “victims” from Sandeshkhali will meet President Droupadi Murmu at Rashtrapati Bhavan on Friday, to apprise her of crimes against women and land-grab allegedly by local Trinamul leaders and demand central forces in the area.A BJP ...
16 March 2024 TelegraphThe Left Front on Thursday announced its first list of 16 Lok Sabha candidates, leaving the door ajar for seat-sharing with the Congress amid efforts to retain ties with the ISF although Nawsad Siddique's party has laid claim to ...
16 March 2024 TelegraphUnion home minister Amit Shah is likely to hold his first rally in Bengal as part of the Lok Sabha election campaign at the Matua stronghold of Thakurnagar in an apparent bid by the BJP to clear the community’s ...
16 March 2024 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee was hospitalised on Thursday evening after she injured her forehead apparently after a fall at home. By 9.45 pm, a bandaged Mamata was on her way home after having received multiple stitches. Though the wound ...
15 March 2024 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee cut her crown after being “pushed from behind” at home on Thursday evening, but returned stitched up and stable from SSKM Hospital a few hours later.Conversations with multiple sources suggested that Mamata, 69, had fallen ...
15 March 2024 TelegraphUnion home minister Amit Shah is likely to hold his first rally in Bengal as part of the Lok Sabha election campaign at the Matua stronghold of Thakurnagar in an apparent bid by the BJP to clear the community’s ...
15 March 2024 TelegraphThe Left Front on Thursday announced its first list of 16 Lok Sabha candidates, leaving the door ajar for seat-sharing with the Congress amid efforts to retain ties with the ISF although Nawsad Siddique's party has laid claim to ...
15 March 2024 TelegraphA team of seven “victims” from Sandeshkhali will meet President Droupadi Murmu at Rashtrapati Bhavan on Friday, to apprise her of crimes against women and land-grab allegedly by local Trinamul leaders and demand central forces in the area.A BJP ...
15 March 2024 TelegraphBarrackpore MP Arjun Singh on Thursday announced his decision to rejoin the BJP but refrained from discussing the possibility of contesting from the same seat as the party's nominee. "I am aligning with the BJP. Today, I am heading ...
15 March 2024 TelegraphAround 8,000 residents of five villages near the Bangladesh border in Jalpaiguri district have been facing a peculiar problem for the past nine years.Since 2015, they have neither been able to sell their land nor provide it to the ...
15 March 2024 TelegraphWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's health condition is "stable", a senior official of the state administration said on Friday.The 69-year-old Banerjee, who suffered a major injury on her forehead and nose during a fall inside her Kalighat residence ...
15 March 2024 TelegraphThree workers hailing from West Bengal were killed after their motorcycle hit the railing of a bridge and they fell into a dry canal in Chhattisgarh's Dhamtari district, police said on Thursday. The accident took place on ...
15 March 2024 TelegraphDisgruntled TMC leader Arjun Singh on Thursday said he would return to the BJP after he was denied a party ticket from the Barrackpore Lok Sabha seat which he represents.Singh also claimed that a "top TMC leader" would join ...
15 March 2024 TelegraphThe ED on Thursday conducted raids at the residences of two businessmen with “close links” to arrested TMC leader Shajahan Sheikh, in West Bengal’s Sandeshkhali, in connection with an alleged ration distribution scam, an official said.Sleuths of the probe ...
15 March 2024 TelegraphThree years after its historic victory halting the BJP's advance in Bengal, the Trinamul Congress (TMC), plagued by corruption allegations and internal power struggle and having withdrawn from the INDIA bloc in the state, is now engaged in a ...
15 March 2024 TelegraphObserving that public rallies and meetings are an inextricable part of Bengal's culture just as delicacies such as 'mishti doi', 'luchi' and 'alu posto', the Calcutta High Court on Thursday allowed a march by a state government employees' organisation.'Luchi' ...
15 March 2024 TelegraphThe CPM has packed its first list of candidates with fresh faces for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls, amidst differences with other electoral partners.The Left Front chairman Biman Bose on Friday announced the names of 16 candidates, 13 from ...
15 March 2024 TelegraphA court in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district on Thursday extended the CBI custody of Sandeshkhali strongman Shajahan Sheikh by eight days.Sheikh was arrested on February 29 after 55 days on the run following violent protests led by ...
15 March 2024 TelegraphWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday evening suffered injuries on her forehead and was admitted to a hospital, the TMC said.“Our chairperson @MamataOfficial sustained a major injury. Please keep her in your prayers,” the party posted on ...
15 March 2024 TelegraphSeveral civil society groups in Bengal have begun drawing up plans to launch a campaign against the BJP ahead of the Lok Sabha polls as part of a larger state-wide protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), which came ...
15 March 2024 TelegraphLinen has been washed publicly by Bengal’s first family of politics and the audience eventually told the show’s over.Chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday disowned her youngest brother Swapan (Babun) Banerjee for his show of defiance over the selection ...
15 March 2024 TelegraphThree workers hailing from West Bengal were killed after their motorcycle hit the railing of a bridge and they fell into a dry canal in Chhattisgarh's Dhamtari district, police said on Thursday. The accident took place on ...
15 March 2024 TelegraphDisgruntled TMC leader Arjun Singh on Thursday said he would return to the BJP after he was denied a party ticket from the Barrackpore Lok Sabha seat which he represents.Singh also claimed that a "top TMC leader" would join ...
15 March 2024 TelegraphThe ED on Thursday conducted raids at the residences of two businessmen with “close links” to arrested TMC leader Shajahan Sheikh, in West Bengal’s Sandeshkhali, in connection with an alleged ration distribution scam, an official said.Sleuths of the probe ...
15 March 2024 TelegraphLinen has been washed publicly by Bengal’s first family of politics and the audience eventually told the show’s over.Chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday disowned her youngest brother Swapan (Babun) Banerjee for his show of defiance over the selection ...
14 March 2024 TelegraphSeveral civil society groups in Bengal have begun drawing up plans to launch a campaign against the BJP ahead of the Lok Sabha polls as part of a larger state-wide protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), which came ...
14 March 2024 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee said on Wednesday that district magistrates should be given the responsibility to grant citizenship to people and reiterated that the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) was a precursor to the National Register of Citizens (NRC).“Earlier, district ...
14 March 2024 TelegraphThe BJP has devised a two-pronged strategy to address the concerns of Matuas over the implementation of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) in the state. While leaders of the state BJP are trying to impress on the Union government ...
14 March 2024 Telegraph