About 71.84 per cent polling was recorded till 5 pm on Friday in the three constituencies of West Bengal – Darjeeling, Raiganj, and Balurghat – where voting was held in the second phase of the Lok Sabha polls.The polling ...
27 April 2024 Indian ExpressDarjeeling, Raiganj and Balurghat constituencies in West Bengal recorded 15.68 per cent polling by around 9 am as voting in the second phase of the Lok Sabha election got underway on Friday. BJP state president Sukanta Majumder alleged that ...
27 April 2024 Indian ExpressHitting out at the Mamata Banerjee-led state government over the teachers recruitment ‘scam’, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said the Trinamool Congress (TMC) had played with the lives of youths of West Bengal, many of whom had even ...
27 April 2024 Indian ExpressThe Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday recovered a huge cache of arms and explosives in Sandeshkhali and called in the NSG bomb squad for their disposal. The cache included foreign made revolvers, Indian revolvers, foreign made pistols ...
27 April 2024 Indian ExpressAuthorities at the Kolkata airport on Friday received an email claiming bombs were planted at various places on its premises, triggering a frantic search across the facility, officials said.However, the mail, which threatened that the bombs will explode at ...
27 April 2024 Indian ExpressWith paint peeling out, a two-storey house with a garden and a Durga Mandap in West Bengal’s Kaliaganj town has a portion of its outer wall painted with graffiti seeking vote for Trinamool Congress. Not so distant in the ...
27 April 2024 Indian ExpressIn Raiganj constituency, every polling booth will have two EVMs/Ballot units. Here’s whyA record 20 candidates with as many as 10 Independents will be contesting from Raiganj Parliamentary constituency that goes to polls in the second phase Lok Sabha ...
27 April 2024 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee on Thursday criticised the Calcutta High Court order cancelling 25,000 school jobs in the state and alleged that it was a “ploy” by the BJP to stop these ...
26 April 2024 Indian ExpressIn the second phase of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, scheduled for April 26, West Bengal’s three constituencies—Darjeeling, Balurghat and Raiganj—will witness multi-cornered contests.Prominent candidates include BJP state president and sitting MP Sukanta Majumdar in Balurghat, BJP Darjeeling MP ...
26 April 2024 Indian ExpressThe West Bengal School Service Commission (SSC) on Thursday claimed that it had provided lists of around 5,300 teaching and non-teaching staff members from the 2016 panel to the Calcutta High Court in whose recruitment it had found irregularities, ...
26 April 2024 Indian ExpressTwo Hyderabad companies owned by YSRCP MP and businessman Alla Ayodhya Rami Reddy donated Rs 46 crore in electoral bonds to the ruling TMC in West Bengal in 2022 — when a $30-mn water treatment project being executed in ...
26 April 2024 Indian ExpressThe Election Commission of India (ECI) on Wednesday released guidelines for voters on how they could protect themselves against the heatwave conditions while stepping out of their homes to vote during the second phase of the Lok Sabha elections. ...
26 April 2024 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Wednesday criticised Defence Minister Rajnath Singh for asserting that nobody in the world can stop the implementation of the CAA.She also remarked that Singh now appeared reliant on PM Narendra Modi’s favour.“You are ...
26 April 2024 Indian ExpressThere is no respite in sight, with forecasts predicting a gradual increase in the day time temperatures by 1-3°C over the next three days in both Gangetic and Sub-Himalayan West Bengal.The humidity levels are expected to remain low, ranging ...
26 April 2024 Indian ExpressThe National Commission for Women (NCW) has written a letter to West Bengal DGP seeking a report on TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee’s recent remarks against BJP Malda Dakshin candidate Sreerupa Mitra Chaudhury.In an ‘X’ post on Wednesday, the NCW ...
26 April 2024 Indian ExpressKolkata experienced a heatwave on Wednesday with a maximum temperature of 40 degrees Celsius, accompanied by an orange alert (be prepared). Humidity levels peaked at 77 per cent with clear skies and no chance of rainfall.India Meteorological Department (IMD) ...
25 April 2024 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday alleged the Calcutta High Court has become the ‘tirtha kendra’ (pilgrimage site) of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Addressing a public meeting at Ausgram in the state’s Birbhum district, Banerjee said ...
25 April 2024 Indian ExpressA day after Kolkata Police arrested a person from Mumbai for allegedly conducting a recce of the residence and offices of TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee, party chief and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday claimed that it ...
25 April 2024 Indian ExpressA day after the Calcutta High Court cancelled the appointments of over 25,000 teachers and school staff, made through the state School Service Commission, the EC is now looking for replacements of those teachers, who also received training for ...
25 April 2024 Indian ExpressExpressing displeasure over violence during the recent Ram Navami celebrations in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district, the Calcutta High Court on Tuesday asked “what is the use of conducting elections when people cannot celebrate an occasion in peace for 8 ...
25 April 2024 Indian ExpressJust three days before the election in the Darjeeling Lok Sabha constituency, the Congress on Tuesday suspended for six years Binay Tamang, who had joined the party after leaving the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha five months ago, after he openly ...
24 April 2024 Indian ExpressAir coolers, fans, water sprinklers, a diet with more summer fruits in it, including watermelons, and ORS water — this is how authorities of the Alipore zoo in Kolkata are trying to help the animals beat the heat.The move ...
24 April 2024 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday claimed that the BJP tried to kill her nephew and Trinamool Congress’s second-in-command Abhishek Banerjee.Banerjee made the claim while addressing election campaigns in Birbhum and Burdwan.During an election campaign at Birbhum’s ...
24 April 2024 Indian ExpressUnion Home Minister Amit Shah said on Tuesday in West Bengal that if the BJP got 35 Lok Sabha seats in the state, it would drive away “all infiltrators”.“Aap ne humein 18 seats di or humne udhar Ram mandir ...
24 April 2024 Indian ExpressThe Calcutta High Court on Tuesday directed the West Bengal chief secretary to decide by May 2 on grant of sanction for prosecution of former public servants arrested by CBI in the 2016 school jobs case, which saw the ...
24 April 2024 Indian ExpressAfter the Calcutta High Court cancelled the appointment of nearly 26,000 teachers and non-teaching staff made through the State Level Selection Test (SLST) in government-aided schools of West Bengal, the principal Opposition party BJP on Monday demanded the resignation ...
24 April 2024 Indian ExpressAs the Calcutta High Court on Monday cancelled the appointments of over 25,000 teachers and non-teaching staff, made through the West Bengal School Service Commission (SSC) in the state government-sponsored and aided schools, many of those affected by the ...
24 April 2024 Indian ExpressChildren’s specialists in Kolkata have warned against sending children to school as the city continues to record temperatures over 40 degrees Celsius. Even though the West Bengal government have advanced the beginning of summer holidays from May 6 to ...
24 April 2024 Indian ExpressA day after West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of conspiring against her and her nephew Abhishek Banerjee and said they were “not safe”, Kolkata police arrested a Mumbai man for allegedly conducting ...
23 April 2024 Indian ExpressA DIVISION bench of the Calcutta High Court Monday cancelled the appointment of 25,753 teachers and non-teaching staff made through the State Level Selection Test (SLST) 2016 in schools sponsored and aided by the West Bengal government. The court ...
23 April 2024 Indian ExpressBJP MP Raju Bista, who is seeking re-election from Darjeeling as the Lok Sabha constituency goes to the polls on Friday, said the “real tiger” in the hills was with his party. While speaking to The Indian Express in ...
23 April 2024 Indian ExpressA division bench of the Calcutta High Court on Monday cancelled the illegal recruitment of 23,753 teachers and non-teaching staff by the 2016 School Service Commission (SSC), ordering them to return their salaries with interest. The court also ordered ...
23 April 2024 Indian ExpressWritten by Taniya Acherjee,Several districts in West Bengal, including Purulia and Bankura witnessed a significant increase in the number of heatwave days between 1969-2019 and 2019-2023 according to a survey released recently.On Saturday, NGO SwitchON Foundation released “West Bengal ...
23 April 2024 Indian ExpressAs south of West Bengal sizzles under the grip of a severe heat wave, Darjeeling – the hill town in the northern part of the state – is witnessing a surge in the number of tourists. Hotels are running ...
23 April 2024 Indian ExpressSevere heatwave conditions prevailed in West Midnapore, Jhargram, Bankura, and West Burdwan districts of West Bengal on Sunday.Naresh Kumar, a senior scientist at IMD Delhi, said, “We have issued a Red (danger) alert for some parts of West Bengal ...
22 April 2024 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday alleged that the BJP is targeting her and her nephew and TMC national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee and they do not feel safe. Her allegation came a day after the Leader ...
22 April 2024 Indian ExpressUnion Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday told the Gorkha community in Darjeeling that the Centre was seriously considering including 11 Gorkha sub-tribes in the Scheduled Tribe list.Shah was scheduled to hold a public meeting at the Gorkha Ground ...
22 April 2024 Indian ExpressDefence Minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday claimed that no power in the world can stop the implementation of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).Addressing a meeting for the BJP candidate in West Bengal’s Murshidabad, Singh said, “We have made a ...
22 April 2024 Indian ExpressAhead of the second phase of Lok Sabha elections, 30 additional companies of Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) will be reaching West Bengal from Sikkim and Meghalaya, sources said.Three Lok Sabha constituencies — Darjeeling, Balurghat, and Raiganj – will ...
22 April 2024 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose on Saturday met five candidates from the list of potential interim vice-chancellors to be appointed in various state universities sent by the Mamata Banerjee-led government for a discussion at the Raj Bhavan. The ...
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