Trinamul Congress chairperson Mamata Banerjee said on Wednesday that the BJP’s chances of returning to power are becoming bleak while predicting a rich harvest for her party in Bengal. “The ground reality is this – the chances of BJP ...
25 April 2024 StatesmanIn Berhampur, five-time Congress MP Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury submitted his nomination for the sixth time, today. During the notable submission of his nomination, Minakshi Mukherjee DYFI general secretary and DYFI state president Dhrubajyoti Saha were present by his side. Berhampur ...
25 April 2024 StatesmanPeople of three parliamentary constituencies in north Bengal will exercise their franchise in the second phase of the 18th Lok Sabha polls on 26 April. When the district election officials of Darjeeling, North and South Dinajpur are readying the stage ...
25 April 2024 StatesmanThe Kolkata Police on Monday claimed to have arrested an individual having links with the 26/11 terror attacks in Mumbai for reportedly targeting Trinamool Congress national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee. The accused identified as Rajaram Rege was arrested from Mumbai, ...
23 April 2024 StatesmanTrinamul Congress national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee today held a meeting with party workers in Kharagpur and discussed the party’s strategies for Ghatal and Midnapore Lok Sabha seats in West Midnapore. The sitting MP actor-turned-politician Dipak Adhikari (Dev) is contesting ...
23 April 2024 StatesmanChief minister Mamata Banerjee today termed the order by the Division Bench of Calcutta High Court led by Justice Debangsu Basak “illegal”. She said she will challenge the HC order and move the Supreme Court. Addressing a public meeting ...
23 April 2024 StatesmanTwo-times MP Babul Supriyo, who is now a state minister, has been camping in Asansol since yesterday and discussed election strategy with local TMC leaders in a meeting here today, while Shatrughan Sinha claimed that the BJP will not ...
21 April 2024 StatesmanThe CAA is the talking point in clubs, tea stalls and barber shops in areas like Jadavpur, Garia, Tollygunge, Behala and Dumdum in Kolkata, where a large number of families are from erstwhile East Pakistan. In spite of the ...
21 April 2024 StatesmanPreparations for Durga Puja have started gaining steam in the city. A few days back, Tala Park 15 Palli in north Kolkata, unveiled its logo and their wall writing programme. In a tribute to unity in diversity, India’s unique identity, ...
21 April 2024 StatesmanAgirls’ school introduced a water bell system to remind students to drink water during school hours to combat dehydration in the summers. Bankura has been struck with a severe heatwave since the last few days and the mercury recorded 42.1 ...
21 April 2024 StatesmanThe Kolkata Municipal Corporation is facing a quandary over three properties named in its list of assets, but owned by private parties. The issue is that of Ward 25, where three properties despite being listed in the civic body’s book ...
21 April 2024 StatesmanThe Congress on Saturday launched a scathing attack on the BJP over Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s remarks on electoral bonds, and said the ruling party wants to continue the “loot”. Referring to the Union Minister’s remarks on electoral bonds ...
21 April 2024 StatesmanVladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Vladimir Lenin, the architect of Russia’s 1917 Bolshevik revolution, politician and political theorist was considered as one of the most significant and influential figures of 20th century world history. Lenin was such a ...
20 April 2024 StatesmanEvery region has its own unique cuisine. Bengal, perhaps, tops the list in the assimilation of various culinary strains into its cuisine because of its past rulers. The presence of a large number of other communities from India in ...
19 April 2024 StatesmanHave the voices of the same persons the ED arrested matched with the samples, or is there any difference, asked Abhishek Banerjee, the Trinamul Congress national general secretary after the party’s organisational meeting in Kalna this afternoon. Banerjee reacted to ...
19 April 2024 StatesmanTerming Prime Minister Narendra Modi as a ‘great liar’, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today said that the violence at Rezinagar in Murshidabad on Wednesday was preplanned by the BJP. Addressing a public meeting at Islampur in North Dinajpur, Miss ...
19 April 2024 StatesmanAhead of Lok Sabha polls, gunshots were fired at Bakchara in Gaighata of North 24 Parganas, last night by unidentified miscreants. The incident occurred late Tuesday night. According to police sources, the gunfire was a result of an old dispute, ...
18 April 2024 StatesmanThis weekend, at many places of south Bengal, could be blistering. The weather office has issued a forecast of the mercury soaring up to seven degrees Celsius above normal, for three days during 19-21 April at many places over ...
18 April 2024 StatesmanThe body of a 72-year-old local CPM leader in Haroa was recovered from his room on Tuesday ahead of Lok Sabha elections. He was found hanging from the ceiling in his room. Police have registered an unnatural death case to ...
17 April 2024 StatesmanTrinamul Congress national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee today urged the people of Cooch Behar not to believe what they hear but judge the actual situation before casting their votes in the forthcoming Lok Sabha election. Cooch Bihar is going to ...
17 April 2024 StatesmanChief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday expressed apprehension of violence a day before the first phase of the Lok Sabha elections in North Bengal. Addressing a public meeting at Maynaguri in Jalpaiguri today, Chief Minister Ms Banerjee said the ...
17 April 2024 StatesmanThe Election Commission of India (ECI) appointed Syed Waquar Raja, an IPS officer of 2007 batch and a joint commissioner of police (crime) of Kolkata Police (KP) as the deputy inspector general (DIG) of police of Murshidabad range, within ...
17 April 2024 StatesmanThe Election Commission of India (ECI) has removed Mr Mukesh Kumar, deputy inspector general (DIG) of police of Murshidabad range, from the post ahead of Lok Sabha (LS) election and asked the state government to rehabilitate him in a ...
16 April 2024 StatesmanUmashankar Chauhan (35), owner of a private micro finance company was killed when unidentified assailants fired at him from close range in his office chamber in broad daylight in Chinakuri, under Kulti police station of West Burdwan district today. This ...
16 April 2024 StatesmanAs the BJP advocates the vision of one nation, one election and views the implementation of a Uniform Civil Code (UCC) as imperative for the nation’s welfare, chief minister Mamata Banerjee today urged the people to drive out the ...
16 April 2024 StatesmanDemolishing the claim of Suvendu Adhikari, the Leader of the Opposition in the state Assembly, that the Trinamul Congress is not allowing workers of the saffron party to file nominations in the ensuing Panchayat election, information available from the ...
12 June 2023 StatesmanTrinamul Congress’ national general secretary and MP Abhishek Banerjee’s visit to Thakurnagar was marred after the TMC’s second-in-command was prevented from offering puja in the main temple of the Matua community at Thakurnagar in North 24- Parganas today. There ...
12 June 2023 StatesmanThe Left Front has fielded 18 Kurmi leaders out of a total 45 Zilla Parishad seats in Purulia district for the panchayat elections. The organisational strength of Trinamul Congress is not that solid in Purulia districts and BJP had ...
12 June 2023 StatesmanThe Serampore Walsh hospital has been certified as a top hospital for its infrastructure and medical services rendered to the people. The certificate of quality and appreciation has been issued by the ministry of health and family welfare, New ...
12 June 2023 StatesmanTo check the violence during the filing of nominations for next month’s panchayat polls in West Bengal, the State Election Commthe videography of the procedure ahead of the West Bengal in the run-up to the panchayat polls scheduled to ...
12 June 2023 StatesmanTrinamool Congress’s national General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee faced massive protests and was shown black flags after he reached the Matua bastion of Thakurnagar in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district on Sunday as part of his ongoing mass- outreach ...
12 June 2023 StatesmanBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Lok Sabha MP Raju Bista on Sunday said that deployment of central forces is necessary to conduct free and fair panchayat elections in West Bengal scheduled to be held on July 8.Lok Sabha MP Raju ...
12 June 2023 StatesmanWorried about reports of ongoing violence in connection with filing of nomination papers for rural body polls across the state since Friday Governor CV Ananda Bose on Saturday asked the West Bengal State Election Commissioner (WBSEC) Rajiva Sinha to ...
11 June 2023 StatesmanBharatiya Janata Party"s three top leaders, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union home minister Amit Shah and national president JP Nadda will not be visiting the state during the panchayat election period. The three leaders were initially scheduled to visit ...
11 June 2023 StatesmanAbout 9,09,528 voters are set to cast their franchise in total 1,210 seats in the three-tier panchayat election in West Burdwan district. There are 1,020 seats in gram panchayats, 172 seats in panchayat samities and 18 seats in zilla ...
11 June 2023 StatesmanOver 300 eminent educationists from country and abroad have sent a mass petition to President Droupadi Murmu seeking action against vice-chancellor of Visva Bharati University (VBU), Professor Bidyut Chakraborty allegedly for Nobel laureate Amartya Sen. "The grandfather, father and ...
11 June 2023 StatesmanWhen the West Bengal election commission announced the dates for the panchayat polls on the evening of June 8, giving a mere five-day window for nomination filings, it caused a flurry of activity among the state’s leading opposition politicians. ...
11 June 2023 StatesmanFinally, the West Bengal State Election Commission ( WBSEC) announced the date of panchayat elections which were scheduled in MarchApril in the state. The three-tier panchayat elections in the state will be held on 8 July while Darjeeling and ...
9 June 2023 StatesmanThe prevailing heat wave has added to the challenges faced by the citizens of Kolkata. Apart from beating the heat, commuters are struggling during mid-day hours to find public transport as the number of private and minibuses turns to ...
9 June 2023 StatesmanForty tribal organizations observed a 12-hour Bengal bandh today in protest against the proposed inclusion of the Kurmi community into the Scheduled Tribe category. The bandh had mixed reactions in certain blocks of East Burdwan as the agitators halted ...
9 June 2023 Statesman