A leader of the Trinamul Congress’s minority wing in Nadia district was killed by six unidentified persons at a market in Murshidabad’s Nawada on Thursday evening.Motirul Sheikh, 43, was the husband of Mira Biswas, the chief of Narayapur 1 ...
25 November 2022 TelegraphMamata Banerjee on Thursday expressed her discontent over “a few people” who were apparently preventing the recruitment of government employees by moving court.The chief minister’s statement in the Assembly has betrayed her unease with a slew of court cases over alleged ...
25 November 2022 TelegraphA seven-year-old boy died after an oil tanker rammed into a two-wheeler driven by his sister at Jabravita, on the outskirts of Siliguri, on Thursday.Locals said Ankit Sahani died on the spot while his 19-year-old sister was admitted to ...
25 November 2022 TelegraphMamata Banerjee appealed for awareness to save Bengal’s hilsa from extinction and stressed the need to be “self-reliant” in its production, without relying only on Bangladesh.The chief minister, however, hinted that random netting and scooping of fingerlings or juvenile ...
25 November 2022 TelegraphA division bench of Calcutta High Court headed by Justice Tapabrata Chakraborty on Thursday declined to issue any stay on the order passed by Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay of the same court, who had directed the CBI to find out ...
25 November 2022 TelegraphA lottery trader in Bolpur on Thursday said Trinamul Congress leader Anubrata Mondal had purchased a ticket, which had won a prize of Rs one crore, for Rs 83 lakh from a person who had originally hit the jackpot. Lottery ...
25 November 2022 TelegraphWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday said she will travel to New Delhi on December 5 to take part in the meeting called by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on preparations for the G20 Summit.Banerjee, however, said she ...
25 November 2022 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday said in the Assembly that 11 persons died of dengue this year, the first official figure from the state government on deaths since the vector-borne disease saw a surge across Bengal in 2022.“So ...
24 November 2022 TelegraphMamata Banerjee on Wednesday directed the land and land reforms department to complete the process of issuing pattas (long-term settlement rights) to the residents of 300-odd refugee colonies across the state at the earliest. “All those refugee colonies that have ...
24 November 2022 TelegraphAjoy Edwards, president of Hamro Party that heads Darjeeling municipality, on Wednesday alleged that the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) chief executive Anit Thapa is trying to bribe his party’s commissioners to topple the civic board.“Anit Thapa and his contractors ...
24 November 2022 TelegraphChief minister over ‘insult’ Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday expressed her concern about the increase in the number of elephant attacks and human-animal conflicts and asked the forest department to ensure that family members of those killed in animal attacks ...
24 November 2022 TelegraphSpeaker Biman Banerjee on Wednesday warned the leader of the Opposition, Suvendu Adhikari, against using “unconstitutional andinsulting” language in the Assembly.Banerjee made the observation after Adhikari and other BJP MLAs attacked Trinamul Congress lawmakers for being “corrupt and dishonest”.“I ...
24 November 2022 TelegraphChild actors of the critically acclaimed Bengali film Dostojee secured their academic future on Wednesday as a private school took up the responsibility of their education.Arif Shaikh and Asik Shaikh were Class IV students in a school in Murshidabad ...
24 November 2022 TelegraphThe North Bengal University, the oldest varsity of this region, has decided to engage external experts to review its NAAC (National Assessment and Accreditation Council) ranking and come up with recommendations for improvement, its vice-chancellor Om Prakash Mishra said ...
24 November 2022 TelegraphAbout 56 families in the Yangang subdivision of Sikkim’s Namchi district shifted to safer places on Wednesday because their houses were facing the risk of coming under the sweep of an active landslide.The Namchi district administration said the landslide ...
24 November 2022 TelegraphThe IIT Kharagpur director on Tuesday submitted a report to Calcutta High Court in a sealed cover on the steps the institution had taken following the receipt of information about what appeared to the court to be a clear case ...
24 November 2022 TelegraphJustice Abhijit Gangopadhyay of Calcutta High Court on Friday issued yet another CBI probe order relating to appointment of teachers in secondary schools.The court held that the decision of the education department to create supernumerary posts for recruiting deprived teachers in ...
24 November 2022 TelegraphWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday expressed anguish over the violence at a disputed Assam-Meghalaya border location that killed six people a day before and prayed for peace there.Six people, including a forest guard, were killed in ...
24 November 2022 TelegraphWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday asked people of the state to ensure that their names are on the electoral roll to avoid getting sent to detention camps under the garb of enforcing NRC.She was addressing a ...
24 November 2022 TelegraphLeader of Opposition in Bengal Suvendu Adhikari on Wednesday skipped the oath-taking ceremony of the new governor, alleging that the TMC government "humiliated" him by allotting him a seat beside two MLAs who defected to the ruling party from ...
24 November 2022 TelegraphA section of West Bengal government employees Wednesday clashed with the police when they tried to enter the assembly venue over payment of DA installments by the state.The employees, who had gathered near the downtown Esplanade area of the ...
24 November 2022 TelegraphWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday said her government has taken up with the Centre the issue of fertiliser crisis faced by the farming community in the state.Banerjee said she has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi ...
24 November 2022 TelegraphA sub-inspector of police, along with two civic volunteers, was allegedly thrashed with bricks by family members of a minor couple when they went to stop their wedding in the Gopalpur-Sardarpara area of Canning in South 24-Parganas on Monday ...
23 November 2022 TelegraphC.V. Ananda Bose will take oath as the governor of Bengal on Wednesday.Sources said the oath-taking ceremony would be held around 10.45am. Chief minister Mamata Banerjee, most of her cabinet ministers and senior government officials will be present.A source ...
23 November 2022 TelegraphThe Centre relaxed guidelines for international travellers from Tuesday, bringing relief to the tourism sector and raising hopes that the year ahead during which India would host the G-20 summit would boost foreign visitors after three years of the ...
23 November 2022 TelegraphBJP legislators on Tuesday staged a walkout from the Assembly to protest against the “steep rise” in dengue cases in the state after Speaker Biman Banerjee denied an adjournment motion brought by the Opposition.The BJP MLAs led by the ...
23 November 2022 TelegraphGopi Ram, 35, a contractual worker who had suffered severe burns in the accident on Sunday at SAIL’s Durgapur Steel Plant, succumbed to injuries at a private hospital here on Tuesday afternoon.Doctors said he had suffered nearly 80 per ...
23 November 2022 TelegraphThe Border Security Force intercepted four Bangladeshis at Haldibari in Cooch Behar district on Monday for infiltrating into India.The personnel of 15 battalion of the force posted in Jalpaiguri district intercepted an e-rickshaw near the border while it was ...
23 November 2022 TelegraphShanti Rai, a climber and instructor at the Indian Himalayan Centre For Adventure and Eco-tourism atChemchey in Namchi district, has been elected as a lifetime member of the Indian Mountaineering Foundation (IMF).A press release said 38-year-old Shanti had secured ...
23 November 2022 TelegraphThe Sikkim Cricket Ground (SCG) at Majhitar near Rangpo will host its debut Ranji Trophy match when the home team takes on Manipur in the 2022-2023 season of the country’s premier domestic tournament from December 13 to 16.The two-year-old ...
23 November 2022 TelegraphVoicing his anguish over the violence at a disputed Assam-Meghalaya border location that killed six people on Tuesday, Trinamool Congress national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee said the incident showed the "ineptitude" of the Meghalaya government.Six people, including a forest ...
23 November 2022 TelegraphCV Ananda Bose on Wednesday took oath as the new governor of West Bengal.He was administered the oath of office by Chief Justice of Calcutta High Court Prakash Shrivastava in the presence of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, other state ...
23 November 2022 TelegraphMamata Banerjee on Monday asked health department officials to upgrade the medical infrastructure in rural areas by launching subhealth centres and recruiting doctors, nurses and Asha workers. The chief minister’s directive during a meeting to review the health department’s ...
22 November 2022 TelegraphFarmhand Bishnupada Ghorui of East Midnapore’s Mahishadal spent Sunday night at the local police station of his own volition. The 45-year-old resident of Kanjanpur-Jalpai village said he had little choice in the matter after winning the jackpot of Rs 1 ...
22 November 2022 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday asked mayor Firhad Hakim to immediately clean the area around Prinsep Ghat, wondering aloud why there was no monitoring and why she had to flag these issues every time. Mamata, who sounded generally unimpressed ...
22 November 2022 TelegraphA number of prominent Trinamul leaders of north Bengal hit the streets with thousands of supporters in Siliguri on Monday, shouting slogans against the demand for statehood. Trinamul’s first centralised rally against the demand in recent times is being ...
22 November 2022 TelegraphThe BJP on Monday again threatened to fell the democratically elected Mamata Banerjee government in Bengal, prompting ridicule from not only the ruling party here but also the CPM.The BJP’s Nandigram MLA and leader of the Opposition Suvendu Adhikari ...
22 November 2022 TelegraphTwo women from a forest village on the fringes of a reserve forest in Bagdogra area died when an elephant attacked on Monday afternoon. Another woman is seriously injured and under treatment at a private nursing home.Sources in the ...
22 November 2022 TelegraphGautam Deb, the mayor of Siliguri Municipal Corporation (SMC), on Monday announced an ex-gratia of Rs 5,000 for each of the affected families affected by the fire at Ranabusty and Khudiram Colony, two adjoining localities in ward 18, on ...
22 November 2022 TelegraphChandernagore police on Monday recovered three crude bombs from the playground of a primary school in Hooghly’s Bandel, prompting the Opposition to accuse the state government of deterioration in law and order.Although no one was injured by the bombs, ...
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