The 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 ...
17 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 ...
17 March 2024 TelegraphMembers 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 ...
17 March 2024 TelegraphBJP leaders in at least four north Bengal districts have decided to seek voters’ suggestions which can be included in the party’s manifesto for the coming Lok Sabha election. In Alipurduar district, suggestion boxes were placed in front of ...
17 March 2024 TelegraphWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's health condition is "fine", doctors treating her, said on Saturday morning.The 69-year-old is recovering well, they said."The chief minister is fine and stable. She is recovering well. The pain due to the injuries ...
17 March 2024 TelegraphWest Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose on Saturday expressed his commitment to actively engage in the upcoming general elections, pledging to put an end to violence and corruption in the state.He declared his intention to be present in the ...
17 March 2024 TelegraphBengal went into poll mode on Saturday afternoon and will remain so for from March till June with the announcement of the schedule for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls by the Election Commission of India in New Delhi. Bengal, ...
17 March 2024 TelegraphThe CPI(M) on Saturday said the Election Commission must ensure that people in West Bengal can cast their votes on their own in the Lok Sabha polls.With the EC announcing seven-phase polling for the 42 seats in the state, ...
17 March 2024 TelegraphWelcoming the Election Commission's decision to conduct the general elections in West Bengal in seven phases, Pradesh Congress Committee president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Saturday expressed satisfaction with the move, saying it was necessary to ensure a peaceful electoral ...
17 March 2024 TelegraphHarsh Vardhan Shringla, former foreign secretary and one of the driving forces behind the success of India’s G20 presidency, is making waves in the Darjeeling hills with his multi-pronged outreach initiatives which have intensified speculation about his candidature as ...
17 March 2024 TelegraphAs chief minister Mamata Banerjee recovered from Thursday night’s forehead gash sustained at home, the “push from behind” narrative was given a swift burial and the police registered no complaint.A physician spoke of the possibility of a person having ...
17 March 2024 TelegraphWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's health condition is "fine", doctors treating her, said on Saturday morning.The 69-year-old is recovering well, they said."The chief minister is fine and stable. She is recovering well. The pain due to the injuries ...
17 March 2024 TelegraphTwo Trinamul Congress MPs -- Arjun Singh and Dibyendu Adhikari -- joined the Bharatiya Janata Party here on Friday, saying that they were upset with the Sandeshkhali incidents.Singh represents West Bengal's Barrackpur in the Lok Sabha and Adhikari the ...
16 March 2024 TelegraphAs chief minister Mamata Banerjee recovered from Thursday night’s forehead gash sustained at home, the “push from behind” narrative was given a swift burial and the police registered no complaint.A physician spoke of the possibility of a person having ...
16 March 2024 TelegraphHarsh Vardhan Shringla, former foreign secretary and one of the driving forces behind the success of India’s G20 presidency, is making waves in the Darjeeling hills with his multi-pronged outreach initiatives which have intensified speculation about his candidature as ...
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 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 TelegraphA six-year-old girl was charred to death in a fire that engulfed her home at Char Krishnapur near Ranitala on Thursday night.Tamanna Khatun was a Class I student. The blaze engulfed the house when the girl's father Abdur Rauf ...
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 TelegraphA six-year-old girl was charred to death in a fire that engulfed her home at Char Krishnapur near Ranitala on Thursday night.Tamanna Khatun was a Class I student. The blaze engulfed the house when the girl's father Abdur Rauf ...
16 March 2024 TelegraphMembers 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 ...
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