West Bengal’s seven constituencies will vote in the fifth phase of the Lok Sabha elections on Monday. As many as 1,25, 23,702 voters are eligible to decide the fate of 88 contestants in the fray for the Arambagh, Bangaon, ...
20 May 2024 Indian ExpressThe India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued a yellow alert for thunderstorms with lightning accompanied by rain in almost all the districts of West Bengal from Sunday. Additionally, West Midnapore and West Burdwan have been alerted for a heatwave ...
20 May 2024 Indian ExpressPrime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday slammed West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for accusing the Bharat Sevashram Sangha, Ramakrishna Mission and ISCKON of working in the BJP’s interests in Lok Sabha elections 2024 and claimed such an attack ...
20 May 2024 Indian ExpressAsserting that her party was still a part of the INDIA bloc at the national level, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo on Saturday said that if the alliance is voted to power after ...
20 May 2024 Indian ExpressA TMC worker has been detained for allegedly molesting a minor girl in West Bengal’s Sandeshkhali area, police said.According to the complaint lodged by the girl’s mother, the accused “somehow” entered their house on Friday night and molested the ...
20 May 2024 Indian ExpressThe Election Commission of India (ECI) on Saturday issued two separate showcause notices to West Bengal BJP president Sukanta Majumdar over newspaper advertisements commissioned by his party allegedly targeting the Trinamool Congress (TMC). The poll panel has asked the ...
19 May 2024 Indian ExpressBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate from Barrackpur and sitting MP Arjun Singh hit the headlines after he left the Trinamool Congress (TMC) days after the party announced its list of Lok Sabha candidates and joined the BJP. Known as ...
19 May 2024 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee ordered immediate arrangement of medical treatment for a person who fell ill during her speech at an election rally in Bankura district on a hot Saturday afternoon.While addressing the gathering, the TMC supremo ...
19 May 2024 Indian ExpressWritten By Taniya Acherjee The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Saturday stated that the maximum temperature in West Bengal is likely to rise by 2-3 degree Celsius until Sunday.Heatwave conditions are likely to prevail in West Midnapore and Bankura districts, ...
19 May 2024 Indian ExpressA man was arrested from Port Blair in connection with the murder of a TMC leader in Baguiati on the northern fringes of Kolkata, police said on Saturday.Sanjeev Das, also known as Potla, was killed allegedly in a clash ...
19 May 2024 Indian ExpressHours after Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge snubbed him, saying that he was “nobody to make decisions” on whether West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee would be a part of the Opposition INDIA bloc or not, state Congress president Adhir ...
19 May 2024 Indian ExpressThe Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) opened a camp office in Sandeshkhali in North 14 Parganas district on Friday to enable local residents to register their complaints with ease. Set up at the premises of a bank branch, the ...
19 May 2024 Indian ExpressKolkata police Friday registered a case against three West Bengal Raj Bhavan staffers for allegedly “stopping” a woman contractual employee from filing a sexual harassment complainant against Governor C V Ananda Bose on May 2, police said on Friday.Sources ...
19 May 2024 Indian ExpressA month after a Superintendent of Police with the National Investigation Agency (NIA) was called to its Delhi headquarters following the TMC’s allegation that a BJP leader visited his house carrying cash in an envelope, the officer has now ...
18 May 2024 Indian ExpressThe Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday conducted raids at the houses of two Trinamool Congress leaders in West Bengal’s Purba Medinipur district in connection with the murder of a BJP worker in post-poll violence in 2021, officials ...
18 May 2024 Indian ExpressThe Election Commission Friday issued a show-cause notice to former Calcutta High Court judge and BJP candidate Abhijit Gangopadhyay over his remarks on West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee at a recent election rally. The poll panel said the ...
18 May 2024 Indian ExpressAt least 13 people, including three children, were killed in lightning strikes in three districts of West Bengal during a sudden storm and rain. Two others have been injured, said the police on Thursday.While Malda reported 11 deaths, Murshidabad and ...
18 May 2024 Indian ExpressThe Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) on Thursday said that temperature levels in West Bengal are likely to rise by 2-4 degrees Celsius over the next two to three days. The weather office also said that there was a possibility ...
18 May 2024 Indian ExpressA day after Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief Mamata Banerjee said her party would give “outside support to the INDIA bloc if it comes to power at the Centre”, she retracted her statement on Thursday, saying she was “very much ...
17 May 2024 Indian ExpressTargeting West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee over her remark that the Trinamool Congress “will support the INDIA alliance from the outside,” state Congress chief Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury Thursday termed the CM an “opportunist politician” who “has lost her ...
17 May 2024 Indian ExpressFormer Calcutta High Court judge Abhijit Gangopadhyay, now the BJP’s Tamluk Lok Sabha candidate, got a relief from the court on Thursday as it barred police from investigating till June 14 allegations that he attacked schoolteachers protesting the court-ordered ...
17 May 2024 Indian ExpressThe body of a BJP worker, missing since Wednesday night, was found on Thursday in West Bengal’s East Burdwan district, sparking a new controversy with local BJP leaders claiming he was murdered by TMC workers. However, the ruling TMC ...
17 May 2024 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday claimed that the INDIA bloc would form the government at the Centre after the Lok Sabha elections end and the Trinamool Congress (TMC) will support it from the outside.Addressing a rally ...
17 May 2024 Indian ExpressPolice in Kolkata have submitted a report to the state secretariat in connection with a complaint filed against West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose by a woman last year. “It is a 7-8 month old complaint related to which ...
17 May 2024 Indian ExpressThe maximum temperature is set to rise by 3-5 degrees Celsius during the next five days in West Bengal, with temperatures likely to touch 40 degrees in southern districts, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) has said.Moreover, all the southern ...
16 May 2024 Indian ExpressReferring to the ongoing protests in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday said that PoK is part of India and it will be taken back from Pakistan.Addressing a BJP rally in Serampore in Hooghly district, ...
16 May 2024 Indian ExpressChief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s offer to “cook food” for Prime Minister Narendra Modi elicited mixed responses from political parties, with the BJP terming it a “political agenda” and the CPI(M) dubbing it as an “understanding” between the TMC and ...
16 May 2024 Indian ExpressThe Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Tuesday termed Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s claim that the BJP would increase the allowance under the ‘Lakhsmir Bhandar’ scheme by at least Rs 100 as an insult to the women of West Bengal. ...
16 May 2024 Indian ExpressFollowing sporadic violence in the fourth phase of the Lok Sabha elections, the Election Commission (EC) has decided to deploy 762 companies of Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) in West Bengal, sources said.During the fourth phase, there were scattered ...
16 May 2024 Indian ExpressA court in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district on Tuesday remanded Piyali Das, a woman BJP worker to judicial custody after she surrendered before it over a criminal case lodged against her.It is alleged that Das got the ...
15 May 2024 Indian ExpressExternal Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Tuesday said that the deployment of forces at the Line of Actual Control (LAC) with China is “abnormal” and the security of the country should not be disregarded.Speaking at an event organised by ...
15 May 2024 Indian ExpressOn a day when Prime Minister Narendra Modi filed nominations from Varanasi Lok Sabha constituency, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday launched a scathing attack on him, calling him a “kalank” (a blot).In a series of rallies ...
15 May 2024 Indian ExpressThe prime accused in the West Bengal coal pilferage case, Anup Maji alias Lala, was granted conditional bail on Tuesday after he surrendered before a special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court at Asansol. Maji was granted bail on ...
15 May 2024 Indian ExpressAccusing Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee of misleading the Matuas regarding the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), senior BJP leader and Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday said that if his party wins 30 Lok Sabha seats from West Bengal, ...
15 May 2024 Indian ExpressThe Trinamool Congress on Tuesday wrote to Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar to lodge a complaint of model code of conduct (MCC) violations against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP, adding that its previous complaints to the poll ...
15 May 2024 Indian ExpressDay temperatures in Kolkata in April rose by six degrees in the five years from 2019 to 2024 and the city experienced a maximum temperature of 40 degrees Celsius for nine consecutive days this year, according to a report ...
15 May 2024 Indian ExpressBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and advocate Priyanka Tibrewal in a letter to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has alleged, “acts of violence, intimidation by the police and local politicians against victims of sexual violence in Sandeshkhali area.”“Local ...
15 May 2024 Indian ExpressFormer judge and BJP Lok Sabha candidate Abhijit Gangopadhyay on Monday moved the Calcutta High Court alleging police overaction after they lodged an ‘attempt to murder’ case against him and others in West Bengal’s Tamluk last week.Abhijit Gangopadhyay moved ...
14 May 2024 Indian ExpressThe murder of a Trinamool Congress (TMC) worker and his friend just hours ahead of polling cast a shadow over the fourth phase of Lok Sabha elections in West Bengal’s East Bardhaman district as many in his village did ...
14 May 2024 Indian ExpressBengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday claimed the BJP will not cross the 200-seat mark in the ongoing Lok Sabha polls.Addressing an election rally at the Matua-dominated Bangaon constituency in the North 24 Parganas district, Banerjee said, “Modi ...
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