Tag: West Bengal

Bhubaneswar:  Bollywood’s chit fund link has now come to the fore with several actors found to have promoted Prayag group that duped hundreds of investors in West Bengal. From Shah Rukh Khan to Soha Ali Khan, several actors had promoted Prayag group’s ventures. According to reports, Shahrukh Khan had endorsed the Rs 1,000 crore film […]

Bhubaneswar: Thanks to an unbridled nexus between dealers and corrupt officials, illicit narcotics trade is now flourishing in Odisha’s Balasore district with ‘Brown sugar’, a crude form of heroin being the easiest commodity to be available in the open market here. The synthetic drug is being smuggled into Balasore by several peddlers from neighbouring West […]

New Delhi: BJP president Amit Shah is scheduled to begin a 15-day ‘Vistaar Yatra’ (party expansion tour) covering five states including Odisha, Telangana, Gujarat and Lakshadweep from today from Naxalbari in West Bengal. Informing newsmen about Shah’s plans at the saffron party headquarters in New Delhi, Union Minister Smriti Irani said 3.68 lakh BJP workers […]

Puri: Coming down heavily on the BJP, West Bengal Chief Minister and the All India Trinamool Congress party’s chief Mamata Banerjee today alleged the saffron party is indulging in ‘divisive’ politics. Talking to newsmen at the Circuit House in Puri where she is stationed since last evening while on a three-day Odisha visit, Mamata said, […]

Bhubaneswar: A member of an interstate medicine robbery gang was nabbed by the Commissionerate Police at Ruchika Market in the Capital city today. The arrested accused has been identified as Sonu Panda. During interrogation Sonu revealed about a medicine godown in a rented house at Ruchika Market from where they were operating. The police recovered […]

Bhubaneswar: In an unfortunate incident, 36 passengers were injured, some of them critically, after a tourist bus they were travelling in skidded off the road and fell off the Dhauli hill, on the outskirts of the city on Tuesday morning. All the injured have been rushed to Capital hospital. “Six of them, who sustained injuries […]

Bhubaneswar: Arrested All India Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Sudip Bandyopadhyay was taken on a 4-day remand by the CBI for the second time in connection with the Rose Valley Chit Fund scam while the party continued its attack on the Centre accusing it of political vendetta. The Central investigating agency produced Sudip in the CBI […]

Jajpur: In a tragic incident, four persons, including two women were killed when a car hit a stationary truck from behind at Jarka in Jajpur district during the wee hours today. The identities of the deceased are yet to be identified. Sources said the car that was going towards Bhubaneswar from West Bengal dashed against […]

Bhubaneswar: Opposition BJP and Congress continued their attack on the ruling-BJD in Odisha over links with Rose Valley chit fund scam and Trinamool Congress (TMC). Alleging that BJD and TMC have struck an undeclared alliance, Odisha BJP vice president Sameer Mohanty today told media persons that the ruling-party in Odisha has agreed to provide its […]

Bhubaneswar: Arrested Trinamool Congress MP Tapas Pal’s daughter Sohini Pal appeared before the CBI in Bhubaneswar today in connection with the Rose Valley chit fund scam. As per the CBI notice, Sohini arrived in Bhubaneswar today to appear before the agency. Tapas allegedly gave senior posts to his wife, daughter and nephew in Rose Valley […]

Puri: Two tourists from West Bengal drowned while they were taking bath in the sea at the sea beach here today. Reports said Biswajit Bhattacharya of Veer Bhumi area of West Bengal was taking bath at New Marine beach near Swargadwar when a strong undercurrent dragged him into the deep waters. At this the Life […]

Bhubaneswar: A gang of inter-state dacoits, who are most-wanted in five eastern states of the country, are involved in the loot at the UCO Bank’s Bapuji Nagar branch here on September 28, said Police Commissioner YB Khurania today. Talking to media persons, Khurania said, “We have got substantial lead in the UCO Bank dacoity case. […]

A few weeks after the Union Road Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari declared the coastal road connecting Odisha with West Bengal as a National Highway (NH), the Centre today approved the alignment of 550 km Digha-Gopalpur NH

Madan Mitra announced that Mamata Banerjee's speech will be broadcasted virtually across the whole country. Generally, TMC observes July 21 to commemorate the police firing in 1993 in Kolkata during a rally organised by the State Youth Congress under the leadership of Mamata Banerjee, in which 13 people lost their lives. 

Bhubaneswar: Jyotiprakash Panda (25), a BSF jawan has committed suicide with his own service revolver on Sunday in Hemtabad camp in Raigunj in Silguri of West Bengal.