Tag: West Bengal

Kolkata: The ruling Trinamool Congress in West Bengal took an early lead in all three tiers of the panchayat polls after nearly five hours of counting on Thursday. According to the latest trend, Trinamool went ahead in almost all the Zilla Parishad and Panchayat Samiti seats across 20 districts where rural election were held on […]

Kolkata: At least 10 people were killed and more than 50 injured on Monday in violence during the West Bengal panchayat polls, where around 73 per cent of the electorate had cast their votes at the end of balloting hours at 5 p.m. The State Election Commission said the polling percentage was 73 at the […]

Kolkata: A supporter of an Independent candidate for the coming panchayat polls was killed in West Bengal’s Bhangar on Friday, following which police arrested local strongman of the ruling Trinamool Congress Arabul Islam. Hafizul Molla (26), a resident of Bhangar’s Machibhanga in South 24 Parganas district, died after an armed attack on a political rally […]

Kolkata: The West Bengal BJP leadership on Sunday accused the state ruling party Trinamool Congress of threatening the state election commissioner and reiterated their demand that central forces be brought in during the coming state Panchayat polls. “The Trinamool Congress is threatening the state election commissioner A.K. Singh and forcing him to work in their […]

Kolkata: Ten persons were killed and rail, road and air traffic was disrupted in West Bengal as twin storms accompanied by rains lashed through the city on Tuesday night felling trees, uprooting electric poles and triggering house collapse. Mobile and internet services were hit with the storms snapping overhead wires and damaging mobile towers. Of […]

Kolkata: Directorate of Revenue Intelligence sleuths have busted a Odisha-based narcotics syndicate by arresting eight persons and seized 120 kg of ganja from them, a DRI release said on Saturday. Acting on a tip off that a syndicate based in Odisha would be transporting narcotics and carrying the illegal contraband in a car moving from […]

New Delhi: Facing a volley of questions on Tuesday after she confirmed in Parliament the death of 39 Indians who were reported missing in Iraq in 2014, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said the government cannot confirm any person’s death without concrete proof in hand and it was her duty to inform Parliament first about […]

Baharampur: Continuing her attack on the Centre over the multi-crore PNB fraud, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday alleged that there are “other banks” involved in such money laundering cases with their chiefs being protected by the BJP government. “We know everything. Not only the Punjab National Bank, there are other banks also and […]

Kolkata: Thirty six people, including two children, were killed and several were missing after a bus with around 50 passengers crashed through a bridge railing and plunged into a canal in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district on Monday morning, officials said. Nine injured passengers were admitted to the Baharampur Medical College and Hospital. Chief Minister Mamata […]

Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday hit out at the Centre for not declaring Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s birthday a national holiday and lamented that the iconic freedom fighter is yet to get his due. “The birthday of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose has not yet been declared a national holiday. Cannot we show […]

Kolkata: Accusing the ruling Trinamool Congress government of neglecting the state’s minorities, the BJP’s West Bengal unit on Thursday asked it to make public data on jobs offered to Muslim youths in the last six years. “I want to see what she (Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee) and her government has done for the minorities — […]

Kolkata: Several people were injured and vehicles set ablaze as clashes broke out between a group of protesters agitating against a power grid project and West Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress activists in South 24 Parganas district on Thursday. State Food Processing Minister and local legislator Abdur Rezzak Mollah alleged that the trouble started after activists […]

Kolkata: Bandel Church, eastern India’s oldest church built 418 years back, has chosen to promote caring for mother earth as its Christmas theme this year, while a newly-erected 20-feet mural of “The Last Supper” would be an added attraction for the thousands of visitors who visit the Marian shrine in West Bengal’s Hooghly district. A […]

Kolkata: Around 200 voter identity cards were recovered dumped in a garbage disposal area in West Bengal’s Hooghly district early on Monday, informed an official. The cards were recovered from inside a polythene sack by the municipal cleaners in Nadia district’s Uttarpara. “On primary inspection, it seems these are original voter cards,” Dilip Yadav, Chairman […]

Chandigarh/Kolkata: Haryana BJP leader Suraj Pal Amu on Saturday threatened West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee that she would meet the same fate as “Surpanakha”, a demoness from the epic Ramayana whose nose was cut off by Lakshman, a day after she asserted her state was ready to welcome Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s controversial film “Padmavati” […]