Tag: West Bengal

Kolkata: A fire broke out in a plastic factory in West Bengal’s Howrah district early on Thursday, a fire department official said. However, no one was injured in the blaze as the factory was immediately evacuated. “A fire broke out in a plastic chair factory in Sankrail industrial park around 2 a.m. Some parts of […]

Darjeeling: The West Bengal hills saw widespread violence on Thursday as irate Gorkha Janmukti Morcha supporters torched a police outpost and stoned security forces in angry reaction to a police raid on party chief Bimal Gurung’s house in Darjeeling district. The GJM activists, with their women’s wing Nari Morcha in the vanguard, virtually surrounded the […]

Kolkata: Accusing West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee of being oblivious of the principals of governance, Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das on Friday exuded confidence that the BJP will form the next government in the state. “The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will form government in Bengal. I am 200 per cent sure about it,” Das […]

Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday slammed the Centre for its “casual” handling of the response to an RTI query that said Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose died in an air crash in 1945. Banerjee said the response was “shocking” as it was “without evidence”. “The Centre recently gave information about Netaji through a […]

New Delhi: The ED on Saturday summoned Narada News CEO Mathew Samuel on May 24 in a money laundering case it registered regarding a sting operation by his portal that showed senior TMC leaders in West Bengal allegedly receiving money in exchange for favours to a fictitious company. The Enforcement Directorate directed Samuel to visit its […]

Aligarh: A BJP youth leader has announced a bounty of Rs 11 lakh to anyone who beheads West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. Yogesh Varshney of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha made the statement after police clashed with people taking part in a Hanuman Jayanti rally in West Bengal’s Birbhum district. “She stands up for […]

New Delhi: As many as 826 housing projects are running behind schedule by an average of 39 months, with Punjab having the maximum delayed projects followed by Telangana and West Bengal, an Assocham study has found. “At the end of December 2016, 3,511 projects were live in construction and real estate sector, of which 2,304 […]

Kochi: Kochi-headquartered Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute (CMFRI) is set to open a new regional research centre in Digha, West Bengal, aimed at fulfilling research and development needs, an official said on Thursday. This is the 11th regional research centre of the CMFRI — the largest fisheries research institute in the country under the Indian […]

Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday condemned the twin blasts in Bangladesh’s Sylhet city which killed six persons. “Strongly condemn the suicide attack in Sylhet. My solidarity with the brothers and sisters in Bangladesh,” Banerjee tweeted. More than 40 others were injured in the explosions on Saturday near a militant hideout in the […]

Kolkata: West Bengal on Sunday celebrated the spring festival of Dol in a riot of colours, songs, prayers and exchange of sweets among friends, relatives and neighbours. Thousands of people from across India and several other countries congregated in Birbhum district’s Santiniketan, about 180 km from here, for Dol celebrations. Nobel laureate-poet Rabindranath Tagore in Santiniketan […]

As many as three Trinamool Congress MPs questioned the alleged meeting of Solicitor General Tushar Mehta with Leader of Opposition in West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari

People in Odisha on Sunday celebrated 'Rasagola Dibasa' while the state government claimed to have found evidence about the origin of the syrupy sweet in the state

Bhubaneswar: It’s an identity crisis of sorts for thousands of villagers along Odisha’s border who are affected by the continuing territorial dispute between the state and its neighbours. The dispute has been a boon for some, but a bane for others. From rations to facilities under government schemes to voting rights, residents of scores of […]

Midnapore (WB): A makeshift tent collapsed during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s rally in West Bengal’s Midnapore district today, injuring at least 20 people, a police official said. The tent, officials said, was erected next to the main entrance of the rally venue to shelter people from the rain. Many enthusiastic BJP supporters were seen crowding […]

Purulia (WB): The body of a 35-year-old man was today found hanging from a high-tension tower here, triggering protests by locals, police said. The incident comes two days after the BJP claimed that its worker Trilochon Mahato (20), who was found hanging from a tree at Balarampur in the district on May 30, was killed […]