Tag: West Bengal

Balasore: Two women hailing from Digha in West Bengal were allegedly gang raped in a private guest house under Talasari Marine police limits in Balasore district on Tuesday. Reportedly, three miscreants brought the two women to the guest house and allegedly gang raped them. Following the incident, owner and staff of the guest house have […]

New Delhi: There is a shortage of around 1,500 Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers, Parliament was told on Wednesday. Out of the authorised strength of 6,699, 5,205 positions are held across the country and the maximum shortage is in Uttar Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh-Goa-Mizoram and Union Territory (AGMUT), Bihar, West Bengal cadres, Minister of State for […]

Bhubaneswar: The Geographical Indications (GI) Registry will hear a petition demanding rectification/removal of GI Tag for ‘Banglar Rasogola’ on September 6. The GI Registry has served notices to the two departments of West Bengal government- State Food Processing & Horticulture Development Corporation and Patent Information centre, Department of Higher Education Science & Technology.   The […]

New Delhi: A total of 75.06 per cent voter turnout was registered on Monday in phase seven of the West Bengal Assembly polls, the Election Commission said. The poll panel…

Kolkata: West Bengal’s opposition Left parties and the Congress have lashed out against Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for her comments that the issue of National Register of Citizens was not discussed during her meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday. Referring to BJP state president Dilip Ghosh’s recent remark that two crore foreigners have […]

Kolkata: CBI sleuths kept up their search on Saturday to locate top West Bengal police officer Rajeev Kumar who has been skipping summons of the probe agency in connection with the multi-crore Saradha deposit default scam. Teams of the special crime branch of CBI visited the office of the CID at Bhabani Bhavan as well […]

Bhubaneswar: After sealing its borders with Chhattisgarh and West Bengal in the wake of rising COVID-19 cases during the second wave of the pandemic, the Odisha government Saturday tightened surveillance…

Katihar/Malda: The death toll in the boat capsize in Mahananda river bordering West Bengal and Bihar rose to eight on Saturday after four more bodies were recovered by rescue teams, a police officer said. The bodies of four men were fished out from the river at Chanchal area in Malda district of West Bengal on […]

Kolkata: A Border Security Force (BSF) trooper was killed and another injured on Thursday after Border Guards Bangladesh fired on them at a flag meeting at Kakmarichar along the riverine international border in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district. The incident sent an alarm bell in the security forces and intelligence agencies as the BSF and the […]

Kolkata: In a rare honour, the Presidency University on Thursday decided to emboss facsimiles of the faces of Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee and Amartya Sen – the two Nobel laureates in its list of distinguished alumni – on its wall. Vice Chancellor Anuradha Lohia said the university has also decided to immediately send a felicitation scroll […]

New Delhi/Dhaka: In a first of its kind incident, Bangladeshi border guards opened fire at a Border Security Force (BSF) team on Thursday killing a jawan after a ‘flag meeting’ along the Indo-Bangla riverine frontier in West Bengal, officials said. A second jawan was injured in the firing incident, they said. However, in a statement […]

New Delhi: While 3,700 people were killed in Naxal violence in 10 states, the highest in Chhattisgarh, in the last nine years, Odisha accounted for 9% of such violent incidents and deaths, the Ministry of Home Affairs said in its annual report. In its report for 2018-19, the ministry said the CPI (Maoist) continues to […]

Bhadrak: Tension ran high near Motel chhak in Bhadrak after locals today detained a pickup van allegedly involved in illegal cattle transportation. Suspecting that the cows were being illegally transported for slaughter, some youths intercepted the pickup van. It is being said that the cattle were being illegally transported from Jajpur to Kolkata. Getting information, […]

New Delhi: A study has warned that coastal Odisha is expected to be particularly vulnerable as rise in sea level may put some of India’s greatest cities in the flood-risk zone, affecting a total of 36 million people in the country by 2050 – about 31 million more than previously thought. Worldwide, rising sea levels […]

New Delhi: The National Crisis Management Committee (NCMC), headed by Cabinet Secretary Rajiv Gauba, on Friday took stock of the preparedness for rescue and relief operations for the severe cyclone ‘Bulbul’, which is likely to hit Odisha and West Bengal. During a meeting, the cabinet secretary directed central government agencies to provide immediate assistance to […]