Tag: West Bengal

Bhubaneswar: In a good news for West Bengal government employees, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress government on Thursday announced a three per cent hike in dearness allowance (DA). The decision by the Mamata government has come months ahead of Assembly elections in the state. West Bengal is scheduled to hold Assembly polls in April/May […]

Kolkata: The ‘Bharat Bandh’ called on Tuesday by the farmer unions to press for the repeal of the Central government’s newly passed farm laws received partial response in West Bengal with protesters burning the effigies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, business honchos Mukesh Ambani and Gautam Adani on Jessore Road here. The protesters staged a […]

New Delhi: The Congress high command has given its nod for an alliance with Left parties for the West Bengal Assembly election next year. Bengal Congress President Adhir Ranjan Chowdhry said, “Today the Congress High command has formally approved the electoral alliance with the Left parties for the impending election in West Bengal.” In the […]

Kolkata: The West Bengal Board of Secondary Education on Saturday announced that the class 10 exams for 2021 will start from June 1, with strict adherence to all COVID-19 protocols. The secondary exams will continue till June 10, an official of the board said. “We have uploaded the details of the schedule for the 2021 […]

New Delhi: In a development which may further increase the political heat in West Bengal where Assembly polls are slated early next year, the CBI in a contempt plea in the Saradha chit fund scam has informed the Supreme Court that the Chief Minister’s Relief Fund of West Bengal regularly paid for a period of […]

Kolkata: The Central Bureau of Investigation on Friday arrested actor Subhra Kundu, wife of Rose Valley Group chairman Gautam Kundu, from the city in connection with the probe into the multi-crore chit fund scam. Sleuths of the Economic Offences Wing of CBI apprehended Kundu for her alleged role in the ponzi scam, sources in the […]

New Delhi/Kolkata: Several teams of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday launched search operations at 13 locations in poll-bound West Bengal, including the premises of coal mafia Jaidev Mondal in an ongoing probe into the coal scam case involving the coal mafia Anup Majhi, who is still on the run, sources said. A […]

Bhubaneswar: In a bid to discuss modalities in resolving disputes arising out of several bordering villages near Jaleswar and Bhograi in Balasore district, a meeting of top officials of Odisha and West Bengal governments is underway at West Medinipur on Thursday. The development has come as a relief for both the neighbouring states following a […]

Bhadrak: Police on Tuesday seized two vehicles allegedly transporting cattle in an illegal manner on NH-16 near Gelapur square under Rural police station in the district. Two pick-up vans laden with cattle were intercepted by the members of a local social organisation while two other vans allegedly engaged in the illegal trade have fled. On […]

New Delhi: In the poll-bound state of West Bengal, when Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath lays out the tenets of his party’s “cultural nationalism”, his thoughts connect with centuries old ‘Nath’ sect which has its roots in Kamrup (Assam) and Bengal. The 48-year-old Yogi Adityanath, who is also the head priest of sacred Gorakhnath […]

Bolangir: At least six persons were arrested by Bolangir Town Police on Saturday on charges of murdering a mason from West Bengal on March 4. As per reports, the deceased mason Bani Sheik was staying with his five other colleagues and uncle Hyder Ali at a rented house at Sarobarpada area. All of them hails […]

Kolkata: Preparing a roadmap for the upcoming state Assembly polls, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said that the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress government has shattered the expectations of people in West Bengal. “Bengal wants development, peace and property. People want Bengal to reach the peak of developments. They want Sonar Bangla (Golden Bengal). People […]

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed a plea challenging the Election Commission’s (EC) decision to conduct the West Bengal Assembly polls over eight phases. A bench headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde rejected the plea, which had also sought to bar the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its leaders from using the […]

The Election Commission of India (ECI) has found the report submitted by the West Bengal government on the alleged attack on Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in Nandigram on March 10 as “sketchy” and asked Chief Secretary Alapan Bandyopadhyay to elaborate it, a poll official said on Saturday.

Kolkata: The Election Commission has recovered 41 crude bombs from West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district despite tight security arrangements in the state amid Assembly polls. The Commission along with…