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BJP MP Locket Chatterjee accuses TMC of targeting Hindu women in Sandeshkhali
Published on Feb 19, 2024 02:53 PM IST
Locket Chatterjee said that there is only one woman chief minister in the country, and it is in her state that women are most unsafe
Sandeshkhali: Bengal govt in crisis management mode; ministers meet residents
TMC minister Sujit Bose said that they were in Sandeshkhali to listen to the grievances of people and to meet the party’s local leaders
Published on Feb 18, 2024 10:14 PM IST
How QR codes helped authorities detect moles during WB class X board exams
Officials suspect that a specific gang was working behind this and were just using the students. Specific WhatsApp groups were created by the gangs
Published on Feb 18, 2024 04:18 PM IST
VHP moves Calcutta HC over lioness named ‘Sita’ at Siliguri zoo
In a writ petition filed before the Calcutta high court’s circuit bench at Jalpaiguri on Saturday, VHP said that naming of an animal after a religious deity is “sacrilegious and blasphemous, violating the religious beliefs of Hindus”
Published on Feb 18, 2024 01:02 PM IST
Sandeshkhali unrest: Trinamool reacts sharply to Mithun Chakraborty's remarks
On the unrest in Sandeshkhali, Mithun Chakraborty said political parties need to set aside their differences in addressing such atrocities.
Updated on Feb 18, 2024 08:07 AM IST
Sandeshkhali unrest: Police add IPC section for gang rape against 2 TMC leaders
TMC's Hazra was arrested late on Saturday night from Nazat area in North 24 Parganas, police said. He will be produced before the Basirhat court on Sunday
Updated on Feb 17, 2024 08:48 PM IST
Eight-year-old boy found murdered in his house in West Bengal’s Hooghly: Police
Police said that the kid’s mother works at a local restaurant in Hooghly and his father works in a shop in Kolkata. The incident took place when both were away for work
Published on Feb 17, 2024 05:27 PM IST
Mamata Banerjee removes arrested Bengal minister Jyotipriya Mallick from cabinet
Jyotipriya Mallick is the second senior cabinet minister to be removed by chief minister Mamata Banerjee from the government following probe by federal agencies
Published on Feb 17, 2024 11:21 AM IST
In Bengal assembly, Mamata Banerjee seeks to link RSS to Sandeshkhali unrest
RSS is engaged in social work and has nothing to do with politics, said RSS spokesperson Ajay Kumar Nandi in his rebuttal to Mamata Banerjee
Published on Feb 15, 2024 06:53 PM IST
Sandeshkhali situation ‘highly reprehensible’, says West Bengal governor
Bose, who visited the restive area and spoke with the agitators on Monday, said in the report that the local people want constitution of a Special Task Force.
Published on Feb 15, 2024 12:04 AM IST
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Bengal PDS scam: Businessman arrested by ED after 24-hour raids
Biswajit Das, who runs an export-import business, was arrested after a night-long interrogation at his home in Salt Lake on the eastern outskirts of Kolkata
Published on Feb 14, 2024 06:39 PM IST
Half a million state govt jobs lying vacant due to Oppn roadblocks: Mamata Banerjee
The Calcutta high court is at present hearing a series of PILs related to alleged irregularities in recruitment drives in schools and civic bodies in West Bengal
Published on Feb 13, 2024 08:29 AM IST
Bengal guv visits trouble-torn Sandeshkhali; Smriti Irani hits out at Mamata
The North 24 Parganas district administration clamped prohibitory orders at Sandeshkhali on Saturday under Section 144 of CrPC and suspended internet services after some videos from here went viral on social media
Updated on Feb 12, 2024 09:15 PM IST
TMC names journalist Sagarika Ghose among four Rajya Sabha candidates
The three other candidates of the Trinamool Congress for the upcoming Rajya Sabha polls are Sushmita Dev, Mamata Bala Thakur and Nadimul Haque
Updated on Feb 11, 2024 08:06 PM IST
TMC leader arrested for inciting violence ahead of 2023 panchayat polls
A police officer said that former Trinamool Congress (TMC) lawmaker Arabul Islam was being produced before a district court
Published on Feb 09, 2024 03:46 PM IST
Bengal’s Sandeshkhali on edge after attacks on TMC workers, their properties
Tension mounted on Thursday when hundreds of women carrying sticks, brooms, and farming tools blocked roads and demanded the arrest of two TMC workers
Published on Feb 09, 2024 08:53 AM IST
Women getting pregnant in jail, bar entry of male staffers: Calcutta HC told
The amicus curiae urged that the entry of male employees of the correctional homes should be immediately prohibited inside the enclosures of women prisoners
Published on Feb 08, 2024 02:00 PM IST
Bengal taking precautions to stop misuse of MGNREGA funds: Officials
Targeting the Centre at a Trinamool Congress (TMC) agitation on February 3, Banerjee announced that her government would pay 2.1 million MGNREGA beneficiaries their pending wages for two years, although the Centre stopped disbursing its share in 2021
Published on Feb 07, 2024 08:34 PM IST
Class 8 hosteller was homesick, killed a junior so that school declared a holiday
The 14-year-old suspect wanted the authorities to declare a holiday so that he could go home, Purulia superintendent of police (SP) Avijit Banerjee told reporters.
Updated on Feb 06, 2024 05:06 PM IST
ED raids multiple places in WB linked to alleged irregularities in NREGS funds
This is the first such raid that the Enforcement Directorate has carried out in West Bengal linked to the alleged irregularities in MGNREGS funds
Updated on Feb 06, 2024 03:57 PM IST
CBI’s claim ex-minister was sole planner of Bengal job scam triggers row
The BJP has alleged that it was impossible for Chatterjee to run such a huge scam without consent from the TMC’s top leadership
Published on Feb 04, 2024 07:49 PM IST
WB govt will pay dues of 2.1 million NREGS workers denied wage by Centre: Mamata
West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee said the state government would directly transfer funds to the bank accounts of 2.1 million MGNREGS workers, who have been denied their wages by the Centre, by February 21
Published on Feb 03, 2024 07:17 PM IST
Mamata Banerjee junks CAG report on TMC govt, says it is compiled by BJP
The BJP on Wednesday cited a CAG report to allege that scam to the tune of about ₹2 lakh crore had taken place in the TMC-ruled state.
Updated on Feb 02, 2024 09:50 PM IST
Decapitated body of 11-year-old girl found in Bengal’s Malda; relative arrested
Security camera footages, which helped police identify the 26-year-old male suspect, showed the Class 5 student riding on January 29
Published on Feb 01, 2024 06:42 PM IST
Cops tied to tree, heckled by mob in West Bengal village; eight arrested
The two cops were visiting the village for an enquiry after reports of some land related dispute between two groups.
Updated on Feb 01, 2024 08:53 PM IST
Women commission stall in book fair receives 30 complaints related to domestic abuse
Women commission stall in book fair receives 30 complaints related to domestic abuse
Published on Feb 01, 2024 10:10 AM IST
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Jadavpur University orders internal probe after student allegedly dies by suicide
The university has further barred one of the accused students from entering the campus after a demand to keep the accused away from campus was raised by the university’s Forum for Students with Disability
Published on Jan 31, 2024 08:46 PM IST
Broken rear windscreen of Rahul Gandhi’s car triggers political slugfest in Bengal
Congress veteran Jairam Ramesh told media persons that it was a small incident and won’t weaken the INDIA alliance
Published on Jan 31, 2024 04:51 PM IST
Arrest those accused of attacking school teachers by Feb 2: Calcutta HC
Police said the four persons named in the FIR are still missing but investigators have arrested four other suspects in connection with the alleged assault
Published on Jan 30, 2024 09:59 PM IST
TMC leader on the run after attack on ED officials seeks anticipatory bail
The request was filed by sheikh Shahjahan’s lawyer after he failed to appear at the ED office in response to the summon notice served on January 24
Updated on Jan 30, 2024 09:30 PM IST