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Tigress yet to be sedated, attempts to capture it to resume after vets give go ahead: Official

Tigress yet to be sedated, attempts to capture it to resume after vets give go ahead: Official
Updated on Dec 29, 2024 01:06 pm IST

Weather updates: Odisha sees 45.2 degrees; IMD alerts for these states

A heatwave is declared in plains when the maximum temperature is over 40°C. (HT file image)
Updated on Apr 21, 2024 01:33 pm IST

2 die by suicide in Bengal, Odisha after India's loss in World Cup final

Rahul Lohar, 23, took the extreme step near a cinema hall in Beliatore police station area of Bankura allegedly India's loss. (Representative photo)
Published on Nov 21, 2023 07:53 am IST

Bengal man barks at BDO after ration card shows surname as ‘kutta’ | Watch

The man in the video. (Screenshot from the video/Sourced by HT)
Updated on Nov 19, 2022 11:24 pm IST

Bengal BJP youth front chief’s wife joins TMC, husband wants divorce

Sujata Khan was welcomed into the party by TMC Lok Sabha MP Saugata Roy and spokesperson Kunal Ghosh.
Updated on Dec 21, 2020 04:25 pm IST

BJP’s victory run will stop in Bengal, says CM Mamata; promises more time for party

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee addresses a public meeting in Bankura district on Wednesday.
Updated on Nov 25, 2020 11:58 pm IST

TMC, BJP race to help Bengal tribal family that hosted Amit Shah for lunch

Union Home Minister Amit Shah with Bibhishan Hansda outside the latter’s home in Bengal’s Bankura district.
Published on Nov 09, 2020 07:46 am IST

‘Expert on Gujarat Gymkhana, not Bengal’: TMC on Amit Shah’s statue flub

TMC leaders alleged that home minister Amit Amit Shah was so ignorant of Bengal’s culture that he garlanded the wrong statue. (Photo@BJP4Bengal)
Updated on Nov 07, 2020 11:58 am IST

Amit Shah has lunch at house of tribal BJP worker in Bengal

Amit Shah, who is on a two-day tour to the state, arrived in Bankura this morning to take stock of the party’s organisation in the district. The assembly election is likely to be held in the state in April-May next year.
Updated on Nov 06, 2020 09:15 am IST

‘Urge you to overthrow Trinamool, let BJP build sonar Bangla’: Amit Shah

Amit Shah said that the death knell of the Mamata Banerjee government has been sounded and the BJP will come to power with a two-third majority in the coming elections.
Updated on Nov 05, 2020 05:12 pm IST

Maoist posters resurface in Bengal, third incident since August

On the eve of Independence Day last month, around a dozen posters were recovered from three villages in the Bhulabheda area of Jhargram district, another erstwhile hotbed of Maoist activity. (HT File photo)
Updated on Sept 22, 2020 08:51 pm IST

TMC leader killed in Bengal’s Bankura, many workers hurt in two other districts

Ali, the former head of the panchayat, was hacked to death after he suffered bomb injuries.
Updated on Aug 02, 2020 06:30 pm IST

West Bengal teacher conducts online classes on a tree to beat network glitches

Subrato Pati uses his smartphone to take online classes from his workspace on the tree.
Updated on Apr 23, 2020 02:27 pm IST

Hotels, luxury resorts offer quarantine deals in West Bengal

West Bengal has around 580 institutional quarantine centres, where more than 11,000 people are currently under observation. (Photo by Parveen Kumar/Hindustan Times)
Published on Apr 14, 2020 07:49 pm IST

Mild earthquake hits Bankura district

There was no report of any casualty or damage to property, as per initial reports, officials said.
Published on Apr 08, 2020 01:40 pm IST

Amid lockdown, villagers attack cops, crowds flock to markets on Ram Navami in Bengal

On Thursday, the festival of Ram Navami too was celebrated in certain pockets of Kolkata and the districts despite a nationwide lockdown.
Updated on Apr 03, 2020 12:56 am IST

Endangered fishing cat triggers panic in Bengal’s suburban town

The footage of the fishing cat, the state animal of West Bengal, was captured by a close circuit television camera installed in a house at Kanaigram in Konnagar. (Image used for representation).
Updated on Jan 21, 2020 07:09 am IST

Identify those in touch with the BJP, says Mamata

“From gram panchayat to legislators, TMC leaders from all levels are keeping in touch with me,” retorted BJP Jhargram district president Sukhamay Satpati.
Updated on Jul 06, 2019 12:09 am IST

‘Is this Pakistan?’ Bengal BJP alleges teen shot for chanting ‘Jai Shri Ram’

BJP protest march in West against the alleged killing of its workers.
Updated on Jun 23, 2019 03:07 pm IST

Lok Sabha election 2019: Villagers boycott polling in West Bengal’s Jhargram constituency over drinking water, road

Along with Jhargram, the other constituencies where polling is being held in this phase are Tamluk, Kanthi, Ghatal, Medinipur, Bankura, Bishnupur and Purulia.
Updated on May 12, 2019 03:32 pm IST

‘Prove the charge or do 100 sit-ups holding ears’: Mamata on PM Modi’s coal mafia remark

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee during an election meeting at kotsila in Purulia district on Wednesday.
Updated on May 09, 2019 07:12 pm IST

‘Why should I slap PM’: Mamata Banerjee explains ‘slap of democracy’ remark

Mamata Banerjee had during a campaign rally at Raghunathpur in the district on Tuesday said that Modi should get a “tight slap of democracy”.
Updated on May 11, 2020 10:48 am IST

I can contest from anywhere but don’t want division of votes: Mamata Banerjee

The Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo said wherever regional parties are strong they should not lose their votes from their area.
Updated on Apr 13, 2019 06:58 pm IST

Lok Sabha 2019 constituency: Will Trinamool keep Bankura?

West Bengal’s Bankura Lok Sabha constituency was held by the Communist Party of India (Marxist) continuously since 1980 till 2014.
Updated on May 07, 2019 02:17 pm IST

Lok Sabha 2019 constituency: Once a Left bastion, West Bengal’s Bishnupur is held by Trinamool

Bishnupur Lok Sabha constituency in West Bengal goes to polls on May 12
Updated on May 07, 2019 02:22 pm IST

New faces, more women likely in Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool candidate list for Lok Sabha elections

West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee might spring a few surprises while announcing her list of candidates for the Lok Sabha election 2019 on Tuesday.
Updated on Mar 12, 2019 11:22 am IST

Mamata government denies rally nod of Jharkhand ex-CM Munda in Bankura

Former Jharkhand CM Arjun Munda was welcomed by people at Kating on his way back from Bandwan after permission was denied to his meeting at Bishnupur in Bankura district, India, on Wednesday.
Published on Feb 07, 2019 09:14 am IST

Another coal mine disaster: 3 dead, one missing in state-owned mine in Bengal

Rescuers work at the site of a coal mine that collapsed in Ksan, in Meghalaya.
Published on Jan 31, 2019 11:12 pm IST

Cyclone Phethai to make landfall in Andhra Pradesh today, alert sounded

People walk along a breakwater at Kasimedu fishing harbour as Cyclone Phethai approaches Chennai on Sunday.
Updated on Dec 17, 2018 10:12 am IST

14-yr-old Bengal boy killed by teenager during fight over carrom in gambling den

Local people told police that Haidar and Rasul had a quarrel soon after they started playing against each other.
Published on Nov 14, 2018 05:55 pm IST