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  • News from West Bengal | 13 Aug, 2025 | ২৮ শ্রাবণ, ১৪৩২
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  • Recovery agent arrested, gets bail later

    Rajiv Banerjee, a recovery agent for a public sector bank in Asansol, was arrested by the Asansol South Police Phari (outpost) under the Asansol Durgapur Police Commissionerate (ADPC) for allegedly threatening a person while demanding money over a loan ...

    13 August 2025 The Statesman
    Thalassemia awareness

    Rotary Club of Calcutta Majestic organised a Thalassemia Awareness Programme and Tree Plantation at its Interact School Techno India Group of Public School Garia.Rotary district Governor Dr Ramanendu Homchoudhury club president Kanta Sengupta, along with other members attended the ...

    13 August 2025 The Statesman
    Kidnapped minor rescued

    The Chief Judicial Magistrate’s Court sent seven kidnappers to eight days police custody on Monday.Five persons were arrested by the CBI from Rajasthan on charges of kidnapping a minor girl from Raina rural areas in East Burdwan and two ...

    13 August 2025 The Statesman
    Cabinet approves power plants at Salboni, setting up Durgangan

    The state Cabinet, which met today under the leadership of the chief minister Mamata Banerjee put a seal on a number of crucial decisions, including the setting up of two more power plants of (each 800+ 800mgw) of 1600 ...

    13 August 2025 The Statesman
    PM Modi’s rally in Bengal this month likely to be postponed by 2 days

    The scheduled rally of Prime Minister Narendra Modi this month at Dum Dum in West Bengal’s North 24-Parganas district located on the northern outskirts of Kolkata is likely to be postponed by two days, a BJP leader said on ...

    13 August 2025 The Statesman
    “If there is any irregularity in voters’ list, then dissolve entire Lok Sabha,” says TMC’s Abhishek Banerjee

    Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Abhishek Banerjee on Tuesday slammed the Election Commission and said that if the voter list has errors, the entire Lok Sabha and Union Government should be dissolved, as the same list was used to elect ...

    13 August 2025 The Statesman
    Lawyers stir over shifting of court in new building

    Hundreds of lawyers of Durgapur Sub-Divisional Court have agitated and brought out a rally and laid siege to Asansol Durgapur Development Authority (ADDA) office in Durgapur today demanding immediate opening of the new court building.The advocates have alleged that ...

    12 August 2025 The Statesman
    Fake ‘interpol’ office busted in Kolkata

    Police in Kolkata have sealed a bogus police station, allegedly run by former political leader Bibhas Adhikari, days after he was arrested in Noida in connection with multiple fraud cases, a senior police official said on Monday.A Kolkata Police ...

    12 August 2025 The Statesman
    KMC kicks in new building norms

    The state cabinet today passed the modified norms of allowing sanctions to small plots today.As informed by mayor Firha Hakim, the cabinet has passed the new building rules today and the civic body has decided to allow sanction on ...

    12 August 2025 The Statesman
    State govt starts internal probe against 5 poll officials

    The West Bengal government on Monday initiated an internal inquiry to probe the alleged involvement of the five poll personnel, including two Electoral Registration Officers (ERO), WBCS executives, and assistant EROs.The govt decided for the move, instead of complying ...

    12 August 2025 The Statesman
    RG Kar rape-murder victim’s father says hospital removed ‘injury by police action’ in wife’s medical report

    The father of the RG Kar rape and murder victim on Monday alleged that the private hospital had altered the cause of the injury to his wife, who was hurt in police action during the August 9 ‘Nabanna Avijan ...

    12 August 2025 The Statesman
    Kolkata Nabanna Avijan march violence: 7 FIRs registered against BJP leaders

    The Kolkata Police have registered seven FIRs against BJP MLAs for violating the Calcutta High Court’s order for a peaceful Nabanna Avijan on August 9 and assaulting on-duty policemen.The city police have claimed that as many as five constables ...

    11 August 2025 The Statesman
    Sukanta Majumdar faces protests from Trinamool workers after launch of Bengal’s first AC EMU

    Union Minister of State for Education and DoNER, Sukanta Majumdar, on Sunday afternoon, faced protests from a section of Trinamool Congress workers at Dum Dum station after the inauguration of West Bengal’s first air-conditioned Electric Multiple Unit (EMU) from ...

    11 August 2025 The Statesman
    Humid weather to persist in Kolkata till Monday; rain likely in parts of Bengal

    The Meteorological (MeT) office has forecast more rain over South Bengal districts later this week, as there is a possibility of another depression forming in the Bay of Bengal.The weather over Kolkata has been clear since Sunday morning. There ...

    11 August 2025 The Statesman
    Unfortunate: Dilip Ghosh on ex-Trinamool leader’s arrest for running fake police station

    BJP leader Dilip Ghosh on Monday launched a sharp attack on the Trinamool Congress, accusing it of fraud and termed it “unfortunate” that such leaders are representing Bengal.His remarks came a day after police revealed that a fake police ...

    11 August 2025 The Statesman
    RG Kar victim’s mother stable, family might take legal action for ‘police attack’

    The health condition of the RG Kar rape and murder victim’s mother, who sustained injuries in “police action” during ‘Nabanna Avijan (march to state secretariat)’, was stable on Sunday.Sources at the private hospital, where the victim’s mother has been ...

    11 August 2025 The Statesman
    Suvendu at flood-hit Ghatal, vows to enforce master plan with BJP win

    Days after the visit of chief minister Mamata Banerjee in the flood-affected Ghatal in West Midnapore, Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari on Thursday led a scathing political charge against the ruling Trinamul Congress, accusing it of weaponising the long-pending ...

    11 August 2025 The Statesman
    TMC blames BJP for unrest on Raksha Bandhan

    The ruling Trinamul Congress has blamed the unrest on the streets today and the problem commuters faced while out on work or people celebrating Raksha Bandhan. The TMC leaders said the trouble defies the essence of the day, which ...

    10 August 2025 The Statesman
    Parents of RG Kar victim allege cop assault

    The mother of the RG Kar victim doctor was admitted to a premier private hospital along the EM Bypass after she was injured when police allegedly resorted to lathi charge during march to Nabanna.The march on Saturday was in ...

    10 August 2025 The Statesman
    Central Bank of India celebrates founding father’s birth anniversary

    Central Bank of India Kolkata Zonal Office celebrated the 144th birth anniversary of its founding father, Sir Sorabji Pochkhanawala .To commemorate this occasion Kolkata North Regional Office and Kolkata South Regional Office organised blood donation camp, health ...

    10 August 2025 The Statesman
    NH-10 hit by road collapse, landslides; rail project also affected

    A portion of national highway-10 — the crucial lifeline linking Siliguri with Sikkim — caved in early Saturday at the Ganesh Jhora area near 29th Mile, following continuous erosion of the Teesta river’s right bank.The affected stretch, already marked ...

    10 August 2025 The Statesman
    India’s Matua community holds training camp on CAA, SIR

    The All India Matua Mahasangha, led by Union minister and BJP MP Shantanu Thakur, on Saturday organised a training camp in Thakurnagar, North 24-Parganas, today to educate members on applying for citizenship under the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and ...

    10 August 2025 The Statesman
    Police launch coaching centres for tribal job seekers

    The district police today launched two coaching centres for graduate tribal students, inaugurated by state animal resources minister Swapan Debnath.Each centre will accommodate 90 tribal students, with expert teachers providing guidance to job aspirants. Superintendent of Police, East Burdwan, ...

    10 August 2025 The Statesman
    Har Ghar Tiranga campaign on in full swing

    Umbrella dance performances, rakhi-making, rangoli drawing, quiz competitions, drills and creative activities are among the many activities being carried out across the Asansol division of the Eastern Railway during the ongoing nationwide ‘Har Ghar Tiranga 2025’ campaign from 2 ...

    10 August 2025 The Statesman
    State Forest Department to Conduct Study on endangered Gangetic dolphins

    A group of fishermen set out to catch hilsa during the peak monsoon season in the Bhagirathi River at Shadipur in Jamalpur, East Burdwan district, but instead found a Ganges river dolphin caught in their net.The Ganges river dolphin ...

    10 August 2025 The Statesman
    Metro to increase services of 3 newer networks from Monday

    In what comes as good news for Metro commuters, the authorities have decided to increase the number of services of three newer networks from Monday.According to Kolkata Metro Railway, from 11 August increased services would be operated in Green ...

    10 August 2025 The Statesman
    TMC leader’s son shot dead in broad daylight at Cooch Behar market

    In a brazen daylight attack, Amar Roy (35), son of Trinamul Congress leader Kuntala Roy, was shot dead at Dodeya under Cooch Behar-II on Saturday.The incident occurred when Roy and his friend Alamgir arrived at the weekly Dadeya market ...

    10 August 2025 The Statesman
    Rural women from Hooghly make rakhis

    In the Hooghly district—particularly in areas such as Bhadreswar, Singur, and Haripal—Rakhi production has emerged as a thriving cottage industry, blending traditional craftsmanship with modern trends. Local women play a crucial role in producing a wide variety of rakhis, ...

    9 August 2025 The Statesman
    Rakhi with Roots: Nadia’s women weave seeds of change into threads

    In an unassuming corner of Bengal’s Nadia district, the humble rakhi — traditionally a symbol of a sister’s prayer for her brother’s safety — has quietly transformed into a messenger of environmental sustainability, social justice, and rural resilience. Here ...

    9 August 2025 The Statesman
    Abhishek, Kakoli felicitated after getting new responsibilities

    Abhishek Banerjee, national general secretary of the Trinamul Congress, who was recently entrusted with the responsibility of leading the Parliamentary Party in the Lok Sabha was felicitated at the TMC office inside the Parliament today.With his, Barasat MP Kakoli ...

    9 August 2025 The Statesman
    TMC points out another incident of atrocity on migrant worker

    The Trinamul Congress, writing in its official X handle highlighted yet another incident of a migrant worker from Malda in Bengal being pushed into Bangladesh forcibly by the Rajasthan Police.It wrote: “A 22-year-old from Malda was forcibly pushed into ...

    9 August 2025 The Statesman
    First AC local EMU all set roll on Sunday

    Eastern India’s first air-conditioned local EMU is all set to be rolled out this Sunday by Sealdah Division. It will have doors that would be operated like those in the city Metro.Sealdah Division is to start the commercial services ...

    9 August 2025 The Statesman
    TMC changes cultural board of Bauri society in Bankura

    Eyeing the 2026 Assembly polls in the state in a significant move, the Trinamul Congress has changed the cultural board of the Bauri society. Debdas Bauri, a very influential leader, who was the chairman of the cultural board of ...

    9 August 2025 The Statesman
    Work with Rs 500cr for Ghatal Master Plan started: Irrigation minister

    Coming down heavily on Suvendu Adhikari for speaking lies about the Ghatal Master Plan, which has caused confusion among the people of the area, Dr Manas Bhuniya , state irrigation and waterways minister said work worth Rs 500 crore ...

    9 August 2025 The Statesman
    Policemen attacked after sand-laden truck kills youth

    Tension erupted in Kanksa near Durgapur this morning after a youth was crushed to death by a lorry carrying illegally extracted sand.Enraged locals clashed with police officers who arrived at the scene.AdvertisementKrishna Bauri (25), a resident of Selampur in ...

    9 August 2025 The Statesman
    Abhishek chalks out plan to lay siege in Delhi

    INDIA bloc members will take part in a rally on 11 August to protest against the arbitrary deletion of the voters in the name of Special Intensive Revision (SIR), Abhishek Banerjee, Trinamul Congress national general secretary, said today.Talking to ...

    9 August 2025 The Statesman
    Abhishek gets reply from Centre on vandalism at Tagore house in B’desh

    Trinamul MP Abhishek Banerjee had posed an un-starred question to the ministry of external affairs about vandalism of Rabindranath Tagore’s ancestral house in Bangladesh.He had asked if the government has formally lodged a diplomatic protest with the government of ...

    9 August 2025 The Statesman
    Negligence cry after patient’s death following discharge

    A patient admitted to a healthcare facility in Behala for a heart procedure died a few hours after he was discharged yesterday, leading to an agitation by his family members, who alleged negligence resulting from reluctance in accepting the ...

    9 August 2025 The Statesman
    Minister blames delay in getting land for Eklavya school in Purulia

    Replying to an unstarred question of Purulia MP, Jyotirmay Singh Mahato, the Union minister of state for tribal affairs Durgadas Uikey has informed the Lok Sabha today that the construction of the Eklavya Model Residential School (EMRS) at Bandwan ...

    9 August 2025 The Statesman
    Mamata flags off World Tribal Day festivities in Jhargram, new projects

    Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday inaugurated the World Tribal Day celebrations at the Jhargram Stadium with a spirited appeal for unity, social justice, and women’s empowerment—while using the occasion to launch fresh attacks on the BJP-led Centre over ...

    9 August 2025 The Statesman
    HC scraps Joint Entrance merit list over OBC certification

    The Calcutta High Court on Thursday ordered the West Bengal Joint Entrance Examinations Board (WBJEEB) to scrap its merit list and prepare a new one, citing irregularities related to Other Backward Classes (OBC) certification and reservations. A single bench ...

    9 August 2025 The Statesman
    Police probe obscene video showing Dilip Ghosh

    Kolkata Police have registered a case and launched a formal investigation into allegations made by senior BJP leader and former West Bengal party president Dilip Ghosh that a pornographic video circulating on social media falsely identifies him. A First ...

    8 August 2025 The Statesman
    Trump tariffs throw Bengal’s aluminium export in limbo

    Bengal’s lone aluminum product exporter to the US is twitching in apprehension over the tariff blitzkrieg being announced by President Donald Trump, especially at a time when the maiden consignment has just landed in Chicago.“Had the US, desperately equipped ...

    8 August 2025 The Statesman
    Railways disburses 35 MMT cargo of SPMP’s total volume

    Of the 65 MMT cargo handled by the Syama Prasad Mookerjee Port last year, around 35 MMT got disbursed by the railways, informed the chairman of the city port Rathendra Raman today.Mr Raman was speaking during the Rail Synergy ...

    8 August 2025 The Statesman
    ECI overstepping into state administration: Abhishek

    Abhishek Banerjee, Trinamul Congress national general secretary came down heavily on the Election Commission of India and said it is overstepping into the state administration flouting the Constitutional provisions given to it.Talking to newsmen at the Netaji Subhas Chandra ...

    8 August 2025 The Statesman
    Citizen’s forum urges EC for urgent electoral roll revision in Bengal

    The All Bengal Citizens Forum has written to the Chief Election Commissioner in New Delhi, stressing the urgency of conducting a Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral roll in West Bengal.The purpose of the SIR, according to the ...

    8 August 2025 The Statesman
    From aluminium to rakhis, Durgapur exporters in a tizzy over Trump tariffs

    Bengal’s lone aluminum panel exporter and women Rakhi exporters based in the Durgapur region are in a quandary after the tariff blitzkrieg announced by US President Donald Trump, especially at a time when their maiden consignments have landed in ...

    8 August 2025 The Statesman
    Vinita Srivastava new DRM of Asansol division

    Vinita Srivastava, an Indian Railway Service of Mechanical Engineers (IRSME) of 1994 batch, SCRA 1991, has assumed the charge of divisional railway manager (DRM), Asansol Division of Eastern Railway today. She is the first ever woman DRM of Asansol ...

    8 August 2025 The Statesman
    In less than a month DVC released 27k lakh cubic metre of water: Jal Shakti min

    Trinamul Congress MP Ritabrata Banerjee, who has been regularly raising questions on Bengal, had raised a question in the Rajya Sabha to the minister of Jal Shakti if the DVC (Damodar Valley Corporation) had released to the state 27,000 ...

    7 August 2025 The Statesman
    Anti-Bengal sentiment: TMC MPs stage protest in Parliament

    Trinamul Congress MPs today staged a demonstration outside the Parliament House to protest against the attack on Bengal and Bengali-speaking migrant workers in different parts of the country.Trinamul Congress MPs held placards that read “Don’t Insult Bengal”.AdvertisementTrinamul Congress on ...

    7 August 2025 The Statesman
    Newborn rescued in Howrah

    A newborn girl was rescued by an e-rickshaw driver from a garbage dump in Howrah district on Wednesday morning. The baby was spotted when Chandan Mallick, the driver, was passing through Panchanantala in the Bally area and noticed something ...

    7 August 2025 The Statesman
    Closed mines to be developed as tourism spots: Coal minister

    Union coal minister G. Kishan Reddy announced today that the ministry of coal is taking steps to transform closed coal mines across India into tourism hotspots.Drawing inspiration from countries such as Germany, the United Kingdom, and Australia—where disused coal ...

    7 August 2025 The Statesman
    Dist push for agro-based food processing units

    The district administration has taken a significant step to promote agro-based food processing units in the region. Surplus food crops will be supplied to these units, which will not only create employment opportunities but also provide farmers with a ...

    7 August 2025 The Statesman
    Education conclave by BCREC

    Dr BC Roy Engineering College organised an education conclave “EduSaksham 2025” as a part of its yearlong Silver Jubilee celebrations on 4 August in Durgapur. The theme of the event was Bridging the Knowledge and Innovation, aiming to enrich ...

    6 August 2025 The Statesman
    Foundation laid for guest house and parking facility at Jayrambati-Kamarpukur

    Chief minister Mamata Banerjee today laid the foundation stone for an Atithi Nibas (guest house) and a vehicle parking facility at Jayrambati. The initiative is part of a broader development plan for the Jayrambati-Kamarpukur region, deeply rooted in the ...

    6 August 2025 The Statesman
    EC directs CS to file FIRs against 5 poll officials

    The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Tuesday has directed the West Bengal chief secretary Manoj Pant to lodge FIRs against two Electoral Registration Officers (EROs), who are WBCS executives, two Assistant Electoral Registration Officers (AEROs) and one casual ...

    6 August 2025 The Statesman
    Dr Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar appointed new chief whip in LS

    Dr Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar has been appointed as the new Chief Whip of All India Trinamul Congress parliamentary party in the Lok Sabha.She replaced Kalyan Banerjee, who resigned from the post of Chief Whip yesterday. Mamata Banerjee, Trinamul Congress ...

    6 August 2025 The Statesman
    CM happy with strong GST collection in state

    Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today expressed her satisfaction over West Bengal’s strong performance in gross Goods and Services Tax (GST) collections for July 2025, compared to the same month last year.In a post on her X handle, Miss Banerjee ...

    6 August 2025 The Statesman
    Sukanta accuses state of collecting ‘pilgrimage tax’

    The erstwhile state president of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has accused the ruling Trinamul Congress (TMC) government in West Bengal of targeting Hindu pilgrims with an “unauthorised tax” during one of the state’s largest religious festivals. Sukanta Majumdar, ...

    6 August 2025 The Statesman
    Suvendu’s convoy attacked in Cooch Behar

    Hundreds of Trinamul Congress supporters allegedly attacked the convoy of Leader of Opposition (LoP) Suvendu Adhikari at Khagrabari, the gateway to Cooch Behar town, on Tuesday, damaging his bulletproof car as he was en route to a political programme, ...

    6 August 2025 The Statesman
    Suvendu slams Bengal Govt for ‘blocking’ voter list revision

    Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari, on Tuesday accused the Trinamul Congress-led state government of deliberately not cooperating with the Election Commission of India (ECI) in executing the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls.Drawing a comparison with Bihar, ...

    6 August 2025 The Statesman
    Abhishek asks party leaders to work for party, bury hatchets

    Calling the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) as silent invisible rigging, Trinamul Congress national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee urged party workers to ensure that the name of not a single genuine voter is deleted from the voter list.Mr Banerjee today ...

    6 August 2025 The Statesman
    PM to visit Bengal on 20 Aug for Dum Dum event

    If everything goes as planned, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Bengal again on 20 August to attend a special programme in Dum Dum. The Assembly elections in the state are due next year. Despite the BJP’s vigorous efforts ...

    6 August 2025 The Statesman
    Opposition accuses TMC councillor of name duplication in voter list

    Opposition leader Shuvendu Adhikari has alleged that Kabirul Alam, Trinamul Congress councillor of Ward 19 of Dankuni Municipality, has his name listed twice in the voter rolls.In a Facebook post featuring Kabirul Alam’s name and photograph, Mr Adhikari claimed ...

    6 August 2025 The Statesman
    Abhishek new party leader in LS, replaces Sudip Bandyopadhyay

    Abhishek Banerjee, Trinamul Congress national general secretary and MP from Diamond Harbour has been appointed as the leader of the party in Lok Sabha.He replaced veteran party MP from north Kolkata Sudip Bandyopadhyay. Post the development Kalyan Bandyopadhyay resigned ...

    6 August 2025 The Statesman
    Trinamul lambastes Amit Malviya

    Trinamul Congress leaders have lambasted the BJP IT chief Amit Malviya after he wrote on social media that there is no language called Bengali. AdvertisementTrinamul Congress in its X handle wrote: “There is in fact no language called Bengali – ...

    6 August 2025 The Statesman
    In virtual meet with MPs, Mamata speaks on Abhishek’s new role as TMC Parliamentary party leader in Lok Sabha

    Mamata Banerjee, Trinamul Congress chairperson today instructed the Trinamul MPs to raise the issue on the attack of the Bengali speaking migrant labourers in the BJP-ruled states and foil the saffron party’s attempt to equate Bengali as Bangladeshi language.She ...

    6 August 2025 The Statesman
    West Bengal Sees 12 % Growth in GST Collections, Mamata Banerjee Shares Report

    West Bengal has reported a robust 12 per cent year-on-year growth in gross Goods and Services Tax (GST) collections for July 2025, with a total collection of Rs 5,895 crore, up from Rs 5,257 crore in the same month ...

    6 August 2025 The Statesman
    New lease of life to 17-yr girl after critical surgery

    A team of doctors comprising surgical gastroenterology experts and anaesthesiologists of SSKM Hospital as well as Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education & Research (IPGME&R) gave new lease of life after performing a critical surgery for more than eight ...

    5 August 2025 The Statesman
    Govt starts shuttle busses between Metro stations for passengers

    The state transport department today launched shuttle bus services between Shahid Khudram and Kavi Subhash metro stations to ease out last mile connectivity for citizens commuting between the two stations.The initiative comes in the background of the closure of ...

    5 August 2025 The Statesman
    Aromatic rice prices soar to 2.5 times in Burdwan

    Traders and consumers are struggling to cope with soaring prices of aromatic rice in the retail market – even at its birthplace in East Burdwan, Bengal’s rice bowl.Traders and rice millers have complained that unauthorised hoarding of paddy by ...

    5 August 2025 The Statesman
    CU refuses to reschedule exams on TMCP foundation day

    Calcutta University has decided to go ahead with undergraduate examinations on 28 August, the same day the Trinamul Congress Chhatra Parishad (TMCP), the student wing of the ruling Trinamul Congress party, observes its foundation day. The decision has set ...

    5 August 2025 The Statesman
    At Bankura’s biri factory, tradition of lectura still continues

    What is the common between Fidel Castro’s Cuba and Ram Kinkar Baij’s faraway red and dusty Bankura, the native places of two legends? Incidentally Cuba and Bankura have a common connection of a century-old tradition of ‘lectura’, where a ...

    5 August 2025 The Statesman
    Mamata, Abhishek Banerjee slam BJP as Delhi Police letter terms Bengali as Bangladeshi language

    West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and the Trinamool Congress general secretary Abhishek Banerjee, on Sunday, condemned the BJP after a letter from Delhi Police referred to Bengali as a “Bangladeshi language”.Both described the issue of such language by ...

    4 August 2025 The Statesman
    Corruption, crime against women to be BJP’s counter in Parliament to Trinamool’s ‘Bengali-harassment’ claims

    Rampant corruption, rising incidents of crime against women and the frequent communal violence in minority-dominated pockets of West Bengal will be the counter-attack points of the BJP Parliamentarians from West Bengal on the floor of the Parliament during the ...

    4 August 2025 The Statesman
    Crops damage in heavy rains causes vegetable prices to skyrocket in Bengal cities

    Continuous rains over West Bengal, coupled with the slowing down of the supply chain, have led to prices of vegetables skyrocketing in Kolkata markets, as well as in several other cities and towns across districts.In Kolkata markets, a cauliflower, ...

    4 August 2025 The Statesman
    Trinamool Congress highlights another instance of a Bengali migrant worker’s death in Haryana

    Trinamool Congress, on Sunday, highlighted another incident of a migrant worker from West Bengal being killed in a BJP-ruled state.In a social media post, the Trinamool Congress alleged that a migrant worker from the Chanchal area in Malda district ...

    4 August 2025 The Statesman
    Heavy rainfall in North Bengal, MeT office issues red alert

    The Meteorological (MeT) office, on Sunday, issued a red alert warning for rain in several North Bengal districts, with scattered thunderstorms likely to continue in South Bengal districts for the next few days.As the weather office has not predicted ...

    4 August 2025 The Statesman
    Kirti Azad seeks central probe into corruption in Eastern Coalfields

    Trinamul Congress MP Kirti Azad has written to Union coal and mines minister G Kishan Reddy demanding a comprehensive investigation by federal agencies, including CBI and ED into what he described as “pervasive and systemic corruption” within Eastern Coalfields ...

    3 August 2025 The Statesman
    6 month-old baby drowns in knee-deep waterlogged room

    In an apparently unheard-of incident a six month-old baby drowned in knee-deep water that has waterlogged her residence and most areas at Debinagar under the North Dum Dum Municipality on Saturday.The shocking incident that happened around 8.30 a.m. in ...

    3 August 2025 The Statesman
    Old building collapses in Maniktala

    Two children were injured after a portion of a dilapidated building in Maniktala collapsed this morning.Civic officials of the building department said a portion of a century-old two storey building collapsed this morning. The civic authorities had declared the ...

    3 August 2025 The Statesman
    Sealdah station earmarks platforms for different sections

    Commuters availing local EMUs towards various suburban sections from Sealdah station would not have to jostle through the crowd running to different platforms to catch trains.The zonal railway has decided to allocate specific platforms for different trains heading to ...

    3 August 2025 The Statesman
    Cops arrest three in murder of TMC panchayat member

    Police have arrested three individuals in connection with the murder of Kannaipur panchayat member Pintu Chakraborty. Biswanath Pramanik from the Sason area of Barasat, and Dipak Mondal from Barasat, both were identified as contract killers by the police. They ...

    3 August 2025 The Statesman
    Ranaghat-Krishnanagar 3rd line in final sanction stage

    Moving a step ahead in capacity enhancement, Eastern Railway’s proposed third line between Ranaghat and Krishnanagar City has reached the final stage of sanction after an approval from the Railway Board. According to official sources, the project under Sealdah ...

    3 August 2025 The Statesman
    ABVP’s meet in Siliguri focus on infiltration, women’s safety

    The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) convened its central working committee meeting in Siliguri on Saturday, marking a crucial two-day session aimed at shaping future academic, social, and cultural strategies.Delegates from across India attended the meet to share ...

    3 August 2025 The Statesman
    July alone records 82pc of rainfall

    July accounted for 82 per cent of the total monsoon precipitation this year in East Burdwan — one of Bengal’s key agricultural districts.The district received 497.1 mm of rainfall in July, against the monthly average of 273 mm. In ...

    3 August 2025 The Statesman
    TMC women wing protests atrocities on Bengali migrant workers

    Members of Trinamul Mahila Congress staged a sit-in demonstration at Gandhi statue in Mayo Road to protest against the attack on Bengali-speaking migrant labourers.Chandrima Bhattacharya, president Trinamul Mahila Congress said it was most unfortunate that Bengali-speaking migrant workers are ...

    3 August 2025 The Statesman
    High Court directs FIR against Asansol Municipal Corporation

    The Calcutta High Court has directed that an FIR be lodged against Asansol Municipal Corporation (AMC) for allegedly demanding Rs 20 lakh as a penalty for an illegal construction in a factory in Jamuria.Justice Gaurang Kanth ordered that an ...

    3 August 2025 The Statesman
    Students argue on indirect discrimination at moot court

    It was not only an intriguing fight for the right stand, but was also a show of team work to get the argument right before the judges. Students from 34 schools across India fought for and against the arguments ...

    3 August 2025 The Statesman
    TMC MPs protest in Parliament against SIR

    The Trinamul Congress wrote on its X handle: “The fight is no longer just about politics, it’s about the soul of our Constitution. ‘Special Intensive Revision’ is a calculated tool of exclusion and oppression, a dangerous legislative backdoor to ...

    2 August 2025 The Statesman
    Lady, B’deshi parner held for robbing man

    A Bangladeshi national and a woman were arrested from the airport area of the city for allegedly robbing a man they had targeted through a matrimonial website, police said on Friday.The victim had recently created a profile on a ...

    2 August 2025 The Statesman
    Rs 2.25 cr erosion protection plan for Bhagirathi banks

    After the heavy rains paused for a bit, the district authorities began work to prevent further damage of the Bhagirathi riverbank in certain areas yesterday.At Kishoreganj in Kalna’s Purbasthali – 1 block, cage-like bamboo structures and large boulder rocks ...

    2 August 2025 The Statesman
    Amartya Sen backs migrant workers amid language row

    Nobel Laureate Professor Amartya Sen has condemned the recent attacks on Bengali-speaking migrant workers and the Bengali language in states outside West Bengal. The veteran economist, who arrived in Santiniketan on Wednesday evening from the United States, told the media ...

    2 August 2025 The Statesman
    SIR, ECI BJP’s tools for silent rigging: TMC MP Ritabrata

    Raising the opposition against Special Intensive Review (SIR) within the Parliament precincts, the Trinamul Congress MPS are protesting with banners and slogans. Today too the party MPs were vocal in their united stand against the SIR implementation in Bihar.TMC ...

    2 August 2025 The Statesman
    CM Mamata likely to visit Ghatal

    Chief minister Mamata Banerjee is likely to visit a Ghatal in West Midnapore on 5 August to survey the flood-like situation there, said Nabanna sources.The visit, a day ahead of her proposed plan to visit Jhargram, on 6 August, ...

    2 August 2025 The Statesman
    CBI yet to conclude RG Kar probe, doctors’ forum demands answers

    Members of Abhaya Mancha, a doctors’ forum formed after last year’s rape and murder at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, staged a protest rally outside the CBI office at the CGO Complex in Salt Lake on Friday.Holding broomsticks, ...

    2 August 2025 The Statesman
    Students stir over delayed UG admissions at PU

    Members of the Students’ Federation of India (SFI) continued their sit-in demonstration at Kolkata’s Presidency University on Friday, demanding the immediate commencement of undergraduate admissions and timely publication of entrance examination results.The protest, which began on Thursday, centred around ...

    2 August 2025 The Statesman
    TMC organisation meeting advanced by 3 days

    The crucial organisation meeting of Trinamul Congress, convened by party general secretary and Lok Sabha member Abhishek Banerjee, has been advanced by three days.On Thursday, an information surfaced that the meeting, in virtual mode, will be organised on 8 ...

    2 August 2025 The Statesman
    Student council polls: HC defers hearing in absence of govt counsel

    A crucial hearing on the multiple public interest litigations seeking immediate conclusion of pending students’ union council elections in all colleges and universities in West Bengal was postponed on Friday as the state government counsel did not turn up ...

    2 August 2025 The Statesman
    TMC highlights another incident of atrocity against Bengalis in Surat

    The Trinamul Congress has been highlighting atrocities to Bengali-speaking migrant labourers in BJP-ruled states and branding them as Bangladeshis.On Thursday another such incident was flagged by the TMC regarding residents from Pingla in West Midnapore at Surat in its ...

    2 August 2025 The Statesman
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