Kolkata: Expressing dissatisfaction with the CBI’s progress in probing the alleged “larger conspiracy” behind the RG Kar rape and murder, Calcutta HC on Thursday described a report filed by the agency’s Special Investigation Team (SIT) as a “copy-paste” of ...
26 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bengal is likely to get nearly $425 million (over Rs 4,000 crore) from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Export-Import Bank of Korea (KEXIM) to build infrastructure and create a conducive ecosystem for industrialisation, officials said.The Industrial ...
26 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Bengal govt has appointed senior IAS officer Krishna Gupta as the new state election commissioner (SEC), the post lying vacant since last Sept after Rajiva Sinha retired.According to a govt notification, Dr Gupta, currently serving as additional ...
26 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Brazil fans rejoiced as the ‘Selecaos’ got back to their vintage Samba rhythm with an emphatic 3-0 win over Scotland in their final group match. Vinicius Junior joined the scoring race with Messi, Halaand and Mbappe, scoring twice ...
26 June 2026 Times of IndiaDwaipayan.GhoshKolkata: A dozen men allegedly assaulted and extorted street vendors outside Victoria Memorial’s North Gate in an attempt to force them to join a political hawkers’ union, triggering fear among traders in the high-security tourism zone.According to a complaint ...
26 June 2026 Times of IndiaDwaipayan.GhoshKolkata: Survey Park police has registered a criminal case against former KMC councillor and Borough XI chairman Tarak Chakraborty over allegations linked to incidents dating back to polling day on April 18, 2015.Based on a complaint filed on Tuesday ...
26 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A fresh FIR has been filed against former ward 35 councillor Asutosh Das and 16 associates for allegedly running an organised land-grab operation in Beleghata. Based on landowner Tarun Biswas’s complaint, Beleghata police booked the accused for trespass, ...
26 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The absence of any attendance register or worker records at the under-construction warehouse that collapsed at Transport Depot Road, Taratala, on Wednesday has made it difficult for the investigators to ascertain how many labourers might still be trapped ...
26 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Barasat MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar, who is one of the key members of the rebel bloc of MPs, has on Thursday met CM Suvendu Adhikari at Nabanna.According to sources, Kakoli said that the MPs needed more cooperation of ...
26 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The collapse of an under-construction warehouse in Taratala on Wednesday morning buried dozens of workers under concrete, steel and twisted iron. For one family from Bihar’s Munger, it also destroyed the fragile source of income that had drawn ...
26 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The 70-foot Lionel Messi statue, dismantled and removed from its pedestal in Lake Town on VIP Road over safety concerns, will be reinstalled at Eco Park in New Town, Bidhannagar MLA and health minister Sharadwat Mukherjee said after ...
26 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The absence of any attendance register or worker records at the under-construction warehouse that collapsed at Transport Depot Road, Taratala, on Wednesday has made it difficult for the investigators to ascertain how many labourers might still be trapped ...
26 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Family members and relatives of the Taratala warehouse collapse victims at SSKM swung between hope and grief on Thursday. While Some were relieved to learn that their loved ones survived, others were devastated after hearing that their relatives ...
26 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Residents and office-goers near Transport Depot Road were the first to rush to the rescue of the labourers trapped under the debris after an under-construction godown collapsed on Wednesday.Rohan Roy, who works at a nearby firm, stepped out ...
25 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Responding to Trinamool Krishnanagar MP Mahua Moitra’s repeated barbs, rebel MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar on Wednesday said that calling the dissident MPs "traitors” is deeply offensive and “undermines democratic discourse”. In a Facebook post, Ghosh Dastidar said, “Disagreement, ...
25 June 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The death toll in the Kolkata warehouse collapse rose to 11 on Thursday as rescue teams, aided by the Army’s advanced ground-penetrating radar (GPR) system, continued intensive search operations nearly 21 hours after the incident.Five more people were ...
25 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A community culinary excellence initiative — a two day transformative capacity-building workshop — was implemented at BaghBon ,the Multipurpose Community Resource Centre of a city-based NGO in the Sundarbans to equip communities residing in the forest-fringe villages of ...
25 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Koi andar hain? (Is anyone there? ). The desperate call from workers rang out through the mangled remains of an under-construction warehouse on Transport Depot Road in Taratala on Wednesday as rescuers cut through twisted steel and shattered ...
25 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The under-construction structure, which collapsed on Transport Depot Road near Taratala on Wednesday, was coming up on a plot, leased by Syama Prasad Mookerjee Port, Kolkata, to Behera Brothers for a warehouse and cold storage facility.Sanjoy Kumar Mukherjee, ...
25 June 2026 Times of IndiaA stellar line-up of musicians came together at Netaji Indoor Stadium on Sunday as musical duo Sourendro and Soumyojit marked World Music Day with a concert celebrating India's independent music scene. Inspired by folk traditions from across the country, ...
25 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: “Father said he was alive and then his phone got switched off,” said the daughter of missing labourer Azgar Hossain before breaking down in tears at the Taratala warehouse collapse site. She was seen moving helplessly from one ...
25 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: In documents submitted the office of the Bengal CEO on Tuesday, Trinamool rebel MLAs, who claim their camp to be the “real Trinamool” have informed the Election Commission that the party’s central office is located on Rajdanga Road, ...
25 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Two minutes saved Faruque Mondal from getting buried under tonnes of concrete and steel on Wednesday.Mondal, 30, a labourer from Basanti in the Sundarbans, had just stepped out of the under-construction warehouse in Taratala with fellow worker Vijay ...
25 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: No permission would be granted for any new Muharram procession, said Kolkata Police as it issued a set of strict security and logistical guidelines ahead of Muharram on Friday.For the first time, Lalbazar clarified that only traditional Muharram ...
25 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Wednesday directed the deportation of three Bangladeshi nationals, who had so far served 1.9 out of their three years of sentence in a Bengal prison, pointing out they could be deported amid the ...
25 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Return a fee of Rs 9,50,000 to the student, who sought to leave the college as she found the institute did not have “proper educational facilities”, six days after taking admission, the Calcutta High Court directed a private ...
25 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Visitors to Rabindra Sarobar may have to pay entry fees. The urban development department is discussing the proposal of levying an entry fee to control access to the Lake. At present, there is an entry fee at Banabitan ...
25 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Durga Puja theme artistes have decided to make a ‘no objection certificate' mandatory for organisers from next year in an effort to curb the widespread practice of partial or withheld payments. The NOC will be issued by an ...
25 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: In a cyber fraud case involving artificial intelligence (AI), an 81-year-old senior citizen from north Kolkata was swindled of Rs 17.8 lakh. The fraud was triggered after the elderly resident clicked on a link embedded in a YouTube ...
25 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A woman battling cancer complained to CM Suvendu Adhikari at his Janata Darbar on Wednesday that former CM Mamata Banerjee’s elder brother Ajit Banerjee had usurped three plots owned by her family — the first in 1999 and ...
25 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Five people were killed and 20 others injured after a 32,000 sq ft under-construction warehouse at Taratala came crashing down around 11.30 am on Wednesday, burying around 40 labourers under tonnes of concrete slabs, mangled iron beams, steel ...
25 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Three men, Gopal Dhara (42), Dipankar Mondal (25), and Shankar Bhuiyan (55), have been arrested by Anandapur Police for their involvement in an illegal soil smuggling racket operating on govt land near Ruby Crossing. Acting on a complaint ...
25 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The state school education department will assess how many schools have rooftop solar systems and identify gap areas. A meeting was held with the central govt regarding the installation of rooftop solar power on Tuesday. A meeting was ...
25 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (Ficci) on Wednesday said it was nominated as the national industry partner for seven editions -- 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022, 2023 and 2025 -- of the Bengal Global ...
25 June 2026 Times of IndiaAgartala: To enhance public healthcare in Tripura, the state government has prohibited doctors at GBP Hospital & Agartala Government Medical College (AGMC) from participating in private medical practices.The Cabinet spokesperson, Sushanta Chowdhury said that physicians at the leading government ...
25 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Calcutta HC on Wednesday granted an interim stay on the FIR lodged against former MP Mimi Chakraborty based on a complaint filed by event organiser Tanay Shastri, who has also filed a Rs 20-lakh defamation suit against ...
25 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Calcutta HC on Wednesday denied an urgent hearing to TMC general secretary Abhishek Banerjee, who is seeking permission to travel abroad for eye treatment.Justice Saugata Bhattacharyya told Banerjee’s counsel that the matter will be listed for hearing ...
25 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 49-year-old lawyer, Uttam Dastidar of the Barasat District Court in North 24-Parganas, was killed in a tragic road accident while on his way to work on Wednesday morning, when an iron rod got inserted in his body ...
25 June 2026 Times of IndiaHowrah: The charred body of 28-year-old Anamika Samanta, a resident of Jagatballavpur in Howrah who worked as a multimedia instructor at a computer education centre in the ill-fated Lucknow coaching centre building, was identified and brought to her ancestral ...
25 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The city remained cloudy and received occasional drizzles on Wednesday (June 24) even as the maximum temperature clocked 30.8°C.Several areas across south Bengal continued to be lashed by severe thunderstorms.A seasonal trough and cyclonic circulations over Bay of ...
25 June 2026 Times of IndiaKalyani: Nilimesh Roy Chowdhury, chairman of Nadia’s Kalyani Municipality, resigned on Tuesday, civic sources said. His exit follows the recent resignations of vice-chairman Balaram Maji and a few councillors.The civic body has been in turmoil since Monday night, when ...
25 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bengal is going to have a new, stringent law to control criminal activity by organised syndicates or gangs, under which state govt plans to bring in provisions for the detention of criminals that can last from a fortnight ...
25 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bengal finance minister Swapan Dasgupta on Wednesday tabled state govt’s medium-term fiscal policy statement and fiscal policy strategy statement in assembly. According to estimates of state govt, total debt as a percentage of GSDP projected for 2026-27 is ...
25 June 2026 Times of IndiaDebashis Konar, Dipawali Mitra & Saikat RayKolkata: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has suspended all construction work in the city until July 31 after chief minister Suvendu Adhikari ordered an audit of all building plans sanctioned by the civic ...
25 June 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: West Bengal chief minister Suvendu Adhikari on Wednesday suspended work on all under-construction commercial projects approved by the previous TMC government till July 31.The CM ordered a comprehensive audit of such projects following the warehouse collapse in the ...
25 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Jadavpur University’s anti-ragging committee has imposed varying punishments on 8 students accused of threatening and harassing a third-year engineering student after details of his RTI seeking placement-related data were leaked from the placement officer’s office. VC Chiranjib Bhattacharjee ...
25 June 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: At least five workers died after an under-construction godown shed collapsed in Kolkata’s Taratala area on Tuesday afternoon.The incident left 20 others injured, two of whom were undergoing treatment in the ICU.Following the collapse, a massive search and ...
25 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: From around 300 restaurants, momo joints, cafes and ice-cream parlours that currently operate late into the night in Kolkata, the number could spiral to over 3,000 within a year if the state government implements its budget proposal to ...
24 June 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Cranes were mobilised, gas cutters deployed and ambulance sirens pierced through the chaos as a massive rescue operation unfolded at the Kolkata godown collapse site on Wednesday afternoon.21 people have been rescued so far, three of whom have ...
24 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The city police registered two separate cases of cyber fraud involving the siphoning of over Rs 39.7 lakh through credit card data manipulation and medical emergency impersonation.In the first incident, the Park Street police initiated a probe into ...
24 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Calcutta High Court on Monday directed the State Legal Services Authority to ensure that a rape survivor receives compensation under the victim compensation scheme, even though the incident occurred in 1998 — before the scheme was introduced in ...
24 June 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Several people are feared trapped after an under-construction warehouse collapsed in the Taratala area of west Kolkata on Wednesday afternoon, triggering a large-scale rescue operation involving multiple agencies.Police said four people have so far been rescued from the ...
24 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The big guns fired again at the World Cup on Monday, much to the delight of football lovers in the city and across the world. While Lionel Messi scored twice in Argentina’s 2-0 victory against Austria, French superstar ...
24 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Trinamool has moved to replace Firhad Hakim as chief whip, signalling a sharper break with neta. The party emailed the assembly speaker late on Monday, nominating MLA Madan Mitra for the post. On Tuesday, TMC MLA Sovandeb Chattopadhyay ...
24 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The state govt on Tuesday issued a notification declaring Syama Prasad Mookerjee’s birth anniversary on July 6 as a holiday. The chief minister Suvendu Adhikari on Monday, after the budget, declared that from this year onwards July 6 ...
24 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The state on behalf of Bengal Special Task force (STF), has moved a Special Leave Petition in Supreme Court challenging the order of the division bench of Calcutta High Court’s Jalpaiguri circuit bench on June 19 ruled that ...
24 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A day after presenting the BJP govt's first Bengal budget, finance minister Swapan Dasgupta said the positive response reflected renewed hope after "50 years of despair". Speaking on Tuesday at Lions Safari Park, Dasgupta said many Bengalis had ...
24 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The hailstorm with a wind speed of 75 kmph barrelled through central Kolkata on Tuesday afternoon, leaving behind a trail of uprooted trees and lamp posts that threw traffic out of gear in the central business district and ...
24 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Thousands of aspiring chartered accountants filled the Biswa Bangla Convention Centre as the National Conference of CA Students 2026 brought together over 4,000 students from across India on June 20 and 21. Organised by the Board of Studies ...
24 June 2026 Times of IndiaTarakeswar: A viral video showing a brutal assault on councillor and former chairman of Tarakeswar municipality Swapan Samanta last Monday, in which his clothes were torn off, has prompted the Hooghly Police to initiate a probe.While Samanta was speaking ...
24 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: CM Suvendu Adhikari on Tuesday claimed that his govt had expelled 10,000 illegal infiltrators from the state and was holding another 1,800 at 12 centres awaiting deportation, while accusing the previous Mamata Banerjee-led govt of misleading Muslims for ...
24 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata/Krishnanagar: Nearly 3 kg of gold ornaments worth an estimated Rs 4.4 crore were recovered during a midnight police raid at a Trinamool functionary’s ancestral home in Nadia, who is believed to be a close associate of former Rajarhat-New ...
24 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: CM Suvendu Adhikari on Monday launched a sharp attack on the Trinamool and Left govts for systematically erasing the legacy of Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee even as he hailed the BJP-led state administration’s efforts to restore Bengal’s “forgotten ...
24 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Most state-run schools in Kolkata may stop serving eggs to students after ISKCON takes charge of the midday meal programme under PM POSHANISKCON is gearing up to cook and serve midday meals to around 1 lakh students up ...
24 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: “Along with Sabka Saath and Sabka Vikaas, there will also be Sabka Hisaab. This is the motto of our govt,” CM Suvendu Adhikari said while speaking on the Governor’s budget session address in the Assembly on Tuesday. He ...
24 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Calcutta High Court’s division bench on Tuesday adjourned the hearing of a case challenging interim protection granted to former sports minister Aroop Biswas till July 2.Satadru Dutta, the organiser of Messi’s ‘GOAT India Tour’, had filed a ...
24 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The South 24 Parganas district administration has ordered the demolition of the controversial riverside cafe Aranyer Koole at Moukhali within seven days, warning that bulldozers will be deployed if the owner fails to comply and the demolition cost ...
24 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Senior officials of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) met state officials at Nabanna on Tuesday to discuss possible support for Bengal’s industrialisation and infrastructure agenda, a day after the state govt presented its first budget.The meeting, attended by ...
24 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The CBI on Tuesday arrested proclaimed offender Rohan Sk, alias Kismot Sk, from Mirza Ghalib Street in Kolkata in connection with the 2022 Bogtui carnage case.Rohan had been absconding since the CBI took over the probe on March ...
24 June 2026 Times of IndiaHowrah: Railway authorities, with support from the Howrah Municipal Corporation, on Tuesday used payloaders to clear around 250 illegal huts, slums, and shops from railway land near Tikiapara. The structures had been built beside the tracks and over a ...
24 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Concern over the sharp reduction in West Bengal’s minority affairs and madrasa education budget has been accompanied by a call for accountability from politicians and religious figures belonging to the minority community, many of whom argued that large ...
24 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Laughter and high drama reverberated through the Bengal Assembly on Tuesday as the debate on the governor’s address descended into an open display of Trinamool infighting, with rival factions trading barbs and overshadowing legislative business.The House appeared divided ...
24 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: BJP MLA Sajal Ghosh on Tuesday asked in the Bengal assembly whether a secular govt can have a minority department.He said, “After the budget was presented aon Monday, many people asked me what specific provisions were made for ...
24 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A complaint has been lodged at Bishnupur Police Station seeking an investigation into the funding, administration, and beneficiary selection process of the Trinamool Congress-backed private pension initiative, Shraddhargyo, which has been publicly associated with Diamond Harbour MP Abhishek ...
24 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Mamata Banerjee camp and the rival Ritabrata Banerjee faction submitted separate national working committee (NWC) lists to the Election Commission (EC) on Monday, each seeking to establish its claim over the party and its election symbol.Mamata Banerjee ...
24 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The CID on Tuesday received permission from a Bidhannagar court to collect the voice sample of Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee in its ongoing probe against him for making the ‘DJ’ remark during a poll camapaign. The magistrate ...
24 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The proposed EM Bypass to New Town connecting flyover project is all set to roll on. State finance minister Swapan Dasgupta on Monday announced a funding outlay of Rs 900 crore setting up the flyover which will ease ...
23 June 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: A day after presenting the maiden BJP budget in the state, finance minister Swapan Dasgupta said much of the praise that has been heaped on the proposals is because people are overwhelmed to discover hope after half a ...
23 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The state will amend the existing West Bengal Shops and Establishments Act, 1963, to enable shops, restaurants, offices, logistics services and hospitality establishments to operate 24×7.In the state budget placed in the Assembly on Monday, finance minister Swapan ...
23 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A new IIT and an IIM would be set up in north Bengal, announced state finance minister Swapan Dasgupta in his budget speech on Monday, adding that the Centre-backed initiative would offer “world-class” technical and management education. He ...
23 June 2026 Times of IndiaIndia’s rooftop solar sector is booming, but West Bengal is being left in the dark. Despite a nationwide surge in clean energy, West Bengal remains one of the country's slowest adopters, holding just 67 megawatts (MW) of installed rooftop ...
23 June 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Signalling a major aviation and infrastructure push, the Bengal BJP govt's maiden budget unveiled plans for a second airport serving the Kolkata region and new airports at Purulia, Balurghat and Malda under the Centre's UDAN scheme.It also announced ...
23 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The state is all set to have five new districts, including Kolkata as district borders are all set to be redrawn. Swapan Dasgupta, the state finance minister, announced the setting up of the new districts in his first ...
23 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata/Siliguri: The Bengal govt will conduct a techno-economic feasibility study for developing metro links in the Durgapur-Asansol industrial corridor and the Siliguri-Jalpaiguri business hub.The announcement made in the BJP govt’s maiden state budget on Monday is also the first ...
23 June 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Former Tarakeswar municipality chairman and senior Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Sapan Samanta was allegedly humiliated by local residents in West Bengal's Hooghly district over allegations of corruption.According to news agency ANI, an angry group of locals garlanded Samanta ...
23 June 2026 Times of IndiaThe govt will implement a new policy for cloud kitchens, aiming to help women establish micro-entrepreneurship. This initiative will encourage women to earn money by converting their home kitchens into cloud kitchens.
23 June 2026 Times of IndiaFinance minister Swapan Dasgupta proposed to constitute a welfare board to implement social measures for gig workers. Drinking water and mobile charging facilities will be provided to them for free at “appropriate locations”. tnn
23 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: In a fresh drive to discourage child marriage and improve female participation in higher education, the Bengal govt on Monday announced a one-time financial assistance of Rs 50,000 for every unmarried girl student enrolling in undergraduate courses at ...
23 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The West Bengal government on Monday proposed a restructuring of the Profession Tax regime in the 2026-27 budget, including a doubling of the exemption limit for salaried employees to Rs 20,000 per month.Traders and businesses will also benefit ...
23 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The BJP govt in Bengal has reduced the fund allocation for the minority affairs and madrassa education department in its first state budget, cutting the outlay by Rs 3,548 crore, or over 60%, compared with the previous Trinamool ...
23 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The state will induct 20,000 policemen in both Bengal police and Kolkata Police, state finance minister Swapan Dasgupta announced in his maiden budget speech on Monday. This will be in addition to the 16,000 cops – around 12,000 ...
23 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Chief minister Suvendu Adhikari announced that July 6 will be observed as a state holiday every year to mark the birth anniversary of Syama Prasad Mookerjee, founder of Bharatiya Jana Sangh and the first Union industry minister in ...
23 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Finance minister Swapan Dasgupta announced a climate-focused budget framework to strengthen resilience, protect ecosystems and support sustainable livelihoods across West Bengal.For 2026-27, the govt allocated Rs 200 crore to establish the Bengal Climate Resilience Fund and the West ...
23 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The state health department has ordered all senior residents (SRs) posted across various medical colleges and other government health facilities via an order in March to register for fresh counselling, following an uproar over a bypassed merit-based selection ...
23 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The rebel Trinamool bloc led by leader of opposition in the state assembly Ritabrata Banerjee on Monday removed Mamata Banerjee from the post of party’s chairperson and replaced her with former minister and four-time Howrah MLA Arup Roy.The ...
23 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Bengal govt will introduce a legislation to protect “lawful businesses from syndicate charges” and other forms of “informal extortion”, finance minister Swapan Dasgupta announced while presenting the state budget on Monday.He described the move as a key ...
23 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: All existing direct-benefit schemes will continue under the new BJP dispensation in Bengal, finance minister Swapan Dasgupta said in his opening remarks as he placed his maiden budget on Monday, and expanded the social security net further by ...
23 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: South 24 Parganas’ Falta, in the eye of a political storm, will be turned into a model block.While presenting the state budget on Monday, finance minister Swapan Dasgupta said, “Falta area in South 24 Parganas is planned to ...
23 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The BJP govt in Bengal announced in its first budget on Monday that it would fill 1 lakh vacancies across departments, with women accounting for 33% of the recruits.State finance minister Swapan Dasgupta said in his budget speech ...
23 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The newly elected BJP govt’s first Bengal budget, tabled by state finance minister Swapan Dasgupta, placed strong emphasis on infrastructure, with proposals spanning a deep sea port, minor ports, freight corridors, bridges and Ro-Ro services.Citing the low draft ...
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