Darjeeling: Bengal has appointed SDOs as administrators in municipalities across Darjeeling and Kalimpong, ending Trinamool-nominated boards in the hill civic bodies. A state notification issued Monday said the governor approved the move under the Municipal Act. The SDOs will ...
20 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Calcutta HC on Tuesday directed police to escort a disabled woman back to her home by May 21 after her husband refused to take her back despite the court waiving hospital dues exceeding Rs 1 crore.The woman ...
20 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: ABVP members at JU on Tuesday wrote to the VC, demanding installation of "full body statues" of Aurobindo Ghosh and Vivekananda on the campus to instil "values of nationalism, spiritual consciousness among students and to counter anti-national activities ...
20 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Keen to get the ‘Institute of Eminence' (IoE) tag, Jadavpur University authorities plan to write to the state and the Union education ministry. JU VC Chiranjib Bhattacharjee said, "We plan to write to the Union education ministry through ...
20 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Kolkata Police on Tuesday carried out a formal crime scene reconstruction at the busy Park Circus Seven-Point Crossing, where a mob reportedly targeted security forces on Sunday during a protest against bulldozer action in Tiljala.The police arrested ...
20 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The city continued to simmer in heat and humidity on Tuesday. The Met office sees no immediate respite for now. Even as thundershower activities are occurring in parts of southern as well as northern districts, Met officials said ...
20 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Along with Chingrighata, cops have granted RVNL another long-pending permission for Orange Line metro work — to bridge a 120m viaduct gap on VIP Road. The seven pillars have been standing near Haj House at Kaikhali on VIP ...
20 May 2026 Times of IndiaFalta/Kolkata: Two years after Falta gave Trinamool a lead of nearly 1.7 lakh votes in the Lok Sabha election, CM Suvendu Adhikari on Tuesday urged voters to send BJP candidate Debangshu Panda to assembly by more than 1 lakh ...
20 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: State govt has decided to reverse the previous regime's stance and send a representative to the Damodar Valley River Regulation Committee.For the past two years, Bengal left its seat vacant, with the TMC govt withdrawing its representative.CM Suvendu ...
20 May 2026 Times of IndiaHowrah: A 26-year-old wholesale meat trader was found critically injured near his house at Rasikal in Howrah's Bankra on Tuesday. The victim, Sadab Kureshi, succumbed to his injuries while being shifted to a hospital.Kureshi's family claimed that he was ...
20 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A writ petition has been filed in the Calcutta High Court challenging state govt's appointment of Bengal CEO Manoj Agarwal as the chief secretary. The matter is scheduled to be mentioned before the bench of Justice Gaurang Kanth ...
20 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: State govt is preparing to is scouting for office space after CM Suvendu Adhikari on Monday announced the formation of two judicial commissions, set to function from June 1. While one panel will focus on penalising persons involved ...
20 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Police have arrested several Trinamool functionaries in the past 24 hours on charges ranging from extortion and post-poll violence to running illicit rackets.Tension flared in Canning after TMC youth president Aritra Bose was arrested for allegedly shooting a ...
20 May 2026 Times of IndiaBurnpur/Nandigram: Bulldozers rolled in at Burnpur in West Burdwan district and Nandigram in East Midnapore on Tuesday, as authorities removed alleged encroachments.In Burnpur, the management of SAIL's IISCO Steel Plant (ISP) used bulldozers to flatten two unauthorised Trinamool Congress ...
20 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Shyam Metalics, which has proposed a total investment layout of Rs 20,000 crore for Bengal, is keenly watching the new govt's industry, land and incentive policies to deploy its next phase of capital. While the steel and metal ...
20 May 2026 Times of IndiaAsansol: Two more people have been arrested for carrying out vandalism at the Jahangiri Mohalla police outpost on Friday. The Asansol Durgapur Police Commissionerate produced them in the Asansol district court on Monday and sought a 14-day remand. So ...
20 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Even after 10 days of intense prosecution by Kolkata Traffic Police, where they prosecuted over 43,000 cases of helmetless driving and illegal parking, an analysis of several city areas has thrown up that general consciousness might take more ...
20 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: All private hospitals in Kolkata have been asked to join Ayushman Bharat panel through the online portal ‘as soon as possible' by the state health dept. At a virtual meeting on Tuesday, Swasthya Bhavan officials interacted with representatives ...
20 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Taslima Nasrin, the Bangladesh-born author living in exile and now based in Delhi, said the change in regime in West Bengal has rekindled her hopes of returning to Kolkata, from where she was forced out in Nov 2007. ...
20 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Faced with a rapidly shrinking supply of beef, zoo authorities are scrambling to find alternative food sources for carnivorous animals, with chicken and pork emerging as temporary substitutes amid fears of a prolonged supply disruption.Officials said the crisis ...
20 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Monday granted interim protection to TMC's Falta candidate Jahangir Khan till May 26 and directed that no coercive action could be taken against him in five cases till the May 21 repoll.While allowing ...
19 May 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The Kolkata civic authorities on Monday initiated a probe into the “legality” of properties owned by Abhishek Banerjee and some of his associates, with civic officials going to many of the Trinamool national general secretary’s properties, including ‘Shantiniketan’ ...
19 May 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: An illegal arms manufacturing unit operating from an underground chamber beneath a paper plate factory was busted in Bihar’s Purnea district, police said on Tuesday. The concealed “mini gun factory” at Haripur village under Damdaha police station limits ...
19 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Following directives from CM Suvendu Adhikari to reopen cases linked to post-poll violence, Bengal Police has launched a statewide legal crackdown. As many as 458 new inquiries related to 2021 post-election violence have been started, 181 fresh FIRs ...
19 May 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The Central Seat Allocation Board (CSAB) 2026, under the coordination of the Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology (IIEST), Shibpur, is expected to begin the counselling process for seat allocation to undergraduate engineering and architecture programmes from ...
19 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: State Congress on Monday staged protests across Bengal after the party's state president Subhankar Sarkar was attacked on Sunday when he had gone to Khejuri to distribute relief material among the victims of political violence.His vehicle was attacked ...
19 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Trinamool national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee approached the bench of Justice Saugata Bhattacharyya of the Calcutta High Court on Monday seeking quashing of an FIR over alleged inflammatory comments made in the run-up to the assembly polls.The FIR ...
19 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: State minister Agnimitra Paul on Monday met the family of a girl who was allegedly sexually harassed by a neighbour in Narendrapur recently.In a meeting later at the SP office in Baruipur, Paul directed the police to ensure ...
19 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bengal govt has signed an MoU with the Union Jal Shakti ministry to speed up piped drinking water connections across the state, aiming to provide potable water to every household. The agreement was finalised during a virtual meeting ...
19 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The International Spirits & Wines Association of India (ISWAI) has urged state govt to allow a hike in liquor prices, amid soaring input costs. According to the industry body, product costs have climbed 10%-20% in recent months as ...
19 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The funeral service of Jeniffer Paes, mother of tennis legend Leander Paes, was held at St Thomas Church in Middleton Row on Monday. A member of the Indian basketball team at the 1972 Olympics, she later went on ...
19 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Blue Line (north-south corridor) services were disrupted for an hour on Monday following a suicide attempt at Rabindra Sarobar station. "The incident took place at 4.10 pm on the Shahid Khudiram-bound tracks. Soon after the suicide bid, power ...
19 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Two major bus accidents in the city left one person dead and 16 others injured. The first accident occurred around 10 am at the crossing of Hughes Road and the PC Connector. Police said, a private app-based shuttle ...
19 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A fairytale come true in Indian football — well, not quite like the usual type of a Leicester City of 2015-2016 there or an Aizawl FC of 2016-2017 season here. Diamond Harbour FC's journey from the humble Bata ...
19 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Eight Bangladeshi nationals suspected of entering India illegally, along with an Indian man accused of sheltering them, were arrested in Nimta, North Dum Dum, on Monday.Police said the arrests followed a late-night raid in Fatullapur after officers from ...
19 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata/Agra: The CBI has arrested an alleged sharpshooter from Uttar Pradesh in connection with the murder of CM Suvendu Adhikari's former aide Chandranath Rath, in a breakthrough investigators believe could help unravel the logistics behind the killing in Madhyamgram.This ...
19 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Octogenarian Trinamool neta and Ballygunge MLA Sovandeb Chattopadhyay on Monday filed an RTI application after the West Bengal Legislative Assembly Secretariat allegedly refused to recognise him as the Leader of the Opposition.Trinamool legislative party claimed it was being ...
19 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Ordering fresh review of the OBC list, Bengal govt on Monday scrapped the existing sub-categorisation system tied to reservations in govt jobs and posts. The move was approved during the second cabinet meeting of the newly formed govt ...
19 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bengal govt on Monday directed all departments and district administrations to adopt strict austerity measures to reduce expenditure and conserve resources across the state administration.In a directive to departmental heads and DMs, chief secretary Manoj Agarwal said CM ...
19 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Lauding state govt's move to end stipends paid to imams, muezzins and purohits, Bengal BJP on Monday said it supported all welfare schemes, but they should not be based on religious basis.Speaking on this, BJP state president Samik ...
19 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: In a major statewide crackdown, police arrested several high-profile Trinamool figures and their immediate relatives on charges ranging from illegal arms possession and extortion to land grabbing.On Sunday night, the state police's Special Task Force (STF), along with ...
19 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Election Commission (EC) is set to deploy 35 companies of the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) for the repoll at Falta assembly constituency on May 21. Sources said eight personnel will be stationed at each polling booth. ...
19 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bengal CM Suvendu Adhikari on Monday said that "detection and deletion" had already been done and state govt will soon start to "deport", pointing at driving out alleged illegal immigrants from Bengal. He also said that state govt ...
19 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Biswajit Poddar alias Sona Pappu, accused in a land grab scam being probed by the Enforcement Directorate (ED), was arrested on Monday after the central agency allegedly found him evasive and non-cooperative during questioning.Pappu, a history-sheeter who had ...
19 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Beleghata TMC MLA Kunal Ghosh said he would send a copy of the court order on his security to police on Tuesday. In a post on social media, Ghosh said, "I had requested security from court... it instructed ...
19 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Attacks on cops during protests — especially stone-pelting of the kind witnessed in Kashmir earlier — will not be tolerated in Bengal, CM Suvendu Adhikari said in Park Circus on Monday. The comment came a day after six ...
19 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Thousands of commuters using Howrah and Sealdah stations experienced obstacles and hassle-free movement inside and outside the stations during peak hours on Monday, about 48 hours after anti-encroachment drives that saw removal of about 500 hawkers encroaching on ...
19 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Muslim religious figures and community intellectuals on Monday appealed to people to stay away from street protests and avoid confrontation with govt after violence and injuries during a Park Circus gathering on Sunday.The appeals came after clashes broke ...
19 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Several continental restaurants in the city dropped steaks and hamburgers from menu after supply of beef dried up over the weekend.Nizam's restaurant at New Market has also discontinued its beef items temporarily since Friday. Its chairman Samar Nag ...
19 May 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Police have arrested the son of “absconding” TMC MLA Dilip Mondal, along with five others, for allegedly possessing firearms in West Bengal’s Bakkhali-Fraserganj area, a senior officer said on Monday.A joint team of the West Bengal Police and ...
18 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: To mark International Museum Day on May 18, the two premier national museums — Indian Museum and Victoria Memorial Hall — will unveil a treasure trove of rare manuscripts and artefacts, many on display for the first time. ...
18 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Evicted families of G J Khan Road in Tiljala feel that clashing with or pelting stones at cops to drive away bulldozers to stop demolition is not the way-out, rather they want the administration to help them with ...
18 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Three separate snatching incidents were reported across the city between May 14 and May 16, leaving the victims — two of them senior citizens — shaken and police probing possible linkages, officials said on Sunday. Police said, all ...
18 May 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Ten cops and CAPF men were injured, three of them seriously, at the Park Circus seven-point crossing when stones and bricks were hurled at them during a protest against “the bulldozer action in Tiljala” on Sunday afternoon.Police said ...
18 May 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Former CM Mamata Banerjee said on Sunday that “bulldozers cannot become the language of governance” in her first public statement after Trinamool’s election defeat.“Bulldozers cannot become the language of governance in a state built on culture, compassion and ...
18 May 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The Kolkata Police has withdrawn or downgraded security cover for two former DGPs, Trinamool Congress MPs, former ministers and other VIPs, officials said on Monday. Ten VIPs have their names on the security-downgrade list.In an email issued by ...
18 May 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Newly elected BJP MLA Rekha Patra has triggered a political controversy after she was seen intercepting a vehicle carrying cattle in Hingalganj and allegedly suggesting that those transporting cows should produce a “birth certificate”.On the alleged illegal transportation ...
18 May 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: More than 150 illegal stalls outside Howrah station were razed and close to 200 vendors evicted in a drive launched late on Saturday. A similar action at Sealdah station, which started on Friday night and continued on Saturday ...
18 May 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Electric vehicles (EVs) have outpaced traditional diesel-powered vehicles in Kolkata.Nowhere is this green dominance more definitive than at Public Vehicles Department (PVD) in Beltala, Kolkata’s largest vehicle registration hub, which has witnessed a steady decline in the enrolment ...
18 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A senior doctor attached to a prominent south Kolkata hospital was defrauded of nearly Rs 7.8 lakh in a banking scam. He alleged that several colleagues have been defrauded too, the total amounting close to Rs 14 lakh.According ...
18 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: On Sunday, Sonarpur Dakshin BJP MLA Roopa Ganguly and Shibpur BJP MLA Rudranil Ghosh jointly addressed the media, the first time since the duo was made part of a committee formed by CM Suvendu Adhikari to address Tollywood ...
18 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Rail Vikas Nigam Ltd (RVNL) has started wrapping up work at Chingrighata after launching the entire 28 m concrete deck between two pillars so that the Ultadanga-bound flank can be handed over for traffic before 8 am on ...
18 May 2026 Times of IndiaHowrah: The dismembered body of a middle-aged man, dressed in expensive clothes and with a long vermilion mark on his forehead, was found in a strolley in a roadside bush in Uluberia on Sunday, near National Highway 16. Cops ...
18 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The body of a 40-year-old man, Surajit Sardar, was found near a pond in Sonarpur's Vidyadharpur Lalpol Chowdhury Bagan area on Sunday morning. His family members alleged that he was murdered.According to cops, Sardar was living with a ...
18 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A man, Dilip Mondal, was arrested for allegedly running an illegal gas refilling and storage racket in South 24 Parganas' Uttarbhag on Sunday. Cops have seized 177 LPG cylinders from him.Acting on a tip-off, officers of the district ...
18 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A resident of Shyampukur has been arrested for allegedly molesting two women at Bidhannagar station on Saturday night. According to the complaint of a 24-year-old woman, who was walking along platform 3, the man allegedly approached her, behaved ...
18 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: While West Bengal has largely been spared from the worst of the season's extreme temperatures so far, Kolkata's retail kitchens are feeling the heat of heatwaves raging across the rest of India.A sharp drop in agricultural arrivals from ...
18 May 2026 Times of IndiaNandigram: CM Suvendu Adhikari on Sunday entrusted five BJP MLAs with the task of retaining Nandigram in the upcoming bypolls.Adhikari, a three-time MLA from Nandigram, made his first visit to the constituency after resigning from the assembly seat and ...
18 May 2026 Times of IndiaHowrah: Villagers vandalised the house of a Trinamool panchayat chief in Howrah's Amta on Sunday, accusing her and her husband of siphoning off funds from multiple govt schemes for months. Around 200 villagers, armed with sticks, stormed the residence ...
18 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Former CM Mamata Banerjee said on Sunday that "bulldozers cannot become the language of governance" in her first public statement after Trinamool's election defeat."Bulldozers cannot become the language of governance in a state built on culture, compassion and ...
18 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bengal food minister and Bongaon North MLA Ashok Kirtania visited the India-Bangladesh border area at Chhoygharia near Petrapole on Sunday to speak with residents over land acquisition for border fencing, appealing to landowners to cooperate in the interest ...
18 May 2026 Times of IndiaAsansol: The Asansol Durgapur Police Commissionerate has arrested 26 people in connection with brick-batting and vandalism at the Jahangiri Mohalla police outpost. Seven of the accused were remanded to police custody after being produced in court on Sunday, while ...
18 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Trinamool chief Mamata Banerjee and national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Sunday met the party's zilla parishad members at Kalighat and reiterated their commitment towards "protecting Bengal and ensuring a better tomorrow".District presidents have been asked to send ...
18 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Kolkata Police arrested a man accused of sending a fake email to Bhowanipore police station claiming that a plot was being hatched to assassinate chief minister Suvendu Adhikari, officials said on Saturday.The email, received by Bhowanipore police station ...
18 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Calcutta High Court on Saturday — in an urgent hearing — granted interim stay on eviction from a 50-year-old multi-storey building on Diamond Harbour Road till June 30. The fire and emergency services dept ordered eviction within 24 ...
18 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Death toll in Tiljala leather factory fire has risen to three after 37-year-old Mohd Ibrar, also known as Yusuf, succumbed to his injuries late on Saturday night. He had been undergoing treatment at Calcutta National Medical College and ...
18 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Amid a growing unease ahead of the festival of Bakrid, also known as Eid al-Adha, set to be observed in the last week of May, Muslim intellectuals and religious figures across Kolkata have urged the community to follow ...
18 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Despite being lashed by a squall on Friday night, the city remained warm and humid, with the maximum temperature touching 34.8°C on Saturday. While it will continue to be warm during the day, with the maximum temperature hovering ...
17 May 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: A massive anti-encroachment drive was carried out outside Howrah railway station past midnight, with bulldozers demolishing rows of makeshift shops and illegal structures along the stretch from the Ganga ghat to the station premises, officials said on Sunday.The ...
17 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A cyber crime case has been registered against an unidentified person for allegedly posting objectionable and communally sensitive content on Facebook, including a post targeting chief minister Suvendu Adhikari and another related to the arrangement of Qurbani cattle ...
17 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Screening of films at Inox in Metropolitan Mall at Hiland Park off EM Bypass stopped from Saturday as the fire licence did not get renewed due to lack of pressurisation in the stairs and exhaust system in the ...
17 May 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The city’s only abattoir in Tangra has stopped receiving fresh supply of cattle since Thursday. Officials said more than 180 heads of cattle were at the facility, but only 22 of these would be allowed for slaughter as ...
17 May 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: West Bengal chief minister Suvendu Adhikari launched a fresh attack against Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee, claiming that he has obtained a list of properties linked to Abhishek’s company, Leaps and Bounds, and warning that the assets would ...
17 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The state govt is soon launching a dedicated 24-hour helpline number for women - 181 - which will be geo-tagged with the help desk at the nearest police station as the police will immediately get alert on exactly ...
17 May 2026 Times of IndiaAsansol: Fifteen people were arrested for ransacking a police outpost at Qureshi Mohalla in Asansol on Friday evening, CM Suvendu Adhikari said on Saturday, reports Mohammad Asif."Those who were involved in vandalising the police outpost are in police custody. ...
17 May 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Police stations in Bengal will have to accept complaints against cop excesses in last five years, CM Suvendu Adhikari said on Saturday in Diamond Harbour after his first administrative meeting with top police officers.Speaking to media after the ...
17 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: In a buzzing hall alive with the hum of ambition and the sparkle of possibility, over 300 students from classes XI and XII and their parents stepped into a world of higher education dreams on April 12. Times ...
17 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Six persons died under mysterious circumstances in different parts of the city in the last 24 hours. Around 11.15 am on Saturday, an 82-year-old resident of Lake Road was found lying on the bed in an unconscious state. ...
17 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The urban development and municipal affairs dept has asked the KMC, all municipal corporations and municipalities to strictly follow legal provisions on unauthorised construction after the Tiljala factory fire incident, which claimed two lives last week.Municipal affairs minister ...
17 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: After a 15-month wait, RVNL has managed to complete launching of the entire 28m concrete deck between piers 317 and 318 of the Orange Line. Thus, a major part of the first phase of lifting concrete segments to ...
17 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Multiple Trinamool functionaries were arrested across districts on a string of charges ranging from cooperative bank fraud and extortion to demolishing a govt school building and a post-election firing on Saturday.In Malda's Ratua, Bilaimari gram panchayat pradhan Smritikana ...
17 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Panchayat, rural development and animal resources minister Dilip Ghosh spent Saturday morning at the ‘bheris' (pisciculture ponds) of Khasmahal in Bidhannagar, casting fishing nets and interacting with local residents and supporters.The minister joined a tea gathering before boarding ...
17 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: In a bid to improve connectivity in Bengal, state govt has cleared the transfer of seven key highway corridors to the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) and National Highways & Infrastructure Development Corporation Ltd (NHIDCL), to allow ...
17 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Police on Saturday arrested alleged Bangladeshi national Shahidul Gazi from Hingalganj in North 24 Parganas for illegal infiltration, reports Sanjib Chakraborty. Joymal Abedin, a local TMC panchayat member was detained for allegedly providing shelter to Gazi.
17 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: CM Suvendu Adhikari took his first political programme outside his own constituencies to Falta in South 24 Parganas on Saturday — squarely in Abhishek Banerjee's Diamond Harbour parliamentary constituency — in a pointed move at a Trinamool stronghold ...
17 May 2026 Times of IndiaFalta: With the political scales flipping in Bengal and chief minister Suvendu Adhikari targeting him in his own lair, Trinamool Congress's Falta candidate Jahangir Khan faces an uphill task ahead of the May 21 repolls. Khan, who had stepped ...
17 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Baranagar BJP MLA Sajal Ghosh has indicated that sections on the Singur and Nandigram movements led by Mamata Banerjee may soon be removed from the state board's Class 8 syllabus — one of the first signals of curriculum ...
17 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Ahead of his scheduled administrative meeting at Diamond Harbour, CM Suvendu Adhikari on Saturday met actor Mithun Chakraborty at his New Town residence. Coming out of his house, Adhikari said, "Mithunda had sought some time to meet me. ...
17 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: An FIR was lodged against TMC national general secretary and Diamond Harbour MP Abhishek Banerjee for allegedly making inflammatory remarks in the run up to the 2026 assembly elections. Police said they have launched an investigation into whether ...
17 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bengal has sped up barbed-wire fencing along vulnerable parts of the India-Bangladesh border in North 24 Parganas to curb illegal infiltration. This comes after CM Suvendu Adhikari announced expedited hand over of land to the Border Security Force ...
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