Demolishing the claim of Suvendu Adhikari, the Leader of the Opposition in the state Assembly, that the Trinamul Congress is not allowing workers of the saffron party to file nominations in the ensuing Panchayat election, information available from the ...
12 June 2023 StatesmanTrinamul Congress’ national general secretary and MP Abhishek Banerjee’s visit to Thakurnagar was marred after the TMC’s second-in-command was prevented from offering puja in the main temple of the Matua community at Thakurnagar in North 24- Parganas today. There ...
12 June 2023 StatesmanThe Left Front has fielded 18 Kurmi leaders out of a total 45 Zilla Parishad seats in Purulia district for the panchayat elections. The organisational strength of Trinamul Congress is not that solid in Purulia districts and BJP had ...
12 June 2023 StatesmanThe Serampore Walsh hospital has been certified as a top hospital for its infrastructure and medical services rendered to the people. The certificate of quality and appreciation has been issued by the ministry of health and family welfare, New ...
12 June 2023 StatesmanTo check the violence during the filing of nominations for next month’s panchayat polls in West Bengal, the State Election Commthe videography of the procedure ahead of the West Bengal in the run-up to the panchayat polls scheduled to ...
12 June 2023 StatesmanTrinamool Congress’s national General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee faced massive protests and was shown black flags after he reached the Matua bastion of Thakurnagar in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district on Sunday as part of his ongoing mass- outreach ...
12 June 2023 StatesmanBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Lok Sabha MP Raju Bista on Sunday said that deployment of central forces is necessary to conduct free and fair panchayat elections in West Bengal scheduled to be held on July 8.Lok Sabha MP Raju ...
12 June 2023 StatesmanWorried about reports of ongoing violence in connection with filing of nomination papers for rural body polls across the state since Friday Governor CV Ananda Bose on Saturday asked the West Bengal State Election Commissioner (WBSEC) Rajiva Sinha to ...
11 June 2023 StatesmanBharatiya Janata Party"s three top leaders, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union home minister Amit Shah and national president JP Nadda will not be visiting the state during the panchayat election period. The three leaders were initially scheduled to visit ...
11 June 2023 StatesmanAbout 9,09,528 voters are set to cast their franchise in total 1,210 seats in the three-tier panchayat election in West Burdwan district. There are 1,020 seats in gram panchayats, 172 seats in panchayat samities and 18 seats in zilla ...
11 June 2023 StatesmanOver 300 eminent educationists from country and abroad have sent a mass petition to President Droupadi Murmu seeking action against vice-chancellor of Visva Bharati University (VBU), Professor Bidyut Chakraborty allegedly for Nobel laureate Amartya Sen. "The grandfather, father and ...
11 June 2023 StatesmanWhen the West Bengal election commission announced the dates for the panchayat polls on the evening of June 8, giving a mere five-day window for nomination filings, it caused a flurry of activity among the state’s leading opposition politicians. ...
11 June 2023 StatesmanFinally, the West Bengal State Election Commission ( WBSEC) announced the date of panchayat elections which were scheduled in MarchApril in the state. The three-tier panchayat elections in the state will be held on 8 July while Darjeeling and ...
9 June 2023 StatesmanThe prevailing heat wave has added to the challenges faced by the citizens of Kolkata. Apart from beating the heat, commuters are struggling during mid-day hours to find public transport as the number of private and minibuses turns to ...
9 June 2023 StatesmanForty tribal organizations observed a 12-hour Bengal bandh today in protest against the proposed inclusion of the Kurmi community into the Scheduled Tribe category. The bandh had mixed reactions in certain blocks of East Burdwan as the agitators halted ...
9 June 2023 StatesmanThe Coromandel Express, country’s one of the flagship super fast trains has resumed its journey on the tracks after the horrific 2 June Balasore tragedy, but, it seems, the authorities might have shillyshallied, especially on the 370-km Odisha stretch, ...
9 June 2023 StatesmanTrinamool Congress national general secretary, Abhishek Banerjee’s wife, Rujira Banerjee, on Thursday stepped out of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) office after being questioned for over four hours in connection with the alleged coal smuggling case.Earlier, on Tuesday, Rujira was ...
9 June 2023 StatesmanThe Enforcement Directorate on Thursday issued a summon to Trinamool Congress national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee to appear before it on June 13 in connection with the alleged teacher recruitment scam.Reacting to this, Banerjee, while addressing to Media in ...
9 June 2023 StatesmanPassengers were heard battling fear and challenges of survival and finally overcome apprehensions to be able to make a living, as the Coromandel Express chugged out of Shalimar station on the up journey at 3.25 pm today after days ...
8 June 2023 StatesmanThree Balasore train accident survivors taken to a Burdwan nursing home by their family members complained of siphoning of blood by the health care unit, which sparked off tension in the town today. Three accident survivors, Sabuj Sheikh, Nasrul ...
8 June 2023 StatesmanThe Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) initiated a comprehensive investigation into a multi-crore recruitment scam in the state municipalities. On Wednesday, the CBI conducted simultaneous raids and search operations in various locations across the state. Accompanied by Central armed ...
8 June 2023 StatesmanAngry at the CBI raids on at least 14 civic bodies, chief minister Mamata Banerjee took a swipe at the CBI alacrity and wondered if the agency would now raid the washrooms in pursuit of its investigation. "Since morning, ...
8 June 2023 StatesmanAfter a month-long uncertainty, the Governor House in West Bengal has ultimately cleared the name of retired Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer and former state chief secretary Rajiva Sinha as the new state elections commissioner.The chair of the West ...
8 June 2023 StatesmanStepping up her attack on the Central government, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday slammed the Railway Board’s decision to hand over the inquiry into the Odisha train accident to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) saying ...
6 June 2023 StatesmanA public interest litigation (PIL) was filed in the high court on Monday challenging Governor CV Ananda Bose’s decision to appoint interim vicechancellors (VC) of 11 universities. Dr Bose has also been made a party in the case. A retired ...
6 June 2023 StatesmanRujira Narula Banerjee, wife of Trinamul Congress’ national general secretary and Lok Sabha MP Abhishek Banerjee was stopped by the immigration department at the Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport (NSCBI) in Kolkata from boarding a flight to Thailand. ...
6 June 2023 StatesmanThe eastern zone of the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC), has introduced two more Bharat Gaurav Special Tourist Train packages from Kolkata. The first trains from Kolkata, under the latest addition to the Bharat Gaurav initiative, are ...
6 June 2023 StatesmanThe Calcutta High Court on Monday sought to know how a privately outsourced agency got access to the “confidential section” of West Bengal Board of Primary Education (WBBPE), as the optical mark recognition (OMR) sheets used in the recruitment ...
6 June 2023 StatesmanChief minister Mamata Banerjee said this afternoon that 62 people from Bengal died in the tragic train accident in Odisha, as per the latest count. With at least 182 of the 275 people who died in the mishap not ...
5 June 2023 StatesmanRubbishing the claims being circulated on social media that around 3,000 people had died during the time when Mamata Banerjee was the railways minister, she said it was most unfortunate that to cover up its own faults the saffron ...
5 June 2023 StatesmanEastern Railway team provided yeoman service in rescue and restoration work following derailment of Train No. 12841 Shalimar-Chennai Coromandel Express and Train No. 12864 Sir M Visvesvaraya (Bengaluru) – Howrah Superfast Express near Bahanaga Bazar railway station around 7pm ...
5 June 2023 StatesmanThe Tea Association of India (TAI) representing tea producers in Assam and West Bengal have expressed concern over the climate change coupled with subdued international and domestic markets. Erratic weather patterns, extreme temperature and insufficient rainfall have severely affected ...
5 June 2023 StatesmanThe Supreme Court on Friday declined an early listing of the West Bengal government’s plea against the high court’s order allowing the Central Bureau of Investigation and the Directorate of Enforcement to investigate allegations of irregularities in the recruitment ...
3 June 2023 StatesmanA day after state education minister Bratya Basu had termed the appointments of vice-chancellors (VCs) in 11 universities by the Governor CV Ananda Bose as “illegal”, as it was done sans any consultation with the government, the chancellor of ...
3 June 2023 StatesmanIn an apparently unheard of incident, the state health department cancelled the transfer order of Dr Sandip Ghosh, principal of RG Kar Medical College Hospital, within 24 hours. The latter was transferred to the Murshidabad Medical College Hospital (MMCH) as ...
3 June 2023 StatesmanTaking another step towards saving the environment, the Kolkata Municipal Corporation today announced a contest for encouraging creative use of plastic bottles instead of being thrown away and increasing environmental hazards, on the occasion of World Environment Day, 5 ...
3 June 2023 StatesmanThe West Bengal government has moved the Supreme Court against the Calcutta High Court order refusing an interim stay on the previous order of its single-judge bench allowing the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and ED to investigate the ...
3 June 2023 StatesmanThe Supreme Court on Friday declined an early listing of the West Bengal government’s plea against the State High Court’s order allowing the Central Bureau of Investigation and the Directorate of Enforcement to investigate allegations of irregularities and wrong ...
3 June 2023 StatesmanChief minister Mamata Banerjee today sent out a clear message to the students community that the government would not allow financial constraints to come in the way of their fulfilling their academic aspirations. Instead the government would be the ...
2 June 2023 StatesmanThis month, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP national president JP Nadda will participate in several major events in Bengal to launch the party’s Lok Sabha election campaign in the state. According to sources, ...
2 June 2023 Statesman