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  • All eyes on today’s by-election result in Bengal’s Kaliganj; tight security protocol for counting day

    The Election Commission (EC) has undertaken a host of measures to ensure a smooth and peaceful counting for the bypoll to the Kaliganj Assembly seat in West Bengal’s Nadia district. The counting is slated to commence at 8 am ...

    23 June 2025 Indian Express
    Now, Bengal schools may start feeding stray dogs to sensitise students

    The Paschim Banga Samagra Shiksha Mission (PBSSM) has suggested schools all across West Bengal feed stray dogs once a day to sensitise students “about the importance of taking care of such animals living in their neighbourhood”.“Some more activities are ...

    23 June 2025 Indian Express
    Bengal: Video shows school students with umbrellas in classroom as water leaks from roof; BJP hits out at govt

    A POLITICAL tussle has broken out over a video that surfaced on social media purportedly showing school students sitting in a classroom with umbrellas as water is leaking from the roof. The BJP has targeted the ruling TMC government ...

    23 June 2025 Indian Express
    Sukanta, doctor who asked question during CM’s lecture ‘detained’

    STATE BJP president Sukanta Majumdar and a London-based doctor, Rajatshubhra Bandyopadhyay, were both detained by the city police amid a roadside conversation in south Kolkata’s Bhabanipur area on Friday.Although they were both released around three hours later, the incident ...

    22 June 2025 Indian Express
    Several districts in Bengal brace for floods; CM Mamata Banerjee dispatches ministers to flood-prone areas

    Some more areas in South Bengal got submerged after over 70,000 cusec of water was released from Durgapur Barrage on Saturday morning. According to sources, the water was released following heavy rainfall in neighbouring Jharkhand and Bihar. The areas ...

    22 June 2025 Indian Express
    BJP minority cell leader found dead at Hooghly residence; family alleges murder

    A BJP minority cell leader was found dead on the balcony of his residence at Goghat in Hooghly on Saturday morning with his family alleging that the “murder” was politically motivated. According to sources with the police, a probe ...

    22 June 2025 Indian Express
    Bengal: Major fire at Barasat factory complex, many godowns gutted

    A major fire broke out at a warehouse and factory complex spanning over 30 bighas in Barasat’s Bamunmora Kadambagachi area around 7 pm on Saturday. Over 20 fire engines reached the spot and began efforts to douse the flames.According ...

    22 June 2025 Indian Express
    ‘Serious breach of security, contempt of House’: BJP MP Sukanta Majumdar alleges in letter to Lok Sabha Speaker after attack on convoy

    A day after shoes, bricks and stones were hurled at him and his convoy in West Bengal, BJP state president and Union Minister of State for Education and DoNER Sukanta Majumdar on Thursday wrote to Lok Sabha Speaker Om ...

    22 June 2025 Indian Express
    ‘Fruit of decade-long activism’: Nepali listed as optional subject for West Bengal Civil Service exam

    By Debasmita ChowdhuryThe West Bengal government has included Nepali as an optional subject in the West Bengal Civil Service (WBCS) 2025 Mains examination, fulfilling sustained demands by the Gorkha community.Hindi and Santhali were made “compulsory language” subject options, according ...

    22 June 2025 Indian Express
    9 dead in car-truck collision on NH-18; victims were headed to Jharkhand from Bengal’s Purulia

    Nine people died in a head-on collision on National Highway 18 in West Bengal’s Purulia district on Friday morning. The accident, near Namsol Primary School in the Balarampur police station area, involved a car carrying nine passengers and a ...

    22 June 2025 Indian Express
    Calcutta HC restrains govt from giving stipend to sacked Group C, D school staff

    IN A setback for the West Bengal government, the Calcutta High Court on Friday stayed the disbursal of monthly stipends announced for sacked Group C and Group D school employees whose appointments were nullified by the Supreme Court earlier ...

    21 June 2025 Indian Express
    Days after interim stay, contempt plea in HC over ‘OBC list’ in college portal

    The Calcutta High Court on Thursday allowed a contempt petition to be filed against the West Bengal government for allegedly violating the stay on the interim Other Backward Classes (OBC) list in undergraduate college admissions in the state.Petitioner Purabi ...

    21 June 2025 Indian Express
    Arrested for murder of parents in Bengal: ‘Rohingya Sympathiser’ engineer saw them as ‘not religious enough’

    A man allegedly growing disenchanted with his family’s perceived lack of religiosity, a recluse who immersed himself in religious literature and a “Rohingya sympathiser” who was allegedly making plans to escape to Myanmar. That’s the picture that the police ...

    21 June 2025 Indian Express
    Kaliganj bypoll: Voting peaceful with 70% turnout, EC seeks report on ‘vulgar gesture’ made by BJP candidate

    The Election Commission of India (ECI) has sought a report from the presiding officer after taking cognisance of reports that the BJP candidate for Kaliganj Assembly seat, Ashish Ghosh, made a vulgar gesture after casting his vote in the ...

    20 June 2025 Indian Express
    Stones, slippers hurled at Bengal BJP chief Sukanta Majumdar’s convoy; he alleges TMC conspiracy

    Union Minister and West Bengal state BJP president Sukanta Majumdar on Thursday said that shoes, bricks and stones were hurled at his convoy by a group of people in Budge Budge area of South 24 Parganas district while he ...

    20 June 2025 Indian Express
    BJP MP Abhijit Gangopadhyay taken to Delhi AIIMS by air ambulance for further treatment

    BJP MP and former Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay is being shifted to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Delhi, on Thursday for further treatment, five days after he was admitted to a private hospital in Kolkata with acute ...

    20 June 2025 Indian Express
    Kolkata puja committee says police ‘targeted’ them over ‘theme of Op Sindoor’ by issuing safety notice

    Controversy has erupted between a prominent Durga Puja organising committee in Kolkata and the city police, with the organizers alleging harassment over their puja theme of Operation Sindoor and the police citing serious public safety concerns based on last ...

    20 June 2025 Indian Express
    ‘Provide info on OBC surveys’: West Bengal govt gets notice from National Commission for Backward Classes

    The National Commission for Backward Classes (NCBC) issued a notice last week to West Bengal Chief Secretary Manoj Panth, seeking detailed information on the surveys conducted for the newly announced Other Backward Classes (OBC) list in the state within three days. According ...

    20 June 2025 Indian Express
    Bengal’s Kaliganj bypoll: 10.83% turnout till 9 am

    Polling for the Kaliganj Assembly by-election began on Tuesday morning under heavy security provided by central forces. However, voter turnout remained low in the initial hours, likely due to heavy rainfall in the region.According to the Election Commission of ...

    20 June 2025 Indian Express
    Beat the Heat for Rs 29: Eastern Railway to Launch Budget Air-Conditioned Suburban Train Service

    (Written by Debasmita Chowdhury)The Eastern Railway zone is running trials for air-conditioned suburban train services which officials said will be offered at significantly low fares.It has received its first AC EMU (Electric Multiple Unit) train manufactured at Integral Coach ...

    20 June 2025 Indian Express
    Assembly Bypoll: Kaliganj votes today, parties eye early boost

    As the bypoll in the Kaliganj Assembly segment in Nadia district comes less than a year before the elections in West Bengal, both the ruling TMC and the Opposition BJP are leaving no stones unturned to win the seat.With ...

    19 June 2025 Indian Express
    Samvidhan Hatya Diwas | TMC govt to stay out of Centre’s Emergency anniversary event: ‘mockery of democracy’

    West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday hit out at the BJP-led central government over its decision to observe June 25 as Samvidhan Hatya Diwas (Constitution Murder Day), marking 50 years since the imposition of the Emergency.Calling the ...

    19 June 2025 Indian Express
    West Bengal plans 25 new fire stations after series of incidents in Kolkata

    After a series of escalating fire incidents across Kolkata and its surrounding areas, the West Bengal government said it is planning to propose the construction of 25 new fire stations across the state.State Fire and Emergency Services Minister Sujit ...

    19 June 2025 Indian Express
    HC orders Centre to restart MGNREGA in Bengal from Aug 1, TMC says state govt vindicated

    Stating that no central scheme can be sent to cold storage forever, the Calcutta High Court on Wednesday directed the Centre to restart MGNREGA, the 100-day rural job guarantee scheme, in West Bengal prospectively from August 1.The Division Bench ...

    19 June 2025 Indian Express
    Calcutta HC MGNREGA order: Govt to seek arrears, BJP says ‘won’t change anything’

    Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday said that her government will seek arrears from the Centre in the wake of the Calcutta High Court’s order for restart of the MGNREGA, the 100-day rural job guarantee scheme, in the state ...

    19 June 2025 Indian Express
    Monsoon intensifies in Bengal: IMD issues orange alert for Kolkata, adjoining districts

    Written by Shambhavi PandeyThe southwest monsoon has intensified over Kolkata and adjoining areas, with the India Meteorological Department (IMD) forecasting heavy rainfall, thunderstorms, and gusty winds on Wednesday and Thursday. An orange alert has been issued for multiple districts ...

    19 June 2025 Indian Express
    Resume MGNREGA in West Bengal: Calcutta HC to Centre

    The Calcutta High Court on Wednesday ordered that the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), which has been stalled in the state for three years following allegations of corruption, be restarted from August 1.During the hearing, Chief ...

    19 June 2025 Indian Express
    Political sparring erupts in Bengal after Calcutta High Court stays new OBC list

    As the Opposition BJP on Wednesday celebrated the Calcutta High Court’s decision to put an interim stay on the West Bengal government’s fresh OBC list, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said the ruling was interim and under legal review.“We acted ...

    19 June 2025 Indian Express
    FIR lodged against film Kesari Chapter 2 for ‘distorting historical facts’ after police complaint in Bengal

    A resident of Bidhannagar South filed a police complaint against the film Kesari Chapter 2 currently streaming on Jio Hotstar, alleging it distorts historical facts related to West Bengal’s freedom struggle.Ranajit Biswas, a resident of Nabapally, Sector IV, filed ...

    19 June 2025 Indian Express
    West Bengal govt begins UG admissions for state colleges: Here is what you need to know

    The undergraduate admissions process began on the West Bengal government’s online portal on Wednesday morning, for over nine lakh seats across 7,229 courses in 460 state and state-aided colleges.The first phase of the application process for the colleges, which ...

    19 June 2025 Indian Express
    Priyangu Pandey attack case: NIA names 4 more in third supplementary chargesheet

    The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has chargesheeted four more accused individuals in connection with the 2024 mob attack on Priyangu Pandey in Bhatpara, West Bengal, officials said on Tuesday.In its third supplementary chargesheet filed before the NIA Special Court ...

    19 June 2025 Indian Express
    Detained as Bangladeshis, Bengal workers now ‘scared’ to leave state

    “We spent a night at a detention camp. Somehow, through the intervention of our state’s police, we were released. I will never go to work in Assam again. I have worked in different parts of India but never faced ...

    19 June 2025 Indian Express
    Bengal Quota row | HC puts stay on OBC list, asks state: ‘Why not wait for SC order?’

    The Calcutta High Court on Tuesday put an interim stay on notifications issued by the West Bengal government with regard to reservations to 140 subsections under OBC-A and OBC-B categories made by it.This comes days after Chief Minister Mamata ...

    18 June 2025 Indian Express
    Calcutta HC directs govt to publish 6th Pay Commission report

    The Calcutta High Court on Tuesday directed the West Bengal government to publish the report of the Sixth Pay Commission by July 1.The order was passed in response to a case filed by government employee Debaprasad Halder, who alleged ...

    18 June 2025 Indian Express
    ‘We were herded like cattle by BSF towards Bangladesh in the dark…won’t go to Mumbai’: Bengal residents labelled as ‘illegal immigrants’

    “We were herded like cattle. Wielding batons, the BSF jawans drove us towards the border with Bangladesh and asked us not to return. We ran towards Bangladesh. It was completely dark,” said Nazimuddin Mondal, a resident of Hariharpara in ...

    18 June 2025 Indian Express
    Bengal: 1,300 shops gutted in Khidderpore fire, CM promises new market, aid

    Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday visited the Khidderpore market on Orphangunge Road, following a devastating fire that reportedly destroyed around 1,300 shops in the nearly 150-year-old market.During her visit, Banerjee announced a comprehensive rehabilitation package aimed at assisting ...

    18 June 2025 Indian Express
    Passengers of Mumbai-bound Air India flight from San Francisco deplaned in Kolkata after technical snag in engine

    A Mumbai-bound Air India flight AI180 from San Francisco was halted in Kolkata early Tuesday after one of its engines suffered a technical snag , news agency PTI reported.All passengers were deplaned safely at about 0520 hours during the scheduled halt ...

    18 June 2025 Indian Express
    Calcutta HC seeks govt’s response on transfer of 3 RG Kar doctors: ‘What’s the basis?’

    The Calcutta High Court has sought a response from the West Bengal government on whether the matter about the posting of three junior doctors of RG Kar Hospital should be heard by the High Court or the state tribunal.Justice ...

    18 June 2025 Indian Express
    Red alert in most South Bengal districts as monsoon covers state: IMD

    Written by Debasmita ChowdhuryThe Southwest Monsoon has now covered the entire state of West Bengal, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) confirmed on Monday. Consequently, it has issued red alerts for several districts of South Bengal today, June 17.The advancement ...

    18 June 2025 Indian Express
    From bunker runs to rationing food: Bengal scholar’s foreign dream turns nightmare in Israel

    A stash of groceries for two weeks, eyes constantly glued to a missile alert app, and frantic dashes to a bunker several times a day — life has turned into a daily survival drill for a researcher from West ...

    18 June 2025 Indian Express
    In 4 new posts in SSC, Kolkata Police, shadow of job scam and RG Kar

    The West Bengal Cabinet on Monday approved the creation of four new posts – two in the School Service Commission (SSC) and two in the Kolkata Police Commissionerate.The Cabinet, under Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, gave its nod to the ...

    17 June 2025 Indian Express
    BJP govts targeting citizens just because they speak Bengali: Mamata

    Amid reports of West Bengal residents being detained by police in Maharashtra on suspicion of being illegal Bangladesh migrants and pushed into the neighbouring country, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday accused the BJP of targeting Bengali-speaking citizens in ...

    17 June 2025 Indian Express
    Kolkata: In chargesheet, ED says Pak man ran hawala network, forged papers

    The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has filed a chargesheet under the anti-money laundering law against a Pakistani national, Ajad Mallik, who had been illegally living in Kolkata using forged Indian and Bangladeshi identity documents.In a statement released by the ED ...

    17 June 2025 Indian Express
    Bengal resident pushed into Bangladesh brought back with four others

    Following the intervention by the TMC government in West Bengal, 36-year-old Mehbub Sheikh, a resident of Murshidabad who was picked up by Maharashtra Police and pushed into Bangladesh on suspicion of being an illegal immigrant, was brought back to ...

    17 June 2025 Indian Express
    Bengal man in Thane pushed into Bangladesh even as family, govt submit proof of his citizenship

    A 36-year-old man from West Bengal, who had gone to Maharashtra for work, was picked up by Maharashtra Police, suspecting him to be an illegal Bangladesh migrant, and was pushed across the border into the neighbouring country by the ...

    17 June 2025 Indian Express
    Bengal: BSF constable shot dead by colleague at Murshidabad camp

    A Border Security Force (BSF) constable was fatally shot by a fellow jawan late Saturday at the Dhulian camp, Murshidabad district, police and BSF sources said. The victim, 57-year-old Ratan Singh of Rajasthan’s 119th battalion, was killed allegedly after ...

    17 June 2025 Indian Express
    Mamata targets Centre over MGNREGA funds in West Bengal Assembly; BJP walks out after MLA suspended

    A ruckus broke out in the West Bengal Assembly on Monday after Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee accused the BJP-led Centre of withholding MGNREGA funds for over two years. The BJP MLAs protested the remark with slogans against the Trinamool ...

    17 June 2025 Indian Express
    Monsoon to arrive in Bengal in 2 days; IMD issues orange alert for South Bengal on June 17, 18

    Written by Debasmita Chowdhury,The Southwest Monsoon is expected to reach parts of West Bengal within the next two days, bringing much-needed relief from the prevailing pre-monsoon heat. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued an orange alert for several ...

    17 June 2025 Indian Express
    Court grants extended custody of Wajahat Khan to Kolkata police till June 23

    Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate (ACJM) Amit Sarkar of the Alipore Police Court on Monday granted the Kolkata Police further custody of Wajahat Khan till June 23.He had been arrested on June 9 by Kolkata Police for “alleged hate speech” ...

    17 June 2025 Indian Express
    Maheshtala violence: Bengal BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari meets victims in Kolkata, demands NIA probe

    Bengal Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari Saturday met with the victims of the Maheshtala communal violence and provided them financial relief at a BJP party office in South Kolkata.After meeting 23 affected families, Adhikari told media persons, “In the ...

    16 June 2025 Indian Express
    ‘Dual nationality row’: Newton Das to be struck off Bengal voter list soon

    The process of removing ‘Kakdwip voter’ Newton Das from the electoral roll has commenced, confirmed sources in the office of the West Bengal Chief Electoral Officer on Sunday. The decision follows a probe into allegations linking Das, a registered ...

    16 June 2025 Indian Express
    FIR against state BJP chief for ‘hurling slipper’, Sikh leaders demand apology

    An FIR has been registered against Union minister and state BJP president Sukanta Majumdar at Kalighat police station in Kolkata for allegedly throwing a slipper at a Sikh official.The FIR, based on a complaint by local Sikh community members, ...

    16 June 2025 Indian Express
    BJP MP Abhijit Gangopadhyay hospitalised in Kolkata with acute pancreatitis

    West Bengal BJP MP and former Calcutta High Court judge Abhijit Gangopadhyay was admitted to a private hospital in Kolkata Saturday after complaining of abdominal pain. Gangopadhyay, 63, is being treated in the intensive care unit for acute pancreatitis ...

    16 June 2025 Indian Express
    Heavy showers batter Kolkata; IMD issues yellow alert for several Bengal districts

    Written By Debasmita ChowdhuryAfter the sweltering heat for the last few days, people of Kolkata woke up to heavy rainfall on Sunday. Meanwhile, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Sunday morning issued a Yellow Alert for multiple districts across ...

    16 June 2025 Indian Express
    Mamata to feature on TMC’s July 21 rally posters

    TMC has decided that the image of Chief Minister and party supremo Mamata Banerjee will feature on all official posters for the July 21 Martyrs’ Day rally.The party’s state leadership, during a meeting at the party’s Bhabanipur office on ...

    16 June 2025 Indian Express
    Forward Bloc to intensify movement against ‘land grabbing’ in Howrah

    The farmers’ front of the All India Forward Bloc (AIFB) on Saturday said that they will sharpen their movement against alleged land grabbing in Howrah’s Panchla block.Farid Mollah, a farmer leader of AIFB, said the issue would be one ...

    16 June 2025 Indian Express
    3 days after communal violence rocked Maheshtala, Bengal Police transfer local SDPO, inspector-in-charge  

    Three days after communal violence broke out in Maheshtala near Kolkata, the West Bengal Police Saturday transferred the sub-divisional police officer (SDPO) of Maheshtala.As per a notification of the West Bengal Police Directorate, a copy of which is with The ...

    15 June 2025 Indian Express
    Kolkata’s Asutosh College to introduce 25 skill-oriented certificate courses

    The Kolkata-based Asutosh College has introduced 25 skill-oriented certificate courses from this academic year.According to college sources, these certificate courses will be conducted by different departments, and each course will be of 50 hours duration and spread over 12 ...

    15 June 2025 Indian Express
    TMC warns Anubrata Mondal, Kajal Sheikh against ‘infighting’ ahead of 2026 Assembly elections

    The Top leaders of the Trinamool Congress, including party state president Subrata Bakshi, met Anubrata Mondal and his party rival Kajal Sheikh on Saturday ahead of the July 21 Martyrs’ Day preparation meeting.The meeting, which took place at the ...

    15 June 2025 Indian Express
    Bengal Govt’s Matir Srishti Project transforms 42,000 acres of drought-hit land — with some help from farmers

    By Debasmita ChowdhuryWest Bengal’s Matir Srishti Project has transformed over 42,000 acres of degraded farmland into productive land without relying on contractors, officials said. Launched in 2020, this government initiative places farmers, organized into community-based organizations, at the heart ...

    15 June 2025 Indian Express
    Trafficking ring busted in Hyderabad, 2 minor girls rescued, 3 suspects held: Police

    By Debasmita ChowdhuryTWO MINOR girls, who were allegedly kidnapped and trafficked for prostitution to Hyderabad, have been rescued in a coordinated operation by the Prajwala organisation and the Anti-Human Trafficking Unit of the Hyderabad Police, officers said on Friday.The ...

    15 June 2025 Indian Express
    Basirhat police in Bengal arrest 22 ‘Rohingya people’ living in under-construction house

    Basirhat police in West Bengal on Friday arrested 22 people, including two pregnant women, alleged to be Rohingya after they recently started living in an under-construction house in Baduria.Sources with the police said that on Friday, residents of Labanga ...

    15 June 2025 Indian Express
    Over 200 obstacles flagged by authorities near Kolkata airport, posing safety risk during take-off and landing

    Even as the country mourns the loss of 241 lives in the Air India plane crash in Ahmedabad, the Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International (NSCBI) Airport in Kolkata continues to face a pressing concern: over 200 obstacles around its ...

    14 June 2025 Indian Express
    TMC district leaders to meet in Kolkata today, discuss July 21 Martyrs’ Day rally

    Trinamool Congress (TMC) state president Subrata Bakshi has called a meeting of all district-level leaders on Saturday at his residence to begin preparations for the party’s biggest annual event, the July 21 Martyrs’ Day rally.According to TMC sources, while ...

    14 June 2025 Indian Express
    Bengal: 2 days after clash, uneasy calm as Rabindranagar returns to normalcy

    AN UNEASY calm prevails in Rabindranagar and surrounding areas, including Maheshtala, days after Wednesday’s clashes. Residents remain largely indoors, with shops and markets shut, as a massive police deployment keeps a tight vigil over the affected localities.Prohibitory orders are ...

    14 June 2025 Indian Express
    Tagore’s Ancestral House vandalised in Bangladesh: Despicable, says India; Mamata asks PM to ‘build global pressure on Dhaka’ to act

    India on Thursday condemned the ransacking of the ancestral home of Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore in Bangladesh by a mob, terming the violent attack a “disgrace” to the memory and inclusive philosophy espoused by the poet.West Bengal Chief Minister ...

    14 June 2025 Indian Express
    Day after clashes on Kolkata outskirts: 40 arrested, 7 FIRs registered

    At least 40 people have been arrested and seven FIRs have been registered within 24 hours of the clashes that broke out in the Rabindranagar area of Maheshtala in South 24 Parganas district, and soon spread to the adjacent ...

    14 June 2025 Indian Express
    ‘For 2 hrs, no cops came to rescue’: Residents recount violent afternoon

    “I was sitting in our cake shop when suddenly a mob came and started pelting stones. I was hit and started bleeding. However, I waited for the mob to leave… Only then was I rushed to the hospital,” 25-year-old ...

    14 June 2025 Indian Express
    Fireballs hurled at elephant calf as villagers chase herd in Bengal’s Jhargram, forest dept launches probe

    In a fresh incident of cruelty towards wild animals, fireballs were allegedly hurled at an elephant calf by villagers attempting to drive away a herd in West Bengal’s Jhargram district. The state forest department has launched an investigation and ...

    14 June 2025 Indian Express
    In the Assembly: Speaker rejects adjournment motion over Maheshtala, BJP walks out

    BJP legislators on Thursday staged a walk-out from the Assembly after Speaker Biman Banerjee rejected an adjournment motion brought by BJP legislators over the recent incidents of violence in Maheshtala and Murshidabad.“The matter is sub-judice, so it should not ...

    13 June 2025 Indian Express
    7 cases filed, 40 arrested after clashes on outskirts of Kolkata

    A total of seven cases have been registered and 40 individuals arrested in 24 hours after violent clashes broke out in the Rabindranagar area of South 24 Parganas district and the adjacent Nadiyal area.The unrest broke out on Tuesday ...

    13 June 2025 Indian Express
    TMC, BJP condemn vandalism at Tagore’s ancestral home in Bangladesh

    The ancestral home of Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore in Bangladesh’s Sirajganj district was vandalised earlier this week following a confrontation between a visitor and museum staff, prompting strong condemnation from leaders across the political spectrum in West Bengal.The incident ...

    13 June 2025 Indian Express
    Unhappy with action-taken report on Anubrata Mondol, NCW says: ‘Add more sections, why was cell phone not seized?’

    The National Commission for Women (NCW) has sought a revised action taken report from Birbhum Superintendent of Police in connection with the case involving TMC leader Anubrata Mondal, who allegedly used abusive language against Bolpur inspector-in-charge Litan Halder and ...

    13 June 2025 Indian Express
    Bengal govt orders state schools to close on June 13, 14 due to heatwave

    With temperatures soaring across several districts of West Bengal, the state School Education Department on Wednesday issued a notification suspending teaching activities in all government, government-aided, and government-sponsored schools on June 13 and 14.The official notice read: “Considering the ...

    13 June 2025 Indian Express
    Clash on the outskirts of Kolkata leaves 5 cops injured; 4 arrested

    Bengal’s Maheshtala Clash Update: At least five policemen, including a woman cop, were injured and several vehicles set on fire as two groups clashed and indulged in stone-pelting on the outskirts of Kolkata on Wednesday afternoon. Police have arrested ...

    12 June 2025 Indian Express
    Video of TMC councillor’s street brawl with another woman goes viral, she blames ‘reckless driving’

    After a video of a street brawl involving two women, one being a TMC councillor, went viral, Panihati municipal authorities in North 24 Parganas said the incident would be investigated, and appropriate action would be taken.Local TMC councillor Srabanti ...

    12 June 2025 Indian Express
    Suvendu Adhikari claims 90% Muslims in new OBC list, TMC rejects charge: ‘BJP resorting to divide and rule ahead of polls’

    A day after Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee rejected the allegations that her government was planning to give reservation based on religion, Leader of Opposition in Assembly Suvendu Adhikari on Wednesday doubled down on the charge, claiming that new additions ...

    12 June 2025 Indian Express
    This placement season, IIT-Kharagpur gets 1,800 job offers, highest Rs 2.14 cr annual package

    The IIT-Kharagpur on Wednesday said that despite a “challenging global employment landscape”, the institute received 1,800 job offers, including 409 pre-placement offers (PPOs), and 25 international offers this placement season.“This placement season also witnessed nine students receiving offers exceeding ...

    12 June 2025 Indian Express
    Howrah Sex Racket: Mother-son duo held after five days on the run

    Howrah police on Wednesday said they have arrested 33-year-old Arian Khan and his mother Shweta, who allegedly kept a young woman in captivity and tortured her after she refused to act in pornographic videos. Police said they have also ...

    12 June 2025 Indian Express
    Project MISHTI to help conserve mangroves in Sunderbans: Minister

    Union minister Bhupender Yadav on Tuesday said that Project MISHTI initiative of the Central government would help conserve mangroves in coastal areas, including Sunderbans.The Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change, who was addressing a press conference to ...

    12 June 2025 Indian Express
    Snan Yatra fever grips Digha: Mamata sends homegrown mangoes for bhog

    The sacred Snan Yatra festival commenced with great fervour at Jagannath Dham in Digha on Tuesday, marking a spiritually vibrant prelude to the forthcoming Rathayatra celebrations.The deities — Sri Sri Jagannath, Baladev, and Subhadra Devi — will be ceremoniously ...

    12 June 2025 Indian Express
    ‘Infiltration, violence, obstructed Central schemes’: Union Minister Bhupendra Yadav slams Bengal government ahead of 2026 Assembly elections

    Union Minister Bhupendra Yadav, addressing a press conference in a Kolkata hotel, launched a scathing attack on the West Bengal government, accusing it of perpetuating “unchecked infiltration, pervasive violence, and obstruction of Central welfare schemes”.With the 2026 Assembly elections ...

    11 June 2025 Indian Express
    Bengal Assembly Resolution on Pahalgam terror Attack: Mamata slams Centre, says ‘Total failure, colossal lapse in internal security’

    West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday demanded the resignation of the BJP government at the Centre over the Pahalgam terror attack in which 26 men, mostly tourists, were killed, calling it a “total failure of the government” ...

    11 June 2025 Indian Express
    West Bengal Assembly: No ‘Op Sindoor’ in resolution, BJP says ‘insult to armed forces’

    The West Bengal Assembly on Tuesday passed a resolution condemning the terrorist attack in Pahalgam in which 26 men, mostly tourists, were killed by terrorists. The resolution, moved by Speaker Biman Banerjee, also thanked the armed forces for their ...

    11 June 2025 Indian Express
    Panoli complainant in 6-day police custody, Assam and Haryana police too seek to arrest him

    A court in Kolkata on Tuesday sent 30-year-old Wajahat Khan, arrested for alleged hate posts, to six days of police custody till June 16.Khan’s complaint had led to the arrest of 22-year-old social media influencer and law student Sharmishta ...

    11 June 2025 Indian Express
    Calcutta HC questions Bengal govt over monetary support to sacked non-teaching staff

    The Calcutta High Court on Monday reserved its judgment on a petition challenging the West Bengal government’s decision to provide monetary relief to Group C and D employees whose jobs were terminated by the Supreme Court in April this ...

    11 June 2025 Indian Express
    Protester in Bangladesh student stir is a voter in Bengal, BJP slams TMC

    Ahead of elections in West Bengal where allegations of fake voters have been gaining political traction, the Opposition BJP has hit out at the ruling TMC over a “Kakdwip voter” who took part during the students’ protest in neighbouring ...

    11 June 2025 Indian Express
    Mamata lays out new OBC list in West Bengal Assembly: ‘Backwardness to determine OBC status, not religion’

    West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, while laying out the interim report of the West Bengal Commission for Backward Classes in the state Assembly, said, “Some corner is trying to campaign that the state government is providing reservations on ...

    11 June 2025 Indian Express
    Wajahat Khan who lodged complaint against Sharmistha Panoli arrested in Kolkata

    The Kolkata Police on Monday arrested Wajahat Khan, the complainant in the case against law student and social media influencer Sharmistha Panoli who was arrested last month.Following Panoli’s arrest, at least five complaints were filed against Khan (30), across ...

    11 June 2025 Indian Express
    After Calcutta High Court order, 15-year-old eligible to get surname of stepfather

    In Bengal, a 15-year-old’s parents had separated the year he was born, 2010, and their marriage was dissolved by a civil court decree in September 2016. The only link he had to his biological father was his surname.In March ...

    10 June 2025 Indian Express
    ‘Children should speak freely, we get to learn from them’: West Bengal Minister Shashi Panja urges parents and teachers

    Written by Debasmita Chowdhury “Children should be able to speak freely. The more they speak, the more they will make mistakes and learn. We, as elders, also get to learn from them,” said Shashi Panja, West Bengal Minister of Women ...

    10 June 2025 Indian Express
    South Bengal braces for peak heat as it waits for monsoon; North Bengal sees early rain

    Southern West Bengal is set to experience the peak of its current heatwave and discomfort this week, with temperatures expected to rise further. The IMD warns that high water vapour content will exacerbate discomfort in coastal and adjacent districts.There ...

    10 June 2025 Indian Express
    ‘What an experience’: Howrah station to Shantiniketan — Chinese Ambassador to India takes his first train journey in country

    The Chinese Ambassador to India, Xu Feihong, took his first-ever train journey in the country on Monday, travelling from Howrah station to Shantiniketan. He is scheduled to stay for two days at Visva-Bharati University in Shantiniketan, Bolpur, under Birbhum ...

    10 June 2025 Indian Express
    Bengal: ‘How can PM take credit for Operation Sindoor’ — Hakim’s remarks spark row, BJP says ‘insult’

    KOLKATA MAYOR and State Urban Development and Municipal Affairs minister Firhad Hakim sparked a controversy on Saturday after his remarks targeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi in connection with Operation Sindoor.The BJP reacted sharply, alleging that the TMC leader “insulted” ...

    9 June 2025 Indian Express
    West Bengal reports 26 more Covid-19 cases, 2 babies admitted to Kolkata hospital

    West Bengal recorded 26 new Covid-19 cases Sunday, taking the total number of active cases in the state to 622. The highest number of active cases in Kerala has been recorded Kerala, with 1,806 cases. This is followed by ...

    9 June 2025 Indian Express
    Rumours of attack on Assam Police not true, extending all assistance to arrest Wajahat Khan: Kolkata police

    The Kolkata police Saturday said they have been cooperating with the Assam Police in efforts to arrest Wajahat Khan Qadri, who has been booked for hate speech for his alleged communal posts on social media and absconding. Khan’s complaint ...

    9 June 2025 Indian Express
    Bengal: Mother-son duo ‘tortured woman, forced her into prostitution’, absconding

    Police have launched a search operation for a mother-son duo accused of allegedly torturing and assaulting a woman in their residence in Domjur in Howrah district and also forcing her into prostitution for nearly five months, an official said ...

    9 June 2025 Indian Express
    Finally, Kolkata’s Alipore Zoo to introduce cloakroom facility for visitors

    To enhance visitor convenience and streamline guest experience, the Alipore Zoological Garden in Kolkata is set to introduce a dedicated cloakroom facility within its premises. The much-awaited initiative will be installed ahead of the upcoming Durga Puja season.West Bengal ...

    9 June 2025 Indian Express
    Bengal reports 58 active Covid-19 cases in last 24 hours; 10-month-old child in ICU

    On Saturday, West Bengal recorded 58 more Covid-19 cases, taking the total number of active cases in the state to 622.With this, the state became the fourth-highest Covid-positive state in the country, only after Kerala, Gujarat, and Delhi.According to ...

    8 June 2025 Indian Express
    Row over TMC MLA’s remarks on Operation Sindoor; party distances itself

    Trinamool Congress (TMC) MLA Narendranath Chakraborty has sparked a controversy by allegedly saying that Operation Sindoor was “…warmongering initiated by the BJP.”The BJP minority cell filed an FIR against Chakraborty, who represents the Pandabeswar seat in Paschim Bardhaman district, ...

    8 June 2025 Indian Express
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