A day after the CBI said that it had recovered a huge cache of arms and ammunition from Sandeshkhali in North 24 Parganas district, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Saturday there was “no evidence” to back the claims ...
29 April 2024 Indian ExpressThe TMC on Saturday alleged that several people were injured after a bomb went off at the house of a relative of a BJP leader in Basirhat assembly seat.TMC leader Kunal Ghosh alleged that the explosion tore apart the ...
29 April 2024 Indian ExpressCampaigning for CPI(M) state secretary Mohd Salim in Domkal under Murshidabad Lok Sabha constituency, state Congress chief Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury hit out at Trinamool Congress (TMC), accusing the party of weakening the Opposition INDIA bloc in West Bengal.While the ...
28 April 2024 Indian ExpressA day after the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) recovered a huge cache of arms and explosives in West Bengal’s Sandeshkhali and called in the NSG bomb squad for their disposal, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on Saturday that ...
28 April 2024 Indian ExpressThe seizure of foreign-made revolvers and a pistol from Sandeshkhali – located close to the India-Bangladesh border – during the recent CBI raid has rang alarm bells for security agencies.The seizure has added another dimension to the ongoing investigation ...
28 April 2024 Indian ExpressThe district election office on Friday cancelled the candidature of former IPS officer Debasish Dhar, who was fielded by the BJP for West Bengal’s Birbhum Lok Sabha constituency, citing technical grounds. In his place, the BJP nominated senior party ...
28 April 2024 Indian ExpressThe Calcutta High Court on Friday instructed the National Investigation Agency (NIA) to submit a report regarding the clashes in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district during Ram Navami celebrations, stating whether the probe should be handed over to the central ...
28 April 2024 Indian ExpressThe ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) in West Bengal has lodged a complaint with the Election Commission of India against the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for allegedly “carrying out an unscrupulous raid” to “tarnish the image” of the party ...
28 April 2024 Indian ExpressThe heatwave conditions will continue to prevail in southern parts of West Bengal till at least April 30, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Friday. Seven districts of south Bengal — Purba and Paschim Medinipur, Jhargram, Bankura, Purba and ...
27 April 2024 Indian ExpressCPI(M) leader Sujan Chakraborty, on Friday, pointed out that investors who deposited money in the infamous Saradha chit fund, that collapsed in 2013, have still not received their money, even after 10 years of the scam.The Saradha Group of ...
27 April 2024 Indian ExpressAbout 71.84 per cent polling was recorded till 5 pm on Friday in the three constituencies of West Bengal – Darjeeling, Raiganj, and Balurghat – where voting was held in the second phase of the Lok Sabha polls.The polling ...
27 April 2024 Indian ExpressDarjeeling, Raiganj and Balurghat constituencies in West Bengal recorded 15.68 per cent polling by around 9 am as voting in the second phase of the Lok Sabha election got underway on Friday. BJP state president Sukanta Majumder alleged that ...
27 April 2024 Indian ExpressHitting out at the Mamata Banerjee-led state government over the teachers recruitment ‘scam’, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said the Trinamool Congress (TMC) had played with the lives of youths of West Bengal, many of whom had even ...
27 April 2024 Indian ExpressThe Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday recovered a huge cache of arms and explosives in Sandeshkhali and called in the NSG bomb squad for their disposal. The cache included foreign made revolvers, Indian revolvers, foreign made pistols ...
27 April 2024 Indian ExpressAuthorities at the Kolkata airport on Friday received an email claiming bombs were planted at various places on its premises, triggering a frantic search across the facility, officials said.However, the mail, which threatened that the bombs will explode at ...
27 April 2024 Indian ExpressWith paint peeling out, a two-storey house with a garden and a Durga Mandap in West Bengal’s Kaliaganj town has a portion of its outer wall painted with graffiti seeking vote for Trinamool Congress. Not so distant in the ...
27 April 2024 Indian ExpressIn Raiganj constituency, every polling booth will have two EVMs/Ballot units. Here’s whyA record 20 candidates with as many as 10 Independents will be contesting from Raiganj Parliamentary constituency that goes to polls in the second phase Lok Sabha ...
27 April 2024 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee on Thursday criticised the Calcutta High Court order cancelling 25,000 school jobs in the state and alleged that it was a “ploy” by the BJP to stop these ...
26 April 2024 Indian ExpressIn the second phase of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, scheduled for April 26, West Bengal’s three constituencies—Darjeeling, Balurghat and Raiganj—will witness multi-cornered contests.Prominent candidates include BJP state president and sitting MP Sukanta Majumdar in Balurghat, BJP Darjeeling MP ...
26 April 2024 Indian ExpressThe West Bengal School Service Commission (SSC) on Thursday claimed that it had provided lists of around 5,300 teaching and non-teaching staff members from the 2016 panel to the Calcutta High Court in whose recruitment it had found irregularities, ...
26 April 2024 Indian ExpressTwo Hyderabad companies owned by YSRCP MP and businessman Alla Ayodhya Rami Reddy donated Rs 46 crore in electoral bonds to the ruling TMC in West Bengal in 2022 — when a $30-mn water treatment project being executed in ...
26 April 2024 Indian ExpressThe Election Commission of India (ECI) on Wednesday released guidelines for voters on how they could protect themselves against the heatwave conditions while stepping out of their homes to vote during the second phase of the Lok Sabha elections. ...
26 April 2024 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Wednesday criticised Defence Minister Rajnath Singh for asserting that nobody in the world can stop the implementation of the CAA.She also remarked that Singh now appeared reliant on PM Narendra Modi’s favour.“You are ...
26 April 2024 Indian ExpressThere is no respite in sight, with forecasts predicting a gradual increase in the day time temperatures by 1-3°C over the next three days in both Gangetic and Sub-Himalayan West Bengal.The humidity levels are expected to remain low, ranging ...
26 April 2024 Indian ExpressThe National Commission for Women (NCW) has written a letter to West Bengal DGP seeking a report on TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee’s recent remarks against BJP Malda Dakshin candidate Sreerupa Mitra Chaudhury.In an ‘X’ post on Wednesday, the NCW ...
26 April 2024 Indian ExpressKolkata experienced a heatwave on Wednesday with a maximum temperature of 40 degrees Celsius, accompanied by an orange alert (be prepared). Humidity levels peaked at 77 per cent with clear skies and no chance of rainfall.India Meteorological Department (IMD) ...
25 April 2024 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday alleged the Calcutta High Court has become the ‘tirtha kendra’ (pilgrimage site) of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Addressing a public meeting at Ausgram in the state’s Birbhum district, Banerjee said ...
25 April 2024 Indian ExpressA day after Kolkata Police arrested a person from Mumbai for allegedly conducting a recce of the residence and offices of TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee, party chief and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday claimed that it ...
25 April 2024 Indian ExpressA day after the Calcutta High Court cancelled the appointments of over 25,000 teachers and school staff, made through the state School Service Commission, the EC is now looking for replacements of those teachers, who also received training for ...
25 April 2024 Indian ExpressExpressing displeasure over violence during the recent Ram Navami celebrations in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district, the Calcutta High Court on Tuesday asked “what is the use of conducting elections when people cannot celebrate an occasion in peace for 8 ...
25 April 2024 Indian ExpressJust three days before the election in the Darjeeling Lok Sabha constituency, the Congress on Tuesday suspended for six years Binay Tamang, who had joined the party after leaving the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha five months ago, after he openly ...
24 April 2024 Indian ExpressAir coolers, fans, water sprinklers, a diet with more summer fruits in it, including watermelons, and ORS water — this is how authorities of the Alipore zoo in Kolkata are trying to help the animals beat the heat.The move ...
24 April 2024 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday claimed that the BJP tried to kill her nephew and Trinamool Congress’s second-in-command Abhishek Banerjee.Banerjee made the claim while addressing election campaigns in Birbhum and Burdwan.During an election campaign at Birbhum’s ...
24 April 2024 Indian ExpressUnion Home Minister Amit Shah said on Tuesday in West Bengal that if the BJP got 35 Lok Sabha seats in the state, it would drive away “all infiltrators”.“Aap ne humein 18 seats di or humne udhar Ram mandir ...
24 April 2024 Indian ExpressThe Calcutta High Court on Tuesday directed the West Bengal chief secretary to decide by May 2 on grant of sanction for prosecution of former public servants arrested by CBI in the 2016 school jobs case, which saw the ...
24 April 2024 Indian ExpressAfter the Calcutta High Court cancelled the appointment of nearly 26,000 teachers and non-teaching staff made through the State Level Selection Test (SLST) in government-aided schools of West Bengal, the principal Opposition party BJP on Monday demanded the resignation ...
24 April 2024 Indian ExpressAs the Calcutta High Court on Monday cancelled the appointments of over 25,000 teachers and non-teaching staff, made through the West Bengal School Service Commission (SSC) in the state government-sponsored and aided schools, many of those affected by the ...
24 April 2024 Indian ExpressChildren’s specialists in Kolkata have warned against sending children to school as the city continues to record temperatures over 40 degrees Celsius. Even though the West Bengal government have advanced the beginning of summer holidays from May 6 to ...
24 April 2024 Indian ExpressA day after West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of conspiring against her and her nephew Abhishek Banerjee and said they were “not safe”, Kolkata police arrested a Mumbai man for allegedly conducting ...
23 April 2024 Indian ExpressA DIVISION bench of the Calcutta High Court Monday cancelled the appointment of 25,753 teachers and non-teaching staff made through the State Level Selection Test (SLST) 2016 in schools sponsored and aided by the West Bengal government. The court ...
23 April 2024 Indian Express