TMC lines up six big rallies across West Bengal in March

TMC lines up six big rallies across West Bengal in March

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. | Photo Credit: Debasish Bhaduri With the Lok Sabha polls round the corner, the Trinamool Congress on March 2 announced five big rallies across West Bengal between March 14 and 22, besides the mega rally at Brigade Parade Ground in Kolkata on March 10. The party said in its … Read more

150 companies of central forces to arrive in Bengal in first week of March

150 companies of central forces to arrive in Bengal in first week of March

Representational image of paramilitary personnel. Security personnel will be deployed in two phases in all parts of West Bengal by March 7 | Photo Credit: ANI Around 150 companies of central forces are likely to reach West Bengal in the first week of March primarily to conduct route marches ahead of the Lok Sabha polls, … Read more

Will not allow CAA implementation in Bengal as long as I am alive: Mamata

Will not allow CAA implementation in Bengal as long as I am alive: Mamata

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in Siliguri, on Jan. 29, 2024. | Photo Credit: PTI West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday lambasted the BJP for raising the CAA issue ahead of the Lok Sabha polls, asserting that she will never allow its implementation in the state during her lifetime. Speaking at a … Read more

Bengal BJP president urges Mamata to declare holiday on Jan 22

Bengal BJP president urges Mamata to declare holiday on Jan 22

Bharatiya Janata Party’s West Bengal president Sukanta Majumdar addresses a press conference, in Kolkata. File photo | Photo Credit: ANI West Bengal BJP president Sukanta Majumdar wrote to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday, urging her to declare a holiday on January 22 so people in the State could participate in celebrations relating to the … Read more

GI tags for over 17 products from Odisha, Arunachal Pradesh, West Bengal, and J&K

GI tags for over 17 products from Odisha, Arunachal Pradesh, West Bengal, and J&K

The traditional Lanjia Saura paintings, the exquisitely embroidered Dongaria Kondh shawl, the delicious Khajuri Guda from Odisha and the Handmade Carpets and Wancho Wooden Craft from Arunachal Pradesh were among the 17 products that bagged the Geographical Indications (GI) tag on Thursday. The Lanjia Saura paintings are a style of wall mural art. Those paintings also … Read more

Special Task Force arrests two Maoists in West Bengal

Special Task Force arrests two Maoists in West Bengal

The Special Task Force (STF) of the Kolkata Police has arrested two members of the banned Communist Party of India (Maoist) from Suti in Murshidabad district. Arrested on Saturday, the two were produced before a city court on Sunday and sent to police custody till November 30. Those arrested were identified as Mantu Mallick and … Read more

Bengal Minister Jyoti Priya Mallick arrest | Crores in accounts, fake companies and a maroon diary

Bengal Minister Jyoti Priya Mallick arrest | Crores in accounts, fake companies and a maroon diary

West Bengal Minister Jyoti Priya Mallick being taken into custody by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in Kolkata on Oct. 27, 2023. | Photo Credit: ANI   The arrest of West Bengal Minister Jyoti Priya Mallick by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on October 27 over an alleged public distribution system (PDS) scam has sparked a political … Read more

A season of Puja politics begins in West Bengal

A season of Puja politics begins in West Bengal

The idols of Goddess Durga being prepared in Kanpur by artists, weeks before the festival begins. | Photo Credit: Special arrangement With Mahalaya being observed across West Bengal on Saturday, the Durga Puja festival in the State has begun and the next few days will not only mark the onset of festivities but also subtle … Read more

West Bengal Governor discusses academic, administrative issues with interim Vice-Chancellors of State universities

West Bengal Governor discusses academic, administrative issues with interim Vice-Chancellors of State universities

Governor C.V. Ananda Bose. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu West Bengal Governor C. V. Ananda Bose has held a virtual meeting with interim Vice-Chancellors of State universities, who were appointed by him, to discuss academic and administrative issues faced by the higher educational institutions. One of the V-Cs who attended the meeting told PTI … Read more

Mamata returns to Kolkata, says foreign visit to attract investments to Bengal ‘very successful’

Mamata returns to Kolkata, says foreign visit to attract investments to Bengal ‘very successful’

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee during a meeting with Lulu Group International Executive Director Ashraf Ali MA, in Dubai, UAE on September 22, 2023. | Photo Credit: PTI West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee returned to Kolkata on September 23 evening after a 12-day tour of Spain and the UAE, and said her trip … Read more