In a powerful display of unity and defiance, thousands of women across West Bengal marched on Wednesday midnight as part of the “Reclaim the Night” campaign, demanding justice for a doctor who was allegedly raped and murdered at a hospital here last month. As the clock struck 9 pm, Kolkata witnessed a unique and stirring … Read more
The Trinamool Congress government in West Bengal has reinstated four police officers who were earlier transferred to non-electoral posts by the Election Commission of India during the Lok Sabha elections. The election commission had transferred several officials, including the Director General of Police (DGP), and relieved them from election duty. Among the officers, Aminul Islam … Read more
West Bengal Chief Minister and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee visited people injured in a storm, at a hospital in Jalpaiguri district, on March 31, 2024. | Photo Credit: PTI A political storm has erupted over the tornado at Jalpaiguri and other districts of north Bengal with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and leaders of the Bharatiya … Read more
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) supporters stage a demonstration in front of the SP Office against the lathi charge on party state president Sukanta Majumdar in the recent Sandeshkhali protest, at Diamond Harbour Road, in Kolkata on Thursday. | Photo Credit: ANI A central team of the BJP was stopped by police from visiting West Bengal’s … Read more
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
Paintings on the walls of a house in Lalbazar village, West Bengal. File | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Election time is when the phrase ‘writing on the wall’ also assumes a literal meaning in West Bengal, with artists and wordsmiths joining hands to paint catchy slogans. But there is one village in the State where, … Read more
West Bengal Governor C.V. Ananda Bose spoke on ‘zero tolerance’ for violence and emphasised the right of the common people to vote freely. File | Photo Credit: PTI West Bengal Governor C.V. Ananda Bose on June 20 organised the State’s ‘Foundation Day’ programme at Raj Bhavan in Kolkata, despite objections raised by Chief Minister Mamata … Read more
The Calcutta High Court asked the Central Government to declare what decision it had taken on the State’s latest action-taken report, dated February 2, 2023. File | Photo Credit: Sushanta Patronobish The Calcutta High Court on June 6 asked the Union Government and the West Bengal Government to submit reports on the non-payment of wages to … Read more
Man barks at govt. official in West Bengal to get his name corrected on his ration card. | Photo Credit: Special arrangement A man in West Bengal’s Bankura district barked like a dog before a government official to get his name corrected on his ration card. Srikanti Kumar Dutta has been running around government offices for a correction in … Read more
West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar on Saturday prorogued the Assembly from Saturday. Prorogation is discontinuing a session of Parliament or a legislative assembly without dissolving it. Dhankhar, who is tussling with the Mamata Banerjee-government since he assumed the chair of the governor, in a tweet said that he has prorogued the Assembly from February 12. … Read more