Several boggies derailed after two goods trains collided with each other near West Bengal’s Bankura, in the wee hours of June 25, 2023. | Photo Credit: PTI Around eight wagons overturned after a goods train derailed and collided with a maintenance train at the Ondagram railway station in the Bankura district of West Bengal on … Read more
Police personnel stand guard at violence-hit areas ahead of the panchayat elections, in South 24 Parganas, Saturday, June 17, 2023. | Photo Credit: PTI The Calcutta High Court on June 21 directed the West Bengal State Election Commission (SEC) to deploy Central forces not less than the forces deployed in the 2013 panchayat elections in … 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
The anticipated costs of 1,605 infrastructure projects as on May 1 were 20.34% higher than original cost, according to a report by the infrastructure project monitoring division of the ministry of statistics and programme implementation released on Tuesday.The total anticipated cost at Rs 27.5 lakh crore was Rs 4.65 lakh crore higher than the original … Read more
Recently, violence had erupted in parts of West Bengal over Ram Navami Processions. Several vehicles were torched in Howrah district. | Photo Credit: DEBASISH BHADURI At least 65 cases were registered over communal violence in various parts of West Bengal in just 18 months between January 2021 and June 2022. While 30 cases were registered … Read more
Security personnel deployed near Rishra railway station April 4, 2023 amid tension after clashes broke out between two groups during a ‘Ram Navami’ procession on April 2, 2023 in Hooghly district. | Photo Credit: PTI The Calcutta High Court on Tuesday directed the West Bengal government to file a report on fresh clashes in Rishra … Read more
West Bengal CM and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee with his nephew and TMC General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee during a sit-in demonstration against Union government’s alleged discriminatory attitude against the state, in Kolkata | Photo Credit: PTI West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee sat overnight in front of Dalit icon Dr. B.R. Ambedkar’s statue on Red Road in the heart … Read more
Naval Officer-in-Charge, West Bengal, Commodore Rituraj Sahu flags off ‘Sam No Varunah’ coastal car rally conducted by Navy, at INS Netaji Subhas in Kolkata on Sunday, March 26, 2023. | Photo Credit: PTI An Indian Navy-organised car expedition covering the entire 7,500-km coastline to encourage sea consciousness was flagged off from Kolkata on March 26 … Read more
Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Anubrata Mondal jailed in the cattle-smuggling case being bought to ESI hospital for a checkup prior to being produced before Enforcement Directorate (ED), in Kolkata on March 7, 2023 | Photo Credit: ANI A Delhi court on Wednesday sent TMC leader Anubrata Mondal to ED custody till March 10 in an … Read more