Bhuban Badyakar, whose viral hit “Kacha Badam,” was hospitalised after being involved in a car accident in his native West Bengal. He rammed his vehicle into a wall while attempting to back it up. He was rushed to the hospital and later released after receiving first aid. Bhuban Continue Reading
The youths, who had been driving the train for years in disguise as loco pilots, were finally caught. The arrested youths are from Murshidabad in West Bengal. They were apprehended by the Railway Police on Saturday in Erode, Tamil Nadu, on their way to Thiruvananthapuram from Bengal in search of work. The suspects were arrested […]Continue Reading
On Thursday looking at the coronavirus situation, the West Bengal government took preventive measures and extended the COVID restrictions till June 15 in the state. Issuing an order, full lockdown in the state will not be imposed to save the economy of the state said Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. On April 30 Chief Minister Mamata […]Continue Reading
The TMC was a strong critic of the CAA until recently. Its leader, Mamata Banerjee, organised several demonstrations against the act in the recent past. It seems that the TMC no longer moves in that direction. The party’s decision to back up from the scheduled opposition meet and its leader’s decision to share a platform […]Continue Reading
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is likely to meet Union Home Minister Amit Shah later today. Though he has termed it as a normal ‘government to government’ meeting, many have called it as an attempt to save his close supporter who is under the scanner of the Central Bureau of Investigation in connection with […]Continue Reading
Veteran Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader and former Chief Minister of the Indian state of West Bengal, Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, has been hospitalised due to breathing difficulty and low blood pressure. The latest update from the hospital has noted his health condition as stable. Mr Bhattacharjee has been diagnosed with chest infection. He has been […]Continue Reading
A three-year-old girl has been strangled to death and beheaded by two men in the Indian state of Jharkhand. The men abducted the girl from a railway station in the state, where the girl, her mother and her mother’s partner were sleeping. When the mother identified that her child was missing, she filed a police […]Continue Reading
Most opposition parties have rejected TMC leader Mamata Banerjee’s unity call against the BJP, enumerating the actions done by the TMC in the past to destabilise the opposition parties. In West Bengal, the left parties such as the CPM, All India Forward Block and the CPI and the Congress Party are the main opposition parties. […]Continue Reading
In West Bengal, the TMC’s vote share, which was moving upwards consistently, has been considerably reduced in this recent election, as the BJP has entered the political space of the state aggressively, replaying to the regional party’s aggressive attitude towards its rivals in the state in the same coin. The loss, for the TMC, is […]Continue Reading
Former Kolkata Commissioner Rajeev Kumar has approached the Supreme Court of India, seeking an indefinite extension of protection from the arrest by the CBI. The CBI recently questioned the former commissioner in connection with the Saradha ponzi scam. The authorities alleged that the ex-commissioner confronted many crucial questions, important to bring out the truth Continue Reading