12 lakh jobs have been created in West Bengal: Mamata Banerjee at G-20 summit meeting
Jan 09, 2023, at 08:45 pm
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday said employment has increased manifold with 12 lakh jobs being created in the state.
Kolkata: NIA conducts raids at 17 locations in Mominpur over Oct 10 clashes
Jan 05, 2023, at 02:31 am
Kolkata/UNI: The National Investigation Agency (NIA), probing the violent clashes between the two communities at Mominpur in Kolkata's Kidderpore on Oct 10 last year, conducted raids at 17 locations Wednesday and seized over Rs 33 lakh in cash and many incriminating documents, the central agency said.
Despite his mother's death, PM Narendra Modi carries out official programs in Bengal
Dec 30, 2022, at 09:02 pm
Kolkata: Hours after attending his mother's last rites at Gandhinagar, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday virtually flagged off Vande Bharat Express, a superfast train connecting Kolkata with the NJP, the gateway of North Bengal.
PM Modi virtually flags off seventh Vande Bharat Express in Kolkata
Dec 30, 2022, at 06:19 pm
Kolkata/New Delhi/IBNS: Hours after performing the last rites of his mother Heeraben Modi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday flagged off the country's seventh and West Bengal's first Vande Bharat Express train in Kolkata.
Dec 30, 2022, at 03:45 pm
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi who was scheduled to visit West Bengal on Friday and now he will join the scheduled programmes via video conferencing despite the demise of her mother, officials said.
Dec 17, 2022, at 04:25 am
Kolkata/IBNS: Union Home Minister Amit Shah will chair the Eastern Zonal Council (EZC) meeting at the West Bengal state secretariat Nabanna on Saturday in presence of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.
Dec 16, 2022, at 02:25 pm
New Delhi: Union Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, Coal and Mines Pralhad Joshi on Friday described India's successful test firing of Agni- 5 intercontinental nuclear capable ballistic missile as a 'historical milestone'.
US is excited to witness India's G20 presidency: Consul General Melinda Pavek
Nov 22, 2022, at 02:56 pm
Kolkata: US Consul General Melinda Pavek on Monday said the US, along with the world, is excited to witness India’s G20 presidency as it takes over from Indonesia officially on Dec 1.
Massive fire breaks out at SSKM hospital's CT scan building, no casualty so far
Nov 18, 2022, at 04:40 am
Kolkata/IBNS: A massive fire broke out in Kolkata's SSKM hospital on Thursday night.
Kolkata: Octogenarian burnt to death after fire destroyed his home
Nov 16, 2022, at 07:06 pm
Kolkata/UNI: An octogenarian was burnt to death in a fire that also destroyed his south Kolkata home at Regent Park in the wee hours on Wednesday, police said.
Bengal teachers' recruitment scam: 2014 TET aspirants hit streets, scuffle with Kolkata Police
Nov 10, 2022, at 02:26 am
Kolkata/IBNS: Hundreds of Teachers Eligibility Test (TET) aspirants, who had cleared the exam in 2014 but has not got the job yet, staged protest in Kolkata's busy Exide Crossing and Camac Street areas on Wednesday late afternoon.
'Today you are in power, so you are showing might': Mamata Banerjee slams BJP
Oct 14, 2022, at 04:54 am
Kolkata/IBNS/UNI: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday came down heavily on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) a day after Trinamool Congress MLA and former chairman of the West Bengal Board of Primary Education (WBBPE) Manik Bhattacharya was arrested by the the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in connection with the school service commission jobs' scam.
Kolkata: Film production godown among other vehicles, shops gutted in fire
Oct 13, 2022, at 04:27 pm
Kolkata/UNI: A spacious godown of a film production centre of Tollywood, some vehicles, police van and about 10/12 shops have been gutted in fire at three different places in the city, south 24 Parganas early Thursday, official sources said.
Veteran journalist-poet Krishna Dhar passes away in Kolkata
Oct 13, 2022, at 05:15 am
Kolkata/IBNS: Veteran journalist-poet-academician Krishna Dhar passed away in Kolkata on Wednesday. He was 95.
West Bengal: Violence erupts in Mominpur area, 38 detained
Oct 10, 2022, at 07:59 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: At least 38 people were detained by police after violence erupted between two communities in Kolkata's Mominpur area Sunday, media reports said.
Bengal teacher recruitment scam: CBI conducts searches in 6 locations in Delhi and Kolkata
Sep 15, 2022, at 11:38 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Thursday conducted a search operation in six locations of a software company in Delhi and Kolkata in connection with the teacher recruitment scam in West Bengal, media reports said.
Sep 12, 2022, at 05:41 pm
Kolkata: Pronam - a joint initiative of Kolkata Police and The Bengal for the elderly - organized a cultural and cyber fraud awareness programme at the Body Guard Lines Auditorium recently which was attended by the organisation’s nearly 200 senior citizen members.
ED seizes Rs 17.32 cr in massive cash recovery from Kolkata businessman's house in gaming app scam
Sep 11, 2022, at 07:46 am
Kolkata: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) is conducting searches on six locations in connection with an investigation linked to an alleged case of fraud through a mobile gaming app. So far Rs 17.32 crore in cash and other property documents have been recovered, the probe agency said.
ED recovers massive cash from Kolkata businessman in gaming app scam
Sep 11, 2022, at 01:28 am
Kolkata: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) is conducting searches on six locations in connection with an investigation linked to an alleged case of fraud through a mobile gaming app.
Kolkata: Two schoolboys killed inside moving car, bodies dumped in roadside ditch
Sep 07, 2022, at 04:47 am
Kolkata/IBNS: Two schoolboys were found dead in a roadside ditch near Kolkata, more than two weeks after they were kidnapped.
Mamata Banerjee hikes Durga Puja grant, clubs to get Rs. 60K this year
Aug 23, 2022, at 03:05 am
Kolkata/IBNS: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Monday announced an increase in the yearly grant to Durga Puja organising committees in the state from Rs. 50,000 to Rs. 60,000 after the festival found a place in the UNESCO's List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
Aug 18, 2022, at 05:28 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: A poster featuring West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's parliamentarian nephew Abhishek Banerjee with a promise to bring a "new Trinamool" in Kolkata has triggered a fresh political speculation in the backdrop of the arrests of heavyweights Partha Chatterjee and Anubrata Mondal.
Kolkata's St Xavier’s University teacher claims she was forced to resign over Instagram bikini photo
Aug 09, 2022, at 11:35 pm
An ex-Assisstant Professor of the iconic St Xavier’s University in Kolkata has alleged that she was forced to quit and even asked to pay Rs. 99 crore in damages to the varsity for "causing immense and irreparable damage" after a parent complained that he found his son looking at her bikini-clad images on Instagram.
Jul 27, 2022, at 12:26 am
Kolkata/IBNS: Living up to its theme "Arambha" or "The Beginning" in the 2022 Durga Puja, Kolkata's Naktala Udayan Sangha is set to organise the four-day festival this year with a fresh start after its "honourary" member and West Bengal Minister Partha Chatterjee landed up in jail in the teacher recruitment scam that has triggered a political firestorm in the Trinamool Congress-ruled state.
Kolkata: Sushovan Banerjee aka 'One Rupee Doctor' passes away
Jul 26, 2022, at 10:13 pm
Kolkata/UNI: Padma Shri awardee Dr Sushovan Banerjee aka ‘Ek Takar Daktar’ (one rupee doctor) passed away at 84 on Tuesday morning.
Bengal: Mithun Chakraborty back in Kolkata, to visit BJP state office today
Jul 04, 2022, at 05:31 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: Actor-turned politician Mithun Chakraborty will visit the West Bengal Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)'s headquarters in Kolkata Monday, triggering speculation over his reactivation of involvement in the saffron brigade of West Bengal.
Kolkata: Patient jumps off 7th floor of a private hospital in Mullick Bazar, critically injured
Jun 25, 2022, at 10:47 pm
Kolkata: A patient, who was identified as Sujit Sarkar, was critically wounded after he jumped off the 7th floor of a private hospital in Kolkata's Mullick Bazar area on Saturday.
Agartala-Kolkata bus service via Dhaka resumes
Jun 10, 2022, at 10:52 pm
Agartala: The Agartala-Kolkata daily bus service via Dhaka flagged off on Friday with 28 passengers in a simple ceremony after a break of two years due to Covid19.
Kolkata: Cop at Park Circus opens fire, kills woman on bike, himself
Jun 10, 2022, at 09:09 pm
Kolkata: A woman was killed and an app-based bike's rider was shot Friday afternoon as a policeman fired at least 10 rounds of bullets from his Self Loading Rifle (SLR) at Park Circus, meters away from Bangladesh Deputy High Commission. He also killed himself.
Bangladesh-India bus services resume after two years
Jun 10, 2022, at 06:49 pm
Dhaka/UNI: The passenger bus services between Bangladesh and India resumed on Friday after its suspension for two years induced by the Covid19 pandemic.