KOLKATA: Bengal is not Bangladesh, Mamata Banerjee declared on Wednesday amid the worst spell of public unrest in her three stints as CM. She asked PM Narendra Modi “not to play with fire”, suggesting that much of what had happened since the Aug 9 rape-murder of a junior doctor at RG Kar hospital was the…
KOLKATA: Bengal government submitted before the Supreme Court on Thursday that it is anticipating violent protests during a Nabanna (state secretariat) march scheduled for August 27, involving acid bombs, guns, and planned attacks against police, reports Dwaipayan Ghosh. The state highlighted a “volatile and surcharged environment” being misused by some people spreading false information on…
KOLKATA: Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee on Sunday dialled her Jharkhand counterpart Hemant Soren, urging him to check the “sudden and huge release of water” from Tenughat dam on Damodar river in Bokaro which is affecting her state. Banerjee said she had also told Soren that “Jharkhand waters have been flooding Bengal, and this was man-made”.Banerjee…
NEW DELHI: Anti-collision system ‘Kavach‘ was not installed in the Kanchanjunga Express that collided with a goods train on Monday claiming at least 8 lives and injuring over 20, chairman & CEO of Railway Board Jaya Varma Sinha said.Talking about the cause of the accident, Sinha said that the accident seemed to be a case…
Bengal witnessed polling at a brisker pace till 5pm on Saturday in the penultimate phase, compared to the earlier ones, but it was marred by the poll-eve murder of a Trinamool Congress worker in East Midnapore‘s Mahisadal and a near fatal attack on another in Moyna in the same district. Despite sporadic incidents of violence,…
After five rounds of polling, an analysis of turnout shows that of the 409 seats where data can be compared with 2019, nearly two-thirds, or 258, have witnessed a lower percentage turnout this year and 88 (more than one in five) have seen even the absolute number of votes drop from five years ago.Seats with…
BONGAON: A palpable quiet looms over the sleepy villages and bustling market places in Bongaon, with just a week to go for polling (May 20) in this Lok Sabha constituency, tucked away on the India-Bangladesh border.“We will vote on May 20, but no one has come here yet to ask for votes,” said Kalpana Sardar…
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Arun Kumar is no stranger to navigating the bustling streets of Kerala‘s Kollam or racing down the highway to Thiruvananthapuram with sirens blaring. Yet, when faced with the daunting prospect of a 2,400km journey from Kollam to Raiganj in Bengal, doubts crept in. With the doctors advising minimal stops for food and fuel, the…
NEW DELHI: Stating that it has no administrative and supervisory control over CBI, which is an independent agency, Centre told Supreme Court that West Bengal’s original suit under Article 131 of the Constitution against it to not allow probe by the agency in the state was not maintainable and is an abuse of legal process.Arguing…
KOLKATA/MALDA/PATNA: PM Narendra Modi blamed Trinamool Congress on Friday for leaving nearly 26,000 families in Bengal without a livelihood by orchestrating an alleged hiring scam that forced Calcutta HC to scrap appointments made by the School Service Commission in 2016 and order some recruits to return their salaries with interest.“Trinamool has played with the future…
