KOLKATA: The Bengal govt removed former Rajya Sabha MP Shantanu Sen from the post of adviser to Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) on Saturday, two days after he was removed as TMC spokesperson.It is believed that Sen’s stance on the rape-murder at R G Kar hospital has cost him his post in KMC. Just before the…
NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee has accused the Left and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of collaborating to create unrest in the state. This accusation came after vandalism at RG Kar Hospital in Kolkata on Wednesday night, where a mob caused damage to the protest site, vehicles, and public property. Banerjee claimed…
NEW DELHI: Former West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, a Marxist leader, passed away at his Kolkata home on Thursday at the age of 80. Renowned for his pragmatic approach, Bhattacharjee set aside ideological convictions to promote industrialisation in his state but will also be remembered for witnessing the end of the 34-year-old Left Front…
CONTAI: Bengal prisons minister Akhil Giri resigned from state cabinet on Sunday amid intense pressure from both within Trinamool Congress and external quarters following his insulting outburst against forest ranger Manisha Shaw, calling her “beyadob” (discourteous) and a “janowar” (beast). Despite stepping down, Giri remained adamant against personally apologising to Shaw, although he maintained he…
NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday responded to claims made by Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Derek O’Brien regarding the withholding of MGNREGA funds for West Bengal. O’Brien had accused the central government of failing to release funds for the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) scheme, but the BJP argued…
NEW DELHI: West Bengal minister Akhil Giri has come under scrutiny after a video surfaced showing him threatening and verbally abusing Moumita Sahu, a woman official from the state forest department. The incident took place on Saturday in Purba Medinipur district following the removal of illegal encroachments from forest land near Tajpur sea beach.In the…
NEW DELHI: Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla is learnt to have offered the seating plan in the House to the INDIA bloc, excluding Trinamool Congress. Although the Mamata Banerjee outfit is part of the opposition alliance and is expected to sit within the same cluster, the separate seats suggest that TMC is negotiating independently for…
KOLKATA: Trinamool Congress Saturday binned a “in-house judicial enquiry report” released by Raj Bhavan and termed the exoneration of Bengal governor C V Ananda Bose from molestation charges levelled by an ex-Raj Bhavan staff as “garbage”.Raj Bhavan released the report on X, incidentally a day after SC agreed to hear a plea by the survivor,…
KOLKATA: A Trinamool Congress (TMC) functionary was shot at in a tea stall in Basirhat and bombs were hurled at another’s house in Amdanga as violence raged across North 24 Parganas in West Bengal from Friday night to Saturday. A BJP functionary was injured after he was beaten up in Haroa. Basirhat TMC functionary Altaf…
KOLKATA: A Trinamool Congress (TMC) functionary was shot at in a tea stall in Basirhat and bombs were hurled at another’s house in Amdanga as violence raged across North 24 Parganas in West Bengal from Friday night to Saturday. A BJP functionary was injured after he was beaten up in Haroa. Basirhat TMC functionary Altaf…
