KOLKATA: Trinamool Congress party’s senior legislator from the Kaliganj constituency in Nadia district, Nasiruddin Ahmed, died of a cardiac arrest on Sunday, according to party officials.Ahmed experienced health complications at his home around 11.50pm on Saturday and was immediately taken to Palasi Hospital, where he passed away during the early hours of Sunday, as confirmed…
KOLKATA/MALDA: A 25-year-old murder accused, absconding after shooting two policemen escorting him to jail on Wednesday, was shot dead in an encounter while trying to flee to Bangladesh near the border in Chopra in West Bengal’s North Dinajpur on Saturday morning.Sajjak Alam, being escorted back to Raiganj prison from an Islampur court where he was…
NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee has accused the Border Security Force (BSF) of aiding infiltrators to enter India to destabilise the state.Speaking at a public event, Banerjee charged the BSF with allowing entry through several border areas under its jurisdiction such as Islampur, Sitai and Chopra.She questioned the motives behind these actions,…
NEW DELHI: A day after West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee expressed her willingness to take up responsibility as the leader of the INDIA bloc, a flurry of responses from alliance partners poured in. While the Congress played down her capability to assume a national role, Shiv Sena (UBT) adopted a different stance by accommodating…
NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday termed the Waqf (amendment) Bill “anti-secular” and said that it would “snatch the right of the Muslims.”Banerjee said that the proposed bill had been introduced without prior discussions with state governments regarding the legislation. “There were no discussion with us (state governments) regarding waqf bill….
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday apologised to the elderly for not being able to “serve them”, slamming the TMC government in West Bengal and AAP regime in Delhi on Tuesday for not implementing the Ayushman Bharat scheme. “Elderly in Delhi, Bengal won’t be able to benefit from Ayushman Bharat as their governments…
KOLKATA: Peace can be established in Bengal only when infiltration stops, said Union home minister Amit Shah on Sunday. Urging voters to give BJP a chance, Shah said, “Bengal is witnessing state-sponsored infiltration. To stop this, you have to vote BJP to govern the state. Rabindra Sangeet has been replaced by bomb blasts. Only BJP…
Union home minister Amit Shah (PTI photo) NEW DELHI: Union home minister Amit Shah on Sunday accused the chief minister Mamata Banerjee-led West Bengal government of “aiding infiltration” and said the Bharatiya Janata Party‘s (BJP) “next big target” is to form government in the 2026 Bengal assembly elections.“I have come to tell the youth of…
Cyclone Dana, a severe cyclonic storm, is rapidly approaching the coasts of Odisha and West Bengal. The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecast that the cyclone will make landfall between midnight on October 24 and the early hours of October 25, bringing wind speeds between 100-120 km/h. Authorities have urged residents in the coastal regions…
‘Very severe’ cyclonic storm Dana is approaching the Odisha coast rapidly and is expected to make landfall between Bhitarkanika in Kendrapara district of Odisha and Dhamra in Bhadrak early on Friday with a wind speed up to 120 kmph.As both Odisha and neighbouring West Bengal braces up for the storm, satellite images have captured its…
