Kolkata, May 28 (IANS) Kolkata witnessed a change in arrangements for Eid al-Adha (Bakrid) prayers on Thursday, with namaz held at Brigade Parade Ground instead of the customary Red Road venue, for the first time in years.After several years, the prayers were not conducted on Red Road, where they had traditionally been held twice a year — during Eid ul-Fitr and Eid al-Adha — under previous regimes, including the Left Front (1977-2011) and the Trinamool Congress (2011-2026).During the Trinamool…
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Kolkata, May 26 (IANS) Kolkata Police has issued an order barring its personnel at all levels from performing official duties in plain dress henceforth, with exceptions for those attached to certain specialised departments.The departments that have been given exemptions include the Detective Department, the Special Branch, the Enforcement Branch, the Special Task Force, and the Cybercrime Division, considering that being in plain dress is an integral part of the duties they perform.In case any o…
Kolkata, May 26 (IANS) The district-level core committees of the BJP in West Bengal will maintain coordination with the new state administration to ensure smooth implementation of various development projects, especially those which are centrally-sponsored.Insiders from the Bengal unit of the BJP said that on May 15, the party’s central observer for the state, Sunil Bansal had directed the completion of setting up of district level core committees at the earliest.“Already the names of the re…
Kolkata, May 23 (IANS) The West Bengal government on Saturday issued a notification declaring May 28 as the Id-Ud-Zoha (Bakrid) holiday this year, cancelling the earlier notification issued under the previous Mamata Banerjee-led regime that had declared a two-day holiday on May 26 and May 27.”In terms of Notification No. 4188-F(P2) dated 27 November, 2025, 26 May, 2026 (Tuesday) and 27 May, 2026 (Wednesday) were declared as public holidays on account of the Day before Id-Ud-Zoha (Bakrid) and Id-…
Kolkata, May 16 (IANS) Sajal Ghosh, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s newly elected legislator from Baranagar Assembly constituency in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district and a party Councillor in Kolkata Municipal Corporation, on Saturday hinted at the possibilities of the deletion of chapters on land movement at Singur in Hooghly district and Nandigram in East Midnapore district spearheaded by the Trinamool Congress during the former Chief Minister late Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee-led Left F…
Thiruvananthapuram, May 16 (IANS) For nearly three decades, Pinarayi Vijayan stood as the unquestioned strongman of the CPI(M) in Kerala. Now, the Assembly poll debacle has triggered a wave of dissent against Vijayan.From the time he entered the E.K. Nayanar Cabinet in 1996 and later assumed charge as state secretary in 1998, Vijayan steadily consolidated his authority within the party with an iron grip that few dared to challenge.However, the political landscape within the CPI(M) appears to hav…
Kolkata, May 14 (IANS) The new Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led West Bengal government has decided to decentralise the West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC), which was marred by controversies over massive irregularities in the recruitment of teaching and non-teaching staff in state-run schools during the previous Trinamool Congress regime, in an attempt to ensure greater efficiency and transparency in the recruitment process.As the first step, the old system of operating WBSSC through fi…
Kolkata, May 12 (IANS) Trinamool Congress MLA Madan Mitra was admitted to a hospital after falling ill, said party leaders on Tuesday. He was admitted to a hospital in South Kolkata on Monday evening. According to hospital sources, the Trinamool MLA has urinary problems. He has been kept under observation by doctors.Hospital sources also informed that Madan’s physical condition is stable for now, and he is responding positively to treatment. However, Mitra’s close aides said that he has been und…
Kolkata, May 11 (IANS) The first meeting of the first Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led West Bengal cabinet, led by the ninth Chief Minister of the state, Suvendu Adhikari, will be held at the current state secretariat at Nabanna in Mandirtala, Howrah district, on Monday.Although the BJP had decided that its ministers would operate from the original state secretariat, the Writers’ Buildings, in central Kolkata, where renovations are taking longer, the new cabinet, including the Chief Minister, …
Kolkata, May 9 (IANS) Mamata Banerjee on Saturday called upon all political forces, leftist and rightist, to unite with the Trinamool Congress against Bharatiya Janata Party after Suvendu Adhikari took oath as the ninth Chief Minister of West Bengal, as well as the first BJP Chief Minister in the state. On Saturday, while Adhikari’s oath ceremony was taking place at Brigade Parade Ground in central Kolkata, the former Chief Minister was celebrating the birth anniversary of Gurudev Rabindran…