Baruipur (West Bengal), April 24 (IANS) Women in large numbers, among other locals, waited to catch a glimpse of Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a public rally in Jadavpur, ahead of the second phase of Assembly elections in West Bengal. One of them carried a book that she wrote on the Prime Minister while a young girl wished to gift PM Modi a self-made sketch.Mahua Upadhyay, who wrote a book on PM Modi, told IANS, “This is a book written on him. The amendments that he (PM Modi) made, the good th…
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Kolkata, April 21 (IANS) An explosion damaged the roof of the house of a Congress worker in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district on Tuesday morning, days ahead of the first phase of the Assembly elections. No injuries were reported in the incident, police officials said.The explosion took place at the house of Saimul Sheikh, a resident of Maniknagar village in the Nayansukh gram panchayat area of Farakka block, and also a Congress booth president. The intensity was so great that the roof c…
Kolkata, April 13 (IANS) After receiving complaints of alleged violation of the Model Code of Conduct by a Trinamool candidate by organising religious events, Election Commission officials went to Bali in Howrah district to probe the matter, said Commission officials on Monday.The BJP alleged that Trinamool candidate Kailash Mishra from Bali organised a ‘naam-sankirtan’ to influence voters. The candidate’s name is in the ‘sankirtan’ event.After receiving the complaint, election officials went to…
Suri (West Bengal), April 9 (IANS) A wave of enthusiasm swept through Suri in West Bengal’s Birbhum district on Thursday as large numbers of BJP supporters gathered hours ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s public meeting, eagerly awaiting his address.The rally in Birbhum will mark the Prime Minister’s third public engagement of the day in the state, after earlier events in Haldia and Asansol. Despite the time remaining before his arrival in Suri the area was already packed with suppor…
Kolkata, April 2 (IANS) An FIR has been filed against six people in connection with the disturbance in front of the state’s Chief Electoral Officer’s (CEO) office on Tuesday, said the police on Thursday. Two Trinamool councillors of Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) are among them.According to the police, an FIR has been filed at the Hare Street police station against Kolkata Municipality councillor Shantiranjan Kundu of ward number 32 and councillor Sachin Singh of ward number 36. Apart f…
Kolkata, April 1 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday conducted raids and search operations at several locations in Kolkata in an extortion-related money laundering case.The operation was launched almost simultaneously at 7 a.m. The list includes the house of businessman Biswajit Poddar alias Sona Pappu in the Kasba area of South Kolkata. Apart from this, they raided several places, including the office of a company in Ballygunge.According to an ED official, several FIRs ha…
Kolkata, March 26 (IANS) Kolendranath Mandi, a Trinamool member of the Purulia Zilla Parishad, joined the Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday. He formally joined the opposition at the state Bharatiya Janata Party’s Salt Lake office in Kolkata in the presence of the party’s state president, Samik Bhattacharya, and Purulia Member of Parliament, who also serves as the state Bharatiya Janata Party’s General Secretary, Jyotirmay Singh Mahato.A well-known figure in Santali literature, Kole…
Kolkata, March 13 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister, Mamata Banerjee, on Friday announced the constitution of five new cultural & development boards for Scheduled Tribe (ST), Other Backward Classes (OBC), and Scheduled Caste (SC) communities in the state.The CM Banerjee-led Trinamool government has set up cultural & development boards for one SC, two ST, and two OBC communities in Bengal.While the two ST communities for which the proposed cultural & development boards will be formed …
Kolkata, March 9 (IANS) Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has accused the BJP of trying to distribute leaflets of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s March 14 brigade rally in Kolkata at her sit-in demonstration site in Esplanade. She also claimed that this work was being done through an agency.After that, Chief Minister Banerjee ordered that the people doing so be caught red-handed.She asked state minister Shashi Panja to file an FIR immediately. She also ordered everyone to keep an eye on the surround…
Kolkata, Feb 25 (IANS) One of the three children, critically injured in an explosion in a drum filled with chemicals in the Bhangar area of West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district, succumbed to his injuries on Wednesday morning. According to the police, the child, identified as nine-year-old Sadiqul Ahmed from Kharagachi in the Bhangar area, had suffered 95 per cent injuries in the explosion on February 17. He was undergoing treatment at MR Bangur Hospital in Kolkata. At around 6 a.m., he died …