4-member committee submits report on post-poll violence in West Bengal

June 29, 2024

The four-member committee appointed by BJP president JP Nadda to probe incidents of post-poll violence in West Bengal, submitted its report on Friday . The central fact-finding team comprised party Lok Sabha member and former Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Deb, former Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, former director-general of police...

BJP alleges Muslim woman stripped, beaten for supporting party in Bengal

June 29, 2024

The Bharatiya Janata Party has alleged that the Muslim woman, who was a BJP Minority Morcha leader in Cooch Behar district in north Bengal, was assaulted, disrobed and paraded by Trinamool Congress supporters on June 25. Following the incident, video of which has gone viral, Union Minister and West Bengal...

Bengal Speaker reaches out to President, VP to end swearing-in impasse with Governor

June 29, 2024

After writing to President Droupadi Murmu seeking her help to resolve the deadlock with Governor CV Ananda Bose over the venue for the swearing in ceremony of the two newly elected Trinamool Congress MLAs, Assembly Speaker Biman Banerjee reached out to Vice-President and former Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar in an...

TMC-Guv standoff over MLAs’ swearing-in

June 27, 2024

Two Trinamool Congress MLAs, who won in by-elections held simultaneously with the Lok Sabha polls and the results were announced on June 4, have become the victims of the latest stand-off between their party and the Governor of West Bengal, C.V. Ananda Bose. While the Trinamool Congress wants the MLAs...

Enraged Mamata reads out riot act to party leaders, babus

June 25, 2024

Despite the Trinamool Congress winning 29 out of the 42 Lok Sabha seats in the state, West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee today voiced her anger at her party leaders, bureaucrats and the police for corruption and inefficiency which had led to her government getting a...

‘Abolish NEET, restore system of conducting exam by states’: Mamata urges PM Modi

June 25, 2024

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, in the wake of the alleged irregularities in the medical entrance exam, urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to consider abolishing NEET and reverting to the system of states conducting the examinations. “The allegations of paper leak, taking bribes by certain people and the officials...

Mamata shoots off protest letter to PM on Teesta

June 25, 2024

West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee on Monday slammed the Centre for not inviting her to be a part of talks between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina. She raised strong objections to the talks on water sharing between the Centre and...

Ensure return of poll violence victims by Tuesday: Cal HC

June 22, 2024

The Calcutta High Court on Friday directed the West Bengal Government to take steps to ensure that people displaced due to post-poll violence in the State return to their homes by Tuesday. It directed the police to keep a strict vigil in the areas where violence had taken place and...

Adhir Ranjan’s ‘resignation’ as PCC chief shrouded in mystery

June 22, 2024

Mystery and speculation continued to swirl around veteran Congressman Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury’s political future as rumours started that he had resigned as the Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee president owning responsibility for the party’s poor performance in the Lok Sabha polls. While Chowdhury refused to either confirm or deny the news...

Trinamool-MEA showdown over meeting with Australian diplomat

June 21, 2024

The Trinamool Congress has voiced its unhappiness that the Ministry of External Affairs had rejected an Australian diplomatic request to meet three Bengal Ministers. Senior party leaders said that the issue would be taken up with the MEA and would be brought up in Parliament as well. However, the MEA,...