KOLKATA: The West Bengal Drug Control Directorate has intensified its surveillance on companies marketing cough syrups in the state, and a directive cum guidelines has been issued in this regard, said a senior government official on Thursday.

KOLKATA: As the Bharatiya Janata Party is likely to unveil its new West Bengal state committee this month, the party’s central leadership has asked the state leaders to ensure most members focus on strengthening the organisation rather than contesting elections.

Woman, daughter held for stealing newborn from govt hospital in West Bengal

BENGALURU: Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann on Tuesday showcased the state as the most preferred investment destination and urged the captains of industry to invest in Punjab to give fillip to their business. 

KOLKATA: As the Mamata Banerjee government has taken a decision to create a special relief fund seeking public donations for flood and landslide-affected North Bengal, the BJP on Tuesday questioned the motive.

KOLKATA: A second-year student from Odisha was allegedly gang-raped outside a private medical college in West Burdwan district's Durgapur on Friday night, police confirmed on Saturday.

KOLKATA: With the recovery of one more body during the last 24 hours, the total number deaths in the flood and landslide-affected hills, Terai and Dooars regions of West Bengal has risen to 40.

KOLKATA: The BJP will extend full cooperation to the Election Commission of India (ECI) and the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), West Bengal in ensuring deletion of bogus voters' names, especially those of illegal infiltrators from Bangladesh, from the electoral rolls of the state, the Leader of the Opposition (LoP) in the Assembly Suvendu Adhikari told media persons on Thursday.

BENGALURU: A shocking incident of a man accused in a case under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, jumping from the fifth floor of a Bengaluru court on Thursday and dying, was reported from the City Civil Court premises.

KOLKATA: Six Bangladeshis were arrested from two separate locations in Domkal subdivision of Murshidabad district early on Thursday morning. Murshidabad police arrested them from Bhatshala area under Domkal police station and Harudanga border area under Raninagar police station.

NEW DELHI: The Government of India has released Rs 1091.47 crore as the first instalment of untied grants under the Fifteenth Finance Commission for rural local bodies in West Bengal and Andhra Pradesh, according to a statement issued by the Ministry of Panchayati Raj on Thursday.

KOLKATA: In a shocking incident, a man committed suicide by hanging himself after killing his wife and minor son at Beldanga in Murshidabad district of West Bengal, police said on Wednesday.

KOLKATA: No arrests have been made so far in connection with the attack on BJP MP Khagen Murmu in Nagrakata of West Bengal's Jalpaiguri district.

KOLKATA: The situation in the flood and landslide-affected hills, Terai, and Dooars regions in North Bengal stabilised further in the last 24 hours with no fresh casualties reported during the period.

KOLKATA: A team of the Election Commission of India (ECI) led by Deputy Election Commissioner Gyanesh Bharti will review the preparedness of Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in West Bengal on Wednesday at the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO).

KOLKATA: Amid the ongoing crisis in the hills, Terai, and Dooars regions in north Bengal following heavy rainfall and landslides, the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) has decided to keep all schools in the hills of Darjeeling, Kurseong, and Kalimpong closed for the next three days.

KOLKATA: Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla has sought an urgent report from the West Bengal government on the brutal attack on BJP's Lok Sabha member Khagen Murmu.

KOLKATA: The Calcutta High Court will hear a crucial petition on primary teachers’ recruitment in state-run schools in West Bengal on Thursday.

KOLKATA: An Election Commission of India (ECI) team will review the progress of the district-wise Assembly constituency mapping in West Bengal during a meeting at the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) here on Wednesday.

KOLKATA: The death toll following heavy rainfall and landslides in the hills, Terai, and Dooars regions in North Bengal till Tuesday morning has risen to 36, as per the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and district administrations in Darjeeling and Jalpaiguri.

KOLKATA: BJP Maldaha Uttar MP Khagen Murmu and MLA Shankar Ghosh were brutally attacked by miscreants on Monday while on their way to meet the North Bengal landslides-affected people and distribute relief materials.

KOLKATA: Amid the ongoing crisis in the hills, Terai and Dooars areas in North Bengal following heavy rainfall and frequent landslides during the last couple of days, the District Magistrates from the region have been exempted from attending the crucial meeting convened at the office of Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) on Wednesday to review preparedness for Election Commission of India (ECI)’s special intensive revision in the state.

NEW DELHI: With GST rate cuts on goods ranging from Shantiniketan leather to Malda mango products, the government aims to enhance affordability for consumers and improve margins for artisans and farmers in West Bengal. This will bring higher sales, job preservation and a boost to the rural economy, according to an official factsheet released on Saturday.

KOLKATA: The district-level electoral official clearing the selection of West Bengal government employees as booth-level officers (BLOs) despite not fulfilling the selection criteria mandated by the Election Commission of India (ECI) might now have to give explanations over their actions to the commission.

BENGALURU: The Israeli consulate in Bengaluru had recently received a bomb threat, which turned out to be a hoax, and a probe into the matter was underway, the Karnataka Police said on Saturday.

KOLKATA: In a tragic accident, four people were killed and three others injured after a car plunged into a 50-foot-deep ditch near Kalimpong in north Bengal, police said on Saturday.

BENGALURU: A married woman, who was disheartened over "cheating" by her paramour, allegedly committed suicide in Bengaluru, police said on Saturday.

NEW DELHI: After decades of decline, Bengal’s iconic jute industry is finally witnessing a new sunrise. Once plagued by low returns, mill closures and farmer distress, the sector is now booming again on the back of the astute and timely intervention of the Central Government under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP IT Cell chief Amit Malviya said on Saturday.

KOLKATA: With the West Bengal Assembly elections due next year, the Trinamool Congress (TMC) will launch a week-long state-wide outreach programme from October 5 to 12, holding block-level Vijaya Sammilani (post-Durga Puja gatherings) across Bengal.

KOLKATA: A throat-slit body of a youth was recovered beside a wooden pedestrian bridge at Begumpur village panchayat in South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal on Friday morning.

KOLKATA: Tension is mounting again at Kultali in South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal on Friday as the third accused in the alleged gang-rape of a senior citizen is still at large.

KOLKATA: Booth-level officers in over 2,000 booths in different districts of West Bengal might be replaced shortly, following severe violations of the Election Commission of India (ECI)’s directives regarding the criteria for BLRO appointment.

BENGALURU: AICC President Mallikarjun Kharge, who has undergone successful pacemaker surgery, has been discharged from the hospital in Bengaluru, Indian National Congress stated on social media platform Facebook.

KOLKATA: The cops of the Baruipur Police District in South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal, on Wednesday night, arrested two persons in connection with the gang-rape of a senior citizen at Kultali in the same district.

KOLKATA: On the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti on Thursday, which coincides with Dussehra, West Bengal Chief Minister, Mamata Banerjee, has stressed on the importance of implementing the Mahatma’s messages on communal harmony and unity in the country, in the true spirit.

KOLKATA: The West Bengal government faced yet another major embarrassment on Thursday after a sitting senior legislator of the party and a former member in the Mamata Banerjee-led cabinet appealed for a higher security cover because of constant life-threats that he is receiving in his own constituency.

KOLKATA: At a time when West Bengal is making headlines repeatedly for all wrong reasons like Bogtui massacre, successive incidents of rape and West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) recruitment irregularities scam, the state government is launching a statewide fortnightly propaganda to showcase the successes of the different development schemes of the government.

KOLKATA: A man was arrested on Monday for raping a differently-abled minor girl in West Bengal's West Midnapore district.

NEW DELHI: BJP's five-member fact-finding committee constituted by party chief J.P. Nadda to ascertain details of rape and murder of a minor girl in West Bengal's Hanskhali has recommended imposition of Article 355 and 356 in the state citing deteriorating law and order situation.

KOLKATA: Adani Group will invest an amount of around Rs 10,000 crore in West Bengal in the next few years, according to the group chairman and founder, Gautam Adani.

KOLKATA: Adani Group will invest an amount of around Rs 10,000 crore in West Bengal in the next few years, according to the group chairman and founder, Gautam Adani.

KOLKATA: Even the inaugural session of the Bengal Global Business Summit (BGBS)- 2022, here on Wednesday, could not totally overcome the shadow of the different issue-based spats between the Union and state governments.

KOLKATA: As by now it is almost certain that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will skip the inaugural session of the Bengal Global Business Summit (BGBS) 2022 on Wednesday morning, political mudslinging has started between the BJP and the ruling Trinamool Congress on this issue.

NEW DELHI: As attacks on party workers continue, the BJP on Tuesday said that West Bengal was suffering consequences of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee "vile politics".

KOLKATA: At a time when controversies are brewing in West Bengal over the gang-rape of a minor girl who died later at Hanskhali in Nadia district, yet another case of gang-rape of a minor girl has surfaced in the state.

Thiruvananthapuram: Seven-time MP and the CPI-M Central Committee member from West Bengal, Ram Chandra Dome will be the first Dalit representative in the Politburo, which is the highest decision-making body of the party.

KOLKATA:  The West Bengal government on Thursday announced its decision to challenge a single judge bench order for a CBI probe into the murder of Tapan Kandu, the newly elected Congress councillor from Jhalda Municipality of West Bengal's Purulia district.

ITANAGR: Three persons were arrested from Barrackpore near Kolkata and Lakhimpur district of Assam in connection with the murder of a Arunachal Pradesh police Sub-Inspector, officials said on Wednesday.

MUMBAI: National Award-winning filmmaker Shyam Benegal who directed the Bengali language film 'Mujib: The Making of a Nation' based on the life of the founding father of Bangladesh - Sheikh Mujibur Rahman - says the language was never a barrier for him in making the film.

KOLKATA: Controversy has erupted within the Trinamool Congress, after the party secretary general and the state commerce & industries minister Partha Chatterjee shared in social media a fake post relating to former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh.

KOLKATA: A key eyewitness in the murder of Tapan Kandu, the Congress councillor of Jhalda Municipality in West Bengal's Purulia district, was found dead on Wednesday morning at his residence, police said.

BENGALURU: Karnataka Health Minister K. Sudhakar on Tuesday said that Hyderabad still needs more time to compete with Bengaluru in terms of becoming a hotspot for IT-BT investments.

BENGALURU: The unprecedented success of 'The Kashmir Files' movie has brought to the fore, the agony and misery that Kashmiri Pandits have endured in silence for more than three decades. In those uncertain days of the early 1990s, fleeing the valley in the dead of night, the beleaguered community took shelter in other parts of the country. After Jammu, and Delhi, Bengaluru is one place where a sizeable number of displaced Kashmiri Hindus have rebuilt their homes and futures.

KOLKATA: In a major development, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday announced that two former Union Ministers -- Shatrughan Sinha and Babul Supriyo -- will contest the upcoming West Bengal bypolls for the Trinamool Congress.

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to hear a plea by the BJP leaders challenging the Calcutta High Court, which directed the state election commissioner to take a decision on the deployment of central paramilitary forces, after examining each of the 108 West Bengal municipalities going to polls on February 27.

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to hear a plea by the BJP leaders challenging the Calcutta High Court, which directed the state election commissioner to take a decision on the deployment of central paramilitary forces, after examining each of the 108 West Bengal municipalities going to polls on February 27.

KOLKATA:In a major development, two security personnel of Amta police station in Howrah -- Home Guard Kashinath Bera and civic volunteer Pritam Bhattacharyay -- have been arrested by the police on Wednesday in connection with the Anis Khan murder case, giving strong indication that the police were involved in the killing of the student leader on February 18.

BENGALURU: Haryana Steelers went down 24-46 against Bengaluru Bulls in Pro Kabaddi League Season 8 on Thursday. It was a solid effort from Haryana Steelers' defensive unit as Jaideep, Mohit and Surender Nada showed tremendous fighting spirit till the final whistle. But in the end, the deficit proved to be too wide for Haryana Steelers to cover and they were unable to pick up the win.

KOLKATA: The pied piper of Bengali music industry - Sandhya Mukherjee who gave birth to a cascade of never-heard-before musical melodies that became the lyrical language of millions of romantic hearts - passed away in a city hospital at the age of 90 leaving behind a legacy of unforgettable songs that will be remembered even after her death.

CHENNAI:West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar has hit out at Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin for his statement on proroguing the assembly session, saying that Stalin was responding to something without knowing facts.

NEW DELHI:The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has offered a cash reward of Rs 50,000 on each of the seven more absconding accused in connection with the murder case of a BJP worker Abhijit Sarkar in the West Bengal post-poll violence case.

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday granted pre-arrest bail to S.K. Supiyan, the election agent of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in a murder case probed by the CBI.

KOLKATA:In an interesting development, a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) was filed at the Calcutta High Court for the removal of the governor from his unconstitutional post. The PIL is likely to come up for hearing on Friday before Chief Justice Prakash Srivastava.

KOLKATA:Recently West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee directed all the departments to cut down unnecessary expenditure beyond the approved budget and not to take any new project without the approval of the Chief Secretary or the finance department. This made it obvious that the government is trying to negotiate the financial burden imposed by the non-planned expenditure of the dole politics of the chief minister before the election.

KOLKATA: A 62-year-old influential Trinamool Congress leader was murdered by some unknown miscreants very close to his home in the Maniktala Bapuji Colony in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas. Police have arrested a BJP leader allegedly for his involvement in the case.

NEW DELHI: A man was nabbed at Bengaluru airport and heroin valued at Rs 5.3 crore recovered from his possession, a customs official said on Wednesday.

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday granted interim protection from arrest to S.K. Supiyan, who was the election agent of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in Nandigram, in connection with a murder case under the CBI's investigation.

KOLKATA: The death count in the Guwahati-Bikaner Express train accident in north Bengal climbed to nine and the officials said tracks have been cleared for traffic. Union Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw arrived at the spot on Friday.

KOLKATA: At least six people are feared dead while around 67 persons have been injured after 12 coaches of Guwahati-Bikaner Express derailed in Domohani area in West Bengal's Jalpaiguri district on Thursday afternoon.

MUMBAI:A 21-year-old engineering student was held in Bengaluru in a raid by a Mumbai Police team in connection with the "Bulli Bai" controversy.

KOLKATA: The war of words between West Bengal CHief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar reached a flash-point on Monday after the CM alleged that the Governor was named in the 1996 Hawala Jain case.

KOLKATA: Days after a fake vaccination racket was busted in Kolkata, the West Bengal health department on Saturday issued a detailed guideline to control and monitor Covid vaccination camps (CVCs) organised by private entities across the state.

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday asked the West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Law Minister Moloy Ghatak to move Calcutta High Court afresh with their plea to file affidavit in Narada scam case.

KOLKATA: A shocking incident has come to light at Kaliachak in West Bengals Malda district, where a 19-year-old youth allegedly killed his parents, sister and grandmother and kept the bodies buried in the godown of the house for the last four months.

KOLKATA: In a bizarre incident, six persons were arrested for stripping and parading a woman naked for having an extra-marital love relationship in Paschim Chengmar village in Alipurduar district on Tuesday. Five other persons were absconding and search is on for them, police said.

BENGALURU:The Central Crime Branch (CCB) of the Bengaluru Police has made a breakthrough in the illegal SIM box telephone exchange case by arresting another five persons.

KOLKATA: Though there has been a sharp fall in the number of fresh Covid cases in West Bengal, the state government on Monday decided to extend the lockdown for another 15 days till July 1, with some relaxations to give a boost to economic activities.

KOLKATA: Though there has been a sharp fall in the number of fresh Covid cases in West Bengal, the state government on Monday decided to extend the lockdown for another 15 days till July 1, with some relaxations to give a boost to economic activities.

KOLKATA:For the first time in the last three decades the state government has come up with a five-year comprehensive plan to protect the East Kolkata Wetlands (EKW) -- the 125 square kilometres of natural and human-made diverse habitat which is considered to be the lungs and the kidney of the city.

KOLKATA: Relations between West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankar and the state's ruling Trinamool Congress could not get any worse.

KOLKATA: In the midst of the tug-of-war between the Centre and the state over the issue of his central deputation, West Bengal Chief Secretary, Alapan Bandopadhyay, is left with a day to decide his future course of action. Indications are that the top bureaucrat, who has got an extension of three months in service, is likely to attend a meeting convened by the Chief Minister on the Covid situation and might not go to Delhi on Monday.

KOLKATA: In a significant development, West Bengal Chief Secretary Alapan Bandopadhyay, who got a three-month extension of service just four days back, was recalled by the Centre on Friday for placement of his service with the government of India.

KOLKATA: Besides announcing a grant of 1,000 crore for relief operations in areas affected by Cyclone Yaas, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday announced that the restrictions imposed in the state in the wake of the pandemic will continue for another 15 days.

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday said that the CBI is free to take action against Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, her law minister or anyone who attempted to subvert the rule of law.

KOLKATA: In a dramatic turn of events, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, Law Minister Moloy Ghatak and MP Kalyan Banerjee have been made parties in the petition submitted by CBI seeking transfer of the Narada bribe case to any other state.

KOLKATA: The West Bengal cabinet, chaired by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, on Monday approved formation of the upper house of the state legislature, in its second meeting on Monday.

KOLKATA:Covid has claimed West Bengal's top editor Anjan Bandopadhyay, family sources said.Bandopadhyay, the Chief Editor of Zee Bangla, succumbed to the virus after a battle for more than a month in a private hospital, where he was admitted with Covid complications on April 14.

KOLKATA: West Bengal governor Jagdeep Dhankhar has warned the state's newly-elected Trinamool Congress government to "not force me to use my constitutional powers", sparking a fresh artillery exchange with the ruling party.

KOLKATA: The BJP's MLA count in West Bengal came down to 75 from 77 on Wednesday after two of its MPs, who won the Assembly polls and became MLAs, decided to continue as parliamentarians and resigned from the legislative Assembly.

NEW DELHI: Bengaluru, Pune, Delhi, Ernakulam and Nagpur are among those top 10 cities in the country which account for 24.44 per cent of total active cases.

NEW DELHI: The BJP has appointed two central observers for the election of the leader of party MLAs in the West Bengal Assembly.
By winning 77 seats in the 294-member West Bengal Assembly in the recently concluded polls, the BJP has emerged as the main opposition party in the state.

BENGALURU: The Bengaluru Central Crime Branch police have arrested a 36-year-old man in connection with black marketing of medical oxygen at 10 times higher the rate fixed by the government.

KOLKATA: Hours after Union minister and senior BJP leader V. Muraleedharan alleged that his convoy was attacked by Trinamool Congress supporters in West Midnapore district, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday accused the saffron party of instigating violence in Bengal to put undue pressure on the state government on the issue of law and order.

KOLKATA: In an effort to control the raging pandemic in the state, the West Bengal government announced to suspend movement of all local trains till further notice and made Covid negative report mandatory for the passengers coming either by flight or by trains from other states from May 7 midnight. The state government also made a series of announcements to control the movement of people.

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday congratulated Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee on taking oath as West Bengal Chief Minister for the third consecutive time.

KOLKATA: Kolkata, May 5 (IANS) Mamata Banerjee after taking her oath as West Bengal CM for the third consecutive time in an unembellished function at the 'Throne Room' in Raj Bhavan in Kolkata on Wednesday morning announced that handling the Covid situation in the state and tackling post poll violence and the overall law and order situation in the state will be her priority.

CHANDIGARH: Amid reports widespread violence against the BJP workers causing death of about a dozen of them, BJP national president JP Nadda has asked national general secretary Tarun Chugh to rush to Bengal to take stock of the situation.

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday expressed his anguish and concern over West Bengal post poll violence in a telephonic conversation with state Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar, asking him to restore law and order.

KOLKATA: Though BJP gained 74 seats compared to the last assembly election in 2016 but it was nowhere near its performance in the Lok Sabha polls where it not only got 18 seats but was ahead in 122 of the 294 assembly seats in the state.

BENGALURU: Buoyed by the victory of the Congress and the DMK alliance in Tamil Nadu, and Trinamool Congress retaining power in West Bengal, Karnataka leader of the opposition, Siddaramaiah on Sunday described these election results as 'a new game' in the country.

KOLKATA: While the Trinamool Congress is close to attaining a three-fourth majority in the Assembly elections in West Bengal, three of the five heavyweights of the BJP have fallen prey to the deluge of the ruling party.

MUMBAI: Top political leaders in Maharashtra hailed the impending victory of the ruling Trinamool Congress in the West Bengal Assembly elections, as the final results continue to trickle in on Sunday.

NEW DELHI: The West Bengal Assembly poll results show that people of the state have rejected the Bharatiya Janata Party's attempt to polarize the elections. The BJP, which had left no stone unturned to dislodge the Mamata Banerjee government in the state is unlikely to touch the three figure mark in the 294-member assembly.

KOLKATA: The early trends in the West Bengal assembly polls show that though chief minister Mamata Banerjee is trailing behind BJP's Suvendu Adhikary in Nandigram, ruling Trinamool Congress is having an edge over the BJP.

NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has claimed that the party would form the next government in West Bengal by winning more than 200 seats, even as all exit polls except two suggested a win and hat-trick for the Mamata Banerjee-led TMC government.