Category: KOLKATA

The Enforcement Directorate have started tracking the sources of the documents based on which Azad Mullick, the Pakistani citizen whom ED arrested in Kolkata in April, secured an EPIC card, with which he voted twice, first in the 2021 West Bengal Assembly election and then in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.

Export and import activities between India and Bangladesh will remain suspended for several days on the occasion of Eid-al-Adha in the neighbouring country, an official said on Thursday.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Thursday, highlighted five crisis points that West Bengal is reportedly saddled with under the leadership of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress government.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said Operation Sindoor,  through which the Indian Armed Forces crushed several terror bases in Pakistan and Pakistan occupied Kashmir, has not ended as yet.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday emphasised the critical role of West Bengal in India's journey toward becoming a 'Viksit Rashtra', asserting that the dream of a 'Viksit Bharat' cannot be realised without the progress of the state.

A day after withdrawing its lawmaker Yusuf Pathan from the multi-party delegations on Operation Sindoor over "lack of consultation", the Trinamool Congress on Tuesday announced party General Secretary and MP Abhishek Banerjee as its nominee.

Subodh Kumar Goel, the former chairman and managing director (CMD) of Kolkata-headquartered public sector commercial bank, UCO Bank, who was arrested by Enforcement Directorate (ED) last week, received “illegal gratification” from a corporate entity which was the principal beneficiary in a bank loan forgery case.

The Centre's action of selecting and including Yusuf Pathan, the cricketer-turned-politician and Lok Sabha member from Baharampur constituency of West Bengal, in the multi-party delegation on Operation Sindoor without consulting Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, prompted Trinamool Congress to withdraw his name.

The West Bengal Police recovered several coded and encrypted messages from the mobile phones of Aazmal Hossain and Saheb Ali Khan, the two Indian associates of Bangladesh-based Islamic fundamentalist group Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh

The CPI(M) state secretary in West Bengal and the party’s politburo member, Md Salim, on Monday, issued a statement claiming that the transfer of power from the state government to that of the Governor through the President’s rule will not solve the problems of West Bengal.

Almost a month after the communal violence broke out in minority-dominated Murshidabad district of West Bengal during protests over the Waqf Act, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will be on a two-day visit to the district from Monday.

The West Bengal government failed to curb the communal violence in the state despite successfully handling the Left-Wing Extremist (LWE) terror in the past, observed West Bengal Governor C.V. Ananda Bose in a report that he recently forwarded to the Union Ministry of Home Affairs.

Using leftover timber meant for Puri’s Jagannath Temple for carving deities in Jagannath Temple in Digha of East Midnapore district of West Bengal, officially referred to as Jagannath Dham Cultural Central Centre, is against “ethics” and “morality”, observed BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari on Sunday.

BJP legislators in Bengal, led by the Leader of the Opposition in West Bengal Assembly Suvendu Adhikari, on Thursday staged protests against the Pahalgam terror attack by burning Pakistan flags in front of the House.

BJP leader Dilip Ghosh on Sunday launched a scathing attack on Mamata Banerjee, calling her the "most incompetent" Chief Minister in the history of West Bengal and alleging that the state has suffered the most under her leadership.

West Bengal Governor C.V Ananda Bose on Saturday said that he will take up the incident of communal violence at Murshidabad last week with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and also submit a report on his findings on the ground-level situations there to the Central government.

A total of 315 arrests have been made so far in connection with the communal violence in Murshidabad district of West Bengal over protests against the Waqf (Amendment) Act last week, including two minors, confirmed the West Bengal Police in its report,

After the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) were deployed in the district on Saturday night -- with a concentration on the nine most troubled pockets -- the members of the families affected by the violence have started coming out and narrating their horrific experiences during the last few days.

Ram Navami celebrations had been peaceful so far in West Bengal, with Trinamool Congress leaders in their own initiatives having organised processions on the auspicious occasion besides the ones already announced by the state BJP leaders as well as organisations like Anjani Putra Sena and Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), among others.

The Leader of the Opposition in West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, on Sunday participated in the foundation stone laying ceremony for a Ram Temple in his constituency, Nandigram in East Midnapore district.

Ignoring the denial of permission by the authorities, the activists of Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), on Sunday, celebrated Ram Navami within the campus of Jadavpur University (JU), which is considered a stronghold of student wings affiliated to the Left forces.

The police have started a massive search operation at Patharpratima and its adjacent areas to track the two owners of the illegal firecracker factory, Chandrakanta Banik and Tushar Banik, who have gone absconding since the blast took place at around 10 p.m. on Monday.

In her message on the occasion of the Eid festival on Monday, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee accused the two main opposition parties in the state, namely BJP and CPI(M)-led Left Front as equally responsible for propagating communal tension in the state.

Following the devastating earthquake in Myanmar in which over 1,000 people have been killed, India's National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) teams have been placed on high alert.

As the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI-M) prepares for its 24th Party Congress in Madurai, Tamil Nadu, next month, speculation is mounting over potential changes in its politburo, the party’s highest decision-making body.