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Ships and helicopters were also pressed into action to ferry the workforce and vaccines to inoculate people living in remote islands.

Abhishek Banerjee said if any ruling party leader was found involved in violence during the polls, strict action would be taken 'within 24 hours'.

Adhikari said this on the last day of a sit-in organised by Bharatiya Janata Kishan Morcha in Singur, where an anti-land acquisition movement had propelled Mamata Banerjee to power in 2011.

With the Omicron variant of coronavirus surfacing in various states of the country, Calcutta University has decided to hold the examinations of the first, third and fifth semesters at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels in online mode.

A division bench of the Calcutta High Court on Wednesday granted an interim stay on a CBI enquiry ordered by a single bench into alleged irregularities in appointments of GroupD workers in aided and sponsored schools by the West Bengal Board of Secondary...

ISL 2021-22: ATK Mohun Bagan announced their three captain for the upcoming season, which begins for them on November 19 against Kerala Blasters.

State BJP vice-president Pratap Banerjee said that in the past 10 years under TMC rule only in 2011 the municipal election was held in a free and fair manner.

Suburban EMU and other local train services were suspended by the West Bengal government from May 7.

Relations between Congress and TMC have turned sour of late, even though they tried projecting a united front after TMC's win in West Bengal.

He is the former North Dinajpur district president of the TMC who joined the BJP ahead of the assembly elections and was fielded from Raiganj.

Mad rush for Durga Puja pandal hopping, revenge dining and casual approach neglecting Covid-19 protocols are the main reasons.

Issuing a set of guidelines, Chief Secretary HK Dwivedi asked officials to ensure that communal harmony is maintained in the state.

Last year, dressed in traditional Bengali attire, Modi delivered part of his virtual speech in ‘Bangla’.

Abhishek Banerjee says TMC to fight alone in the upcoming Goa Assembly elections.

The CBI has also been probing into the ponzi scam and had interrogated West Bengal ministers Partha Chatterjee and Manas Ranjan Bhunia for their alleged involvement in the case.

A two-member NIA team went to Bhatpara, inspected the house and spoke to Singh who quit the Trinamool Congress to join the BJP ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha election.