Mamata Banerjee suspends 12 doctors at Midnapore hospital over woman's death due to 'expired' saline
Jan 17, 2025, at 12:20 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday suspended 12 doctors at the Midnapore Government Hospital over the death of a woman allegedly due to the administration of expired saline.
Jan 11, 2025, at 01:40 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: A woman died and five others were in critical condition after delivering babies as a result of an "expired" saline administered at the patients of a government hospital in West Bengal, media reports said.
Mamata accuses BSF of enabling infiltration; BJP calls Bengal a 'nursery for Bangladeshi influx'
Jan 02, 2025, at 05:29 pm
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday accused central forces of enabling infiltration from Bangladesh, alleging it was part of the Centre's "nefarious blueprint" to destabilise the state, media reports said.
Dec 31, 2024, at 11:44 pm
Sandeshkhali/IBNS: A day after Mamata Banerjee visited Sandeshkhali, West Bengal's Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari was in the obscure riverine island on Tuesday, where he warned the Chief Minister of imprisonment over false cases if the Bharatiya Janata Party forms government in the state..
Dec 31, 2024, at 11:38 am
Kolkata/IBNS: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday asserted a lot of money was in the play to level the allegations of gangrape in Sandeshkhali, where massive protests broke out against erstwhile Trinamool Congress local strongman Sheikh Shahjahan months ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
Odisha tigress Zeenat sedated and captured in West Bengal after 21 days of chase
Dec 30, 2024, at 03:11 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: Tigress Zeenat, who had escaped Odisha Tiger Reserve, was sedated and captured in West Bengal's Bankura district on Sunday following a chase for 21 days, media reports said.
Kashmiri terrorist, arrested in Bengal's Canning, met Hafiz Saeed's son in PoK
Dec 28, 2024, at 12:49 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: Javed Munshi, a terrorist associated with Lashkar-e-Taiba who was arrested in West Bengal's Canning, travelled to Pakistan-occupied Kashmir thrice and met LeT founder Hafiz Saeed's son Talha Saeed, media reports said.
Dec 24, 2024, at 01:41 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: A young woman tea seller or 'Russian chaiwali' as she is viral on internet has been allegedly forced to shut down her independent business at Ankurhati in West Bengal's Howrah district over moral policing and gender discrimination by the locals, media reports said.
Dec 19, 2024, at 11:26 pm
New Delhi/IBNS: The Supreme Court Wednesday pointed out the need to examine the authenticity of the electronic data stored in the database of the West Bengal School Service Commission (SSC) to understand whether there can be a distinction made between 'tainted' and 'untainted' candidates.
Archrivals TMC and BJP ally to win a co-operative election unopposed in Bengal's Nandigram
Dec 17, 2024, at 10:43 am
Kolkata/IBNS: West Bengal's ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) joined hands with its archrival Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to win a co-operative election unopposed in West Bengal's Nandigram which happens to be the assembly constituency of Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari.
'By Allah's grace, we will be in majority one day': Bengal TMC leader Firhad Hakim sparks row
Dec 14, 2024, at 10:06 pm
Kolkata: Firhad Hakim, a senior leader and legislator of Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress in West Bengal, has once again sparked controversy with his communal comments.
'Babri Masjid should be rebuilt in Bengal's Murshidabad': TMC MLA Humayun Kabir sparks row
Dec 11, 2024, at 12:09 am
Kolkata/IBNS: Triggering a new controversy, Trinamool Congress MLA Humayun Kabir has indicated that he hopes to rebuild Babri Masjid in Beldanga in Bengal's Murshidabad district.
Mamata Banerjee questions Congress’s leadership as INDIA bloc allies outperform in key states
Dec 07, 2024, at 09:36 pm
Kolkata: After the Congress’s lacklustre performance in the recent Assembly polls across states, despite a modest improvement in the Lok Sabha polls, its allies in the INDIA bloc have begun to dismiss the party’s potential as a formidable opponent to BJP. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s recent comment about leading the opposition alliance further highlighted this sentiment.
Dec 03, 2024, at 05:02 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday reminded her party colleagues about her absolute authority in the Trinamool Congress' decision-making amid the rumour over a possible power-struggle involving her nephew Abhishek Banerjee.
Nov 30, 2024, at 07:36 pm
New Delhi/IBNS: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has slammed the Trinamool Congress (TMC) after one of its leader's husband was arrested in West Bengal's Darjeeling with confidential DRDO documents and dangerous nuclear materials worth crores, media reports said.
Mamata Banerjee's TMC set to clean sweep West Bengal bypolls
Nov 23, 2024, at 04:51 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress (TMC) is set to sweep the six assembly byelections 6-0, warding off the criticisms it had faced over the RG Kar rape-murder case.
Nov 22, 2024, at 07:24 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: A major scuffle broke out in the Kolkata Metro recently after two women got engaged in a debate over language and identity.
Nov 18, 2024, at 04:50 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: Seventeen people have been arrested in connection with clashes between two groups at Beldanga in West Bengal's Murshidabad district as communal tension brewed in the region, media reports said.
TMC leader shot dead as violence mars bypolls in Bengal's North 24 Parganas
Nov 13, 2024, at 07:45 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: Trinamool Congress leader Ashok Shaw was shot dead in Barrackpore's Bhatpara area amid the ongoing byelections in six assembly constituencies on Wednesday, media reports said.
BJP worker's body found inside party office in West Bengal's South 24 Parganas dist; woman arrested
Nov 10, 2024, at 07:36 am
Kolkata: A BJP worker was found dead inside the party office at Usthi in West Bengal's South 24 Parganas district, media reports said.
Three coaches of Secunderabad-Shalimar Express train derail at Nalpur in West Bengal's Howrah
Nov 09, 2024, at 04:30 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: Three coaches of Secunderabad-Shalimar Express train derailed at Nalpur in the Howrah district of West Bengal on Saturday morning, media reports said.
Bengal: 5-year-old girl raped and murdered in Alipurduar, accused beaten to death by angry villagers
Nov 02, 2024, at 06:14 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: In another shocker from the state of West Bengal, a five-year-old girl was raped and murdered by a 40-year-old man in the Alipurduar district on Friday, media reports said.
Violent protests erupt in Bengal's South 24 Parganas over TMC govt's housing scheme beneficiary list
Oct 31, 2024, at 07:34 am
Kolkata/IBNS: Tension erupted in a part of West Bengal's South 24 Parganas after the Mamata Banerjee government released lists of beneficiaries in the state's housing scheme, media reports said.
I apologise to people of Bengal, Delhi where regional govts did not implement Ayushman Bharat: Modi
Oct 29, 2024, at 10:11 pm
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday targeted the state governments of West Bengal and Delhi for not implementing the Centre's Ayushman Bharat Yojana under which people aged over 70 can avail of Rs 5 lakh annually as a health cover.
Oct 26, 2024, at 07:12 pm
Union Home Minister Amit Shah will inaugurate Passenger Terminal Building and Maitri Dwar at Land Port, Patrapole in West Bengal on Sunday.
Heavy rains and wind hammer Odisha, West Bengal as Cyclone Dana makes landfall
Oct 25, 2024, at 02:47 pm
Heavy rains and winds hammered coastal Odisha on Friday after Cyclone Dana made a landfall between Bhitarkanika National Park and Dhamra shortly after midnight.
Oct 22, 2024, at 07:32 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was on Monday countered with facts by a junior doctor after the state head made a bizarre remark that a person can't be called an accused until charges are proven.
Oct 22, 2024, at 06:48 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: The West Bengal Junior Doctors' Front on Monday called off their indefinite hunger strike after 17 days on request from the parents of the 31-year-old trainee doctor, who was raped and murdered at Kolkata's RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in August.
IAF, Singapore Air Force participate in Joint Military Exercise in West Bengal
Oct 21, 2024, at 10:28 pm
Indian Air Force (IAF) and Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) commenced the 12th edition of the Joint Military Training (JMT) exercise at Air Force Station Kalaikunda, West Bengal when the two forces are expected to engage in intense collaboration.
Oct 19, 2024, at 10:25 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday outrightly rejected the junior doctors' demand to sack state health secretary NS Nigam over the RG Kar rape-murder case as well as corruption in the sector.