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Three kids drown in Malda and youth missing during immersion of Durga idol in Bengal

Kolkata, Oct 9 (UNI) Three kids were drowned and a youth went missing during the immersion of Durga idol in two districts of West Bengal, police confirmed on Wednesday.

Jagdeep Dhankar takes oath as the Bengal Governor

Kolkata, Jul 30 (UNI) Supreme Court former lawyer and ex-MP Jagdeep Dhankar was today sworn-in as the Governor of West Bengal in presence of state Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, her cabinet colleagues, army and civil officials at a simple function at Raj Bhawan here.

Mamata Banerjee is trying to bring equality among all religion: Nusrat Jahan

New Delhi, Jul 13 (UNI) Countering the BJP charges that West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was indulging in appeasement of Muslims, Trinamool Congress MPs Nusrat Jahan and Mimi Chakraborty have said ‘Mamata Didi’ was trying to bring equality among all religions. 

Jai Shree Ram not associated with Bengali culture: Amartya Sen

Kolkata, July 6 (IBNS): Weeks after West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had objected to the "Jai Shree Ram" chant by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) supporters, Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen said the slogan is not associated with the Bengali culture, media reports said.

Computer education from Class I in all schools in Bengal

Kolkata, July 4 (UNI): The Bengal government has decided to start compulsory computer education classes from Class I in all government and government-sponsored schools.

Bengal Police seized huge cache of arms, 5 arrested

Kolkata, July 1 (UNI) West Bengal Police has arrested five ruffians under arms act and seized firearms, including six guns and many live bullets during a raid into a hideout in Midnapore district, official sources said today.

Woman critically injured in bomb explosion in Bengal's Hooghly

Kolkata, Jun 25 (UNI): A vegetable vendor was today seriously injured when a socket bomb, packed in a container, went off after she picked it up from a road at Bandel in West Bengal's Hooghly district, police said today.

Bengal clashes: BJP forms 3-member committee to enquire deaths in Bhatpara

New Delhi, June 21 (IBNS): As post poll result violence continued to roil West Bengal in a turf war between the ruling TMC and the rising BJP, Union Home Minister Amit Shah has expressed his grief over the deaths of two persons in Bhatpara near Kolkata in alleged "police firing".

Remarkable development in Bengal, but some sections trying to defame the state: Mamata

Kolkata, Jun 11 (UNI): West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said in the last eight years the state has seen remarkable growth and development, which has resulted in 228 per cent rise in the number of domestic tourists and 34 per cent rise in the number of foreign tourists to the state.

Mamata visits Naihati, vows to give reply to BJP's violence

Kolkata, May 30 (UNI/IBNS): West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday met the families of her supporters in Naihati, who were on a dharna, and said the Trinamool Congress will give a "proper reply to all the violence being brought on by the BJP." On the same day some videos went viral in which she was seen losing her cool when some alleged BJP supporters changed "Jai Shri Ram" at her motorcade. 

After Lok Sabha debacle, Mamata's cabinet set for rejig

Kolkata, May 28 (UNI): A cabinet reshuffle in the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress government is expected shortly where veteran politician Subrata Mukherjee may be reinstated to the panchayat department, some new faces to be inducted and some minsters to be sacked, sources having knowledge on the development said.

Mild quake felt in some parts of Bengal and Jharkhand

Kolkata, May 26 (UNI): A mild tremor with a magnitude of 4.8 on the Richter Scale hit some parts of Jharkhand and West Bengal on Sunday.

We will see the end of Mamata Banerjee's government: BJP MP Arjun Singh

Kolkata, May 24 (IBNS): The BJP sounded its war cry in Bengal saying it will beat Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress to form the government in the state. The BJP has this time won an unprecedented 18 seats of the 42 Lok Sabha seats from the state.

Elections in Jammu and Kashmir are more peaceful than in Bengal: Narendra Modi

New Delhi, May 15 (IBNS): At a time when Kolkata witnessed violence on Tuesday over the damaging of Vidyasagar's statue in the northern part of the city during a roadshow by BJP chief Amit Shah, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that elections in Jammu and Kashmir remain more peaceful than in West Bengal.

West Bengal politics: CPI(M) party office in Nandigram reopens after 12 years

Nandigram May, 10 (UNI) The CPI(M) party office here which was torched and eventually closed in 2007 opened on April 7 after a lapse of 12 years.