Kolkata/IBNS: After a social media video showing a policewoman harassing and slapping a nursing staff, while she was going to report for her night duty, at Chandannagar in West Bengal's Hooghly district went viral, local police have ordered a departmental inquiry into the incident, reports said on Wednesday.
Crime is crime irrespective of any religion: Mamata on mob attack on cops in Tikiapara
Kolkata/IBNS: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who is often accused of appeasing the Muslim community by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), on Wednesday talked tough against an incident in Howrah's Tikiapara where a mob of a particular community attacked cops a day ago.
Covid-19: Mamata Banerjee opens factories, standalone shops in green zones of Bengal
Kolkata/IBNS: The Mamata Banerjee government in West Bengal on Wednesday decided to open some factories, standalone shops including tea stalls in the state's green zones which are death of Covid-19 cases.
Kolkata/IBNS: Policemen in West Bengal's Howrah were chased and attacked by a large number of locals at a containment zone at Tikiapara area. The incident occurred when cops had reached the scene to disperse lockdown violators on Tuesday evening.
Lockdown and relaxations can't go simultaneously: Mamata questions Centre's Covid move
Kolkata/IBNS: Questioning the central government's move to tackle the pandemic Coronavirus, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday said the lockdown and relaxations can't function simultaneously. She also said that those who have space at home to self-isolate themselves can be at home-quarantine in her state.
West Bengal BJP protests state govt's mismanagement of COVID-19 situation with at-home sit-in dharna
Kolkata/IBNS: BJP's West Bengal unit on Sunday held a two-hour at-home sit-in protest over mismanagement of the coronavirus situation, hiding information and alleged attack on its party workers and supporters in the lockdown period.
West Bengal health official diagnosed with Covid-19 dies at Kolkata hospital
Kolkata/IBNS: A senior doctor-cum-health official with West Bengal government's health and family welfare department, who had tested positive for novel coronavirus and was undergoing treatment at a private health facility in Kolkata's Salt Lake, died in the wee hours of Sunday, sources in the state health department confirmed.
Covid-19: West Bengal reports 40 fresh cases, active cases rise to 423
Kolkata/IBNS: The number of active Covid-19 positive cases in West Bengal has mounted to 423 as the state confirmed 40 new cases in the last 24 hours, officials said on Saturday.
Following IMCT's letter, West Bengal sets deadline for generating Covid-19 test results
Kolkata/IBNS: Hours after the MHA's Inter-Ministerial Central Team (IMCT) deployed in Kolkata had questioned the delay in generation of Covid-19 test reports, West Bengal government on Friday night instructed state health machinery to ensure the final test results within 12 hours from the sample collection, officials said.
Former Bihar, West Bengal and Tripura governor Devanand Konwar passes away
Guwahati/IBNS: Former Bihar, West Bengal, Tripura governor and veteran politician Devanand Konwar died on Saturday.
Prashant Kishor checks in to manage Mamata's Covid-19 crisis as Oppn mounts attack on her
Kolkata/IBNS: Whether he flew a cargo plane or not, Prashant Kishor has landed in Kolkata. The political strategy whizkid whom Mamata Banerjee had signed up after last year's General Elections debacle is here to be a crisis manager of the West Bengal Chief Minister wilting under the attack from New Delhi over the COVID-19 management.
Covid-19: West Bengal confirms 51 fresh cases, three more deaths
Kolkata/IBNS: With 51 new confirmed cases in last 24 hours, the number of active Covid-19 positive cases in West Bengal has reached 385 while the coronavirus death count in the state has mounted to 18, officials said on Friday.
Kolkata/IBNS: A day after visiting Rajarhat quarantine facility and M.R. Bangur Covid hospital, chief of the Inter-Ministerial Central Team (IMCT), which has been sent to Kolkata by the MHA for ground level assessment of Covid-19 situation in south Bengal, on Friday wrote two letters to West Bengal Chief Secretary Rajiva Sinha asking multiple questions regarding the treatment of the contagion in the state, officials said.
Kolkata/IBNS: At a time when the country is in a crucial stage in combating novel coronavirus, the unprecedented letter-war between West Bengal Chief Minister and Governor continues as the Guv Jagdeep Dhankhar on Friday sent his second letter in response to CM Mamata Banerjee's letter which was sent on Thursday, reports said.
Prashant Kishor secretly flew to Kolkata in cargo plane: BJP
Patna/UNI: The Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday alleged that the former National Vice President of JD(U) and election strategist Prashant Kishor (PK), who also advises West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, secretly flew to Kolkata in a cargo plane.