KOLKATA: Siliguri mayor Goutam Deb has indicated that he may step down and rent out part of his house. The move follows his crushing defeat to BJP’s Shankar Ghosh by 73,192 votes.Siliguri is a major urban constituency in Darjeeling district of West Bengal, encompassing Siliguri city and surrounding suburban areas. As a commercial and transportation…
Chandranath Rath, a close aide of BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari and a former Indian Air Force officer, was shot dead in a targeted attack in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district KOLKATA: Chandranath Rath, the close aide of BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari who was shot dead in a brazen attack in West Bengal’s North 24…
Kolkata: Former state chief secretaries, Alapan Bandyopadhyay and Hari Krishna Dwivedi, resigned from their positions as chief advisors to Mamata Banerjee following BJP’s sweeping mandate in the elections. Manoj Pant, another former chief secretary of Bengal, also resigned as principal secretary to the CM. “Apart from Bandyopadhyay, Dwivedi and Pant, several other retired officers serving…
As Rath’s car came to a halt, four assailants on two bikes pulled up next to the vehicle and started firing indiscriminately. KOLKATA: More chilling details have emerged in the killing of Bengal BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari’s close aide Chandranath Rath, who was chased, trapped and shot dead by bike-borne assailants near Kolkata airport late…
Kolkata: As the EC on Wednesday handed over a list of elected MLAs to governor R N Ravi for the Bengal Legislative Assembly to be convened, legal experts indicated Ravi might seek the President’s nod to be the state’s administrative head for the one-day gap between May 7, when the term of the previous govt…
Kolkata: With allegations against him flying thick and fast after Trinamool’s drubbing, Swarup Biswas on Wednesday said that his term as the head of Federation of Cine Technicians & Workers of Eastern India had ended in Dec 2025. Allegations have been levelled against both Biswas and president of Eastern India Motion Pictures Association (EIMPA) Piyaa…
Kolkata: Seventy-one of the 80 newly elected Trinamool MLAs attended a meeting convened by party chief Mamata Banerjee at her Kalighat residence on Wednesday, where she alleged that functionaries within her own party had “sabotaged” the assembly election, contributing to Trinamool’s defeat.“Some of our own people sabotaged us. We will examine all such allegations. A…
Nandigram: Amid slogans demanding the chief ministerial post for him, Suvendu Adhikari held his first public meeting in Nandigram since elections on Thursday. As locals cheered for him, slogans of “Suvenduda apni Nandigramer, Suvenduda CM (You belong to Nandigram, you are our CM)” rang out loud, with Adhikari saying the decision was not his to…
Kolkata: Three cops and two CRPF jawans were injured while trying to stop a clash between Trinamool and BJP supporters in Sandeshkhali on Tuesday night over the control of a ‘bheri’ (pisciculture pond). The OC of Nazat PS, two constables, and two CRPF personnel suffered bullet injuries. Four people have been arrested, Bengal DGP SN…
Kolkata: Vivek Agnihotri‘s ‘The Bengal Files’ will be released in the state this Friday. The film ran into trouble in Bengal when it was released in Sept last year.Soon after BJP’s win, Agnihotri posted on X about how his ‘The Kashmir Files’ was taken out of cinema halls. Referring to Mamata Banerjee, he alleged that…
