RG Kar victim’s parents express no-confidence in CBI probe

December 20, 2024

Parents of the murdered RG Kar hospital doctor today moved Calcutta High Court seeking a fresh probe into rape and murder of their daughter. They expressed lack of confidence in the ongoing probe into the incident that led to huge protests across the State and prayed for a direction for...

Mamata govt begins disbursing housing funds after Central rebuff

December 19, 2024

Even as the Trinamool Congress MPs clashed with Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in Parliament over the Centre’s refusal to release funds under the PM Awas Yojana and MGNREGA, the Mamata Banerjee Government has quietly started disbursing housing funds to voters in Bengal. The State started transferring funds to the...

Mamata slams Amit Shah over ‘derogatory’ remarks on Ambedkar

December 19, 2024

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today slammed the Union Home Minister Amit Shah over his remarks on B.R. Ambedkar. “The mask has fallen! As Parliament reflects on 75 glorious years of the Constitution, HM @AmitShah chose to TARNISH this occasion with DEROGATORY remarks against Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar, that too...

Accused in RG Kar Rape-Murder case granted bail, protests erupt

December 14, 2024

General citizens, as well as the parents of the girl raped and murdered in RG Kar Medical College in August, reacted with shock and horror as two accused: Sandip Ghosh, former principal of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, and Abhijit Mondal, the former officer-in-charge of Tallah police station, were...

ED attachments in Bengal recruitment scam reach Rs 544.8 crore

October 31, 2024

The Enforcement Directorate, which is probing the multi-layered education recruitment scam in West Bengal, has attached properties, cash and jewellery worth a total of Rs 544.8 crore in the case. Partha Chattopadhyay, close aide of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and a top Trinamool Congress leader and former Education Minister, has...

Thousands march to CBI HQ demanding swift probe into RG Kar case

October 31, 2024

Thousands of people today joined a torchlight procession to the CBI office in Kolkata to demand “a proper charge-sheet” and the “swift arrest” of all culprits in the R.G. Kar rape and murder. The procession was organised by the West Bengal Junior Doctors’ Front (WBJDF), which is spearheading the protests...

TMC demands action against Mithun’s ‘incendiary comments’

October 29, 2024

The Trinamool Congress today demanded that the BJP take strict action against Dadasaheb Phalke award winning actor and party leader Mithun Chakraborty for his “incendiary comments against Muslims” while addressing a public meeting alongside Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday. In the meeting, Chakraborty, 74, referred to a pre-Lok...

Woman reporter alleges CPI (M) leader sat on her lap during interview

October 29, 2024

At a time when the CPI(M) has upped the ante against the Mamata Banerjee Government highlighting the lack of safety of women in the State following the brutal rape and murder of a junior doctor at Kolkata’s R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital, it has been forced to take action...

Bengal doctors wary of Mamat govt’s moves

October 24, 2024

Almost 48 hours after the West Bengal Junior Doctors’ Front (WBJDF) called off the fast unto-death protest following a two-hour meeting with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and her officials, junior doctors said they will continue their movement until justice is served for their colleague and their unmet demands from the...

I.N.D.I.A bloc comes unstick for Bengal bypolls

October 24, 2024

The much-vaunted I.N.D.I.A bloc , already on shaky ground across much of India following the Lok Sabha election defeat, has crumbled in West Bengal. The alliance, formed to forge a united front against the BJP, has come unstuck as West Bengal gears up for the November 13 by-elections to six...