Amit Shah to visit Kolkata to perk up BJP’s morale

October 18, 2024

Union Home Minister Amit Shah is likely to be in Kolkata on October 24 to hold meetings with senior BJP functionaries. This will be his first trip to Bengal since the party’s Lok Sabha seat tally in the State went down to 12 in the 2024 general election from 18...

NIA Raids 12 Premises In Bengal Over Maoist links

October 2, 2024

Sleuths of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Tuesday conducted simultaneous raids on 12 premises in West Bengal, including one in Kolkata, belonging to people allegedly linked to Maoists, an official source said. Raids were conducted in the south Kolkata’s Netaji Nagar area, along with Panihati, Barrackpore and Sodepur in...

Doctors Go On Strike Again In West Bengal

October 2, 2024

Junior doctors attached to government hospitals across West Bengal on Tuesday restarted their ‘cease-work’ to protest Mamata Banerjee government’s “inaction” on their demands for safety and reform in the healthcare system. The doctors held a governing body meeting for almost the entire night before announcing their decision to go for...

Bengal BJP MP Seeks HM’s Intervention On Illegal Immigrants From Bangladesh

October 1, 2024

BJP West Bengal state general secretary and Purulia MP Jyotirmoy Singh Mahato has written to the Centre highlighting the problem of illegal immigration from Bangladesh into West Bengal over the past few years. This, he said, has significantly altered the demographic landscape, leading to a host of security, economic, and...

HC Asks TMC Govt To Clear Stand On ‘Threat Culture’ In Medical Colleges

September 28, 2024

The Calcutta High Court has asked the West Bengal government to respond to serious allegations about a threat culture in state-run medical colleges and hospitals. This directive follows a public interest litigation (PIL) filed by a doctor and a social worker, who reported instances of bribery, corruption, sexual harassment, and...

Junior Doctors Accuse Mamata Govt Of Non-Cooperation And Intimidation

September 27, 2024

Five days after partially resuming their duties at Government-run hospitals in West Bengal, junior doctors today alleged non-cooperation from the Trinamool Congress Government. The West Bengal Junior Doctors’ Front has alleged that the State Government has revoked its permission for a convention scheduled on September 27, intended to discuss the...

Mamata blames Centre for ‘man-made flood’ in Bengal

September 19, 2024

Several areas in south Bengal face a massive flood risk as the Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) released 3 lakh cusecs of water from its Panchet and Maithon dams within seven hours on the night of September 16 amid incessant low-pressure rains. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee visited Pursurah in...

Mamata Accedes To A Few Demands Of Protesting Doctors

September 18, 2024

The West Bengal government on Tuesday effected a reshuffle in the Health and Police departments as announced by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee after her meeting with the agitating junior doctors late yesterday night. The Chief Minister had met the junior doctors on Monday evening to break the deadlock after multiple...

ED Raids 11 Places In Connection With RG Kar Medical College Anti-Graft Probe

September 7, 2024

Enforcement Directorate (ED) officers on Friday conducted simultaneous search operations at 11 locations across the State in connection with alleged financial irregularities at the State-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital. It also detained Prasun Chatterjee, a close aide of Sandip Ghosh, the arrested former principal of the State-run RG...

Bengal Governor, Trinamool Spar Over Anti-rape Aparajita Bill

September 7, 2024

West Bengal Governor C.V. Ananda Bose and the Trinamool Congress have locked horns over the Aparajita Women and Child (West Bengal Criminal Laws Amendment) Bill, 2024, which the State Assembly passed on Tuesday in a special two-day session in the aftermath of the gruesome rape and murder of a trainee...