Suvendu Adhikari alleges assault attempt by TMC MLA in Assembly

July 25, 2024

West Bengal Speaker Biman Banerjee on Wednesday ordered an investigation after Suvendu Adhikari, the Leader of the Opposition in the Assembly and BJP MLA from Nandigram, alleged that a Trinamool Congress MLA tried to assault him inside the Assembly premises. According to BJP sources, after a question-answer session in the...

HC to hear Governor’s defamation case on Monday

July 11, 2024

The Calcutta High Court will hear the defamation petition filed by Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose against Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday. Justice Krishna Rao on Wednesday granted leave for the defamation plaint to be registered before his court. He directed that Bose’s application for an interim order for...

SPORADIC VIOLENCE MARS 4 BENGAL ASSEMBLY BYPOLLS

July 11, 2024

By-elections in four Assembly seats in West Bengal were marked by sporadic violence and charges of rigging by Trinamool Congress supporters. According to the BJP candidates, Trinamool Congress activists attacked and prevented them from moving about in the constituencies even as bogus voting was resorted to in the four Assembly...

BJP releases another video of TMC goons flogging a man in Bengal

July 10, 2024

Days after two incidents of Trinamool Congress activists beating hapless victims came to light in West Bengal, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday released another spine-chilling video of a group assaulting a person with wickets and staffs. A fresh video shared by BJP’s West Bengal president Sukanta Majumdar showed Jayant...

Fed up by Governor’s inaction, Bengal Speaker calls special session

July 5, 2024

Fed up with the Governor’s inaction and non-cooperation, the West Bengal Speaker today hit back by convening a special session of the State Assembly. Speaker Biman Banerjee, alluding to the impasse created by the running feud between the Mamata Banerjee Government and Governor CV Ananda Bose, said: “If someone thinks...

HC to hear Governor’s defamation case against Mamata on July 10

July 5, 2024

The Calcutta High Court said on Thursday that it will hear the defamation suit filed by West Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose against Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on July 10. During an administrative meeting in the state secretariat, Banerjee had on June 27 said “Women have informed me they...

CBI files chargesheet in Bengal civic bodies’ recruitment scam

July 3, 2024

The Central Bureau of Investigation on Tuesday filed a chargesheet at a special CBI court in the multi-crore recruitment scam case concerning different municipalities in West Bengal. CBI sources said that in the chargesheet, the Central agency informed that as many as 1,829 recruitments were made in 17 municipalities in...

Woman Lodges Complaint Against Those Who Made Her Thrashing Video Viral

July 3, 2024

In a surprising twist to the flogging incident at Chopra in North Dinajpur district of West Bengal, the woman, who was seen being beaten up by a Trinamool bahubali, has lodged a police complaint against the people who recorded the act and released it on social media. A senior police...

Mamata backtracks on eviction of encroachers

June 28, 2024

Seventy-hours after the West Bengal government sent bulldozers to flatten encroachers’ shops which had taken over pavements across the state, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee announced on Thursday that for one month, the eviction of hawkers will be halted, saying, “I have no right to make anyone unemployed.” On Monday, Mamata...

TMC demands SC-monitored probe into UGC-NET

June 21, 2024

A day after the Union Education Ministry cancelled the University Grants Commission-National Eligibility Test (UGC-NET), the Trinamool Congress on Thursday slammed the BJP-led Centre and demanded a Supreme Court-monitored investigation into the “scam”. Trinamool Congress leaders said that a CBI probe into the UGC-NET “scam” would not reveal the truth...