Tag Archives: West Bengal

With an increase in Covid-19 cases in four states, West Bengal will make it essential for those arriving from those states to carry a negative coronavirus test report as of February 27. People traveling to Bengal from Maharashtra, Kerala, Karnataka and Telangana on flights will be required to submit a …

NEW DELHI: The Center may be facing a “dharm sankat (dilemma)” from record fuel prices. But four states have taken the lead with tax cuts to offer relief to consumers and show the Center that pump prices they have less to do with rising crude, but more to do with …

CPM criticized the Bengal government for its crackdown on student activists. Calcutta: Left-wing parties in West Bengal have called for a 12-hour bandh across the state on Friday to protest the police crackdown on students and youth marching towards Nabanna, the state secretariat, on Thursday. While the processions converged from …

Amit Shah said that the CAA will benefit the Matua community of West Bengal. Calcutta: The wheels of the center’s controversial citizenship law will start rolling once the COVID-19 vaccination ends, Union Interior Minister Amit Shah said on Thursday in an assurance to a Hindu immigrant community in West Bengal …

THAKURNAGAR: Union Interior Minister Amit Shah said on Thursday that the process of granting Indian citizenship to refugees under the CAA, including the Matua community of West Bengal, will begin once the vaccination process against Covid. Accusing opposition parties of misleading minorities about the (amendment) of the Citizenship Law, he …

Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Assam and West Bengal today (AFP) Calcutta: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, whose silence about the “Jai Shri Ram” slogan episode during his last visit to Bengal was questioned by the state’s ruling Trinamool Congress, made his position clear today. “Bengal loves football. Let me speak …

On February 11, Amit Shah will signal a Cooch Behar rally in North Bengal. (Archive) Calcutta: Until now, roadshows were the BJP’s great campaign tool in Bengal: leaders atop an open truck adorned with marigolds traveled short distances. But the party is now stepping on the gas in the race …

Humayun Kabir had been promoted to the rank of inspector general in December (archive) Calcutta: A senior Bengal police officer resigned today a few days after he ordered the arrest of three BJP workers over the slogans “Goli Maro … (shoot traitors)” raised on a tour last week. Humayun Kabir, …

On the other hand, the Chief Minister of West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee, will hold a large parade in Kolkata. She has asked people from all walks of life and Indians living abroad to blow a conch shell or do something similar at 12.15pm. M., Netaji’s time of birth, January 23. …

Shatabdi Roy wrote that he was in “mental anguish”. Calcutta: One day Bengal BJP chief Dilip Ghosh claimed that 50 MLA from Trinamool would join the opposition party next month in a counterattack on Minister Jyotipriya Mallik saying that between six and seven BJP MPs would switch sides in May. …