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TMC makes intimidation its strategy ahead of Bengal elections

KOLKATA, June 21 -- With corruption and the Trinamool Congress (TMC) getting linked in the public mind after the mass-sacking of 26,000 teachers due to the recruitment scam linked to the party, Mamata... Read More


BJP cries 'appeasement' as Mamata Banerjee unveils new OBC list

India, June 14 -- This comes after the Calcutta HC struck down the previous list saying religion appears to have been the sole criterion. KOLKATA: With the West Bengal Assembly elections due in about... Read More


Supreme Court's DA order jolts Mamata's government

India, May 17 -- SC's DA arrears order may strain Bengal's finances, threatening key welfare schemes before elections. KOLKATA: Friday's Supreme Court Division Bench order, asking the West Bengal gov... Read More


West Bengal revives WWII era sirens

India, May 10 -- West Bengal government repairs WWII-era sirens to ensure defence preparedness amid heightened security concerns KOLKATA: Following a directive from the Union Government to assess def... Read More


Odisha sees red as Mamata hops on to Jagannath chariot

India, May 3 -- A Jagannath temple in Digha has ignited a political and religious controversy between Bengal and Odisha. KOLKATA: A newly inaugurated Jagannath temple in Digha, West Bengal, built wit... Read More


Protesting Teachers Suspend agitation, but Future uncertain

India, April 26 -- The protest is being paused temporarily to allow the forum's legal experts to prepare the petition for the Supreme Court. KOLKATA: Teachers who have been protesting outside the hea... Read More


Mamata's flip-flop on teacher scam invites advocates' wrath

KOLKATA, April 19 -- Advocates who fought for candidates victimised by Bengal's largest recruitment scam have accused the Mamata Banerjee government of flip-flopping on the issue after the Supreme Cou... Read More


AFTER Calcutta HC ORDER, BSF DEPLOYED IN MURSHIDABAD

India, April 12 -- A BJP leader said that a father and son duo, Hargobind Das and Chandan Das, were hacked to death in Dhulian, Shamsher Ganj, Jafrabad. KOLKATA: In an emergency session in the evenin... Read More


'Bengal violence planned to DISTRACT PUBLIC from teachers'

KOLKATA, April 12 -- The sudden burst of communal violence in different parts of West Bengal, ostensibly in protest of the Waqf Amendment Act, may just be a ploy to divert attention from the growing o... Read More


'Mamata government sacrificed us to save Trinamool Congress'

KOLKATA, April 5 -- Days after the Supreme Court Division Bench of Chief Justice of India Sanjeev Khanna and Justice Sanjay Kumar ruled that 25,753 teaching and non-teaching staff recruited in West Be... Read More