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Bengal assembly clears delimitation bills, Kolkata to have 209 municipal wards

Kolkata, Aug. 12 -- The West Bengal assembly on Thursday passed two bills proposing to increase the number of civic wards in the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) from 144 to 209 and in the Howrah M... Read More


BJP workers repaint Kolkata's Academy of Fine Arts ticket counter saffron

Kolkata, Aug. 12 -- Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers repainted the old ticket counter at Kolkata's heritage Academy of Fine Arts saffron on Wednesday, 24 hours after some prominent theatre persona... Read More


Suspected Pakistani nationals arrested near Bangladesh border by Bengal STF

Kolkata, Aug. 12 -- Two suspected Pakistani nationals were arrested by the West Bengal Police's Special Task Force (STF) near the Bangladesh border in North 24 Parganas district on Wednesday and charg... Read More


Theatre artists repaint Kolkata's Academy of Fine Arts white from saffron

Kolkata, Aug. 11 -- Theatre artists of Kolkata painted the old ticket counter at the heritage Academy of Fine Arts white on Tuesday, a month after some Hindutva group members painted the structure saf... Read More


Calcutta HC denies Abhishek Banerjee permission to go abroad for treatment

Kolkata, Aug. 5 -- The Calcutta high court on Wednesday refused permission to Trinamool Congress (TMC) national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee to travel abroad for ophthalmic treatment and direct... Read More


ED files chargesheet against Shantanu Sinha Biswas in Bengal land grabbing case

Kolkata, July 10 -- The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday filed its first chargesheet against suspended Kolkata police deputy commissioner Shantanu Sinha Biswas in the multi-crore property-grabbi... Read More


3 ex-TMC MPs join BJP; to contest Rajya Sabha bypolls from seats they vacated

Kolkata, July 9 -- Sukhendu Sekhar Roy, Sushmita Dev and Prakash Chik Baraik, the three Trinamool Congress (TMC) leaders who resigned from the Rajya Sabha in June, joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (B... Read More


Former TMC councillor Debraj Chakraborty sent to 7-day police custody in extortion case

Kolkata, July 2 -- A Bengal court on Thursday remanded former Trinamool Congress (TMC) councillor of the Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation, Debraj Chakraborty, to seven days in police custody in an ex... Read More


West Bengal Assembly passes OBC amendment Bills, removes 77 Muslim communities from list

Kolkata, June 29 -- The West Bengal legislative assembly on Monday passed two amendment bills to formally change Other Backward Classes (OBC) reservation laws and remove various Muslim communities fro... Read More


Bengal passes bills to remove some Muslims from OBC list as ordered by Calcutta HC

Kolkata, June 29 -- The West Bengal legislative assembly on Monday passed two amendment bills to formally change Other Backward Classes (OBC) reservation laws and remove various Muslim communities fro... Read More