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PUBDET 2025 results out; 99.17% clear test

Kolkata, Aug. 25 -- The West Bengal Joint Entrance Examinations Board (WBJEEB) on Monday announced the results of the Presidency University Bachelor Degree Entrance Test (PUBDET) 2025, with 99.17 per ... Read More


Actor-politician Joy Banerjee passes away at 62

KOLKATA, Aug. 25 -- Tollywood mourned the loss of Bengali actor Joy Banerjee, who passed away on Monday morning at a private hospital in Kolkata at the age of 62. The actor, who had been ailing for s... Read More


Rethinking coverage of women leaders

Nepal, Aug. 25 -- It is no secret that women's participation in Nepal's political sphere-from party structures to local, provincial and federal governments-is increasing. Yet the media continues to fo... Read More


Migrant dies in Bengal after 'torture in Mumbai'

Kolkata, Aug. 25 -- A migrant labourer, Golam Mondal (52), who has recently returned from Mumbai after allegedly being "tortured" there on suspicion of being a Bangladeshi, died at his native place in... Read More


ED nabs MLA Jiban Krishna Saha, raids multiple locations

Kolkata, Aug. 25 -- The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Monday arrested Burwan MLA Jiban Krishna Saha from his Murshidabad residence in connection with the alleged irregularities in the teachers' recr... Read More


HC declines probe transfer plea, says 'CBI is a gallery show'

Kolkata, Aug. 25 -- Calcutta High Court on Monday declined a plea for a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the death of one Sujit Das, 22, in Khejuri, with the bench of Justice Tirthanka... Read More


BJP leaders told to stay silent as Shantanu, Subrata trade charges

Kolkata, Aug. 25 -- BJP leaders in Bengal have instructed party workers to stay silent over the growing conflict between Union minister and Bongaon MP Shantanu Thakur and his elder brother, Gaighata B... Read More


Abhishek files counter affidavit in High Court on poll petition

Kolkata, Aug. 25 -- Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Abhishek Banerjee on Monday filed a counter affidavit in the Calcutta High Court in response to an election petition challenging his landslide victory f... Read More


BJP will not match 2021 seat tally in 2026 elections, claims Dilip Ghosh

Kolkata, Aug. 25 -- Claiming that the BJP won't match 2021's seat tally in the 2026 Assembly polls, former state BJP president Dilip Ghosh on Monday stated that PM Modi's rally in Dum Dum on Friday dr... Read More


Qatar Fund seeks to enforce $235 million arbitration award against Byju Raveendran

MUMBAI, Aug. 25 -- Adding to edtech founder Byju Raveendran's mounting legal woes, Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) has moved the Karnataka High Court, seeking enforcement of a $235 million (approxima... Read More