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Kolkata, April 11 According to Bratya Basu's election affidavit for the 2026 assembly election, the total asset value of the TMC candidate and West Bengal Education Minister has increased to Rs 4.41 crore over five years.In 2021, the value of Basu's total assets was Rs 3.08 crore – Rs 2.08...

Kolkata, March 26 – The Trinamool Congress expressed concerns on Thursday about potential attempts to hack electronic voting machines (EVMs) that will be used in the crucial two-phase elections in West Bengal next month.The party's Member of Parliament from the Jadavpur constituency in South...

Kolkata, March 14 – Soon after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s rally at the Brigade Parade Ground in Kolkata, senior Trinamool Congress leaders and state ministers Bratya Basu, Shashi Panja, and party MP Saayoni Ghosh held an emergency press conference at Trinamool Bhavan on Sunday, accusing the...

Kolkata, March 7 West Bengal BJP leader and social worker Motiur Rahman joined the ruling Trinamool Congress on Saturday, ahead of the assembly elections.Rahman was a BJP candidate in the 2021 assembly polls from Harishchandrapur in Malda. He was defeated by his TMC rival.He joined the TMC...

Kolkata, March 1 Around 6.80 lakh candidates appeared in the recruitment test for nearly 3,000 Group C posts in state-aided schools in West Bengal on Sunday, officials said.The State Level Selection Test (SLST), conducted by the West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC), recorded 84 per...

Kolkata, February 28 The Bengali political thriller "Korpur," believed to be based on the mystery surrounding the disappearance of a female university official in the 1990s, is slated for release on March 19-20, coinciding with Eid this year, according to the film's director.Directed by...

Kolkata, February 27, 2018 – Swapna Barman, the gold medalist in the heptathlon at the Asian Games, joined the Trinamool Congress on Friday.She is also likely to be a candidate for the Trinamool in any of the assembly constituencies in her native district of Jalpaiguri in the upcoming Assembly...

Kolkata, February 27 Swapna Barman, the athlete who brought international accolades to India in heptathlon, joined the Trinamool Congress at the party headquarters here on Friday.Barman, who belongs to the Rajbongshi community of North Bengal, received the Trinamool Congress flag from state...

Kolkata, February 26 A total of 430 model schools will be established in West Bengal with financial assistance from the Asian Development Bank, at a cost of nearly Rs 2,500 crore, state education minister Bratya Basu said on Thursday.Speaking to reporters after a Cabinet meeting at Nabanna...

Kolkata, February 23 Around 200 members of a joint platform of para-teachers in West Bengal staged a demonstration outside the state education department headquarters on Monday, demanding a pay hike.The protesting teachers of ‘Sangrami Joutha Mancha’ were seen clashing with police personnel...

Kolkata, February 21 West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday alleged that people speaking Bengali were being harassed and labeled as "infiltrators" in some states, and asserted that her government would not allow anyone's rights to be taken away.Addressing a programme to mark...