south 24 parganas district

Kolkata, March 12 Shortages of cooking gas cylinders have begun to affect midday meals in schools across West Bengal, forcing authorities to adopt alternative fuels such as firewood or serve limited food items to students, officials said on Thursday.At Krishnachandrapur High School in South 24...

Kolkata, March 11 – The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday alleged that the West Bengal government’s failure to submit the labour budget proposal was delaying the release of wages under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) in the state.In a statement...

Baruipur (WB), March 11 A local BJP leader was seriously injured after being shot, in the South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal on Wednesday, police said.The assailants, on a motorcycle, fled the area after firing two shots at Trilokesh Dhali's abdomen in Sagar Island, a police officer...

Kolkata, March 10 – A Booth Level Officer (BLO) in Kakdwip, West Bengal, approached the state administration on Tuesday after receiving threats from a voter in his area following the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise, in which his name was removed from the voter list.BLO Manindranath...

Kolkata, March 6 A car belonging to BJP MLA Baneswar Mahato was vandalized during the party's "Change Yatra" in Purulia district of West Bengal on Friday.The incident occurred in Mahato's constituency, Balarampur, with the BJP alleging that members of the TMC were behind the attack.The BJP...

Kolkata, March 5 – Around 15 children fell ill at an Anganwadi center in West Bengal on Thursday after a dead lizard was allegedly found in the cooked food served there.The incident took place at the Nagendrapur Uttarpara ICDS center in Raidighi in South 24 Parganas district. All the 15...

Kolkata, March 5 – A manual scavenger died on Thursday while cleaning a manhole in Ward No. 12 of the Serampore Municipality in the Hooghly district of West Bengal. Two other workers also fell sick while working inside the same manhole.Following information that three workers had fallen ill...

Kolkata, March 5 – The Election Commission of India (ECI) has informed the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) that the progress in poll preparations in two districts bordering Bangladesh in West Bengal for the upcoming Assembly elections has not been satisfactory so far.These two...

Kolkata, March 3 Doctors at a Kolkata hospital have successfully implanted a permanent pacemaker in a 62-year-old woman with an artificial bicaval valve system, a rare anatomical condition “reported only once before” in global medical literature.Authorities at the Manipal Hospital in the...

Kolkata, March 2 The Election Commission of India (ECI) has provided details of the advance deployment of the 480 companies of the Central Armed Police Force (CAPF) in two phases in West Bengal before the announcement of the polling dates for the Assembly election.Of these 480 companies, 240...

Kolkata, March 2 – An application was filed under the Right to Information (RTI) Act, 2005, to obtain details regarding the performance of the former West Bengal Education Minister and ex-Trinamool Congress general secretary as an MLA from the Behala (Paschim) Assembly constituency in South 24...

Kolkata, March 1 A civil society platform with TMC leanings on Sunday alleged a "sinister conspiracy" to remove 1.25 crore names from West Bengal's electoral rolls and accused the EC of carrying out a "planned purge" under the guise of the SIR exercise.The organization, Desh Bachao Ganmancha...

Kolkata, February 28 The publication of West Bengal’s post-SIR electoral rolls has not only pruned 63.66 lakh names from the electorate, but it has also redrawn the state’s demographic and political landscape ahead of the 2026 assembly elections, reshaping voter profiles across districts, border...

Kolkata, February 27 Residents of Kolkata and adjacent districts of West Bengal felt tremors on Friday afternoon after a 5.5 magnitude earthquake struck parts of Bangladesh, officials said.The quake was felt around 1:22 pm, according to an official from the India Meteorological Department...

Kolkata, February 27 – The scheduled participation of Union Home Minister Amit Shah in the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) 'Parivartan Yatra' programme, amidst preparations for the Assembly elections, has been postponed by a day.Initially, the Union Home Minister was scheduled to launch the...

Kolkata, February 26 – The decomposed body of a medical student was found in a room at the Kalyani Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Hospital and Medical College in Nadia district, West Bengal, on Thursday.According to police, the deceased student has been identified as Pulak Haldar, a final-year...

Kolkata, February 26 – The Election Commission of India (ECI) announced on Thursday the details of the 240 companies of Central Armed Police Force (CAPF) personnel that will be deployed in the first phase on March 1, amidst preparations for the state assembly elections in West Bengal.Notably...

Kolkata, February 25 – One of the three children, critically injured in an explosion in a drum filled with chemicals in the Bhangar area of West Bengal's South 24 Parganas district, died on Wednesday morning.According to police, the child, identified as nine-year-old Sadiqul Ahmed from...

Kolkata, February 24 The Calcutta High Court on Tuesday suspended the life imprisonment sentence of a man, convicted for the rape of a minor, stating that his appeal, which has been pending since 2019, is yet to be heard, and that prior appeals are also pending.Noting that it is uncertain when...

Kolkata, February 24 – As the process of judicial review of voter documents identified under the "logical discrepancy" category in West Bengal, which is heading towards elections, began, the judicial officers appointed in four districts near the India-Bangladesh border have sought special...