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Chennai, March 8 Tamil Nadu BJP leader C R Kesavan on Sunday condemned the West Bengal government for what he termed as the "blatant insult" and "shameful misconduct" directed towards President Droupadi Murmu during her visit to the state.The controversy stems from the TMC government's...

Kolkata, March 8 Mamata Banerjee, Chief Minister of West Bengal, continued her sit-in protest against alleged arbitrary deletions in the post-SIR voter list on Sunday, with the TMC supremo accusing the BJP of "misusing the Vanish Commission to erase legitimate voters from electoral rolls."This...

Chennai, March 8 Tamil Nadu BJP leader C R Kesavan on Sunday condemned the West Bengal government for what he termed as the "blatant insult" and "shameful misconduct" directed towards President Droupadi Murmu during her visit to the state.The controversy stems from the TMC government's...

New Delhi, March 7 The BJP on Saturday alleged that the TMC government in West Bengal has reached a "new low in its anarchic behavior" by "humiliating" President Droupadi Murmu and described it as an insult to the tribal society and the country's highest constitutional position.The party said...

Kolkata, March 7 Senior BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari on Saturday alleged that the West Bengal government had deliberately withheld central allocations for social welfare projects like Ayushman Bharat and PM Awas Yojana, depriving millions of people.Addressing a 'Poriborton Yatra' rally in...

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 7 The TMC wrote to the Election Commission, alleging procedural irregularities in the scrutiny of nomination papers of BJP's Rajya Sabha candidate Rahul Sinha, and claimed that "discrepancies" in his election affidavit were overlooked by the returning officer.In the March 6...

Kolkata, March 7 Explosions occurred in a closed club room in Paikpara, a northern part of the city, on Saturday morning, a police officer said.There were no reports of any injuries or casualties in the incident, the officer said.A senior police officer, quoting eyewitnesses, said that two...

Kolkata, March 6 Bengali film star Subhashree Ganguly and her son, who were stranded in Dubai amidst the West Asia conflict, returned to Kolkata on Friday.Ganguly and her son, Yuvaan, arrived in the city via Mumbai. They were received at the airport by their filmmaker husband, Raj Chakraborty...

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 6 TMC MP Kalyan Banerjee sparked a political controversy on Friday after saying he would have "cut off the finger" of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar if the latter had not been holding the constitutional post, alleging that the election panel chief had behaved "very...

Thane, March 5 The Thane Small Scale Industries Association (TSSIA) organized a training program on industrial and workplace safety as part of National Safety Week, an official said on Thursday.The program focused on crucial aspects such as first aid, occupational safety, stress management...

Kolkata, March 5 West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will return to one of her most familiar political arenas – the streets – on Friday, beginning a protest at Kolkata's Metro Channel against what the TMC alleges are "arbitrary deletions" in the state's revised electoral rolls following...

Kolkata, March 5 Five Rajya Sabha candidates from West Bengal – four from the ruling TMC and one from the BJP – filed their nominations on Thursday, officials said.The four TMC candidates – minister Babul Supriyo, former Bengal DGP Rajeev Kumar, senior advocate Menaka Guruswamy, and actor Koel...

Kolkata, March 4 Suspended TMC MLA Humayun Kabir, who was constructing a mosque modeled after Ayodhya's Babri Masjid in West Bengal's Murshidabad district, was provided with Y-Plus category security by the central government, a source close to the politician said.A central security team...

Kolkata, March 4 Trinamool Congress leader Kunal Ghosh criticized the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday over the increasing visits of its leaders from outside West Bengal ahead of the Assembly elections, describing them as "political tourists" and claiming such efforts would not...

Kolkata, March 4 Alleging attacks on BJP workers in several districts ahead of the upcoming West Bengal assembly elections, the main opposition BJP on Wednesday accused the ruling TMC of resorting to violence and intimidation to retain power in the state.Addressing a press conference, state...

New Delhi, March 3 The Privileges Committee of the current Lok Sabha was constituted on Thursday, with Speaker Om Birla nominating BJP leader and former law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad as its chairperson.Birla has named 14 other MPs as members of the panel, according to a notification.The...

Kolkata, March 3 Amid the ongoing political tensions between the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) and the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) as the assembly elections in West Bengal approach, a scene of camaraderie was witnessed in Siliguri, where Mayor Gautam Deb of the TMC and MLA Sankar...

New Delhi, March 3 Former Law Minister and BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad was nominated as the chairperson of the Lok Sabha's Privileges Committee on Tuesday.Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla has also named 14 other MPs as members of the panel, according to a notification.This is the first time...