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File photo shows Trinamool chief and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee with actor-turned politician and party MP Tapas Paul. Photo: Sushanta Patronobish

Mamata ‘extremely hurt’ with Paul's remarks, says Trinamool

World is a stage: Theatre personality Manoj Mitra talks about his association with Khaled Chowdhury at a condolence meeting in Kolkata recently. Photo: Kathakali Nandi

Khaled’s role in setting stage hailed

Left delegation to visit closed tea garden

A guard at the main gate of Northbrook Jute Co Ltd at Champdani in Hooghly district. File photo: Sushanta Patronobish

Northbrook jute mill to reopen today

Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee presents a percussion instrument (dhamsa) to a representative of Santhal tribes on the occasion of Hool Utsav (Santhal revolution) in Kolkata on Monday. Photo: Sushanta Patronobish

“West Bengal ahead in Food Security Act”

Trinamool MP ‘threatens’ to kill opponents

West Bengal Governor M K Narayanan resigns

Mr. Narayanan was the National Security Adviser before being appointed West Bengal Governor

Rebel TMC leader Hriday Ghosh to join BJP

Rebel Trinamool Congress leader Hriday Ghosh, whose father was allegedly killed before last year’s panchayat election in Birbhum district’s Kasba

Fare hike takes a toll on daily passengers

Sixty-five-year-old Syamsundar Ghosh, who takes an early morning train from Kalyani to work as a salesman at a saree shop in Kolkata, is an angry man

Day after clash, Trinamool, BJP indulge in blame game

A day after the clash between Trinamool Congress (TMC) and BJP workers at the Muniadihi village in Bankura district, a fact-finding team of the State

India must firewall strategic establishments, says Shourie

With the click of a button our enemies can paralyse our important and strategic establishments or even the country, he said

M.K Narayanan may resign this week

Speculation is rife in the city about Governor M K Narayanan’s resignation and departure from Kolkata in the week starting June 30. Sources in the

Tea companies in Bengal to blame for crisis

Compared to Dooars, industry in Darjeeling and Assam adapted to changes and survived.

West Bengal Minister denies starvation deaths

Denying starvation deaths in the sick Raipur Tea Estate in Jalpaiguri district, West Bengal Food and Supplies Minister Jyoti Priya Mallick, on Sunday

Poll debacle indicative of CPI (M)’s declining influence: Prakash Karat

Communist Party of India (Marxist) general secretary Prakash Karat took a critical viewpoint of his own party in its State Committee meeting held here

Passengers assault TTEs as woman jumps off train

Bagnan railway station ransacked; two EMUs cancelled

Deadline for implementing Food Security Act is July 4: Paswan

The Union government is sticking to its earlier decision of a three-month extension to States and Union Territories to implement the National Food

Over 30,000 trapped in abandoned tea gardens in North Bengal

Mill owners have disappeared leaving families in the lurch

Government wakes up to tea garden deaths

Orders preparation of a list of sick tea gardens; Minister to meet workers today

WB govt. staff receiving 42% less DA: coordination committee

A memorandum explaining the situation was submitted to the Chief Minister’s office seeking an appointment

Trade licence to commercial houses in WB to be renewed

West Bengal Fire Brigade and Disaster Management Minister Javed Ahmed Khan has announced that trade licences to commercial houses, which were

Saradha kingpin has no money to furnish bail bond

Saradha Group Chairman and Managing Director Sudipta Sen, who is at the centre of a multi-crore Ponzi scam in the State, said before a city court that

TMC strongman’s aides postpone meeting with fishermen

Danger has only been delayed, but it still looms large, say fishermen

Tiger kills man on fishing boat in Sundarbans

A tiger fatally attacked a man while he was fishing for crabs along with his children in a creek in Sundarbans in South 24 Parganas district on

TMC women’s wing takes out rally against railway fare hike

Condemning the rail fare hike by the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government, the women’s wing of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) took out

‘Why should I come to House if there are no questions?’

Left Front legislators boycott Assembly proceedings protesting against Mamata Banerjee’s absence

Minister withdraws Bengali textbook in middle of session

Interestingly, the textbook has a chapter dealing with ‘Jibon Mukhi Gaan’, which praises former Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Kabir Suman for his contribution to the genre.

Mamata govt’s fair price vegetable shop a big draw on first day

Unavailability of potatoes and high price of capsicum disappoint customers

Will not let RSS swing sticks in Bengal: Buddhadeb

“RSS’ divisive politics on basis of temples and mosques will not be allowed to gain a foothold in State”

There is only an imaginary opposition in Bengal: Mukul

“There is no place for a party in West Bengal, which attempts to create a division among the people”

West Bengal govt to play active role to bail out jute industry

There were several takeaways for the jute industry from the meeting held here on Thursday. Four Ministers of the Mamata Banerjee government, led by

Infighting behind TMC workers’ deaths: Left

Lashing out at the Trinamool Congress (TMC), the Left Front raised its pitch here on Thursday and reiterated that the murder of four TMC workers in

Activist pins hopes on Dhoni to bat for blind cricket

Problem is not about blindness or disability. It is about mindset, says George Abraham

Enclave dwellers’ demand for right tocitizenship resonates across border

They stage protest in Tin-Bigha corridor seeking implementation of 1974 pact

Inform us on civic polls, Calcutta High Court tells govt.

The Calcutta High Court on Thursday asked the West Bengal Government to inform the court about holding polls to 17 civic bodies. Hearing the petition

US university training Indian doctors in emergency medicine

Kolkata’s Peerless Hospital has tied up with a US—based university to train the doctors specialising in emergency medical care. The first batch of

SUCI demands full—bench of WBHRC

The SUCI on Wednesday demanded immediate appointment of a full—time chairman of the West Bengal Human Rights Commission. The post fell vacant after

A ray of hope for boy diagnosed with Hunter Syndrome

I am hopeful that something will be done for my son after meeting [Union Health Minister] Harsh Vardhan, said Sib Sankar Chowdhury, father of Arian

Alipurduar, Bengal’s 20th district, comes into being

Observing that the creation of Alipurduar as the 20th district of West Bengal will be "etched in the pages of history forever", State’s Chief Minister

Bengal Election Commission in the habit of filing court cases, says Minister

The EC has moved the court to hold civic elections in the State on time

Bad days are here, says WB Cong. chief while protesting rail fare hike

There were protests in several districts of the State in protest against the hike in railway fares that was implemented across the country on

Thundershowers cool Kolkata

Darkness descended pretty early for the city on Wednesday as thunder squalls cooled the city in the afternoon. Accompanied by loud claps of thunder,

The meteoric rise and fall of Shantanu Ghosh

Less than a decade back Santanu Ghosh, then the co-founder of a company called Xenitis was the poster boy of West Bengal’s industrial resurgence. Then

Kolkata businessman named by Saradha chief in ED custody

Santanu Ghosh was arrested late on Tuesday night

Now, extortion charge against TMC leader

The livelihood of about 60 fishermen who cultivate fish in two bheris (ponds) in East Kolkata Wetland, protected under an international

Kerala CID team arrives in Malda

A six-member team of the Crime Investigation Department (CID) of Kerala police arrived in Malda district on Tuesday to probe the flight of children

Hotel owner dies of heart attack after threat calls from Trinamool worker

Trinamool denies charges; police investigating case with help of CCTV footage

Left Front demands white paper on Writers’ Building renovation

Says no global tender inviting Expression of Interest floated