Tag: West Bengal
Mamata Banerjee Turns Down Modi's Swearing-in Invite
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday announced that she will not attend Prime Minister Narendra Modi's swearing-in on Thursday, alleging the BJP was using the ceremony "to score political points".....
Mamata Changes FB, Twitter DPs To 'Jai Hind, Jai Bangla'
Days after losing her cool on BJP activists chanting 'Jai Shri Ram', West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and front ranking leaders of her Trinammol Congress changed their display picture on social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook to 'Jay Hind, Jay Bangla on Sunday night.....
Trinamool Terms MHA Advisory As Political Conspiracy
The ruling Trinamool Congress on Sunday described as 'political conspiracy" the advisory from the Union Ministry of Home Affairs to the West Bengal government on the law enforcement machinery in the state and said it would respond 'appropriately'.....
BJP-called Shutdown In Bengal's Basirhat, Normal Life Affected
Train services were disrupted and normal life in West Bengal's Basirhat sub-division was affected on Monday due to a 12-hour general strike called by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in protest against the killing of their party workers in Sandeshkhali.....
Bengal Doctors Opt For Mass Resignation
In the wake of cease-work at state-run hospitals in West Bengal, doctors of four Medical colleges on Friday submitted mass resignations.....
BJP Delegation Visits Bengal's Violence-hit Bhatpara, Demands Probe Into Killings
A three-member BJP delegation on Saturday visited violence-hit Bhatpara in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district where two persons were shot dead during a clash on Thursday, and demanded a probe into the killings even as it accused the state police of opening fire on innocent people.....
Help Me Change State Name To 'Bangla': Mamata To Modi
West Bengal Chief minister Mamata Banerjee, after a spell of 15 months, met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi on Wednesday amid speculation about the agenda for the meeting.....
Anti-CAA Protests Scald Bengal, Trains, Buses Torched
West Bengal was scalded by escalating violence against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), which spread to more areas on Saturday as mobs torched buses, trains and railway stations, set afire government property and blocked roads and railway tracks, disrupting train and vehicular movements.....
Two Visva-Bharati Students Injured In Attack, Two Held
Two students, having allegiance to the Left students unions of Visva-Bharati University in West Bengal, were allegedly beaten up with rods, following which two arrests were made on Thursday.....
Cyclone Amphan Wreaks Havoc In Bengal
Severe cyclonic storm Amphan made a landfall in West Bengal on Wednesday and caused severe damages in Kolkata, Howrah, Hooghly, North and South 24 Parganas districts and their nearby areas, with a wind speed ranging from 155 to 185 kmph, accompanied by heavy rainfall.....
