Kolkata

Bengal reports 2 more COVID deaths, 190 fresh cases

12:38 am February 15, 2021

Kolkata: West Bengal on Sunday registered two COVID-19 deaths — one from Kolkata and another from North 24 Parganas district — taking the toll to 10,232, the state health department said in a bulletin. Of the two deaths, one was due to comorbidity where COVID-19 was incidental. The tally rose to 5,72,595 after 190 new […]

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Mamata behaving with students in same way Modi treating

11:23 pm February 12, 2021

Kolkata: The way Narendra Modi government is treating protesting farmers outside Delhi, the Mamata Banerjee-led West Bengal government is doing the same with students and youths in the state, CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury said on Friday, condemning police action on Left activists in Kolkata. Addressing a press conference, Yechury said that the Centre should […]

Mamata presents vote on account for Rs 2.99 lakh cr in House, oppn parties boycott speech

8:27 pm February 5, 2021

Kolkata: With state elections round the corner, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday presented a vote-on-account for Rs 2.99 lakh crore in the Assembly, and made a slew of announcements, including a hike in the annual aid of farmers. The estimates for the first few months of the newfiscal, starting April, would be […]

9-year-old girl’s body recovered from residential building in

2:01 pm February 4, 2021

Kolkata : The body of a nine-year-old girl was recovered on Thursday morning from the terrace of a residential building in the city’s Jorabagan area, sparking protests by locals, who claimed that the police did not take action when the family had reported that she was missing. The minor girl, with her throat slit, was […]

TMC-BJP in war of words over defections

11:13 pm February 3, 2021

Alipurduar/Hooghly: The TMC and the BJP hit out at each other on Wednesday in poll-bound West Bengal over defections with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee saying it was ironical that the Centre did not have funds to bear the travel expenses of migrant workers but corrupt leaders were flown to Delhi in a chartered plane. Newly […]