West Bengal

Nadda promises OBC status for left out Hindu backward castes

Attack on Nadda outburst of people’s anger against BJP: TMC MP Abhishek

11:18 pm December 10, 2020

Kolkata: Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee on Thursday termed the attack on BJP national president J P Nadda’s convoy in West Bengal as an outburst of people’s anger, while claiming that the saffron party has not stood by the people of the state during hardships faced by them. Nadda’s convoy was pelted with stones by alleged TMC workers at Sirakol in Banerjee’s constituency […]

Mamata compares BJP leadership to Hitler, Mussolini

11:15 pm December 10, 2020

Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister hit out at the BJP on Thursday comparing its leadership to dictators Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini and claimed that the party is indulging in false propaganda. Banerjee, who is among the vocal critics of the saffron party, said it has a ”prepared script” to break the movements against it and is trying to do so with […]

Bengal's Silicon Valley big flop, cows graze there: Dilip Ghosh

Dilip Ghosh writes to Amit Shah over ‘security lapses’ during Nadda’s visit to Bengal

2:51 pm December 10, 2020

Kolkata: West Bengal BJP chief Dilip Ghosh has written to Union Home Minister Amit Shah alleging security lapses during party national president J P Nadda’s ongoing tour of the state. Ghosh, in his letter, claimed that the ”police allowed a mob of around 200 people, carrying bamboo sticks, to raise slogans, demonstrate and show black flags to Nadda” during his programme on […]

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

TMC govt in Bengal committed to upholding human rights: Mamata

2:47 pm December 10, 2020

Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday claimed that democracy was being bulldozed and voices muzzled in the country, and asserted that her government was committed to upholding human rights. Taking to Twitter, the CM, on the occasion of Human Rights Day, said her government has set up 19 human rights courts over the last […]

People of landslide-prone areas in Bengal’s coal belt to get flats: Mamata

8:23 pm December 8, 2020

Raniganj: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said that the state government is constructing nearly 29,000 flats for rehabilitating people from landslide-prone areas in the Raniganj coal belt in Paschim Bardhaman district. Long-term mining activities and underground coal fire have left large tracts of land in the area landslide-prone, endangering localities here. In the first phase, 9,284 families of […]