The West Bengal government on Tuesday (August 20, 2024) sought an urgent hearing by the Supreme Court of its appeal against the Calcutta High Court verdict striking down the OBC status of several castes, mostly Muslim groups, in the State for granting them reservation in public sector jobs and admissions in State-run educational institutions. The…
Police and other officials amid investigation into the alleged rape and murder of a trainee doctor at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, in Kolkata, on August 18, 2024. | Photo Credit: PTI On a day the Supreme Court ordered deployment of Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) at the R.G. Kar Medical College and…
File picture of West Bengal Governor C.V. Ananda Bose | Photo Credit: Debasish Bhaduri West Bengal Governor C.V. Ananda Bose on Sunday night stated that he “called an emergency meeting of a cross-section of Bengal society” to apprise them of the action taken in the Kolkata R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital rape-death case and…
Three days before violent protests erupted in Bangladesh forcing a regime change, India’s Border Security Force (BSF) declared a state of high alert along the river Padma, a geographical and political line between the two countries. Pushing his bicycle, Mukbul Haque, 34, crosses the border outpost (BOP) at Kakmarichar in Murshidabad, beyond the line of…
Junior doctors, trainee doctors and medical students protest against the sexual assault and killing of a post-graduate trainee doctor at RG Kar Medical College, in Kolkata, on August 12, 2024. | Photo Credit: PTI Junior doctors across West Bengal continued ceasework on Tuesday (August 13, 2024) protesting the rape and murder of a woman doctor…
Patients wait outside a hospital amid a strike by doctors in protest against the alleged rape and murder of a doctor at Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, in Birbhum district on August 10, 2024. | Photo Credit: PTI The body of the woman doctor was found inside a seminar hall of the RG…
After their arrest, the Opposition criticised the corruption allegedly prevalent among the Trinamool leadership. File. Trinamool Congress Deganga block president Anisur Rahman and his brother and party associate Alif Noor were arrested on Friday (August 2) in connection with the West Bengal ration scam case. The Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials arrested them after a marathon…
The arrest TMC leader  Anisur Rehman had been “very close” to former state forest minister Jyotipriyo Mallick, who has been arrested by the central probe agency in connection with the ration distribution scam | Photo Credit: SRINATH M The Enforcement Directorate (ED) arrested a Trinamool Congress leader from Deganga in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas…
Kolkata, Jul 30 (ANI): Leader of Opposition in West Bengal Assembly Suvendu Adhikari speaks to the media during a protest against West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in the ongoing Monsoon session of the West Bengal assembly, in Kolkata on Tuesday. | Photo Credit: ANI Alleging deprivation of north Bengal Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislators…
KOLKATA Controversy broke out in the Bengali film industry on Saturday, with technicians refusing to attend the shoot of an upcoming film by director Rahool Mukherjee in Kolkata citing violations of prior agreements and sparking outrage among the community of Bengali film directors against stringent restrictions of the cine workers’ federation. On Saturday morning, chaos…
