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As per officials of the Hanskhali police station, people in a matador car were on its way to the Nabadeep crematorium to cremate a body from Bagda of North 24 Parganas on Saturday night.

By Arnab Sen Sarma The Central Committee (CC), the apex decision-making body of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), recently released its review report of the 2021 Assembly elections in Kerala, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and Assam. The 26-page document is the reverberation of the CC’s deliberations between August 6-8, 2021. Among all these […]

Hyderabad: Agriculture Minister S Niranjan Reddy on Friday said that Telangana topped the country in quality cotton production and second in the extent of area under which cotton was cultivated. This year, the State government has set a procurement target of 33.20 lakh tonnes, the Minister said during question hour in the Legislative Assembly. The […]

Hyderabad: Seven persons, including six Bangladesh nationals who were staying illegally in India, were arrested by the Hyderabad police on Thursday. The arrested persons were identified as Nurmohmad Kholiba (35), Nahida Kholiba (21), Kachi Musharef Sardar (32), Atiyar Mondal (37), Sume Biswas (24), Lata Shekh (25) and Tisha Biswas (40). According to the police, Atiya […]

Prastuti is working towards bringing back the handmade tradition of embroidery to life

Kolkata: Leader of Congress Party in Lok Sabha and West Bengal Congress Committee president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Saturday wrote to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee over alleged “atrocities committed by ruling party’s cadres” on Congress supporters in Murshidabad. “Atrocities committed by ruling party’s cadres on Congress supporters in Raninagar-II block, Murshidabad District. It is a […]

To invest Rs 40-50 crore to add more storage, transport tankers and cylinders

As per the survivor's police complaint, the two women were arrested by personnel of the 158th battalion of the BSF while they were illegally entering India through the Jhaudanga border.

Kolkata: Hours before going to Delhi, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee threw open a challenge to the BJP government at the centre by announcing an enquiry commission that will look into the ‘widely reported’ issues of illegal hacking and monitoring of mobile phones of various persons in the state. The formation of the two-member […]

The Calcutta High Court's single bench led by Justice Kausik Chanda passed the order while hearing West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's election petition.

The Oxygen Express trains have been operated from both the eastern and western parts of the nation — mainly Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and West Bengal.

Hyderabad: Quaker Oats has partnered with Smile Foundation to launch #SalutingOurHeroes, an initiative to provide over 1 lakh oatmeals to the healthcare heroes in India. As part of this initiative, Quaker will reach out to over 45 government and private hospitals and medical institutions across seven states including Telangana, Kerala, Karnataka, Delhi-NCR, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh and […]

Hyderabad: The Rachakonda Anti-Human Trafficking Unit has cracked 30 complicated cases from January till May and rescued 102 victims in the process. The unit also nabbed 81 human traffickers, including sex buyers or customers, of whom 28 have been detained under the Preventive Detention Act, officials said. “All of them were complicated cases and had […]

Cyclone Yaas pounded parts of India's eastern coast on Wednesday, killing at least four people.

The maximum impact will be in Balasore and Bhadrak district, Odishas Special Relief Commissioner (SRC) P K Jena said.

The federal contingency force has committed a total of 112 teams for deployment in five states and the Union Territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands

The method has been proved to be a harmless way of reducing human-elephant conflicts

The maximum temperature in the city has dropped by at least 5 degrees and today stood at 34.9 degree Celsius, whereas the minimum temperature recorded was 23.6 degree Celsius

West Bengal government on Saturday announced fresh restrictions from 6 am on May 16 to 6 pm on May 30.

Banerjee also urged Modi to strengthen health infrastructure and augment supplies of equipment, medicines and oxygen for treatment of coronavirus-positive patients.