Ranaghat, Aug. 6: A former home guard of Calcutta Police, posing as a customs officer was arrested while trying to snatch Rupees 1.5 lakh from an agent of a foreign currency exchange company at the Gede railway station on Saturday evening. The accused – Himadri Mondal, 32, a resident of…
Santipur, July 27: A young poet from Nadia’s Santipur was allegedly manhandled by a group of Trinamul Congress activists on Tuesday night apparently for authoring a poem and for posting it to social media that has politically criticized the Bengal government for “atrocities” and “lawlessness” in the state. Kallol Sarkar,…
Calcutta, July 14: Amid the spate of violence before and after the rural poll in Bengal that has so far claimed at least 57 lives putting the state government in an embarrassing situation, Trinamul Congress general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Friday evening launched a scathing attack on the Calcutta High…
Calcutta: Senior BJP leader and party MP Ravi Shankar Prasad has accused Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee of playing with the people of Bengal with “ugly” politics forgetting her past that once established her as a “fighter” against atrocities. A little after arriving in Calcutta on Wednesday along with four…
Badkulla, June 27: Trinamul national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee has stated that conferring citizenship through an act to all the bonafide citizens of the country who cast their votes and elect representatives is an “insult”. Diamond Harbour MP told this in his speech at a public meeting in Nadia’s Badkulla…
Majhdia, June 26: Six BJP activists including the younger brother of the party’s Ranaghat South MLA Mukutmani Adhikari were injured during a clash with Trinamul Congress supporters in Nadia’s Krishnaganj on Sunday night. BJP leadership alleged that the miscreants with the support of local Trinamul supporters were hurling bombs to…
Ranaghat, June 25: An elderly BJP activist was allegedly killed in Nadia’s Dhantala during a clash between the two rival groups of a club with allegiance to Trinamul Congress and BJP on Saturday night. Local residents claimed that the victim Narottam Bagchi, 62, father-in-law of a lady BJP candidate of…
Kolkata, June 14: The Calcutta High Court on Wednesday issued an order to the State Election Commission asking it to direct all police authorities in the districts across the state to “assist” candidates who are not able to file nominations. Thursday is the last day for filing nominations for the…
Badkulla, June 9: A heavy spell of rain coupled with thunderstorms disrupted Trinamul’s mass outreach programme Jono Sanjog Yatra on Friday afternoon in Nadia eventually leading to the cancellation of at least two public rallies of party general secretary Abhishek Banerjee in the district. Two decoration workers were injured in…
Debagram, June 1: Members of SUCI’s peasants’ wing All India Kishan Khet Mazdoor Sangathan (AIKKMS) walk in a rally protesting the humiliation and sexual assault of women wrestlers in Nadia’s Debagram on Thursday. Around five thousand peasants from Debagram, Kaliganj, and adjacent areas joined the rally and expressed solidarity with…