West Bengal: News
21 Jun 2018
Mumbai#CareerBytes: How to make a career in sports after Class-12?
Indians love sports and a lot of people dream to build a career in sports and play for the country.
19 Jun 2018
KolkataWest Bengal govt to host transgender literary meet in July
The West Bengal government is set to sponsor a literary meet for transgender writers and authors from across West Bengal.
19 Jun 2018
KolkataMarried males in WB-government have half-day offs today. Here's why
Once again, the TMC government in WB has given all married men under government employment an occasion to rejoice- a half-day off on 'Jamai Sashti.'
18 Jun 2018
Supreme Court Of IndiaTransgender teacher asked if her breasts were real at interviews
When Hiranmay Dey underwent a sex-reassignment surgery (SRS) in 2017 to become Suchitra Dey, she felt she may have just won her life's biggest battle.
18 Jun 2018
IndiaWest Bengal: Daughter mistakes gun for toy, accidentally shoots mother
In West Bengal's Hoogly district, a minor accidentally shot her mother with a pistol on Sunday.
17 Jun 2018
IndiaUniversities must hold convocation ceremony every year: HRD Ministry
The Ministry of Human Resource Development has written to all universities mandating them to hold convocation every year after few universities were found skipping the event.
17 Jun 2018
Narendra Modi4 CMs visit AIIMS to inquire about ex-PM Vajpayee's health
Chief Ministers of West Bengal, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, and Jharkhand - Mamata Banerjee, Nitish Kumar, Raman Singh and Raghubar Das, yesterday visited the AIIMS, New Delhi where former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, 93, is undergoing treatment.
17 Jun 2018
Narendra ModiCMs denied permission to meet Kejriwal; AAP leaders reacted angrily
The AAP leadership reacted angrily to the denial of permission to four Chief Ministers to meet their Delhi counterpart Arvind Kejriwal at the Lieutenant-Governor's office last night, alleging Prime Minister Narendra Modi's hand in it.
16 Jun 2018
NITI AayogWest Bengal: Mamata asks if loving Hindus means hating Muslims
West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee today said those who accuse her of appeasing Muslims are friends of neither the Hindus nor the Muslims.
15 Jun 2018
IndiaWest Bengal: Suspecting child abduction, mob beats saree-clad man
In yet another incident of mob anger reported from West Bengal, a man in his 20s was beaten on suspicion of being a child kidnapper in Malda district's English Bazaar, on Friday.
13 Jun 2018
KolkataKolkata: College student tries supplying heroin to jailed boyfriend, arrested
On Tuesday, the police arrested a college student who attempted to supply 200 gms of heroin to her boyfriend in Dum Dum Correctional Home, Kolkata.
13 Jun 2018
IndiaIMD to commission 27 doppler-radars across country for weather warning
At least 27 doppler radars would be soon commissioned across India which would provide severe weather warning to stakeholders as much as six hours in advance, an India Meteorological Department (IMD) official said in Goa's Panaji yesterday.
12 Jun 2018
KolkataKolkata: College students expelled, staffer sacked over campus 'stripping', 'filming'
On the basis of a report submitted by a seven-member committee, Kolkata's reputed St. Paul's Cathedral College authorities expelled two second-year students and sacked a non-teaching staff member in connection with an alleged stripping incident on campus.
12 Jun 2018
FacebookWest Bengal: Woman hangs self, streams act on Facebook Live
A woman allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself and streamed the entire episode on Facebook Live in West Bengal's South 24 Parganas district, the police said yesterday.
10 Jun 2018
KolkataCenter to urge WB Govt to switch over to RERA
The Center will soon send a team to urge the West Bengal Government to switch over to the Real Estate (Regulation & Development) Act, 2016 to protect home buyers' interest, said Abhay Upadhyay, President of the Forum for People's Collective Efforts.
09 Jun 2018
KeralaNipah virus has been stalled, not epidemic: Health Minister
Union Minister of State for Health, Ashwini Choubey, today said that the Nipah virus has been contained and there was no need to run away from Kerala, from where several deaths were reported.
08 Jun 2018
Education83.75% students clear WB Class XII exams
83.75% students passed the Class XII examinations conducted by the West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education (WBCHSE). Results were announced today.
08 Jun 2018
Supreme Court Of IndiaSC refuses CBI-probe into two BJP workers' deaths in WB
The Supreme Court on Friday refused to entertain a plea seeking a CBI probe into the recent killing of two BJP workers in Purulia district of West Bengal after panchayat polls.
08 Jun 2018
EducationBengal: Thanks to technology, students of this village cleared board-exams
Thanks to technology and dedication of professionals in different parts of the world, 30 Santhal students of Chandra High School near the Susunia Hills in Bankura, West Bengal, have passed 10th board exams, with flying colors.
07 Jun 2018
Central Bureau Of Investigation (CBI)BJP to conduct nationwide-protest against killing of WB party workers
The BJP leadership is planning to organize a nation-wide agitation against the alleged killing of two party workers in West Bengal's Purulia district, a senior party leader said today.
07 Jun 2018
Lok SabhaTrinamool Congress to overhaul party organizations, revamp party structure
With internal disputes and BJP slowly making its entry into West Bengal, the ruling Trinamool Congress has decided to revamp the organization ahead of next year's Lok Sabha polls.
06 Jun 2018
MumbaiMumbai: 76-year-old jailed for keeping his cattle unsheltered during 2013-deluge
Addressing the issue of animal cruelty, a Mumbai court awarded a man 10-day imprisonment and levied a penalty of Rs. 3,000 for keeping his cattle out in the open amidst torrential rains.
05 Jun 2018
BiharThree Bihar sisters found brutally murdered inside home, rape suspected
Three young sisters were found inside their house today, brutally murdered with deep injuries on their throats and forehead.
04 Jun 2018
Indian RailwaysRailways working on increasing speeds of long-distance trains by 25kmph
The Indian Railways is working on increasing the speeds of all long-distance passenger trains by 25km/hour by 2022 which will reduce travel time considerably, Minister of State (West Bengal) for Railways Rajen Gohain said in Kolkata.
04 Jun 2018
BMWJoyride in Ferrari turns fatal for prominent Howrah businessman
A businessman was killed and a teenager critically injured in Howrah (West Bengal) when their speeding Ferrari rammed the divider of a flyover and crashed yesterday.
04 Jun 2018
GurugramWB: Peacock dies after selfie-lovers manhandle it, pull its feathers
In West Bengal's Jalpaiguri district, a peacock died after villagers of Barighoria gram panchayat area manhandled the bird on Sunday.
04 Jun 2018
Mamata BanerjeeWest Bengal: Deceased BJP-worker's family refutes suicide claims, blames TMC
The family of BJP worker Dulal Kumar, whose body was found hanging from a pole in West Bengal's Purulia district, has refuted the autopsy report that said he committed suicide.
03 Jun 2018
Trinamool CongressBJP worker's death in WB might have been suicide: Police
The post-mortem report of BJP worker Dulal Kumar, who was found hanging from a tree on Saturday in West Bengal's Purulia district, suggests that the party worker had committed suicide.
03 Jun 2018
BiharCenter revises governors' allowances, West Bengal governor becomes richest
Four months after salaries of governors were revised to Rs 3.5 lakh/month, the Center has now issued fresh guidelines for allowances.
02 Jun 2018
Dilip GhoshBlood paints West Bengal: Another BJP-worker dies, after being kidnapped
Days after the body of a 21-year-old BJP worker was discovered hanging from a tree in West Bengal's Purulia district, another party member was found dead in the state.
01 Jun 2018
IndiaBengal shudders in fear of tarantulas, experts say panic baseless
Parts of West Bengal are in the grips of tarantula scares after dozens of people reported getting bitten.
01 Jun 2018
Mamata BanerjeeWest Bengal: 5 incidents when TMC made mockery of democracy
The recent murders of 12 people in West Bengal's civic polls is nothing less than the murder of democracy itself.
31 May 2018
JharkhandBJP gets reality-check, wins just one seat in assembly bypolls
In a major setback, the ruling Bharatiya Janta Party secured only one seat in bypolls in 11 assembly constituencies.
31 May 2018
MurderWest Bengal: 21-year-old BJP worker's body found with chilling message
In what serves as a grim reminder of crippling state machinery in West Bengal, a young BJP worker was murdered and his body was found hanging from a tree in Purulia district on Wednesday.
30 May 2018
KarnatakaNipah scare enters Karnataka: Three cases suspected in Bengaluru
The Nipah scare has now entered Karnataka. Three suspected cases have been reported in the last two days in Bengaluru.
30 May 2018
Narcotics Control BureauWB: NCB arrests man with heroin worth Rs. 2cr
The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), Eastern Zone, yesterday arrested a person and recovered 1kg of heroin from him in Murshidabad district of West Bengal, a senior official said.
27 May 2018
JharkhandBypolls in 1 Lok Sabha, 5 Assembly seats tomorrow
The stage is set for by-polls to one Lok Sabha and five Assembly seats in various states in India's eastern region tomorrow.
26 May 2018
Himachal PradeshBats not primary source of Nipah outbreak in Kerala: Report
Samples collected from bats in Kerala's Kozhikode and Malappuram districts, where 12 people have died of Nipah infection, have tested negative for the virus, according to a report submitted the Health Ministry today.
25 May 2018
Narendra ModiMan breaks PM's security to give Tagore's portrait in Shantiniketan
In a major security breach, a man gave PM Modi a portrait of Rabindranath Tagore breaking his safety cordon at the Visva Bharati convocation in WB's Santiniketan.
25 May 2018
CMVirendra appointed new DG of WB Police as Purkayastha retires
The West Bengal government has appointed Virendra, who was posted as the DG (security), as the new Director General of police.
