West Bengal

04:08 PM
P Chidambaram's arrest depressing: Mamata Banerjee

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday said the arrest of P Chidambaram was "depressing" and alleged that the judiciary was not coming to the help of a "crying" democratic system.

05:10 PM
Mamata calls on Governor Dhankar

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Friday called on state Governor Jagdeep Dhankar at the his official residence in Raj Bhawan.

01:10 PM
India's first underwater train to be launched in Kolkata soon

India's first underwater trainproject in Kolkata is almost complete. The metro will soon be operational soon, Union Railways Minister, Piyush Goyal announced.

12:24 PM
Mamata declares rural Bengal open defecation free

Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has declared rural West Bengal as open defecation free (ODF).

12:00 PM
2 arrested with fake currency notes worth Rs 4 lakh

A 25-year-old man and a woman were arrested near Badli Mor Metro station here for allegedly carrying fake indian currency notes worth Rs four lakh.

01:15 PM
Crab catcher dragged away by tiger in Sundarbans

A crab catcher has been dragged away by a tiger in West Bengal's Sundarbans.

03:14 PM
DRI seizes gold worth Rs 4.4 crore, seven arrested

The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) has seized 12.5 kg of gold valued at Rs 4.4 crore in the metropolis and Siliguri and arrested seven persons under the Customs Act, officials said on Saturday.

10:42 AM
Transgender beaten to death on suspicion of being a child lifter

A transgender was beaten to death on suspicion of being a child lifter in Nagrakata in West Bengal's Jalpaiguri district on Monday

02:03 PM
WB CM holds Martyr's Day mega rally in Dharamtala; slams BJP

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee addressed the Trinamool Congress' (TMC) annual Martyrs' Day rally in Kolkata on Sunday.

12:04 PM
Babul Supriyo: TMC to be swept away from WB by 2021: Babul Supriyo

Union Minister Babul Supriyo on Sunday hit out at Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee claiming that Trinamool Congress will be 'swept away' from the state by 2021.

10:05 AM
Mamata condoles death of passengers in UP accident

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday condoled the death of 29 passengers in a road accident in Uttar Pradesh.

03:11 PM
OM Birla urges Lok Sabha MPs not to walk out during Zero Hour

Lok Sabha speaker Om Birla on Thursday urged Members of Parliament (MPs) not to walk out whenever an MP starts speaking during Zero Hour.

04:57 PM
Amit Shah meeting party functionaries from Telangana, Odisha, West Bengal

Union Home Minister and BJP president Amit Shah is holding meetings on Sunday with party functionaries from the core groups of Telangana, Odisha and West Bengal in the national capital.

05:08 PM
Kolkata: Cricket racket busted, 2 arrested

Kolkata police busted a cricket betting racket and arrested two men and was searching for other gang members.

05:08 PM
Mamata not to attend tomorrow's all-party meeting convened by PM Modi

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will not attend tomorrow's meeting of leaders of political parties convened by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

12:36 PM
Healthcare services in Delhi to take a hit as doctors go on strike

Healthcare services at government and private hospitals in the national capital will be hit on Monday as scores of doctors, including those at AIIMS, have decided to boycott work for a day in support of their striking colleagues in West Bengal.

11:23 AM
WB: Bomb hurled at TMC workers' house, 2 dead

Two TMC workers, named Khairuddin Sheikh and Sohel Rana died after a bomb was hurled at their residence in West Bengal's Murshidabad district.

10:14 AM
Delhi: Doctors at AIIMS issues 48-hour ultimatum to WB government; threatens indefinite strike

The resident doctors of Delhi's All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) on Saturday issued a 48-hour ultimatum to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to accept the demands of the agitating junior medicos failing which they will be goin

03:23 PM
HC refuses to pass interim order on doctors' strike

The Calcutta High Court on Friday refused to pass any interim order on the strike by junior doctors at state-run hospitals in protest against the attack on two of their colleagues by family members of a patient.

01:10 PM
Harsh Vardhan on doctors' protest: Appeal to Mamata to not make this a prestige issue

Taking note of the ongoing nationwide strike over violence against doctors in West Bengal, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Friday appealed to the Chief Minister of the state, Mamata Banerjee, to not make this an issue of prestige. He also assu

11:58 AM
Kolkata: TMC leader shot dead by unidentified miscreants

TMC leader Nirmal Kundu was shot dead last night by three bike-borne assailants in North Kolkata's Dum Dum area.

03:40 PM
Rajeev Kumar skips CBI summons, sends letter seeking more time

Former Kolkata police commissioner Rajeev Kumar skipped a meeting with the CBI officials on Monday despite being summoned by the agency for questioning in connection with the Saradha chit fund scam.

11:27 AM
WB: BJP worker shot dead in North 24 Parganas

A BJP worker was shot dead by unidentified assailants on Sunday late night in Bhatapara of North 24 Parganas district.

06:25 PM
Mamata Banerjee offers to quit as CM, party rejects

Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee Saturday offered to quit as chief minister of West Bengal following her party's drubbing in the Lok Sabha polls but the TMC rejected it.