Kolkata

BJP state vice-president Pratap Banerjee alleged in the complaint that miscreants owing allegiance to the Trinamool Congress (TMC) had attacked the 'Parivartan Yatra' at Minakhan in Basirhat of North 24 Parganas district on Saturday with bombs and brickba...

Political experts believe that a significant number of Owaisi’s supporters in West Bengal belong to Ahl-i Hadith and ‘Barelvi’ sects, which jointly contributes to nearly 55 per cent of voters among Muslim populations in the State.

The Union Home Minister will launch the final phase of the BJP's 'Poriborton Yatra' from the South 24 Parganas district on his two-day political tour.

The department also seized Rs 87 lakh cash and jewellery worth Rs 61 lakh during the searches that were launched on February 5 at 17 locations in Kolkata, Haidwar and Bhubaneswar.

Mamata also alleged that BJP's political agenda is to create division in society on the basis of religion. She also accused the saffron party of resorting to lies about Hinduism.

The Centre has increased cess and surcharges from eight to 16 per cent over and above the taxes so as not to share with the states, he told reporters here a day after the vote-on-account by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in the state assembly.

Mamata Banerjee had to present the West Bengal Budget 2021 as Finance Minister Amit Mitra has been placed ‘under medical supervision’.

The West Bengal Chief Minister said those who have quit TMC and joined BJP have done so to secure the money they have accumulated.

Banerjee called upon the Hindi-speaking populace of West Bengal to support her in the assembly elections in the state.

The killing of two girls by their parents in Andhra Pradesh as part of an occultist ritual is reminiscent of several other such incidents of mysterious deaths in the past five years.

On Thursday, the TMC will table a resolution opposing the Centre's new farm laws, and demanding its immediate withdrawal.

Petitioners had complained that the West Bengal government, through its officers, had, in an unauthorised manner, picked and chose persons for doling out the benefits.

Sleuths of the Economic Offences Wing of CBI apprehended Kundu for her alleged role in the ponzi scam.

North 24 Parganas district has been allocated the second-highest number of COVID vaccines at 47,000, followed by Murshidabad at 37,500.

Maintaining that the TMC launched an attack on the activists of his party, BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari said such harassment would only help the saffron camp grow from strength to strength.

State Parliamentary Affairs Minister Partha Chatterjee told reporters on Friday evening that a letter has been sent to Speaker Biman Bandyopadhyay, urging him for convening the special session.