Kolkata

The ruling Trinamool Congress has decided to sound the poll bugle through the ‘Save Bengal from the BJP' rallies in West Midnapore, Purulia, Jhargram and Bankura.

The BJP has alleged that 120 party workers have been killed in violence in the state during the past few months. According to party sources, Shah asked the party leaders and workers to highlight the anti-people policies of the TMC and its misrule.

Thanking Durga Puja committees and the people for maintaining COVID-19 safety protocols which kept a check on the spread of the infection, the chief minister urged them to show the same restraint during Kali Puja and Chhat celebrations.

State Transport Corporation MD Rajnabir Singh Kapur said that swings, chairs, tables and other things are being made by cutting tires and the employees are building it themselves when they have time.

"GOWB is concerned to see the use of unquiet means to disperse passengers in need at railway platforms and has written a letter to railway authorities for discussions towards plying of a few pairs of trains..," the West Bengal Home department said in a tw...

West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar, who is in New Delhi and met Union Home Minister Amit Shah this afternoon, has criticised the worsening law and order in the state.

Started by Raja Nabakrishna Deb in 1757, the year of the Battle of Plassey, the household puja has taken a slew of health safety measures to contain the spread of the disease.

Traditional rituals like 'sandhi puja', 'kumari puja' and 'sandhya arati' were telecast on television or live streamed by organisers in view of COVID-19 protocols and the Calcutta High Court order restricting entry to marquees.

The doctors' forum said that several health care professionals have already been affected by the coronavirus in the state, therefore, any further increase in numbers due to mass gatherings during the festive season will collapse the entire health care del...

Banerjee was apparently referring to BJP leaders, who had said the police, in collusion with the government, were trying to suppress evidence in the recent cases of unnatural death of saffron camp leaders.

Senior citizens will be able to avail Metro services throughout the day from Wednesday using their identity cards and they will not require any e-passes, he said.

The West Bengal cabinet on Monday decided to increase the bed strength in government hospitals by 50 per cent and bring down the charge for COVID-19 tests in private health establishments.

Governor Dhankhar's tweet comes in the backdrop of Hathras incident, where a 20-year-old Dalit woman was gang-raped and murdered.

According to a report released recently by the National Crime Records Bureau, 14 cases of sexual assaults were registered in the city in 2019.

The TMC had maintained silence after the historic verdict by the Supreme Court in November 2019 which had backed the construction of a Ram Temple in Ayodhya.

The 49-year-old legislator from Nandigram in Purba Medinipur district has isolated himself at a guest house in his constituency, while his mother has been admitted to a Kolkata-based hospital, the official said.