West Bengal's ruling Trinamool Congress will conduct massive protest rallies and processions throughout the state on April 4 and April 5 against the price hike of 748 medicines, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee announced on Wednesday.
The Calcutta High Court on Thursday sought the Central government's stance on the deployment of central armed police forces (CAPF) personnel at Mothabari in Malda district of West Bengal which has witnessed communal tensions in the recent past over alleged attacks on the members of a particular community.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday claimed that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) are trying to get the entire education system in the state collapsed.
The meeting convened by labour minister Moloy Ghatak to resolve the bonus issue for tea workers in the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) area ended inconclusively.
A number of teachers engaged as examiners for Madhyamik papers have been axed after the latest Supreme Court verdict.
To make it easier for villagers to file complaints, the investigating agency decided to set up this temporary camp. Villagers have accused the recently suspended Trinamul leader Sheikh Shahjahan and his associates of land grabbing, harassment, and abuse.
Both the CITU and the INTTUC have said that they will start a major agitation on this issue soon.
Two sisters were hacked to death after intruders broke into their home last night. The incident took place in Dholahat police station area of Patharpratima block in South 24-Parganas district.
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday clarified that she and the Trinamul Congress remain an integral part of the INDIA bloc of Opposition parties, but have no truck with the West Bengal units of the Congress or the CPI-M.
CPM senior leader and state secretary of the CPM Md Salim while addressing an election meeting at Tarakeswar in favour of CPM Arambagh candidate Biplab Moitra lashed out at the TMC for putting up a fake fight against the BJP.
