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Bengal to drop 'dham' from Digha Jagannath temple on Odisha's CM's request

KOLKATA, June 9 -- West Bengal chief minister Suvendu Adhikari on Tuesday said the state government will drop the word "dham" from the Jagannath temple complex constructed by Mamata Banerjee governmen... Read More


Days after Firhad Hakim exit, Bengal govt dissolves Kolkata muncipal corporation

KOLKATA, June 8 -- Three days after Firhad Hakim stepped down as Kolkata mayor, the West Bengal government on Monday dissolved the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) board and appointed municipal com... Read More


Bengal govt scraps Tajpur deep-sea port project, identifies new site 10 km away

KOLKATA, June 4 -- The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in West Bengal has decided to scrap the Tajpur deep-sea port project in East Midnapore district proposed by the previous Mamata Banerjee ... Read More


45-ft Lionel Messi statue dismantled; Kolkata PWD says no decision on relocation

KOLKATA, June 1 -- A 45-foot statue of Argentine football icon Lionel Messi, installed at Lake Town near the Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International (NSCBI) airport, was dismantled by the state gove... Read More


KMC notice to Abhishek Banerjee firm's buildings for 'unauthorised construction'

KOLKATA, May 19 -- The Kolkata Municipal Corporation has issued notices to several properties of Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee-founded company, Leaps and Bounds Private Limited, to seek deta... Read More


Polling for 152 of the 294 seats in the first phase of the West Bengal assembly

KOLKATA, April 24 -- Polling for 152 of the 294 seats in the first phase of the West Bengal assembly elections concluded on Thursday amid sporadic incidents of violence, even as the Election Commissio... Read More


Bengal assembly polls: The Congress hopes to regain lost ground in 4 districts

KOLKATA, April 21 -- The last time Congress veteran and former leader of the party in the Lok Sabha, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, contested the assembly election, he was a fugitive and couldn't campaign op... Read More


Large-scale attempts to enrol outsiders as voters in Bengal, says TMC

KOLKATA, March 30 -- The Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Monday asked the Election Commission of India (ECI) to act against an ongoing large-scale attempt to enroll outsiders as voters in poll-bound West ... Read More


'Political interference of highest order': Mamata slams ECI over transfers

KOLKATA, March 19 -- West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday launched a scathing attack on the Election Commission of India (ECI) over a sweeping administrative purge, asserting that th... Read More


Bengal transfers Darjeeling DM after President's protocol breach row

KOLKATA, March 13 -- The West Bengal government on Thursday transferred out Darjeeling district magistrate Manish Mishra, replacing him with Sunil Agarwala, who was posted as the special secretary in ... Read More