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Union Budget likely to set tone for TMC's poll pitch in Bengal

Kolkata, Jan. 29 -- The Union Budget, scheduled to be presented in Parliament on February 1, may shape the rhetoric of the election campaign in Bengal by the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) ahead of t... Read More


State seeks ECI exemption for 9 IAS officers from Central observer duty

Kolkata, Jan. 29 -- The Bengal government on Thursday wrote to the Election Commission of India (ECI), seeking exemption for nine IAS officers - including state Home Secretary Jagdish Prasad Meena - f... Read More


Death toll rises; Section 163 imposed, DNA identification begins

Kolkata, Jan. 29 -- The death toll in the devastating fire incident at Anandapur's Nazirabad area has reached around 19, according to some vernacular newspapers, while the Superintendent of Police, Ba... Read More


Relatives share harrowing final moments, lingering uncertainty

Kolkata, Jan. 29 -- At the ravaged Anandapur fire site in Kolkata's Nazirabad area, families of the deceased and missing have been recounting heartbreaking experiences as they wait for answers and clo... Read More


Burdwan Med College may soon get 50 more MBBS seats

Kolkata, Jan. 29 -- Burdwan Medical College has appealed to the National Medical Commission to raise the number of MBBS seats by 50. State Health department and state Health university have already g... Read More


Water supply to be hit in South Kolkata pockets on Saturday

Kolkata, Jan. 29 -- Drinking water supply will be disrupted across large parts of south Kolkata, including Behala and Tollygunge, on Saturday, January 31, due to maintenance and repair work at several... Read More


CBI raids multiple city locations in Rs 1K-cr bank fraud case

Kolkata, Jan. 29 -- The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has conducted raids at several places in the city in connection with the probe of an alleged bank fraud case involving around Rs 1000 cror... Read More


CPI(M) courts Humayun Kabir, alliance buzz sparks 'political beggar' jibe from Trinamool

Kolkata, Jan. 29 -- Is the CPI(M) in a desperate bid to form an alliance with suspended Trinamool Congress (TMC) MLA Humayun Kabir's one-month-old 'Janata Unnayan Party' (JUP)? Questions were raised ... Read More


Alapan Bandyopadhyay maps 'Bengali mind' in new book

KOLKATA, Jan. 29 -- How often have we heard a Bengali boast of the Bengali mind? Quite often, especially during addas. But what exactly is the Bengali mind? Has it changed with age and time? How does... Read More


Another died in Bengal over 'SIR anxiety'

Kolkata, Jan. 29 -- In a fresh incident linked to the ongoing Special Intensive Revision process in West Bengal, a 70-year-old man from Polba in Hooghly district, identified as Sheikh Ismail, died ami... Read More