NEW DELHI: The Army on Monday dismantled a stage erected by the Trinamool Congress near the Gandhi statue in Kolkata’s Maidan, where the party had been protesting alleged atrocities on Bengali-speaking migrant workers.A defence official told PTI that the Army (Local military Authority, Kolkata) usually permits the events in the Maidan area for a duration…
West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee and Prime Minister Narendra Modi NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday hit back at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his recent remarks that labelled the TMC as “thieves,” and said that he should not disrespect her chair and the state. Speaking at a government programme…
Mamata Banerjee (file photo) and Amit Malviya (ANI image) NEW DELHI: BJP IT chief Amit Malviya on Monday mocked Trinamool Congress MLA Jiban Krishna Saha’s dramatic attempt to evade the Enforcement Directorate (ED), calling it a “clownish Bollywood-style escape” and called the entire episode as “flop scene directed by Mamata Banerjee“. In a post on…
NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday shared a nostalgia-loaded post talking about her days as the Railways minister of India when se planned the Kolkata Metro project. The post shared on X came hours ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the state.She went on to share her journey from…
NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief ministerMamata Banerjee on Thursday alleged that the BJP-led central government is attempting to strip citizens of their rights under the guise of revising the state’s voter list. Her remarks came after the BJP demanded a Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls in the state.Speaking at a public meeting…
West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee (ANI image) NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief ministerMamata Banerjee on Wednesday led a massive protest rally in Jhargram, denouncing the alleged attacks on Bengali-speaking migrants outside the state and accusing the BJP of orchestrating a campaign to harass Bengalis in the name of citizenship and voter list revision.“How can…
NEW DELHI: Tamil Nadu chief minister MK Stalin on Monday took on Delhi Police‘s use of the term “Bangladeshi language” for Bengali in an official statement, calling it a direct insult to the “very language in which our National Anthem was written.”“The Delhi Police, under the Union Home Ministry, has described Bengali as a ‘Bangladeshi…
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee inaugurated the historic 134th edition of the Durand Cup, Asia’s oldest football tournament, with a spectacular opening ceremony at Kolkata’s Salt Lake Stadium. This year’s event comes with the prize money being increased almost three times, with the winners taking home a whopping 3 crore rupees. Banerjee, who traditionally…
FIle photo: West Bengal CM Mamta Banerjee KOLKATA: Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee accused BJP-governed states of imposing a “super-Emergency” by targeting and illegally detaining Bengali-speaking people, claiming her govt had received nearly 1,000 such complaints since June.“I’m extremely sorry, hurt and heartbroken. People are being tortured just for speaking in their mother tongue,” she said…
NEW DELHI: A female law student was allegedly gangraped on her college campus in South Kolkata’s Kasba, sparking citywide outrage. Coming nearly a year after the RG Kar case, the incident has reignited women’s safety concerns and led to a political slugfest between ruling TMC and its main opposition party – BJP in state.BJP leader…