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Last Updated:June 10, 2026, 01:04 IST CM Adhikari recently met the Union Finance Minister to present a comprehensive, time-bound revitalisation blueprint, which has now set a sweeping institutional review into motion Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman during a meeting with West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari , in New Delhi. Image/PTI The restoration of industrial…
The Bidhannagar (South) Police Station in North 24 Parganas district, on Sunday, sent a fresh notice of interrogation to the former West Bengal Sports Minister, Aroop Biswas, for questioning over an FIR filed against him for vandalism at the Yuva Bharati Krirangan in Salt Lake during Lionel Messi’s GOAT India Tour on December 13 last…
Last Updated:May 27, 2026, 11:16 PM IST News18 reached Hakimpur checkpost, where a large number of people have been arriving since Tuesday, hoping to return to Bangladesh According to local administrative sources, more than 200 Bangladeshi nationals are currently being kept in holding centres in the Hakimpur area, following which legal deportation procedures are expected…
A lawyer in West Bengal’s Siliguri has lodged a police complaint against Trinamool Congress supremo and erstwhile chief minister Mamata Banerjee, alleging that she hurt the religious sentiments of Hindus by making derogatory remarks against Hinduism while attending an Eid celebration in Kolkata last year. The police have yet to confirm whether an FIR will…
BJP MLA Ratna Debnath, the mother of the RG Kar rape-murder victim, met West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari at the state secretariat on Monday and later took a swipe at TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee over her loss in the Assembly polls. In a post on social media, the Panihati legislator said she met CM…
On Friday, even before dawn had fully broken, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) embarked on, perhaps, its most sweeping operations in Bengal in recent years. In fact, after the BJP’s election win, central agencies have launched an aggressive crackdown on criminal syndicates and extortion gangs that the party claims were in cahoots with the TMC. At…
There is a close contest between BJP and Mamata Banerjee’s TMC in Bengal. In the initial trends, BJP is leading. Political experts of Punjab are also keeping an eye on the performance of BJP in Bengal. Assembly elections are to be held in Punjab in 2027. In such a situation, political experts believe that if…
Last Updated:April 04, 2026, 07:27 IST EC said the elections must be violence-free, intimidation-free and inducement-free. It also underlined that there should be no “chappa vote”, no booth jamming and source jamming. EC Orders Tight Security in West Bengal, Central Forces to Stay Post-Counting. (PTI) Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, along with Election Commissioners Dr…
‘The Kerala Story’ director Sudipto Sen is once again in the headlines for his new film ‘Charak: Fear of Faith’. Sen, known for making films on social and sensitive issues, is presenting the conflict of faith and superstition on the big screen this time. ‘Charak’ is not just a historical celebratory story, but an attempt…
Last Updated:February 01, 2026, 05:21 IST News18 visited unfenced border areas in Nadia district, specifically the Ranaghat-Duttaphulia region, located a little over two hours from Kolkata Beyond the bamboo barriers lies the no-man’s land, followed by Bangladesh, making the vulnerability even more apparent. Image/News18 The Calcutta High Court has directed the West Bengal government to…