Tag: West Bengal

Mamata Banerjee faction’s candidate for Nandigram bypoll withdraws after meeting CM Suvendu Adhikari, forcing the ex-CM to announce support to the Congress candidate. Hours later, he gets arrested.

The class-11 girl lived alone at a Kolkata hotel, waiting to be taken to the airport to board a plane to the US. She was made to believe that she would get a job as a receptionist in the USA with a monthly salary of ₹3 lakh.

'Bollywoof' is going to be the first Western-style animation feature film to be set in contemporary India. Much of its story takes place in Kolkata. It is a “celebration of the relationship between India and the UK,” say the producers.

A group of students barged into the headmaster's office and began punching and kicking him, then chased him out of his office while continuing the assault. The incident lays bare a troubling breakdown in trust between the school administration and the students.

TMC national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee says it was BJP workers who attacked and vandalised the party's Camac Street office. Party MP Mahua Moitra alleged Kolkata Police did not respond to calls for help.

Bristy Mukherjee, the 28-year-old niece of niece of Mamata Banerjee, was one of the 26,000 teaching and non-teaching staff members who were laid off in the teachers’ recruitment scam.

At the rally for which the FIR has been filed, Mamata Banerjee had hit out at what she called “political atrocities” being inflicted on her party’s supporters in West Bengal, alleging these were being orchestrated “at the initiative of the BJP.”

Celebrations of the centenary of Rabindranath Tagore’s visit to Indonesia soared higher with the presentation of the latest collection of batik textile garments by an Indian fashion designer, Papri Basak from Shantiniketan, at a fashion show in Jakarta.

BJP is “scared” of the Cockroach Janta Party, says the outfit’s national spokesperson Ashutosh Ranka. “Cockroaches of Bengal will continue to visit govt schools and push the Bengal govt to get them fixed. The more you stop us, the bigger we become,” he said.

The body of 74-year-old Ashish Banerjee, who was a five-time MLA, was found hanging at the office of Trinamool Congress in Rampurhat on August 16.