Tea gardens struggle as weather wreaks havoc

MP, 15 May 2024, Alipurduar: This year, tea production has been significantly impacted by extreme weather conditions.  After thorough analysis, the tea plantation workers’ organisations are planning to approach the…

Body of B’desh tourist to be handed over to kin in Kurseong

MP, 15 May 2024, Darjeeling: The relatives of the deceased Bangladeshi tourists arrived in Kolkata on Wednesday and proceeded to Bagdogra by flight.  The Darjeeling police will be handing over…

Siliguri: Two dead, 26 hurt after pickup van turns turtle

MP, 15 May 2024, Siliguri: A pickup van overturned on National Highway 31 near Goaltuli More in Phansidewa block under Siliguri Mahakuma Parishad, resulting in two deaths and leaving 26…

After a lull in April, tourists start returning to Darjeeling, Sikkim

Sanchita Aich Bag, MP, 15 May 2024, Siliguri: After a slump in tourism during the month of April, it is back on track again with a large number of tourists…

Scripting Sandeshkhali incident: BJP’s LS candidate Rekha Patra moves HC, seeks protection from coercive action

MP, 15 May 2024, Kolkata: BJP candidate from Basirhat Lok Sabha seat Rekha Patra on Wednesday approached Calcutta High Court seeking protection from coercive action by the state police.  On…

Mamata Bala’s daughter starts indefinite protest

MP, 15 May 2024, Kolkata: The daughter of Trinamool Congress MP Mamata Bala Thakur, has started an indefinite protest against the BJP Bongaon candidate Santanu Thakur for allegedly not allowing…

CBI starts collecting details of teachers who lost jobs

MP, 13 May 2024, Kolkata: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has started collecting the details of the more than 25,000 school teachers who are accused in the alleged SSC…

2024-25 session: More options for Class XI students

MP, 15 May 2024, Kolkata: Students who passed Class XI in 2024 or 2023 and who desire to study class XI afresh under newly-introduced semester system from the academic session…

‘SC directs Chancellor to complete V-C appointment process in 21 state univs’

MP, 15 May 2024, Kolkata: State Higher Education minister Bratya Basu on Tuesday stated that the Chancellor/Governor C V Ananda Bose was directed by the Supreme Court to complete the…

Illegal liquor, contraband seized; three held

EOI, Siliguri: The Excise Department seized a significant quantity of illegal liquor from a pickup van loaded with vegetables, leading to the arrest of one individual, identified as Dharmendra Kumar,…

Calcutta HC adjourns till Friday hear-ing of Sandeshkhali BJP leader’s peti-tion over ‘sting video’

PTI, Kolkata, May 14, 2024 : The Calcutta High Court on Tuesday adjourned till Friday the hearing of a petition by BJP’s Sandeshkhali leader Gangadhar Koyal, seeking transfer of probe…

Matuas to get citizenship, Mamatacan’t stop CAA implementation: Shah

PTI, Bongaon (WB), May 14, 2024 : In a bid to address concerns of the Matuas over citizenship, Union Home Minister Amit Shah assured the community that its members would…

Mamata’s offer to cook food for PM Modi stirs controversy

 She made these remarks during an election rally in Kolkata, amidst the controversy regarding a video of RJD leader, Tejashwi Yadav, consuming fish during Navratri. PTI, Kolkata, May 14, 2024…

Out of poll fray but not out of hills: Shringla to help youths of Darjeeling crack UPSC

Harsh Vardhan Shringla at Southfield College, Darjeeling, for a lecture : File image

New video claims over 70 women received money to take part in Sandeshkhali protest

In the video, lasting over 45 minutes, a man resembling Sandeshkhali mandal president Gangadhar Kayal told this to the questioner PTI, Calcutta, 12.05.24 : In a purported video that surfaced from…

Bengal teachers’ recruitment ‘scam’: TMC MLA Manik Bhattacharya withdraws plea from Supreme Court

Manik Bhattacharya

‘State must move Supreme Court’

Soumyadip Mullick, MP, 10 May 2024, Kolkata: Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Abhishek Banerjee on Friday said that the state government should approach the Supreme Court over the incident involving allegations…

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