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Trinamool MP Kalyan Banerjee, chief whip in the Lok Sabha, speaks to NDTV Flush with the party’s victory across six Assembly seats in the just concluded byelections and citing the Congress’ poor electoral run, most recently in Maharashtra, Trinamool Congress MP Kalyan Banerjee told NDTV that Mamata Banerjee should be accepted as leader of the…
Kolkata: Trinamool chief Mamata Banerjee on Monday formed several disciplinary committees at different levels, consisting of veteran loyalists, and gave additional responsibilities to national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee as the spokesperson for national affairs, underscoring the party’s reliance on seasoned members to shape its strategic direction. In a significant move, the party also elevated five…
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Actor-politician Mithun Chakraborty got the Dadasaheb Phalke award on Oct 8 (File). New Delhi: The political atmosphere in Bengal – an already frenzied battleground between the ruling Trinamool and the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party, before by-polls to six Assembly seats next month – soured further Sunday after actor and BJP leader Mithun Chakraborty’s message of…
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Kolkata: Union minister and the BJP’s chief strategist Amit Shah, while speaking in Kolkata today, declared that the BJP would form government in Bengal in 2026. “Mamata didi was rejoicing after our seats were reduced (in the Lok Sabha polls). Don’t forget, we are a party that had two seats but aimed to remove Article…
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Some Odisha districts witnessed wind speeds of 110 kmph and extremely heavy rain. New Delhi: Cyclone Dana has made landfall on the Odisha coast leading to heavy rain and strong winds in several areas. The storm made landfall between Bhitarkanika in the Kendrapara district and Dhamra in Bhadrak, with a wind speed of around 110…
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Kolkata: The protesting junior doctors of Bengal have withdrawn their indefinite hunger strike after a meeting with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee this evening. Announcing the end to the “fast-unto-death” in Kolkata, they also called off their proposed strike across hospitals due on Tuesday. Debashish Halder, one of the junior doctors, said, “In today’s meeting (with…
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The Bengal government said even the identities were not given in detail in some of the letters. Kolkata: The ‘mass resignations’ of senior doctors in support of their junior colleagues are generic letters and have no legal value, the West Bengal government said on Saturday. Junior doctors in the state have been staging protests since…
Ratan Tata died late on Wednesday. He was 86. New Delhi: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has said she was saddened by the death of industrialist Ratan Tata, describing him as “a foremost leader of Indian industries and a public-spirited philanthropist”. Taking to X minutes after news of the 86-year-old industrialist’s death became public,…
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The junior doctors of Bengal called off their massive protest over the rape-murder of a colleague at a Kolkata hospital and said they will join work from Saturday. But there was a caveat – they said they will not join OPD services or attend elected operations. These would be resumed once they are assured of…
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Kolkata: Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee rushed to flood-hit areas in Hooghly and other parts of South Bengal today, which have been massively affected by the release of water from dams upstream in Jharkhand. Accusing the Damodar Valley Corporation of being responsible for the situation, she said, “The Central government’s DVC and Jharkhand’s Tenughat and Panchet,…
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