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The union home minister also met Pandit Ajoy Chakrabarty and listened to classical ‘stotra’ performed by the singer's students. Observers see it as an attempt to defeat the persistent effort of Mamata Banerjee to pit her party’s ‘Bangaliana’ strategy agai...

Bimal Gurung paraded the 17 councillors at a press conference in Kolkata, where they pledged support to the TMC in the Assembly elections likely to be held in April-May next year.

Veteran actor Soumitra Chatterjee, who has been under treatment at a private hospital in Kolkata after he tested COVID-19 positive 25 days back, was given blood transfusion on Sunday after his haemoglobin count dropped a bit, one of the attending doctor...

Dhankhar has been vocal about the political killings which have taken place in the past few months attracting criticism from the Mamata Banerjee government in the state.

2020 Durga Puja in Kolkata was celebrated not with people in the streets but hoardings celebrated Chuni Goswami, PK Banerjee and Sailen Manna.

A Durga Puja pandal has recreated Sonu Sood's act of charity during the migrant worker crisis due to the coronavirus-induced lockdown.

Since July, India has established such bubbles with several countries, including the US, the UK, France and Germany.

Barisha Club Durga Puja committee in Behala, Kolkata has decided to replace the traditional idol of Durga this year with an idol of a migrant worker and mother with a child on her hip.

In big relief for Union Minister Babul Supriyo, the Calcutta High Court on Wednesday quashed a police chargesheet against him for passing ‘objectionable’ comments at TMC MP Mahua Moitra during a TV debate in 2017.

Roy was the governor of Tripura from 2015 to 2018 and of Meghalaya from August 2018 to the end of his term on August 19, 2020. He was a member of the BJP national executive, the party’s central policymaking body, from 2002 until 2015.

The BJP, whose protest march to the state secretariat Nabanna on Thursday witnessed clashes with police, accused the Trinamool Congress government of hurting the sentiments of Sikhs.

Piyush Goyal also said the entire stretch of the corridor, connecting Sector V and Howrah Maidan, is likely to be completed by December 2021.

Union Power Ministry’s joint secretary Ghanshyam Prasad said though the country aims at 40 per cent of its installed electricity capacity to be renewable or nuclear by 2030.

A victim of the recent devastation caused by the Amphan cyclone, Kar is a widow who used to collect seeds to catch small fish in her net too. “I never seen such a huge fish in my life. I don’t know what to do with the money,” she said.

The appeals claimed that the verdict fails to make a distinction between Harsh Lodha as director of an MP Birla group company and Harsh Lodha as the proponent of the Will contrary to directions made by the same court in 2016.

Jagdeep Dhankhar claimed that had the PM-Kisan Samman Nidhi scheme been implemented by the West Bengal government, 70 lakh farmers in the state would have benefited of Rs 8400 crores.