Two days after two youths approached West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari with complaints about rampant drug trafficking in their locality, police launched a major anti-narcotics drive in Jalpaiguri town, leading to the seizure of narcotics and illicit liquor, officials said on Tuesday.
The Calcutta High Court has extended the interim stay on the demolition of TMC General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee's Amtala party office till August 6 after hearing arguments from both sides.
New Delhi: West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari will travel to New Delhi on Tuesday to meet the 20 former Trinamool Congress (TMC) Lok Sabha members who joined the National Citizens’ Party of India (NCPI) soon after the results of the state Assembly elections were announced. The meeting comes amid an intensifying political battle over.
The West Bengal government has directed all departments and local bodies to organise the Har Ghar Tiranga campaign from August 9 to 17 with rallies, cultural events and public outreach to promote patriotism and national unity.
It was learnt that on the orders of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the saffron camp is going to take the Har Ghar Tiranga programme to another level in every district of the state.
Police have arrested a second accused in the Rajarhat house explosion case in Kolkata, where one person was injured. The NIA is probing the incident after fresh bombs were recovered from the blast site.
Kolkata: The preliminary inquiry conducted by the police and the Railways department into the tragic incident at Karnasubarna in Murshidabad district, West Bengal, which resulted in the deaths of four individuals, including three schoolchildren, on Friday when a train collided with a van at a railway crossing, has indicated that the negligence of the gateman.
