Tag: Bengal

Trinamool Congress candidates Sanat Dey and Sangita Roy were on Saturday declared elected from the Naihati constituency in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district and Sitai constituency in Cooch Behar district, and party candidates were ahead in the other four Assembly seats too where bypolls were held on November 13. ....

Dibyendu Das, the Additional Chief Electoral Officer, West Bengal will be operating as the acting CEO in the state till the time someone permanent is assigned for the chair which has become vacant following the retirement of Aariz Aftab.....

During the week, 30 Indian startups secured a total of $240.85 million in funding including five growth-stage investments and 20 early-stage rounds. ....

The West Bengal unit of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, on Thursday, approached a single judge bench of the Calcutta High Court challenging the denial of police permission for a meeting of RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat in Burdwan town of East Burdwan district on February 16. ....

Internet services have been suspended till March 17 at Sainthia town in Birbhum district of West Bengal following clashes between two groups.....

A century from Rohit Sharma and a masterful 89 from captain Virat Kohli took them to a 7-wicket win over Australia in the third and final ODI between the two sides that was played at the Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru on Sunday.....

The West Bengal Assembly on Monday passed a resolution demanding scrapping of the contentious Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA).....

A young woman, identified as Amulya, was whisked away from the dais on Thursday, for shouting "Pakistan zindabad" at an anti-CAA rally here, police said.....

A suspected coronavirus patient, who returned from Saudi Arabia, died in a state-run Medical College in Murshidabad district on Sunday, an official said.....

In more bizarre comments, Bengal BJP chief Dilip Ghosh has said that "people with blessings of Hindu gods and goddesses" need not harbour fears of contracting the coronavirus infection.....