West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will visit Odisha's Balasore on Saturday to take stock of the situation after at least 238 passengers were killed and 900 injured in the Friday mishap involving two passenger trains and a goods train.
By Saturday morning, the death toll has risen to 238 in the June 2 collisions in which the 12864 Bengaluru-Howrah Superfast Express, on its way to Howrah, derailed and fell on adjacent tracks at Bahanaga Bazar of the South Eastern Railway in Balasore. The incident took place at 7.10 pm aroun
Several ace grapplers including Bajrang Punia, Vinesh Phogat and Sakshi Malik have been protesting against WFI chief Brij Bhushan Singh accusing him of sexual harassment and demanding his arrest.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee rode pillion on a motorcycle in Kolkata on Thursday during a candlelight march to the Gandhi statue in support of wrestlers who are protesting in Delhi.
Extending her support to the protesting wrestlers, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday said a team from Kolkata will go to meet the wrestlers, adding that the TMC government is with them in their fight.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said she wrote a letter to the Centre seeking permission to visit "peace-loving people of Manipur", adding that her request prompted Union Home Minister Amit Shah to visit the violence-affected state.
In a jolt to the Congress, Bayron Biswas, on Monday joined the Trinamool in the presence of the ruling party's national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee.
Ace wrestlers Vinesh Phogat, Sakshee Mallik and Bajrang Punia were among others who were detained by Delhi Police on Sunday while attempting to march to the new Parliament building where they planned to stage a demonstration.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday alleged that it was the BJP that attacked the state minister Birbaha Hansda's vehicle on Friday, not members of the Kurmi community.
Launching a scathing attack on several Chief Ministers for boycotting the eighth Governing Council meeting of NITI Aayog, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Ravi Shankar Prasad on Saturday termed the move as "unfortunate".
"An ex-gratia of Rs 2.5 lakhs will be given to the next of kin of those who died in the firecracker factory blast in Egra and a home guard job will be given to one of the family members," she said while addressing a people East Medinipur.