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'We'll fight, digest Corona': Kolkata confectionery hands out free cakes,
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], April 7 (ANI): The dreaded infection Corona has been given a sweet avatar now.
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W Bengal Governor urges Mamata, ministers and legislators to take pay cut,
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], April 7 (ANI): West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar on Tuesday appealed to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, ministers and MLAs to take a 30 per cent pay cut for a year to boost government's effort to tackle COVID-19.
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WB Finance Minister urges Nirmala Sitharaman to release entire sum of Reve
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], April 7 (ANI): West Bengal Finance Minister Amit Mitra on Monday wrote to Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman urging to release the entire sum of Revenue Deficit Grant provided by the 15th Finance Commission to the state of Rs 5,031 crores in three instal
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61 positive cases of coronavirus in West Bengal till now: Mamata Banerjee
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Nabanna (West Bengal) [India], April 6 (ANI): The total number of positive cases of coronavirus in the state till now is 61, said West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday.
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WB Minister Shashi Panja distributes food
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], April 6 (ANI): Minister Dr Shashi Panja on Monday distributed food items and ludo game kits among the people of her constituency in Shyampukur in Kolkata amid the nationwide lockdown.
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India needs protection, not superstition: Kolkata Cong leaders
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], April 5 (ANI): The city Congress leaders on Sunday hold a silent protest with candles in their hands while maintaining social distancing against Prime Minister Narendra Modi's call to 'light diya and lamp' in a spirit to fight against COVID-19 battle. They said
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Attempts being made to communalise COVID-19 crisis : Nakhuda Mosque truste
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], April 5 (ANI): Nasser Ebrahim, trustee of Nakhuda Mosque, Kolkata has written an open letter to Prime Minister alleging that certain sections of society and media are maliciously trying to spread hatred against Muslim in the country by giving communal colour CO
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Bardhaman villagers paint walls with messages of lockdown, preventive step
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Bardhaman (West Bengal) [India], April 4 (ANI): After seeing political party symbols on walls for years, the villagers of Hiranyagram in Bardhaman have taken up the task of painting the walls with messages of the lockdown and other precautionary measures of coronavirus.
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11 more COVID-19 positive cases in WB, tally now at 49
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], April 4 (ANI): The total number of active COVID-19 cases rose to 49 in West Bengal on Saturday after 11 more people tested positive, the state health department said.
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Sourav Ganguly visits ISKCON, distributes food to needy
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], April 4 (ANI): As India continues its fight against novel coronavirus, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) president Sourav Ganguly on Saturday distributed food among the needy here.
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387 arrested, 52 vehicles seized in WB for lockdown violation
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], April 4 (ANI): As many as 387 people have been arrested and 52 vehicles seized across West Bengal for violating the coronavirus lockdown restriction, police said on Saturday.
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Sourav Ganguly join hands with ISKCON to feed 10,000 people daily amid loc
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], April 4 (ANI): BCCI president Sourav Ganguly on Saturday joined hands with ISKCON here to feed the needy amid the nationwide lockdown in the wake of coronavirus outbreak.
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