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WB: Primary school teachers call off hunger strike after pay revision
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], July 27 (ANI): Primary teachers in West Bengal have called off their hunger strike after the state government announced a hike in grade pay and reinstated 14 teachers in their home districts.
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WB: BSF arrests 2 B'deshi nationals; seizes 58 mobiles
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
Siliguri (West Bengal) [India], Jun 26 (ANI): Border Security Force (BSF) on Friday arrested two Bangladeshi nationals and seized 58 mobiles from their possession from Fulbari near Siliguri district, police said.
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Mamata writes to PM, bats for electoral reforms including state funding of
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], July 26 (ANI): West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging him to implement electoral reforms aimed at preventing corruption and criminality in the polls.
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Fail to understand why people link lynching with religion: C K Bose
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], July 26 (ANI): The intellectuals who wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the lynching incidents in the nation are trying to give it a religious color, said BJP leader and Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose's grandson, Chandra Kumar Bose, on Friday.
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'Sooner Pak stops violating ceasefire, better it will be for both countrie
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], July 26 (ANI): Head of Eastern Command Lieutenant General MM Naravane on Friday said the sooner Pakistan stops ceasefire violations along the Line of Control (LoC), the better it will be for the progress of both countries.
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WB: 2 held with 10 Kg pills of Amphetamines
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], July 26 (ANI): Two people were arrested here on Thursday for allegedly possessing nine packets of narcotic drugs, 'Amphetamines'.
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BSF rescues cattle being smuggled to Bangladesh
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], July 25 (ANI): The Border Security Force (BSF) said it rescued 365 cattle being smuggled to Bangladesh on the intervening night of July 24-25 from different locations of border districts of Malda, Murshidabad, 24 Parganas North, and Nadia.
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West Bengal: Large amount of ornaments, coins removed from woman's stomach
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
Birbhum (West Bengal) [India], July 25 (ANI): Doctors at a government hospital in the district were in for a shock after they operated a woman and discovered a very large amount of ornaments and coins from her stomach.
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WB: College prof thrashed for supporting students who refused to chant 'Ma
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
Hooghly (West Bengal) [India], July 25 (ANI): Trinamool Congress (TMC) supporters allegedly thrashed a college professor here on Thursday for supporting students who refused to chant 'Mamata Zindabad' and 'TMC Zindabad' in Hooghly district of West Bengal.
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Mamata writes to PM Modi, urges to call all-party meeting on public fundin
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
Howrah (West Bengal) [India], July 25 (ANI): West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging him to call an all-party meeting to discuss public funding of Indian elections while pressing the need for electoral reforms.
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Bombs hurled, shots fired outside residence of Barrackpore MP in North 24
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
North 24 Parganas (West Bengal) [India], July 25 (ANI): Unidentified miscreants allegedly hurled bombs and fired gunshots outside the residence of BJP MP from Barrackpore, Arjun Singh, here on Wednesday night.
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Niti Aayog's direction to auto industries to switch to EVs by 2025 impract
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], July 24 (ANI): West Bengal Finance Minister Amit Mitra on Wednesday termed as "impractical" and "draconian," the Niti Aayog's direction to the automobile industries to switch to Electric Vehicles by the year 2025.
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