Khuti Puja at Md Ali Park Kolkata: Industries minister Tapas Roy on Wednesday assured govt support for ‘sanatani’ Durga Pujas and said this year’s festivities would be conducted without the hurdles “faced in previous years”. Roy was at the Khuti Puja of the Mohammad Ali Park Durga Puja.Roy also said there would be no objection…
New Delhi: All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) MP Kalyan Banerjee and Rajya Sabha MP Samik Bhattacharya at the Parliament House complex during the Monsoon Session of Parliament in New Delhi on Wednesday, July 22, 2026. (Photo: IANS/Qamar Sibtain) Kolkata/New Delhi: From explosive social media comments about being slighted by party chief Mamata Banerjee, to meeting…
Bengal minister for commerce and industry Tapas Roy (file photo) Kolkata: Bengal minister of commerce and industry Tapas Roy said on Thursday that more investments are expected for Durgapur’s steel industry ahead of Durga Puja. “We are expecting more investment in the steel sector. Some investments are lined up in Durgapur even before Puja,” the…
Kolkata: Eighteen years and eight months after being forced to leave Kolkata amid violent protests, Bangladesh-born author-in-exile Taslima Nasrin is set to return to the city she calls home to attend a literary meet at Rabindra Sadan on Aug 1.The organisers said Nasrin, who will arrive on July 31, is likely to be felicitated by…
The closed gate on Jessore Road that leads to the airport mosque Kolkata: Chief minister Suvendu Adhikari and Bengal BJP chief Samik Bhattacharya have backed the removal of a mosque located within the operational area of the Kolkata airport, which the airport authorities have already declared out of bounds to the public indefinitely.“National security and…
Kolkata: The state administration has constituted a high-level committee, comprising nine members, to prepare the draft Uniform Civil Code (2026) “irrespective of religion, faith or community” that will include laws on marriage, divorce and succession.The state judicial department issued the notification on Friday. Retired Supreme Court judge Ranjana Prakash Desai will chair the committee. The…
Addressing an event commemorating Syama Prasad Mookerjee at Muralidhar Sen Lane on Monday, Bhattacharya had said: “Syama Prasad Mookerjee was delivering a speech at Mohammad Ali Park when Forward Bloc goons pelted stones at him, leaving him bleeding. Had Mookerjee made any statement to incite the crowd, Forward Bloc members wouldn’t have survived that day….
Suvendu Adhikari and Samik Bhattacharya at the event on Thursday Kolkata: Autocracy and arrogance are not part of BJP’s ideology, and Bengal’s history has never accepted them, CM Suvendu Adhikari and Bengal BJP president Samik Bhattacharya said on Thursday.At an event to mark the day when Emergency was declared on June 25, 1975, the CM…
The Park Circus road that has been named after Gopal Mukherjee Kolkata: Suhrawardy Ave-nue in Park Circus has been renamed Gopal Mukherjee Road after ‘Gopal Pattha’, one of the key defenders of central Calcutta’s Hindu neighbourhoods during the Direct Action Day communal clashes of Aug 1946.CM Suvendu Adhikari announced the renaming in an X post…
Kolkata: Rebel Trinamool MPs, who have formed a separate parliamentary bloc and extended support to NDA, will not be accommodated in BJP, said Bengal BJP chief Samik Bhattacharya. BJP will also assess what these rebel MPs are asking for “in return”, a neta said.“They have created a bloc by themselves. It is absolutely their prerogative….
