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Around 30 lakh beneficiaries of Lakshmir Bhandar, the flagship scheme of the previous Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress government, have been found unfit for the new Annapurna Bhandar scheme, West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari said on Wednesday. He said that these individuals were either non-Indian citizens or had been permanently removed from the state’s voter…
Kolkata Police officials have arrived at the residence of a senior Trinamool Congress Member of Parliament following a notice issued by the Kolkata Municipal Corporation. The civic body had served a seven-day notice regarding alleged unauthorized construction at the property located on Harish Mukherjee Road. According to corporation sources, the notice period expired today, prompting…
Suspended Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Kalyan Banerjee. File | Photo Credit: ANI A fresh row has erupted in the political circles of West Bengal with Trinamool Congress MP Kalyan Banerjee expressing his displeasure over CPI(M) leader Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya representing a former MLA of Trinamool Congress before the Calcutta High Court. Mr. Bhattacharya, a designated…
2 min readKolkataMay 22, 2026 01:05 AM IST A police complaint was lodged against two Bengali actors – Parambrata Chatterjee and Swastika Mukherjee – in Kolkata, alleging that their posts on social media in 2021 after TMC’s victory in the Assembly elections instigated political violence against BJP workers in the state. Lawyer Joydeep Sen, who…
The Chief Minister of the first BJP government in West Bengal, Suvendu Adhikari, is likely to move into a new house in the coming days for which various state agencies, including the Public Works Department (PWD), have stepped up preparations. These agencies have zeroed in on a palatial government building, called Soujanya, as the CM…
2 min readKolkataUpdated: May 16, 2026 04:40 AM IST Tension prevailed in Kolkata’s Rajabazar area on Friday when a group tried to offer namaz on the road despite a recent ban by the new Suvendu Adhikari-led government on such activities at public places. The situation spiralled out of control when police personnel arrived to vacate…
