Bengal
The Bengal Chamber of Commerce & Industry (BCC&I) organized a Financial Awareness Conclave – “Wealth: Inclusion, Creation, Protection & Growth” on Friday, bringing together policymakers, regulators, bankers, and financial experts.
The conclave featured a series of engaging expert roundtable discussions. The session on “Envisaging Integrated Financial Ecosystems: MSME Growth through Credit, Cash Flow & Capital”, witnessed insightful deliberations from Mr. Shams Tabrez, DGM-SME, State Bank of India, and Mr. Ujjwal Chandra, Deputy Zonal Head, Central Bank of India, on strengthening credit access and sustainable growth pathways for MSMEs
A big fight inside the Trinamool Congress (TMC) has now reached the bank. Former party treasurer Aroop Biswas has written to HDFC Bank, asking them to freeze the party’s accounts containing hundreds of crores, claiming there is a major dispute over who really controls the party.
Unearthing vital, suppressed records surrounding the legislative inception of the state, the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies (MAKAIAS) hosted a high-profile seminar titled “West Bengal: Revisiting its Past” on Saturday, June 20, 2026. Commemorating Paschimbanga Diwas—the historic day nearly eight decades ago when Bengal’s lawmakers voted to sever ties with the expanding map of East Pakistan—distinguished academics, researchers, and political leaders gathered to correct decades of distorted historical narratives. Delivering a compelling video address, West Bengal Assembly Speaker Rathindra Bose, a veteran chartered accountant, meticulously detailed how the state’s creation was explicitly designed to dismantle a deep-seated conspiracy aimed at dragging the entire landmass into a theocratic state. Bose positioned Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee as the singular, far-sighted leading light who unified ideologically polarized legislators in 1947 to secure a safe homeland for Hindu Bengalis. Echoing these structural concerns, MAKAIAS Director Dr. Sarup Prasad Ghosh slammed past administrations for intentionally imposing historical amnesia on refugees, while issuing an urgent, data-driven warning regarding a sharp drop in native Bengali speakers and an active “demographic invasion” fueled by systemic illegal immigration from Bangladesh.
In a landmark visit marking his first official tour of North Bengal since taking the oath as Chief Minister on May 9, Suvendu Adhikari arrived in Siliguri on Wednesday with a promise to “return the debt” to a region that has long anchored the BJP’s rise in the state.
Tension gripped the Nawabganj area of Old Malda after the mysterious death of a Class IX student on Wednesday.
The mysterious death of minor girl Srishti Keshari in Malda town has once again sparked political controversy across West Bengal.
In a major post-election legal development, sports promoter Satadru Dutta has filed an official police complaint against former West Bengal Sports Minister and TMC leader Aroop Biswas, accusing him of sabotaging international football icon Lionel Messi’s visit to Kolkata in December 2025. Filed at the Bidhannagar South police station on Monday, May 18, 2026, the FIR also names former DGP Rajeev Kumar and senior bureaucrat Santanu Basu. Dutta alleges that Biswas extorted 22,000 complimentary tickets for black-market sales and forced 10,000 unauthorized political associates onto the Salt Lake Stadium pitch, compromising Messi’s Z-plus security and forcing the star to flee after just 20 minutes. Dutta, who previously spent 38 days in jail as a “scapegoat,” stated that the recent political change in Bengal gave him the courage to act, following a fresh probe ordered by the newly appointed BJP Sports Minister, Nisith Pramanik.
The West Bengal government has granted sanction to prosecute former RG Kar Medical College and Hospital principal Sandip Ghosh in connection with alleged financial irregularities during his tenure at the institution.
The historic May 2026 West Bengal Assembly election results have exposed a stark reality for the INDIA bloc: their greatest adversary was not the BJP’s organizational strength, but their own structural disunity. While the BJP secured its maiden triumph with 45.84% of the vote, a simple look at the electoral arithmetic reveals that a united opposition would have fundamentally altered the outcome. The Trinamool Congress (40.80%), CPI(M) (4.45%), and Congress (2.97%) commanded a combined 48.22% of the electorate, yet old grassroots rivalries and a proprietorial mindset from Mamata Banerjee fragmented the anti-BJP vote. This tactical isolation culminated in the shocking fall of the TMC’s Bhabanipur bastion to Chief Minister-designate Suvendu Adhikari. As Rahul Gandhi extends a post-verdict olive branch on social media, the defeat serves as a definitive warning that without humility and compromise, favorable demographics remain nothing more than meaningless statistics
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