In a significant move to enforce party discipline, the Trinamool Congress (TMC) accepted the resignation of senior Parliament member Kalyan Banerjee from his position as Lok Sabha Chief Whip.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has once again blamed the Central Government and the Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) for the ongoing flood situation in the state, calling it mainly “man-made.”
Congress MP and Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi will host a dinner meeting for leaders of the INDIA bloc in New Delhi on Thursday, August 7. This bloc was formed ahead of the Lok Sabha elections last year.
West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee has handed her nephew and the Trinamool Congress’ (TMC) national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee charge of the party’s Lok Sabha unit amid a fresh public slanging match between its lawmakers Mahua Moitra and Kalyan Banerjee.
West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee introduces people-centric initiative ‘Amader Para Amader Samadhan’ (APAS) recorded 1.6 lakh footfall across 632 camps on the day of its launch on Saturday.
Grief-stricken parents of the RG Kar medical college victim on Saturday said they were reaching out to different political parties to join the August 9 Nabanna Abhijan (march to West Bengal secretariat) demanding justice for the medic who was raped-murdered at her workplace exactly one year ago.
Speaking Bengali in Kolkata’s civic body meetings is now no longer a choice, but a rule. The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has made it mandatory for all councillors to use Bengali during monthly meetings and question sessions.
A highly emotional mission to symbolically name a hitherto unnamed Himalayan peak in honour of the RG Kar doctor who was raped and killed in Kolkata last year is about to begin with a multidisciplinary team of mountaineers, scientists, and medical professionals travelling to the remote Tso-Moriri region in Ladakh’s Leh district.
Ahead of Durga Puja, West Bengal’s chief minister Mamata Banerjee may increase the financial grant. This expectation is held by many puja committees in West Bengal. The crucial meeting with the Chief Minister and other festival organisers will be held on 31st July, at Kolkata’s Netaji Indoor Stadium to finalise the plans.
Quoting a recent report of internationally acclaimed Human Rights Watch, West Bengal chief minister slammed BJP-led Centre for harassment of Bengalis tagging them with Bangladeshis. She referred the HRW findings in her X handle post reports of harassment of Bengalis in Haryana.
