Soumendra Nath Mookerjee, during whose two-year tenure the West Bengal government faced several legal setbacks, says, “Any professional should maintain their dignity and self-respect … To ensure this, I resigned.”

Saifuddin Laskar, also the husband of the local panchayat pradhan and the TMC's area president, was shot dead allegedly on Monday when he was on his way to a local mosque at Bamangachi.

Last month, three plaques commemorating UNESCO's honour were installed at different places on the campus of Visva-Bharati with names of then vice-chancellor Bidyut Chakrabarty and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the chancellor of the central university, inscribed on them.

While Kajal Sheikh is emerging as a big leader in Birbhum, the party does not want to polarise Hindu voters, nor encourage another strongman like Mondal

The family members say he was allegedly beaten to death by policemen; likely to approach Calcutta High Court.

South Bengal districts and Kolkata likely to receive rains for the next three days, predicts Met.

Police say a Nepali couple who rented the flat in 2018 locked it and left two years ago but paid the rent till six months ago.

Bhai Phota also called Bhai Dooj is a Bengali festival to honour the beautiful bonding between brothers and sisters. It is celebrated two days after Diwali.

Sanjoy Mallik will perform the duties of the vice-chancellor till a new full-term vice-chancellor is appointed, the university said in a notification.

Mallick was arrested by the ED on October 27 after a marathon search at places linked to him. Mallick, who held the food and supplies portfolio between 2011 and 2021, is now forest minister.

Abhishek Banerjee would appear before the ED on Thursday, State Women and Child Welfare Minister and TMC spokesperson Shashi Panja said, alleging that the party national general secretary is a victim of “vendetta politics”.

Mallick, who was the state’s food and supplies minister from 2011 to 2021, was arrested by the ED on October 27 over alleged irregularities in the public distribution system.

In Kolkata, the maximum temperature on Sunday was recorded as 31 degrees Celsius , while the minimum was 24 degree Celsius.

The agency teams carried out searches on the premises of Ankit India Limited in Uluberia and Domjur in Howrah district for nearly 27 hours and seized three bags of documents, sources said.

The TMC has been trying to fend off Opposition attacks by calling the ED action “political vendetta” by the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Centre.

The CPI(M)-led Left Front could not win any of the 42 seats in the state in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.

After India defeated South Africa, Bose said: "It is a proud moment for India and it is a proud moment for sports too.

Governor Bose, who is the ex-officio chancellor of state-run universities, has appointed officiating vice-chancellors in 16 varsities. The post is still vacant in several other such institutes.

Another doctor working with a government facility, who did not wish to be named, said, “The CM is concerned and hence she probably spoke about it publicly.

A large number of BJP supporters joined the protest in front of the food department office gates.

Six plays were scheduled to be performed at the Ritvik Sadan Theatre run by the Kalyani Municipality from November 23 to 26.

Nirmala Banerjee used to stay at her family's Ballygunge home. She was a professor of economics at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta.

The study was conducted in association with the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology in Pune which provided meteorological data based on which the research paper was made.

Earlier this week, an arbitration tribunal awarded Tata Motors Ltd Rs 766 crore in compensation — recoverable from the West Bengal government — for its capital investment losses in the stalled manufacturing plant.