The cases of child deaths due to fever and respiratory infections continue unabated in the state. In the last nine days, 36 children have died of acute respiratory infection and comorbidities at the Dr BC Roy Hospital, it is learnt.

Recently, it was decided in a meeting of the Assembly’s rules committee headed by Speaker Biman Banerjee that no MLA can be suspended for more than a month.

Mondal is in judicial custody in connection with the case and is lodged in an Asansol jail.

Mondal’s counsel told the court that his client should not be taken to Delhi considering his health problems.

Siddiqui was granted bail on Thursday. However, he had to wait for two more days due to technical reasons, as his release paper reached the correctional home only on Saturday morning.

In April 2012, soon after Mamata had come to power for the first time, a Jadavpur University professor, Ambikesh Mahapatra, was arrested for sharing an email that carried a cartoon supposedly poking fun at the CM.

A blank in Tripura and dismal Meghalaya results, on top of the Goa flop show, put brakes on TMC's hopes of emerging as a fulcrum of Opposition unity

According to police, drums filled with bombs were found in abandoned houses and ponds.

Trinamool Congress (TMC) Birbhum district president Anubrata Mondal has moved to the Calcutta High Court challenging the Asansol Special CBI Court order allowing the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to take Mondal to Delhi for further investigation into a cattle smuggling case. The matter was likely to come up for a hearing on Friday afternoon, but the […]

In the past couple of months, respiratory disease due to viral infections has affected all age groups

Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, in a statement, condoled the death of Mookherjee.

The flat located in Santoshpur area of the state capital was allegedly registered in the name of another person, officials said. The agency also recovered some documents including a list of around 1,500 candidates during the search, they added.

Targeting the ruling party for “orchestrating” the attack on his party workers and Pramanik, the BJP MP from Balurghat issued a strong warning to TMC leaders by quoting physicist and mathematician Sir Isaac Newton's third law of motion.

A police team reached the spot after getting information and took the injured to the district hospital where doctors declared groom's father Anil Pandey (55), a resident of Dhanbad, and car driver Santosh Biswakarma (45) dead.

Addressing a press conference in Kolkata, Chowdhury said given the alleged “reign of terror unleashed by the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress government in the state, deployment of central forces was necessary to conduct free, fair and peaceful elections.

Paediatric ARI clinics to be set up in medical colleges, hospitals & health centres

The announcement came after the Governor met Education Minister Bratya Basu amid growing tension between the TMC government and the Raj Bhavan over the attack on Union minister Nisith Pramanik’s convey in Cooch Behar district last Saturday.

Sinha’s lawyer Subir Sanyal told the single bench comprising Justice Kaushik Chanda that Sinha the childcare leave was sanctioned according to the VBU rules.

In the second stage, the shortlisted candidates will be called for recruitment rally where they will undergo physical fitness and measurement tests, it added.

The other victim, a one-year-old, was admitted to the paediatric ICU of the BC Roy Post Graduate Institute of Paediatric Sciences, officials said.

According to government officials, Banerjee, during a meeting with officials at the state secretariat, said those who have performed well consistently should be considered for the post of police constable.

The fine was imposed after a TET candidate approached the court seeking a copy of her optical mark recognition (OMR) sheet of written examination (in 2017) under the Right to Information (RTI) and deposited the required fees.

The BJP was quick to criticise the TMC for venting anger on the Governor. BJP national vice-president Dilip Ghosh said, "The Governor was in the good books of the TMC when he was attending government programmes and showering praises on CM Mamata Banerjee.

The counting of votes will take place on March 2.