The TMC is fighting a civil war. Fifty-eight MLAs on one side, Mamata Banerjee on the other. Now one of her loyalists says the BJP government is picking winners through selective arrests. The Taratala case is the latest flashpoint.
The ward office, which used to be run by Trinamool Congress, reported remained locked since the results for the 2026 Assembly elections in West Bengal were announced on May 4.
Sixteen people have died after an under-construction godown shed collapsed in Kolkata's Taratala area. Police said six people have been arrested while the Crime Branch investigates the incident.
An investigative team took Palash Chakraborty, a resident of Radharani Colony in Sahaganj-Keota, Chinsurah, away for questioning.
People of all ages — men and women alike — are falling prey to these fraudsters.
The Eastern Railway RPF along with the GRPS personnel from Kamarkundu recovered arms, ammunition, and other incriminating articles from the possession of a suspicious individual at Janai Road railway station, under 'Operation Satark' on 13 March.
The details of the involvement of the retired cop in the matter had been mentioned in the charge sheet filed by the cops in the matter to a lower court in Kolkata on Thursday.
Leader of the Opposition (LoP) in the West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, said on Friday that the state BJP unit will be organising at least 2,000 rallies, big and small combined, on the occasion of Ram Navami this year scheduled on April 6.
The state cabinet, chaired by chief minister Mamata Banerjee, which held its meeting at the state secretariat, Nabanna, today decided to give two acres of land to the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) for setting up an outpost in Jalpaiguri.
Assembly Speaker Biman Bandopadhyay on Thursday revoked his previous direction to the Assembly Secretary barring circulation of house proceedings-related documents to the BJP legislators.
