Responding to the ongoing violence in Bangladesh, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday suggested that she would keep the doors of her state open for people in distress from the…
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued a red alert for parts of Maharashtra, Gujarat, and Goa, predicting heavy to extremely heavy rainfall for Saturday. According to the latest…
On Friday, the Supreme Court of India agreed to delve into the provisions of Article 361 of the Indian Constitution, which provides “blanket immunity” to governors from any form of criminal…
The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear a plea filed by a woman staff member of the West Bengal Raj Bhawan, who had alleged sexual harassment by Governor CV Ananda Bose, challenging the “blanket…
The monsoon at mean sea level continues to travel through Sri Ganganagar, Hisar, Agra, Prayagraj, Daltonganj, Ranchi, Digha, and then moves southeastward to the northeast Bay of Bengal.
Several…
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will host his counterparts from the BIMSTEC member countries at a two-day retreat starting today in the national capital.
The retreat will present an opportunity…
Voting for the bypolls in 13 Assembly seats across seven states – West Bengal, Punjab, Bihar, Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh – are underway on Wednesday, July 10. The…
The Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that a Muslim woman can seek maintenance from her husband under section 125 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC), which is applicable to all married women…
Bypolls to 13 assembly constituencies in seven states will be held on Wednesday. The electoral exercise, the first since the Lok Sabha elections, will decide the fate of many veterans and some…
As of 8 am on Friday (July 5), the GIFT Nifty index was down 82.5 points, or 0.34 per cent, at 24,336, suggesting a negative start for the Indian stock market on the week’s final trading day. The…
The Calcutta High Court on Wednesday will hear a defamation suit filed by West Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose against Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.
Bose had filed a defamation case against Banerjee…
Predicting anomalous rainfall for the next month, the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), located in Pune, released its four-week forecast on Monday.
With a few outliers, this…
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Coming down heavily on the Trinamool Congress-led government in West Bengal over a “horrific” video of a man assaulting a woman in Chopra in West Bengal’s Uttar Dinajpur, Bharatiya Janata Party…
(The India Meteorological Department (IMD) issued a red alert for several northeastern states, forecasting extremely heavy rainfall over the next two days.
Naresh Kumar, an IMD scientist, confirmed…
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is wrong to accuse the Centre on water talks with Bangladesh, said sources.
Earlier in the day, Mamata accused the Narendra Modi government of excluding West…
It has not been a great week for India. The controversies surrounding two entrance-level examinations – NEET-UG and UGC-NET – have stunned the country. The ‘question paper leak’ scandal has brought…
Two unusual bird flu infections among humans were reported recently — one from Mexico, where a new strand infected a person, and the other from India’s West Bengal where a known viral strand infected…
Throughout history, the Indian subcontinent has been home to some of the world’s oldest and most prestigious centers of learning, many of which laid the foundational stones for various fields of…
The Chief Commissioner of Railway Safety, Northeast Frontier Railway, Janak Kumar Garg, will hold a statutory inquiry in connection with the Kanchenjunga Express tragedy that claimed 15 lives and left…
The situation at the railway line where a Kanchanjunga Express train met with an accident, killing eight and injuring several others, is slowly going back to normal with train services being resumed…
Newly-elected MP Rahul Gandhi has decided to retain the Rae Bareli constituency in Uttar Pradesh. He contested Lok Sabha Elections 2024 from two constituencies — Wayanad and Rae Bareli. He had won…
At least 15 people died and 60 others were injured after three rear coaches of the stationary Sealdah-bound Kanchanjunga Express derailed on Monday morning as a goods train collided with it in West…
Two years after Faizan Ahmed, a 23-year-old mechanical engineering student at IIT-Kharagpur, was found in a semi-decomposed state in the university’s dormitory in the Paschim Medinipur district of…
The upcoming Mini Vande Bharat Express, which has eight coaches, is set to revolutionise travel between Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh and Howrah in West Bengal. This high-speed train, designed to travel…
A special Indian Air Force Aircraft carrying the bodies of the 45 Indians who died in a fire in Kuwait has landed in Kerala’s Kochi.
Minister of State of MEA Kirti Vardhan Singh who was rushed to…
A case of human infection with bird flu caused by the H9N2 virus was reported in May in West Bengal, the first in India since 2019, the World Health Organisation has said.
India’s International Health…
A professor at a private law college, affiliated with the University of Calcutta, resigned and stopped attending classes after the institute authorities allegedly requested her to refrain from wearing…
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has predicted that east and northwest India would see a slight rise in temperatures, with heatwave conditions expected in northeastern Madhya Pradesh,…
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecasted heavy rainfall for several regions in the coming days. Goa, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Assam, Meghalaya, West Bengal, and Sikkim are expected to…
The electoral contest between BJP’s Saumitra Khan and his former wife Sujata Mondal of the TMC delivered the closest margin of victory among the 42 Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal.
According to the…
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued a forecast predicting widespread rainfall and thunderstorms across India throughout the first week of June 2024. Travelers, be advised to plan…
The exit polls have been proven off the mark by some distance in the 2024 Lok Sabha election. The voters’ verdict was announced by the Election Commission on Tuesday, showing that the electorate…
After the INDIA bloc stopped the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from reaching the majority-mark of 272, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee called for the resignation of Prime Minister Narendra…
Trinamool Congress national general secretary and two-term MP Abhishek Banerjee is on track to secure a third consecutive victory in the Diamond Harbour Lok Sabha seat, amassing an overwhelming lead…
The Congress in West Bengal was stunned on Tuesday after the party’s prime mover in the state, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, looked to be headed for a comprehensive defeat in his home turf of…
Bharatiya Janata Party’s Campaign strategy for Lok Saabha Polls in West Bengal failed to bring fruitful results as Trinamool Congress is leading on 30 seats in West Bengal as the counting of votes in…
Three actress-turned-politician candidates of the Trinamool Congress — Rachna Banerjee, Sayani Ghosh, and June Maliah — have taken handsome leads in Hooghly, Jadavpur, and Medinipur Lok Sabha…
There are two regions the Bharatiya Janata Party was eyeing this election season, the South and Bengal. As the counting process continues, the West Bengal trend shows an interesting turn of events.
As…
TMC Announces Candidates for 2024 Lok Sabha Elections: The Trinamool Congress (TMC) has revealed its candidates for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. West Bengal Chief Minister and TMC leader Mamata…
With PM Modi taking special interest in southern states, particularly Tamil Nadu and Kerala, the BJP hopes to make significant inroads in these states in this election. The BJP failed to win a seat in…
As the seven phases of the Lok Sabha Election concluded, anticipation for the results has begun scheduled to be announced on June 4. On Sunday, ZEE NEWS unveiled an AI-powered exit poll, marking a…
IMD predicted Southwest Monsoon to advance further over the Arabian Sea and Bay of Bengal Lakshadweep. It is expected to impact Kerala, Karnataka, and Tamil Nadu during the next two days.
IMD also…
The weekslong Lok Sabha elections concluded on Saturday (June 1) as the seventh and the final round of voting came to an end.
After the Election Commission (EC)-imposed embargo on exit polls ended on…
Various media organisations will release the exit polls for West Bengal on Saturday. The Exit Polls will provide early indications of the Lok Sabha election outcomes in the state.
In 2019, Trinamool…
The seventh and final phase of the 2024 Lok Sabha election is set to take place on Saturday, June 1. Campaigning for this phase will end today, two days before voters in 57 Lok Sabha constituencies…
Cyclone Remal has claimed the lives of as many as 37 people in the North East with the state of Mizoram worst hit by heavy rains and thunderstorms.
Hundreds of people in the North Eastern states…
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Sunday evening that the cyclonic storm “Remal” is currently over the North Bay of Bengal, moving northwards at a speed of 16 kmph and is expected to…
Cyclone ‘Remal’ has intensified into a severe cyclonic storm and is expected to make landfall between the West Bengal and Bangladesh coast by Sunday midnight. The Indian Meteorological Department…
Flight operations will be suspended for 21 hours, from 12 PM on Sunday to 9 AM on Monday, as West Bengal braces for the impact of Cyclone ‘Remal.’
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has…
Accusing the INDIA bloc of being communal, casteist, and dynastic, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said that all constituents of the alliance displayed these evils to a “severe” degree, “cent…
A cyclonic storm forming in the Bay of Bengal is expected to hit the coasts of West Bengal and neighboring Bangladesh as a severe cyclonic storm on Sunday, May 26, as per the India Meteorological…
It is a chaotic Friday in the subcontinent, with weather relating events dominating the day.
As a heatwave continues to surge across North India, a cyclone in the Bay of Bengal is brewing. Towards the…
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday asserted that she “will not accept” the Calcutta High Court order scrapping the OBC status of several classes in the state. She hinted that the government…
The Calcutta High Court on Wednesday which is May 22, 2024 struck down the OBC status of several classes in West Bengal, finding such reservations under an Act of 2012 to vacancies in services and…
The Bangladeshi MP, who went missing in India on May 18, was found dead in Kolkata on Wednesday.
Anwarul Azim Anar, a member of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s party in Bangladesh, arrived in the…
Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani, his wife Nita Ambani, and their son Akash Ambani cast their votes at a Mumbai polling booth during the fifth phase of the ongoing Lok Sabha…
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) reports that Delhi, the nation’s capital, recorded a minimum temperature of 29 degrees Celsius on Monday, May 20, and is predicted to reach a maximum…
Voting for the fifth phase of the Lok Sabha elections, which covers 49 seats across six states and two union territories (UTs), is set to decide the electoral fate of leaders from some of the…
For his “improper, injudicious, and undignified” remarks against Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, former high court judge and BJP Lok Sabha candidate Abhijit Gangopadhyay received a show-cause…