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West Bengal Covid cases see-saw, experts advise caution

KOLKATA: The number of fresh Covid cases in Bengal crossed 50 on Thursday after a gap of 18 days but dropped to 42 on Friday, continuing to exhibit the fluctuating trend over the past one month. The state recorded 57 cases on Thursday, a sharp rise from just 27 on…

The Times of India

Hygiene tracker, financial literacy module on cards as West Bengal joins Unicef to curb child marriage

KOLKATA: The state women and child development and social welfare department, and UNICEF, on Thursday launched several action plans to curb the high rate of child marriages reported in the state. The action plans have been launched after National Family Health Survey (NFHS-5) indicated that, at 41.6%, Bengal, along with…

The Times of India

Ukraine-returned students attend classes in medical colleges in West Bengal

KOLKATA: Medical students of Bengal who had returned from war-torn Ukraine have resumed their physical classes at government medical colleges from Wednesday, for the first time in more than three months.

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Every district in West Bengal to get civil service coaching centres

KOLKATA: The Bengal government will set up coaching centres for UPSC and PSC examinations in all districts and is roping in the higher education department to implement it. DMs had been asked to tie up with educational institutes and plans are afoot to check feasibility of setting up similar centres…

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Conditions not conducive yet for monsoon to hit Kolkata

KOLKATA: Even though monsoon is about set in across north Bengal by Saturday, conditions are yet to turn favourable for the arrival of rains in Gangetic Bengal and Kolkata. Unless a system forms over Bay of Bengal and moisture content in the air builds up further, monsoon currents were unlikely…

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Minority certificate plan triggers fears in Assam

A few non-Muslim communities welcomed it, while Muslims are worried about divisive politics

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BJP censures Dilip Ghosh for remarks on West Bengal unit

KOLKATA: BJP national vice-president Dilip Ghosh drew flak from the party brass, this time in the form of a censure, for shooting his mouth off against senior state functionaries, including Bengal BJP president Sukanta Majumdar, that had "caused embarrassment to the central leadership".

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Monsoon likely to hit North Bengal in 2-3 days: Met

KOLKATA: The southwest monsoon is likely to enter North Bengal within the next two to three days, about a week ahead of its arrival in 2021.

The Times of India

West Bengal: Kanyashree applications touch 2.5 crore after 10-day Duare Sarkar camps

KOLKATA: Kanyashree applications touched 2.5 crore in Bengal on Tuesday.

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West Bengal: Endangered Hilsa, Kajri, Vacha back, fish diversity up in Ganga

KOLKATA: Fish diversity in the Ganga, which had nearly halved in the last decade of the previous millennium and the first decade of this century, appears to be on the path to recovery, with over 90% species that had become endangered making a comeback following interventions to improve the river's…

The Times of India

A day after Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee's 'Madhya Pradesh' prod, Purulia Trinamool leader quits pakodis, vows to walk more

PURULIA/KOLKATA: Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee's sometimes-serious-admonishment and sometimes-jocular "advice" to a Purulia Trinamool leader, on why he should control his "Madhya Pradesh", has had its effect in less than a day: Jhalda Municipality chairman Suresh Agarwal, whose schoolboyish pride and unease during Banerjee's "interrogation" has gone viral on social…

The Times of India

2024 polls will be no entry for BJP, says Mamata

West Bengal CM calls for State-wide protests against the Centre not releasing funds

The Hindu

Railway Minister asks West Benal government to rise above politics

Ashwini Vaishnaw, who was speaking at the 'Garib Kalyan Sammelan' in Kolkata, said majority of the farmers of the State are yet to get the benefits PM Kisan Samman Nidhi Yojana.

The Hindu

Elephant carries body of her calf in north Bengal for two days

Carrying it over 7 km, the elephant joins her 30-strong herd at a tea garden.

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Smuggling of exotic animals in India reaches high as kangaroos spotted in Bengal

Illegal wildlife trafficking gangs have begun transporting kangaroos – native to Australia – to the eastern Indian state of West Bengal as the smuggling of exotic animals via India rises exponentially.

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Stone tablet digs into rich past of Mahasthangarh

KOLKATA: A recent re-interpretation of a stone tablet measuring around 32 square inches discovered in 1931 at an archaeological site at Mahasthangarh in undivided Bengal, now in Bangladesh's Bogra district, has thrown fresh light on the presence of independent urban centres in the region during the Mauryan dynasty around 2,500…

The Hindu

Yes, we Cannes!

Cannes Film Festival had it all: Deepika’s Bengal tiger sari & Aishwarya’s dark-yet-floral gown; alas, gum-baring Akshay & patriotic Kangana were missing. BTW, if we have a Cannespur, what would happen to Kanpur?

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The Glazers' reasons for wanting to buy East Bengal and what it could mean for Man Utd

The Glazer family, who have owned Manchester United since 2005, are in talks with cricket legend Sourav Ganguly to take over Indian Super League side East Bengal

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West Bengal: 19 positive from 11,000 samples in second sentinel survey

KOLKATA: The second Covid 'sentinel survey' in Bengal, conducted between May 18 and 20 on 10,975 samples, has thrown up a positivity of 0.17%, with just 19 positives, a shade lower than that of the first survey, which had been 0.18%. In Kolkata, RG Kar tested 235 random samples, all…

The Hindu

West Bengal BJP MP wants separate State for Jangalmahal region

Bengal BJP holds a meeting to discuss how to keep the party’s flock together and address grievances

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BJP using agencies to run a Tughlaqi regime, says West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee

JHARGRAM: Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday accused the BJP of using "a few government agencies" to run a "Tughlaqi regime" in the country and packing "all important institutions" with its own people.

The Times of India

Kolkata: RG Kar’s trauma care centre gets infra boost

KOLKATA: The Trauma Care Centre (TCC) at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital got a major revamp on Thursday when more beds, equipment, services and manpower were pumped into this facility. Prodded by Bengal chief minister Mamatta Banerjee, the centre will now be functional 24x7 with new services introduced for…

The Times of India

West Bengal: ‘Paresh Adhikary sent email to CBI seeking time’

KOLKATA: The CBI on Thursday questioned minister of state for education Paresh Adhikary for nearly three hours, 36 hours since he went missing en route to Kolkata from north Bengal after Tuesday’s Calcutta High Court order to appear before the agency in connection with an alleged irregularity in a school…

The Times of India

Monsoon may reach South Bengal early: Met

KOLKATA: Southwest monsoon reached the Andaman Sea on May 16.

The Hindu

West Bengal Minister Partha Chatterjee appears before CBI in recruitment scam

Partha Chatterjee was the State Education Minister when the alleged appointments were made

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