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6 months, 4 weeks ago

Thousands to be evacuated from coastal villages as Bengal braces for Cyclone Remal

Thousands of people would be evacuated and brought to shelters from the vulnerable areas in the coastal villages of West Bengal as the eastern state braces for impact of severe Cyclone Remal around Sunday midnight, officials said. While some may move to the cyclone shelters by Saturday night, the rest would be brought in on Sunday,” said Sumit Gupta, district …

West Bengal South East Bengal District Areas Shelters

6 months, 4 weeks ago

Bengal and Odisha on alert as Cyclone Remal nears

Hindustan Times

Kolkata: School buildings in three coastal districts of West Bengal were earmarked as cyclone shelters, district control rooms were activated, emergency services put on standby and advisories were issued to ports in Kolkata, and Paradip in Odisha on Friday, as the eastern states braced for moderate to heavy rain expected to be caused by a severe cyclonic storm over the …

Odisha Kolkata Bangladesh Cyclone West Bengal Coastal Areas Rainfall

7 months ago

At Kanthi, it’s a prestige fight between Adhikari family and Mamata Banerjee

Hindustan Times

Kolkata: During the 34-year-long Marxist regime in West Bengal, which lasted till 2011, voters at the Kanthi Lok Sabha seat in East Midnapore district swam against the Left tide to keep the Trinamool Congress flag high in the 1999 Lok Sabha polls, a year after Mamata Banerjee formed the party, quitting Congress. West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee and Leader …

Congress West Bengal Lok Sabha Mamata Banerjee Seats Lok Sabha

7 months ago

More Mamata harasses Suvendu, higher position BJP would give him, says Amit Shah

Hindustan Times

Slamming West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee a day after police raided the house of Bharatiya Janata Party legislator Suvendu Adhikari, Union home minister Amit Shah said on Wednesday that the more Banerjee harasses Adhikari, the higher the position BJP would give him. But not even four annas were recovered from Adhikari’s house,” Shah said while addressing a rally at …

West Bengal Mamata West Mamata Banerjee House East Shah

8 months, 2 weeks ago

Mamata Banerjee's big claim after NIA team attacked in Bengal's East Midnapore, BJP hits back

Hindustan Times

A fresh political row has erupted in West Bengal after a vehicle carrying National Investigation Agency officials was on Saturday attacked by villagers at Bhupatinagar in East Midnapore district, where they had gone to investigate a 2022 bomb blast case in which three persons were killed. Hours after the incident, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee accused NIA officials of …

West Bengal Team Attack Mamata Mamata Banerjee Bjp Pti

1 year, 7 months ago

Prime accused in Bengal firecracker factory blast dies in hospital in Cuttack

Hindustan Times

Prime accused in the illegal firecracker factory blast case in West Bengal, Krishnapada Bag, died in a hospital in Odisha’s Cuttack on Friday, police said. At least nine were killed in a blast at firecracker factory in West Bengal’s East Midnapore on Tuesday Bag alias Bhanu was traced to a hospital in Cuttack by the police on Thursday, where he …

Factory West Bengal Blast Hospital Bag East Bengal

1 year, 7 months ago

West Bengal: 7 killed, several wounded after explosion in bomb-making factory in east Midnapore

India TV News

West Bengal: Six people have been killed after a massive explosion in a bomb-making factory in West Bengal's East Midnapore district on Tuesday. The local people has asserted that the aforementioned firecracker factory was operating in an entirely illegal manner without the necessary authorisation or supervision from the local administration, which includes the police. The locals have also claimed that …

Factory Explosion West Bengal West Bengal East Midnapore

1 year, 11 months ago

Mamata Banerjee targets BJP as central team probes PMAY irregularities in Bengal

Hindustan Times

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee targeted the Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday when a Union rural development ministry team arrived in the state to probe irregularities in selection of applicants for the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana housing scheme for the poor. Divided into two groups, the officers reached Malda and East Midnapore districts where political agitations triggered by thousands …

Team Mamata Banerjee Bjp Centre Funds Bengal Banerjee

1 year, 11 months ago

TMC, BJP lock horns as Central teams visit Bengal to look into PMAY ‘irregularities’

The Hindu

The Central teams' visit to West Bengal to look into complaints of irregularities in the allotment of houses under PMAY on Thursday sparked off a war of words between the TMC and BJP. The ruling TMC termed the visits by the Central teams to Malda and East Midnapore districts as "political vendetta" by the BJP-led government at the Centre. Chief …

Teams State Bjp Pti Centre Bengal Visit

1 year, 11 months ago

Political slugfest takes centre stage ahead of West Bengal panchayat polls

Hindustan Times

Kolkata: The successive arrests of three Trinamool Congress leaders and a civil contractor in West Bengal’s East Midnapore district on December 28, and disciplinary action against several more in other districts in recent weeks have exposed the ruling party to an escalated slugfest over corruption prior to panchayat elections to be held in early 2023. Complaints against all four were …

Corruption Kolkata West Bengal Party Mamata Banerjee Bjp Chief

2 years, 7 months ago

BJP worker found dead in West Bengal's East Midnapore, second in a week; party blames Trinamool

India TV News

Highlights BJP has claimed that a party worker was killed by TMC miscreants in East Midnapore district It is second such political killing in a week Krishna Patra was kidnapped on Tuesday night and his body was dumped in a gutter later BJP worker found dead in Bengal: The Bharatiya Janata Party's West Bengal unit has claimed that a party …

West Bengal Bjp Bengal His Body Tuesday Night Worker Trinamool Congress

3 years, 2 months ago

New low-pressure area likely to develop near Myanmar coast; heavy rain in store for south Bengal

India TV News

Shortly after West Bengal breathed easy having learnt that a developing cyclonic storm over Bay of Bengal is expected to give the region a miss, the IMD on Saturday predicted the formation of a new low-pressure system near the coast of Myanmar, which, in all probability, will dump heavy rain in the state's southern districts next week. A cyclonic circulation …

Odisha Kolkata Rain West Bengal Districts South Heavy Rain

3 years, 6 months ago

Yaas fury lashes east coast

Hindustan Times

Howling winds and waves the height of double-decker buses marooned villages and rendered hundreds of thousands of people homeless in eastern India as Cyclone Yaas swept inland in Odisha on Wednesday, killing four people and triggering torrential rainfall. India Meteorological Department officials said “very severe cyclonic storm” Yaas made landfall near Barajadhauli village in Odisha’s Balasore district at 9am, and …

Odisha West Bengal West Cyclone Relief East Villages Bengal

3 years, 6 months ago

Cyclone Yaas makes landfall in Odisha's Bhadrak with 130-140 kmph wind speed; flooding in Bengal's coastal areas

Firstpost

The landfall process begun at 9 am and will take three-four hours to complete. Maximum impact will be in Balasore and Bhadrak districts, said Odisha’s Special Relief Commissioner Balasore/Digha: The landfall process of very severe cyclonic storm Yaas began at 9 am on Wednesday near the Dhamra port in Odisha’s Bhadrak district, an official said. The India Meteorological Department earlier …

Odisha Cyclone Wind South Landfall Bengal Speed

3 years, 6 months ago

‘Storm surge triggered by cyclone Yaas during full moon would inflict maximum damage’: IMD

Hindustan Times

Storm surge in the sea and rivers triggered by very severe cyclone ‘Yaas’, which coincides with the perigean spring tide of Wednesday’s full moon, would inflict the maximum damage this time, India Meteorological Department officials have warned. The damage would be the maximum in the coastal districts of East Midnapore and South 24 Parganas,” said Sanjib Banerjee, deputy director general …

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3 years, 6 months ago

Cyclone Yaas: Full Moon and Lunar Eclipse May Aggravate Cyclone Intensity in Bengal

News 18

As Cyclone ‘Yaas’ likely to intensify further into a ‘Very Severe Cyclonic Storm’ in the next 12 hours – astrophysicist, disaster management experts and Calenderologist are expressing concern that it may exacerbate the situation due to full moon and lunar eclipse on May 26. It will also fail to prevent seawater from entering the agricultural land.” Cyclone ‘Yaas’ is likely …

Odisha Lunar Eclipse Cyclone West Bengal Moon Full Moon West

3 years, 8 months ago

Bengal registers nearly 80% turnout, Assam 72% in first phase polling

India TV News

West Bengal and Assam on Saturday voted for the first phase of Assembly Elections 2021. 03:45 pm: Mamata accuses PM Modi of violating the model code of conduct over his Bangladesh visit | 02:25 pm: Sisir Adhikari, father of BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari, casts his vote at a polling booth in West Bengal's Contai 02:21 pm: 45.24% and 54.90% voter …

India Assembly Independent Assam Congress West Bengal Election Commission

3 years, 8 months ago

Before Bengal polls begin, Amit Shah leads BJP’s mega charge with 30 rallies across districts

Hindustan Times

West Bengal witnessed the biggest election campaign recorded on a single day in recent history with the Bharatiya Janata Party ’s star campaigners led by Union home minister Amit Shah holding 30 rallies across south Bengal districts where elections will be held in the first three of eight phases. “Mamata Bannerjee wants to make bhatija the next chief minister while …

Districts Lok Sabha East Shah Bjp Minister Bengal

3 years, 9 months ago

Field report: A groundswell of anti-incumbency in Mamata’s Bengal

Live Mint

SOUTH 24 PARGANAS/EAST MIDNAPORE/HOWRAH : There’s no escaping Amina Bibi. She’s complaining about the “pilferage chain" that begins with panchayat members and local party workers and ends higher up in the political ladder. At Khejuri in East Midnapore, a young TMC worker Subhasish Das argued that some ordinary people are moving away from the party because their “stomachs are full". …

Welfare Schemes Kolkata Cyclone West Bengal Party Mamata Mamata Banerjee

3 years, 9 months ago

Don't want to see Modi's face, says Mamata; she's speaking against 'Bharat Mata', Suvendu responds

India TV News

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday once again upped the ante against the BJP saying they don't want to see Modi's face while addressing a poll rally in East Midnapore. Hitting back at the Bengal Chief Minister, BJP's Suvendu Adhikari said, "You'll have to take PM Modi's vaccine against COVID. On Thursday, countering Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress' popular …

Mamata Mamata Banerjee Bengal Modi Banerjee Didi Mata

3 years, 9 months ago

Suvendu Adhikari says his father Sisir Adhikari, a TMC MP, will attend PM Modi's rally in East Midnapore

India Today

Bengal BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari on Wednesday said that his father and Trinamool Congress MP Sisir Adhikari will attend Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s public meeting in Kanthi, East Midnapore on March 20. Addressing a public meeting in Chandipur on Wednesday, Suvendu Adhikari said that his father will be attending PM Modi's rally in Kanthi. This comes days after Sisir Adhikari …

Bjp Father His Father Attend Tmc Suvendu Adhikari Suvendu

3 years, 9 months ago

TMC Protégé Turned Bete Noire: Why BJP Pitted Suvendu Against Didi in Nandigram's Bloody Fields

News 18

Kolkata: It was around 11.45 pm and there was nip in the air on that fateful night in January 2007. “It’s good to reach Nandigram police station early otherwise we will not be able to reach due to dug up roads and extra vigilant armed guards of Bhumi Uchchhed Pratirodh Committee There is a risk if we travel during daytime.” …

Political Congress Maoists Lok Sabha Mamata Mamata Banerjee Seats

3 years, 11 months ago

Clashes between TMC and BJP Supporters Rock Parts of Bengal, Few Injured

News 18

Clashes broke out between supporters of the ruling TMC and the BJP in several areas of East and West Midnapore districts of Bengal on Sunday, leaving a few of them injured, sources in the two parties said. Maintaining that the TMC launched an attack on the activists of his party, BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari said such harassment would only help …

Bjp Tmc East Midnapore East Midnapore District

4 years ago

By Landing Suvendu Adhikari, BJP Wants to Send a Message to TMC and Bengal Voters

News 18

A day after the Nandigram firing on March 14, 2007, which claimed 14 lives and left many injured – Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee along with a large number of supporters stormed into the ‘liberated zone’ to stand beside the victims’ family members. Since 2017, Suvendu’s absence from crucial party meetings created anxiety in the party as many felt that …

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Thousands to be evacuated from coastal villages as Bengal braces for Cyclone Remal

Bengal and Odisha on alert as Cyclone Remal nears

At Kanthi, it’s a prestige fight between Adhikari family and Mamata Banerjee

More Mamata harasses Suvendu, higher position BJP would give him, says Amit Shah

Mamata Banerjee's big claim after NIA team attacked in Bengal's East Midnapore, BJP hits back

Prime accused in Bengal firecracker factory blast dies in hospital in Cuttack

West Bengal: 7 killed, several wounded after explosion in bomb-making factory in east Midnapore

Mamata Banerjee targets BJP as central team probes PMAY irregularities in Bengal

TMC, BJP lock horns as Central teams visit Bengal to look into PMAY ‘irregularities’

Political slugfest takes centre stage ahead of West Bengal panchayat polls

BJP worker found dead in West Bengal's East Midnapore, second in a week; party blames Trinamool

New low-pressure area likely to develop near Myanmar coast; heavy rain in store for south Bengal

Yaas fury lashes east coast

Cyclone Yaas makes landfall in Odisha's Bhadrak with 130-140 kmph wind speed; flooding in Bengal's coastal areas

‘Storm surge triggered by cyclone Yaas during full moon would inflict maximum damage’: IMD

Cyclone Yaas: Full Moon and Lunar Eclipse May Aggravate Cyclone Intensity in Bengal

Bengal registers nearly 80% turnout, Assam 72% in first phase polling

Before Bengal polls begin, Amit Shah leads BJP’s mega charge with 30 rallies across districts

Field report: A groundswell of anti-incumbency in Mamata’s Bengal

Don't want to see Modi's face, says Mamata; she's speaking against 'Bharat Mata', Suvendu responds

Suvendu Adhikari says his father Sisir Adhikari, a TMC MP, will attend PM Modi's rally in East Midnapore

TMC Protégé Turned Bete Noire: Why BJP Pitted Suvendu Against Didi in Nandigram's Bloody Fields

Clashes between TMC and BJP Supporters Rock Parts of Bengal, Few Injured

By Landing Suvendu Adhikari, BJP Wants to Send a Message to TMC and Bengal Voters