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West Bengal’s COVID-19 recovery rate nears 90% Special Correspondent

West Bengal on Friday reported 3,942 new COVID-19 cases taking the total cases to 3,97,466. The discharge rate is inching closer to 90%, with the

Coronavirus | Include disabilities in comorbidity survey, activists urge Kolkata Municipality Corporation

Soumitra Chatterjee’s condition deteriorates to ‘very critical’: doctors

WB adds 4,069 new COVID-19 cases, 64 deaths

Kolkata thumbs nose at COVID-19 safety protocols as crowds throng Puja pandals

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Mamata announces filling of 16,500 teachers’ vacancies

Doctors at Centre-run Kolkata institute call off strike

Supreme Court refuses to interfere with Calcutta High Court cracker ban

Legacy war in Nandigram as Trinamool, its Minister hold separate rallies

Rising prices | Mamata seeks PM’s intervention

Kolkata Police books Madhu Purnima Kishwar for spreading misinformation

West Bengal adds 3,907 cases as it gears up for major openings

Four museums to reopen today; suburban trains to resume tomorrow

TMC govt. using violence against BJP workers: BJYM chief

MP cites attacks during October rally

TMC supporters forcibly ate our food, alleges BJP

Political turf war goes bizarre in Bengal

Coronavirus | Poetry in Kolkata refuses to pause for the pandemic

Poets across the world gathered online for Kolkata’s Chair Poetry Evenings this year

Cemeteries give a peek into history of Darjeeling hills

It is the resting place of early European settlers who turned the mountains into tea producing estates: ASI.

BJP insulting Bengal’s culture: TMC

Highlights Shah’s remarks on appeasement

West Bengal’s COVID-19 recovery rate nears 90%

West Bengal on Friday reported 3,942 new COVID-19 cases taking the total cases to 3,97,466. The discharge rate is inching closer to 90%, with the

Trinamool Congress slams Amit Shah over appeasement remark

Party calls Union Home Minister’s refugee community outreach as a “poll gimmick”.

Visva-Bharati teachers to move HC

‘Can’t make us pay for restoration’

Mamata has taken misgovernance to a new low, says Amit Shah

BJP will win 200 seats in next Assembly polls, he claims.

Suburban train services to resume in West Bengal from November 11

They will be run as per the existing time table and health protocols.

Mamata asks Amit Shah to maintain dignity in political discourse

‘West Bengal has a special sense of pride. If some outsiders come and target our sense of pride, we will not accept it’

Cattle smuggling case | CBI searches multiple locations in Kolkata

Raids were also conducted at the office premises and residences of two chartered accountants in the city.

Death knell for Mamata govt has been sounded: Amit Shah

BJP workers being oppressed by Bengal govt, he alleges

Not paid for 4 months, MD students at key medical institute go on strike

These doctors belong to the first-year batch of post-graduate trainees at the institute and they have not been paid from the time they joined in July this year

Pandemic shut his restaurant, then he saw opportunity in it

Surojit Rout of Kolkata now delivers food to COVID-19 patients who need simple, healthy meals

Coronavirus | West Bengal schools, colleges to remain closed as COVID-19 cases cross 3.80 lakh

Education Minister Partha Chatterjee had given hints that colleges will open in December

Bengal Minister and strongman Suvendu Adhikari keeps Trinamool Congress guessing

“I have not been dropped from a parachute nor have taken a lift to climb up. I have made the hard way up, climbing the stairs.” These recent

Railways to resume 10 to 15 % local train services in West Bengal

West Bengal government and Indian Railways on Monday agreed to resume local train services on the Eastern Railways and South Eastern Railways. To

Congress urges Centre to take up with Bangladesh attacks on Hindus

At least 15 Hindu temples in Bangladesh have been vandalised over allegations of disrespect shown to Islam on Facebook, triggering panic among the minority community in some areas

Man found dead in Nadia; BJP claims political killing

Blaming TMC supporters, BJP calls for 12-hour bandh; ruling party terms it suicide

West Bengal adds 3,987 new COVID-19 cases, 59 deaths

West Bengal on Sunday reported 3,987 new COVID-19 cases taking its total number of cases to 3,77,651. The State recorded 59 deaths taking the toll to

Mamata Banerjee likely to meet GJM faction leader Binoy Tamang next week

The Binay Tamang faction of the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha, currently enjoying political control over Darjeeling, has vowed not to allow Bimal Gurung to enter the Hills

Eastern Railway, West Bengal govt. to discuss resumption of suburban train services on Nov. 2

The development comes a day after the State government wrote to the Eastern Railway (ER) seeking discussions for plying of a few pairs of suburban trains daily

COVID-19 has shown that health infrastructure of West Bengal had collapsed: Governor

Jagdeep Dhankhar says people of Bengal paying heavy price for non-implementation of Ayushman Bharat

12 kg of cannabis seized in Kolkata

Over 12 kg of cannabis was seized from a car at Regent Park area in the southern part of Kolkata on Saturday, police said. Acting on a tip-off,

No change of BJP guard in Bengal : Kailash Vijayvargiya

BJP national general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya on October 31 said the party will fight the coming Assembly polls in West Bengal with Dilip Ghosh

BSI develops a mobile app for exotic plants at the Indian Botanic Garden near Kolkata

Visitors will be able to locate and know more about the profusion of species and rare specimens in the historic 273 acres of extraordinary flora

Upcoming tyre park in Kolkata set to turn waste into art

Esplanade Bus Depot will soon host a unique art installation made of used tyres

The hospital where many icons of Bengal fought for life

From Uttam Kumar to Satyajit Ray to Soumitra, Kolkata’s Belle Vue Clinic has admitted numerous celebrities as patients

Coronavirus | Sex workers in Sonagachi reeling under debt trap, finds survey

Sonagachi is home to around 7,000 residential sex workers. Since March, due to the pandemic, the sex workers have been out of business with no source of income.

Kolkata International Film Festival rescheduled to be held in January 2021

It will now be held from Jan 8-15. Let the preparations begin, says Mamata Banerjee

Coronavirus | West Bengal doctors call for increased testing, caution

Durga Puja has just ended and festivals are round the corner

WB reports 3,957 new COVID-19 cases

West Bengal on Tuesday reported 3,957 new COVID-19 cases taking the total tally to 3,57,779. The active cases in the State declined marginally to

Low-key immersion marks end of Durga Puja festival in West Bengal

Elaborate arrangements were made at the 21 ghats in Kolkata, where hundreds of idols were immersed in the river Hooghly

BSF hands over eight Bangladeshis to BGB as goodwill gesture

The South Bengal Frontier of the Border Security Force (BSF) has handed over eight Bangladeshi nationals to Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) as a

Post-COVID, loss of income acute among trafficking survivors: study

The women have little support of institutional schemes such as MGNREGS, it says

In Kolkata, empty pandals and roads mark Durga Puja

The city, by and large, abided by the Calcutta High Court order, which had declared pandals as no-entry zones for the general public

Coronavirus | Include disabilities in comorbidity survey, activists urge Kolkata Municipality Corporation

“We are dismayed that although the KMC survey includes columns on religion, caste etc, there is no column on disability in the survey form,” activists write in letter to KMC

Low intensity blast rocks pharmacy in Kolkata’s Kamarhati area

A bag kept inside the shop went off around 1 p.m. and preliminary investigation suggested that there were some illegal firecrackers inside the bag, a senior police official said.

Soumitra Chatterjee’s condition deteriorates to ‘very critical’: doctors

The 85-year-old is not responding to treatment and his platelet count has dropped further in the last 24 hours, a doctor at the facility said

Coronavirus | Fewer people on Kolkata streets this Durga Puja

Strict safety norms put in place

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