Kolkata: Two contemporary Bengali films — one adapted from a Tagore play and another on the jatra culture of Bangladesh with a Kolkata-based sound designer — are being screened at the Moscow International Film Festival. This is in addition to the screening of the restored ‘Saat Pake Badha’.While Joyraj Bhattacharjee’s ‘Bisarjan’ is in the Apocalypse…
KOLKATA: Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Saturday accused the Mamata Banerjee-led West Bengal government of diverting state resources for “Bangladeshi Muslim infiltrators” and said she must be removed from power, warning that “otherwise we will lose Bengal.”Addressing a rally in Kalimpong, the BJP leader claimed that governments led by his party in Assam…
KOLKATA: The Kolkata Police’s Special Task Force (STF) seized a cache of arms and ammunition near Rajabazar Science College in Kolkata and detained a man days ahead of the two-phase polling in West Bengal, officials said on Saturday. Acting on suspicion, STF sleuths intercepted the man, who was carrying a bag, near a bus stand…
Kolkata: Star Health Insurance expects a 25% growth in Bengal in the current fiscal and has set a target of Rs 1,250 crore premium in 2026-27 from the state. Anand Roy, MD and CEO of the company, said Star registered a premium of Rs 1,000 crore in 2025-26 in Bengal, the first time it touched…
Kolkata: Hitting the pause button on the acrimony of an election season where their parties are pitted against one another in Bengal, LoP in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi and Trinamool’s leader in the LS Abhishek Banerjee spoke on a telephonic call on Friday evening. While Gandhi dialled Abhishek to thank him for the “floor coordination”…
Nandigram: Crude bombs were allegedly hurled at BJP neta Abbas Beg’s house in Nandigram late Thursday, hours after he filed a police complaint against TMC neta Sheikh Sufiyan.Beg, BJP Tamluk minority cell general secretary, said the attack in Nayana was meant to silence him. “It was a clear attempt to eliminate me for speaking out…
Kolkata: Just 72 hours to go before the Supreme Court’s first deadline to add voters cleared by SIR tribunals, Election Commission has yet to publish the name of a single person whose voting right has been reinstated and who can participate in the first phase of the Bengal polls on April 23.More than 27 lakh…
Kolkata: Darjeeling, Siliguri, Cooch Behar and North Dinajpur will cease to exist if the delimitation bill is passed, CM Mamata Banerjee said on Friday, slamming the BJP-led govt’s move as a “deliberate attempt at dividing the country”.“They tabled the delimitation bill. Women’s reservation is a false front, as I support it independently. We will support…
Kolkata: Income-tax officials on Friday raided CM Mamata Banerjee‘s poll nomination proposer Miraj Shah (also the trustee of one of the state’s biggest private educational institutions), and Trinamool’s Rashbehari candidate Debashis Kumar, prompting the CM to call BJP “cowards and spineless” and ask why it is so scared. “Ballots, and not bullets, win polls,” she…
Kolkata: Bharatpur MLA and AJUP chief Humayun Kabir on Friday moved the Calcutta High Court, seeking a court-monitored probe into the 19-minute viral sting video purportedly featuring him and an unidentified man. Kabir said the video, which purportedly shows him saying that he took money from BJP to mislead Bengal’s Muslims, was part of a…
