Agartala: The only Bengal link of the Nationalist Citizens’ Party of India (NCPI), oddly, is its Howrah address. Interestingly enough, the six-year-old Tripura-based party, registered in Howrah’s Sankrail, is now tipped to be BJP‘s biggest coalition partner with 20 MPs.TDP has 16 MPs in Lok Sabha and JD(U) 12.Formed in 2023, the party’s election symbol…
Kolkata: With Trinamool’s rebel MPs announcing that their bloc would merge with the Tripura-based Nationalist Citizens’ Party of India (NCPI), BJP on Sunday said the decision would put all speculation to rest.While unease was brewing in BJP over the fate of the rebels, Bengal BJP president Samik Bhattacharya and Union minister and Bongaon MP Shantanu…
New Delhi/Kolkata: Twenty rebel Trinamool MPs informed Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Sunday that they will merge with a relatively unknown party from Tripura— Nationalist Citizens’ Party of India (NCPI) — and urged him to allot them a separate sitting block in Lok Sabha along with the NDA parties.The merger will make NCPI, whose…
Kolkata: TMC rebel camp MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar’s son Baidyanath announced on X that he would return all gifts received from TMC chief Mamata Banerjee, including a gold necklace gifted to his wife on their wedding two years ago and a panjabi-pyjama set he got on Durga Puja, triggering trolling on social media. He said…
Kolkata: Trinamool national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee was questioned by CID for over eight-and-a-half hours at Bhawani Bhawan on Sunday, his second session with the agency in connection with the Signgate investigation. Part of the questioning involved Banerjee being made to sit face-to-face with party colleague and MLA Kunal Ghosh, with investigators posing multiple questions…
Kolkata: The Park Street Police have arrested a man for allegedly robbing a forex enterprise employee of foreign and Indian currency worth over Rs 10 lakh after temporarily blinding him with a chemical spray on Sudder Street.The accused, Amanul Rahman, was picked up from his hideout in Taltala area following a swift investigation. On Sunday,…
Kolkata: The BJP govt’s flagship outreach programme, Jan Kalyan Shivir, will be launched in Bengal from Monday, with camps offering a range of citizen-centric services, including assistance for Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) applications, Aadhaar enrolment, opening of bank accounts and registration under welfare schemes such as Annapurna Yojana and Ayushman Bharat.Officials said the CAA enrolment…
Aroop Biswas, then sports minister, with football great Lionel Messi at Salt Lake stadium on Dec 13, 2025 Kolkata: Even as the Bidhannagar Police Commissionerate has issued a third summons to former state minister and Trinamool Congress functionary Aroop Biswas and the Monday deadline approaches, there is still no clarity on the plan of action…
An unusual protest was staged at Mahananda Colony under ward 41 of Durgapur Municipal Corporation over alleged corruption in land ownership certificate (patta) distribution. On Saturday, instead of throwing eggs at Sukumar Chakraborty, aide of ex-TMC councillor Shipul Saha, they forced him to eat an omelette while demanding accountability. Source link
Kolkata: A couple from Tribeni celebrated their daughter’s first menstruation day , challenging societal taboo and stigma. Thirty two years old Moumita Das posted the pictures of 12-year-old Ahona and the celebration on a social networking site. Her post was flooded with congratulatory messages from the netizens.“A decade ago, I watched the video of how…
