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Desk. West Bengal government on Wednesday appointed Murlidhar Sharma as the new Joint Commissioner (Crime) of Kolkata Police, a notification said. Dhar who was the Joint Commissioner (Traffic) of Kolkata Police would replace Praveen Kumar as the new JCP (Crime), it said. Kumar would be the new Joint Commissioner (Armed …

Desk. Members of the ruling Trinamool Congress and the BJP clashed in Bongaon in North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal on Tuesday over a no-confidence motion in the civic body, police said. There were, however, no immediate reports of any injury or arrest in the incident. Police said bombs …

Desk. Facing flak from state party leaders after many defectors returned to the TMC, BJP leader Mukul Roy on Tuesday said from now on there will be no new joining of leaders from other parties in places other than the state BJP headquarters. A large number of leaders, who were …

Desk. Kolkata Police recently cracked a case in which a biker had reportedly dragged a traffic police constable for a short distance after hitting an elderly couple on the road. CCTV footage of the incident had been inconclusive due to the dark conditions but the cops eventually managed to nab …

Desk. TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee on Sunday took a dig at BJP leader Mukul Roy and said that Roy’s claim that 107 MLAs in West Bengal are going to join BJP soon is baseless. The TMC MP advised Roy to stop looking at other parties and focus on the Councillors …

Desk. Bengali writer Mani Sankar Mukherji, better known as ‘Sankar’, has been appointed the new Sheriff of Kolkata. He replaces physician Sanjay Chatterjee. One of the oldest positions in the country since the 18th century, the Governor of West Bengal appoints the Sheriff of Kolkata on the recommendation of Calcutta …

Desk. After a BJP-called a rally to submit deputation on the cut-money issue before the Asansol Municipal Corporation in West Bengal turned violent on Friday police lobbed tear gas shells and resorted to lathi-charge on the activists. The police put up barricades at the West Burdwan district town at a …

Desk. West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education will allow class 12 students, who had appeared for their board exams this year, to apply for self inspection of their answer scripts, a WBCHSE official said. The move was necessitated to ensure transparency in the process and enable students to know …

Desk. A cousin brother of Trinamool Congreas Birbhum district president and muscleman politician Anubrata Mondal joined BJP. Sumit Mondal, the cousin, was handed over saffron flag by BJP Birbhum district president Ramakrishna Roy in a public event held at Bolpur Railway Ground. Sumit happens to be the son of an …

Desk Trinamool Congress (TMC) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers clashed over a truck allegedly transporting cows in Dinhata area of Cooch Behar district in West Bengal on Thursday night. As per reports, a group of local BJP workers stopped a truck carrying several cows and demanded money from the …