Author: Joymala Bagchi

Amid a huge uproar, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday apologised to President Droupadi Murmu for TMC minister Akhil Giri’s objectionable remark aimed at insulting her tribal identity. Speaking at a press meet at her office in Kolkata, the Trinamool supremo said that she holds immense respect for President Murmu and warned Giri […]

Families of two minor girls, who died in strikingly similar accidents, have donated organs of their deceased children to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Delhi, officials said. Both 18-month-old Mahira and 7-year-old Mansi lost their lives after a fall from the balcony of their home. Mahira was a resident of Haryana’s Mewat […]

Yuva and Chhatra wings of Trinamool Congress decided to send the Leader of Opposition in Bengal assembly Suvendu Adhikari a flower, a greeting card and a ‘Get Well Soon’ message along with a photograph of party’s national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee.

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), whose Lok Sabha MP Locket Chatterjee on Sunday filed a police complaint against Giri, demanded TMC minister’s removal from his position.

In a letter to Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar, the Indian Medical Association (IMA) lodged a strong protest against the Haryana government’s 'bond policy’. It also questioned the ‘very competency of the policymakers’ in the letter.

It was a case of the lesson not learned as Delhi continued to choke with poor air quality while Punjab failed to stop its farmers from stubble burning. Shockingly, almost 2500 stubble-burning cases were reported on Monday, and the cases have now crossed a whopping 32,000.

West Bengal Chief minister Mamata Banerjee joined the homegrown social media platform, Koo, on Monday. The TMC supremo, who has 7 million followers on Twitter and 4.9 million followers on Facebook, received a whopping 28.6K followers on day one itself.

Pollution-induced restrictions imposed in Delhi-NCR could aggravate inflation and further worsen the economic situation in the country, environment activists have warned. Authorities have imposed restrictions – including on construction and movement of heavy vehicles – in the national capital region to curb pollution levels. On Monday, the air quality index (AQI), which represents the quality […]

Congress and its breakaway Trinamool Congress (TMC) may be fighting it out for leadership of the Opposition bloc and have aired their differences in the public on several issues, but they stand united at least on one issue: promise of freebies in elections. The debate over promises of providing certain goods and services to the […]

Aam Aadmi Party is taking steady steps in the electoral politics of West Bengal with an eye on Panchayat polls, scheduled for early next year. AAP opened its district office in Jhargram on Saturday. The party opened its state office on September 25. AAP is slowly building its network and looking for the right candidates […]