Sevan missing Konaseema fishermen found safe off West Bengal coast
Fishermen noticed the missing boat near Shankarpur fishing harbour and helped the missing ones to contact their family members through cellphone
Andhra Pradesh Fishermen Found Safe After Going Missing in Bay of Bengal
Amaravati, August 26: Seven fishermen from Andhra Pradesh, who had been missing in the Bay of Bengal since earlier this month, have been located. Agriculture and Fisheries Minister Kinjirapu Atchannaidu announced this news on Wednesday. The fishermen had drifted to the West Bengal coast due to a technical failure of their boat. The minister confirmed ... Read more Andhra Pradesh Fishermen Found Safe After Going Missing in Bay of Bengal
Bangladesh rape-murder victim's clip FALSELY shared as West Bengal incident
Bangladesh rapemurder victims clip FALSELY shared as West Bengal incident
NIS Management receives mandate for training rural youth from Govt. of West Bengal
West Bengal: Health dept to inspect private blood banks amid reports of rampant black-marketing
Kolkata, Aug 26 (IANS) Amid several incidents of black-marketing of blood and plasma surfacing from different corners of West Bengal, the state health department has decided to inspect the available infrastructure of different private blood banks in the state. The inspection is intended to check whether these private blood banks have the requisite infrastructure like []
Two TMCP workers arrested for tearing Swami Vivekananda
Kolkata, Aug 26 (IANS) Two activists of Trinamool Congress student wing, Trinamool Chhatra Parishad (TMCP), have been arrested for allegedly tearing up a poster with Swami Vivekanandas picture and also kicking that poster publicly at a college in Malda district of West Bengal. Recently, a video clip went viral on social media, where the three []
Indian Caregiver Murdered in Jerusalem: Suspect Indicted
Indian Caregiver Fatally Stabbed in Jerusalem Residence; Employers Grandson Indicted for Premeditated Murder Jerusalem : Rajeev Acharya, a 40-year-old live-in caregiver from Kalimpong, West Bengal, India, was fatally stabbed on July 23, 2026, inside the Jerusalem residence of the elderly Israeli couple he was caring for. Israeli prosecutors have officially indicted Avior Zaken, the 31-year-old grandson of the employers, on charges of premeditated murder. The Incident and Investigation According to communication details sent by the Embassy of India in Tel Aviv, Acharya suffered multiple traumatic injuries from a sharp object. Investigators state that the suspect launched a sudden attack while Acharya was resting in his room. The victim tragically succumbed [] Indian Caregiver Murdered in Jerusalem: Suspect Indicted
Dilip Ghosh Criticizes Congress Over National Interests and Rahul Gandhis Remarks
Kolkata, August 26: West Bengal Minister Dilip Ghosh has sharply criticized the Congress party. He stated that the party often faces issues with initiatives that benefit the nation. During his remarks, Ghosh also targeted Rahul Gandhi. Speaking to reporters on Wednesday morning, Ghosh said, No matter what Mallikarjun Kharge and Rahul Gandhi do, it makes ... Read more Dilip Ghosh Criticizes Congress Over National Interests and Rahul Gandhis Remarks
West Bengal CM directs inquiry into alleged anti-national graffiti at JU hostel
Suvendu vows to keep Mamata off the streets, TMC chairperson says not taking political sanyas
Over the past few years, the politics in West Bengal has hinged on the electoral contest between Suvendu Adhikari and Mamata Banerjee
Bengal BJP Chief Warns Members Against Corruption Allegations
Kolkata, August 26: The President of the West Bengal Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Rajya Sabha MP, Samik Bhattacharya, issued a stern warning to party leaders and workers via various organizational WhatsApp groups on Tuesday. He emphasized that any proven allegations of corruption against them would lead to disciplinary action. In a message written in ... Read more Bengal BJP Chief Warns Members Against Corruption Allegations
Kolkata High Court to Hear Former Minister Sujit Boses Bail Plea
Kolkata, August 26: A new bench of the Kolkata High Court will hear the bail application of former Trinamool Congress MLA and West Bengal Fire Services Minister Sujit Bose. This case was filed by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) against him. Last week, Justice Suvra Ghosh recused herself from the case after completing the hearing. On ... Read more Kolkata High Court to Hear Former Minister Sujit Boses Bail Plea
Another member quits JU probe committee
CM promised me a roof: Pavement grandmom after run-in with minister
SC seeks data on appeals against Bengal electoral roll changes
The Supreme Court requested detailed data from the Election Commission regarding pending appeals. These appeals challenge voter list inclusions and exclusions in West Bengal. The court directed the Election Commission to provide a breakdown of disposed and pending cases. All appeals must be decided before the next parliamentary elections in 2029. This directive aims to streamline and expedite the disposal of appeals.
After sugar and onion, vegetables get dearer, rates up 50%-100% in 10 days
KP SOS to civic agencies for repairs of over 200 roads ahead of Durga Puja
10 EB teams crack down on hoarders after CM prod
Chief minister Suvendu Adhikari meets govt agencies, departments, cracks road whip
ACB arrests 3 lab staff for selling blood
Aug 31 final deadline for LPG e-KYC
Cops probe HuM link of arrested suspects
Netas question lack of clarity' in delimitation process
FIRs filed after 2 ailing horses rescued in Kol
Backed off after resistance: Calcutta High Court reduces sentence in 2014 Siliguri molestation case
Under 10% hotels audited, association pleads for time
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Minister: Appointing MPs, MLAs to free campuses of politics
Doctors protest against 72-hr bar on pvt practice order
Residents, traders of death bldg locked out for a week
Cops widen net, search for fire licence tout gang
Blood Trafficking Scandal Unfolds in West Bengal Hospital; Three Lab Assistants Arrested
Kolkata, August 25: The Anti-Corruption Branch of West Bengal Police has arrested three lab assistants from a government hospital on charges of alleged blood trafficking. The arrested individuals work at the Panskura Super Specialty Hospital in East Midnapore district. However, the police have not yet disclosed their identities. Authorities suspect that these three are part ... Read more Blood Trafficking Scandal Unfolds in West Bengal Hospital; Three Lab Assistants Arrested
West Bengal SIR: Supreme Court demands data on appeals as municipal polls close in
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IPC Holds Crucial Meeting in Kolkata to Discuss Drug Standards and Quality Improvement
Kolkata, August 25: The Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission (IPC), under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, organized an interactive meeting at the Central Drug Laboratory (CDL) and the Central Cosmetics Laboratory (CCL) in Kolkata. This meeting marked the first of its kind in West Bengal, where experts and stakeholders discussed enhancing drug standards and quality ... Read more IPC Holds Crucial Meeting in Kolkata to Discuss Drug Standards and Quality Improvement
Bengal to fast-track CAA hearings, 23,000 get citizenship
West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Monday said that hearings of applications for citizenship under the CAA will soon be over, and so far the state has issued certificates to 23,000 people out of 2.30 lakh applicants.
Feared for life during outsider attack: JU student mails plaint
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Zero tolerance: In open letter, Samik reads BJP ranks riot act against corruption
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Are schools closed tomorrow in Delhi, Noida, Gurugram for Eid-e-Milad-un-Nabi?
Students across India will witness school holidays this week, driven by both scheduled festival holidays and the ongoing monsoon. Schools in many states will remain shut on August 26 on account of Eid-e-Milad-un-Nabi, Onam, The schools will also remain shut for heavy rainfall in several states, including Odisha, Delhi-NCR, West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand and parts of the Northeast.
Tensions Rise in West Bengals Real Trinamool Battle Ahead of August 28 Showdown
New Delhi, August 25: The political landscape in West Bengal is heating up as the real Trinamool battle intensifies. Following the election results in May, a dispute within the Trinamool Congress has split the party into two factions. Both groups claim to be the legitimate successors of the party, and their conflict has escalated from ... Read more Tensions Rise in West Bengals Real Trinamool Battle Ahead of August 28 Showdown
AIIMS Kalyani Recruitment 2026 - Apply Online for 51 Senior Resident, Senior Demonstrator Posts
All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Kalyani, West Bengal, has invited applications for 51 Senior Resident (Non-Academic) posts and Senior Demonstrator posts in select non-medical subjects. Candidates must apply online by 10 September 2026, 5:00 PM; the interview will be held in hybrid mode (online & offline) on 2930 September 2026 at AIIMS Kalyani.
School holiday tomorrow, August 26: Schools nationwide are set to close for Eid-e-Milad-un-Nabi, with Kerala also observing Onam. Raksha Bandhan follows on August 28 in several northern states. Meanwhile, heavy rainfall across Delhi-NCR, Odisha, West Bengal, Bihar and the Northeast has triggered local, weather-related closures in some districts, though no nationwide rain holiday has been announced. Students should verify their specific state and school status.
West Bengal Has 4,133 Schools With Not A Single Student Enrolled, Centre's Report Reveals
West Bengal SIR: SC directs EC to submit data on pendency of appeals before appellate tribunals
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Prizvox Launches AI Search Visibility Platform for Agencies and Marketing Teams
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], August 25: Prizvox launched today as an end-to-end AI search visibility platform built for founders, agencies and independent consultants. Prizvox measures how a website performs across Google and AI-generated answers, then carries that measurement through to a strategy and tracked results.
The Calcutta High Court on Tuesday extended interim protection to Trinamool Congress leader Abhishek Banerjee, directing the investigating authorities to refrain from adopting any coercive measures against him in connection with three FIRs registered in the aftermath of the political transition in West Bengal on May 4. Justice Saugata Bhattacharyya passed the order while entertaining [] The post Calcutta High Court extends interim protection to Abhishek Banerjee in three FIRs, rules out need for custodial interrogation appeared first on India Legal .
West Bengal Police arrest three over killing of former TMC MLAs aide in Garulia
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Bengal: Three held in connection with killing of former Trinamool MLA
Bengal: Three held in connection with killing of former Trinamool MLAs personal assistant Kolkata: Police on Monday arrested three people in connection with the killing of former Trinamool Congress MLA Sunil Singhs personal assistant Shekhar Chowdhury alias Bunty. The incident took place in Garulia under Noapara Assembly constituency in West Bengals North 24 Parganas district. [] The post Bengal: Three held in connection with killing of former Trinamool MLAs personal assistant appeared first on Mangalorean.com .
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Kolkata, August 25: West Bengal leader Suvendu Adhikari announced on Monday that hearings for citizenship applications under the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019, will soon be completed. He stated that the state government has issued certificates to 23,000 out of 230,000 applicants so far. Addressing a press conference at the state secretariat Nabanna, Adhikari said, We ... Read more CAA Hearing to Conclude Soon: Bengal CM Suvendu Adhikari
Suvendu, Mamata spar over Annapurna Bhandar benefits in West Bengal
Mamata Banerjee said that before elections BJP did not speak about benifits being given to eligible beneficiaries
West Bengals CM Welcomes NOC for Baranagar-Barrackpore Metro Corridor
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PM Modi's expression of 'Dimagi-Naxals' begins to expose all elements of this category
FRAGRANCE OF IDEAS On every Republic Day and the Independence Day of the nation, the President of India addresses the nation on the eve of the most important two days of the Republic. However, in regard to the Independence Day, the whole focus of the nation remains on the address of the Prime Minister from the ramparts of the Lal Qila in Delhi. Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the nation consecutivelyfor the 13th time from the ramparts of the Lal Qila on the Independence Day this year. Keeping in view the current socio-political scenario and the background of the parliament's stormy monsoon session thatended two daysearlier to the IndependenceDay, the address received great attention this time from all quarters. Besides the usual referencesto the advancemarch of the nation, the security related issues and the welfare measures of the government (both currently in vogue and those to be taken up in future) the Prime Minister in his speech referred to the finish of the armed Naxalite movement in the countryfor which 31st March 2026 was the deadline fixed by the government.In connection with the successful annihilation of the violent Naxalism, PM Modi made a very pointed reference to those who still keep on harnessing Naxalismin their thoughts and continue to pursue the divisivetheory in the society. He categorizedthem as the 'Dimagi-Naxals'. Hewarned the country against theseDimagi Naxals(intellectual or mental Naxals), stating that while armed Naxalism has been largely eradicated from the forests, its hidden ideological backers and mindset particularly in urban areas still pose a threat by trying to create societal unrest. These peoplecontinue to operate within intellectual spaces, media and power corridors and leave no opportunity to influence people to keep on makingefforts to stage anarchy on streets and in the important institutions of the country. PM Modiurged the public to identify and isolate these ideological elements to keep the youth aligned with national development, its civilizational ethos and the mainstream. In order to add their bit, the Congress leaders Mallikarjun Kharke, President of Congress Party and the leader of opposition in the Rajya Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, LoP in Lok Sabha and Sonia Gandhi, Chairperson of Congress Legislature party in parliament didn't attend the main function of the Independence Day at Delhi. They virtually 'boycotted' the most important national function echoing their conduct in the recently held monsoon session of the parliament which created a very bad taste on an occasion of national prestige and honour. On the same day, all these three leaders of the Congress party were seen attending a programme at the Congress headquarters in New Delhi wherein they were seen objecting to the recitation of full national song -Vande-Mataram! This further added to the already existing distaste in this connection. The whole nation witnessed how the Congress top leadership in presence of their workers at their main office insulted the national song. This is indeed the lowest level of position that the Congress stooped to publicly in regard to Vande-Mataram that has been accorded the status of national song by the Indian constitution. In the recently held monsoon session of the parliament, Prevention of Insults to National Honour (Amendment) Bill 2026 was duly passed by the Rajya Sabha and the Lok Sabha. The legislation amends the 1971 Act to place the national song -Vande-Mataram, on par with the National anthem, making intentional interruptions or insults a punishable criminal offense. Intentionally preventing the singing of the song or disturbing an assembly reciting it carries up to three years in prison, a fine or both. Any second or subsequent conviction mandates a minimum jail term of one year. The government of the day in recognition of the people's wishes, sentiments and the pent-up feelings for a long time, took this step to honour the national heritage and provide legal sanctity to the complete song as was written by its author Bankim Chandra Chatterji during its 150th anniversary milestone. The aspirations in this regard were expressed by the people immediately after passing the Bill and particularly during the Tiranga Yatra conducted on the sacred occasion of this year's Independence Day. What Congress leadership did, unfortunately, reflects the mindset that the Prime Minister in his address to the nation referred to when he talked about the Dimagi-Naxals active in the country. A number of politicians, the so-called intellectuals, activists and anti-Modi elements came out declaring that they are 'proud of being Dimagi-Naxals'. These elements included P. Chidambaram, Arvind Kejriwal, Mehbooba Mufti, Renuka Chaudhary and others of their ilks. Though the Union Minister Kiran Rejiju clarified that the label wasn't meant for the general political rivals, but for those who reject the constitution or back separatism and support anarchy and violence in this regard. All the above mentioned characters fit in the definition as recommended by both the Prime Minister and the Union Minister. Here it will be importantto go to some facts of history in this connection. Naxalism in its violent form began in India around 1967 during the peasant uprising in Naxalbari-Darjeeling, West Bengal. It followed the Maoist revolutionary ideology and was led by Charu Majumdar and Kanu Sanyal. Naxalism expanded through violent land seizures, guerilla type attacks on the state forces and preaching pseudo-socialism. They later joined with the Communist Party of India (Maoist) and formed a number of splinter groups to pursue their agenda of armed activity against the landlords and the state of India. The leaders of this extreme-left oriented ideology argued that the socio-economic change required armed revolution and encouraged the extremist ideas in remote villages and tribal areas in a number of states. Though police and paramilitary deployments and actions suppressed the expansion of the revolt, however, it emerged as a major security threat internally. They grew support from some key urban intellectuals and other politically connected activists and leaders and emerged as a real threat in states like Bihar, Chattisgarh, Jharkhand, Orissa and parts of Telangana. The high intensity violence unleashed by these Naxal-terrorists peaked around the year 2010 with nearly 2,000 violent incidents and hundreds of security and civilian deaths recorded in that single year.The active and passive support by the Urban-Naxals to this violence and the extremists involved in this carnage created a number of problems on ground for the State. On the one hand, the coordinated counter-insurgency measures, effective and aggressive camp setups by the security forces, road building and intelligence tracking reduced major rebel strongholds and on the other hand, the Urban-Naxals put all efforts to protect them legally, politically and by building a false narrative in their favour. On 25th May 2013, the Maoist insurgents in a deadly attack ambushed a full convoy of Congress leaders and workers in Jiram Ghati-Bastar region in Chhattisgarh. The ambush killed around 30 people, virtually wiping out the entire top leadership of the state Congress party. The dead included among others VC Shukla, Nand Kumar Patel, Mahendra Karma and Uday Mudliyar. The government of India in an affidavit to the SC during the UPA rule in November 2013 said that academicians and activists in urban centres had come to control 'mass organisations' organically linked to Maoists under the cover of human rights indicating how governments irrespective of political cover have seen 'urban-naxals' as a threat and noted hat these cadres are in many ways more dangerous than the cadres of the People's Liberation Guerrilla Army (PLGA). Sushil Kumar Shinde (UPA) led Home ministry in 2013 had clearly said 'how urban-naxal warfare was part of a strategyof CPI (Maoist) to mobilise opinion throughbodies tied to the party structure but which maintained a separate identity to avoid legal liability'. It is very unfortunate that P. Chidambaram, Renuka Chaudhary of the same Congress party and others are taking pride in being 'Dimagi Naxals' about which their own government had in the Supreme Court declared the intent and the strategy of these anti-social and anti-national elements. Salwa Judum was introduced as a state-sponsored vigilante movement against the Naxalites isome states in rural India. It was like a counter-insurgency operativein the hands of the local people that had gained bipartisan supportfrom the ruling as well as the opposition parties. Unfortunately, on thepetition filed by one Nandini Sundar, a sympathiser of the Naxals in the Apex Court, Justice B. Sudershan Reddy and Justice S.S.Najjardisbanded the Salwa Judum to the detriment of the anti-Naxal operations initiated by the then government. It was the same Justice Reddy who was later, after his retirement, sponsored by the Congress party and the other opposition parties as a candidate for the President's post. This invariably is a fit case of Dimagi-Naxal that was referred to by the Prime Minister in his speech. The BJP led NDA government immediately after assuming office in 2014 took very serious note of the activities of the Naxals and the Urban-Naxals both. Time specific plans were made to eradicate the Naxal groups. Time-scale strategy and planning was devised to organise large-scale surrenders of these extremists; and security pressure reduced their active zone significantly by the year 2026, marking a sharp decline in their geographic spread and active armed conflicts. As a travesity of justice in this regard, there are still many forces which continue to pursue the Naxal agenda in one or the other form. The expression of Dimagi-Naxals used by PM Modi has surely unmasked these elements and forced them to get exposed before the nation. It is just the beginning in this regard; more to follow in the very near future. (The author is a senior BJP & KP leader, Human Rights Defender and a columnist and can be at: reached at ashwanikc2012@gmail.com )
West Bengal CM Announces Swift Completion of CAA Hearings
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