Monideepa Banerjee
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3 Bombs Thrown At BJP MP's Home Near Kolkata, Party Blames Trinamool
Three bombs were thrown at BJP MP Arjun Singh's home near Kolkata early this morning. BJP Chief Dilip Ghosh has blamed Bengal's ruling Trinamool Congress for the attack.
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BJP's Suvendu Adhikari Summoned By Bengal Cops In 2018 Case
BJP's Suvendu Adhikari was summoned today by the West Bengal police in connection with the death of a security staff by a bullet wound in 2018. The development came days after the ED summoned the Trinamool's Abhishek Banerjee to New Delhi.
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2 Trinamool MPs Claim They Were Attacked In Tripura, Aide Injured
Trinamool MPs Aparupa Poddar and Dola Sen today claimed they were attacked in Tripura and one of their aides was injured in the incident. A strong of Trinamool leaders have in the past few weeks said they've been targeted by BJP backers of Tripura.
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BJP, Trinamool Spar Over Minister's Nationality Before Parliament Session
On the eve of Parliament's monsoon session, the citizenship of Nishit Pramanik, Minister of State for Home and an MP from West Bengal, is creating ripples.
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Mamata Banerjee Camps At CBI Office For 6 Hours As 2 Ministers Arrested
A furious Mamata Banerjee landed at the CBI office in Kolkata today as two of her ministers, Firhad Hakim and Subrata Mukherjee, were arrested in the Narada bribery case.
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"I'm Bhoomiputra": BJP's Suvendu Adhikari Files Nomination From Nandigram
BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari today called himself a "bhoomiputra" as he filed his documents to contest the Bengal election from Nandigram, where he has challenged his former mentor Mamata Banerjee.
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Attacked As "Tolabaj", Mamata Banerjee's Nephew Flips Slur Back At Defector
For days, "tolabaj bhaipo" or extortionist nephew has been a BJP punch line in its campaign against West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee ahead of the state elections. On Sunday, her nephew Abhishek Banerjee took the "tolabaj" bull by the horns.
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A Farewell To Soumitra Chatterjee, Bengal's Tallest Superstar
Soumitra Chatterjee died weeks after he was admitted to hospital with COVD-19. He was 85
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Man Who "Threatened" Sanjay Raut Has Mumbai Police Flying To Kolkata
A man in Kolkata who allegedly threatened and abused Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut was arrested on Thursday night by Mumbai policemen who travelled to the Bengal capital to track him down. Palash Bose, a gym instructor, is "a member of the Dawood (Ibrahim) gang", an anti-terror squad of the Mumbai police told a court as it sought a transit remand to...
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Lockdown In Bengal On 7 Different Days In August, Opposition Says "It's All Whimsy"
Three times in six hours, the West Bengal government revised dates for a complete lockdown in the state to tackle the coronavirus pandemic, finally deciding to enforce it on seven different days in August -- 5, 8, 16, 17, 23, 24 and 31.
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Coronavirus: No Flights In Or Out Of Kolkata On Hard Lockdown Days
No aircrafts would be allowed to fly into or out of the state capital tomorrow and on July 29 as the Kolkata airport would remain closed for all flights on days of hard lockdown to check spread of coronavirus, the Mamata Banerjee-led state government said today.
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Teen Blamed For Bengal Girl's Death That Sparked Rage, Found Dead In Pond
The controversy over the death of a 16-year-old girl in north Bengal that led to violent clashes between people of her village and the police on Sunday took an unexpected turn on Monday after the police fished out the body of a youth from a pond, not far from where the girl's body was found.
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Bengal Governor Takes Complaints Against Mamata Banerjee To Amit Shah
After sparring bitterly with West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for months, most recently and publicly on Friday, Governor Jagdeep Dhankar aired his grievances to Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday, calling out the "alarming cliff-edge governance situation in the state."
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Bengal Governor, Government In Row Over "Politically Caged" Education
Who is the boss at state-run universities - is it the Governor-cum-Chancellor or the Education Department? This question triggered a showdown between West Bengal Governor and the state government today, with Mr Jagdeep Dhankar accusing the state of politically controlling education.
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Bengal Governor, Trinamool Leaders Spar Over Video Of Disposal Of Bodies
The West Bengal Governor and top Trinamool Congress leaders fought a day-long war of words on Twitter over the ghastly viral video of decomposed dead bodies held with a pair of long tongs and dragged by civic workers out of a crematorium into a van in Kolkata..
