Bengal Newspapers

In the midst of the 2024 Lok Sabha election, a newspaper clip carrying news about West Bengal's Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is going viral on social media.

A full-page newspaper advertisement to boost the image of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has upset the Trinamool Congress, which accused him of showcasing the works of the Bengal government to win elections.

A day after he made dramatic allegations about a political conspiracy that kept him from attending a function at Calcutta University, Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar today publicly upbraided the Police Commissioner in Barrackpore

The CBI has arrested Suman Chattopadhyay, an editor of a prominent Bangla newspaper, for allegedly receiving money from a ponzi scam operator I-Core group, officials said Thursday.

Days after former Indian Cricket Captain Sourav Ganguly received a "death threat", a newspaper vendor has been arrested in Bengal's Midnapore for sending the anonymous letter.

The Election Commission today directed that no newspaper advertisement will be published on April 10 and 11 in poll-bound Assam and West Bengal without prior clearance, a move which comes against the backdrop of controversial advertisements issued by the BJP during Bihar elections.

The Left and the Congress edged closer to an electoral understanding with top leaders of both sides meeting till late tonight at the office of the CPM-run newspaper, Ganashakti, which is just about 200 feet away from the CPM's party headquarter in Kolkata.

A man in China survived an unsuccessful attempt to feed himself to a pair of Bengal tigers and is being treated for depression, a Chinese newspaper reported on Tuesday.

A year and a half after Mamata Banerjee's government ordered the removal of most English-language newspapers from all state libraries, the Calcutta High Court has undone the decision.

The Saradha Group that collapsed last month controlled many television channels and newspapers in West Bengal. So do some other companies that have been accused of running Saradha-like get-rich-quick schemes.

West Bengal woke up today to prominent ads in newspapers put out by a company called Rose Valley, appealing to its investors not to panic in the wake of the collapse of the Saradha group's chit fund, which has wiped out the savings of lakhs of small depositors in the state.

West Bengal will go without newspapers for four days - from October 22 to the 25 - because newspaper hawkers want Durga Puja holidays. Since hawkers won't distribute dailies, newspaper houses will also stay shut for four days.

Controversy, it seems, will not leave the Hillary-Mamata meeting alone. First there was the row over Foreign Direct Investment or FDI. Now there is turbulence over the gift that the US Secretary of State gave to the West Bengal Chief Minister. The gift was a piece of cloth with Rabindranath Tagore's face embroidered on it. And the words of one of h...

In the midst of intense criticism and negative publicity over several recent decisions, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has decided to fight back with plans to launch her own television channel and newspaper.

Stung by criticism of her government's choice of newspapers for state-aided libraries and a professor's arrest over circulation of a cartoon showing her in poor light, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today alleged a section of the media saw her government in poor light. She said the media appeared to paint a negative picture of her gover...

In the midst of the 2024 Lok Sabha election, a newspaper clip carrying news about West Bengal's Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is going viral on social media.

A full-page newspaper advertisement to boost the image of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has upset the Trinamool Congress, which accused him of showcasing the works of the Bengal government to win elections.

A day after he made dramatic allegations about a political conspiracy that kept him from attending a function at Calcutta University, Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar today publicly upbraided the Police Commissioner in Barrackpore

The CBI has arrested Suman Chattopadhyay, an editor of a prominent Bangla newspaper, for allegedly receiving money from a ponzi scam operator I-Core group, officials said Thursday.

Days after former Indian Cricket Captain Sourav Ganguly received a "death threat", a newspaper vendor has been arrested in Bengal's Midnapore for sending the anonymous letter.

The Election Commission today directed that no newspaper advertisement will be published on April 10 and 11 in poll-bound Assam and West Bengal without prior clearance, a move which comes against the backdrop of controversial advertisements issued by the BJP during Bihar elections.

The Left and the Congress edged closer to an electoral understanding with top leaders of both sides meeting till late tonight at the office of the CPM-run newspaper, Ganashakti, which is just about 200 feet away from the CPM's party headquarter in Kolkata.

A man in China survived an unsuccessful attempt to feed himself to a pair of Bengal tigers and is being treated for depression, a Chinese newspaper reported on Tuesday.

A year and a half after Mamata Banerjee's government ordered the removal of most English-language newspapers from all state libraries, the Calcutta High Court has undone the decision.

The Saradha Group that collapsed last month controlled many television channels and newspapers in West Bengal. So do some other companies that have been accused of running Saradha-like get-rich-quick schemes.

West Bengal woke up today to prominent ads in newspapers put out by a company called Rose Valley, appealing to its investors not to panic in the wake of the collapse of the Saradha group's chit fund, which has wiped out the savings of lakhs of small depositors in the state.

West Bengal will go without newspapers for four days - from October 22 to the 25 - because newspaper hawkers want Durga Puja holidays. Since hawkers won't distribute dailies, newspaper houses will also stay shut for four days.

Controversy, it seems, will not leave the Hillary-Mamata meeting alone. First there was the row over Foreign Direct Investment or FDI. Now there is turbulence over the gift that the US Secretary of State gave to the West Bengal Chief Minister. The gift was a piece of cloth with Rabindranath Tagore's face embroidered on it. And the words of one of h...

In the midst of intense criticism and negative publicity over several recent decisions, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has decided to fight back with plans to launch her own television channel and newspaper.

Stung by criticism of her government's choice of newspapers for state-aided libraries and a professor's arrest over circulation of a cartoon showing her in poor light, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today alleged a section of the media saw her government in poor light. She said the media appeared to paint a negative picture of her gover...