Bolpur

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Wednesday said that she will hold a sit-in at Bolpur in case authorities of the Visva Bharati University try to "bulldoze" Nobel laureate Amartya Sen's ancestral house.

A CBI team on Friday visited arrested TMC leader Anubrata Mondal's Bolpur residence and questioned his daughter in connection with its probe into an alleged cattle smuggling case.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday said it is conducting searches at four places in Kolkata and Bolpur in West Bengal in connection with the cattle smuggling case, according to news agency ANI.

The CBI today arrested senior Trinamool Congress leader Anubrata Mondal from his residence in Bengal's Bolpur for allegedly not cooperating in its probe into a cattle smuggling case, an official said.

CBI is sending its officers to serve summons to senior TMC leader Anubrata Mondal at his residence in Bolpur on Tuesday to appear before it in the city in connection with the ongoing probe into the cattle smuggling scam.

Days after Union Home Minister Amit Shah's triumphant parade in the town of Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee took on the BJP on Tuesday at a campaign rally for next year's elections in Bolpur. Attacking the party for "divisive politics", she said the BJP can "buy a few MLAs" but it cannot buy out the Tr...

A number of girl students of the junior section of an English medium missionary school West Bengal's Bolpur were allegedly forced to take off their leggings on the pretext that their colours did not confirm to the school uniform, sparking off protests by parents.

BJP workers blocked roads and set car tyres on fire at Bolpur in West Bengal's Birbhum district this evening to protest the "hijack" and "theft" by the police of the body of a BJP party worker who was shot at on Friday and died at a Kolkata hospital on Sunday.

The Left parties on Wednesday lodged a complaint before the Election Commission (EC) against Trinamool Congress (TMC) alleging "vote loot" in booths of the Bolpur seat during fourth phase of Lok Sabha polls held on April 29.

Sporadic clashes and irregularities took place during polling in Bengal, where voters are taking a decision on eight seats today. The worst of these was in Nanoor in Birbhum, a district in the north-western part if the state, in which one person was allegedly injured.

It is turning out to be the "sweetest" election for the people of Bolpur constituency in West Bengal's Birbhum district, otherwise infamous for political bickeringand violent clashes.

In a boost for the Bengal BJP, Bolpur lawmaker Anupam Hazra, who was earlier with Trinamool Congress, Congress's Dulal Chandra and CPM's Khagen Murmu joined the party today in the presence of senior party leaders, including Mukul Roy and National General Secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya.

Politics is not the only game West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee excels at, and she proved it during a visit to Bolpur in Birbhum district on Thursday night. A video posted by the Trinamool Congress leader on Twitter showed the 63-year-old shawl-clad politician matching her opponents smash to smash in a hearty game of badminton at a governm...

A newly-constructed Trinamool Congress party office at Bolpur with a separate puja room ('Thakur ghar') having several deities installed in it has drawn flak from the BJP saying it was 'drama' of the ruling party to 'mislead' the people.

A middle-aged man was severely beaten up by villagers in Bolpur town today on suspicion of his being a child-lifter, police said.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Wednesday said that she will hold a sit-in at Bolpur in case authorities of the Visva Bharati University try to "bulldoze" Nobel laureate Amartya Sen's ancestral house.

A CBI team on Friday visited arrested TMC leader Anubrata Mondal's Bolpur residence and questioned his daughter in connection with its probe into an alleged cattle smuggling case.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday said it is conducting searches at four places in Kolkata and Bolpur in West Bengal in connection with the cattle smuggling case, according to news agency ANI.

The CBI today arrested senior Trinamool Congress leader Anubrata Mondal from his residence in Bengal's Bolpur for allegedly not cooperating in its probe into a cattle smuggling case, an official said.

CBI is sending its officers to serve summons to senior TMC leader Anubrata Mondal at his residence in Bolpur on Tuesday to appear before it in the city in connection with the ongoing probe into the cattle smuggling scam.

Days after Union Home Minister Amit Shah's triumphant parade in the town of Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee took on the BJP on Tuesday at a campaign rally for next year's elections in Bolpur. Attacking the party for "divisive politics", she said the BJP can "buy a few MLAs" but it cannot buy out the Tr...

A number of girl students of the junior section of an English medium missionary school West Bengal's Bolpur were allegedly forced to take off their leggings on the pretext that their colours did not confirm to the school uniform, sparking off protests by parents.

BJP workers blocked roads and set car tyres on fire at Bolpur in West Bengal's Birbhum district this evening to protest the "hijack" and "theft" by the police of the body of a BJP party worker who was shot at on Friday and died at a Kolkata hospital on Sunday.

The Left parties on Wednesday lodged a complaint before the Election Commission (EC) against Trinamool Congress (TMC) alleging "vote loot" in booths of the Bolpur seat during fourth phase of Lok Sabha polls held on April 29.

Sporadic clashes and irregularities took place during polling in Bengal, where voters are taking a decision on eight seats today. The worst of these was in Nanoor in Birbhum, a district in the north-western part if the state, in which one person was allegedly injured.

It is turning out to be the "sweetest" election for the people of Bolpur constituency in West Bengal's Birbhum district, otherwise infamous for political bickeringand violent clashes.

In a boost for the Bengal BJP, Bolpur lawmaker Anupam Hazra, who was earlier with Trinamool Congress, Congress's Dulal Chandra and CPM's Khagen Murmu joined the party today in the presence of senior party leaders, including Mukul Roy and National General Secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya.

Politics is not the only game West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee excels at, and she proved it during a visit to Bolpur in Birbhum district on Thursday night. A video posted by the Trinamool Congress leader on Twitter showed the 63-year-old shawl-clad politician matching her opponents smash to smash in a hearty game of badminton at a governm...

A newly-constructed Trinamool Congress party office at Bolpur with a separate puja room ('Thakur ghar') having several deities installed in it has drawn flak from the BJP saying it was 'drama' of the ruling party to 'mislead' the people.

A middle-aged man was severely beaten up by villagers in Bolpur town today on suspicion of his being a child-lifter, police said.