Kolkata

Children will be able to choose from a selection of 500 titles in English and Bengali on the Young Readers' Boat Library.

West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee said she would not allow "forcible displacement" of any refugee from land owned by central government organisations, adding her administration would hand over pattas to all such refugees.

Ghosh, however, claimed the meme dates back to February 2015, and was not posted by her, but an act of mischief by someone who hacked her account then.

Both the party leaders would meet again on January 25 and 28 to settle the seat-sharing issue and other poll-related preparedness.

Rajib Banerjee, during a Facebook Live session, said he was patiently waiting for the time when his grievances, "solely concerning the wellbeing of people", would be redressed.

Four vehicles have been readied to ferry the consignment from the city airport to state-owned Central Family Welfare Stores at Bagbazar the biggest depot for stockpiling vaccines in Bengal, an official said on Monday.

Banerjee, while addressing a mega roadshow in Bolpur, branded Visva-Bharati Vice-Chancellor Bidyut Chakrabarty as a "BJP man", and said he plans on destroying the rich heritage of the hallowed institution by "importing divisive and communal politics insid...

At the same event, Banerjee hinted that she 'won't let Bengal be the place of divisive politics' by stating that it would never be turned into Gujarat.

Baul singer Basude Das, whom TMC Birbhum district chief Anubrata Mondal promised financial help from the West Bengal government, said he will attend Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's rally in the district on December 29.

Trinamool Congress sources on Monday said that the party is mulling to organise a mega rally of opposition leaders in Kolkata as part of its effort to prop up an anti- BJP front, but nothing has been finalised as of now.

Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat said Indian forces are well equipped to deal with any eventuality, and similar activities are being undertaken in the country.

According to sources, Jadavpur University authorities are going to start another counselling process on the basis of the application from the last week of December. To fill up these 450 seats, University authorities will provide counselling.

Admitting that he had also taken part in the 2006 Singur movement during his Trinamool Congress days, Roy, who was once Banerjee's right-hand man and had joined the saffron party in 2017, told a press conference here that driving away the Nano manufacturi...

"How can vaccination be done on the basis of voters' list? What about the citizens whose names may not figure in it, but who have other documents? Will they be left out," Sen told a press conference. He said the TMC demands that every bona fide resident o...

The new bridge, which has been built in the place of an old one that collapsed in September 2018, will be inaugurated by Mamata Banerjee on Thursday at 5 pm.

The Trinamool Congress supremo also said she will never allow Bengal to be turned into a "riot-torn Gujarat".