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Ranji Trophy: Patidar's unbeaten fifty puts MP in driver's seat after Bengal concede lead

ALUR (Karnataka): Rajat Patidar hit an unbeaten half-century to put Madhya Pradesh in the driver's seat against Bengal in their Ranji Trophy semifinal, here on Thursday.

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Cracks in Mamata Banerjee-led 'opposition meet' for Presidential polls

Trinamool Congress supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday will hold a meeting with several Opposition leaders to discuss presidential polls and put up a united fight against the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance. Read more on Dynamite News:

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Jaiswal ton props up Mumbai against UP in Ranji semis

BENGALURU: Mumbai batsmen, who gained enough practice against Uttarakhand in the Ranji Trophy quarterfinals last week, put it to good use against Uttar Pradesh in the semifinal.

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Arrest count in Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal increases; sporadic incidents reported even as situation de-escalates

Uneasy calm prevails in parts of country

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West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee writes to 22 opposition seniors, calls meet on president poll on June 15

KOLKATA: CM Mamata Banerjee on Saturday wrote to 22 senior opposition leaders, including eight other CMs and Congress president Sonia Gandhi, ahead of the presidential elections, urging “all progressive forces to align and resist the divisive forces plaguing us today”.

The Times of India

Covid cases touch three digits in West Bengal, no death reported

KOLKATA: The Covid-19 case load in Bengal rose further for the fourth consecutive day to reach the three-digit figure on Friday with 107 fresh cases cropping up in the past 24 hours. The last time the state logged fresh cases in three digits was on March 11 when 106 cases…

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Don’t raise demands of Bengal division in public, Nadda to party leaders

Such issues can be discussed in party forum, he says after a number of leaders from State raised demands for separate State

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Why Bengali vlogger Roddur Roy’s arrest for ‘abusing’ Mamata has kicked up a storm

Controversial Bengali vlogger Roddur Roy was arrested on Tuesday for making “derogatory” remarks about West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee and her nephew Abhishek Banerjee, a Lok Sabha MP and all-India general secretary of the Trinamool Congress.

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Nine Bengal batters score 50-plus in Ranji Trophy match, break 129-year-old record

BENGALURU: The Bengal Ranji Trophy team on Thursday created a global first-class record when all nine batters, who took guard, scored half-centuries in a mammoth first innings score of 773 for eight against a hapless Jharkhand on the third day of the quarter-final, here.

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Bengal speaker junks Suvendu plea, says Mukul Roy a BJP MLA

KOLKATA: Turning down leader of opposition Suvendu Adhikari's petition seeking Mukul Roy's disqualification, Bengal assembly speaker Biman Banerjee on Wednesday ruled that the latter continued to be a BJP MLA.

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Nadda visits Bankim Chattopadhyay's house, TMC accuses him of insulting Bengali icons

BJP says TMC is trying to create an issue and the allegations are a reflection of the panic that has set in the ruling camp

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Bengal continues to pile on Jharkhand’s misery

Gharami falls for 186 while Majumdar makes 117

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Will shed my blood but never allow division of West Bengal: CM Mamata Banerjee

ALIPURDUAR: Amid demands for a separate state carved out of West Bengal by some BJP leaders, chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday asserted that she is ready to shed her own blood, if need be, to thwart such attempts to divide the state.

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Will shed my blood but never allow division of West Bengal: Mamata Banerjee

Lashing out at the BJP camp "for trying to fan separatism" in the State, the TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee claimed that all communities in north Bengal had been living in harmony for decades

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KLO chief says Bengal BJP MPs support separate Koch-Kamtapur state

Video released with KLO chief and supporters carrying weapons and donning military fatigues comes ahead of CM Mamata Banerjee’s visit to north Bengal

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West Bengal cabinet decides to replace governor with CM in 4 more University

KOLKATA: The Bengal cabinet on Monday decided to remove the governor from the chancellor's position and replace him with the chief minister in four universities not working as part of the state higher education department.

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Covid positivity above 1% after 3.5 months, West Bengal govt tells hospitals to up vigil

KOLKATA: The Covid positivity graph in Bengal climbed above 1% on Monday after a gap of more than three months. With cases rising in a few states, the Bengal government has asked all hospitals to be vigilant at a meeting of senior health officials at Swasthya Bhawan on Monday. Private…

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51.8 acres in Kolkata tech hub for Adani hyperscale data centre

KOLKATA: Adani Enterprise Ltd, the flagship group of Adani Group, will set up a 'hyperscale data centre' at Bengal Silicon Valley in New Town, industries minister Partha Chatterjee announced on Monday. The state cabinet has okayed a proposal to allot 51.8 acres for the project.

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West Bengal: JP Nadda’s tour to include Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay tribute, outreach to intellectuals

KOLKATA: BJP national president J P Nadda, on a two-day tour of West Bengal, is likely to address the state executive of the Bengal unit, which is still facing internal bickering and exodus. He will also address an interaction with city intellectuals as part of his outreach programme.

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West Bengal: 4 cycle companies to inject Rs 40 crore into Kharagpur industrial park

KOLKATA: The Bengal cabinet on Monday approved a proposal to allot four bicycle manufacturing companies 5 acres each at Vidyasagar industrial park in Kharagpur, said industries minister Partha Chatterjee. The WBIDC park will thus soon become home to a 20-acre cycle hub.

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Fresh Covid case count shows fluctuating trend in West Bengal

KOLKATA: Stray Covid cases have been reported in recent weeks though almost all of them have been mild, said CMRI Hospital pulmonology director Raja Dhar. "Other viruses are more common now but Covid persists, albeit in a mild form. These deaths indicate that we need to be on guard, especially…

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Liver, kidneys from 18-year-old, 4th teen deceased donor in West Bengal, save 3 lives

KOLKATA: The liver and kidneys of an 18-year-old deceased donor, Naina Saraf, were transplanted into three patients in two hospitals on Thursday. Sources said all three recipients are recuperating. The teen was declared brain dead on Thursday at Apollo Multispeciality Hospital.

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West Bengal Covid cases see-saw, experts advise caution

KOLKATA: The number of fresh Covid cases in Bengal crossed 50 on Thursday after a gap of 18 days but dropped to 42 on Friday, continuing to exhibit the fluctuating trend over the past one month. The state recorded 57 cases on Thursday, a sharp rise from just 27 on…

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Hygiene tracker, financial literacy module on cards as West Bengal joins Unicef to curb child marriage

KOLKATA: The state women and child development and social welfare department, and UNICEF, on Thursday launched several action plans to curb the high rate of child marriages reported in the state. The action plans have been launched after National Family Health Survey (NFHS-5) indicated that, at 41.6%, Bengal, along with…

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Ukraine-returned students attend classes in medical colleges in West Bengal

KOLKATA: Medical students of Bengal who had returned from war-torn Ukraine have resumed their physical classes at government medical colleges from Wednesday, for the first time in more than three months.

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