The Latest Breaking News from West Bengal

Union Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal claimed that the law and order situation in West Bengal was “not good at all”. The newly appointed Union Minister of State for Law and Justice was on an official visit to the city on Monday.

After consecutive blasts at illegal cracker manufacturing units claimed at least 14 lives in the past one week, the West Bengal Government on May 22 set up a committee to look into such illegal units

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will not be attending the swearing-in ceremony of Congress leader Siddaramaiah.

The Supreme Court today stayed the West Bengal government’s ban on the screening of the film The Kerala Story, stating that the “prohibition is not tenable” and statutory provisions cannot be used to “put a premium on public intolerance”.

The Supreme Court on Thursday stayed the ban imposed by the West Bengal government on the film 'The Kerala Story'. Read further on Dynamite News:

Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched railway projects worth ₹8,200 crore in Odisha and flagged off the state’s first Vande Bharat Express that will connect Puri to West Bengal’s Howrah.

Justifying the ban on The Kerala Story in West Bengal, the state government told the Supreme Court the film is based on “manipulated facts and contains hate speech in multiple scenes” that may hurt “communal sentiments and cause disharmony”, according to a LiveLaw report.

The West Bengal government has decided to upgrade the security cover of former Indian cricket team captain and ex-BCCI president Sourav Ganguly to Z category, a senior official said.

West Bengal Board of Primary Education on Tuesday moved an appeal before the Calcutta High Court against an order of it cancelling jobs of around 32,000 untrained primary school teachers, claiming that they have obtained Diploma in Elementary Education (DElEd) within the specified time thereafter.