Pilgrims offer prayers during the 'Gangasagar Mela', at Sagar Island in South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal.
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Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya during his visit to Sultan Garhi village, in Hooghly District.
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A pilgrim seeks blessings from a priest after a holy dip in the Ganga river during 'Gangasagar Mela', at Sagar Island in South 24 Parganas district.
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A 'Sadhu' offers prayers to the sun before taking a holy dip in River Ganga at Sagar Island in South 24 Pargana district. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, authorities are anticipating...
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Volunteers play soccer in a beach during 'Gangasagar Mela', at Sagar Island in South 24 Parganas district. This year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, authorities are anticipating less...
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Pilgrims take holy dips in the Ganga river in the backdrop of a rising sun during 'Gangasagar Mela', at Sagar Island in South 24 Parganas district. This year due to the COVID-19 pa...
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Pilgrims arrive to take holy dips in the Ganga river during 'Gangasagar Mela', at Sagar Island in South 24 Parganas district. This year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, authorities ar...
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Pilgrims take holy dips in the Ganga river during 'Gangasagar Mela', at Sagar Island in South 24 Parganas district. This year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, authorities are anticipa...
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Pilgrims prepare food outside their makeshift tent during Gangasagar Mela at Sagar Island in South 24 Parganas district. Authorities are anticipating less number of pilgrims at the...
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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee addresses a public meeting at Habibpur in Nadia.
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Farmers burn stubble to prepare a field for cultivation, at a village in Nadia.
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BJP National President J.P. Nadda offers prayers at Sarbamangala Temple, in Bardhaman.
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Vice-Chancellor of Visva-Bharati University Bidyut Chakrabarty (C) with teachers, staff members and students during a demonstration against the state government, inside Chhatim Tal...
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BJP National President JP Nadda during a press conference, in Burdwan district of West Bengal.
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BJP National President JP Nadda being shown a pumpkin and other vegetables by party General Secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya at a Krishak Suraksha Sabha at Katwa, in Burdwan district...
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BJP National President J.P. Nadda and party leaders have lunch at a farmer's house in Jagadanandapur village, in East Burdwan district.
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Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's nephew Abhishek Banerjee addresses a public rally at Gangarampur in South Dinajpur district.
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Ducks swim in a pond at Morgram in Bardwan.
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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee tries her hand at cooking on a chullha as she visits a tribal village at Shantiniketan in Birbhum district.
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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee during her 'Padayatra' ahead of the state assembly polls 2021, at Shantiniketan in Birbhum District,
She claimed that she is not being informed about party events in her constituency and this has caused "mental pain" to her and will address public on Saturday
The monk's 158th birth anniversary which was celebrated on Tuesday triggered a war of political one-upmanship between the TMC and the BJP in West Bengal
Covid warriors like the home guards, civil defence volunteers, police, correctional home and disaster management employees will get the vaccine on a priority basis.
‘BJP leaders don't listen to farmers who are protesting outside Delhi. The BJP's concern for farmers in Bengal is a pure sham,’ TMC Leader Chandrima Bhattacharya said
The assertion of Vijayvargiya, the BJP's chief in the state, came days after West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee agreed to implement the PM Kisan scheme in the state
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On paper, AIMIM can grab seats and hurt TMC in Bengal’s Muslim-heavy districts in the 2021 assembly polls. But weak groundwork, leadership may keep its disruptive effect to a minimum.
Ostentatious celebration of Durga Puja in Calcutta is traced back to the early 1700s when Bengal’s zamindars outdid each other in displaying their influence, power and wealth by spending large sums of money in festivities.
If religion was an issue in largely “secular” West Bengal, it was years of allegation against the ruling parties by Opposition that they are engaged in “appeasement” of a particular community.
Indeed when the former Lok Sabha speaker, Somnath Chatterjee, was expelled from the CPI(M) in 2008, it was almost unthinkable considering the position the veteran politician enjoyed in his party which he joined in 1968.
The more immediate source of tension in Calcutta currently is the possibility that the forty lakh people who were declared illegal by the neighbouring state could try to flee Assam and enter the city as refugees.
Over decades, hundreds and thousands of people had descended on the tiny cafeteria which he ran in a corner of a college campus – Calcutta’s Jadavpur University.
Mountaineer Chhanda Gayen wouldn’t have got permanently lost on her 2014 expedition if she were fitted with a transceiver. That sums up the utility of ham radios for individuals in moments of crisis, which is where certain teams have found a niche.