Suvendu ascent to Bengal's top post shaped by decisive victories, unrelenting battle against MamataSuvendu Adhikari became West Bengal's new Chief Minister on Saturday. He was sworn in at a grand ceremony in Kolkata. Adhikari's rise follo...
10 May, 2026, 12.21 AM IST
Can there ever be a Great Indian ‘State of the Nation’ novel?Indian novels often focus on specific regions rather than the entire nation. This is due to India's immense diversity. Authors find success...
09 May, 2026, 10.14 PM IST
Jobless teachers cautiously optimistic after Bengal assembly poll resultsFollowing a landslide victory, the new West Bengal government faces expectations from thousands of jobless teaching staff. Their appointmen...
05 May, 2026, 03.57 PM IST
Bengal polls: Tata exit still shapes Singur, 18 years onSingur's landscape is marked by abandoned factory remnants and damaged farmland. The Tata Motors Nano project's 2008 exit reshaped Bengal p...
25 Apr, 2026, 01.24 PM IST
Bengal Education minister calls upon agitating teachers to have faith in state governmentWest Bengal Education Minister Bratya Basu appealed to protesting teachers. He asked them to trust the state government to resolve the job ...
25 May, 2025, 07.57 PM IST
19 police personnel injured after clashes with SSC teachers in West BengalA violent clash broke out between West Bengal Police and protesting teachers at Kolkata’s Bikash Bhawan after the latter, who lost jobs due...
16 May, 2025, 03.46 PM IST
Bengal school job loss: Protesting teachers vow to intensify stir, stay put outside SSC officeThousands of teachers in Kolkata, whose appointments were annulled by the Supreme Court due to irregularities in the 2016 recruitment, inte...
22 Apr, 2025, 01.11 PM IST
WB school job loss: Teachers on warpath after SSC fails to publish 'deserving' list within deadlineChaos erupted at the WBSSC headquarters in Kolkata as protesting teachers clashed with police after the commission missed the deadline to r...
21 Apr, 2025, 10.07 PM IST
Odisha primary teachers call off protest after 11 daysAppealing the teachers to withdraw their protest, Odisha Finance Minister Bikram Keshari Arukha said that the school and mass education dep...
18 Sep, 2023, 09.02 PM IST
Opposition promises OPS, hiring of 10K HC-sacked teachers in TripuraAddressing an election rally at Khayerpur, CPM leader Prakash Karat said the reintroduction of OPS would be the first decision the Left-Con...
14 Feb, 2023, 12.04 AM IST
Tripura CM likely to take steps for solving retrenched teachers' problems after Durga pujaLeader of the Opposition Manik Sarkar and the lone Congress MLA Sudip Roy Barman condemned the police action and urged the chief minister t...
28 Sep, 2022, 06.22 PM IST
At least 100 people including 87 teachers and 17 security personnel in clashes at Tripura's AgartalaSecurity personnel dismantled the tents in which thousands of teachers of the state government were organising a sit-in protest since the l...
27 Jan, 2021, 08.28 PM IST
Teachers gherao MLAs' quarters in Odisha, demand GIAOn the 11th day of their agitation, non-regular school teachers today gheroed houses of MLAs and prevented them from going to the Assembly.
20 Aug, 2015, 04.19 PM IST
DMK lends support to agitating government teachersJACTTO, a confederation of about 27 unions representing government teachers, has also been demanding regularising the services of contract ...
20 Apr, 2015, 03.32 PM IST
Agitating contractual schoolteachers in Bihar hold a bitter lesson for chief minister Nitish KumarAn army of agitating contractual schoolteachers in Bihar holds a bitter lesson for chief minister Nitish Kumar.
13 Mar, 2013, 08.18 AM IST
- Sushil Kumar Modi blames agitating teachers for slamming doors of talks
"The government has never said that it will not hold talks to increase pay of the fixed term teachers as per its resources," Modi said.
09 Mar, 2013, 05.34 PM IST
- Opposition seeks to corner Nitish govt over teachers stir
The Bihar opposition today stalled proceedings of the state legislature protesting police action on slogan-shouting teachers.
06 Mar, 2013, 07.21 PM IST