Kolkata, July 28 (IANS) The Health Department of West Bengal is set to introduce a new standard operating procedure (SOP) that mandates a weekly review of medicine inventories in state-run hospitals and medical college hospitals.State Health and Family Welfare Minister Dr Sharadwat Mukhopadhyay has given the go-ahead for this new SOP, and the main aim behind this move is to eliminate the presence and use of expired medicines in the state-run medical entities, said an insider from the state healt…
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New Town, July 28 (IANS) On the alleged fake signature case involving Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee, West Bengal Minister Dilip Ghosh on Tuesday said truth will emerge after a proper probe. This comes as Abhishek Banerjee faced interrogation by the West Bengal Criminal Investigation Department (CID) into an alleged signature forgery case involving the nomination of the Leader of Opposition in the State Assembly. The controversy centres on claims that 14 out of roughly 70 MLA signatures…
New Delhi, July 28 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari will travel to New Delhi on Tuesday to meet the 20 former Trinamool Congress (TMC) Lok Sabha members who joined the National Citizens’ Party of India (NCPI) soon after the results of the state Assembly elections were announced. The meeting comes amid an intensifying political battle over the status of the rebel MPs, with the Trinamool pressing for their disqualification under the anti-defection law.The meeting assumes signif…
Kolkata, July 27 (IANS) The scheduled meeting of West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari with the 20 erstwhile Trinamool Congress Lok Sabha members who joined the National Citizens’ Party of India (NCPI) at 1 p.m. in New Delhi on Tuesday was cancelled, as per information communicated on Monday. The decision to cancel the meeting followed a sudden development after Sudip Bandopadhyay, a four-time Lok Sabha member and one of the most prominent faces among the 20 Trinamool-turned-NCPI MPs, me…
Kolkata, July 27 (IANS) Trinamool Congress General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Monday wrote to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, requesting his intervention for expeditious disposal of disqualification petitions against 20 party Lok Sabha members who joined the National Citizens’ Party of India (NCPI) soon after the results for the West Bengal Assembly elections were announced.In his letter, Abhishek Banerjee, also the nephew of the party supremo and former West Bengal Chief Minister, Mamata Bane…
Kolkata, July 27 (IANS) The medical interns and medical students who participated in the free Sebaashray health camps organised by Trinamool Congress leader Abhishek Banerjee within his Diamond Harbour constituency during the previous Mamata Banerjee-led regime in West Bengal, will now be questioned by the investigating officials of the state health department and also by the sleuths of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID).Chief Minister, Suvendu Adhikari, last week, announced on the floo…
Kolkata, July 25 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Saturday announced the suspension of five police officers who were entangled in controversies and accused of partisan conduct during the previous Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress regime. While addressing the West Bengal Assembly on the concluding day of the six-day extended budget session, the Chief Minister announced the names of the five suspended officers, including an Indian Police Service (IPS) officer.The IPS offi…
Kolkata, July 25 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Saturday launched a sharp attack on Trinamool Congress general secretary and the party’s Lok Sabha MP Abhishek Banerjee over the alleged large-scale irregularities at the Sebashray health camps organised in Diamond Harbour in South 24 Parganas during the previous Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool government.Speaking on the floor of the West Bengal Assembly on the final day of the six-day extended session, Adhikari addressed the H…
Kolkata, July 25 (IANS) The last day of the extended Budget Session of the West Bengal Assembly on Saturday is set to be quite an eventful one over three major scheduled proceedings for the day, one of which is the tabling of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report in the House.The first major schedule that will be in the first half on the closing day of the extended Budget Session of the House will be the tabling to the CAG’s report on the income and expenditures from the state exchequ…
Kolkata, July 24 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari will give a statement on the floor of the Assembly on Saturday regarding the state government’s ongoing investigations into allegations surrounding the Sebashray health camp run by Trinamool Congress general secretary and Lok Sabha member Abhishek Banerjee in his Diamond Harbour constituency in South 24 Parganas district during the previous Mamata Banerjee‑led Trinamool regime. On Friday, during the fifth day of the extended…