Kolkata, May 29 (IANS) The new and the ninth Chief Minister of West Bengal, Suvendu Adhikari, on Friday announced the state government’s decision to clear hurdles for the commencement of a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into alleged irregularities in the recruitment of teachers in Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA)-run schools in the Darjeeling, Kalimpong and Kurseong regions in the northern zone of West Bengal.Although the Calcutta High Court had earlier directed a CBI p…
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Kolkata, March 19 (IANS) There were enough indications in the run-up to the 2024 Lok Sabha election that a section among West Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress intended to project younger faces among their elected representatives, but Chief Minister and party supremo Mamata Banerjee was said to have prevailed, and several of her elderly associates made it to the Lok Sabha.If there were indications then, the list of party probables for the coming Assembly election reflects the beginning of imp…
Kolkata, March 17 (IANS) The Trinamool Congress on Tuesday announced 291 candidates for the two-phase April elections to the 294-member West Bengal Assembly, dropping almost all the leaders under the scanner of central agencies in various scams, while nearly a fifth of the nominees are women. There are a total of 52 women candidates, including Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, or around 18 per cent of the total candidates. The Chief Minister is contesting from Bhabanipur in south Kolkata, where th…