Kolkata, May 25 (IANS) Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC), on Monday, granted 10 days of additional time to Trinamool Congress general secretary and the party’s Lok Sabha member, Abhishek Banerjee, to reply to notices served regarding the 17 properties owned by him. Abhishek Banerjee is also the nephew of former West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.The KMC had recently issued the notices. Municipality officials also put up a notice on the wall of his house on Harish Mukherjee Road in so…
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Kolkata, May 25 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Monday gave a patient hearing to an elderly couple who had been cheated by the recently arrested land mafia-promoters Biswajit Poddar a.k.a Sona Papu and Joy Kamdar, and assured them of his personal intervention to resolve the matter.The Chief Minister interacted with people and listened to their grievances at his pre-announced ‘Janatar Darbare (People’s Court)’ session.Probir Mukhopadhyay and his wife, both senior citizens …
Kolkata, May 24 (IANS) Three weeks after the Assembly election results, former Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday once again alleged that the Trinamool Congress did not lose the West Bengal Assembly elections and claimed that the Election Commission helped the BJP secure victory in the state. She also alleged that she was defeated “by force” in the Bhabanipur Assembly constituency.Speaking on the day the results of the Falta Assembly by-election were declared, the Trinamool Congress su…
Kolkata, May 24 (IANS) Trinamool Congress leader Abhishek Banerjee has sought time from the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) to reply to the notice regarding the valuation of his property and the demolition of an illegal part of his house at Bhabanipur.The KMC had recently issued the notice. The municipality officials also put up a notice on the wall of his house on Harish Mukherjee Road in south Kolkata’s Bhabanipur area.On Sunday, it was learnt that the Trinamool General Secretary has writt…
Kolkata, May 16 (IANS) The sleuths of Kolkata Police, on Saturday, said that they have arrested a youth for sending a fake email to the police warning of the murder of the new and ninth West Bengal Chief Minister, Suvendu Adhikari. The arrested youth had been identified as Hasnem Iqbal. According to a senior officer of the Kolkata Police, an email landed at Bhabanipur Police Station in South Kolkata, which comes under the jurisdiction of the Chief Minister’s current Assembly constituency of Bh…
Kolkata, May 13 (IANS) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) will no longer require prior permission from the West Bengal government to initiate a probe against government officials involved in corruption in the state. This was announced by the state government on Wednesday.The previous Trinamool Congress-led state government withdrew the “standing clearance” to the CBI for initiating suo motu probes in graft cases. Hence, earlier, the CBI could initiate any probe in the state only if it…
Kolkata, May 11 (IANS) Aam Janata Unnayan Party legislator Humayun Kabir on Monday welcomed the decision taken in the first meeting of the new cabinet in West Bengal, led by Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari, to allocate land to the BSF for the installation of barbed fencing along the currently unfenced international border with Bangladesh within a period of 45 days. “The security of the state and the country is associated with this decision. Now there is a double-engine government in West Be…
New Delhi, May 11 (IANS) Amid the gloom and recriminations within West Bengal’s defeated Trinamool Congress, the nomination of veteran leader Sovandeb Chattopadhyay as Leader of the Opposition has stood out as a rare positive development.Widely regarded in political circles as “the right man in the wrong party”, the octogenarian’s elevation has revived discussions about integrity and experience in a party grappling with electoral setback and internal criticism.According to a mid-level Tr…
Kolkata, May 9 (IANS) The Kolkata Police on Saturday unfollowed former Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Trinamool Congress leader Abhishek Banerjee’s X accounts after Suvendu Adhikari was sworn in as the Chief Minister of West Bengal. At the same time, the list of those whom the Kolkata Police are now following includes the accounts of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the new Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari, the Prime Minister’s Office, Union Home Minister Amit Shah and his office.The results o…
New Delhi, May 9 (IANS) Union Minister Giriraj Singh on Saturday made a sharp political attack on the ruling dispensation in West Bengal while reacting to the BJP’s rise in the state and the upcoming swearing-in of Suvendu Adhikari as Chief Minister.Singh said, “It is true that the land of Bengal has been a cultural centre of Sanatan tradition. But those who ruled the state, especially the TMC, became increasingly extremist, targeting Hindus, promoting hooliganism, creating anarchy, and purs…