Kolkata, June 9 (IANS) Former two-term Trinamool Congress MLA from Rajarhat-Newtown Assembly constituency in North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal and also the former chairman of the Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation in the same district, Sabyasachi Dutta, was arrested early Tuesday morning.The main charges against Dutta are involvement in corruption, extortion and rampant threatening of people in his locality.Sources aware of the development said that Dutta, currently a councillor of ward n…
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Kolkata, June 4 (IANS) Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation (BMC) Mayor Krishna Chakraborty resigned from her post on Thursday, citing personal reasons. The development comes a day after Trinamool Congress MLA Firhad Hakim resigned as Kolkata Mayor. Trinamool Congress has now lost control of both civic bodies in the city. Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation is located in the Salt Lake area of Kolkata.Krishna Chakraborty submitted her resignation letter to the Commissioner of Bidhannagar Municipal Cor…
Kolkata, May 22 (IANS) The new Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-ruled West Bengal government has carried out a major bureaucratic reshuffle in the state, transferring as many as 17 Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers at one go.As per the order issued by the state Personnel & Administrative Reforms Department, a copy of which is available with IANS, the 17 transferred IAS officers include departmental secretaries, municipal commissioners and additional district magistrates.Sources in the…
Kolkata, May 21 (IANS) Former Trinamool Congress MLA, Aditi Munshi and her husband Debraj Chakraborty on Thursday approached the Calcutta High Court, seeking anticipatory bail on the apprehension that they may be arrested on the charge of disproportionate assets.This is the fear expressed by Aditi Munshi, a former MLA from Rajarhat-Gopalpur and her husband Debraj Chakraborty who is Trinamool councillor in the Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation. He was recently detained by police for questioning i…
Kolkata, May 19 (IANS) A young woman died under mysterious circumstances in a guest house in the Salt Lake area of Kolkata, the police said on Tuesday, adding that two persons have been arrested. Initially, it was known that she died after falling from a mango tree. However, the family of the deceased alleged that their daughter was raped and murdered. The police later recovered the body and sent it for an autopsy.It is learnt that the deceased woman went to the guest house in Salt Lake in an ap…