Kolkata, Feb 25 (IANS) Several courts in West Bengal on Wednesday received bomb threat again, just a day after getting similar warnings through email.The mails were sent to judges of various district courts.According to the police, the bomb scare first spread to the Asansol District and Sessions Court. The threat mail was sent to the West Burdwan District Judge.According to sources, the mail read, “A bomb has been placed in the court. It will explode after some time.”Asansol-Durgapur Deputy Comm…
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Kolkata, Feb 24 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has summoned Bibhas Adhikari in the primary school recruitment case in West Bengal, said agency sources on Tuesday.Adhikari is a close associate of Trinamool Congress MLA Manik Bhattacharya, who was arrested by the ED in the teacher recruitment scam in the primary section.Bhattacharya is currently out on bail which was granted to him by the Calcutta High Court in 2024.It may be noted that along with the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)…
Kolkata, Jan 26 (IANS) Tripti Mukherjee, a renowned handicraft artist from Suri in West Bengal’s Birbhum district, who has empowered thousands of rural women through the art of Kantha stitch, has credited her mother for her success after being honoured with the Padma Shri by the Centre.Mukherjee, who has trained more than 20,000 women in Nakshi Kantha — the traditional embroidered quilt art — said she learned the craft from her mother and dedicated the prestigious award to her.Speaking to th…
Kolkata, Jan 25 (IANS) The name of a BJP district council candidate from Maharashtra has been found on the voter list for Ward No. 12 of Dubrajpur Municipality in West Bengal’s Birbhum district. According to district officials, the BJP leader has been issued a Special Intensive Revision (SIR) hearing notice. This incident sparked political tension in the area on Sunday.It has been learned that the BJP leader, Ujjwala Burungle, is a resident of Nashik in Maharashtra. Her name is already included …
Kolkata, Jan 15 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Thursday issued a notice for a hearing on claims and objections on the draft voters’ list in West Bengal to Trinamool Congress’ Rajya Sabha member, Samirul Islam.It is learnt that Islam had been served a notice for a hearing as a “logical discrepancy” case, because of the mismatches in his name and that of his father in the current voters’ list with that in 2002, the last time a revision exercise in the voters’ list was…
Kolkata, Jan 7 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Wednesday gave an additional clarification on why the notice for hearing on claims and objections on the draft voters’ list was served to Nobel Awardee Economist, Dr Amartya Sen.On Tuesday, after the Trinamool Congress general secretary and the party’s Lok Sabha MP Abhishek Banerjee, accused the Commission of unnecessarily sending the hearing notice to Dr Sen, the ECI had given its initial clarification that the notice was serve…
Kolkata, Jan 7 (IANS) The name of the company involved in excavation work at the Deocha-Pachami coal mining project in West Bengal has figured in the Enforcement Directorate’s (ED) chargesheet in connection with the sand smuggling case.According to sources, the ED has mentioned the name of Pachami Basalt Mining Limited in the charge sheet. The owner of GD Mining, Arun Sharaf, who was arrested in the sand smuggling case, had allegedly invested money generated from sand smuggling into this company…
Kolkata, Jan 6 (IANS) Trinamool Congress All-India General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Tuesday asserted that no amount of threat, intimidation, or conspiracy would prevent him from attending his scheduled programmes. His remarks came after the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) denied clearance for his chopper to fly from Kolkata.Banerjee revealed that, following discussions with Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren and support from the Jharkhand government, an alternative chopper …