Kolkata, March 29 (IANS) Citing negligence of duty and a breach of impartiality, the Election Commission of India (ECI) has ordered the immediate suspension of three CRPF personnel for reportedly entering the Trinamool Congress office and becoming absorbed in a game of carrom.The decision was taken late Saturday night, said an insider at the Election Commission on Sunday.It was learnt that the central forces were scheduled to patrol a specific area in Birbhum district on Saturday. However, while…
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Kolkata, March 18 (IANS) Days after the Assembly poll notification was issued for West Bengal, a massive quantity of explosives was recovered in Birbhum district, the police said on Wednesday. Villagers intercepted a tractor laden with a large consignment of explosives on Tuesday night while it was being smuggled. They subsequently handed it over to the police. Acting on a tip-off from the villagers, the police seized the tractor and its explosive cargo. The incident took place in Kadasir villag…
Guwahati, March 9 (IANS) The NCB, in a joint operation with the CRPF, arrested two drug traffickers and seized 524.9 kilograms of Ganja, estimated to be worth Rs 2.6 crore, an official said on Monday.On Sunday, acting upon specific input, the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), Guwahati Zonal Unit, intercepted one truck at Khatkhati in Assam in a joint operation with 155 Battalion CRPF.Upon thorough search of the vehicle, a total of 524.9 kilograms of Ganja, estimated to be worth approximately Rs 2….
Kolkata, March 2 (IANS) A 28-year-old man died of a stroke in West Bengal’s Birbhum district, with his family alleging that he had been under stress after his name was placed in the “under adjudication” category in the final electoral rolls published following the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise.Tension prevailed on Monday in Dhalla village under Alunda panchayat in Suri after news of the death spread.The deceased has been identified as Sheikh Kamrul (28), a contractual worker an…
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…
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…