Kolkata, June 1 (IANS) Trinamool Congress General Secretary and MP Abhishek Banerjee’s father, Amit Banerjee, and mother Lata Banerjee have approached the Calcutta High Court claiming that the house at 29-C, Harish Chatterjee Street in Kolkata was built legally. The Banerjee couple has filed a case seeking the dismissal of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation’s (KMC) notice. According to them, the civic body issued a notice regarding illegal construction on a legally built house. The case is li…
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Kolkata, June 1 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari has directed civic authorities to give sufficient time to the concerned families and residents before taking strict action against any illegal construction, a government official said on Monday.According to Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) sources, the Chief Minister held an important meeting with officials of Borough-9 in the Alipore area on Saturday. It is learnt that Adhikari expressed dissatisfaction with the action taken …
Kolkata, June 1 (IANS) Biswajit Sarkar, the brother of BJP worker Abhijit Sarkar, who was killed during the post-poll violence that followed the 2021 West Bengal Assembly elections, has alleged that the recent attacks on Trinamool Congress MPs Abhishek Banerjee and Kalyan Banerjee were scripted. He also questioned the then silence of TMC leadership when similar “cycle of violence” rocked West Bengal, leading to his brother’s killing. Speaking to IANS, Biswajit Sarkar recalled that his brother wa…
Kolkata, May 30 (IANS) The leaders of all the political parties in West Bengal on Saturday condemned the heckling and physical assault of Trinamool Congress General Secretary and the party’s Lok Sabha member, Abhishek Banerjee, at Sonarpur in South 24 Paragans district earlier in the day. However, while describing the incident as unfortunate, the leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the CPI-M reminded of the arrogant and provocative public speeches by Abhishek Banerjee at a number of …
Kolkata, May 30 (IANS) Trinamool Congress general secretary and the party’s Lok Sabha MP Abhishek Banerjee was severely heckled on Saturday after he reached Sonarpur in South 24 Paragans district of West Bengal to meet a party worker who reportedly became a victim of post-poll violence after May 4, when the results of the recently concluded West Bengal Assembly elections were announced. On Saturday afternoon, soon after he received a notice from the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) for …
Kolkata, May 29 (IANS) Senior Advocate Surojit Nath Mitra has been appointed as the new Advocate General of West Bengal. He succeeds Kishore Datta, who tendered his resignation from the chair on May 5, a day after the results of the recently conducted West Bengal Assembly elections were announced.Practising for over four decades as a legal practitioner since 1983, Mitra’s expertise has been in civil and commercial law.The judicial department of West Bengal issued a notification announcing the …
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…
Kolkata, May 29 (IANS) The Calcutta High Court on Friday refused to entertain a petition by former West Bengal Fire Services Minister Sujit Bose challenging his arrest earlier this month by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in connection with the multi-crore municipalities recruitment irregularities case in the state.Since the Calcutta High Court is having its summer vacation now, Bose’s counsel on Thursday moved the petition before the single-judge vacation bench of Justice Shampa Dutta Paul.T…
Kolkata, May 29 (IANS) A single-judge vacation bench of the Calcutta High Court, on Friday, granted interim protection to actor Parambrata Chatterjee from coercive police action including arrests in relation to the FIR registered against him last week at Gariahat Police Station under South Division of the Kolkata Police, accusing him of making a provocative social media statement, and instigating post-poll violence after the 2021 West Bengal Assembly elections.On May 27, the actor approached the…
Kolkata, May 29 (IANS) After making himself almost homebound since the results of the recently concluded West Bengal Assembly elections were announced on May 4 and restricting himself to occasional issuing of social media statements, Trinamool Congress’ general secretary and the party’s Lok Sabha member, Abhishek Banerjee, will resume his public political activities from Saturday onwards.According to information shared by Trinamool Congress on Friday, Banerjee, the three-time Lok Sabha membe…