Chennai, Feb 19 (IANS) The Tamil Nadu Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has accused the state police of delaying and denying permission for its proposed 25,000 street-corner meetings, alleging partisan interference in favour of the ruling DMK government. Party spokesperson A.N.S. Prasad urged the police to act impartially and grant approvals for the meetings in accordance with the law.The party emphasised that police should remain independent and called on senior officials to uphold democratic rights…
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New Delhi, Feb 19 (IANS) The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Thursday warned of action against imposters and NGOs that have got themselves registered under names deceptively similar to it and directed all states to crack down on them, an official said.The NHRC sought action-taken reports from all states within two weeks, the official said in a statement.Recently, the Commission came across an NGO registered as ‘National Human Rights Council (NHRC)’, reportedly registered with the Gove…
Chandigarh, Feb 16 (IANS) The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on Monday accused the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) of using government funds to hold a rally in Moga. The SAD urged Punjab Governor Gulab Chand Kataria as well as the Election Commission of India (ECI) to take note of the matter.In a statement here, SAD senior leader Daljit Singh Cheema alleged the state-ruling AAP was playing deceitful politics by linking its rally with the government’s ‘Yudh Nashain Virudh’ scheme, even though its purpose …
Balurghat, Feb 16 (IANS) Following the Election Commission of India’s (ECI) decision to suspend seven Assistant Electoral Registration Officers (AEROs) engaged in the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in West Bengal, Union MoS Sukanta Majumdar on Monday said strict action would be taken against officials who work in a biased manner. Speaking to reporters, Sukanta Majumdar said, “The Election Commission has ordered the suspension of officials across seven blocks, including Ghatal, Sham…
Kolkata, Feb 14 (IANS) An association of the state government employees in West Bengal has sent contempt of court notices to the Chief Secretary, Nandini Goswami and the State Finance Secretary, Prabhat Kumar Mishra for non-action in complying with the Supreme Court’s order earlier this month directing the government to pay 25 per cent of the Dearness Allowance (DA) arrears between 2008 and 2019 immediately and definitely by the end of the current financial year of 2025-26.On February 25, the …
Bhubaneswar, Feb 10 (IANS) The Odisha Human Rights Commission (OHRC) has directed the state government to constitute a high-level inquiry committee comprising officials from various departments within four weeks to probe the flawed process of village relocation in the Satkosia Tiger Reserve in Angul district. Raising serious concerns over violations of various procedural lapses during the relocation process, the Commission, in its order, has also directed that the committee identify officers res…
New Delhi, Feb 10 (IANS) The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Tuesday criticised the Tamil Nadu government’s response to the brutal attack on an Odisha migrant worker in Tiruttani, noting the delayed FIR and the victim’s unexplained disappearance from the hospital without follow-up searches.The NHRC has issued a notice to the Chief Secretary of the state after the youth, with serious injuries, disappeared from the hospital, and the Stalin government had no information about him.In a di…
New Delhi, Feb 9 (IANS) The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has taken suo motu cognisance of a media report citing Delhi Police data, which revealed that 807 people went missing in the national capital during the first two weeks of January this year.According to the data, the missing persons include 191 minors and 616 adults. While 235 individuals have been traced so far, 572 remain untraced. Observing that the contents of the news report, if true, “raise serious issues of violation of…
Kolkata, Feb 8 (IANS) Members of the Joint Forum of State Government Employees on Sunday took to the streets in Kolkata to put pressure on the Mamata Banerjee government to release the 25 per cent pending Dearness Allowance (DA) in accordance with the Supreme Court verdict.The members held a procession from Subodh Mallick Square to Rani Rashmoni Road in central Kolkata. BJP MP Saumitra Khan also joined the procession to express his solidarity with the state government employees. The protesters a…
Kolkata, Feb 7 (IANS) People who will be voting in the crucial Assembly elections in West Bengal this year, will no longer have to download their voters’ slip and take printouts or depend on the local leaders of different political parties for the same, before going to polling booths to exercise their franchise.The Booth Level Officers (BLOs) will reach the doorsteps of the voters before the elections this time and distribute the voters’ slips, as per the latest order of the Election Commiss…