Kolkata, July 27 (IANS) The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Monday arrested a businessman, Ghulam Raza, from his residence at the industrial-cum-steel township of Durgapur in West Burdwan district of West Bengal after conducting a raid and search operation.The main charge against Raza is his involvement in human trafficking, especially of women.Raza, an original resident of Muzaffarpur in Bihar, shifted to Durgapur along with his wife and two sons three years ago and settled there. He pur…
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Kolkata, July 27 (IANS) The National Investigation Agency (NIA) was conducting a raid and search operation on Monday at the residence of a Bihar-based businessman at the industrial-cum-steel township of Durgapur in West Burdwan district of West Bengal.The person at whose residence the operation is being conducted has been identified as Ghulam Raza. A six-member NIA team is reported to be conducting the operation at Raza’s residence.One of the members of the NIA team is a woman. A huge police c…
Kolkata, July 13 (IANS) After initiating changes to its land acquisition framework to attract private investment, the West Bengal government is now considering amendments to the Urban Land (Ceiling and Regulation) Act, 1976 (ULCRA), to improve land availability for industrial and infrastructure projects.The Urban Land (Ceiling and Regulation) Act, 1976 (ULCRA) historically capped private vacant landholdings beyond a certain threshold in the prime cities and towns in West Bengal, namely the state…
Kolkata, July 2 (IANS) Influential Trinamool Congress leader Iftikhar Ahmed, alias Pappu, has been arrested by the West Bengal’s East Burdwan district police in connection with multiple criminal cases, including alleged extortion at gunpoint and issuing death threats, police said on Thursday.Police said Ahmed was arrested on Wednesday in the Viringi area of Durgapur in neighbouring West Burdwan district. He is the husband of former Burdwan Municipality councillor Shefali Begum, who resigne…
Kolkata, June 19 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate has arrested a police officer, Manoranjan Mondal, who had been under the scanner of the central agency for a long time because of his alleged involvement in the multi-crore coal smuggling case in West Bengal.Mondal appeared for interrogation at the ED’s Salt Lake office on the northern outskirts of Kolkata in relation to the coal smuggling case, and after a marathon interrogation, he was finally arrested by ED officials late Thursday night, s…
Kolkata, June 7 (IANS) A minor girl was drugged, taken to a hotel and allegedly gang-raped in the Durgapur industrial area of West Burdwan district, the police said on Sunday. Based on a complaint lodged by the family of the minor, the police have already arrested three people in connection with the incident.According to the police, the victim is a 14-year-old student of Class 8. The family alleged that a woman known to them called their daughter out of the house. After that, she was made to dri…
Kolkata, May 22 (IANS) As part of an ongoing crackdown on Trinamool Congress (TMC) leaders accused of intimidation and financial irregularities during the previous Mamata Banerjee-led regime in West Bengal, police in the Asansol-Durgapur Police Commissionerate on Friday arrested a trade union leader from Durgapur, officials said.The arrested leader has been identified as Sheikh Wasul, the president of INTTUC unit in the Durgapur-Faridpur area and a resident of Rangamati under Durgapur-Faridpur B…
Kolkata, May 4 (IANS) With trends predicting the BJP’s victory in West Bengal, celebrations erupted across the state as party workers distributed ‘jhalmuri’ and ‘kamala bhog’, and danced to the tunes of popular Bengali songs.BJP workers, including party leader Narayan Chattopadhyay, celebrated outside the party’s state headquarters, distributing ‘jhalmuri’ and ‘kamala bhog’.Notably, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had made a stopover for the popular ‘jhalmuri’ during his campaign trail in Jhargra…
Kolkata, April 25 (IANS) Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday claimed that West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee gets angry with him whenever he issues warnings from public rallies to Trinamool Congress-backed hooligans about stringent action in the event of disruptions to the polling process.“In every election, the hooligans backed by Trinamool Congress disturb the polling process through acts of violence. So in every rally, I caution these hooligans about dire consequences if they …
New Delhi, April 20 (IANS) BJP national president Nitin Nabin is set to hold a series of public rallies and roadshows across West Bengal on Monday as the party’s intensified election campaign in the state. His schedule includes a public rally at 10:30 a.m. at Dariberiya School More, Kali Mandir Ground, in Mahishadal, Purba Medinipur (Tamluk), followed by a roadshow at 12:30 p.m. in Egra, Midnapur district, from Egra Sarada Shashibhushan College to Digha More. Later in the afternoon, he will le…