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…
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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…
Kolkata, April 13 (IANS) Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday, during an election rally, said that those who have looted the people of West Bengal in the last 15 years would be punished once the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) comes to power after the Assembly polls in the state.“Those who have looted people through their ‘cut-money syndicates’ during the last 15 years will be spotted one by one and hanged upside down after the elections. Those who have murdered the BJP supporters or tortu…
Kolkata, April 13 (IANS) Amid the crucial two-phase West Bengal Assembly elections, Union Home Minister Amit Shah will be holding five back-to-back campaign programmes in the state on Monday.First, he will address two public meetings in Birbhum district, the first at Sainthia at noon and the second at Khayrasole at 1.15 p.m.Thereafter, at 2.35 p.m., he will address another public meeting in Raniganj, West Burdwan district. Again at 4 p.m., he will be participating in a roadshow at the steel city…
Kolkata, March 12 (IANS) The Trinamool Congress on Thursday strongly criticised the sudden increase in the price of cooking gas in the country, linking the development to the US-Iran conflict in West Asia.At a press conference held at Trinamool Bhavan in Kolkata, state minister Chandrima Bhattacharya and party spokesperson Tanmay Ghosh claimed that the Central government’s lack of planning had led to the present gas crisis.Chandrima Bhattacharya alleged that it was foreseeable that gas supply …