Kolkata, Feb 3 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) continued its raids across West Bengal’s West Burdwan district on Tuesday in connection with a coal and sand smuggling case, with dramatic scenes unfolding at the residence of businessman Rajesh Bansal in Jamuria. According to ED sources, officials of the State Bank of India (SBI) arrived at Bansal’s house carrying sacks and were later seen exiting with three of them.Sources said that so far Rs 65 lakh has been recovered from the premise…
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Kolkata, Feb 3 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) officers conducted raids on Tuesday at multiple locations in West Bengal as part of its investigation into sand and coal smuggling cases.The raids are currently underway in the West Burdwan district.A team of ED sleuths arrived in the district early in the morning and conducted a raid in Nabagram. Sources said that the ED is investigating allegations of illegal extraction and smuggling of coal from Eastern Coalfields Limited.The search is be…
Kolkata, Jan 28 (IANS) The BJP’s newly-elected National President, Nitin Nabin, on Wednesday, asked the bureaucrats in West Bengal, especially the District Magistrates (DMs) and the Sub-Divisional officers, not to blindly follow orders of the ruling Trinamool Congress leaders.“I am telling the DMs and SDPs. The days of the current Trinamool Congress government are numbered. Do not dance to the tune of the ruling party leaders. Do not be their puppets. You are administrative personnel. So sta…
Kolkata, Jan 27 (IANS) BJP President Nitin Nabin on Tuesday voiced for a research-based selection of party candidates to be fielded in the 294 assembly constituencies of West Bengal for the upcoming assembly elections. Sources said that Nabin stressed this research-based selection of party candidates at a meeting of the core committee of the BJP that was conducted at the industrial township of Durgapur.Nabin is currently on a two-day visit to West Bengal to take stock of the situation amid the c…
Kolkata, Jan 27 (IANS) The newly elected national president of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Nitin Nabin, is scheduled to visit West Bengal on Tuesday for the first time since taking office. During his two-day visit, he will concentrate his efforts on the West Burdwan district.As per the schedule of the two-day visit, Nabin will land at Andal Airport near the industrial township of Asansol in West Burdwan district at around 4 p.m. on Tuesday.In the evening, he will attend a programme called …
New Delhi, Jan 23 (IANS) Doctors at the All India Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Delhi on Friday announced a successful surgery where they removed a whopping 19.9 kg tumour from a 43-year-old colon cancer patient, giving her a new lease of life.Munmun, hailing from Durgapur, West Bengal, was presented to the hospital in July 2024 with abdominal distension (a larger-than-normal belly). She had a history of unilateral salpingo-oophorectomy — the surgical removal of one ovary and one fallopian tube on o…
Kolkata, Jan 1 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI) has now decided to apply its own independent mechanism for identifying housing complexes with multiple towers for setting up polling booths for the forthcoming Assembly elections in the state.The ECI has decided the matter amid the failure of the District Magistrates (DMs), also the District Electoral Officers (DEOs), to identify housing complexes with 300 voters or above for setting up the polling booth, sources in the office of the C…