New Delhi, Feb 5 (IANS) The Delhi Police Crime Branch has arrested Al Falah University Chairman Jawad Ahmed Siddiqui in connection with alleged financial and administrative irregularities, officials confirmed on Thursday.The arrest follows recent action initiated by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and comes after complaints were lodged by the University Grants Commission (UGC) regarding suspected violations and fraudulent activities linked to the institution.Based on the complaint submitted by …
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New Delhi, Feb 2 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will be meeting the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC), Gyanesh Kumar, at the Election Commission of India (ECI) headquarters in New Delhi on Monday.She will be departing for the national capital on Sunday afternoon, with multiple programmes scheduled during her trip, primarily focusing on the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in the state.Apart from that, she is also likely to interact with the top leaders of the oppositio…
Kolkata, Feb 1 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will be meeting the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC), Gyanesh Kumar, at the Election Commission of India (ECI) headquarters in New Delhi on Monday.She will be departing for the national capital on Sunday afternoon, with multiple programmes scheduled during her trip, primarily focusing on the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in the state.Apart from that, she is also likely to interact with the top leaders of the opposition …
Kolkata, Jan 28 (IANS) The Mamata Banerjee government will move a motion in the West Bengal Assembly to condemn the role of Central probe agencies like the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in the state during the Budget Session starting next week.Sources in the Trinamool Congress’s legislative party in the state Assembly said that during the session, the Treasury Bench will also move another motion condemning the manner in which the ongoing Special Int…
Thiruvananthapuram, Jan 20 (IANS) The political temperature in Kerala rose sharply on Tuesday as the BJP escalated its campaign over the Sabarimala gold theft case, organising protest marches to the residences of two key CPI(M) leaders — former Devaswom Minister Kadakampally Surendran in Thiruvananthapuram and incumbent Devaswom Minister V.N. Vasavan in Kottayam.The protests came amid growing scrutiny of the alleged gold smuggling from the Sabarimala temple, a case that has triggered parallel …
Ranchi, Jan 15 (IANS) In a setback for Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren, the High Court on Thursday allowed the trial to proceed in a case related to the defiance of summonses issued by the ED in an alleged land scam.A single-judge Bench of Justice Anil Kumar Choudhary dismissed Soren’s petition seeking to quash the proceedings pending before the MP-MLA special court. However, the High Court granted him exemption from personal appearance before the court.The MP-MLA court had initiated jud…
Kolkata, Jan 12 (IANS) Kolkata Police has started the process of making the neighbours of Indian Political Action Committee (I-PAC) director Pratik Jain, witnesses in the investigation against the Enforcement Directorate (ED) over the latter’s raid and search operations at Jain’s residence at Loudon Street in central Kolkata on January 8.Sources said on Monday that already, some of the neighbours have been summoned by the investigating team of the city police for questioning on their experie…
New Delhi, Jan 12 (IANS) Nationalist Congress Party (SP) working president Supriya Sule has raised serious concerns over the manner in which political alliances are being formed in Maharashtra’s local body elections, alleging misuse of money power and accusing the Election Commission of remaining a silent spectator. In an exclusive interaction with IANS, Supriya Sule, Lok Sabha MP from Maharashtra’s Baramati, spoke on a range of issues including Municipal elections, BJP’s functioning, women-…
Guwahati, Jan 9 (IANS) Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Friday strongly criticised West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Trinamool Congress supremo over her conduct during and after the recent Enforcement Directorate (ED) raid at the Kolkata office of political consultancy firm I-PAC, as a legal confrontation between the Trinamool Congress and the Centre is set to unfold on January 14.Reacting to the developments, CM Sarma said CM Banerjee’s behaviour at the site of the ED …
Kolkata, Jan 9 (IANS) West Bengal Governor C.V. Ananda Bose has announced that he will be hitting the streets of Kolkata without any security cover on Friday, ignoring a death-threat email sent to his office sometime on Thursday night.After the email came of the notice of the Lok Bhavan (earlier Raj Bhavan) staff, the matter was informed to the office of the Union Home Minister, Amit Shah, and a decision was taken to overhaul the Governor’s security.However, despite these initiatives to enhanc…