Kolkata, Feb 5 (IANS) In an unusual development, the treasury bench in the West Bengal Assembly on Thursday moved a motion condemning the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in the state barely an hour before the scheduled presentation of the interim (vote-on-account) budget.However, the Speaker of the House, Biman Bandopadhyay, disallowed any discussion on the motion as a crucial hearing in the matter is still pending at the Supreme Court. The next hearing is on February 9.The leader of th…
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Kolkata, Feb 2 (IANS) Leader of the Opposition (LoP) in West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, on Monday, alleged that the Trinamool Congress and its political consultancy firm I-PAC are jointly responsible for harassing people who have been summoned by the Election Commission of India (ECI) to appear for the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) hearings. A Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) delegation led by LoP Adhikari, also met Governor C.V. Ananda Bose at the Lok Bhaban in Kolkata and apprised him o…
Kolkata, Jan 20 (IANS) A Division Bench of the Calcutta High Court on Tuesday gave freedom to the Union government to order a National Investigation Agency (NIA) probe into the violence and tension for two days last week at Beldanga in minority-dominated Murshidabad district of West Bengal, reportedly over the alleged murder of a local migrant worker from that district in Jharkhand.The Division Bench of Calcutta High Court’s Chief Justice Sujoy Paul and Justice Partha Sarathi Sen also directed…
Kolkata, Jan 10 (IANS) Kolkata Police have detained one person in connection with an email issuing a bomb threat to Governor C.V. Ananda Bose.The detained individual has been identified as Subrata Dutta, the police said late on Friday night. However, the officers at Hare Street police station in central Kolkata have not yet confirmed whether the 68-year-old man himself sent the email.The threatening message came to the attention of officials at Raj Bhavan on Thursday night. The email stated that…
Kolkata, Jan 9 (IANS) Trinamool Congress general secretary and party Lok Sabha member Abhishek Banerjee on Friday claimed that the Enforcement Directorate (ED) had “deliberately” targeted the Indian Political Action Committee (I-PAC) as the agency was assisting the Trinamool Congress with its poll strategy and also helping the party during the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise in the state.He also accused the ED of being habitual in harassing Trinamool Congress leaders, including…
Kolkata, Dec 31 (IANS) West Bengal got its first-ever woman Chief Secretary, with the current additional chief secretary to the state home and hill affairs department, Nandini Chakraborty, being named as the new bureaucratic head of the state on Wednesday by the state government.Chakraborty succeeded Manoj Pant, who retired on Wednesday. Pant, who was supposed to retire in June this year, was already on an extension for six months.Although the state government appealed to the Union Government fo…