Kolkata, May 10 (IANS) The husband of a Trinamool Congress panchayat member was found murdered in West Bengal’s Hooghly district on Sunday, police said. The Trinamool Congress alleged that workers of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) beat him to death, a charge the saffron party has denied.According to police, the body of the Trinamool leader was recovered from behind the Trinamool party office on Sunday morning. He had gone missing on Saturday. Police said there are multiple injury marks on th…
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Kolkata, April 29 (IANS) The polling percentage in the first six hours till 1 p.m. on Wednesday in the second phase of West Bengal Assembly elections for 142 constituencies has been recorded at 61.11. This is slightly lower than the 62.18 per cent recorded in the first six hours of April 23 voting in the first phase in 152 Assembly constituencies.In district-wise voting, till 1 p.m., East Burdwan district recorded the highest polling percentage at 66.80, followed by Hooghly district at 64.57, Na…
Kolkata, April 29 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday claimed that the BJP wants to “forcefully rig” the Assembly elections in the state, stating that the election observers, “brought from outside”, are going to police stations and “creating pressure”. She visited polling booths in South Kolkata as the voting for the second phase of the Assembly elections is underway across 142 seats in the state.To ensure security, CCTV cameras have been installed, and CAPF personnel …
Kolkata, April 13 (IANS) Six residents of Arambagh in West Bengal’s Hooghly district have filed a suicide petition with President Droupadi Murmu after their names were removed from the state’s electoral rolls post Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise, officials said on Monday. They filed the petition at the Arambagh Sub-Divisional Magistrate’s office on Monday afternoon.They visited the Sub-Divisional Magistrate’s office with all the documents attached to submit the petition.Among the petit…
Kolkata, March 26 (IANS) Tension-prone pockets across different districts of West Bengal have been kept under a blanket security cover since Thursday morning, anticipating tension and violence over Ram Navami processions later in the day.Special security measures have been adopted across the entire Kolkata-adjacent Hooghly district, Chandannagar in Hooghly district, and Islampur in North Dinajpur district, keeping in mind instances of massive violence and riot-like situations during processions …
Kolkata, March 5 (IANS) A manual scavenger died on Thursday while cleaning a manhole in Ward No. 12 of Serampore Municipality in West Bengal’s Hooghly district. Two other workers also fell sick while working inside the same manhole.After receiving information that three workers had fallen sick while working in the manhole, firefighters and local residents rushed to the spot, rescued them and took them to Serampore Walsh Hospital.One of them was declared dead by doctors at the hospital. The decea…
Kolkata, Feb 23 (IANS) After a purported video went viral where a civic volunteer engaged with West Bengal Police could be seen beating up a truck driver after he allegedly refused to pay extortion money, Leader of Opposition (LoP) in the Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, slammed the state government.LoP Adhikari on Monday shared the purported video on his social media handle to highlight the incident.The IANS however could not independently verify the contents of the video and therefore, cannot vouch…
Kolkata, Feb 23 (IANS) The Government Railway Police (GRP) have successfully apprehended a wanted criminal who had been consistently committing thefts on trains while posing as a policeman, according to sources on Monday.According to the GRP, the miscreant used to steal in the name of searching passengers’ bags and other belongings in a police uniform and then escape. However, the accused got into trouble after stealing a doctor’s bag, along with his MBBS certificate and other important document…
Bhubaneswar, Feb 8 (IANS) The Odisha Commissionerate Police has arrested a man from West Bengal in connection with an investment fraud case in which a Bhubaneswar resident was allegedly duped of more than Rs 50 lakh through online trading, a senior official said on Sunday. The accused was identified as Arabinda Paul (46) of Mongra in Hooghly district of West Bengal. Police claimed that Paul, an MBA graduate, is the primary beneficiary of the fraud amount. Police sources claimed the accused also …
Kolkata, Feb 5 (IANS) In a case concerning teacher transfers, the Calcutta High Court had declared the District Primary School Council (DPSC) in Hooghly district illegal.The division bench of Justice Tapabrata Chakraborty has now issued an interim stay on this single-bench order, court sources said on Thursday.The court said that the Primary School Council can continue its work for the time being. However, the division bench has directed the council to submit relevant documents regarding the mat…