Kolkata, May 29 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Friday announced compensation of Rs 4,00,000 for each of the families of seven people in the sudden thunderstorms in the state. These seven persons died due to lightning, electrocution and house collapse during thunderstorms in mainly Kolkata, Howrah, North 24 Parganas, South 24 Parganas, Hooghly and Purulia.The bodies of the deceased victims had been sent for post-mortem.Speaking to the media persons on Friday evening, Chief …
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Kolkata, May 22 (IANS) The new Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-ruled West Bengal government has carried out a major bureaucratic reshuffle in the state, transferring as many as 17 Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers at one go.As per the order issued by the state Personnel & Administrative Reforms Department, a copy of which is available with IANS, the 17 transferred IAS officers include departmental secretaries, municipal commissioners and additional district magistrates.Sources in the…
Kolkata, May 19 (IANS) Trinamool Congress general secretary and the party’s Lok Sabha member, Abhishek Banerjee, on Tuesday reacted to the notice slapped on 17 properties owned or co-owned by him in Kolkata by the Kolkata Municipal Corporation authorities and said that whatever might come, he would not bow down to the new Bharatiya Janata Party-led regime in the state. “Let them do whatever they like. They can send me notices. They can even demolish my house. But I will never bow down. Come …
New Delhi, May 14 (IANS) In West Bengal, where the alleged display of opulence by a political leader once invited mob justice as the police cowered even under a three-decade-old regime, the exhibition of unaccounted wealth is now being subjected to legal process by a government not yet even a week old. In mid-2009, a video clip depicted the volatility of the time in West Bengal, showing a double-storey building being pulled down by an infuriated mob and set on fire.The brick-and-mortar house, wi…
Kolkata, May 13 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari will chair a crucial meeting at the current state secretariat in Nabanna in Kolkata-adjacent Howrah district on Wednesday to review the functioning and performance of as many as 41 state government departments.An insider from the state secretariat said that the review meeting is expected to be a marathon one since it is intended to identify the functional lapses of these departments and suggest measures to improve.Five representa…
Chandigarh, May 5 (IANS) In a breakthrough against organised crime, Punjab Police’s Anti-Gangster Task Force (AGTF), in an operation with Central agencies and Tripura Police, has apprehended Aditya Kapoor, one of the shooters involved in the sensational murder of kabaddi promoter Kanwar Digvijay Singh, alias Rana Balachauria, State Director General of Police (DGP) Gaurav Yadav said here. The accused, who was arrested from Agartala in Tripura and a resident of Amritsar, has a criminal background …
Kolkata, May 4 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is on track to secure an absolute majority as the counting continues, according to the latest trends for 293 Assembly constituencies provided by the Election Commission of India (ECI).According to the ECI data, the BJP candidates were leading in 193 Assembly constituencies, followed by Trinamool Congress at 94, the Left Front- All India Secular Front (AISF) alliance in three and others in two seats.The total number of Assembly constituencies…
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 29 (IANS) Trinamool Congress leader Abhishek Banerjee on Wednesday alleged that an elderly man died after being assaulted by central forces personnel in Udaynarayanpur in Howrah district during the second and final phase of the West Bengal Assembly elections.In a post on X, Abhishek Banerjee criticised the BJP-led government at the Centre, accusing it of misusing central forces during the elections in West Bengal.“Central Forces under (Home Minister) Amit Shah have become BJP’…
Kolkata, April 29 (IANS) The polling for the second phase of the West Bengal Assembly polls for 142 constituencies in six districts and the state capital of Kolkata has officially concluded at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, with the polling percentage till 5 p.m. surpassing the figure for the same period in the first phase of polling for 152 constituencies on April 23. The polling percentage till 5 p.m. on Wednesday was recorded at 89.99, which is marginally higher than the figure of 89.93 for the same pe…