Kolkata, March 13 (IANS) Sensitivity-mapping will determine the decision of the Election Commission of India (ECI) on the district-wise deployment of police observers for the forthcoming Assembly elections in West Bengal, scheduled to be held later this year.An insider from the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), West Bengal, said the ECI is keeping a few factors in mind regarding the district-wise sensitivity-mapping.“The district-wise sensitivity-mapping will be under three categori…
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Kolkata, March 12 (IANS) A civic volunteer has been arrested in Howrah on charges of allegedly molesting a teenage girl who later died by suicide, police said on Thursday.According to a senior police officer, the accused civic volunteer was arrested following the incident that took place in Amta under the Howrah Rural Police District on Wednesday.Police said the girl had gone to attend a Kali Puja event in Amta with her mother on Tuesday night. The accused, a civic volunteer attached to Penro Po…
Kolkata, March 12 (IANS) The Regional Meteorological Centre (RMC) at Alipore has forecast rainfall in several districts of West Bengal, including Kolkata, from Thursday onwards.According to the weather office, scattered showers are likely to continue in Kolkata till next Tuesday. Similar conditions are expected in districts such as Howrah, Hooghly, Purulia, Bankura, East Burdwan, West Burdwan, Birbhum and Murshidabad. Rain alerts have been issued for 12 districts of south Bengal.The Met Office s…
Kolkata, March 10 (IANS) Chief Election Commissioner, Gyanesh Kumar, on Tuesday morning broke out of his bureaucratic shell as he interacted with the monks of Belur Math in Belur in Howrah, which is the international headquarters of the Swami Vivekananda-founded Ramakrishna Math & Ramakrishna Mission.Kumar, on Tuesday morning, started his day early as he first went to Belur Math to have a feel of the pristine spiritually involved with the place. There he was seen interacting with the monks o…
Kolkata, March 9 (IANS) In a rare move, the state Police Headquarters (Bhabani Bhawan) in West Bengal has ordered the transfer of three women civic volunteers, a senior police officer said on Monday.A directive to this effect has been issued. However, in recent years, there has been no known precedent of the state police headquarters issuing a formal transfer notice for civic volunteers.Civic volunteers are not members of the state police force. The Calcutta High Court has already clarified this…
Kolkata, March 8 (IANS) Several local trains were cancelled on Sunday morning, causing inconvenience to candidates about to appear in the Group-D recruitment examination. About 8,09,000 applications have been made for the Group-D written exam.According to railway officials, several trains have been cancelled and some train schedules have been changed to ensure safe and timely travel of passengers, due to maintenance and distressing block activities in various railway divisions of Howrah and Asan…
New Delhi, March 3 (IANS) Indian Railways continues to maintain enhanced operational preparedness this week with the running of special trains to facilitate safe, smooth, timely and comfortable travel for passengers during the ongoing Holi festive rush across the country, an official statement said on Tuesday.During this period, more than 5.5 million passengers travelled from stations under the jurisdiction of North Western Railway. Notably, around 1.1 million passengers travelled on March 1 and…
Kolkata, March 2 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI) has given details of the advance deployment of the 480 companies of the Central Armed Police Force (CAPF) in two phases in West Bengal before the announcement of the polling dates for the Assembly election.Of these 480 companies, 240 companies have already been deployed on March 1, and the remaining 240 companies will be deployed on March 10.The maximum deployment will be in the North 24 Parganas district at 58, followed by 35 in Mur…
Kolkata, Feb 28 (IANS) The firearms used to kill a 27-year-old promoter in Howrah’s Peelkhana area a few days ago have been recovered, even as the main accused Harun Khan and Rohit Hossain remain missing, said the police on Saturday.According to the police, officers of Golabari Police Station recovered two firearms and two rounds of bullets from the water tank of the house of arrested Mohammad Wakil alias Munna in Boubazar in central Kolkata last night.On Wednesday morning, promoter Shafiq Khan …
Kolkata, Feb 27 (IANS) Kolkata and its adjacent districts were jolted by two consecutive earthquake tremors on Friday afternoon, sending people rushing out of homes and offices in a panic.Tremors were felt throughout the city and its adjacent districts at 1.22 p.m.Several high-rise buildings in the city shook for several seconds.The epicentre of the earthquake was Khulna in Bangladesh. The magnitude of the tremor was 5.5 on the Richter scale. Many people left their homes and offices in fear and …