Kolkata, June 19 (IANS) Ten more persons have been arrested in connection with an incident in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district where a group of Trinamool Congress supporters, led by Regina Bibi, wife of arrested party leader Jahangir Khan, allegedly tried to storm the Falta Police Station on June 16 in an attempt to free him from police custody.With the latest arrests, the total number of people held in the case has increased to 25, Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari told mediapersons on Fr…
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Kolkata, June 18 (IANS) Eastern Railway (ER) has revealed details of the causes behind Alarm Chain Pulling (ACP) incidents that delayed 86 trains across its four divisions in May. As many as 58 people were arrested for pulling alarm chains without justifiable cause during the month.The Asansol and Howrah divisions were the worst affected, followed by Malda and Sealdah.Investigations by the Railway Protection Force (RPF) revealed that passengers pulled the emergency chain for highly trivial reaso…
Kolkata, June 14 (IANS) In a push towards providing better amenities to passengers, Railway Board Chairman and CEO Satish Kumar conducted a comprehensive inspection of the Tarakeswar-Seoraphuli section of Eastern Railway (ER) on Sunday. He also inspected the Tarakeswar and Seoraphuli stations and discussed key strategies to improve passenger services.Work is already under way to extend this section up to Bankura. Work on only a small stretch has been held up because of legal issues. Once complet…
Kolkata, June 12 (IANS) Amid the growing rift in the Trinamool Congress, party MP Saugata Roy on Friday said that some of his fellow lawmakers are claiming they did not sign any document, yet their names are still being used, even as termed whatever is happening is immoral and unethical, as these lawmakers were elected on the party’s symbol and received full support from it, with campaigning led by party President Mamata Banerjee. Speaking to IANS, Saugata Roy said: “Some people are claiming tha…
Kolkata, June 8 (IANS) A court here on Monday granted bail to five people, including CPI-M leader Srijan Bhattacharya, who were arrested on Sunday night during a protest against a hawker eviction drive in south Kolkata’s Jadavpur area.The court granted bail on a personal bond of Rs 1,000 each. The next hearing in the case has been scheduled for November 3.The Alipore Police Court judge said that Srijan Bhattacharya would have to cooperate with the investigation as a condition of bail.Incidentall…
Kolkata, June 4 (IANS) “Every plot matters,” a senior Eastern Railway (ER) official said in defence of the ongoing eviction of squatters from railway property in the Howrah and Sealdah divisions.”We have been trying for decades to clear land belonging to the railways, but all our efforts were thwarted as there was no support from the state government. This land can fetch hundreds of crores in revenue that can be used to provide better services to rail users,” he said.He pointed to a recent move …
Kolkata, June 3 (IANS) The ninth Chief Minister of West Bengal, Suvendu Adhikari, will chair an administrative review meeting with bureaucrats, senior police officers and elected public representatives from three districts of Kolkata, Howrah and South 24 Parganas at the state secretariat Nabanna later on Wednesday, which will be attended by some elected Trinamool Congress legislators from these districts.As of now, the attendance of two expelled Trinamool Congress MLAs, namely Ritabrata Banerjee…
Kolkata, June 3 (IANS) It is now official that the Trinamool Congress has split a month after the party faced a landslide defeat in the recently concluded West Bengal Assembly elections. Out of the total 80 Trinamool Congress legislators in the Assembly, 58 have revolted under the leadership of the expelled party legislators Ritabrata Banerjee and Sandipan Saha.On Wednesday, a new resolution, carrying the signatures of these 58 legislators, was submitted in the Assembly, claiming to be the actua…
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 …
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…