Bengaluru, July 7 (IANS) Union Minister for Food, Public Distribution and Consumer Affairs Pralhad Joshi on Tuesday said the Election Commission of India (ECI) has assured the NDA delegation that it will examine the complaints regarding alleged irregularities in the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Karnataka and take appropriate action. Addressing the media after submitting a memorandum to the Election Commission in Delhi, Joshi said the Commission had examined thei…
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Kolkata, June 26 (IANS) The West Bengal government will soon bring a strong law to prevent incidents of forceful religious conversion and love jihad in the state, said the new and ninth Chief Minister, Suvendu Adhikari, on Friday.“West Bengal will move forward with the slogan of Dr Shyama Prasad Mukherjee as its guiding principle. Along with the Uniform Civil Code, the state government is going to bring strict laws against Land Jihad, Love Jihad and forced religious conversion,” the Chief Mi…
Kolkata, June 8 (IANS) The Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) has been accused of obstructing the return of Bangladeshi nationals to their country. As a result, after remaining stranded at the zero line along the India-Bangladesh border for two days, around 10 Bangladeshi nationals were brought back to a holding centre in Jalpaiguri district on Monday.It is learnt that the Bangladeshi nationals were stopped when they attempted to cross the border fencing and return to Bangladesh over the past two day…
Kolkata, May 21 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari has directed the police department and the Railway Protection Force (RPF) authorities to directly send arrested illegal infiltrators from other countries to the nearest Border Security Force (BSF) border outposts instead of producing them before courts.Earlier, CM Adhikari said that the system of handing over illegal infiltrators directly to the BSF had come into force in West Bengal with immediate effect from Wednesday.On Thursd…
Mumbai, April 22 (IANS) Union Minister Piyush Goyal on Wednesday termed the Pahalgam terror attack as a “wake up call” for the country. He cautioned that in the fight against terrorism, every citizen needs to be alert and report any kind of suspicious activity that may come to their notice.Speaking to reporters, Goyal mentioned that security is a shared responsibility of every individual in society. He said that staying alert, reporting suspicious activities, and avoiding rumours are all extreme…
Kolkata, April 19 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said that if the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) comes to power in West Bengal after the forthcoming Assembly elections in the state later this month, the new state government will adopt a balanced approach between dole allowances and the financial prudence of generating employment.“I want to assure the youths of West Bengal that if the BJP comes to power in West Bengal, unemployment allowances and efforts at employment generation wi…
Kolkata, April 15 (IANS) Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday made a strong statement alleging that former Trinamool Congress legislator Humayun Kabir, who recently floated his own political party and is also contesting in the upcoming West Bengal elections in the state later this month, is a plant of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to indirectly facilitate the construction of a Babri-style mosque in the state.”Mamata Banerjee wants to build Babri Masjid by expelling her pawn Humayun Kabir …
Kolkata, April 12 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday launched a scathing attack on the Trinamool Congress during a rally in Siliguri, saying that the party’s emphasis on appeasement politics is clearly reflected in the annual budgetary allocations of the state government.“The Trinamool Congress government had allotted Rs 6,000 crore for madrasa education development. However, the state government’s budgetary allocations for North Bengal, which is the gateway to Northeast India, ar…
Kolkata, March 7 (IANS) The BJP alleged on Saturday that West Bengal Chief Minister, Mamata Banerjee’s indefinite anti-Special Intensive Revision (SIR) sit-in protest in Kolkata that started from Friday afternoon is yet another ploy to protect the illegal infiltrators in the voters’ list of the state.Although the Trinamool Congress leadership, led by the Chief Minister, began the sit-in protest on Friday afternoon at Esplanade East in central Kolkata, it has not given any indication of how lon…
New Delhi, Dec 30 (IANS) The BJP on Tuesday came out in strong support of Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s remarks on illegal infiltration in West Bengal and his allegation that Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee ignored repeated requests for allotment of adequate land to the Border Security Force (BSF) along the international border with neighbouring Bangladesh.Backing the Home Minister, the BJP said his accusations were justified and charged the Trinamool Congress-led state government with putting …