Kolkata, Jan 28 (IANS) Enthusiasm is at its peak at Singur, the erstwhile site for Tata Motors’ small car project Nano, in Hooghly district of West Bengal, over the Chief Minister’s likely message at a scheduled rally there later in the day.The excitement over the rally stems from two reasons. The Chief Minister will be leaving for New Delhi immediately after her Singur rally, reportedly to garner consensus among opposition parties against the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in some…
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Kolkata, Jan 13 (IANS) West Bengal Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President and Rajya Sabha MP, Samik Bhattacharya, on Tuesday, filed a public interest litigation at a division bench led by the Chief Justice of Calcutta High Court, Sujoy Paul, seeking the court’s intervention for ensuring security at all polling booths for the Assembly elections in the state scheduled later this year. “For the past many years, there had not been a single instance of absolutely peaceful voting in West Bengal. What …
Kolkata, Jan 5 (IANS) The Leader of the Opposition (LoP) in the West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, on Monday said the Election Commission of India (ECI) had declined the domicile certificates issued by the West Bengal government as valid identity proofs for establishing voting rights in the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in the state for a justifiable reason.On Sunday, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had written a letter to the Chief Election Commissioner, Gyanesh Kumar, demanding …
Kolkata, Dec 22 (IANS) In the 2024 Garden Reach building collapse case in Kolkata, which claimed 13 lives and injured several others, it has come to light that the prime accused had managed to flee India and is reported to be in the UAE.According to police sources, the main accused in the incident, Mohammad Shahnawaz, has gone into hiding in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), concealing his identity.The building, which had collapsed in the Garden Reach area in 2024, was constructed on his land. Kol…