Kolkata, May 19 (IANS) West Bengal government has taken an in-principle decision to reinstate a nominee in the Damodar Valley Reservoir Regulation Committee, which was withdrawn by the previous Trinamool Congress-ruled and Mamata Banerjee-led state cabinet. In September 2024, Mamata Banerjee wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, communicating her decision to withdraw representation from the Damodar Valley Reservoir Regulation Committee because the Damodar Valley Corporation had been releasing w…
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Kolkata, May 19 (IANS) Jahangir Khan, the Trinamool Congress (TMC) nominee from the Falta Assembly seat, announced his withdrawal from the electoral race on Tuesday, barely two days ahead of the repolls. This resulted in pointed jibes and taunts from the ruling BJP, which swept the recently held Bengal Assembly elections with an overwhelming majority, as well as criticism from some members of his own party. Jahangir Khan, a key aide of Mamata Banerjee’s nephew Abhishek Banerjee, announced at a…
Kolkata, May 19 (IANS) Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) authorities, which still has the current and four-time Trinamool Congress legislator and former member in the previous Mamata Banerjee-led Cabinet, Firhad Hakim as its Mayor, has started a probe against a number of properties reportedly owned or co-owned by Trinamool Congress General Secretary and the party’s Lok Sabha member, Abhishek Banerjee.The KMC have served notices under Section 400(1) of the KMC Act 1980, which allows owners of a…
New Delhi, May 19 (IANS) A day after the BJP-led West Bengal government decided that assistance-oriented schemes for religious leaders would be discontinued from June this year, the Congress accused the BJP of changing its stance post its electoral victory for “political ambition”.The decision was taken during the BJP government’s second Cabinet meeting in the state. It stated that religion-based stipend schemes for ‘imams (Muslim priests)’ and ‘purohits (Hindu priests)’, will be discontinued.Sp…
Kolkata, May 19 (IANS) A new division bench of the Calcutta High Court, Justice Shampa Sarkar and Justice Tirthankar Ghosh, will hear on Tuesday the case on the 2024 ghastly rape and murder of a woman doctor of the state-run R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital.As per the cause list of the Calcutta High Court, the hearing in the matter will start at 1 p.m.After the previous division bench headed by Justice Rajasekhar Mantha recused from hearing the matter on May 12, observing that “this impor…
Kolkata, May 19 (IANS) Trinamool Congress supremo and former West Bengal Chief Minister, Mamata Banerjee, has on Tuesday convened a meeting with the 80 elected party legislators in the recently concluded Assembly polls to discuss and adopt a strategy as the principal opposition party in the state now.Trinamool Congress general secretary and the party’s Lok Sabha member, Abhishek Banerjee, is also supposed to be present at the meeting in the afternoon.A party member in the current Assembly, on …
Kolkata, May 18 (IANS) Trinamool Congress general secretary and the party’s Lok Sabha member, Abhishek Banerjee, on Monday approached the Calcutta High Court seeking the scrapping of a first information report filed against him last week. In the first information report registered against him with the Bidhannagar Cyber Crime Police Station under the Bidhannagar Police Commissionerate in North 24 Parganas district on the night of May 15, he had been accused of allegedly inciting violence and th…
Kolkata, May 18 (IANS) In a major step towards providing a clean and corruption-free administration in the state, the West Bengal government on Monday appointed a set of West Bengal Civil Service (WBCS) officers as “executive assistants” to ministers in the newly formed cabinet led by Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari.The selections were reportedly made from among bureaucrats known for clean, transparent, and politically neutral service records.The State Personnel and Administrative Reforms De…
Kolkata, May 18 (IANS) The crucial second meeting of the new West Bengal cabinet under the leadership of Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari is scheduled on Monday afternoon, with sectors such as state finance and education being on the agenda.In the finance sector, a crucial subject on the agenda is the long-contentious issue of paying Dearness Allowances (DA) to the state government employees at par with their counterparts in the Central government and the arrears accrued on it as directed by the …
Kolkata, May 17 (IANS) Ambikesh Mahapatra, the Jadavpur University professor who was arrested in 2012 for circulating a cartoon of former West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, on Sunday launched a sharp attack on the Trinamool Congress supremo, accusing her of fostering “hooliganism” in the state and enforcing “excessive control over institutions”, ranging from the police administration to the media. Mahapatra was arrested in April 2012 after forwarding an email containing a cartoon se…