Kolkata, Jan 16 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, on Friday, accused the Election Commission of India (ECI) of deliberately targeting the minority voters for deletion through the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in the state. She also claimed that around 90,000 voters in the minority-dominated Malda district are slated to be deleted in the final voters’ list.”The grievance of the people from the minority community is quite justified. The voters from this community are sp…
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Kolkata, Jan 8 (IANS) As the politics in West Bengal was rocked by Enforcement Directorate’s (ED) raids at the Trinamool Congress’ consulting firm I-PAC office and the residence of its director Pratik Jain in Kolkata, the party’s General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee refused to address the matter while addressing a public meeting in Malda district on Thursday. On Thursday morning, ED officials raided the Sector-5 office of the I-PAC, the consulting firm for the state government and the Trinamool C…
Kolkata, Jan 7 (IANS) Physical presence for hearing sessions will not be mandatory for migrant workers from West Bengal who are currently residing in other states for their livelihoods and students from the state studying elsewhere, who have been detected as “logical discrepancy” cases in the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR), the Election Commission of India (ECI) has clarified.Family members of such categories of voters would be able to reach the hearing centres on their behalf and …
Chennai, Jan 3 (IANS) With the Pongal festival approaching, the Tamil Nadu government has begun preparations to manage the sharp rise in travel across the state, particularly from urban centres to rural and semi-urban regions.Anticipating heavy passenger movement during the festive season, the government is planning to operate a large number of special buses and has scheduled a high-level review meeting on January 6 to finalise the arrangements.Tamil Nadu Transport Department sources indicated t…
Chennai, Dec 30 (IANS) The Communist Party of India (Marxist) on Tuesday strongly condemned the brutal attack on a migrant labourer from Odisha aboard a train bound for Tiruttani, describing the incident as a disturbing reflection of the growing drug menace and rising violence involving juveniles in the State. Addressing reporters, CPI(M) State Secretary P. Shanmugam expressed deep concern over the incident, in which four minors allegedly assaulted the migrant worker with lethal weapons. Accordi…
Chennai, Dec 30 (IANS) Naam Tamilar Katchi (NTK) chief coordinator Seeman on Tuesday strongly condemned the brutal killing of a migrant labourer in Tiruttani, describing the incident as a shameful blot on Tamil society and a direct consequence of the State government’s failure to curb drug abuse and crime. Seeman referred to the murder of Siraj, a migrant worker from Odisha, who was allegedly attacked and killed by four drug-addicted youths while travelling on a suburban train to Tiruttani. He…