Kolkata, March 24 (IANS) Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday night resigned from different “office of profit” posts that she had been holding as of now amid the crucial two-phase Assembly polls in West Bengal scheduled next month. Mamata Banerjee is a Trinamool Congress candidate from the Bhabanipur Assembly constituency in South Kolkata.Based on the resignation of the Chief Minister from these “office-of-profit” posts, the state administration, which is currently under the direct au…
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New Delhi, March 23 (IANS) Ahead of Mamata Banerjee assuming power in West Bengal in 2011, a small room at the Trinamool Congress Bhavan in Kolkata used to host a group of fresh-out-of-college youth who worked on “media monitoring” with a panel of screens beaming news and a pile of the day’s newspapers at their desks. The party leader then overseeing the group would fuss over them, share opinion over their reports before finalising the document for the eyes of the party Chairperson herself…
Kolkata, March 17 (IANS) Days after taking oath as Governor of West Bengal, R.N. Ravi has taken proactive steps to accelerate administrative operations. According to a state government official, an email has been sent to the state secretariat Nabanna seeking the filling of several key vacancies within the Raj Bhavan.The Raj Bhavan is placing particular emphasis on filling these posts swiftly, as they have remained vacant for a considerable period.According to an official at Raj Bhavan, a request…
Kolkata, March 12 (IANS) The West Bengal government on Thursday announced a standard operating procedure (SOP) to guide coordinated monitoring, stabilise supplies and facilitate immediate redressal of public grievances regarding LPG availability in the state amid the ongoing Gulf crisis.According to a statement issued by the state Information and Cultural Affairs Department on Thursday evening, a 24×7 state LPG control room will be set up at the state secretariat Nabanna, which will serve as the…
Kolkata, Feb 27 (IANS) Kolkata and its adjacent districts were jolted by two consecutive earthquake tremors on Friday afternoon, sending people rushing out of homes and offices in a panic.Tremors were felt throughout the city and its adjacent districts at 1.22 p.m.Several high-rise buildings in the city shook for several seconds.The epicentre of the earthquake was Khulna in Bangladesh. The magnitude of the tremor was 5.5 on the Richter scale. Many people left their homes and offices in fear and …
Kolkata, Jan 29 (IANS) The Calcutta High Court on Thursday again rejected the plea from the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) West Bengal unit to hold protest demonstrations in front of the state Secretariat ‘Nabanna’ against Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s alleged move hindering the Enforcement Directorate (ED)’s raids against the Indian Action Political Action Committee (I-PAC).A division bench of Chief Justice Sujoy Paul and Justice Partha Sarathi Sen declined the party’s plea challenging the s…
Kolkata, Jan 15 (IANS) A single-judge bench of the Calcutta High Court on Thursday rejected the plea by the West Bengal unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) seeking permission to hold a protest demonstration in front of the state secretariat Nabanna at Mandirtala in Kolkata-adjacent Howrah district, over Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s alleged move to hinder the Enforcement Directorate’s (ED) simultaneous raids on the Indian Political Action Committee (I-PAC).While turning down the plea…
Kolkata, Jan 13 (IANS) BJP’s West Bengal unit on Tuesday filed a petition in the Calcutta High Court seeking permission to protest in front of the state secretariat, Nabanna, against West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s alleged move hindering ED’s simultaneous raids against I-PAC.The single-judge bench of Justice Shampa Dutta Paul admitted the petition.On January 8, while simultaneous raids and search operations were being conducted at the Indian Political Action Committee’s office and t…
Kolkata, Dec 20 (IANS) The Trinamool Congress, on Saturday, issued a notification renaming the West Bengal government’s own job guarantee programme after Mahatma Gandhi as a mark of protest against the Union government’s recent decision to replace the 20-year-old Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005 (MGNREGA) scheme with the Viksit Bharat-Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) or VB-G RAM G scheme. As per the notification issued by the State Secretariat, Naban…