Kolkata, June 3 (IANS) The Kolkata Police have arrested a young man for duping a woman after he befriended her on a matrimonial site and promised to get married, said a police official on Wednesday. Following the initial investigation, it was learned that the young man had similarly duped several women of money and jewellery, and allegedly married 15 women through this kind of fraud.According to the police, the young man has been identified as Matiur Rahman, a resident of Bowbazar in central Kol…
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New Delhi, June 2 (IANS) On this day in 2014, Tapan Sikdar, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) stalwart who scripted history by winning the Dumdum Lok Sabha constituency twice, the first party leader to do so in West Bengal, passed away in New Delhi after a prolonged illness. The name is relevant now, with renewed efforts to relocate a mosque, reportedly 136 years old, from within the operational area of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport in Kolkata. Sikdar had long advocated its rem…
Kolkata, May 29 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Friday announced compensation of Rs 4,00,000 for each of the families of seven people in the sudden thunderstorms in the state. These seven persons died due to lightning, electrocution and house collapse during thunderstorms in mainly Kolkata, Howrah, North 24 Parganas, South 24 Parganas, Hooghly and Purulia.The bodies of the deceased victims had been sent for post-mortem.Speaking to the media persons on Friday evening, Chief …
Kolkata, May 29 (IANS) The Calcutta High Court on Friday refused to entertain a petition by former West Bengal Fire Services Minister Sujit Bose challenging his arrest earlier this month by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in connection with the multi-crore municipalities recruitment irregularities case in the state.Since the Calcutta High Court is having its summer vacation now, Bose’s counsel on Thursday moved the petition before the single-judge vacation bench of Justice Shampa Dutta Paul.T…
Kolkata, May 28 (IANS) The West Bengal Police on Thursday finally declared the total cash recovered from four trolley bags and a sack recovered after digging up the farmland owned by Dipankar Bhattacharya, the chairman of Trinamool Congress-controlled Baduria Municipality in North 24 Parganas district. Bhattacharya was arrested on corruption charges at a hotel last Monday.“The currencies, mainly in Rs 500 denominations, recovered from the trolley bags and sacks, were counted several times in t…
Kolkata, May 27 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Wednesday said that a total of 142.79 acres of land has so far been handed over to the Border Security Force (BSF) for the construction of outposts and barbed-wire fencing.In a post on X, Adhikari said: “Govt of WB has initiated intensified measures to strengthen border security by facilitating construction of BSF outposts and barbed-wire fencing, further enhancing security in the border areas. Additional land has now been h…
Kolkata, May 27 (IANS) West Bengal Minister Dilip Ghosh on Wednesday lashed out at a section of the state police after Prashant Barman, the former BDO of Raiganj Block in North Dinajpur district, who is an accused in the abduction-murder of gold merchant Swapan Kamilya, was granted bail by a district court.Barman had been absconding since last year and secured bail on Tuesday night as the investigating officers failed to furnish the necessary documents related to the abduction-cum-murder case to…
Kolkata, May 27 (IANS) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday said that 10 people, accused in post-poll violence cases in West Bengal following the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, have been arrested.The ten arrested accused individuals include Kader Molla, the most trusted aide of Sheikh Shahjahan, the notorious and now-suspended Trinamool Congress leader from Sandeshkhali in North 24 Parganas district. Shahjahan is currently in jail after the CBI identified him as the mastermind behin…
Kolkata, May 26 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari said on Tuesday that the decision of the Bharatiya Janata Party-led state government to establish “holding centres’ for the illegal Bangladeshi infiltrators arrested in the state before being sent to the nearby border outposts of the Border Security Force (BSF) for deportation to their native country, had created panic among such illegal infiltrators, who had been staying in the state so far without any fear. He chaired an admini…
Kolkata, May 21 (IANS) A crude bomb and a threatening letter were recovered from outside the residence of a BJP leader in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district on Thursday morning, triggering panic in the area.According to locals, the incident occurred at Shasina village under Basirhat police station limits, where BJP booth president Anil Baran Mallick resides. Miscreants allegedly took advantage of the darkness during the night and left two crude bombs at the entrance of his house before fle…