Kolkata, Feb 19 (IANS) Event organiser Tanay Shastri, who is facing a harassment case, has issued a notice for a defamation lawsuit against Bengali actress and former Trinamool Congress MP Mimi Chakraborty.Shastri informed on Thursday that a legal notice has been sent to Chakraborty, informing her to pay Rs 20 lakh as compensation or face legal action.Chakraborty did not issue any official statement following the development.Shastri told local media persons, “Mimi Chakraborty was paid Rs 2 lakh …
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Kolkata, Feb 18 (IANS) With only four days left for the scrutiny of the supporting identity documents provided by the voters at the hearing session regarding the claims and objections to the draft voters’ list in West Bengal, more than 1,14,000 documents submitted during the hearing have yet to be uploaded into the system for final examination.Sources in the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), West Bengal, said that on Tuesday night, 1,14,772 documents were yet to be uploaded in the system.“Current…
Kolkata, Feb 17 (IANS) The current deadline of February 21 for completing the ongoing scrutiny of the identity documents submitted during the hearing sessions on the draft voters list in West Bengal may be extended by two to three days, apprehends the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO).Insiders from the CEO’s office stated that there are two main reasons for the possibility of extending the deadline for completing the scrutiny process.The main reason is the large volume of “fake” …
Kolkata, Feb 15 (IANS) With the hearing session on the claims and objections to the draft voters’ list in West Bengal concluded and the scrutiny of the supporting identify documents scheduled to continue till February 21, the Election Commission of India (ECI) has identified five districts in the state where the instances of uploading of “unlisted” documents had been abnormally high so far.The five districts are Cooch Behar, Malda, Murshidabad, North 24 Parganas, and South 24 Parganas. All five …
Kolkata, Feb 14 (IANS) Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) Director General Dr Rajiv Bahl on Saturday praised the West Bengal government’s response to the recent Nipah virus case, stating that the state has worked effectively in coordination with the Centre to prevent its spread.Dr Bahl made the remarks during his visit to the ICMR-National Institute of Biomedical Genomics (ICMR-NIBMG) in Kolkata’s Kalyani area, where he attended an event to unveil the bust of Padma Vibhushan awardee D…
Kolkata, Feb 14 (IANS) The hearing phase on claims and objections to the draft voters’ list in West Bengal concluded on Saturday evening, with 4.98 lakh additional names identified as eligible for deletion from the final voters’ list.These 4.98 lakh voters are those who abstained from attending the hearing sessions despite repeated notices being served to them and have therefore been found eligible for exclusion from the final voters’ list.The number of such voters who had abstained from the…
Kolkata, Feb 14 (IANS) In a gruesome incident in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district, a 36-year-old man was allegedly murdered, his body dismembered, and dumped in a canal after he was called to submit documents related to the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.Police said on Saturday that a Booth Level Officer (BLO) and another individual have been arrested in connection with the crime, which took place in Baduria. Parts of the victim’s body were recovered Friday night f…
Kolkata, Feb 13 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Friday clarified that district magistrates (DMs), who also function as district electoral officers (DEOs), have no authority to seek explanations from micro-observers appointed by the Commission to review the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise in West Bengal.The message was conveyed at a virtual full-bench meeting of the Commission earlier in the day, chaired by Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar. The meeting …
Kolkata, Feb 13 (IANS) As many as seven district magistrates (DMs)/district electoral officers (DEOs), on Friday, faced the ire of the Election Commission of India (ECI) for various reasons mainly in relation to violations of the Commission-set guidelines for the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in West Bengal. These DMs, also the Chief Electoral Officers (CEOs), faced the ire of the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC), Gyanesh Kumar, at a virtual meeting of the full-bench of the commissio…
Kolkata, Feb 10 (IANS) Rabindranath Bhattacharya, the Trinamool Congress councillor who has been suspended and arrested on charges of culpable homicide involving a senior citizen, has a long history of criminal behaviour, with multiple police complaints lodged against him previously. Sources within the police department reported that numerous allegations have been made against the Trinamool councillor, including misconduct towards police officers, hindering the investigation process, and the har…