Kolkata, April 2 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Thursday evening handed over the probe into the harassment of seven judicial adjudication officers at Kaliachak in minority-dominated Malda district to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).Earlier in the day, a division bench of the Supreme Court, headed by Justice Surya Kant, strongly denounced the incident, describing it as evidence of a complete law and order failure in West Bengal, and directed that the matter be probed e…
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Kolkata, March 26 (IANS) Tension-prone pockets across different districts of West Bengal have been kept under a blanket security cover since Thursday morning, anticipating tension and violence over Ram Navami processions later in the day.Special security measures have been adopted across the entire Kolkata-adjacent Hooghly district, Chandannagar in Hooghly district, and Islampur in North Dinajpur district, keeping in mind instances of massive violence and riot-like situations during processions …
Kolkata, March 19 (IANS) The new West Bengal Chief Secretary Dushyant Nariala and state Home Secretary Sanghamitra Ghosh visited the Raj Bhavan on Thursday to meet the new Governor R.N. Ravi. According to an insider at the State Secretariat Nabanna, they remained there for nearly 30 minutes. This marks the first instance since assuming office that Governor Ravi has met with any administrative official of the state government, besides meeting Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and others during the o…