Kolkata, April 27 (IANS) Just 48 hours before the crucial second and final phase of the West Bengal Assembly elections, the Union Home Ministry on Monday issued an order extending the tenure of the current state Director General of Police (DGP) Siddh Nath Gupta by six months.Gupta was supposed to retire from service on April 30.Under Secretary, Home Ministry, Sanjeev Kumar, on Monday, sent a communique to West Bengal Chief Secretary, Dushyant Nariala, to intimate him about the extension to Gupt…
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Kolkata, April 26 (IANS) The National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) has taken suo motu cognisance of a video clip broadcast by a Bengali news channel in which allegedly derogatory language was used by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee against people from the Scheduled Caste community.The Commission’s intervention comes at a politically sensitive time, with the state in the midst of Assembly elections, and has triggered fresh debate over the content and context of the remarks …
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, Feb 26 (IANS) The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) has sought names of the Indian Police Service (IPS) officers in the West Bengal for selecting one from among them as the new permanent Director General of Police (DGP). Currently, Peeyush Pandey is the acting DGP.The last permanent DGP in West Bengal was Rajeev Kumar’s predecessor, Manoj Malviya, who retired from his services in 2023.Sources in the state secretariat, Nabanna, said that following a communication in the matter from …