Kolkata, Feb 21 (IANS) Pratikur Rahaman, a state committee member of the CPI(M) in West Bengal and considered one of the party’s prominent young leaders, joined the Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Saturday. The CPI(M) leadership subsequently expelled him from the party.Rahaman was formally inducted into the TMC by the party’s national general secretary and Lok Sabha member Abhishek Banerjee at the party office in Amtala in South 24 Parganas district.Notably, Rahaman had contested the 2024 Lok Sa…
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Kolkata, Feb 21 (IANS) The bodies of 18 victims of the Anandapur warehouse fire on the southern outskirts of Kolkata have been identified through DNA mapping and handed over to their families from the Katapukur morgue on Saturday. Initially, it was believed that the 18 bodies handed over to the families were among the 27 persons reported missing, which had led to the assumption that the death toll had risen to 45. However, official sources later clarified that the death toll remains at 27. The 1…
Kolkata, Feb 19 (IANS) Asaduddin Owaisi-founded All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM), which is planning to contest the forthcoming Assembly elections in West Bengal, is focusing on the issue of a large number of minority migrant workers from the state as its principal line of attack against the ruling Trinamool Congress.The AIMIM leadership has already started a whispering campaign in minority-dominated districts like Malda and Murshidabad, as well as in minority-dominated Assembly con…
Kolkata, Feb 18 (IANS) After a week, another fishermen has been killed in a tiger attack in West Bengal’s Sundarbans, said the police on Wednesday. The deceased was identified as Rampada Burman (45), a resident of Chhota Mollakhali Kalidaspur area of Gosaba in South 24 Parganas district.According to police sources, Rampada and his companions entered the forest on this day with valid permission on Tuesday.While catching crabs in the deep forest of Sundarbans, a tiger suddenly jumped on Rampada. H…
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 18 (IANS) Four children suffered burns in South 24 Parganas district’s Canning after a drum filled with chemicals exploded, said the police on Wednesday. According to police sources, four children were playing on the roadside on Tuesday evening when a drum filled with chemicals kept nearby exploded.Four minors sustained serious burns in the incident. Unable to bear the pain, a minor jumped into a nearby pond. Three of the children have been sent to MR Bangur Hospital in Kolkata.It w…
Kolkata, Feb 17 (IANS) The West Bengal government has completed the process of registering FIRs against two electoral registration officers (EROs) and two assistant electoral registration officers (AEROs), following the Election Commission of India (ECI)-set deadline for completing the process by 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday. At the same time, the state government had also completed the process of FIR registration against a data-entry operator engaged in the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in W…
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) 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…