Kolkata, April 20 (IANS) The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Monday approached the Calcutta High Court in the Beldanga violence case, challenging the decision of a lower court, which had granted conditional bail to 15 accused people. The NIA has alleged that the accused were granted bail, ignoring the Supreme Court’s directives. The agency claimed in the High Court that the lower court cannot grant bail in this way during the investigation.The 15 accused were given bail after the agency f…
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Kolkata, April 19 (IANS) Confusion over the future of Indian Political Action Committee (I-PAC)’s West Bengal operations, which surfaced since Sunday, aggravated further later in the day following Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s promise of providing jobs to its employees in Kolkata. Earlier in the day, information surfaced that I-PAC had sent an email communication to the employees of its Kolkata office, informing them about the halt of the West Bengal operations of that entity for 20 days, and…
Kolkata, April 18 (IANS) A special court of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Saturday granted “default bail” to 15 of the 35 accused in connection with the violence that erupted at Beldanga in West Bengal’s minority-dominated Murshidabad district earlier this year.The default bail was granted to these 15 accused persons after the investigating agency failed to submit a charge sheet against them within 90 days from the day of their arrest. However, the court had imposed certain co…
Kolkata, April 16 (IANS) The West Bengal unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday approached the Election Commission of India (ECI), accusing the Trinamool Congress of systematically disseminating defamatory, manipulated and artificial intelligence (AI)-generated video content targeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah.The BJP alleged that the content of the videos was fabricated, distorted and deliberately structured to create false impressions, with th…
Kolkata, April 16 (IANS) The Trinamool Congress on Thursday lodged a complaint with the Election Commission of India (ECI) against BJP leaders Smriti Irani, Suvendu Adhikari and others for allegedly violating the Model Code of Conduct (MCC) and indulging in corrupt practice and offences under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023.In a letter to Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar and the state’s Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Manoj Agarwal, the Trinamool Congress said, “This is to bring t…
Kolkata, April 15 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI) has identified minority-dominated Murshidabad as the most sensitive among the districts in West Bengal that will be going for polls in the first phase of the state Assembly elections on April 23 and hence has decided to deploy maximum forces there.Insiders from the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) said that of the total of 2,407 companies of security forces to be deployed in the first-phase polling, as many as 316 compani…
Kolkata, April 11 (IANS) The Leader of the Opposition (LoP) in the West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, on Saturday drew the attention of the Election Commission of India (ECI) over alleged appointment of contractual staff as sector officers/assistants in Kasba Assembly Constituency in South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal ahead of the crucial two-phase Assembly elections in the state next month.Kasba is going for polls in the second phase on April 29.In a statement posted on the wall of …
Kolkata, April 10 (IANS) Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday outrightly rejected any deal between former Trinamool Congress legislator Humayun Kabir’s party and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for ‘polarising’ Assembly elections in West Bengal, stating that the two are poles apart.He took a swipe at the Trinamool supremo Mamata Banerjee, hinting that the ruling party was behind the viral audio clip of Humayun Kabir, in which the latter purportedly “assures” state BJP leaders of “unflinc…
New Delhi, April 9 (IANS) As Assam voted on Thursday, and West Bengal will on April 23 and 29, one contentious issue that dominates all is that of infiltration – especially of Bengali-speaking Muslim migrants – from Bangladesh. Issues of identity, migration, and language in West Bengal and Assam are not recent, but have been there for a long time, and have even led to clashes in the past.Immigration has significantly dominated politics, particularly in the run‑up to elections. Subsequent g…
Kolkata, April 9 (IANS) The Trinamool Congress on Thursday accused its former legislator, Humayun Kabir, and his newly-floated Aam Aadmi Unnayan Party (AAUP) of striking a Rs 1,000 crore deal with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to divide minority votes in those West Bengal Assembly constituencies where his candidates are contesting in the forthcoming polls in alliance with Asaduddin Owaisi’s AIMIM, drawing a swift rebuttal from him. At a joint press conference, ministers Firhad Hakim, Aroop Bi…