Kolkata, July 13 (IANS) Three persons have been arrested for allegedly raping a young woman in Kolkata’s Thakurpukur area, police said on Monday. Based on a complaint filed by the victim, officers of Thakurpukur Police Station, on the southern outskirts of Kolkata, arrested the accused.According to the police, the incident took place on Saturday night. Police sources said the main accused is the woman’s friend. The victim alleged that the main accused forcibly had sexual intercourse with her, wh…
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Kolkata, July 13 (IANS) Three Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidates — Sukhendu Sekhar Roy, Sushmita Dev and Prakash Chik Baraik — filed their nominations on Monday for the bypolls to three vacant Rajya Sabha seats from West Bengal, scheduled to be held on July 24.All three were Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha members. However, they resigned from the Upper House of Parliament last month before the completion of their respective terms, necessitating bypolls to the three seats.On the afternoon o…
New Delhi, July 13 (IANS) Union Minister for Agriculture and Rural Development Shivraj Singh Chouhan is on a two-day visit to West Bengal on July 13–14, during which he will hold key discussions with Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on agriculture and rural development, besides interacting directly with jute farmers and women from Self-Help Groups. Chouhan will reach Kolkata on Monday evening and proceed directly to the Chief Minister’s residence. A dinner meeting between the Union Minister and…
New Delhi, July 13 (IANS) The suspension of prayers at the Bankra mosque at Kolkata’s Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport for the past few days by the authorities has snowballed into a major controversy, leading to a war of words between the ruling party and the Opposition. The authorities, while stopping entry passes for congregational prayers at the mosque, cited heightened security concerns as the reason, but the matter took a political turn, with questions raised over access a…
Kolkata, July 13 (IANS) A Public Interest Litigation (PIL) had been filed at a division bench of the Calcutta High Court, on Monday, challenging the new West Bengal Public Safety and Control of Anti-Social Activities Act, 2026, a law to prevent corruption, anti-social and rowdy activities in the state, that came into force in the wee hours of Monday.Advocate and CPI(M) leader, Sabyasachi Chattopadhyay, approached a Division Bench of the Calcutta High Court’s Acting Chief Justice, Tapabrata Cha…
Kolkata, July 13 (IANS) After initiating changes to its land acquisition framework to attract private investment, the West Bengal government is now considering amendments to the Urban Land (Ceiling and Regulation) Act, 1976 (ULCRA), to improve land availability for industrial and infrastructure projects.The Urban Land (Ceiling and Regulation) Act, 1976 (ULCRA) historically capped private vacant landholdings beyond a certain threshold in the prime cities and towns in West Bengal, namely the state…
Kolkata, July 13 (IANS) CPI-M leader Layek Ali was arrested by the Special Task Force (STF) of West Bengal Police on Sunday night in connection with the unrest in Baruipur. Ali had contested this year’s Assembly election as the Left Front candidate from the Baruipur Paschim constituency.Police did not specify the charges under which he was arrested. However, according to sources, investigators found his alleged links to incidents of road blockades, vandalism and attacks on police personnel durin…
Kolkata, July 12 (IANS) The West Bengal Municipal Affairs & Urban Development Department has announced the formation of two separate high-power committees for the delimitation of wards under the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC), the oldest municipal corporation in the state, which is slated to go to the polls later this year.As per a notification issued by the Additional Chief Secretary of the state Municipal Affairs & Urban Development Department, a copy of which is available with IA…
Kolkata, July 12 (IANS) Two more persons have been arrested in connection with the lynching of a youth, 26-year-old Indrajit Tanti, on July 5 at Baruipur in South 24 Parganas district over the alleged rape and murder of a 12-year-old girl following search operations.With these two fresh arrests, the total number of arrests in the case had increased to seven. The two, arrested after a night-long search, will be presented at a district court in South 24 Parganas later in the day, and the public p…
Kolkata, July 12 (IANS) West Bengal Police on Sunday changed the investigating officer (IO) for the case of the 12-year-old minor girl, allegedly raped and murdered at Baruipur in South 24 Parganas district and appointed a more experienced and senior-ranking officer.Santanu Mukhopadhyay, a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) rank officer, has been appointed to investigate the matter. The previous two IOs, who were replaced in succession, were inspector-ranking officers.The latest change in the…