Kolkata, July 28 (IANS) The Health Department of West Bengal is set to introduce a new standard operating procedure (SOP) that mandates a weekly review of medicine inventories in state-run hospitals and medical college hospitals.State Health and Family Welfare Minister Dr Sharadwat Mukhopadhyay has given the go-ahead for this new SOP, and the main aim behind this move is to eliminate the presence and use of expired medicines in the state-run medical entities, said an insider from the state healt…
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New Delhi, July 28 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari will travel to New Delhi on Tuesday to meet the 20 former Trinamool Congress (TMC) Lok Sabha members who joined the National Citizens’ Party of India (NCPI) soon after the results of the state Assembly elections were announced. The meeting comes amid an intensifying political battle over the status of the rebel MPs, with the Trinamool pressing for their disqualification under the anti-defection law.The meeting assumes signif…
Kolkata, July 27 (IANS) The scheduled meeting of West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari with the 20 erstwhile Trinamool Congress Lok Sabha members who joined the National Citizens’ Party of India (NCPI) at 1 p.m. in New Delhi on Tuesday was cancelled, as per information communicated on Monday. The decision to cancel the meeting followed a sudden development after Sudip Bandopadhyay, a four-time Lok Sabha member and one of the most prominent faces among the 20 Trinamool-turned-NCPI MPs, me…
Kolkata, July 27 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Monday handed over compensation cheques of Rs 5,00,000 each to the family members of 11 migrant workers from the state killed at NHPC Limited’s under-construction tunnel at Namchi in Sikkim on July 20. At the same time, the Chief Minister also promised jobs as home guards in the state police to one member of each of these 11 families.The Chief Minister landed at the temporary helipad of the Jalpaiguri SAI Sports Complex by …
Kolkata, July 27 (IANS) Two more persons have been nabbed in connection with the violence and attacks on police personnel and journalists during the July 24 protest rally in Kolkata against the NEET examination paper leak and other exam scandals, taking the total number of arrests to 16, officials said on Monday.Earlier, from Saturday evening till Sunday afternoon, 14 persons were arrested after being identified through CCTV footage and video recordings of the violence.The two persons arrested o…
Kolkata, July 27 (IANS) The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Monday arrested a businessman, Ghulam Raza, from his residence at the industrial-cum-steel township of Durgapur in West Burdwan district of West Bengal after conducting a raid and search operation.The main charge against Raza is his involvement in human trafficking, especially of women.Raza, an original resident of Muzaffarpur in Bihar, shifted to Durgapur along with his wife and two sons three years ago and settled there. He pur…
Kolkata, July 27 (IANS) The medical interns and medical students who participated in the free Sebaashray health camps organised by Trinamool Congress leader Abhishek Banerjee within his Diamond Harbour constituency during the previous Mamata Banerjee-led regime in West Bengal, will now be questioned by the investigating officials of the state health department and also by the sleuths of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID).Chief Minister, Suvendu Adhikari, last week, announced on the floo…
Kolkata, July 27 (IANS) The National Investigation Agency (NIA) was conducting a raid and search operation on Monday at the residence of a Bihar-based businessman at the industrial-cum-steel township of Durgapur in West Burdwan district of West Bengal.The person at whose residence the operation is being conducted has been identified as Ghulam Raza. A six-member NIA team is reported to be conducting the operation at Raza’s residence.One of the members of the NIA team is a woman. A huge police c…
Kolkata, July 26 (IANS) On the occasion of the Kargil Vijay Diwas, honouring the martyr soldiers on the 27th anniversary of the India’s military victory at Kargil in Jammu & Kashmir, the state president of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in West Bengal and the party’s Rajya Sabha member, Samik Bhattacharya, on Sunday issued strong note of caution for those in the state raising ‘Kashmir Mange Azadi’ slogans. “None raising the ‘‘Kashmir Mange Azadi’ slogan will be spared. Thos…
Kolkata, July 26 (IANS) The West Bengal unit of Congress has registered an FIR against Manish Gupta, a former West Bengal minister in the previous Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress regime and also a former bureaucrat in the Left Front regime in the state, over the infamous police firing in which 13 youth Congress workers died during a protest rally on July 21, 1993.Late Jyoti Basu was the Chief Minister of the state in 1993, and Gupta was the state Home Secretary when the police firing happ…