Kolkata, May 19 (IANS) Trinamool Congress supremo and former West Bengal Chief Minister, Mamata Banerjee, has on Tuesday convened a meeting with the 80 elected party legislators in the recently concluded Assembly polls to discuss and adopt a strategy as the principal opposition party in the state now.Trinamool Congress general secretary and the party’s Lok Sabha member, Abhishek Banerjee, is also supposed to be present at the meeting in the afternoon.A party member in the current Assembly, on …
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Kolkata, May 18 (IANS) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested a youth from Uttar Pradesh on suspicion of involvement in the murder of Chandranath Rath, who was the personal assistant to West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari.The accused was arrested on Monday from a toll plaza in Uttar Pradesh. According to sources, he was allegedly planning to flee to another location via Delhi.CBI sources identified the accused as Rajkumar Singh, a resident of Chhapar in Uttar Pradesh. A j…
Kolkata, May 18 (IANS) Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Monday announced the launch of the ‘Vivekananda Merit Scholarship’ for meritorious students and said West Bengal’s education system would now function in alignment with the National Education Policy (NEP).Addressing a felicitation ceremony for toppers of the secondary and higher secondary examinations at Dhano Dhanya Auditorium in Kolkata, the Chief Minister outlined his government’s plans for a major overhaul of the state’s edu…
Kolkata, May 18 (IANS) A single-judge bench of the Calcutta High Court on Monday granted interim protection to Jahangir Khan, the Trinamool Congress candidate from the Falta Assembly constituency in South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal, from any coercive police action, including arrest, till the repoll process is completed and the results are announced.Repolling in the constituency is scheduled for May 21, while the results will be declared on May 24.Earlier in the day, Khan approached the …
Kolkata, May 18 (IANS) Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Monday asserted that attacks on police personnel and law enforcers during protests and demonstrations would no longer be tolerated in West Bengal. The CM made the remarks during his visit to Park Circus, which witnessed violence on Sunday after protesters allegedly pelted stones and bricks at police personnel following attempts to stop a demonstration against the use of bulldozers to demolish illegal constructions.Adhikari said this would…
Kolkata, May 18 (IANS) The newly elected Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led West Bengal government on Monday announced the formation of two separate probe commissions, both headed by retired judges of the Calcutta High Court, to investigate cases of “institutional corruption” and “crime against women”.The decision was taken at the second meeting of the new cabinet earlier in the day, following which Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari announced the move on Monday afternoon.“Both the probe co…
Kolkata, May 18 (IANS) In a major step towards providing a clean and corruption-free administration in the state, the West Bengal government on Monday appointed a set of West Bengal Civil Service (WBCS) officers as “executive assistants” to ministers in the newly formed cabinet led by Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari.The selections were reportedly made from among bureaucrats known for clean, transparent, and politically neutral service records.The State Personnel and Administrative Reforms De…
Kolkata, May 18 (IANS) The West Bengal cabinet on Monday approved implementation of the 7th Pay Commission for state government employees.Announcing the decision after the cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari, state minister for Women & Child Development and Social Welfare Agnimitra Paul said the move addresses a long-pending demand of employees. She said the matter was taken up at the cabinet meeting, and the proposal was cleared.She said that the state cabinet also cl…
Kolkata, May 18 (IANS) Police action against Trinamool Congress leaders facing corruption charges continued across West Bengal, with multiple arrests reported in separate incidents, officials said on Monday.In the first incident, former Dinhata Municipality chairman Gouri Shankar Maheshwari was arrested in the building plan approval fraud case last night. Just a day before, the police had arrested Dinhata Municipality employee Moumita Bhattacharya. Moumita was remanded to three days of police cu…
Kolkata, May 18 (IANS) The crucial second meeting of the new West Bengal cabinet under the leadership of Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari is scheduled on Monday afternoon, with sectors such as state finance and education being on the agenda.In the finance sector, a crucial subject on the agenda is the long-contentious issue of paying Dearness Allowances (DA) to the state government employees at par with their counterparts in the Central government and the arrears accrued on it as directed by the …