Kolkata, July 24 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari will give a statement on the floor of the Assembly on Saturday regarding the state government’s ongoing investigations into allegations surrounding the Sebashray health camp run by Trinamool Congress general secretary and Lok Sabha member Abhishek Banerjee in his Diamond Harbour constituency in South 24 Parganas district during the previous Mamata Banerjee‑led Trinamool regime. On Friday, during the fifth day of the extended…
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Kolkata, July 24 (IANS) One more person was arrested on Friday in connection with the lynching of a youth on July 5 at Baruipur in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district after the alleged rape and murder of a 12-year-old girl there. The accused person has been identified as Lutfar Sheikh (46). He had already been presented at a district court in South 24 Parganas on Friday afternoon, and the public prosecutor has sought his police custody.An Investigating Officer in the case said that they wan…
Kolkata, July 24 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Friday gave a message of a ‘zero-tolerance approach against corruption’ by suspending two motor-vehicle inspectors (MVIs) accused of taking bribes from a truck driver.The Chief Minister himself issued a social media statement announcing the suspension of the two MVIs posted at Rampur check post in West Burdwan district, who were accused of allegedly demanding a bribe from a truck driver despite having valid documents and …
Kolkata, July 24 (IANS) The office of the West Bengal Chief Minister, Suvendu Adhikari, has directed all state government departments to prepare department-wise blueprints for the identification of revenue leakages and suggest measures to prevent these to ensure an overall increase in the generation of the state’s own tax revenue.An insider from the state secretariat of Nabanna said that besides preparing the blueprint on this count, the departments concerned have also been directed by the CMO…
Kolkata, July 23 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Thursday afternoon handed over compensation cheques to the families of those killed in the horrific accident when a fast‑moving train hit a school van packed with children at Karnasubarna in Murshidabad district on the morning of July 17. A total of five persons, including four schoolchildren, were killed in the accident. The Chief Minister said the police have been instructed to ensure swift and strict punishment of those …
Kolkata, July 23 (IANS) A single-judge Bench of the Calcutta High Court on Thursday rejected a plea from the Trinamool Congress General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee, seeking an overall protection from coercive police action, including arrest in all the eight FIRs registered against him in various cases at different police stations in West Bengal.The matter came up for hearing at the single-judge Bench of Justice Saugata Bhattacharyya. At the end of the hearing Justice Bhattacharyya made a verbal …
Kolkata, July 22 (IANS) A police station for the National Investigation Agency (NIA) will be set up in West Bengal soon. A proposal on this count was cleared at a meeting of the state cabinet chaired by Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Wednesday. The work for setting up the police station will commence shortly, the State Municipal Affairs and Urban Development Minister Agnimitra Paul, a fashion designer‑turned‑politician, informed media persons at the end of the cabinet meeting.The eastern…
Kolkata, July 22 (IANS) Trinamool Congress MLA Kunal Ghosh was marshalled out of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly and suspended for the remainder of the day’s proceedings after he prevented Opposition Chief Whip Akhruzzaman from speaking. Chaos erupted when Akhruzzaman rose to participate in the debate.Soon, Ghosh left his seat and stood in front of the opposition member’s microphone, raising slogans and preventing him from speaking during the budget discussion on the Home and Hill Affai…
Kolkata, July 22 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari said on Wednesday that different autonomous commissions in the state that were allegedly kept defunct during the previous Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress government will be reactivated from August 1. “The previous government has kept all the constitutional bodies in West Bengal namely the West Bengal Human Rights Commission, the West Bengal Women’s Commission, the West Bengal Child Protection Commission, the West Bengal S…
Kolkata, July 22 (IANS) The West Bengal Government will be placing the reports of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India on the income and expenditures from the state exchequer on the floor of the Assembly on July 25, which will be the last day of the ongoing extended Budget Session of the House.Chief Minister, Suvendu Adhikari made an announcement on this count while addressing the floor of the House on Wednesday afternoon while giving his reply on discussions on the budgetary alloc…