Kolkata, May 20 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari said on Wednesday that an investigation will begin in the alleged corruption in the running of the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA), the autonomous body for controlling civic affairs in the hills scattered over Darjeeling, Kurseong and Kalimpong in North Bengal.He made this announcement while speaking to the media persons at the sidelines of the administrative meeting at Siliguri in Darjeeling district chaired by him.G…
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New Delhi, May 20 (IANS) Recent developments reported on the probe into the brutal rape and murder of a young junior doctor at Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, raise serious questions about governance, accountability, and the legacy of Mamata Banerjee’s rule in West Bengal. Administrative measures include the suspension of three senior IPS officers and intensified investigations into alleged irregularities involving Sandip Ghosh, the former superintendent at RG Kar Hospital.The…
Kolkata, May 20 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Wednesday stated that the newly established state government, led by the Bharatiya Janata Party, is committed to fully honouring the trust that voters in North Bengal have placed in the BJP since 2019.CM Adhikari arrived at Siliguri in Darjeeling district on Wednesday to chair an administrative meeting involving the eight districts in North Bengal. There, while speaking to the media persons before the meeting, he acknowledged …
Kolkata, May 20 (IANS) The West Bengal government has sent a panel of three Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers from the state cadre to the Election Commission of India (ECI) for the latter to appoint one of them as the new Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of the state.The erstwhile CEO of West Bengal, Manoj Kumar Agarwal, is currently the Chief Secretary of the state. He was appointed to that chair soon after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led new state cabinet under the leadership of t…
Kolkata, May 20 (IANS) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Tuesday arrested the fifth accused in connection with the murder case of West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari’s personal assistant Chandranath Rath from Uttar Pradesh’s Varanasi, central agency officials confirmed. Officials said the accused has been identified as 40-year-old Vinay Rai alias Pumpum Rai, originally hailing from the Zamani area of Uttar Pradesh’s Ghazipur.Earlier on Monday, the agency had arrested the main …
Kolkata, May 19 (IANS) Demands for the immediate expulsion of Jahangir Khan, the Trinamool Congress candidate for the Falta Assembly constituency, which is going for re-polling on May 21, surfaced at the internal meeting of the newly elected Trinamool Congress legislators on Tuesday afternoon, which was chaired by former Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. The party’s general secretary and Lok Sabha member, Abhishek Banerjee, was also present at the meeting.The demand for Khan’s expulsion fro…
Kolkata, May 19 (IANS) The West Bengal government, led by Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari, on Tuesday issued a notification regularising 66 communities that were included in the state’s Other Backward Classes reservation list before 2010. The move comes days after the new government scrapped the existing state Other Backward Classes list.According to the notification, the list of 66 categories included in the state Other Backward Classes list before 2010 has been retained.According to experts,…
Hyderabad, May 19 (IANS) Telangana Congress leaders hit back at Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Dharampuri Arvind on Tuesday after the latter said that Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy could do a ‘Suvendu Adhikari’ to the Congress. The Nizambad MP’s remark has evoked strong reaction from Congress leaders who reminded him that his family too began its political journey from their party.Arvind had claimed on Monday that Revanth Reddy could switch political sides just as Bengal Chief Minister Suvend…
Kolkata, May 19 (IANS) Trinamool Congress general secretary and the party’s Lok Sabha member, Abhishek Banerjee, on Tuesday reacted to the notice slapped on 17 properties owned or co-owned by him in Kolkata by the Kolkata Municipal Corporation authorities and said that whatever might come, he would not bow down to the new Bharatiya Janata Party-led regime in the state. “Let them do whatever they like. They can send me notices. They can even demolish my house. But I will never bow down. Come …
Kolkata, May 19 (IANS) Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) authorities, which still has the current and four-time Trinamool Congress legislator and former member in the previous Mamata Banerjee-led Cabinet, Firhad Hakim as its Mayor, has started a probe against a number of properties reportedly owned or co-owned by Trinamool Congress General Secretary and the party’s Lok Sabha member, Abhishek Banerjee.The KMC have served notices under Section 400(1) of the KMC Act 1980, which allows owners of a…