Kolkata, April 2 (IANS) An FIR has been filed against six people in connection with the disturbance in front of the state’s Chief Electoral Officer’s (CEO) office on Tuesday, said the police on Thursday. Two Trinamool councillors of Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) are among them.According to the police, an FIR has been filed at the Hare Street police station against Kolkata Municipality councillor Shantiranjan Kundu of ward number 32 and councillor Sachin Singh of ward number 36. Apart f…
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Kolkata, April 1 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday conducted raids and search operations at several locations in Kolkata in an extortion-related money laundering case.The operation was launched almost simultaneously at 7 a.m. The list includes the house of businessman Biswajit Poddar alias Sona Pappu in the Kasba area of South Kolkata. Apart from this, they raided several places, including the office of a company in Ballygunge.According to an ED official, several FIRs ha…
Kolkata, March 26 (IANS) Kolendranath Mandi, a Trinamool member of the Purulia Zilla Parishad, joined the Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday. He formally joined the opposition at the state Bharatiya Janata Party’s Salt Lake office in Kolkata in the presence of the party’s state president, Samik Bhattacharya, and Purulia Member of Parliament, who also serves as the state Bharatiya Janata Party’s General Secretary, Jyotirmay Singh Mahato.A well-known figure in Santali literature, Kole…
Kolkata, March 13 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister, Mamata Banerjee, on Friday announced the constitution of five new cultural & development boards for Scheduled Tribe (ST), Other Backward Classes (OBC), and Scheduled Caste (SC) communities in the state.The CM Banerjee-led Trinamool government has set up cultural & development boards for one SC, two ST, and two OBC communities in Bengal.While the two ST communities for which the proposed cultural & development boards will be formed …
Kolkata, March 9 (IANS) Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has accused the BJP of trying to distribute leaflets of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s March 14 brigade rally in Kolkata at her sit-in demonstration site in Esplanade. She also claimed that this work was being done through an agency.After that, Chief Minister Banerjee ordered that the people doing so be caught red-handed.She asked state minister Shashi Panja to file an FIR immediately. She also ordered everyone to keep an eye on the surround…
Kolkata, Feb 25 (IANS) One of the three children, critically injured in an explosion in a drum filled with chemicals in the Bhangar area of West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district, succumbed to his injuries on Wednesday morning. According to the police, the child, identified as nine-year-old Sadiqul Ahmed from Kharagachi in the Bhangar area, had suffered 95 per cent injuries in the explosion on February 17. He was undergoing treatment at MR Bangur Hospital in Kolkata. At around 6 a.m., he died …
Kolkata, Feb 18 (IANS) Four children suffered burns in South 24 Parganas district’s Canning after a drum filled with chemicals exploded, said the police on Wednesday. According to police sources, four children were playing on the roadside on Tuesday evening when a drum filled with chemicals kept nearby exploded.Four minors sustained serious burns in the incident. Unable to bear the pain, a minor jumped into a nearby pond. Three of the children have been sent to MR Bangur Hospital in Kolkata.It w…
Mumbai, Feb 18 (IANS) The Shiv Sena Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray (UBT) on Wednesday claimed that the INDIA bloc now stands at a crossroads, needing to move beyond internal debate to decide whether Mamata Banerjee, M.K. Stalin, or another figure will lead them through the national crisis. The internal friction and leadership debates within the bloc and the Congress party ahead of significant regional elections threaten to undermine unity.The Thackeray camp in the party’s mouthpiece, ‘Saamana’, clai…
New Delhi, Feb 4 (IANS) The suspension of eight Congress MPs from the Lok Sabha triggered sharp reactions from Opposition leaders on Wednesday, who accused the Centre of suppressing dissent and stifling democratic debate. Several suspended MPs, including Amrinder Singh Raja Warring and Gurjeet Singh Aujla, along with Trinamool MP Kirti Azad, alleged that the ruling dispensation was deliberately blocking discussions on key national issues and silencing the Opposition.Leader of the Opposition (LoP…
Kolkata, Feb 3 (IANS) A deaf and mute young man was allegedly beaten to death on suspicion of theft in the Panihati area of West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district, and two people have been arrested in this connection.According to the police, members of a local family allegedly poured hot water on him and forced him to drink acid, ultimately leading to his death.A search is underway to arrest others involved in the incident.According to local and police sources, the deceased has been identified…