Kolkata, May 29 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari will chair a crucial meeting at the state secretariat, Nabanna, on Friday to discuss ways to accelerate the census process in the state.The decision to begin the census process was taken at the first meeting of the new cabinet led by Adhikari as West Bengal’s ninth Chief Minister on May 11.After that, the state government issued a notification allocating responsibilities to various levels of officials to complete the census work….
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New Delhi, May 27 (IANS) Congress MP Shashi Tharoor has welcomed the Centre’s announcement about the formation of the ‘High-Level Committee on Demographic Change’ to tackle challenges like infiltration that pose unnatural demographic change in the country, however, he cautioned the government against pushing it without adequate facts and figures in hand, regarding “unnatural population shifts”. He said that the country must have correct facts and figures about the demographic factors.This came a…
New Delhi, May 24 (IANS) President Droupadi Murmu will confer the Padma Awards 2026 at the first Civil Investiture Ceremony at the Rashtrapati Bhavan here on Monday. Among this year’s Padma Shri awardees are Arunachal Pradesh social worker Techi Gubin and Gujarati litterateur Ratilal Borisagar from Gujarat.Techi Gubin, a retired chief architect, has been continuously involved in social service with Kalyan Ashram for the past 26 years.Speaking to IANS, he expressed his joy over the recognition.”I…
Kolkata, May 24 (IANS) Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Locket Chatterjee on Sunday backed the ongoing demolition drive against alleged illegal constructions in Kolkata, saying the action was inevitable and reflected the party’s commitment to ending unlawful activities in West Bengal.Speaking to IANS, Chatterjee said the demolition of unauthorised structures in Tiljala had become necessary and would serve as a strong message across the state.”This was bound to happen. Before our (BJP) governm…
Kolkata, May 24 (IANS) The West Bengal government has ordered the creation of ‘holding centres’ in each district to keep those arrested on suspicion of being Bangladeshis or Rohingyas, a senior government official said on Sunday. Suspects can be detained in these ‘holding centres’ for 30 days. The state government has said that not only those arrested on suspicion of being infiltrators, but also those who were previously caught and imprisoned and those in the process of being sent out of the cou…
Davanagere (Karnataka), May 21 (IANS) The hijab versus saffron shawl controversy is likely to intensify in Karnataka, with the Sri Rama Sene on Thursday announcing its plan to distribute saffron shawls to students in schools and colleges from June 1 in protest against the state government’s decision to lift restrictions on hijab and also allow limited religious symbols like turban, kada, tilak, holy ash and kalawa in educational institutions while ruling out the use of saffron shawls. Addressi…
New Delhi, May 15 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Friday ordered the premature release of Rohit Chaturvedi, one of the convicts in the 2003 murder case of poetess Madhumita Shukla, holding that the Union Home Ministry’s decision rejecting his remission plea was “arbitrary, non-speaking, unsustainable in law and merit”. A Bench of Justices B.V. Nagarathna and Ujjal Bhuyan quashed the July 9, 2025, letter issued by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), which had declined to concur with the Uttarak…
New Delhi, May 12 (IANS) Looking to strengthen the fight against cyber frauds, the Union Home Ministry’s Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C) and Reserve Bank Innovation Hub (RBIH) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for collaboration, an official said on Tuesday.The two agencies will work together for combating cyber-enabled financial frauds and curtailing mule accounts across the banking and digital payments ecosystem, said the official in a statement.The MoU aims to facilitat…
Kolkata, May 11 (IANS) The West Bengal government has decided to withdraw the ‘Z-plus’ security cover provided to Trinamool Congress General Secretary and Diamond Harbour MP Abhishek Banerjee, a government official said on Monday.According to the official, the additional security personnel and special pilot car facility allotted to Abhishek Banerjee will no longer remain in force.It may be noted that Abhishek Banerjee had been provided ‘Z-plus’ security cover for more than 10 years. Howe…
Kolkata, May 10 (IANS) In view of the recent murder of his personal assistant, the administration does not want to take any chances with the security of West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari, officials at the state secretariat Nabanna said on Sunday.According to officials, personnel from both state police and central forces will be deployed for the Chief Minister’s security for the time being.Suvendu Adhikari started receiving security cover from central forces after leaving the Trinamoo…