Kolkata, May 19 (IANS) Jahangir Khan, the Trinamool Congress (TMC) nominee from the Falta Assembly seat, announced his withdrawal from the electoral race on Tuesday, barely two days ahead of the repolls. This resulted in pointed jibes and taunts from the ruling BJP, which swept the recently held Bengal Assembly elections with an overwhelming majority, as well as criticism from some members of his own party. Jahangir Khan, a key aide of Mamata Banerjee’s nephew Abhishek Banerjee, announced at a…
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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 17 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Sunday paid his respects to his murdered personal assistant Chandranath Rath at his residence. Adhikari met the victim’s mother and assured the family that “justice will be done”.Chandranath’s mother, Hasirani Rath, told media persons: “He (Suvendu Adhikari) also cried. I have faith in the Chief Minister. I hope justice will be done for my son’s murder.”On the night of May 6, Suvendu Adhikari’s personal assistant was…
Kolkata, May 16 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Saturday indirectly hinted at a possible investigation into the assets of a company allegedly linked to a senior Trinamool Congress leader, although he stopped short of naming the individual.Addressing a public gathering in the Falta Assembly constituency under the Diamond Harbour subdivision in South 24 Parganas district, where repolling is scheduled for May 21, the Chief Minister repeatedly referred to the leader as “Mr Neph…
Kolkata, May 16 (IANS) The sleuths of Kolkata Police, on Saturday, said that they have arrested a youth for sending a fake email to the police warning of the murder of the new and ninth West Bengal Chief Minister, Suvendu Adhikari. The arrested youth had been identified as Hasnem Iqbal. According to a senior officer of the Kolkata Police, an email landed at Bhabanipur Police Station in South Kolkata, which comes under the jurisdiction of the Chief Minister’s current Assembly constituency of Bh…
Kolkata, May 15 (IANS) The budget session of the West Bengal Assembly will commence on June 18, and the full budget by the finance minister of the first BJP-led state government since Independence will be presented on June 22, announced the new Speaker of the House, Rathindra Bose at a special session of the House on Friday, where Bose took oath as the Speaker of the House. As the full budget is scheduled to be presented on June 22, it is expected that the new cabinet led by the ninth West Benga…
Kolkata, May 15 (IANS) Trinamool Congress supremo and the former West Bengal Chief Minister, Mamata Banerjee, has convened a crucial organisational meeting of the party at her residence at Kalighat in South Kolkata on Friday to review the reasons for the landslide defeat of her party in the recently concluded West Bengal Assembly polls.The meeting will be attended by the party’s candidates, both elected and defeated, in 294 Assembly constituencies, as well as some senior leaders of the party, as…
Kolkata/New Delhi, May 14 (IANS) The Bar Council of India (BCI) has sought detailed information from the Bar Council of West Bengal regarding the enrolment and practice status of former West Bengal Chief Minister, Mamata Banerjee, after she appeared before the Calcutta High Court on Thursday wearing advocate’s robes and arguing in a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) relating to alleged post-poll violence in the state.In a letter to the Secretary of the State Bar Council of West Bengal, the apex s…
Kolkata, May 14 (IANS) Former West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday appeared at the Calcutta High Court as a counsel to argue in a public interest litigation (PIL) filed at the division bench of Chief Justice Sujoy Paul and Justice Partha Sarathi Sen on the post-poll violence following the results of the recently-concluded Assembly polls.The PIL was filed by Sirsanya Banerjee, a counsel with the Calcutta High Court and the son of senior advocate and four-time Trinamool Congress …
New Delhi, May 13 (IANS) Former Mohun Bagan football club president and one of the most influential sports administrators in Indian football passed away in Kolkata at the age of 78. “Your legacy will always remain a part of Mohun Bagan. Rest in peace, Tutu Bose,” Mohun Bagan Super Giant shared on social media.Swapan Sadha Bose, known popularly as Tutu Bose, was a former Rajya Sabha MP. His leadership spanned decades and coincided with some of the most transformative phases in Indian football…