Kolkata, July 25 (IANS) A total of six FIRs have been registered by the Kolkata Police over rowdyism during the joint rally of the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) involving the youth and the students’ wings of different Left parties over the NEET examination paper leak protest on Friday. According to the police, several criminals had infiltrated the students’ protest and they are mainly responsible for the hooliganism that took place that day.Of the six FIRs, one had been registered suo motu by the …
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Kolkata, July 24 (IANS) Dr Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar, a four-time Lok Sabha MP from Barasat in North 24 Parganas district, West Bengal, and one of the 20 former Trinamool Congress parliamentarians who recently joined the Tripura-based Nationalist Citizens Party of India (NCPI), on Friday issued a guarded statement on the ongoing nationwide protests over the NEET examination paper leak.In a social media statement, Dr Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar expressed support for the legitimate concerns of NEET aspirant…
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) In a bid to expand its movement over the NEET examination paper leak and other issues beyond New Delhi, the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) has approached the Kolkata Police seeking permission to hold a rally in the city in solidarity with activist Sonam Wangchuk’s ongoing hunger strike.Sources in the city police said the first email was sent to the Joint Commissioner (Headquarters) and Joint Commissioner (Crime) of Kolkata on July 19 seeking permission to hold the rally fr…
Kolkata, July 10 (IANS) In his first visit as the new West Bengal Chief Minister to the minority-dominated Murshidabad district, Suvendu Adhikari on Friday issued a strong caution against recurrence of “hooliganism” and “corruption” in government functioning. The Chief Minister first addressed a public rally at Rejinagar and later attended an administrative review meeting in Baharampur.At the Rejinagar rally, Adhikari reminded that the West Bengal Public Safety & Control of Anti-Soci…
New Delhi, July 2 (IANS) The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has taken suo motu cognisance of media reports regarding the death of at least 16 labourers and injuries to 20 others after an under-construction warehouse building collapsed in the Taratala area of Kolkata, West Bengal. Observing that the contents of news reports, if true, raise a serious issue of violation of human rights, the apex human rights body has issued notices to the West Bengal Chief Secretary, the Kolkata Police Com…
Kolkata, July 2 (IANS) A single judge bench of the Calcutta High Court, on Thursday, after hearing the petition from the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress challenging the freezing of its three bank accounts held with a private bank, directed the authorities of the said bank to file a detailed affidavit citing all details of the accounts.At the same time, the single judge bench of Justice Saugata Bhattacharya also directed the police, under whose instructions the bank authorities have impose…
New Delhi, June 24 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister, Suvendu Adhikari on Wednesday conducted ‘janata darbar’ at the BJP’s state office in Kolkata, where he heard public grievances and requests for assistance, including that of a father seeking help in raising funds for his son’s liver transplant. Hundreds of people, including job seekers and families seeking urgent help, queued up since Wednesday morning to meet the Chief Minister.Several attendees raised issues related to healthcare, housing…
Kolkata, June 19 (IANS) The Calcutta High Court on Friday served contempt of court notices to former West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and her nephew Abhishek Banerjee, the Trinamool Congress’ general secretary and Lok Sabha member.The notice pertains to the Trinamool Congress annual Martyrs’ Day rally in central Kolkata on July 21, 2025, which contravened the Calcutta High Court’s 2018 order that prohibited political parties from obstructing any major or important road junctions in…
Kolkata, June 14 (IANS) Rebel Trinamool Congress MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar on Sunday claimed that not just 20 but there are total 22 party MPs, which are part of the party’s ‘rebel’ faction led by her. The Trinamool MP made this claim while she was travelling to Delhi. There are reports that the ‘rebel’ Trinamool faction is holding a meeting there.Kakoli Ghosh claimed that Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla will meet them on Monday when the rebel Trinamool MPs will submit a letter to him.On Saturday, Kol…