Kolkata, July 1 (IANS) The West Bengal government on Wednesday ordered a major reshuffle in the state’s police department, with as many as 15 senior officers, including Indian Police Service (IPS) and WBPS officers, being transferred.Some officers have received promotions, others have undergone routine transfers, and in the case of a select few officers, their transfer notifications were revoked, and they were assigned new duties.As per the notification issued from the state secretariat of Nab…
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Kolkata, July 1 (IANS) A division bench of the Calcutta High Court, on Wednesday, sought report from the West Bengal government seeking details of the provisions made by the administration for providing free ration and the benefits of the Annapurna Yojana to those whose names have been deleted from the voters’ list in course of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) conducted by the Election Commission of India (ECI) earlier this year. Paschim Banga Khet Majoor Samity, an independent trade union…
Kolkata, June 30 (IANS) A single-judge bench of the Calcutta High Court, on Tuesday, rejected the plea from the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress faction seeking a fast-track hearing on its petition challenging the freezing of three bank accounts of the party. Earlier this month, the authorities of the private sector commercial bank, where these three accounts are maintained, chose to freeze them following an instruction from the police.The police directed the bank authorities to freeze the…
Kolkata, June 25 (IANS) Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers (GRSE) Limited has emerged the lowest bidder for the construction and delivery of a 15-tonne Bollard Pull (BP) Electric Tug for Kolkata’s Syama Prasad Mookerjee Port (SMP), officials said on Thursday. The GRSE has made advances in the field of green vessel technologies, having delivered a zero-emission fully electric ferry to the West Bengal government.It is now building 13 hybrid ferries for the West Bengal government.The shipyard …
Kolkata, June 23 (IANS) After the dissolution of the Siliguri Municipal Corporation’s (SMC) municipal board, IAS officer R. Vimala took charge as the new administrator of the civic body in north Bengal. On Tuesday afternoon, she officially arrived at the municipal corporation office and started administrative work.The West Bengal government on Monday evening deputed the IAS officer as the administrator for the Siliguri Municipal Corporation.The move came within three days of veteran Trinamool Co…
New Delhi, June 23 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined an urgent hearing on a public interest litigation (PIL) challenging two West Bengal government measures that allegedly link welfare benefits under the Public Distribution System (PDS) and Annapurna Yojana with the outcome of the Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. When the matter was mentioned for urgent listing, the petitioner sought an immediate hearing, contending that the impugned measure…
Kolkata, June 10 (IANS) Swapan Dasgupta and Jagannath Chattopadhyay, the two journalist-turned-politicians who were allotted crucial cabinet berths in the West Bengal government on Wednesday, set their immediate agendas soon after the portfolio distribution was announced earlier in the day. For Dasgupta, the target is to increase the state’s own tax revenue without imposing an additional burden on people through an upward revision of the existing tax structure.“There is no logic that the sta…
Kolkata, June 10 (IANS) The Calcutta High Court had asked the West Bengal government to clarify its stand on the ongoing National Investigation Agency (NIA) probe into the violence and riot-like situation at Beldanga in Murshidabad district in January this year.After the NIA initiated a probe into the matter earlier this year, the previous Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress government approached the Supreme Court to challenge the move.Now the question arose that with the change in regime in …
Kolkata, June 8 (IANS) The possibility of a civil enclave at Air Force Station Kalaikunda in West Midnapore district of West Bengal has been revived following the change of government in the state.For over a decade, the Ministry of Civil Aviation and the Airports Authority of India (AAI) have been pursuing the matter with the West Bengal government. However, little progress was made regarding land acquisition and the creation of necessary infrastructure, including road connectivity to the neares…
Kolkata, June 8 (IANS) The Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) has been accused of obstructing the return of Bangladeshi nationals to their country. As a result, after remaining stranded at the zero line along the India-Bangladesh border for two days, around 10 Bangladeshi nationals were brought back to a holding centre in Jalpaiguri district on Monday.It is learnt that the Bangladeshi nationals were stopped when they attempted to cross the border fencing and return to Bangladesh over the past two day…