New Delhi, May 26 (IANS) In a significant judgment to be delivered on Wednesday, the Supreme Court will decide a batch of petitions challenging the Election Commission of India’s (ECI) decision to undertake a Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.A Bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi is scheduled to pronounce its verdict on May 27 after reserving judgment in the matter earlier this year, following extensive hearings.The petitions challenge…
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Kolkata, May 26 (IANS) Trinamool Congress supremo and former Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday slammed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in West Bengal over its eviction drives against street vendors and hawkers. In an X post, Banerjee said she was “angry and deeply pained” at the treatment meted out to hawkers.On International Hawkers Day, Banerjee said: “The BJP government had unleashed atrocities on hawkers shortly after coming to power, demolishing their stalls and fo…
Kolkata, May 26 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari said on Tuesday that the decision of the Bharatiya Janata Party-led state government to establish “holding centres’ for the illegal Bangladeshi infiltrators arrested in the state before being sent to the nearby border outposts of the Border Security Force (BSF) for deportation to their native country, had created panic among such illegal infiltrators, who had been staying in the state so far without any fear. He chaired an admini…
Kolkata, May 26 (IANS) A mishap took place inside the Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport in West Bengal’s Kolkata when an elevator cable snapped during maintenance work due to which three labourers sustained serious injuries on Tuesday, officials said. According to airport authority officials, the incident took place around 1 p.m. at elevator number 34, located in the airport’s bus lounge. It was told that this elevator had been out of service for several days to undergo repairs. T…
New Delhi/Agartala, May 26 (IANS) Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha on Tuesday met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi and congratulated him on completing 12 remarkable years of dedicated service to the nation. The Chief Minister also congratulated the Prime Minister for the “historic and resounding victory in the recent West Bengal Assembly elections as well”. “Detailed discussions took place with him (PM Modi) on various important matters regarding Tripura’s overall development and organ…
Kolkata, May 26 (IANS) A special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court in Kolkata on Tuesday remanded 15 more accused persons arrested by the central agency officers in connection with the West Bengal judicial officers’ hostage case earlier this year to 14 days of judicial custody. In the night-long operations started from Monday night which continued till Tuesday morning, the NIA sleuths arrested these 15 individuals accused in connection with the April 1 incident in which seven judicial of…
Mumbai, May 26 (IANS) The Nationalist Congress Party (Ajit Pawar) president and Deputy Chief Minister, Sunetra Pawar, on Tuesday asked party ministers, legislators, and office-bearers to take the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) seriously and called for greater participation to ensure no eligible voters are excluded from the electoral rolls. She further directed that the Block Level Agents (BLAs) should cooperate with the Block Level Officers (BLOs) in all the 288 Assembly constituencies during …
Kolkata, May 26 (IANS) Seven Bangladeshis, who were caught trying to enter West Bengal through the Murshidabad border, were sent to a newly created ‘holding centre’ in Lalgola of Murshidabad district on Tuesday. Police arrested the seven Bangladeshis on Monday night. Within 24 hours, all seven were sent to the newly created ‘holding centre’.According to a senior police officer of Murshidabad Police District, a few people tried to enter India by crossing the border under the cover of dark…
New Delhi, May 26 (IANS) The government on Tuesday announced to integrate Central scientific and innovation schemes with educational institutions in West Bengal that would help create a stronger pipeline for innovation, scientific learning and research-oriented talent development among the youth.Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Science and Technology, Dr Jitendra Singh, held an extensive meeting with West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari in Kolkata.It was decided in the mee…
Kolkata, May 26 (IANS) A single-judge vacation bench of the Calcutta High Court on Tuesday withdrew the interim protection against any coercive action, including arrest, granted earlier to Jahangir Khan, the Trinamool Congress candidate in Falta Assembly constituency, by a regular single-judge bench. Last week, Calcutta High Court’s regular single-judge bench of Justice Saugata Bhattacharya granted interim protection to Khan till May 24, the day the results for the repolling in Falta were decl…