New Delhi, May 25 (IANS) Delhi Police’s South District personnel have busted an alleged international mobile phone trafficking syndicate linked to Bangladesh and arrested two key receivers from West Bengal, recovering 163 stolen, snatched and robbed mobile phones in a major interstate operation.Police said the action was carried out by the Anti-Auto Theft Squad (AATS) of South District after receiving specific intelligence on May 19 about two men involved in transporting stolen mobile phones fro…
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Kolkata, May 25 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate’s (ED) investigation into the alleged criminal-linked syndicate has revealed that arrested Kolkata Police officer Shantanu Sinha Biswas is yet to produce his two mobile phones before investigating officers, an insider at the central investigation agency said on Monday. Former Trinamool Congress MLA Jiban Krishna Saha had thrown his mobile phones into a pond during an ED search at his Murshidabad residence to destroy evidence in an SSC recruitm…
Ahmedabad, May 25 (IANS) Gujarat’s industrial sector, including its textile manufacturing base in Surat, faces an estimated annual production loss of Rs 12,000-Rs 15,000 crore due to repeated election cycles and the resulting large-scale migration of migrant workers, industry leaders said on Monday. This follows after consultations held in Gujarat by the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) examining the proposal for “One Nation, One Election” as part of its wider stakeholder outreach acros…
Kolkata, May 25 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI), on Monday, announced the appointment of Neelam Meena, an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of the West Bengal cadre of the 1998 batch, as the new Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of West Bengal. The erstwhile CEO of West Bengal, Manoj Kumar Agarwal, is currently the state’s Chief Secretary.He was appointed to that position soon after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led new state Cabinet under the leadership of the state’s n…
Hyderabad, May 25 (IANS) Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy on Monday alleged that the Central government is not procuring even 30 per cent of the food grains produced by the farmers.During separate interactions with delegations of CPI and CPI-M leaders, he stated that although the Central government announced Minimum Support Prices (MSP), it is not procuring food grains adequately.He said the Centre is not even procuring 30 per cent of the harvested crop and stressed that questions must …
Kolkata, May 25 (IANS) Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC), on Monday, granted 10 days of additional time to Trinamool Congress general secretary and the party’s Lok Sabha member, Abhishek Banerjee, to reply to notices served regarding the 17 properties owned by him. Abhishek Banerjee is also the nephew of former West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.The KMC had recently issued the notices. Municipality officials also put up a notice on the wall of his house on Harish Mukherjee Road in so…
New Delhi, May 25 (IANS) Falta in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district made it to the national lexicon last month when a political contest, framed almost like a cinematic clash with a “Singham vs. Pushpa” narrative, caught the people’s imagination. The “Singham” label was for Ajay Pal Sharma, an Indian Police Service (IPS) officer known for his tough policing style and reputation as an “encounter specialist” in Uttar Pradesh. He was deployed as an Election Commission police obser…
Kolkata, May 25 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Monday gave a patient hearing to an elderly couple who had been cheated by the recently arrested land mafia-promoters Biswajit Poddar a.k.a Sona Papu and Joy Kamdar, and assured them of his personal intervention to resolve the matter.The Chief Minister interacted with people and listened to their grievances at his pre-announced ‘Janatar Darbare (People’s Court)’ session.Probir Mukhopadhyay and his wife, both senior citizens …
Kolkata, May 25 (IANS) West Bengal health department is issuing official ID cards with specific colour codes for different categories of healthcare personnel engaged in different state-run medical entities like medical colleges and hospitals and state-run hospitals.The implementation of the project commenced from Monday and will be completed by May 28.A notification on this count had been issued by the Director of Health Services recently, where different colour codes for different categories of…
Kolkata, May 24 (IANS) A Bangladeshi couple allegedly living illegally in West Bengal for the last 14 years has been arrested from the Jagacha police station area in Howrah district, police said on Sunday.The arrested individuals have been identified as Ramzan Ghazi, 36, and Arifa Begum, 34.According to police, a raid was conducted at a house under the Jagacha police station area following a tip-off, during which the couple was apprehended. Police said the two are husband and wife and were stayi…