Category: KOLKATA

Ram Navami celebrations had been peaceful so far in West Bengal, with Trinamool Congress leaders in their own initiatives having organised processions on the auspicious occasion besides the ones already announced by the state BJP leaders as well as organisations like Anjani Putra Sena and Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), among others.

The Leader of the Opposition in West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, on Sunday participated in the foundation stone laying ceremony for a Ram Temple in his constituency, Nandigram in East Midnapore district.

Ignoring the denial of permission by the authorities, the activists of Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), on Sunday, celebrated Ram Navami within the campus of Jadavpur University (JU), which is considered a stronghold of student wings affiliated to the Left forces.

The police have started a massive search operation at Patharpratima and its adjacent areas to track the two owners of the illegal firecracker factory, Chandrakanta Banik and Tushar Banik, who have gone absconding since the blast took place at around 10 p.m. on Monday.

In her message on the occasion of the Eid festival on Monday, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee accused the two main opposition parties in the state, namely BJP and CPI(M)-led Left Front as equally responsible for propagating communal tension in the state.

Following the devastating earthquake in Myanmar in which over 1,000 people have been killed, India's National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) teams have been placed on high alert.

As the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI-M) prepares for its 24th Party Congress in Madurai, Tamil Nadu, next month, speculation is mounting over potential changes in its politburo, the party’s highest decision-making body.

Tension was prevailing within the campus of Kolkata’s iconic Jadavpur University (JU) a day after a ruckus by Left-wing students in which Education Minister Bratya Basu was injured.

Amid the ongoing rift in INDIA Bloc partners, a Congress leader Ghulam Ahmad Mir on Saturday made a fresh remark which may stir controversy. He said that in some states, regional parties tend to operate through two doors.

Enforcement Directorate (ED), on Friday, informed that a fresh disbursal of Rs 2.29 crore as refund to 3,652 deposits in the Ponzi scheme of West Bengal-based chit fund entity Rose Valley Group has been completed in the last and fifth phase by the asset disposal committee headed by the Justice Dilip Kumar Seth (retired) and comprising officials of ED.

The CPI-M, at the conclusion of its 27th state conference on Tuesday, announced the new 80-member state committee in West Bengal with Politburo member Md Salim unanimously re-elected state Secretary for a second term.

The 27th state conference of the party is especially crucial considering that from the event the new leadership in the form of the new state committee will be selected that will lead the party for the crucial state Assembly elections in 2026.

The CBI, in a fresh charge sheet in West Bengal's multi-crore cash-for-school job case filed before a special Kolkata court on Friday, has added a section on punishment for tampering of evidence against prime accused Sujay Krishna Bhadra.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) was conducting raid and search operations on Thursday at six locations in West Bengal, mainly in and around the state capital in connection with irregularities in admission to the private medical colleges under the Non-Resident Indian (NRI) quota.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, on Tuesday, claimed on the floor of the Assembly that she will resign from her position if the allegations against her and Trinamool Congress of having terror links are proved.

The Calcutta High Court on Tuesday granted conditional bail to Sujay Krishna Bhadra, the prime accused in the multi-crore cash-for-school job case in West Bengal.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) sleuths probing the cash-for-school job case in West Bengal have secured crucial clues about recommendations for appointments being made not only on paper but also sent via WhatsApp or SMS and were considered by the authorities concerned.

Fresh findings by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in the cash-for-school job case in West Bengal spell trouble for former West Bengal education minister Partha Chatterjee.

The Calcutta High Court on Tuesday observed that the nature of the scam in financial irregularities case in state-run R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital will have a far-reaching effect on any internal administrative system in government functioning.

West Bengal Governor C.V. Ananda Bose said on Monday that the government would ensure that the RG Kar case victim gets justice.

The Calcutta High Court on Friday rejected the plea of the former principal of R. G. Kar Medical College and Hospital, seeking additional time before the process of framing of charges against him starts in connection with the financial irregularities in the institute.

Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha on Wednesday said that the book written on a selection of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s speeches should be made more accessible to the common people, as this would benefit society and inspire people.

Currently, two parallel probes into the matter are going on, one by an expert committee of the state health department and the other by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the state police.

Hours after a special court here awarded life imprisonment to Sanjay Roy, the sole accused in the rape and murder of a lady doctor at R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital in August last year, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee announced that West Bengal government will challenge the order in Calcutta High Court soon.

The Eastern Railway (ER) has claimed that the Railway Protection Force (RPF) along with the Government Railway Police (GRP) seized 2.115 kg of narcotics, suspected to be Brown Sugar, from a passenger of the Katihar-Howrah Express train at Malda Town station under "Operation Narcos" on Sunday evening.