Category: KOLKATA

The Traffic Unit of Ambassa in association with Ambassa Police Station on Monday seized at least 19575 bottles of banned cough syrup – Phensedyl worth Rs. 1.5 crore from a 12-wheeler truck.

Several crucial documents may have been destroyed in the Lal Bahadur Shastri Common Room of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)- Kharagpur after a fire broke out at this iconic technology institute on Sunday.

Initial investigation has revealed that the murder of Molla is a fall-out of internal infighting in ruling Trinamool Congress, the reflection of which had been evident in the Canning and Basanti area of South 24 Parganas district since the polling deaths were announced.

The signals were there for quite some time about the honeymoon period being over.  But throughout the past week the tiff between Raj Bhavan and the state secretariat in West Bengal reached a new high.

On Saturday, the tension began at the Bhagabanpur area after some local Trinamool Congress activists, as alleged by the AISF, tried to destroy some wall graffiti by hurling crude bombs.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has summoned Trinamool Youth Congress president Saayoni Ghosh for second round of questioning  in the multi-crore school recruitment case in West Bengal.

Kamtapur Liberation Organisation's (KLO) chief Jeevan Singh, who is currently underground, on Friday described the Trinamool Congress and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee as the "enemy" of the people of Rajbanshi community.

Despite maintaining an overall supremacy in the run-up to the July 8 panchayat elections in West Bengal, the ABP-CVoter Opinion Poll for the rural civic body polls has indicated some major factors of discomfort for the state’s ruling party that might keep its leadership worried for the big battle of 2024.

The six Rajya Sabha members whose tenure is ending are Derek O’Brien, Dola Sen, Sukhendu Sekhar Roy, Shanta Chhetri, and Sushmita Dev of Trinamool Congress and Pradip Bhattacharya of Congress. 

The Border Security Force (BSF) has issued a statement refuting the allegation made by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on intimidating the voters in bordering villages.

A crucial file sought by the CBI in connection to the multi-crore school recruitment case in West Bengal has gone missing from the office of the West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC).

The West Bengal Food & Supplies Department has claimed to have cancelled some two crore fake ration cards since a drive to link Aadhar Cards to ration cards started in the state.

Condemning the incident, Trinamool's Rajya Sabha member Santanu Sen claimed that the murder of Choubey proves that it is not the ruling party, but the opposition forces, especially the BJP, which are trying to create tension over the panchayat polls.

While giving the order, Justice Sinha also observed that since the allegations are against a state government official it will not be wise for a state investigation agency to probe the matter and hence the charge of the probe is handed over to CBI.

Suchetana Bhattacharya, the daughter of former West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya, has declared herself as a "transman", adding that she would shortly undergo sex reassignment surgery (SRS).

The police in West Bengal's South 24 Parganas district have started an investigation following a complaint about the illegal encroachment and occupying land owned by the former Indian cricket team captain, Sourav Ganguly.

A division bench of Calcutta High Court's Chief Justice T.S. Sivagnanam on Monday sought a report from the West Bengal government on the latter's recent ordinance rejigging the formation of the search committees meant for appointment of vice chancellors in the state universities.

BJP MP and Union Minister of State for Shipping Shantanu Thakur on Monday moved the Calcutta High Court against Trinamool Congress national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee over the tension at the temple of Matua spiritual leader Late Binapani Devi a.l.a. Boro Ma at Thakurnagar in Bangaon on June 11.

As days passed on, it reached the extreme points in the last two panchayat polls in 2013 and 2018, with 34 per cent seats in the the rural civic body system resulting in uncontested victory for the ruling Trinamool Congress in 2018.

Pramanik has alleged that on Saturday afternoon while his convoy was moving through Dinhata, Trinamool Congress activists attacked the convoy, severely injured some of the BJP workers and even had shot arrows targeting his vehicles.

Approaching the apex court in this matter is a U-turn from the SEC's earlier stand of abiding by the order of the Calcutta High Court. Late Thursday evening only, SEC Rajiva Sinha had said that he will abide by the Calcutta High Court's order.

Despite a formal declaration of not contesting in the West Bengal panchayat polls as an expression of solidarity towards Trinamool Congress, as many as 13 Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) candidates have filed nominations so far for the different tiers of the rural civic body system in the state.

A video showing a professional goon confessing to being hired by a Trinamool Congress MLA to create tension at Bhangar in South 24 Parganas, is doing rounds on social media.

West Bengal Governor C.V. Ananda Bose on Friday visited Bhangar in South 24 Parganas district, the epicentre of the recent violence clashes over nomination for the July 8 panchayat elections.

The most violent clashes were reported from Bhangar in South 24 Parganas district, where the area around the block development office turned into a virtual battlefield following clashes between Trinamool Congress and All India Secular Front (AISF) workers.