Category: KOLKATA

Leader of Opposition (LoP)in West Bengal Assembly Suvendu Adhikari alleged that the deceased party booth president Bijoy Krishna Bhunia was picked up by goons close to former Trinamool Congress legislator Sangram Dolui on Monday evening and hacked.

Now Iman Gangopadhyay's father before his retirement recently was in the rank of joint director with the state municipal affairs & urban development department, the nodal department for all urban civic bodies in the state, including the municipal corporations and municipalities.

The counsel for the Enforcement Directorate (ED) referred the matter to a bench of Justice Gangopadhyay, alleging that such charges by Ghosh were meant to slow down the pace of investigation in the alleged recruitment scam.

However, since the apex court did not issue any specific instruction on the remaining cases related to the alleged recruitment scam, those have continued to be under the jurisdiction of Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay.

In the letter, Bagchi has pointed out that although as a professional and senior advocate Singhvi has every right to choose any brief, as a senior leader of the Congress he cannot ignore his obligations towards his party and party workers.

There was confusion on Friday after the Supreme Court's order transferring the cases against Trinamool Congress national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee from Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay of the Calcutta High Court.

Just half-an-hour before that, the Supreme Court in a late evening hearing stayed the order passed by him directing the apex court's Secretary General to produce the report and official transcript of the interview he had given to a news channel.

Parts of Kaliyaganj in West Bengal's North Dinajpur district turned into a virtual battlefield on Tuesday following violent protests by the local people against the alleged rape and murder of teenage girl last week.

A day after a division bench of the Supreme Court led by Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud sought a report from the Calcutta High Court on an interview given to a news channel by the hight court's Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay, the latter on Tuesday ruled out speculations that he is stepping down from his chair.

The dead woman has been identified as Doel Basu, 32. Her mother Dipali Basu, who had been staying with the daughter's body at their residence at Ranikuthi in south Kolkata, has been taken by the police to Calcutta Medical College & Hospital for mental and physical checkup.

The US' decision to send four F-15E Eagles for Cope India 2023 is being seen by many as an effort to convince India that this Boeing-built twin-engine fighter jet is the best option available in the market.

A major fire broke out at Kolkata's Salt Lake area on Sunday evening in which around 60 shanties there were totally gutted, leaving potentially hundreds of people homeless. However, no casualties have been reported, officials said.

Trinamool Congress insiders said that Nitish Kumar is supposed to come to Kolkata on Tuesday morning and there is a high possibility of his meeting with Mamata Banerjee at the latter's Kalighat residence in South Kolkata on the same evening.

"Please maintain peace. Do not be instigated by any kind of provocation from anyone. BJP is trying to create an air of tension in the state. I will not tolerate any such thing," the chief minister said.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED), whose sleuths were the first to reveal the massive recruitment irregularities in different municipalities in West Bengal, has submitted a preliminary report to Calcutta High Court giving estimates of proceeds involved in the scam.

A joint team comprising officials from the West Bengal Forest Department, National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) and the Global Tiger Forum (GTF) will soon conduct a study on how suitable is the Buxa Tiger Reserve (BTR) in Alipurduar district for the habitation of Royal Bengal tigers.

Visva-Bharati University has issued a final eviction notice to Nobel Laureate economist Amartya Sen asking him to vacate by May 6, the "disputed" 13 decimals of land within the varsity campus in West Bengal's Birbhum district.

Banerjee on Wednesday also asserted that the name of her party will continue to be All India Trinamool Congress. "BJP can influence the EC. But the name of our party will remain the same," she said.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has frozen ten bank accounts of Trinamool Congress MLA Jiban Krishna Saha, who has been arrested in connection with the multi-crore teachers' recruitment scam in West Bengal.

A single-judge bench of the Calcutta High Court on Tuesday asked the CBI to direct its ongoing probe in the multi-crore teachers' recruitment scam in West Bengal against another Trinamool Congress legislator, Tapas Saha, from Tehatta Assembly constituency.

Jiban Krishna Saha, the Trinamool Congress MLA who was arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in connection with the multi- crore teachers' recruitment scam in West Bengal, does not seem to be having any sympathizer even within his own family.

Abhsihek Banerjee on Monday afternoon attached the copy of the CBI notice on Twitter. In the message, Banerjee has also accused BJP of the latter's desperation to "target" and "harass" him.

After almost 72 hours of marathon search, the second mobile phone of Trinamool Congress legislator Jiban Krishna Saha, arrested in connection with the multi-crore teachers' recruitment scam, was recovered from the pond adjacent to his residence.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday expressed deep anguish over the murder of former MP Atiq Ahmad and his brother Ashraf in Uttar Pradesh and claimed that she is really "shocked" over the twin murder.

Trinamool Congress MLA Jiban Krishna Saha threw his mobile phones in a pond while the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) was conducting a raid at his house in connection with the multi-crore scam teachers' recruitment scam in West Bengal.