Category: KOLKATA

His close associate Arpita Mukherjee, from whose residences, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) had recovered a huge quantity of cash in July last year, also requested the court to grant her bail on "compassionate grounds".

In a major setback, a division bench of the Calcutta High Court on Tuesday ruled that the West Bengal government neither has the right to appoint or reappoint Vice Chancellors (VC) in state-run universities.

He is employed as a "senior technical support hand" with the state-run power distribution utility. West Bengal State Electricity Distribution Company Limited (WBSEDCL).

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav are likely to meet in Kolkata on Friday to discuss opposition unity for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, Trinamool Congress sources said.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) team probing the multi- crore recruitment scam of teachers and non- teaching staff in West Bengal on Monday pegged the total financial involvement in the scam at Rs 350 crore as per the progress of the investigation so far.

The West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) on Monday published on its website a list of 3,478 candidates who reportedly have qualified for appointment as non-teaching staff in different state-run schools through manipulation of marks.

The Leader of opposition (LoP), Suvendu Adhikari on Monday filed a petition in a division bench of the Calcutta High Court demanding dismissal of Mukul Roy from the West Bengal Legislative Assembly.

On Monday morning, a section of these terminated 842 Group-C non-teaching staff approached the Calcutta High Court's division bench of Justice Subrata Talukdar and Justice Supratim Bhattacharya challenging the earlier single-judge bench order on this count.

Assets and property worth around Rs 20 crore owned by Trinamool Congress leader Santanu Bandyopadhyay -- arrested in connection with the multi-crore teachers' recruitment scam in West Bengal -- has come under the scanner of Enforcement Directorate (ED) probing the matter.

The West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) has published a list 842 non-teaching staff in the Group-C category of different state-run schools whose services have been terminated following an order from a single-judge bench of the Calcutta High Court.

The Calcutta High Court on Friday questioned 57 appointments in non-teaching staff in Group-C category in different government schools in the state without proper recommendation letters from the West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC).

He further said that the accounts and other related details of Novkotha Initiative, a film production outfit floated and owned by Kuntal Ghosh are also being examined by ED sleuths to track his involvement in film financing.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) probing the multi-crore teachers' recruitment scam in West Bengal seems to be now entering the second phase of investigation focusing on the Bengali cinema link.

Trinamool Congress is all set to corner the Centre in the upcoming Parliament session on several issues, including investments by SBI and LIC in private entities besides the recent hike in the cooking gas price.

Following a surprise raid by the officers of the Bidhannagar Police Commiserate on Wednesday evening, unaccounted cash worth around Rs 4 crore was seized from a fake call centre in the Rajarhat-Newtown area on the outskirts of Kolkata.

On March 10, after the Holi vacation will be over, ED sleuths will present Mondal physically before the bench of judge Rakesh Kumar and further proceedings in the matter will continue, the central agency sources said.

Saddled with the declining student strength since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic and dilapidated condition of school buildings, Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has decided to close down as many as 18 primary schools run by it shortly.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday said in the Assembly that her government will not be able to provide additional dearness allowance (DA) to the state government employees "even if she is beheaded".

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) probing the money-trail angle in the multi-crore teachers' recruitment scam in West Bengal has found that bank accounts registered in the names of some beauty salons were used to divert the proceeds of crime.

The latest two deaths were reported on early Sunday morning from the BC Roy Children's Hospital in Kolkata. The two victims have been identified as Atifa Khatun (18 months) and Aarman Gazi (4 years).

However, the picture this time was completely different where Biswas defeated the Trinamool Congress candidate Debasish Bandopadhyay, a close relative of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, by a margin of 22,986 votes putting the BJP's Dilip Saha in the third position.

A special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court in Asansol on Thursday permitted the Enforcement Directorate (ED)to take Trinamool Congress strongman Anubrata Mondal to New Delhi in connection with the multi-crore cattle smuggling scam in West Bengal.

After the seventh round of counting of votes for the by-elections to Sagardighi Assembly constituency, the Left Front-supported Congress candidate Bayron Biswas's lead margin has further increased to over to 8,000 votes pitting Trinamool Congress candidate Debasish Bandopadhyay in the second position.

As per ADR report, almost 97 (96.77) per cent of Trinamool Congress's income during 2021-22 has come from electoral bonds. In case of BJP, electoral bonds contribute for just 54 per cent of its total income during the fiscal under review.

A division bench of the Calcutta High Court on Wednesday upheld an earlier order regarding the termination of jobs of 805 secondary teachers recruited illegally in different state-run schools in West Bengal.