Category: KOLKATA

The Calcutta High Court, on Tuesday granted bail to 11 Maoists accused in the 2010 Jnaneswari Express accident, in which as many as 148 persons were killed and 180 were injured.

In a renewed action over the mobile-gaming app E-Nuggets scam involving crores of rupees, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) sleuths are conducting raids in a slum area in Kolkata since Tuesday morning.

The party's national spokesman and Rajya Sabha member Derek O'Brien has confirmed the development and claimed that communications are being made with the Twitter authorities to bring the handle back to its original format.

The All India Forward Bloc, the party founded by Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose and current constituent of the Left Front, has decided to launch a campaign christened "Har Ghar Netaji" in the coming days.

A strongly-worded statement by West Bengal Governor C. Ananda Bose condemning the attack on Union minister of state for home Nisith Pramanik's convoy in Cooch Behar has evoked equally sharp reaction from the ruling Trinamool Congress.

West Bengal secretariat of Nabanna has forwarded names of three Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers to the Raj Bhavan as a replacement of Nandini Chakroborty, who was removed as the principal secretary to Governor C.V. Ananda Bose.

A decision in this regard was taken at the monthly conference of KMC on Saturday, informed the member (solid waste management) of KMC's Mayor-in-Council, Debabrata Majumdar on Sunday.

The name of the wife of an absconding suspect of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) sleuths probing the multi-crore teachers' recruitment scam in West Bengal has now surfaced.

Around 15 lakh fake job cards under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) in West Bengal have been cancelled during the last one year.

Bhattacharya is already in judicial custody over his alleged involvement in the scam. Hearing on the anticipatory bail petition by his wife Satarupa Bhattacharya and son Souvik Bhattacharya at a special Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) court on Wednesday,

Actress-turned-politician Chakraborty claimed that though she made a formal complaint to the airlines' officials in the matter, it drew no response after which she posted a Twitter message late Tuesday night detailing about the entire matter.

The West Bengal government on Tuesday passed a bill in the Assembly amending the provisions of penalty for persons accused of vandalism in the name of mass movement resulting in destruction of property.

The total recovery in the multi-crore teachers' recruitment scam in West Bengal so far in terms of cash and gold seized as well as bank accounts and properties frozen has been to the tune of around Rs 111 crore.

According to the probe sources, the officials probing the coal smuggling scam have questioned two city-based businessmen and thoroughly examined their books of accounts through which their business transactions with these new entities have surfaced.

The CBI officers personally went to the residences of these individuals in whose names these accounts were opened and all of them informed the central agency that they had no knowledge of the existence of such bank accounts in their names.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) sleuths probing the multi-crore teachers' recruitment scam in West Bengal on Thursday faced the wrath of a special CBI judge for the slow pace of investigation by the agency in the matter.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday alleged that the Centre is making the lives of rural poor miserable by pushing them into a circle of online activities.

In fact, in the supplementary charge sheet filed by the ED at a special court of Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) Souvik Bhattacharya and his mother Satarupa Bhattacharya were named as beneficiaries of the scam.

The joint forum of West Bengal government employees agitating in Kolkata for the payment of dearness allowances (DA) arrears have now threatened to boycott poll-related duties for the forthcoming elections for the three-tier panchayat system scheduled this year unless the state government pays for the arrears.

Singer-turned-politician and West Bengal Tourism Minister Babul Supriyo was on Monday admitted to a hospital in Kolkata following complaints of severe chest pain, along with extreme uneasiness and excessive sweating.

Despite an official request from the Raj Bhavan to the state secretariat on Sunday for replacement of Governor C.V. Ananda Bose's current Principal Secretary Nandini Chakroborty with immediate effect, no reply or initiative on this count has come from the state government so far.

On February 10, the commission started the process by uploading the list of 2,819 non-teaching staff, out of which 1,911 individuals had received appointment letters or were employed in different state-run schools in the state.

Enforcement Directorate (ED) sleuths probing the multi-crore teachers' recruitment scam in West Bengal have identified a network of agents run by arrested youth Trinamool Congress leader Kuntal Ghosh for contacting candidates willing to pay money for recruitment as teachers in state-run schools.

Four persons were killed and ten others severely injured after a helium gas cylinder of a balloon seller exploded at Jaynagar in West Bengal's South 24 Parganas district.

West Bengal minister of state for finance (independent charge) Chandrima Bhattacharya is all set to table the state budget for the financial year 2023-24 in the assembly on February 15.