Tension gripped Sandeshkhali again Thursday after a group of residents staged fresh protests and allegedly set fire to an ‘alaghar’ (guard room) of a fishery that they claimed had been built on land grabbed by local TMC leaders. Following ...
23 February 2024 Indian ExpressAfter 2016-batch IPS officer Jaspreet Singh’s reaction over being called ‘Khalistani’ during a protest by BJP leaders, the West Bengal Police, senior police officers and political leaders, including Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, came out in his support. For many ...
23 February 2024 Indian ExpressThe host of a talk show telecast on a Bengali news channel was booked for allegedly “promoting enmity” and “conducting public mischief” while anchoring a programme on the recent violence in North 24 Parganas’ Sandeshkhali village.Suman Dey, who hosts ...
23 February 2024 Indian ExpressWest Bengal DGP Rajeev Kumar on Thursday said the police will listen to the complaints of every individual in Sandeshkhali, adding that strict action will be taken against those found guilty.“I came here to talk to my officers. It’s ...
23 February 2024 Indian ExpressSitting with her husband at their home in Noori Majherpukur village in West Bengal’s Purba Bardhaman district, Shila Sikdar (38) has been distraught ever since she received a letter from UIDAI six days ago. The letter says her and ...
23 February 2024 Indian ExpressPolice on Wednesday registered a second rape case against TMC zilla parishad leader Shibu Prasad Hazra and two others after a woman recorded her statement under Section 164 of the Code of Criminal Procedure before a magistrate.The development came ...
23 February 2024 Indian ExpressA day after a Sikh IPS officer hit out at a group of protesting BJP leaders over being called a “Khalistani” by them, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Wednesday criticised the opposition party and said there were attempts ...
22 February 2024 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday alleged that deactivating Aadhaar cards is a political game and asserted that her government has stopped that “conspiracy” of the central government.Addressing a programme organised on the occasion International Mother Language ...
22 February 2024 Indian ExpressThe Enforcement Directorate has filed a prosecution complaint under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) against Tower Infotech Ltd and its managing director Ramendu Chattopadhyay in the Sessions Court, Kolkata. The court took cognisance of ...
22 February 2024 Indian ExpressExpressing concern over the ensuing unrest in Sandeshkhali, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Wednesday trained its guns at the Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, saying that she would “have to pay for it” ...
22 February 2024 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose on Tuesday visited Chopra in Uttar Dinajpur district where four children, aged between five and 12, died allegedly after soil caved in during drainage expansion work near the India-Bangladesh border. It was ...
22 February 2024 Indian ExpressThe Calcutta High Court on Tuesday took an exception to the West Bengal Police’s inability to arrest Trinamool Congress strongman Shahjahan Sheikh who allegedly orchestrated an attack on an Enforcement Directorate team during a raid on his premises in ...
22 February 2024 Indian ExpressThe Basirhat sessions court on Tuesday granted three-day police custody of a journalist who was arrested by police while reporting live on television in the violence-hit Sandeshkhali area of North 24 Parganas district a day before.Santu Pan, who works ...
21 February 2024 Indian ExpressBJP legislator and Leader of Opposition in West Bengal Assembly Suvendu Adhikari on Tuesday visited violence-hit Sandeshkhali in North 24 Parganas district and claimed that a situation of complete lawlessness prevailed in the area as the Trinamool Congress government ...
21 February 2024 Indian ExpressUPSET OVER a “Khalistani” slur hurled at him, a Sikh IPS officer hit back at a group of protesting West Bengal BJP leaders and workers, who were being led by Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari, asking them not to ...
21 February 2024 Indian ExpressThe NHRC has sent a notice to the West Bengal’s police chief over a complaint alleging that a journalist covering the Sandeshkhali issue was “unlawfully detained,” officials said on Tuesday.The National Human Rights Commission in a statement said the ...
21 February 2024 Indian ExpressTrinamool Congress (TMC) councillor Ananya Bandyopadhyay was issued a show-cause notice after her controversial remarks related to the Christian community during the budget session of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) on Monday sparked protests.KMC Mayor Firhad Hakim issued the ...
21 February 2024 Indian ExpressAssuring complete support to the women in Sandeshkhali, Governor CV Ananda Bose on Monday launched a mission —Santosh-kali — that aims to protect the dignity of women.In his message to women in the restive-area, who have been subjected to ...
20 February 2024 Indian ExpressLeader of Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly Suvendu Adhikari and Brinda Karat of the CPI(M) were stopped by the police from visiting the troubled area of Sandeshkhali in the state’s North 24 Parganas district on Tuesday morning.According to ...
20 February 2024 Indian ExpressThe Calcutta High Court on Monday issued an interim stay of seven days on the imposition of Section 144 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) in the violence-hit Sandeshkhali area of West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district.The single ...
20 February 2024 Indian ExpressThe National Commission for Women chairperson Monday said she had received 18 complaints from the women of West Bengal’s Sandeshkhali, including two of rape, during a visit to the area. The chairperson, Rekha Sharma, also demanded President’s Rule in ...
20 February 2024 Indian ExpressThe Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has initiated a probe into the alleged disappearance of a 14-year-old tribal girl in West Bengal’s Purba Bardhaman district, days after the Calcutta High Court directed the agency to look into the case.The ...
20 February 2024 Indian ExpressChief Minister Mamata Banerjee has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi about the “deactivation” of Aadhaar cards in West Bengal and said her government will provide alternative identification cards in place of “deactivated” cards. She also said an Aadhaar ...
20 February 2024 Indian ExpressNational Commission for Women (NCW) chairperson Rekha Sharma on Monday alleged that the West Bengal Police tried to suppress the truth in Sandeshkhali and accused the Mamata Banerjee government of not allowing its officers to meet NCW representatives. The ...
19 February 2024 Indian ExpressKolkata police’s cyber cell has initiated a probe following a complaint from 58-year-old man from Beliaghata who was allegedly duped of Rs 20 lakh in online investment fraud. The complainant Pradip Sarkar alleged that he was duped by a ...
19 February 2024 Indian ExpressAccusing the BJP government at the Centre of “intentionally cancelling” people’s Aadhaar registrations “to deprive them of social schemes’ benefits”, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday said her government would not allow any state schemes to be ...
19 February 2024 Indian ExpressThe ‘Comics in Bengal’ exhibition which began Saturday offers visitors a peek into the rich history of comics in Bengali language and how they evolved over the years. Held jointly by the Kolkata Centre for Creativity and Comics Culture ...
19 February 2024 Indian ExpressOut of the 58 departments, the budgetary provisions for only three departments – agriculture; panchayat and rural development; and women and child development department — were laid in the West Bengal Assembly for discussion in the ongoing Budget session. ...
19 February 2024 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday accused the BJP of trying to incite a “riot” in Sandeshkhali in North 24 Parganas where protests broke out against alleged sexual harassment and land grabbing by local TMC leaders there ...
19 February 2024 Indian ExpressThree Trinamool Congress (TMC) ministers met the people of Sandeshkhali in West Bengal on Sunday and promised to resolve their problems. This was after the BJP and Congress leaders were earlier stopped from entering Sandeshkhali, which has been witnessing ...
19 February 2024 Indian ExpressPrime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to address a women’s rally in Barasat in West Bengal on March 7, amid a political row over allegations of sexual assault of women by members of the state’s ruling Trinamool Congress in ...
19 February 2024 Indian ExpressTrinamool Congress leader Shiba Prasad Hajra, one of the prime accused in the case of alleged land grab and sexual harassment of women in Sandeshkhali, was remanded to police custody for eight days by a court in West Bengal’s ...
19 February 2024 Indian ExpressA dedicated daily routine comprising six to eight hours of studies, with self-discipline and concentration – are some of the aspects that 17-year-old Irradri Basu Khaund attributed to his success in JEE Mains.Khaund, who recently became the JEE Main ...
18 February 2024 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has alleged that the Centre intentionally cancelled Aadhaar cards so that people will be deprived of the benefits of social schemes.Speaking at a public distribution programme in Birbhum, the Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader ...
18 February 2024 Indian ExpressPopular actor of yesteryears Anjana Bhowmick died on Saturday, family sources said. She was 79. Anjana, who had been ailing for some time, died at a private hospital at around 10:30 am, they said. She was admitted to the ...
18 February 2024 Indian ExpressIn a veiled attack at the BJP-led Centre, West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee Saturday said there were “attempts to change the spirit of the Indian Constitution” and that federalism in the country has been “totally bulldozed”.Banerjee made the remarks ...
18 February 2024 Indian ExpressIn a major reshuffle in its IPS cadre, the West Bengal government on Saturday removed senior officer Sumit Kumar from the post of DIG (Barasat Range) and made him DIG (Security), an official said.Kumar was replaced by DIG (Malda ...
18 February 2024 Indian ExpressA six-member delegation of State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (SCPCR) along with their chairperson Tulika Das visited Sandeshkhali on Saturday to ascertain the alleged complaints of child abuse in the restive area.The villagers have alleged that a ...
18 February 2024 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose on Saturday said the doors of Raj Bhavan are open for the women of trouble-torn Sandeshkhali who feel unsafe in their homes.Speaking to PTI, Bose, who considers himself the Rakhi brother of the ...
18 February 2024 Indian ExpressThe Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) has moved the Circuit Bench of Calcutta High Court in Jalpaiguri district against a lioness named after Goddess Sita and male lion named after Mughal emperor Akbar at the North Bengal Wild Animals Park ...
18 February 2024 Indian ExpressThe West Bengal Police on Saturday arrested Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader and North 24 Parganas Zilla Parishad member Shiba Prasad Hazra, against whom a section of women of Sandeshkhali had lodged a complaint of sexual harassment.The development comes on ...
18 February 2024 Indian ExpressThe inaugural edition of The Kolkata French Film Festival was launched at Nandan on Friday. Organised jointly by the West Bengal government and the Alliance Française du Bengale, the festival will continue till February 24.During the inaugural function, Bollywood ...
17 February 2024 Indian ExpressLeader of Opposition in West Bengal assembly Suvendu Adhikari on Friday moved Calcutta High Court seeking a direction to the state government to allow him to visit unrest-hit Sandeshkhali after being prevented by police from going there for the ...
17 February 2024 Indian ExpressSixty-two childbirths took place in the jails of West Bengal in the last four years with most of these women inmates already expecting at the time of being brought to prisons, says a report prepared on the basis of ...
17 February 2024 Indian ExpressThe BJP and the Congress hit out at West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Friday after their delegations were stopped by the police from visiting unrest-hit Sandeshkhali in North 24 Parganas district due to prohibitory orders.The six-member BJP delegation, ...
17 February 2024 Indian ExpressTrinamool Congress MLA Idris Ali, who has been suffering from several illnesses, died at a private hospital in West Bengal’s Howrah district on Friday, a party leader said.He was 73. Ali, the legislator from Bhagawangola in Murshidabad, breathed his ...
17 February 2024 Indian ExpressMonths after he was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in connection with the ration distribution ‘scam’, the West Bengal government on Friday allocated TMC leader Jyoti Priya Mallick’s forest department portfolio to Birbaha Hansda.Hansda is the Minister of ...
17 February 2024 Indian ExpressPumping saltwater into fields, land grabbing and forcing villagers to give up their wages and welfare payments – landowners in violence-hit Sandehskhali village have a long list of allegations against Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Shahjahan Sheikh and his aides.The ...
17 February 2024 Indian ExpressThe Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday conducted raids at six locations in West Bengal, including an office and three flats of a builder known to be close to former state education minister Partha Chatterjee, in connection with its probe ...
16 February 2024 Indian ExpressDays after four children died after a mound of soil caved in during drainage expansion by the Border Security Force in Uttar Dinajpur’s Chopra, a delegation of Trinamool Congress leaders met Governor CV Ananda Bose on Thursday and sought ...
16 February 2024 Indian ExpressA 35-year-old man was arrested after he allegedly killed his wife and was seen dancing with her head in a park in Purba Medinipur district on Wednesday, police said. The man, Gautam Guchhait, is a resident of Chistipur village ...
16 February 2024 Indian ExpressThe Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday issued summonses to two Trinamool Congress leaders, including MP and popular Bengali actor Dev, for questioning in connection with its probes into money laundering cases, an official said.The probe agency summoned TMC Ghatal ...
16 February 2024 Indian ExpressLight rain and thunder is likely to occur in most parts of Bengal including North 24 Parganas, South 24 Parganas, Purab and Paschim Medinipur, Howrah, Jhargram, Purab and Paschim Burdwan and Nadia till Friday, the weather office said on ...
16 February 2024 Indian ExpressLeader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari, who was stopped from visiting Sandeshkhali for the second time this week, on Thursday said that he would move Calcutta High Court seeking permission to visit the area.Adhikari was on his way to the ...
16 February 2024 Indian ExpressThe seat-sharing talks between the CPIM and the Congress for West Bengal did not materialise on Thursday as leaders of both the parties could not find time to hold a meeting, despite being present in the same district.CPI(M) state ...
16 February 2024 Indian ExpressWeeks after Union and state government officials met in New Delhi to discuss West Bengal’s pending funds, the Centre reminded the Mamata Banerjee-led government that the latter had accepted that “irregularities have been observed in the past” in the ...
16 February 2024 Indian ExpressWest Bengal BJP president Sukanta Majumdar was admitted to a hospital in Kolkata on Wednesday after he fell from the bonnet of a van during a scuffle with police at Taki in North 24 Parganas district. Majumdar, accompanied by ...
15 February 2024 Indian ExpressA woman priest performed Saraswati puja alongside a male priest at the Scottish Church Collegiate School in Kolkata to raise awareness about gender equality and cultural preservation.“For the past few years, we have seen changes in our society with ...
15 February 2024 Indian ExpressAs a political war wages between the ruling TMC and opposition BJP in West Bengal over allegations of women being sexually harassed by Trinamool strongmen in Sandeshkhali, at least five women The Indian Express spoke to claimed they had ...
15 February 2024 Indian ExpressDays after Union Minister Smriti Irani alleged “Hindu women were being raped” in violence-hit Sandeshkhali, the rulIng TMC on Wednesday said the National Commission for Women and the state panel did not receive any complaints of “molestation or rape” ...
15 February 2024 Indian ExpressWest Bengal BJP president Sukanta Majumdar and other party workers were released on Tuesday night, hours after they were detained by the police for their sit-in outside the SP Office at Basirhat in North 24 Parganas district.“The police detained ...
14 February 2024 Indian ExpressThe Trinamool Congress on Tuesday wrote a letter to West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose, urging him to meet the families of four children who died after a mound of soil caved in during drainage expansion by the BSF ...
14 February 2024 Indian ExpressA Hawk trainer aircraft of the Indian Air Force (IAF) crashed on Tuesday at Kalaikunda in West Bengal’s Paschim Medinipur district, a Defence official said.Both the pilots ejected safely, the official said, adding that a court of inquiry was ...
14 February 2024 Indian ExpressTension simmered in the Sandeshkhali area of North 24 Parganas district’s Basirhat subdivision on Tuesday during a protest by BJP workers led by state party president Sukanta Majumder against the alleged sexual harassment of women.As they marched towards the ...
14 February 2024 Indian ExpressA single-judge bench of the Calcutta High Court on Tuesday quashed the order imposing restrictions under Section 144 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) in the violence-hit Sandeshkhali in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district, saying such prohibitory ...
14 February 2024 Indian ExpressThe Enforcement Directorate (ED) is conducting fresh raids at six locations in Kolkata in connection with their investigation into the alleged public distribution system (PDS) corruption scandal in West Bengal on Tuesday.The sleuths are conducting searches at a flat ...
13 February 2024 Indian ExpressThe Police on Monday maintained that there was no communal angle in the violence at Sandeshkhali in North 24 Parganas district and that no rape complaint was filed by any woman in the area. The comments came hours after ...
13 February 2024 Indian ExpressFour children, aged between 5 and 12 years, died on Monday after a mound of soil, collected from a drainage expansion work, caved in, burying them at a village bordering Bangladesh in North Dinajpur district of West Bengal.The drainage ...
13 February 2024 Indian ExpressChief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday inaugurated the renovated campus of a several decade-old Bhawanipur Modern School, where she was employed as a teacher in the 70s.Reminiscing about her old days Banerjee said, “My father passed away when I ...
13 February 2024 Indian ExpressChief Minister Mamata Banerjee virtually laid the foundation stone for Snayu Tirtha Medical College & Hospital, an initiative of the Institute of Neurosciences Kolkata (I-NK), at Shason Gram Panchayat, North 24 Parganas in Barasat.Acknowledging the move by I-NK to ...
13 February 2024 Indian ExpressChief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday targeted the Opposition for stopping her government from offering jobs to the youths of Bengal. Addressing a government programme at Arambagh in Hooghly district, Banerjee claimed that nearly five lakh vacant posts in ...
13 February 2024 Indian ExpressAs West Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose on Monday visited Sandeshkhali in North 24 Parganas district following protests in the area against a local TMC leader facing land grabbing and corruption charges, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said that ...
13 February 2024 Indian ExpressWatching the film 12th Fail, Jalpaiguri Superintendent of Police Umesh Khandbahale felt like he was seeing a visualisation of his own life story.The movie is based on the real-life story of Manoj Kumar Sharma, who overcame failure in his ...
13 February 2024 Indian ExpressSix BJP MLAs, including Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari, were suspended from the West Bengal Assembly on Monday over their protests against the Sandeshkhali incident in which villagers hit the streets in North 24 Parganas district seeking the arrest ...
12 February 2024 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday asserted that whoever is responsible for the violence in Sandeshkhali will be arrested. She broke her silence on the issue on a day when Governor CV Ananda Bose visited Sandeshkhali and ...
12 February 2024 Indian ExpressThe Kolkata Municipal Corporation’s decision to implement the “yellow line” or “one-third” rule in an attempt to free pavements and roads from encroachments in the city has not gone down well with hawkers.The implementation of the rule that started ...
12 February 2024 Indian ExpressNearly a week after Bengali movie superstar and Trinamool Congress MP Dipak Adhikari, popularly known as Dev, resigned from three government-nominated posts and said that he might not contest the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, the actor on Sunday hinted ...
12 February 2024 Indian ExpressThe Enforcement Directorate (ED) summoned TMC zilla parishad member Shahjahan Sheikh for the third time in connection with the ration distribution ‘scam’.The central agency has asked the absconding Trinamool leader to appear before it for questioning on Monday. The ...
12 February 2024 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Cold Storage Association (WBCSA) shed light on a severe financial crisis gripping the cold storage sector.Cold storage facilities, reliant on government-regulated rents for preservation, have amassed a significant loss of Rs 21.35/quintal until 2021. According to the members ...
12 February 2024 Indian ExpressThe Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Sunday announced the names of journalist Sagarika Ghose, party leader Sushmita Dev and two others for the upcoming Rajya Sabha polls from the state.Elections to the five Rajya Sabha seats from West Bengal will ...
12 February 2024 Indian ExpressConcerned with the present situation in Sandeshkhali in North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal, Governor CV Ananda Bose has decided to cut short his Kerala trip and return to the state to visit the “troubled spot” on Monday ...
12 February 2024 Indian ExpressHours after he was suspended by the Trinamool Congress for six years, Uttam Sardar, a supporter of TMC leader Shahjahan Sheikh, was arrested in Sandeshkhali in North 24 Parganas on Saturday night.According to the police, Sardar was arrested after ...
11 February 2024 Indian ExpressDays after villagers hit the streets in Sandeshkhali seeking the arrest of Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Shahjahan Sheikh and his two aides over allegations of land grabbing and attacks on workers, a restive calm persists in the village as ...
11 February 2024 Indian ExpressCalling the situation in Sandeshkhali village of North 24 Parganas district “worst that could happen in a civilised society”, West Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose on Saturday directed the state government to submit a report into the recent ...
11 February 2024 Indian ExpressA full bench of the Election Commission of India, led by chief Rajiv Kumar, will visit Kolkata on March 4 to assess the preparations for the Lok Sabha elections in West Bengal, officials said. This will be the first ...
11 February 2024 Indian ExpressAfter a week-long spell of warm weather, the minimum temperature dropped to 14 degrees Celsius on Saturday.According to weather department officials, the city’s maximum temperature reached 24 degree Celsius. The weather is most likely to remain dry this week, ...
11 February 2024 Indian ExpressLeader of the Opposition in West Bengal Assembly Suvendu Adhikari along with BJP MLAs on Saturday went to the Raj Bhavan and submitted a memorandum demanding the intervention of Governor C V Ananda Bose to restore peace in Sandeshkhali ...
11 February 2024 Indian ExpressLocals staging a protest demanding the arrest of absconding Trinamool Congress leader Sheikh Shajahan and his associates turned violent in the Sandeshkhali area of North 24 Parganas district on Friday with a house being vandalised and poultry farms set ...
10 February 2024 Indian ExpressThe state government has rejected the Comptroller and Auditor General report which alleges that the West Bengal government has not submitted Utilisation Certificate of different Central funds.Chief Secretary Bhagwati Prasad Gopalika and Finance Secretary Manoj Panth, while addressing a ...
10 February 2024 Indian ExpressAiming AT ensuring growth of the Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSME) sector within the state, the West Bengal government is working towards providing complete support to the sector, claimed Rajesh Pandey, principal secretary of the MSME department.The Indian ...
10 February 2024 Indian ExpressAdding to speculations, Deepak Adhikari, popularly known as Dev, Bengali cine star and also Trinamool Congress MP, has stated that he may not contest the Lok Sabha polls this time. However, he added that he has discussed the issue ...
10 February 2024 Indian ExpressA full bench of the Election Commission of India (ECI), led by its chief Rajiv Kumar, will be reaching Kolkata on March 4 to assess the preparations for the Lok Sabha elections in West Bengal, officials said.This is the ...
9 February 2024 Indian ExpressEven as West Bengal’s fiscal deficit increased to Rs 68,250 crore in the 2024-25 Budget, an increase of nearly 37% from 2022-23 when the fiscal deficit was Rs 49,966 crore, the TMC government in the state on Thursday announced ...
9 February 2024 Indian ExpressMinister of State (Independent Charge) for Finance Chandrima Bhattacharya on Thursday announced that the West Bengal government will revisit the land ceiling act to facilitate the “ease of doing business” and attract large investments including major foreign capital in ...
9 February 2024 Indian ExpressRaining sops, the Trinamool Congress (TMC) government of West Bengal on Thursday hiked the Dearness Allowance (DA) by another 4 per cent for the second time in two months, increased incentives of Direct Benefits Transfer (DBT) schemes such as ...
9 February 2024 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Assembly’s budget session Thursday started on a chaotic note after BJP MLAs protested over the state song being sung in the House instead of the National Anthem.According to reports, Speaker Biman Banerjee instructed officials to play the ...
9 February 2024 Indian ExpressFormer TMC MLA and strongman Arabul Islam was arrested Thursday evening for his alleged involvement in the murder of an India Secular Front (ISF) worker, police said. “Arabul Islam (56) of Machibhanga, Polerhat, South 24 Parganas was arrested on ...
9 February 2024 Indian ExpressKolkata Police on Thursday arrested the administrator of an English medium school for allegedly siphoning more than Rs 10 crores from the school’s bank accounts, from April 1, 2020, till June 2023. The accused Krishna Damani was nabbed while ...
9 February 2024 Indian ExpressThe BJP on Thursday described the state budget for financial year 2024-25 as directionless and “populist” in nature, aimed at winning the support of the people in Bengal ahead of Lok Sabha polls.Leader of Opposition in state Assembly Suvendu ...
9 February 2024 Indian ExpressA petitioner has raised concerns over the plight of women prisoners lodged in West Bengal jails. An amicus curiae in a writ petition, informed the Calcutta High Court about the issue of women inmates getting pregnant, while in custody ...
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