A division bench of the Calcutta High Court on Wednesday upheld orders of a single bench that directed CBI to inquire into alleged illegal appointments given by the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education on recommendations by the School ...
19 May 2022 TelegraphThe Calcutta High Court has directed Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee to appear before CBI by 6pm of Wednesday in connection with the controversial appointments of teachers to government-aided schools on the recommendations of the School Service Commission.According to anandabazar.com, ...
19 May 2022 TelegraphThe West Bengal government has asked the state-run schools to distribute midday meal supplies among parents of students during the summer vacation so that the children are not deprived of the facility.This will be the first time that midday ...
19 May 2022 TelegraphSiddhartha Majumder resigns as chairman of West Bengal Central School Service Commission (WBCSSC).This is a breaking news story, more details will be added soon. Please keep refreshing this page.
19 May 2022 TelegraphBreaking his silence on the School Service Commission appointments scam and the Calcutta High Court order asking two West Bengal ministers to appear before CBI in connection with it, Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar on Wednesday said the Leader of Opposition ...
19 May 2022 TelegraphAdvocate general S.N. Mukherjee told Calcutta High Court on Tuesday that Anis Khan had fallen to his death from the terrace of his house when police had raided the Leftist student leader’s residence at Amta in Howrah on the ...
18 May 2022 TelegraphMamata Banerjee on Tuesday asked the departments that execute development projects in the state — collectively called works departments — to set up a “crisis management fund” and engage MGNREGA job card holders in the projects of the departments.Explaining ...
18 May 2022 TelegraphBengal BJP chief Sukanta Majumdar on Monday stalled appointments of four mandal presidents at Haldia and Moyna in East Midnapore, shortly after their names were announced.The unexpected diktat prompted several party old-timers to question if the Balurghat MP was ...
18 May 2022 TelegraphMamata Banerjee on Tuesday sent out multiple messages on several aspects to civil and police administrations and to her colleagues in the Trinamul Congress.Although the chief minister sent the messages during an administrative review meeting of West Midnapore district, ...
18 May 2022 TelegraphEighty-year-old Samar Mukherjee, the Trinamul MLA of Ratua in Malda district, walks up to the banks of the Fulhar river in his constituency every day and spends hours there in a bid to prevent illegal mining of soil and ...
18 May 2022 TelegraphA division bench of Chief Justice Prakash Shrivastava and Justice Rajarshi Bharadwaj of the high court on Tuesday rejected a plea for CBI probe into the Maynaguri molestation-and-suicide, asking state police to continue the job.After a minor died of ...
18 May 2022 TelegraphResidents of a village in Cooch Behar close to the India-Bangladesh border blocked a road in front of the local camp of the Border Security Force (BSF) on Tuesday, demanding that they be allowed to grow corn and jute ...
18 May 2022 TelegraphThe Supreme Court on Tuesday directed the Enforcement Directorate to question Trinamul Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee and his wife Rujira in Calcutta, instead of Delhi, in connection with alleged money laundering but recorded an assurance from the Bengal government ...
18 May 2022 TelegraphThe driver and the cleaner of a truck died in an accident near Baniajhora bridge on NH31C in Alipurduar district on Monday night.Sources said two trucks were bound for Assam when one hit the other in front.A team from ...
18 May 2022 TelegraphGorkha Janmukti Morcha’s Bimal Gurung seems to have shot himself in the foot by declaring that his party would not contest the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) polls without arriving at a consensus with his party colleagues.“Our party will not ...
18 May 2022 TelegraphDemolition of one of the buildings that developed cracks during tunneling work of the East West Metro corridor at Bowbazar is underway, a senior official said on Tuesday."Demolition work of building number 16/1 at Durga Pithuri Lane, which was ...
18 May 2022 TelegraphA driver in the South Bengal State Transport Corporation (SBSTC) was allegedly assaulted by a civic volunteer on duty on a highway in North Dinajpur district on Monday morning.Prithwish Biswas, the injured driver, has been admitted to a rural ...
17 May 2022 TelegraphSeveral areas of Taki and Hansnabad towns in the Basirhat subdivision of North 24-Parganas were inundated on Sunday and Monday because of a high tide that caused the Ichhamati river to overflow the earthen embankments.The Hansnabad police station was ...
17 May 2022 TelegraphThe Bengal health department will open a new unit for detection of serotype dengue at the North Bengal Medical College and Hospital in Siliguri, along with four other medical colleges, next month.Officials of the department said the facility would ...
17 May 2022 TelegraphThe Border Security Force (BSF) posted at the India-Bangladesh border in Cooch Behar on Sunday apprehended two Bangladeshi residents, including a minor, on charges of illegally infiltrating into India.BSF sources said Md Gillu, a resident of Lalpur village in ...
17 May 2022 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee will be visiting two districts affected by LWE (Left wing extremism) from Tuesday with a sudden rise in Maoist activities being attributed to lack of coordination among Trinamul Congress leaders because of alleged infighting.With panchayat ...
17 May 2022 TelegraphThe Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has summoned Trinamul MLA from Beleghata Paresh Pal for a round of questioning on Wednesday in connection with its ongoing probe into the alleged murder of BJP activist Abhijit Sarkar.Abhijit died in Kankurgachi ...
17 May 2022 TelegraphThe standing committee of the Eastern Zonal Council, a committee under the Union home ministry that met recently to discuss issues of eastern states, has requested the Centre to direct nationalised banks to set up more brick-and-mortar branches in ...
17 May 2022 TelegraphThe weight of central assignments is proving tough to execute for the BJP’s state unit as party leaders in Bengal continue to struggle to get the organisation up and working in the wake of electoral setbacks after last year’s ...
17 May 2022 TelegraphThe Trinamul Congress on Monday warned its trade union against extorting money from factories at Haldia in East Midnapore in the name of a public meeting which will be addressed by the party’s general secretary Abhishek Banerjee at the ...
17 May 2022 TelegraphActress Kareena Kapoor Khan has made Neena Pradhan of Kalimpong an instant social media celebrity.Neena’s Kitchen, a simple specialty inn and kitchen in the hill town, is now known to over 9 million people the world over for its ...
17 May 2022 TelegraphThe CBI, which is probing cases of post-poll violence, has summoned TMC MLA Paresh Pal in connection with its investigation into the murder of BJP activist Abhijit Sarkar, a senior official said on Monday. The legislator has been asked to ...
17 May 2022 TelegraphSaroj Debnath, a resident of ward 6 of Alipurduar town, his daughter Sabarni and other family members are frantically in search of Chiggi for the past five days.They have circulated pamphlets, requesting people for information in case they locate ...
16 May 2022 TelegraphTwo persons were killed when the branches of a shirish tree fell on a meat shop on Jessore road at Chandpara in North 24-Parganas on Sunday morning.Police and local sources said shopowner Ratan Mondal and customer Snehangshu Biswas died ...
16 May 2022 TelegraphThe state panchayat and rural development department has conducted an internal audit of around 3,500 gram panchayats to check the account books and send out a stern message against corruption ahead of next year’s rural polls.Sources in the panchayat ...
16 May 2022 TelegraphMore than 1.5 lakh new members joined the DYFI in Bengal in 2021, the same year when its parent organisation CPM failed to win a single seat in the Assembly polls.According to a report presented by the DYFI at ...
16 May 2022 TelegraphThe Union government has paused the release of Rs 4,900 crore under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) and Rs 2,700 crore under the Swachh Bharat Mission (rural) for Bengal and sought clarifications from Nabanna on whether the state changed ...
16 May 2022 TelegraphThe Union sports ministry will sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the railways next Saturday to build a sports hub on the railway land near the New Cooch Behar station.Nisith Pramanik, the Cooch Behar MP and Union minister ...
16 May 2022 TelegraphA 59-year-old man was allegedly attacked fatally by his brother-in-law and some others at a village in Dhupguri block of Jalpaiguri district on Saturday over a family dispute involving an ancestral house.Gobinda Mondal, the victim, died of his injuries ...
16 May 2022 TelegraphThe Bharatiya Gorkha Prajatantrik Morcha (BGPM) president, Anit Thapa, on Sunday asserted that his party would maintain cordial relations with the Trinamul Congress government for the sake of the development of the Darjeeling hills and the creation of more ...
16 May 2022 TelegraphBangladeshi national Prasanta Kumar Halder, who was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) along with five of his associates on Saturday in connection with a multi-million fraud case in the neighbouring country and foreign exchange violation in India, was ...
16 May 2022 TelegraphLegendary filmmaker Mrinal Sen's only son Kunal has lamented that the original scripts of the auteur's movies have been misplaced and those could have been used to document the creative thinking process of the internationally-acclaimed director ahead of his ...
16 May 2022 TelegraphWest Bengal Governor Jadgeep Dhankhar on Sunday sought an urgent report from the state's chief secretary H K Dwivedi over an "attack by the police" on the MLA office of Leader of Opposition in Assembly Suvendu Adhikari.He said such ...
16 May 2022 TelegraphA senior Trinamul leader from north Bengal has sent a letter to chief minister Mamata Banerjee, requesting the inclusion of a police station of Siliguri sub-division under the Siliguri police commissionerate, and upgrade of police outposts in and around ...
15 May 2022 TelegraphThe Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Saturday arrested Prasanta Kumar Halder, a Bangladeshi national accused of a multi-million fraud case in the neighbouring country by allegedly floating a number of shell companies and bringing a major part of the booty ...
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