Jhargram: Bikram Kumar Sau, the jhalmuri seller from Jhargram who shot to fame after Prime Minister Narendra Modi stopped at his stall during an election rally last month, has allegedly received death threats from numbers linked to Pakistan and Bangladesh.Sau has lodged a complaint at Jhargram police station following repeated threatening messages and WhatsApp calls….
Kolkata: State Congress president Subhankar Sarkar on Friday urged Bengal govt to consider amending the West Bengal Animal Slaughter Control Act, 1950, with the livelihood of hundreds of people involved with the cattle and milk trade at stake.“There are thousands of people in the villages who are involved in cattle-rearing and milk trade. They are…
Kolkata: State govt has initiated a comprehensive manpower audit of contractual employees engaged across various departments through third-party agencies to assess the actual requirement of such staff and identify possible financial irregularities linked to these appointments.According to sources, the exercise aims to determine the exact number of contractual employees deployed in different govt offices, their…
Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Friday verbally requested the state not to take any action against former Trinamool MLA of Rajarhat-Gopalpur Aditi Munshi and her husband and BMC councillor Debraj Chakraborty in an assets case till June 19. The HC also ordered interim protection to BMC mayor-in-council Tulsi Sinha Roy till June 22 in a…
Senior advocate Billwadal Bhattacharyya was appointed as additional advocate general of Bengal on Friday. He is the second AAG to be appointed this week after senior advocate Rajdeep Mazumder. “The govt reposed faith in me. It will be my duty to live up to the expectation. It’s a new govt, which brings a lot of…
Burnpur: Bulldozers rolled into Burnpur in West Burdwan on Friday as alleged encroachments were razed, including two TMC offices. SAIL’s IISCO Steel Plant officials used the bulldozers. An official said action was taken to reclaim encroached-upon land. tnn Source link
Kolkata: The discussions regarding removal or relocation of the mosque situated deep in the operational area of Kolkata airport have been kept on hold till Eid-uz-Zuha. The issue figured prominently at the Airport Security Committee meeting on Friday, two days after the state administration and the mosque authorities met at the North 24 Parganas DM’s…
West Bengal rolls out free bus travel for women KOLKATA: The West Bengal government has announced free bus travel for women in all state government-run buses June 1 onwards as part of a scheme. The scheme is aimed at enhancing women’s empowerment and improving access to public transport.According to a notification issued by the state…
Kolkata: Abhishek Banerjee, a private firm employee with no connection to politics, along with his wife, Sayani Ghosh, a schoolteacher, is suddenly confronted with a series of questioning by police and civic authorities amid a KMC drive to realise pending property tax from the Trinamool national general secretary. The couple share their names with the…
Kolkata mosques to hold prayers in two shifts KOLKATA: In the wake of the newly elected Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government’s emphasis on keeping roads clear during religious gatherings, mosques across Kolkata will begin holding prayers in two separate jamats, or shifts, with staggered timings, from Friday. This is to ensure that worshippers can offer…
