Compensation for accident death Kolkata: A housewife’s contribution to the house was invaluable, the Calcutta High Court said on June 9 as it increased the compensation payable to the minor daughter of a woman, who was killed in a road accident, from Rs 9,17,000 to Rs 11 lakh with 6% interest per annum.Justice Biswaroop Chowdhury…
KOLKATA: A joint team of Kolkata Police and Paschim Medinipur Police, accompanied by central security forces, conducted an overnight search operation at the Kalighat residence of Trinamool Congress national general secretary and MP Abhishek Banerjee, triggering a major political controversy in West Bengal, an official said on Saturday.According to police sources, officers arrived at Abhishek…
Recruitment scam probe deepens, ED raids Madan Mitra-linked premises in Kolkata KOLKATA: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Saturday conducted raids at seven premises linked to TMC MLA and former minister Madan Mitra in connection with the municipal recruitment scam. According to officials, the investigation so far has revealed that Mitra allegedly received bribes in the…
Kolkata: If all goes well, north Bengal’s Buxa Tiger Reserve will get two tigers this Global Tiger Day — July 29.The big cats, in all likelihood two females, may be brought either from Assam’s Manas Tiger Reserve or Bihar’s Valmiki Tiger Reserve, senior govt officials in New Delhi told TOI on Friday.Soumitra Dasgupta, member of…
Kolkata: CID on Friday issued back-to-back summons to Trinamool national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee, the first in the Signgate investigation for which he was asked to appear before the agency on June 14, and the second over comments he made during the poll campaign, for which he was summoned on June 16.This came after Abhishek…
Kolkata: CM Suvendu Adhikari said the Centre would address protests in Bangladesh over the “pushback” of alleged illegal immigrants after reports emerged that Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami MP Golam Sarwar Bhuyian had sought a discussion on the matter.Speaking to reporters at a press conference on 12 years of NDA govt, Adhikari said, “I can’t comment on foreign…
Kolkata: State govt will investigate alleged corruption in the arrangement of the Bengal Global Business Summit (BGBS), CM Suvendu Adhikari said on Friday.“The earlier govt had arranged BGBS. One event management company was paid a total of Rs 635 crore. We will investigate this and start proceedings if anyone is found to be involved in…
Kolkata: Calcutta HC granted bail to Prasanna Kumar Roy, an aide of former Bengal education minister Partha Chatterjee on Friday. Roy, an accused in the alleged school recruitment scam case, was arrested by Enforcement Directorate in July 2022.A bench of Justice Jay Sengupta granted bail to Roy on a personal bond of Rs 1 lakh….
Kolkata: Bishal Lama, a minister of state in Bengal’s BJP govt, performed a puja and an arati in his office in Nabanna, ostensibly to “purify” it, upon learning that Partha Chatterjee used the room before his arrest by ED in the cash-for-jobs case in July 2022.Lama, the BJP MLA from Kalchini in Alipurduar district, entered…
Kolkata: Police have registered an FIR against ex-CM and Trinamool chief Mamata Banerjee over comments she made during a speech at Y Channel on March 9 on the basis of a complaint alleging the speech intended to “provoke breach of peace and affect public tranquility, communal harmony and democratic structure of the state.“The complainant, Tushar…
