Kolkata: Vidyasagar Setu will be closed for 16 hours from 5 am to 9 pm on Sunday to facilitate the repair and rehabilitation work of the bridge, including replacement of stay and holding cables and bearings.Work is being undertaken by the Hooghly River Bridge Commissioners (HRBC). During work, movement of all types of vehicles will…
Swarup Biswas produced in court Kolkata: The Alipore court on Friday remanded Trinamool functionary Swarup Biswas, also brother of former state sports minister Aroop Biswas, in police custody till June 18 following his arrest on Thursday on multiple charges, including attempt to murder, sexual harassment, extortion, criminal intimidation, criminal conspiracy and sections under the Arms…
Kolkata: East Midnapore zilla parishad president Uttam Barik resigned on Friday, coinciding with the arrest of a Trinamool zilla parishad office-bearer by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in connection with election-related violence.Barik travelled to Midnapore and submitted his resignation to the office of the divisional commissioner. Having lost the recent assembly election, Barik cited the…
JALPAIGURI: Trinamool lost control of Mekhliganj municipality in Cooch Behar after its chairman, who defected to Congress on Friday, said six councillors would follow him into Congress. This will be the first civic body to be managed by Congress since the change of govt in West Bengal.Chairman Prabhat Patani received the party flag from state…
KOLKATA: West Bengal CM Suvendu Adhikari made an unscheduled trip to Delhi on Friday and met BJP’s central leadership, the trip coming close on the heels of the state cabinet expansion.Sources said Adhikari met BJP president Nitin Nabin and national general secretary Sunil Bansal. “They discussed the allocation of portfolios. A few other political issues…
Kolkata: Calcutta High Court is scheduled to hear Trinamool MP Abhishek Banerjee‘s petition challenging a CID summons and seeking protection from coercive action in a signature forgery case on June 10.The matter was listed before the single bench of Justice Chaitali Chatterjee (Das) on Friday. However, owing to paucity of time, the court could not…
Kolkata: Aam Janata Unnayan Party (AJUP) chief and Nowda MLA Humayun Kabir offered to vacate the Rejinagar Assembly seat for former CM Mamata Banerjee.Kabir, who won both Nowda and Rejinagar seats after being suspended from Trinamool, stated that Banerjee must approach him directly for the offer.TMC suspended Kabir last year following his announcement on construction…
Kolkata: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday night arrested former Trinamool MLA Saokat Molla in connection with the Bhangar blast case.Molla who was on the run for the past 48 hours was picked up from a Kamalgazi hideout, off south Kolkata.NIA had earlier declared him an absconder and stepped up efforts to trace him….
Howrah: Around 400 people, many of them women, gathered on Friday outside Bagnan MLA Arunava Sen’s home, accusing the Trinamool neta of using his influence to terrorise residents who resisted selling land cheaply along National Highway 16 and other key corridors.Protesters alleged that those who refused were slapped with cases “related to women or drugs”…
Panagarh: Two persons were arrested on Thursday for allegedly installing a CCTV camera near the boundary of an airbase in West Burdwan’s Panagarh. The arrested duo have been identified as Munna Pandit, a garage owner, and Sandip Dubey, a CCTV technician. The two were questioned through the night.Both have been sent in five days of…
