Katwa: Trinamool national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Tuesday posted a video alleging that BJP-backed miscreants had attacked a TMC party office in Katwa, forcing party worker Sandip Kumar Ghosh to jump from the third floor of the building.Slamming politics of “intimidation and terror”, Banerjee wrote: “This is the jungle Raj that the BJP has…
Kolkata: The state school education department on Thursday reiterated that in-service teachers are not permitted to engage in private coaching and warned of action against violators.The order, issued with reference to Section 28 of the RTE Act, 2009, and a Calcutta High Court order, said the department had received complaints against some school teachers for…
Kolkata: The NIA on Thursday raided properties linked to former Canning East MLA Saokat Molla in connection with an explosion probe. Days before the assembly elections, an explosion during bomb-making killed one in Bhangar’s Bamunia.The team of six NIA officers first reached Molla’s house at North Moukhali and with Molla or his family absent, they…
Kolkata: Bengal speaker Rathindra Bose said on Thursday that Trinamool’s expulsion of MLAs Ritabrata Banerjee and Sandipan Saha did not happen in accordance with the party’s constitution.“According to the party constitution, the expulsion letter isn’t valid,” said Bose. He explained that expulsion could not happen abruptly in one day and that a show-cause notice was…
Kolkata: Whether Mamata Banerjee would be Trinamool chief or chief adviser appeared to be the fulcrum of the standoff among half of the 32 rebel MLAs who turned up at the Bengal assembly for their first meeting with newly elected office-bearers on Thursday.The development came a day after 58 TMC MLAs submitted a letter to…
Bengal plans to make the Gangasagar Mela an international event, CM Suvendu Adhikari said on Thursday and added that the Centre had agreed to a plan to beautify the coastal area around Kapil Muni temple and restore the shoreline. CM Adhikari also said Centre would carry out dredging around Gangasagar Island. Source link
Kolkata: The state school education department on Thursday reiterated that in-service teachers are not permitted to engage in private coaching and warned of action against violators.The order, issued with reference to Section 28 of the RTE Act, 2009, and a Calcutta High Court order, said the department had received complaints against some school teachers for…
Kolkata: Several major centrally sponsored rural development schemes stalled in Bengal for years are set to resume, state panchayat and rural development minister Dilip Ghosh announced on Thursday. He further announced that there were 11,154 vacant posts across different tiers of the panchayat structure — of which 6,536 will be filled in the first phase.Ghosh…
Siliguri: A complaint was filed against ex-CM Mamata Banerjee over remarks she made during a protest in Kolkata on June 2 at Siliguri Cyber Crime Police Station. Rinki Singh Chatterjee, an advocate, said she will move Calcutta HC on June 8 seeking Banerjee’s immediate arrest.Speaking to reporters on Thursday, Singh alleged Banerjee targeted the EC,…
Malda: Over 150 Bangladeshi illegal immigrants are stationed at a holding centre in Malda’s English Bazaar. Sources said they were picked up from North 24 Parganas and brought to Malda under police vigilance. The holding centre for illegal immigrants in Malda was the first of its kind in the state. Set up on May 24,…
