AI generated image used for representation purpose only MATHABHANGA: Several residents of Mathabhanga in Cooch Behar district have received back the “cut money” they had paid to local toughs while availing benefits of government schemes. Reportedly, the residents had paid significant sums during the tenure of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) regime.Villagers and traders claimed the…
Woman seen carrying her specially abled husband on her back at the CM’s public grievance hearing in Kolkata KOLKATA: A woman from the Sundarbans carried her specially abled husband on her back to attend a public grievance meeting organised by chief minister Suvendu Adhikari.She reportedly did so to seek assistance for an electric vehicle and…
KRISHNANAGAR: The Nadia district administration has launched an investigation after 173 male names were found in the beneficiary list of the Lakshmir Bhandar scheme, which is intended exclusively for women, officials said on Tuesday.The irregularities were detected in the Dhubulia area of Nadia district. District Magistrate Srikanth Palli said the names had already been removed…
KOLKATA: First-time MLA Swapan Dasgupta, for long the intellectual voice championing BJP’s vision for his native Bengal, was among the 35 new ministers sworn in Monday. This took the strength of chief minister Suvendu Adhikari’s government to 41.Nine MLAs from north Bengal and six women took oath, raising the number of representatives from the northern…
Ritabrata and (R) Sandipan (L) KOLKATA: The ‘Signgate’ row over the alleged forging of Trinamool MLAs’ signatures claimed its first casualties on Monday, immediately after a press conference by Bengal CM Suvendu Adhikari, and threw Trinamool into even greater disarray.Trinamool was forced to expel two of its MLAs, Sandipan Saha (Entally) and Ritabrata Banerjee (Uluberia…
KOLKATA: Alleging that BJP was trying to break the Trinamool Congress (TMC), Mamata Banerjee on Monday dared the saffron party to “arrest her if they want”, her words coming shortly after police denied TMC permission for a sit-in at Rani Rashmoni Avenue on June 2.“Trinamool will protest on June 2 even without police permission, a…
Bengal CID records statements of 13 TMC MLAs in alleged signature forgery case KOLKATA: The West Bengal crime investigation department (CID) has recorded statements of 13 Trinamool Congress (TMC) MLAs so far as part of its probe into alleged signature forgery case.According to officials, three legislators have stated that the signatures in the May 6…
Kolkata: Security aide of former mayor and ex-MLA Sovan Chatterjee was arrested after being accused of molesting the minor daughter of his associate, police said.The accused, identified as Sanju Sharma, was arrested following a complaint lodged at Rabindra Sarobar Police Station by the close associate. The complaint alleged that she too was physically assaulted when…
Kolkata: Security aide of former mayor and ex-MLA Sovan Chatterjee was arrested after being accused of molesting the minor daughter of his associate, police said.The accused, identified as Sanju Sharma, was arrested following a complaint lodged at Rabindra Sarobar Police Station by the close associate. The complaint alleged that she too was physically assaulted when…
Kolkata: More than 130 hawkers from a market in east Kolkata’s Anandapur, near Ruby Hospital, have lodged a police complaint against ward 108 councillor Sushanta Ghosh and at least seven of his associates, alleging that they extorted nearly Rs 3 crore from traders over the past few years.The complaint was filed at Anandapur PS, where…
