KOLKATA: Cops on Saturday recovered the body of South Dum Dum Municipality Trinamool councillor Sanjay Das (49) from his home, with preliminary probe pointing to suicide.It was not immediately known whether the death was in any way linked to the ongoing probes into civic corruption and extortion allegations and the arrests of several Trinamool councillors…
Kolkata: A Trinamool party office, which was allegedly painted saffron after the BJP’s win in the Assembly election, was demolished with a payloader on Debendra Chandra Dey Street near Tangra on Saturday. The demolition came after the owner of the land reportedly told a BJP functionary that Trinamool had forcibly set up the office on…
Kolkata: With the new state health department deciding to investigate the birth certificates issued during SIR exercise, officials at the KMC birth certificate wing are working overtime to scrutinise all the documents that applicants had submitted to obtain birth certificates they submitted as proof. The civic authorities have temporarily suspended the chatbot service, through which…
Kolkata: The state govt has dissolved the Contai Municipality board to end a prolonged administrative stalemate and ensure uninterrupted civic services. Contai SDO Pratik Ashok Dumal has been appointed administrator until a new board is formed. The notification reached his office on Friday. Source link
Kolkata: CM Suvendu Adhikari on Saturday announced four new medical colleges for Bengal, taking the state’s total to around 30. The new colleges will come up in Alipurduar, Kalimpong, South Dinajpur and West Burdwan. Bengal currently has 26 state-run medical colleges, five of them in Kolkata.Adhikari also said the proposed AIIMS for north Bengal would…
Nandigram: Pabitra Kar, the Trinamool candidate from Nandigram who had switched from BJP to contest against Suvendu Adhikari, has announced his exit from active politics following his defeat in the assembly elections.Kar and his wife, Shiuli Kar, on Friday submitted their resignations from local body posts to the Nandigram Block II BDO, citing ill health….
Kolkata: The Bengal govt is planning to bring in a new recruitment policy during the assembly’s budget session and introduce a comprehensive overhaul of the state’s hiring process to eliminate corruption.CM Suvendu Adhikari said the policy will be transparent and restructure Bengal’s examination and hiring process. The new policy is likely to be discussed on…
Kolkata: The Bengal govt has started the process to fill up vacant posts and asked all administrative departments to submit a detailed vacancy report by June 3. The move is aimed at strengthening the administrative machinery and improving public service delivery, an official said.A circular to this effect, issued by the additional chief secretary to…
Kolkata: The first woman president of the Eastern India Motion Pictures Association got entangled in a dispute after allegations and counter-allegations reached the police station. Actor-producer Piyaa Ssengupta, who became the EIMPA president on Dec 11, 2018, went to the Bowbazar Police Station and lodged a complaint against some members of the association.“I never imagined…
Kolkata: US secretary of state Marco Rubio began his maiden India visit with a brief but symbolic stop in Kolkata on Saturday, spending nearly three hours in the city. Rubio, accompanied by his wife Jeanette Dousdebes Rubio and US ambassador to India Sergio Gor, later flew to Delhi aboard a US Air Force Boeing C-32A…
