Police have registered a case against Manas Bhuniya and begun an investigation Sabang: Former Sabang MLA and ex-minister Manas Bhunia has been accused in a financial fraud case linked to an alleged cash-for-jobs scheme. A complaint was lodged at Sabang police station on June 10, naming Bhunia, Zilla Parishad Karmadhyaksha Sk Abu Kalam Bux and…
Kolkata: Bengal governor R N Ravi on Thursday used his maiden address to the 18th assembly to outline BJP govt’s priorities, focusing on law and order, industrial revival, welfare expansion and a negotiated settlement to the long-pending Gorkhaland issue.Addressing the House, Ravi said the govt would pursue a “permanent political solution” to the Gorkhaland demand…
Kolkata: Troubles have deepened for arrested TMC Falta strongman Jahangir Khan’s wife Sarika Khan as police added provisions of the Arms Act and Explosives Act to the case registered against her in connection with the violent protests that she had led outside the police station on Tuesday.Police teams, under the supervision of the district’s new…
A herd of 25 elephants reportedly approached a brick kiln area to feed on jackfruits when the calf, unable to notice the well in the dark, fell into it. Kharagpur: A two-to-three-year-old elephant calf died after falling into an open well in Bachhurkhoar village of Nayagram block, despite rescue attempts by its herd and forest…
Udayan Guha (in white shirt and black helmet) being taken to Dinhata hospital for a regular checkup prior to his production at court Jalpaiguri: Former north Bengal development minister Udayan Guha was remanded to six days of police custody by a Dinhata court on Thursday in connection with a decade-old cheating case. But before he…
Kolkata: Kasba councillor Sushanta Ghosh, who faces four separate cases of extortion and cheating — the last one getting registered on June 15 – had defrauded 950 hawkers of Anandapur and Kasba of no less than Rs 2.5 to Rs 3 crore.Anti-Fraud Section of the detective dept, which produced Ghosh at Alipore Court on Thursday…
Kolkata: A Dum Dum resident has filed an FIR at Behala PS, alleging that former Trinamool councillor and MMiC Tarak Singh, his son Amit Singh and associates encroached on his plot at 89, P N Mitra Brick Field Road (Behala Taratala), assaulted him, and demanded Rs 10 lakh at gunpoint to vacate the property.The complaint…
Kolkata: The higher education department has issued a notice asking govt-aided and private colleges and universities to observe Syama Prasad Mookerjee fortnight from June 23, his death anniversary, to July 6, his birth anniversary. All the higher education institutions have to prepare and preserve a report, along with geo-tagged photographs and relevant documents of the…
The house where Chandan has a flat on top floor Kolkata: The remand application for the two men arrested for allegedly throwing eggs at Trinamool MLA Kunal Ghosh on Monday states that police want to study “the modus operandi” in play and take the case beyond a single incident.The note, filed in Alipore court on…
Kolkata: Former Kolkata Municipal Corporation councillor Susanta Ghosh, who had fled the city soon after resigning as chairman of Borough XII on May 27, was arrested in Puri on Wednesday on extortion charges.Ghosh, who represented ward 108 (in Kasba) in the civic board dissolved on June 8, was the eighth accused to be arrested in…
