Malda: Six people died in three accidents on the national highway in North Dinajpur’s Itahar on Monday. At Mahadevpur, about 5 km from Itahar, a stone-chip laden dumper collided with a truck. The driver of the dumper was declared dead at Raiganj Medical College.An ambulance that was to ferry Islam arrived after he had been…
Mamata Banerjee at a Shakespeare Sarani housing complex on Monday evening KOLKATA: Chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday launched a door-to-door campaign, the first time in 15 years in upscale complexes in her constituency, visiting seven condos along Shakespeare Sarani and Lord Sinha Road to seek votes and hear residents’ concerns.“The last time she visited…
Kolkata: Delhi CM Rekha Gupta and former Union minister Smriti Irani led BJP’s charge against Trinamool on Monday blaming the party for the women’s quota bill’s fall in Parliament.Speaking at a roadshow in Entally, Gupta said, “Trinamool and its allies have broken the trust of women. CM Mamata Banerjee has not protected the dignity of…
Kolkata: “Bulldozer”, “bullets” and “dead miscreants” analogies figured in the speeches of BJP’s central netas who campaigned in poll-bound Bengal on Sunday and Monday.Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma’s “bullets for a bullet” rhetoric was matched by Union defence minister Rajnath Singh, who referred to perpetrators of violence landing up in jail or dead after BJP…
Kolkata: The NIA on Monday moved Calcutta HC challenging the bail granted by a lower court to 15 accused in the Beldanga violence case. The bail was issued after NIA failed to file a charge sheet within 90 days. The lower court had rejected NIA’s plea to extend the deadline by another 90 days.Clashes in…
Kolkata: EC will deploy 2,193 quick response teams (QRTs) across 152 constituencies in 16 districts for the first phase of assembly polls on April 23.Murshidabad will see the highest deployment with 288 QRTs, followed by East Midnapore (253) and West Midnapore (248). Other districts with significant presence are Bankura (180), Birbhum (161), Malda (157), Purulia…
New Delhi/Kolkata: A legal representative of I-PAC director Rishi Raj Singh appeared before the ED in Delhi on Monday to help the agency extract data from electronic gadgets seized during recent raids, officials said.Founded in 2015, I-PAC provides political consultancy to several parties, including the parties in office in two poll-bound states: TMC in Bengal…
Kolkata: ED on Monday claimed that arrested realtor Jay S Kamdar was “in close contact” with several police officers — including Santanu Sinha Biswas, a serving DCP in Kolkata Police’s Special Branch — and had been providing them and their family members “favours and expensive gifts”.A Kolkata PMLA court remanded Kamdar to nine days of…
Kolkata: Reliance Jio has emerged as the dominant telecom operator in Bengal in both subscriber base and revenue market share, according to Feb data published by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India.Jio’s subscriber base in the Bengal Circle stands at 2,58,52,760 after adding 1,66,057 new subscribers in Feb, giving it a 44.8% customer market share…
Kolkata: “I have the list,” CM Mamata Banerjee said on Monday, referring to a list of Trinamool Congress workers to be “arrested ahead of the assembly elections”, and vowed to “fight every such case in court”.Speaking at a poll rally at Murarai in Birbhum, Banerjee said the “list” was circulating in the market, highlighting how…
