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KOLKATA: In yet another setback for the Trinamool Congress (TMC) following its rout in the recent Bengal assembly elections, the board of Diamond Harbour municipality was dissolved on Sunday. This came after nine of the party’s councillors resigned, leading to the municipality going under administrative control.Diamond Harbour sub-divisional officer (SDO) Ayan Dattagupta has taken over…

West Bengal CM Suvendu Adhikari Kolkata : The need to strike a balance among Bengal’s various regions and between BJP veterans and new entrants was among the factors that weighed heavily on the party leadership during the selection of ministers who will be sworn in on Monday.Chief minister Suvendu Adhikari wrote on his X handle…

Abhishek attack: TMC worker among 5 held | page 1Five people, including a TMC worker who helped organise Abhishek Banerjee‘s visit to Sonarpur, were arrested on Sunday for the assault on the MP in which eggs, stones and shoes were hurled at him. Those arrested were identified through phone footage and TV visuals.5 held for…

Abhishek Banerjee with the family of his party worker Sanju Karmakar at Sonarpur KOLKATA: Fear of reprisals has driven the elderly parents of deceased TMC worker Sanju Karmakar out of their home in Sonarpur on Kolkata’s southeastern fringe after a mob attacked party MP Abhishek Banerjee during a visit to the family home on Saturday.Karmakar’s…

Kolkata: In a major administrative move aiming to dismantle Bengal’s long-standing culture of unfettered acoustic violence, the state environment department of the newly-formed state govt has issued a notification to strictly regulate the use of microphones and loudspeakers in open spaces.For years, anti-noise crusaders have lamented that the state’s efforts were largely performative, confined primarily…

Srishti LakhotiaKolkata: Calcutta High Court on Sunday upheld the demolition of the fourth floor of a building under Howrah Municipal Corporation, while observing that flat buyers cannot claim that unauthorized construction be regularized purely on the basis that they ‘invested’ on the unauthorized floor.Owners of one flat on the top floor of the building moved…

Kolkata: As the deadline approached for receiving applications for undergraduate admission across state-aided colleges, there was a surge, with around 23 lakh applications submitted through the centralised admission portal. Over 4 lakh candidates registered for 9 lakh UG seats, and more than 2 lakh of them were female applicants. he portal will be live till…

Malda: GRP on Saturday detained five Bangladeshis in Malda Town station, reports Subhro Maitra. The five arrived from Delhi and Gujarat and had planned to go to Bangladesh through Malda border, said cops. Police also said that the detainees were relatives of some Bangladeshis pushed to the neighbouring country. They have been kept in the…

Trinamool MP Kalyan Banerjee claimed he was struck by a projectile, causing a head injury in Hooghly district on Sunday Chanditala (Hooghly): Trinamool chief and former CM Mamata Banerjee on Sunday accused BJP of “murdering democracy” after her party’s Lok Sabha chief whip Kalyan Banerjee suffered head injuries in an assault during a protest near…

A bulldozer brings down a stall near Dum Dum Junction railway station Kolkata: A massive anti-encroachment drive was conducted by railway authorities and police at Dum Dum Junction railway station throughout the intervening night of Saturday and Sunday, which demolished more than 200 illegal shops and evicted hundreds of vendors.According to railway sources, the operation…