Senior advocate Billwadal Bhattacharyya was appointed as additional advocate general of Bengal on Friday. He is the second AAG to be appointed this week after senior advocate Rajdeep Mazumder. “The govt reposed faith in me. It will be my duty to live up to the expectation. It’s a new govt, which brings a lot of…
Burnpur: Bulldozers rolled into Burnpur in West Burdwan on Friday as alleged encroachments were razed, including two TMC offices. SAIL’s IISCO Steel Plant officials used the bulldozers. An official said action was taken to reclaim encroached-upon land. tnn Source link
Kolkata: The discussions regarding removal or relocation of the mosque situated deep in the operational area of Kolkata airport have been kept on hold till Eid-uz-Zuha. The issue figured prominently at the Airport Security Committee meeting on Friday, two days after the state administration and the mosque authorities met at the North 24 Parganas DM’s…
West Bengal rolls out free bus travel for women KOLKATA: The West Bengal government has announced free bus travel for women in all state government-run buses June 1 onwards as part of a scheme. The scheme is aimed at enhancing women’s empowerment and improving access to public transport.According to a notification issued by the state…
Kolkata: Abhishek Banerjee, a private firm employee with no connection to politics, along with his wife, Sayani Ghosh, a schoolteacher, is suddenly confronted with a series of questioning by police and civic authorities amid a KMC drive to realise pending property tax from the Trinamool national general secretary. The couple share their names with the…
Kolkata mosques to hold prayers in two shifts KOLKATA: In the wake of the newly elected Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government’s emphasis on keeping roads clear during religious gatherings, mosques across Kolkata will begin holding prayers in two separate jamats, or shifts, with staggered timings, from Friday. This is to ensure that worshippers can offer…
Fencing work begins in Siliguri, West Bengal (Photo credit: ANI) SILIGURI: Fencing work began along the India-Bangladesh border in the Phansidewa area of Siliguri subdivision on Friday. This comes after the West Bengal government handed over 27 kilometres of land to the Border Security Force (BSF), along with additional land for Border Outposts (BOP) and…
Kolkata: The Trinamool-run KMC board was on the verge of a crisis after the municipal secretary, Swapan Kumar Kundu, on Thursday postponed the KMC House, where policy decisions were taken. Trinamool chief Mamata Banerjee has convened a meeting of party councillors in the KMC on Friday.According to the KMC Act, the civic board chairperson gives…
Kolkata: The National Investigation Agency (NIA), along with state and central intelligence agencies, is investigating whether a deeply entrenched local spy network exists in Bengal, following the arrest of an alleged Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) operative from the outskirts of the city.The suspect, Zafar Riaz alias Rizvi, a prominent footwear merchant from Central Kolkata’s Entally neighborhood,…
Kolkata: Former TMC MLA Aditi Munshi and her husband Debraj Chakraborty moved the Calcutta High Court on Thursday seeking anticipatory bail over apprehensions of arrest in a disproportionate assets case. The application is likely to be heard on Friday by a bench headed by Justice Jay Sengupta. The couple’s move comes after Chakraborty was recently…
