Kolkata: Bengal govt has decided to strip elected panchayat pradhans of their financial powers and transfer them to govt officials through a bill to be introduced in the assembly, panchayat and rural development minister Dilip Ghosh said on Tuesday.The move is aimed at improving financial oversight, transparency and accountability in the execution of development projects.“The…
An East-West Metro train under the river Hooghly Kolkata: If all goes well, the city’s first driverless metro rake may zip with passengers under the Hooghly within a month, sources said. A driver will remain on board the rake to reassure commuters, but its movement will be controlled from Operations Control Centre at the maintenance…
Kolkata: A 26-year-old woman hailing from Manipur and working at a private sector bank in Kolkata was found dead on Tuesday morning at her rented accommodation in central Kolkata’s Taltala area.Police rushed to the spot after being alerted by the landlord and recovered the body. Investigators suspect that the woman may have died by suicide…
The Southeast Traffic Guard has launched a drive to remove illegal parking from one side of Purna Das Road Kolkata: Police on Tuesday removed all illegal parking from one side of Purna Das Road following complaints from residents, many of whom took to social media and tagged the state administration to their posts.Residents, such as…
Kolkata: In another major reshuffle of the Bengal Police and Kolkata Police, the state govt has transferred 33 senior police officers on Tuesday. The reshuffle meant that the state’s investigating agency, the CID, will have a new boss.The Bidhannagar police commissioner has been shifted too. The Baruipur police division , which handled the 12-year schoolgirl’s…
Kolkata: The KMC borough delimitation committee on Tuesday started the field-level survey in several borough areas across the city. According to a KMC source, the fieldwork was conducted in four Assembly areas — Cossipore-Belgachhia, Maniktala, Shyampukur and Jadavpur.Besides undertaking field-level survey of ward-wise population, the committee members have been entrusted to do verification of the…
Rebel TMC MPs Sudip Bandyopadhyay, Satabdi Roy, Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar and Mala Roy during their meeting with Lok Sabha speaker Om Birla last month Kolkata: The Nationalist Citizens Party of India (NCPI) is set to debut as the second biggest partner of the NDA in the upcoming monsoon session of Parliament.Twenty rebel Trinamool Congress MP…
Kolkata: Nabanna has notified the setting up of a judicial commission, headed by Justice Biswajit Basu, to probe allegations of large-scale corruption across multiple state govt departments from 2011 to May 2026. The commission is expected to start functioning soon from the HRBC Building, officials said. Justice Basu is slated to visit the office on…
Behrampore: Nowda MLA Humayun Kabir was interrogated by Rejinagar police for the second time on Tuesday over the AJUP chief’s alleged provocative speech at a public rally. He was earlier questioned for four hours on July 4.On Tuesday, Kabir reached the AJUP district office at Rejinagar about an hour before the interrogation. After a short…
West Bengal CM Suvendu Adhikari Kolkata: Those accused of riots, arson and vandalism will get a 30-day window to pay the penalty decided upon by the state govt, on expiry of which their properties might be auctioned to exact the damages, said the state govt’s gazette notification on the West Bengal Maintenance of Public Order…
