Kolkata: The Bengal govt on Wednesday reconstituted the West Bengal Clinical Establishment Regulatory Commission (WBCERC), appointing retired Calcutta High Court judge Biswajit Bose to replace outgoing chairperson retired Justice Ashim Kumar Banerjee. IAS officer Moumita Godara Basu will take over as vice-chairperson.Justice Banerjee had served as chairperson of the commission, which acts as a quasi-judicial…
Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Tuesday acquitted two men convicted of the murder of a 16-year-old girl in East Midnapore while observing that ‘extrajudicial confession by a co-accused alone cannot be the basis for convicting a person’.Sk Rafijul alias Tutul and Ukil Ali alias Akil Ali were convicted on Jan 24 and 25, 2024, by…
Among those arrested are CPI (Maoist) regional committee member Madan Mahato, sub-zonal commander Sagar Singh and his wife Mira Pahariya. Police seized an AK-47 rifle, a 9mm pistol, a walkie-talkie and a large stash of live cartridges from Sagar Manbazar: Jharkhand Police on Wednesday nabbed three high-profile CPI (Maoist) operatives with a collective bounty of…
Police posting outside TMC party office on Sadananda Road Kolkata: Trinamool Congress alleged “political high-handedness” after a former councillor’s office on Sadananda Road in ward 83, Kalighat, was ransacked. On Tuesday night, Trinamool MLA Kunal Ghosh claimed on Facebook that BJP-backed miscreants had attacked and vandalised the office of former councillor Prabir Kumar Mukhopadhyay in…
New Delhi: BJP West Bengal President and Rajya Sabha MP Samik Bhattacharya and West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari during a courtesy meeting in New Delhi on Tuesday, August 4, 2026. (Photo: IANS) Kolkata: With NCPI MPs attending NDA parliamentary meet and expressing differing opinions on whether or not to align with BJP, state BJP…
Kolkata: Around 30,000 people from across Bengal gathered at Rani Rashmoni Avenue in Kolkata on Wednesday to mark the 51st death anniversary of Comrade Shibdas Ghosh, founding general secretary of the SUCI (Communist). Addressing the rally, general secretary Provash Ghosh praised recent student and youth movements in Delhi and accused BJP of promising a “Sonar…
Kolkata: The state govt has allowed administrative departments to release up to 50% of the annual budget provision under several expenditure heads for the 2026-27 financial year following the passage of the West Bengal Appropriation (No. 2) Bill, 2026 by the assembly and the governor’s assent.A finance department order said departments can release up to…
Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Wednesday dismissed Trinamool MP Abhishek Banerjee’s plea to travel abroad for his eye treatment, remarking, “India is not lagging in medical science, even Supreme Court judges get treated here.”Following Supreme Court’s order on Monday to hear Banerjee’s application within seven days, the matter was taken up for hearing by Justice…
Tata Motors won the arbitration award for Singur Kolkata: The state govt has begun talks with Tata Group to reach an out-of-court settlement in the pending Tata Motors arbitration case linked to the Singur land dispute. The move comes following Calcutta High Court’s refusal to stay the arbitration award in Tata Motors’ favour in May.HC…
BY: Oishi GooptuKOLKATA: St. Xavier’s University inaugurated its first BTech batch under the Xavier School of Engineering and Technology (XSET) on Tuesday, at the Fr. Albert Huart Hall, Arrupe Building. The inaugural batch has filled all 240 seats across four programmes offered by XSET — Computer Science and Engineering, Artificial Intelligence and Machine learning, Electronics…
