Kolkata: BJP has sent out 1,000 special invites for VVIPs — that include judges, industrialists, writers, actors and other important members of the society — to attend the swearing-in on Saturday. That apart, 9,000 other invites are being sent to senior BJP functionaries, family members of state icons and former state representatives. Preference is being…
Kolkata: “The onus to prove religious persecution as reason for migrating from Bangladesh to India lies on the infiltrator and not state,” Calcutta High Court on May 6 held, refusing to quash case against a 27-year-old Hindu woman from Bangladesh who entered on a tourist visa, got married to an Indian but after visa expiry…
KOLKATA: Fresh CCTV footage has surfaced in the chilling murder of BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari’s close aide Chandranath Rath, capturing two helmeted suspects fleeing on a motorcycle minutes after the deadly shooting near Madhyamgram on Wednesday night.The 49-second footage, now under detailed examination by investigators, carries a timestamp of around 10.10pm, close to the time…
BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari’s close aide, Chandranath Rath, was murdered in a meticulously planned hit near Kolkata airport. KOLKATA: Bullet marks on a black Scorpio, blood-stained seats and cartridge shells strewn across a road near Madhyamgram have become the focus of an intense investigation into the killing of BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari’s aide Chandranath Rath,…
KOLKATA: The murder of Chandranath Rath, a close aide of BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari, sparked a political confrontation in West Bengal on Thursday, with the BJP accusing the ruling TMC of fostering “lawlessness” in the state. The Mamata Banerjee-led party, however, rejected the allegations.The incident comes within 48 hours of the assembly poll verdict. Chandranath…
Chandranath Rath, a close aide of BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari, was shot dead by motorcycle-borne assailants. KOLKATA: Five BJP supporters were allegedly injured in a bomb attack in Panihati area of West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district, police said on Thursday. The incident took place late on Wednesday night, just hours after Chandranath Rath, a…
The BJP MLA urged the police to function “openly, impartially and fairly” and demanded strict action against those involved in the killing. KOLKATA: With Chandranath Rath’s bullet-riddled body lying outside the hospital and grieving BJP workers erupting in anger and disbelief, senior BJP leader and newly-elected Kharagpur MLA Dilip Ghosh launched a blistering attack on…
Chandranath Rath (left) and Suvendu Adhikari KOLKATA: A Special Investigation Team (SIT) headed by the IG CID has been formed to probe the killing of Chandranath Rath, the close aide of BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari who was shot dead in North 24 Parganas on Wednesday night in what the saffron party has described as a…
Sources claimed that it was Chandranath Rath who confronted Mamata Banerjee during the dramatic late-night dharna outside the Bhabanipur counting centre on April 30 and the early hours of May 1 KOLKATA: Chandranath Rath, the close aide of BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari who was shot dead in North 24 Parganas district on Wednesday night, had…
BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari’s aide, Chandranath Rath, was shot dead in a meticulously planned ambush near Kolkata airport. NEW DELHI: A fake number plate, Glock 47X pistols, multiple bike-borne professional shooters, and a point-blank ambush near Kolkata airport — chilling new details have emerged in the killing of BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari’s close aide Chandranath…
