West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari announced a special investigation team and money laundering probe into alleged fake Lakshmir Bhandar accounts. KOLKATA: West Bengal chief minister Suvendu Adhikari on Monday alleged large-scale irregularities in the Lakshmir Bhandar scheme launched by the previous TMC government and said a Special Investigation Team (SIT) would be constituted to…
A 70-foot Lionel Messi statue in Kolkata, deemed structurally unstable after recent storms, was safely dismantled and removed from Lake Town. KOLKATA: A 70-foot-tall statue of Argentine football icon Lionel Messi was removed from Kolkata’s Lake Town area on Monday after authorities found the structure had become unstable following recent storms.Public Works Department (PWD) officials…
Sandipan Saha (L), Ritabrata Banerjee (R) KOLKATA: Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Monday expelled two of its MLAs, Sandipan Saha and Ritabrata Banerjee, from the party’s primary membership with immediate effect, accusing them of anti-party activities and actions prejudicial to the organisation’s interests.In separate expulsion notices issued on June 1, the party said both legislators had…
KOLKATA: The West Bengal cabinet underwent a major expansion on Monday, with 35 new ministers taking the oath of office at Lok Bhawan in Kolkata.With Governor R N Ravi administering the oath, the Council of Ministers expanded to 41 members under chief minister Suvendu Adhikari. The move is expected to strengthen the government’s functioning and…
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…
