West Bengal CM Suvendu Adhikari KOLKATA: Nearly 30 lakh beneficiaries of the previous government’s flagship Lakshmir Bhandar scheme will be ineligible for the new government’s Annapurna Yojana, chief minister Suvendu Adhikari said on Wednesday while launching the application form for the new direct benefit transfer (DBT) scheme that will provide financial assistance of Rs 3,000…
Dwaipayan.GhoshKOLKATA: Four people , including a four-year-old child, were injured as a clash broke out over illegal parking outside a barber shop on Bijoy Bose Road in Kalighat on Monday night. Police said the altercation started around 9.45 pm, when a group of residents protested against the barber shop owner and his family for allowing…
Kolkata: Residents of Beleghata and Tiljala, who have received civic demolition notices for their homes of a decade, on Wednesday queued up at the KMC for a hearing before the special hearing officer. The Beleghata properties were promoted or owned by local strongman Raju Naskar.The notice directed Beleghata locals to meet KMC officials with their…
Kolkata: Ahead of the thunderstorm forecast for Kolkata, the mercury as well as the humidity started descending from Wednesday. While Kolkata waits for its share of rain, areas like Lake Town and Salt Lake got a spell in the evening, the Met officials said even as some parts of the city may get a light…
Kolkata: The spate of resignations by Trinamool office-bearers rocked the KMC on Wednesday, when Borough XII chairman Sushanta Ghosh resigned and party spokesperson and councillor Arup Chakraborty stepped down from his post of a KMC accounts committee member.Barasat MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar continued her tirade, shooting off a fresh letter to Trinamool president Subrata Bakshi,…
Kolkata/Siliguri: After a complaint against Mamata Banerjee, another was lodged against Trinamool national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee.The complaint against Abhishek was lodged at the Bhowanipore Police Station for allegedly making provocative and hate-inciting remarks on social media. But Lalbazar did not confirm whether police had drawn up an FIR or not. The complaint was lodged…
Kolkata: Four people , including a four-year-old child, were injured as a clash broke out over illegal parking outside a barber shop on Bijoy Bose Road in Kalighat on Monday night. Police said the altercation started around 9.45 pm, when a group of residents protested against the barber shop owner allowing their customers to illegally…
Kolkata: A handcrafted pouch containing gold and silver ornaments was stolen through a window in a Gulshan Colony home in Anandapur on Tuesday. Shabina Khatoon (32) and her family were asleep and had kept a bag — containing things required for a trip to Bihar for a family event — near the window. The thief…
Bhubaneswar/Kolkata: Bengal Special Task Force (STF) on Wednesday arrested Trinamool Congress Bishnupur MLA Dilip Mondal from Puri in Odisha in connection with cases registered against him for allegedly threatening BJP workers at a rally earlier this month.Mondal was the minister of state for transport in the Trinamool govt for around three odd years.The Bishnupur MLA…
Kolkata: CM Suvendu Adhikari’s scheduled meeting with Union home minister Amit Shah has been deferred, with the latter on a two-day Gujarat visit starting Thursday. Sources said Adhikari was scheduled to reach New Delhi on Thursday night to discuss the Bengal cabinet expansion with Shah. However, even with the discussion getting delayed, the full expansion…
