Kolkata: EC’s liquor prohibition for nine and a half days over the next fortnight will ostensibly take the worst toll on restaurants and pubs in shopping malls as such establishments pay high rents, a significant portion of which is realised through liquor sales. Owners of most leading restaurants in malls pointed out that for April,…
Kolkata: Every citizen must consider national interests, Calcutta High Court observed on Tuesday, staying the single judge’s order and upholding the EC order, appointing assistant professors as presiding officers at polling booths.The EC challenged the single judge’s order, which had exempted assistant professors from election duty, before the division bench of Justice Shampa Sarkar and…
Kolkata: The fine art of bootlegging — once thought to be a fading relic of the past — has made a dramatic comeback in Kolkata, driven by the unprecedented 9.5-day liquor ban imposed ahead of the elections. From shadowy roadside exchanges to discreet home deliveries, an underground network of illegal liquor sales has sprung to…
Kolkata: The EC has asked SPs and police commissioners to send civic volunteers and green police personnel to reserve police lines three days prior to the polls. “They shall perform non-election duties while deployed in the reserve police line,” read the order issued by Bengal CEO Manoj Agarwal.“They will be permitted to come for voting…
Actor Nusrat Jahan (File Photo) KOLKATA: Actor and TMC MP former Nusrat Jahan appeared before the Enforcement Directorate (ED) at its Salt Lake office on Wednesday in connection with a housing fraud case, an official said. Jahan, accompanied by actor and husband Yash Dasgupta, reached the CGO Complex in the morning, according to news agency…
KOLKATA: In poll-bound Bengal, Khargosh and Uchchhe have found themselves in a new address – behind bars.The detective department of Kolkata Police, acting under orders from Election Commission to ensure peace ahead of the assembly elections and on the poll day, launched raids on Monday night and Tuesday and picked up 12 potential troublemakers from…
Cleared Electors To Be Informed By BLOs: CEO KOLKATA: Election Commission will add the names approved by SIR tribunals to Bengal’s electoral roll till Tuesday midnight and issue an updated list on Wednesday for the 152 assembly seats that will go to the polls in the first phase on Thursday, chief electoral officer Manoj Agarwal…
KOLKATA: The first day of the prolonged pre-election curb on sale of liquor translated into a Rs 125-130 crore loss for Bengal’s liquor and hospitality business on Monday, said industry insiders, who fear the figure might be higher for Day 2 since footfall in bars and restaurants generally tend to go up on Tuesdays.The unprecedented…
Kolkata: Alleging bias by the Election Commission and officers deputed by it, CM Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said “if you are an IPS or IAS, you must work independently”. “Do politics directly,” she said, referring to officers she claimed were allegedly siding with BJP.Addressing multiple rallies in Haldia, North 24 Parganas and Kolkata, Banerjee said:…
Kolkata: Union home minister Amit Shah on Monday addressed CM Mamata Banerjee with an “Ei Didi” call, prompting Trinamool, which found it oddly reminiscent of PM Narendra Modi‘s 2021 “Didi, o Didi” taunt, to react sharply.Modi’s call during a campaign ahead of the last assembly polls had garnered quite a bit of controversy, with many…
