Kolkata: The NIA on Monday moved Calcutta HC challenging the bail granted by a lower court to 15 accused in the Beldanga violence case. The bail was issued after NIA failed to file a charge sheet within 90 days. The lower court had rejected NIA’s plea to extend the deadline by another 90 days.Clashes in…
Kolkata: EC will deploy 2,193 quick response teams (QRTs) across 152 constituencies in 16 districts for the first phase of assembly polls on April 23.Murshidabad will see the highest deployment with 288 QRTs, followed by East Midnapore (253) and West Midnapore (248). Other districts with significant presence are Bankura (180), Birbhum (161), Malda (157), Purulia…
New Delhi/Kolkata: A legal representative of I-PAC director Rishi Raj Singh appeared before the ED in Delhi on Monday to help the agency extract data from electronic gadgets seized during recent raids, officials said.Founded in 2015, I-PAC provides political consultancy to several parties, including the parties in office in two poll-bound states: TMC in Bengal…
Kolkata: ED on Monday claimed that arrested realtor Jay S Kamdar was “in close contact” with several police officers — including Santanu Sinha Biswas, a serving DCP in Kolkata Police’s Special Branch — and had been providing them and their family members “favours and expensive gifts”.A Kolkata PMLA court remanded Kamdar to nine days of…
Kolkata: Reliance Jio has emerged as the dominant telecom operator in Bengal in both subscriber base and revenue market share, according to Feb data published by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India.Jio’s subscriber base in the Bengal Circle stands at 2,58,52,760 after adding 1,66,057 new subscribers in Feb, giving it a 44.8% customer market share…
Kolkata: “I have the list,” CM Mamata Banerjee said on Monday, referring to a list of Trinamool Congress workers to be “arrested ahead of the assembly elections”, and vowed to “fight every such case in court”.Speaking at a poll rally at Murarai in Birbhum, Banerjee said the “list” was circulating in the market, highlighting how…
Jhargram: “People of Bengal know that the state’s development will happen from Bengal itself, not from Gujarat,” said Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren in an X post on Monday. Soren, who campaigned in Bengal for the third straight day, addressed rallies in Bankura and Jhargram.Soren’s post read: “The people of Bengal will vote cautiously, guarding against…
Kolkata/Jhargram: Calling PM Narendra Modi‘s “jhalmuri break” all part of a “drama”, Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee on Monday pointed out that the shop already had a camera fitted inside, all too ready for the PM’s arrival. This comes a day after Modi stopped at Vikram Sahoo’s jhalmuri shop in Jhargram.“A microphone fitted, the SPG around…
Kolkata: If you are commuting within the city using public transport, it is wise that you keep time in hand. Contrary to the belief that public transport will be hit before the city votes in the second phase of Assembly elections on April 29, several buses and app cabs have disappeared even before the first…
Kolkata: Park Street fell silent on Monday as people coming in to the restro-bars thinned out after the curb on liquor ahead of the state assembly poll. By late afternoon, most restaurants had put up the ‘Dry Day’ or ‘Bar Closed’ posters. Many who visit their favourite joint on Park Street for a drink or…
