Kolkata: An FIR was lodged against TMC national general secretary and Diamond Harbour MP Abhishek Banerjee for allegedly making inflammatory remarks in the run up to the 2026 assembly elections. Police said they have launched an investigation into whether the statements had the potential to disturb public order and communal harmony.The case was registered on…
KOLKATA: Police stations in Bengal will have to accept complaints against cop excesses in last five years, CM Suvendu Adhikari said on Saturday in Diamond Harbour after his first administrative meeting with top police officers.Speaking to media after the meeting, Adhikari highlighted four categories, saying that alleged victims of political violence, police brutality, harassment against…
Kolkata: Ahead of his scheduled administrative meeting at Diamond Harbour, CM Suvendu Adhikari on Saturday met actor Mithun Chakraborty at his New Town residence. Coming out of his house, Adhikari said, “Mithunda had sought some time to meet me. He is a party senior who has campaigned selflessly. I have come to meet him.“Chakraborty, who…
Kolkata: Baranagar BJP MLA Sajal Ghosh has indicated that sections on the Singur and Nandigram movements led by Mamata Banerjee may soon be removed from the state board’s Class 8 syllabus — one of the first signals of curriculum changes under the new BJP govt.Speaking to reporters at the ‘Education Interface’ event at Netaji Indoor…
Falta: With the political scales flipping in Bengal and chief minister Suvendu Adhikari targeting him in his own lair, Trinamool Congress‘s Falta candidate Jahangir Khan faces an uphill task ahead of the May 21 repolls. Khan, who had stepped out of the public glare after the May 4 results, returned to his ransacked Srirampore party…
Kolkata: The state govt is soon launching a dedicated 24-hour helpline number for women – 181 – which will be geo-tagged with the help desk at the nearest police station as the police will immediately get alert on exactly from where a woman is calling for help so that officers could rush to the spot…
Kolkata: Calcutta High Court has assigned the R G Kar rape-murder case to a special bench of Justice Shampa Sarkar and Justice Tirthankar Ghosh, making it the fourth bench to be assigned to hear the case.Earlier this week, on Tuesday, the division bench of justices Rajasekhar Mantha and Rai Chattopadhyay recused from the case, citing…
Kolkata: The newly elected Bengal govt will use the voters’ list created out of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls ahead of the assembly polls to prune names of deceased or relocated individuals whose names continue to feature as beneficiaries of state govt schemes.Directions to the effect have been issued to DMs who…
Kolkata: BJP’s Bengal unit announced on Friday that it would not induct any new members at the moment, at the party’s first formal organisational meeting after the May 4 election results.Bengal BJP president Samik Bhattacharya said induction of members from other political parties was prohibited at the moment and any functionary attempting such induction would…
ASANSOL: Tension flared in Asansol after a group of people attacked a police outpost at Naya Mohallah accusing cops of trying to stop Friday night prayers. Police and central forces resorted to lathicharge and are conducting marches in the area. Several people have been detained.According to Asansol North MLA Krishnendu Mukherjee, police from the outpost…
