Police said Banerjee’s body was found at the party office and was sent for post-mortem examination. KOLKATA: Asish Banerjee, the former deputy speaker of the West Bengal Assembly and five-time MLA from Rampurhat, was found hanging at a Trinamool Congress (TMC) office in Birbhum district on Sunday morning.Police said Banerjee’s body was found at the…
The disturbance began when a passenger asked Banerjee, who was occupying a reserved seat, to move. After she refused, the passenger called the RPF and the ticket collector. Banerjee allegedly responded aggressively and verbally abused those who intervened. MUMBAI: A 31-year-old Thane-based model-actor Antara Banerjee, who was on her way to Surat on the Bandra-Ganganagar…
New Delhi: Scouting govt hospitals for vulnerable expectant mothers was one of the key tactics employed by the five women recently arrested for running a child trafficking racket in north Delhi, police said.The women allegedly regularly visited govt hospitals and observed expectant mothers. “They would identify women in labour or visiting the hospital for checkups….
Chennai: A 29-year-old man was arrested by the Chitlapakkam All Women Police for repeatedly sexually abusing a Class 6 girl in Selaiyur.Police said the man lived with the girl’s mother, who had separated from her husband. The man repeatedly sexually abused the girl over a period of time.The girl informed her mother about the abuse,…
NEW DELHI: The Delhi high court, which has recently become the preferred place to secure “personality rights”, has raised concerns over the expanding nature of such rights.While hearing a suit filed in 2023 over “misleading” YouTube content about the health and private life of Aradhya Bachchan, the minor daughter of actors Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya…
Ashis Banerjee (File Photo) (Image Credit: X) KOLKATA: Ashis Banerjee, the former deputy speaker of the West Bengal assembly, was found dead on Sunday morning at a Trinamool Congress office in Rampurhat, Birbhum district.His body was found hanging and was sent for a post-mortem examination, police said. The circumstances surrounding his death are not yet…
Admission procedures, reservation policies, fee fixation, grievance redressal mechanisms and recruitment and pay norms for teaching and non-teaching staff will also come under its review Mumbai: The state govt has set up a high-level expert committee to review and overhaul the norms governing the establishment and functioning of private universities in the state in a…
CJP’s Saurav Das (File Photo) and Prime Minister Narendra Modi NEW DELHI: Cockroach Janta Party chief spokesperson Saurav Das hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for using the term “dimagi Naxals” during his Independence Day address, arguing that young people should not be labelled Naxalis for questioning the government.Speaking from the Red Fort on…
Indigenous musical and percussion instruments and ancient martial arts equipment such as ‘palagai parai’, ‘vaal silambam’ and ‘Gadhayudham’ presented by more than 300 students from 38 Govt Model Schools across the state took the centre stage at a student-artist confluence at Victoria hall in Chennai on Saturday. The event was organized by the Tamil Nadu…
NEW DELHI/DHAKA: India and Bangladesh are discussing a possible bilateral visit by Prime Minister Tarique Rahman late next week, official sources said. Though the visit has yet to be officially confirmed, Rahman is likely to travel to India between Aug 21 and 25, in what would be his first trip to the country after taking…
