Suvendu Adhikari and Mamata Banerjee (File photo) NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief minister Suvendu Adhikari Monday said his government has approved the formation of two panels under retired high court judges to probe institutional corruption and torture of women during Mamata Banerjee’s tenure.Corruption and women’s safety were among the major poll planks of the ruling…
KOLKATA: Police have arrested the son of “absconding” TMC MLA Dilip Mondal, along with five others, for allegedly possessing firearms in West Bengal’s Bakkhali-Fraserganj area, a senior officer said on Monday.A joint team of the West Bengal Police and Diamond Harbour district police apprehended them late on Sunday, the officer said.“Arghya Mondal and the others…
Mumbai: The BMC extended the deadline for submission of Expressions of Interest (EOIs) for establishing dog shelters at three locations in Mumbai on a Design-Build-Operate-Transfer (DBOT) model after receiving a poor response, while it also identified another plot of land in Mulund to accommodate stray dogs picked up from public institutions.The proposed shelters are planned…
NEW DELHI: Under the “Mera Bharat Mera Yogdan” campaign aimed at promoting fuel conservation, Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta, along with her cabinet ministers and senior government officials, travelled by Metro to office on Monday.Gupta boarded the Metro from Kashmere Gate station on the Violet Line near her Jan Sewa Sadan residence on Raj Niwas…
CHENNAI: Two-language policy is fundamental not only to Tamil Nadu, but also the Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam, school education minister Rajmohan told mediapersons, after his first review meeting, on Monday.Replying to a query on the implementation of PM Shri schools in Tamil Nadu, the minister said that the subject was brought up for discussion at the…
Adani group chairperson Gautam Adani with his wife and Adani Foundation chairperson Priti Adani during a visit to Gayatri Mandir in Saran Patna: Adani Group chairman and business tycoon Gautam Adani on Sunday performed groundbreaking ceremonies for two major eye care institutions at Mastichak village in Saran district, which will have the capacity to perform…
NEW DELHI: The West Bengal cabinet led by chief minister Suvendu Adhikari on Monday decided to discontinue government assistance to groups based on religious categorisation from June, while also approving a new monthly financial assistance scheme for women and free bus travel in state-run buses.This development comes after CM Adhikari held a ‘Janata Darbar’ at…
KOLKATA: Ten cops and CAPF men were injured, three of them seriously, at the Park Circus seven-point crossing when stones and bricks were hurled at them during a protest against “the bulldozer action in Tiljala” on Sunday afternoon.Police said 21 persons were arrested and 25 detained. Flag marches and raids continued across Park Circus till…
MUMBAI: Former BMC corporators, daughter of a sitting Shiv Sena MP & a BJP party worker who lost the latest BMC polls have a wafer thin margin of seven votes are among the 79 who have challenged the civic election results off various corporator wards. BMC elections were held in January 2026.The former BMC Corporators…
NEW DELHI: Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has busted a pharmaceutical unit in Uttarakhand, which was allegedly being used by an international cartel to manufacture captagon, a powerful psychotropic drug said to be widely used by Islamic State (IS) fighters.In a separate operation, NCB has arrested a Myanmar-based drug kingpin from Delhi who was long wanted…
