Villagers’ anger against illegal sand mining Panagarh, Mukesh Tiwari: A movement has been started against illegal sand mining from Damodar river located at Ramnagar Shillaghat in Galsi police station area of East Burdwan district. The villagers allege that the sand mafia is illegally occupying the sand by installing machines, cutting the river, making a new … Read more
Lalbazar campaign of taxi drivers today AITUC-backed West Bengal Taxi Operators Co-ordination Committee and Kolkata App Cab Operators Forum (AITUC) have decided to stop taxi operations for 12 hours. Naval Kishore Srivastava, convenor of AITUC-supported West Bengal Taxi Operators Coordination Committee, said that on Monday, taxi drivers will launch a Lalbazar campaign against police atrocities … Read more
Chitpur: Transformer fire There was a situation of chaos due to fire in the transformer built on the side of Khagendra Chatterjee Road in Chitpur police station area. The fire broke out late on Wednesday night. After receiving the news, firefighters reached there with a fire engine and started trying to control the fire. The … Read more
Order to give compensation of Rs 7.5 lakh to acid attack victim Calcutta High Court Judge Shekhar Bobby Saraf ordered a compensation of Rs 750,000 to an acid attack victim. The judge also said that apart from development and good governance, the state government is also lagging behind in following the orders of the Supreme … Read more
Pro-Trinamool educationist’s platform will protest in front of Raj Bhavan today Amid the ongoing tussle between Governor C.V. Anand Bose and the ruling Trinamool Congress government over the appointment of interim vice-chancellors in several state-run universities, a forum of pro-party former vice-chancellors and professors on Thursday announced a sit-in at the Raj Bhavan gate. Om … Read more
Discussion on West Bengal Day in Assembly today Some BJP MLAs including opposition leader Shubhendu Adhikari can take part in the discussion on West Bengal Day in the Assembly today. On Paschim Banga Day, BJP can register the party’s position or opinion in the Assembly. She can also demand a vote against the proposal brought … Read more
Order to give equal compensation to the families of those killed in the explosion in the firecracker factory Recently, several people have died in incidents of illegal firecracker factory blasts in different parts of the state. It is alleged that in those cases, different amounts of compensation were given to the families of the deceased. … Read more
All cases filed against Panchayat elections will be heard on September 18 The hearing of all the cases filed regarding the recently held Panchayat elections in the state will remain adjourned for the time being. A division bench of Chief Justice TS Sivaganam and Justice Hiranmoy Bhattacharya ordered that the hearing of all matters would … Read more
Teacher recruitment scam: List of ineligible students was prepared at Parth’s house In the teacher recruitment scam, former state education minister Partha Chatterjee and other accused were presented in the Alipore court. According to court sources, on this day a bail petition was demanded in the court on behalf of Parth citing the reason of … Read more
President Draupadi Murmu reached Kolkata The country’s President Draupadi Murmu is coming to the metropolis on Thursday for a few hours’ visit and during this time she will attend two programs here. According to sources in the President’s Secretariat, President Draupadi Murmu has arrived in Kolkata today. Will reach Raj Bhavan directly from the airport. … Read more