Tag: West Bengal
Gadkari Falls Ill In Siliguri, Condition Stable Now
Union Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari fell ill on Thursday afternoon after an official function in West Bengal's Siliguri district, but is said to be stable now. ....
PM In Kolkata On Friday With Rs 7,800 Crore Projects Gift For Bengal
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be on a short five-hour trip to Kolkata on Friday with a gift of projects worth Rs 7,800 crore for West Bengal, the formal announcement of which will be made on that day only. ....
Panchayat Polls: Mamata Government Challenges Calcutta HC’s Order For FIR Against Cops
The West Bengal government on Wednesday approached the division bench of Calcutta High Court's Chief Justice T.S. Sivagnanam against an earlier order of a single-judge bench that directed it to file FIRs against two senior police officers.....
Income Tax Officials Raid Residence Of Bengal Minister’s Brother
The Income Tax Department has been conducting massive raids at the residence of Swarup Biswas, the younger brother of West Bengal Power and Housing Minister, Aroop Biswas, since Wednesday morning.....
West Bengal's Suit Against CBI Probes Is Maintainable, Rules SC
The Supreme Court on Wednesday held that the suit filed by West Bengal against the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), for allegedly proceeding with probes and filing FIRs in cases of post-poll violence without getting the state government's nod as required under the law, is maintainable. ....
Bengal School Job Case: ED Detects Fund Diversion Through Agricultural Firms
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) probing the cash-for-school job case in West Bengal has tracked multiple small agricultural procurements-cum-marketing entities through which a portion of the proceeds were diverted in smaller amounts. ....
Trinamool Congress Registers Big Win In Bengal's 4 Municipal Corporations
The winning spree of Trinamool Congress continues in West Bengal as the party won four municipal corporations -- Siliguri, Asansol, Bidhannagar and Chandannagar with a thumping majority reducing the opposition to the minnows. ....
Pilot Averted Head-on Collision With One Other Airplane: West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee
A couple of days after West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's chartered flight was caught in "mid-air turbulence" while she was returning to Kolkata from Uttar Pradesh, she admitted that the plane averted an impending collision because of the prompt action of the pilot.....
BJP Conspiring To Divert Attention From Economic Disaster: Mamata Banerjee
The ruling BJP is resorting to various conspiracies to divert attention from the economic crisis in the country, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on Monday.....
Trinamool Congress Files Complaint With ECI Against Suvendu Adhikari
The Tri namool Congress on Wednesday filed a complaint with the ECI against the Leader of Opposition in the West Bengal assembly Suvendu Adhikari, alleging that he had been trying to put undue pressure on police officers for the forthcoming by-election to the Ballygunge assembly constituency in Kolkata.....
