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Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Tuesday dismissed a PIL challenging the transfer of administrative and police officers by the poll panel in West Bengal, saying the petitioner could not establish that the actions were arbitrary and had hurt public interest.The Election Commission has transferred several officers, including the state's chief secretary, the home secretary and the DGP, after announcing the schedule of the assembly polls in the state. The petitioner claimed that these large-scal ...Read More >
Kolkata, Mar 31 (PTI) The Calcutta High Court on Tuesday dismissed a PIL challenging the transfer of administrative and police officers by the poll panel in West Bengal, saying the petitioner could not establish that the actions were arbitrary and had hurt public interest. The Election Commission has transferred several officers, including the state's chief secretary, the home secretary and the DGP, after announcing the schedule of the assembly polls in the state. The petitioner claimed that t ...Read More >
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], March 31 (ANI): Calcutta High Court on Tuesday dismissed the PIL filed by Trinamool Congress (TMC) Lok Sabha member and advocate Kalyan Banerjee against transfers of IAS, IPS and other officials in West Bengal. Banerjee had filed a PIL against the Election Commission of India (ECI)'s notification for the transfer of the Chief Secretary, Home Secretary, Director General of Police (DGP) and certain District Magistrates and Superintendents of Police. Also Read | Rah ...Read More >
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], March 31 (ANI): Calcutta High Court on Tuesday dismissed the PIL filed by Trinamool Congress (TMC) Lok Sabha member and advocate Kalyan Banerjee against transfers of IAS, IPS and other officials in West Bengal. Banerjee had filed a PIL against the Election Commission of India (ECI)'s notification for the transfer of the Chief Secretary, Home Secretary, Director General of Police (DGP) and certain District Magistrates and Superintendents of Police. The two-judge B ...Read More >
Chandigarh: The Punjab and Haryana High Court has acquitted AAP MLA Manjinder Singh Lalpura and seven others in a 2013 molestation and assault case following a compromise between the two parties. Allowing the petition, the bench of Justice Tribhuvan Dahiya set aside the judgement of a court in Punjab's Tarn Taran, convicting and sentencing the MLA and seven others to four years of imprisonment in last September. Also Read: Calcutta High Court dismisses PIL challenging transfers of IAS, IPS off ...Read More >
Kolkata, March 30 (UNI) The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Monday removed four top officials including West Bengal Deputy Chief Electoral Officer Subrata Pal from the CEO Monoj Agarwal's office. While Pal was shifted to the health department, Rahul Nath was posted as the Joint Chief Electoral Officer in the CEO's office, according to a notification issued by the state secretariat Nabanna. Nath was till date serving as Additional Secretary in the Health and Family Welfare department. The ...Read More >
KOLKATA: Trinamool Congress MP and lawyer Kalyan Banerjee on Monday moved the Calcutta High Court against the Election Commission of India (ECI) after it removed officers-in-charge (OCs) of 170 police stations, including Bhabanipur where West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is a candidate, and block development officers (BDOs) and assistant returning officers (AROs) of 83 blocks ahead of the assembly polls in the state. The petition has been filed in the court of Chief Justice Sujoy Paul ...Read More >
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], February 24 (ANI): West Bengal government on Tuesday welcomed the Supreme Court's decision to permit the Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court to deploy additional civil judges with three years of experience and, if required, seek assistance from the Chief Justices of Jharkhand and Odisha for verifying objections under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the voter rolls in the state. The directions were issued by a bench led by Chief Justice of India Surya ...Read More >
Kolkata, Feb 24 (PTI) The Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court on Tuesday ordered cancellation of leaves of all civil judges in different courts of West Bengal till further orders for ensuring compliance with directions passed by the Supreme Court for completion of the SIR of electoral rolls in the state. A notification by the Registrar General of the high court said that all judicial officers, posted as civil judge (senior division), chief judicial magistrate, additional chief judicial mag ...Read More >
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], February 24 (ANI): West Bengal government on Tuesday welcomed the Supreme Court's decision to permit the Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court to deploy additional civil judges with three years of experience and, if required, seek assistance from the Chief Justices of Jharkhand and Odisha for verifying objections under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the voter rolls in the state. The directions were issued by a bench led by Chief Justice of India Surya ...Read More >
Former railway minister Mukul Roy died in Kolkata in the early hours of Monday, his son confirmed to news agency ANI. He was 71. Roy suffered a cardiac arrest and passed away around 1:30 am at Apollo Hospital in Salt Lake, his son Shuvrangshu Roy said. Once regarded as one of the most influential strategists in the All India Trinamool Congress, Roy's political journey spanned decades of shifting allegiances, high office and legal battles. In 2012, he briefly served as the Union railway ministe ...Read More >
Kolkata, Feb 23 (PTI) Calcutta High Court Chief Justice Sujoy Paul on Monday held an internal coordination meeting with West Bengal Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) and senior administrative and police officials over the SIR work entrusted to judicial officers, officials said. Chief secretary, home secretary and DGP were among those present at the meeting. Speaking to reporters after the nearly hour-long meeting, CEO Manoj Agarwal described it as an "internal meeting". He said training of judici ...Read More >
New Delhi, Feb 17 (PTI) The National Green Tribunal's nod to the Great Nicobar project is disappointing and unfortunate and may have disastrous ecological impacts, according to environment enthusiasts. The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Monday cleared the proposed International Container Transhipment Terminal in the Great Nicobar Island, saying adequate safeguards had been provided in the environmental clearance (EC) conditions. The eastern zonal bench of Kolkata, headed by NGT Chairperson J ...Read More >
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday transferred the RG Kar Medical College trainee doctor rape and murder case to the Calcutta High Court. The top court had taken suo motu cognisance of the case in 2024. A bench of justices MM Sundresh and Satish Chandra Sharma directed that the case papers be sent to the high court. The top court also directed that a copy of the status report be given to the parents of the victim. While taking suo motu notice of the case, the bench constituted a Nationa ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], December 17 (ANI): The Supreme Court has ordered that the Delhi government can take action against owners who are using vehicles below the BS IV (Bharat Stage 4) emission standard in the NCR region. The court's order aims to strike a balance between environmental concerns and the protection of vehicle owners who comply with prescribed emission standards, while enabling authorities to take action against more polluting vehicles in the NCR. Earlier, the Supreme Court on Wednes ...Read More >
New Delhi, Dec 17 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Supreme Court on Wednesday transferred to the Calcutta High Court the suo motu proceedings it had initiated in the aftermath of the ghastly rape and murder of a junior woman doctor at the state-run R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata. A Bench of Justices M.M. Sundresh and Satish Chandra Sharma directed that the matter be placed before a Division Bench of the Calcutta High Court to oversee compliance with the directions earlier issued by the ap ...Read More >
New Delhi, December 17: The Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered the transfer of the suo moto case it had initiated to monitor the investigation and other issues including formation of a National Task Force (NTF) in connection with the rape of a trainee doctor in RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata, to the Calcutta High Court. A bench of Justices M.M. Sundresh and Satish Chandra Sharma has also directed that a copy of the status report of the investigation carried out by the CBI in the ...Read More >
New Delhi, Dec 17 (UNI) The Supreme Court on Wednesday transferred to the Calcutta High Court the suo motu proceedings initiated by it in the rape and murder of a woman doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata, for monitoring the implementation of the directions issued in the case. A bench comprising Justice MM Sundresh and Justice Satish Chandra Sharma directed that the Calcutta High Court would hereafter oversee compliance with the orders passed by the Supreme Court while dealin ...Read More >
Aroop Biswas made it to The New York Times on Saturday but the 61-year-old sports minister of Bengal, one of the trusted aides of chief minister Mamata Banerjee, will definitely not like the attention. His party and government were left red-faced after the mess that unfolded at the Salt Lake stadium during the big-ticket event held for Lionel Messi. Angry fans ran amok, clashing with police, after the Argentine football star could barely be seen from the stands because he was surrounded by a p ...Read More >
Kolkata, Dec 16 (SocialNews.XYZ) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday accepted the resignation of state Sports Minister Aroop Biswas, who took moral responsibility for the lapses in management in the event featuring Argentine football star Lionel Messi at the Salt Lake Stadium here. In his handwritten resignation letter in Bengali, Biswas claimed that since the Chief Minister had formed a probe committee headed by a retired judge of the Calcutta High Court, he is resigning as s ...Read More >
Kolkata, Dec 16 (PTI) Two days after widespread spectator rampage marred a marquee football event featuring Argentine legend Lionel Messi at the Salt Lake stadium, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday accepted the sports minister's resignation, while the state government show-caused the DGP and other senior officers, and suspended a deputy commissioner. A resignation letter written to Banerjee by Sports Minister Aroop Biswas, who has remained in the eye of the storm since the stadium fiasc ...Read More >
Kolkata, Dec 16 (PTI) Senior TMC leader Kunal Ghosh on Tuesday said West Bengal Sports Minister Aroop Biswas has written to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, offering to resign from the post, amid mounting criticism over the mismanagement of the Lionel Messi event at the Salt Lake stadium last week. Sharing what he described as a copy of Biswas' letter on social media, Ghosh said the minister had requested the CM to relieve him of his responsibilities as sports minister in the wake of the controv ...Read More >
Kolkata, Dec 16 (PTI) Senior TMC leader Kunal Ghosh on Tuesday said West Bengal Sports Minister Aroop Biswas has written to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, seeking relief from the charge of the sports department, amid mounting criticism over the mismanagement of the Lionel Messi event at the Salt Lake stadium last week. Sharing what he described as a copy of Biswas's letter on social media, Ghosh said the minister had requested the CM to relieve him of his responsibilities as sports minister in ...Read More >
KOLKATA: Taking responsibility for the chaos that erupted at Lionel Messi's Kolkata event at Salt Lake Stadium on Saturday, West Bengal Sports and Youth Affairs Minister Arup Biswas has written to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee seeking acceptance of his resignation, sources in the Trinamool Congress confirmed on Tuesday. Amid mounting criticism from across the country over the mismanagement at the high-profile event, the state government on Tuesday issued show-cause notices to Director General ...Read More >
Messi Kolkata Event Chaos: West Bengal Sports Minister and senior TMC leader Aroop Biswas resigned from his position in a letter to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee following the mismanagement at Lionel Messi's event on December 13, 2025. The Minister had been the main target of criticism from all quarters, including civil society and opposition parties, over the chaos at Salt Lake Stadium last week. Biswas on Tuesday submitted his resignation, taking moral responsibility for the lapses in manag ...Read More >
The turn of events led to a loss of face for West Bengal before the entire world, the petitioner alleged Ripples of Saturday's Salt Lake stadium spectator rampage during Argentine football legend Lionel Messi showcasing event reached the corridors of the Calcutta High Court on Monday after Acting Chief Justice Sujoy Pal allowed the filing of three separate PILs related to the fiasco. The petitions sought the court's intervention to transfer the probe into the stadium violence to central agenci ...Read More >
New Delhi: A social media post by Union Minister Kiren Rijiju has gone viral after he poked fun at Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy's on-field moment with football icon Lionel Messi during an exhibition match in Hyderabad. The match, held on December 14 as part of Messi's GOAT India Tour, featured Reddy attempting to pass the ball to the Argentine legend at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium. Rijiju shared a video clip from the event, captioned with the line, "It's totally messed up! ...Read More >
The Athletic FC ⚽ is The Athletic's daily football (or soccer, if you prefer) newsletter.Sign up to receive it directly to your inbox. Hello! Lionel Messi and a GOAT tour to India. What could possibly go wrong? He's a week on from winning MLS Cup with Inter Miami after three years of trying. His run to the final generated record TV viewing figures. He's headed towards his sixth World Cup, and despite his modesty, there's not a chance that he misses it, unless his body gives out. First stop f ...Read More >
Chaos unfolded at the Salt Lake Stadium on Saturday, after spectators resorted to vandalism on failing to catch a glimpse of Messi, alleging gross mismanagement by the organisers and obstruction of views by VIPs. Kolkata, Leader of Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, wrote to Governor C V Ananda Bose, seeking an independent judicial inquiry into "administrative incompetence" and "public humiliation of citizens" at the Salt Lake Stadium here during an event featuring footba ...Read More >
West Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose called the recent chaos during Lionel Messi's event a management failure. He stated the incident hurt football lovers and undermined common man dignity. The Governor will submit a pro-people report to the Centre and give suggestions to the state government. He also directed a judicial inquiry and refund of ticket prices. Kolkata: West Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose on Monday termed the recent chaos during Lionel Messi's event at the Salt Lake stadium here a ...Read More >
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