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The Calcutta High Court on Friday overturned the Centre's June deportation of six West Bengal residents, including pregnant Sunali Khatun, to Bangladesh, ordering their repatriation within four weeks. The court ruled the deportation illegal, citing violations of fundamental rights and lack of proper verification. The Calcutta High Court on Friday set aside the Centre's decision to deport Sunali Khatun, Danish and Sabir Shek and three others from West Bengal to Bangladesh in June and directed th ...Read More >
Mamata, TMC leaders invoke 'Bangla-asmita' & recall vandalism of Vidyasagar statue in 2019 UNION HOME Minister Amit Shah on Friday inaugurated the Santosh Mitra Square Durga Puja pandal in Kolkata, which this year carries a military-themed tribute titled 'Operation Sindoor.' Addressing the gathering after performing the rituals, Shah linked regional aspirations to a national development narrative and said he prayed for a government that would build a "Sonar Bangla", (Golden Bengal) a prosperou ...Read More >
The Calcutta High Court has granted bail to Partha Chatterjee, the former West Bengal minister, in connection with the teacher recruitment irregularities case. Justice Suvra Ghosh directed Chatterjee to surrender his passport and remain within the trial court's jurisdiction. As a Trinamool Congress MLA, he is barred from holding any public office while the trial is ongoing. The Calcutta High Court on Friday granted bail to former West Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee in connection with the tea ...Read More >
The CBI has apprehended Amit Das, wanted for the murder of BJP leader Abhijit Sarkar during the 2021 West Bengal post-poll violence. Sarkar was murdered on May 2, 2021, in Kolkata. After being on the run, Das was captured through intelligence and will appear in court. In a significant development, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) announced the arrest of Amit Das, a long-time fugitive linked to the murder of BJP leader Abhijit Sarkar, which occurred during the violent aftermath of the 2 ...Read More >
Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Friday granted bail to former Bengal education minister Partha Chatterjee, in custody for over three years, in a case related to alleged irregularities in the recruitment of teachers for govt-aided primary schools.A month ago, the SC had granted him bail in all other cash-for-school jobs cases being investigated by the CBI and the ED.Chatterjee, however, will be released from custody only after the trial court records the statements of the last seven witnesses ...Read More >
Hyderabad, Sep 26 (PTI) The Telangana government on Friday said it aims to attract Rs 1 lakh crore in investments in the aerospace industry over the next five years. According to a press release, State Industries Minister Sridhar Babu chaired a special meeting at the secretariat with leading representatives from the aerospace sector, engaging in in-depth discussions on the future of aerospace development in the state. ...Read More >
The Calcutta High Court on Friday (September 26, 2025) directed repatriation of six people from two families hailing from West Bengal's Birbhum, who were pushed into Bangladesh. A Division Bench comprising Justice Tapabrata Chakraborty and Justice Reetobrata Mitra gave this direction while deciding two writ petitions filed by Bhodu Sheikh and Amir Khan. Bhodu Sheikh sought repatriation of his daughter Sunali Khatun Sheikh, his son-in-law Danish Sheikh and minor grandson, while Amir Khan sought ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court has asked high courts to ensure day-to-day trial in criminal cases, especially important and sensitive cases, saying it has become imperative in the prevailing social, political and administrative scenario, including the style of functioning of police.Expressing disappointment over discontinuance of day-to-day trial, which was the norm three decades ago, a bench of Justices J B Pardiwala and K V Viswanathan said once the examination of witnesses commences in a trial, the ...Read More >
Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Friday dismissed the Centre's order to push back six members of two families, including eight-month pregnant Sonali Bibi, from West Bengal's Birbhum district into Bangladesh. A division bench of Justice Tapobrata Chakraborty and Justice Ritabrata Kumar Mitra has ordered the Union Home Ministry that they should be brought back to India within a month. The Centre will move the Supreme Court against the Calcutta High Court's order. On June 26, Delhi Police arre ...Read More >
Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court directed the centre on Friday to bring back all six members of the two West Bengal families -- including a pregnant woman and two minors -- who were detained in Delhi in June on suspicion of being illegal Bangladeshi immigrants and deported on the orders of the foreigners regional registration officer, lawyers who attended the hearing said. "The division bench of justices Tapabrata Chakraborty and Ritabrata Kumar Mitra gave the centre four weeks to bring back Su ...Read More >
Kolkata, Sep 26 (PTI) The Calcutta High Court on Friday granted bail to former West Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee in connection with the teacher recruitment irregularities case under investigation of the CBI. Chatterjee, the prime accused in the cash-for-jobs scam in Bengal's state-run schools, which perceptively runs into several thousand crores and has rocked state politics for the past several years, was granted bail in a case on irregularities in primary school recruitment, the charge s ...Read More >
Kolkata, Sep 26 (SocialNews.XYZ) Former West Bengal Education Minister and Trinamool Congress Secretary General Partha Chatterjee, on Friday, was granted conditional bail by Calcutta High Court's single-judge bench of Justice Suvra Ghosh in a case registered against him by the CBI in relation to irregularities in the recruitment of primary teachers. With the development, decks are finally cleared for Chatterjee to be free from judicial custody after a gap of three years and two months. This is ...Read More >
Kolkata: More than 70 per cent of first-year undergraduate seats in West Bengal's state-run colleges are vacant even after two rounds of counselling for admission, an official said on Thursday. There are a total of 9,36,215 undergraduate seats in state-run and state-aided colleges in the state. While 4,21,301 lakh candidates had registered in the centralised admission portal, only 2,69,777 got admitted, filling up 28.81 per cent seats, he said. In comparison, last year, 4.44 lakh seats were fi ...Read More >
Kolkata, Sep 26 (PTI) The Calcutta High Court on Friday granted bail to former West Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee in connection with the teacher recruitment irregularities case under investigation of the CBI. Chatterjee, the prime accused in the cash-for-jobs scam in Bengal's state-run schools, which perceptively runs into several thousand crores and has rocked state politics for the past several years, was granted bail in a case on irregularities in primary school recruitment, the charge s ...Read More >
New Delhi, Sep 25: The Supreme Court has said the practice of conducting day-to-day trials, particularly in sensitive cases, was given a complete go-by, stressing courts should revert to it. Observing the right to speedy trial was implicit in Article 21 of the Constitution, the apex court said all high courts need to constitute a committee to discuss this issue very seriously for the benefit of their respective district judiciaries. The top court said for reverting to the old practice of condu ...Read More >
The Calcutta High Court has directed the West Bengal government to assign Aniket Mahato to R G Kar Medical College, overturning his previous deployment. Mahato, a prominent protester against the rape-murder incident at the institution, was initially sent to a different location as a punitive measure. The Calcutta High Court has intervened in the deployment of Aniket Mahato, a leader in the protest movement following a brutal crime at RG Kar Medical College. Mahato had been initially assigned to ...Read More >
"a prime example of economy and ecology complementing each other," says Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the project Congress on Sunday accused the government of "bulldozing" the Great Nicobar infrastructure project despite pending legal challenges and branded it an "ecological disaster". The party's general secretary and former environment minister Jairam Ramesh Ramesh has said the Andaman and Nicobar Islands Integrated Development Corporation has invited expressions of interest for "enumerati ...Read More >
Kolkata, Sep 15 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Calcutta High Court on Monday concluded hearing on the bail petition by former West Bengal Education Minister and Trinamool Congress Secretary General Partha Chatterjee in a crucial case registered against him by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in relation to irregularities in the recruitment of primary teachers in the state. The hearing and the merit of the case were crucial since, if granted bail in the case, Chatterjee would finally be able to c ...Read More >
Kolkata, Sep 15 (SocialNews.XYZ) Calcutta High Court's second-most senior judge, Justice Soumen Sen, was appointed as the Acting Chief Justice, following the retirement of Chief Justice T.S. Sivagnanam on Monday. "In exercise of the powers conferred by Article 223 of the Constitution of India, the President is pleased to appoint Shri Justice Soumen Sen, Judge of the Calcutta High Court, to perform the duties of the office of the Chief Justice of that High Court consequent upon superannuation of ...Read More >
West Bengal conducted School Service Commission exams for assistant teachers in government schools. Around 2.29 lakh candidates appeared across 478 centers. Education Minister Bratya Basu highlighted the large number of out-of-state applicants. The recruitment follows the dismissal of 26,000 teachers due to a Supreme Court ruling. Basu emphasized transparency in the process. In all, 2,29,497 candidates appeared for the School Service Commission (SSC) examinations on Sunday for the recruitment o ...Read More >
New Delhi: Justice M Sundar of the Madras High Court has been elevated as the chief justice of the Manipur High Court, the law ministry said on Sunday. In a statement, the ministry said Justice Sundar will assume charge following the retirement of incumbent Chief Justice Kempaiah Somashekar on Sunday. High court judges demit office on attaining the age of 62 years, while Supreme Court judges retire at 65. The Supreme Court collegium had on Thursday recommended the names of three judges for elev ...Read More >
New Delhi, Sep 14 (PTI) Justice M Sundar of the Madras High Court has been elevated as the chief justice of the Manipur High Court, the law ministry said on Sunday. In a statement, the ministry said justice Sundar will assume charge following the retirement of incumbent chief justice Kempaiah Somashekar on Sunday. High court judges demit office on attaining the age of 62 years, while Supreme Court judges retire at 65. The Supreme Court collegium had on Thursday recommended the names of three ...Read More >
From left to right: Justices Soumen Sen, P.B. Bajanthri, M. Sundar. Pictures: calcuttahighcourt.gov.in, patnahighcourt.gov.in, hcmadras.tn.gov.in The Supreme Court Collegium headed by Chief Justice of India B.R. Gavai on Thursday (September 11, 2025) proposed Chief Justices to the three High Courts of Meghalaya, Patna and Manipur. The Collegium has recommended Calcutta High Court judge, Justice Soumen Sen, as Chief Justice of Meghalaya High Court. Justice Sen is the senior most puisne judge of ...Read More >
New Delhi, Sep 13 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Centre on Saturday cleared the appointment of Justice M. Sundar as the Chief Justice of the Manipur High Court, following the recommendation of the Supreme Court Collegium. "In exercise of the power conferred by the Constitution of India, the President of India, after consultation with the Chief Justice of India, is pleased to appoint Shri Justice M. Sundar, Judge, Madras High Court as Chief Justice of the High Court of Manipur with effect from the date he ...Read More >
New Delhi, Sep 13 (PTI) It is advisable to forgive the wrongdoer but not to forget the wrongdoing, the Supreme Court has said while directing that its verdict with details of alleged sexual harassment by a vice-chancellor of a university be made part of his resume so that it "haunts" him forever, after the complaint against him was time-barred. A bench of Justices Pankaj Mithal and Prasanna B Varale passed the order on Friday on a plea by a faculty member of a West Bengal-based university who h ...Read More >
Kolkata: The state govt on Thursday informed the Calcutta High Court that although Delhi Police had been notified of a Bengal Police enquiry report stating that pregnant migrant labourer Sunali Khatun, her husband, and their minor child had been residing in Birbhum district since birth, no reply was received. This was submitted during a habeas corpus hearing.The family of three had been picked up by Delhi Police on suspicion of being Bangladeshi citizens and deported to Bangladesh on June 26. A ...Read More >
Kolkata, Sep 3 (PTI) A section of teachers in West Bengal, who lost their jobs after a Supreme Court order, have written to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Speaker Biman Banerjee, urging them to discuss and address their issue on the last day of the special session of the Assembly on September 4. They have also urged them to convene an all-party meeting to find out a possible way forward. The West Bengal School Service Commission (SSC) would hold teacher recruitment exams on September 7 for ...Read More >
New Delhi, Aug 29 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Supreme Court on Friday directed the Union government to file its reply within a week on a plea seeking to restrain cross-border deportation of Bengali-speaking migrants without prior citizenship verification. A bench, headed by Justice Surya Kant, was hearing a public interest litigation (PIL) filed by the West Bengal Migrant Welfare Board alleging that Bengali-speaking migrant workers are being detained across several states of the country on suspicion o ...Read More >
Kolkata, Aug 28 (SocialNews.XYZ) Trinamool Congress councillor Maya Saha on Thursday appeared before Enforcement Directorate (ED) officers in the CGO Complex office in Kolkata's Salt Lake area in connection with the School Service Commission (SSC) teachers recruitment case. Maya Saha is the aunt of the arrested Trinamool MLA Jiban Krishna Saha, and was summoned by the agency in the case. She, however, claimed that she was not involved in the SSC recruitment corruption. Before entering the CGO ...Read More >
Kolkata, Aug 25 (PTI) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Monday arrested TMC legislator Jiban Krishna Saha after a dramatic raid at his residence in West Bengal's Murshidabad district in connection with the multi-crore school jobs scam, triggering a fresh political slugfest ahead of the 2026 assembly elections. Saha was later brought to Kolkata and produced at Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) special court, which sent him to a six-day ED remand till August 30. According to officials, ...Read More >
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