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Chandigarh: Punjab govt has informed Punjab and Haryana high court that the state cabinet is not bound to implement increases in dearness allowance (DA) or dearness relief (DR) in line with rates announced by Union govt.It says release of instalments of DA / DR is a policy decision of state govt, "taken from time to time after assessing its financial position". According to govt, it had decided that it "may endeavour" to align DA hikes with those announced by the Centre.HC is hearing a petition ...Read More >
Guwahati: A group of 40 retired civil servants has urged the Assam government to withdraw its decision to deploy personnel of the Assam Forest Protection Force (AFPF) for election duties, citing violation of established norms and concerns over wildlife protection. In an open letter to Chief Secretary Ravi Kota, the Constitutional Conduct Group (CCG) -- a non-partisan body comprising former IAS, IPS, IFS and other Central Services officers -- expressed "serious concern" over the reported move to ...Read More >
Guwahati: A group of 40 prominent former civil servants has written to the Assam Chief Secretary, expressing "serious concern" over the state government's decision to deploy approximately 1,600 personnel from the Assam Forest Protection Force (AFPF) for the upcoming 2026 Assembly elections. The Constitutional Conduct Group (CCG), comprising retired officers from the IAS, IPS, and IFS, alleged that the move directly contravenes established legal norms and recent Supreme Court directives. In the ...Read More >
Mumbai: IAS officer Ashwini Bhide, known as the 'Metro Woman', has been appointed as the Commissioner of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC). She is the first woman to be appointed as the head of the richest municipal corporation in Asia. The announcement regarding this was made on Tuesday. Just a few days ago, she had been appointed as the Principal Secretary to the Maharashtra Chief Minister. Bhide will now head the BMC and will serve a full three-year tenure before her retirement in ...Read More >
Kolkata: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday released its fourth list of 13 candidates for the West Bengal Assembly Elections 2026. With this, the party is left to declare candidates for six seats. BJP has changed its candidate for Maynaguri (SC) consituency, replacing MLA Kaushik Roy with Dalim Roy, complying with the demands of its workers and supporters. The party has also dropped MLA Mihir Goswami from Natabari and fielded Girija Shankar Roy, who recently joined the BJP, from this s ...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 >
Accusing her of violating the Model Code of Conduct in force in West Bengal as political activity in the state gathers pace, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Monday urged the Election Commission of India to debar TMC supremo and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee from campaigning. In a memorandum to ECI, senior Union ministers Piyush Goyal and Kiren Rijiju and other leaders from the BJP's national leadership sought an urgent intervention of the poll body as they cited "malicious & repeated violatio ...Read More >
New Delhi: A group of paramilitary officers have petitioned Home Minister Amit Shah to reconsider the CAPF (General Administration) Bill, 2026, saying that it would reduce them to "second-class citizens" within the organisation they have been serving. The officers argued that the Bill cements a "glass ceiling" by reserving top leadership roles for IPS deputationists, permanently barring cadre officers from heading their own organisations. PTI has seen some of these one-page letters written by ...Read More >
New Delhi, March 30 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Supreme Court has pulled up several states and authorities for failing to respond in a matter concerning human trafficking and missing persons, warning of contempt action, as it directed the formulation of a nationwide Standard Operating Procedure (SOP). In its order, a Bench of Justices Ahsanuddin Amanullah and R. Mahadevan recorded that despite service of notice, no one had entered an appearance on behalf of the Union of India and several states, inclu ...Read More >
Devi said she met the victim's family, offered her condolences and assured them that every possible effort would be made to secure justice. "The brutality and murder of a 12-year-old innocent girl is extremely tragic, heartbreaking and a shame on humanity," Devi tweeted after meeting the victim's family on Sunday. "The culprits should be arrested at the earliest and given strict punishment so that such inhuman incidents are not repeated in future," the minister said. She also criticised the s ...Read More >
Bengaluru, Mar 30 (PTI) Leader of Opposition in the Karnataka Assembly R Ashoka on Monday criticised the state government's decision on third language in SSLC, alleging that it has adversely affected students and was driven by political motives. Addressing a press conference, he said the move to effectively remove the weightage of Hindi as a third language has created confusion among students who were already in the middle of their examinations. He alleged that the decision was not taken in th ...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 >
New Delhi, Mar 30 (PTI) Union Women and Child Development Minister Annpurna Devi has termed the alleged rape and murder of a 12-year-old girl in Jharkhand's Hazaribagh district as "heartbreaking" and demanded the immediate arrest and strict punishment of those responsible. Devi said she met the victim's family, offered her condolences and assured them that every possible effort would be made to secure justice. "The brutality and murder of a 12-year-old innocent girl is extremely tragic, heartb ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: The BJP on Monday approached the Election Commission, alleging that West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and TMC leaders are "intimidating" voters to dissuade them from voting for the saffron party in the upcoming assembly polls. In a petition submitted to the Election Commission (EC) by a BJP delegation, the party urged the poll panel to debar Banerjee from participating in poll campaigns and order registration of an FIR against the TMC leaders. The delegation comprising Unio ...Read More >
Mumbai, March 30: Social media platforms are currently witnessing a surge in manipulated media related to the ongoing investigation into self-styled godman Ashok Kharat. These AI-generated "Ashok Kharat" video clips, which often lead users to malicious "full video" download links, are designed to steal personal data. Kharat, who is currently in jail, is accused of sexually exploiting women in the name of rituals. Following the arrest of Ashok Kharat on March 17, 2026, social media has been inun ...Read More >
Mumbai, March 30: A local court on Sunday extended the police custody of self-styled astrologer and numerologist Ashok Kharat, popularly known as "Captain," until April 1, 2026. Kharat, a retired Merchant Navy officer, was arrested on March 18 following allegations of serial sexual assault, blackmail, and financial fraud. The case has sent shockwaves through Maharashtra's political circles, leading to high-profile resignations and the formation of a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe what ...Read More >
Patna: A police team from Andhra Pradesh on Monday, February 23, arrived in Bihar's Patna to arrest a senior police officer, only to be ticked off by the court concerned, which refused to grant transit remand citing "procedural lapses". According to Bhanu Pratap Singh, City (East) Patna Superintendent, the visiting police team took into custody Sunil Kumar Nayak, a 2005 batch IPS officer who had a few years ago served in Andhra Pradesh on an inter-cadre deputation, early in the morning. Nayak, ...Read More >
Kolkata: Four of the six officials associated with Satadru Dutta's firm, A Satadru Roy Initiative, which organised Lionel Messi's three-day India tour, appeared before Bidhannagar Police on Tuesday and recorded their statements. Police commissioner Mukesh said all six individuals were summoned. "Four officials turned up today, submitted their statements, and are cooperating with the investigation. The remaining two have sought time to appear before us. We will record their statements once they p ...Read More >
West Bengal State Sports Minister Aroop Biswas on Tuesday has resigned, amid ire against him from angry fans, and after the chaos during Messi's visit to Yuvabharati Stadium. West Bengal DGP Rajeev Kumar and Bidhannagar Police Commissioner Mukesh have also been show caused by the Chief Secretary's office. Major chaos and pandemonium followed during football superstar Lionel Messi's appearance in Kolkata's Salt Lake Stadium on Saturday, and probe by a high-powered committee was ordered by Chief M ...Read More >
Kolkata, Dec 17 (PTI) A Special Investigation Team (SIT) constituted by the West Bengal government on Wednesday began its investigation into the vandalism at Argentine football star Lionel Messi's event at the Salt Lake stadium here last week, an official said. The team, comprising senior IPS officers Piyush Pandey, Javed Shamim, Supratim Sarkar and Muralidhar, visited the stadium and later went to the Bidhannagar Police Commissionerate office nearby. A team of forensic officers and the detect ...Read More >
Kolkata, Dec 17 (SocialNews.XYZ) Kolkata Police Commissioner Manoj Verma on Wednesday said that Argentine football star Lionel Messi's event schedule at the Salt Lake Stadium was changed at the last minute and that following the change, the police department did not hear from the organiser anymore. According to the police commissioner, Messi was initially scheduled to stay at the Taj Bengal, which falls under the jurisdiction of Kolkata Police. Later, the event schedule was altered and Messi st ...Read More >
Raipur/Narayanpur, Dec 17 (SocialNews.XYZ) In a major breakthrough under the 'Poona Margam: Rehabilitation to Rejuvenation' initiative, 11 Maoist cadres, including six males and five females, surrendered before Narayanpur Superintendent of Police Robinson Gudiya (IPS) on Wednesday, marking a significant blow to left-wing extremism in the Bastar region. The surrendered cadres carried combined bounties of Rs 37 lakh and included senior leaders, such as three Military Company Members (each with a ...Read More >
Kolkata, Dec 17 (SocialNews.XYZ) One more person has been arrested in connection with the vandalism during Lionel Messi's event at Salt Lake Stadium on December 13, taking the number of those arrested to six, the Bidhannagar police said on Wednesday. Meanwhile, a Special Investigation Team (SIT), formed by the West Bengal government on Tuesday, began its probe into the matter. According to police sources, the sixth arrest was made late on Tuesday night. The arrested person has been identified ...Read More >
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], December 17 (ANI): Leader of the Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, along with BJP workers, on Wednesday staged a protest against the state government, alleging mismanagement during football star Lionel Messi's event at the Salt Lake Stadium in Kolkata. Addressing the protest, Adhikari said the protest would continue and added that the BJP has also moved the court in the matter. "Protest will also go on, and we also have an appeal filed in t ...Read More >
Kolkata, Dec 17 (SocialNews.XYZ) Argentina football legend Lionel Messi released a commemorative video of his 'GOAT India Tour' on Wednesday, notably excluding any footage of his appearance at Kolkata's Yuba Bharati Krirangan (Salt Lake Stadium). The omission comes amid a backdrop of administrative mismanagement and fan unrest during the Kolkata leg of the tour, which was marred by mismanagement resulting in fans' outrage and the arrest of the event organiser. The video, shared on Messi's offi ...Read More >
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], December 17 (ANI): Leader of the Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, along with BJP workers, on Wednesday staged a protest against the state government, alleging mismanagement during football star Lionel Messi's event at the Salt Lake Stadium in Kolkata. Addressing the protest, Adhikari said the protest would continue and added that the BJP has also moved the court in the matter. "Protest will also go on, and we also have an appeal filed in t ...Read More >
Thoothukudi, December 17: Police have arrested three individuals, including two minors, in connection with an incident where a woman was gang-raped in front of her husband after he was assaulted near Srivaikundam in Tamil Nadu. According to a statement, a private hollow block manufacturing unit operates in the Arasarkulam area under Srivaikundam taluk in Thoothukudi district. A labour contractor from Assam working in Tirunelveli district had taken a commission from the unit's owner and employed ...Read More >
Guwahati: The Union government on Tuesday (December 16, 2025) extended the deadline for the Commission of Inquiry probing the 2023 Manipur ethnic violence until May 20, 2026, according to an official notification. The violence, which erupted on May 3, 2023, claimed 260 lives and displaced thousands of residents. The three-member commission, led by former Gauhati High Court Chief Justice Ajai Lamba, was constituted on June 4, 2023, following a recommendation from the Manipur government. The pan ...Read More >
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