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The Enforcement Directorate on Friday summoned TMC leader Debasish Kumar, who is also the party candidate from Rashbehari in South Kolkata, for questioning in connection with a land-grabbing case for the second time in one week. Kumar was seen entering the Enforcement Directorate office in CGO complex around 11:30 am. The outgoing MLA of the Rashbehari constituency, Kumar, is also a member of Mayor in Council of Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC). According to sources, the ED had recently co ...Read More >
Kolkata: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Monday questioned Debasish Kumar, Trinamool Congress MLA and candidate for the upcoming assembly poll from south Kolkata's high-profile Rashbehari assembly seat, in connection with alleged land deals in the city, an official from the federal agency said, requesting anonymity. Kumar, a member of the Mayor-in-Council at the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC), won the Rashbehari seat for the first time in 2021. In the coming two-phase Bengal polls, he ...Read More >
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) Wednesday raided six locations in Kolkata, including the residence of history-sheeter Biswajit Poddar alias Sona Pappu in Ballygunge and that of his close associate Rahul Das, in connection with a land-grabbing case. The agency is investigating a housing scam, focusing on allegations of land grabbing, illegal construction, and extortion. It is alleged that Sona Pappu and his associates ran an extortion racket under the guise of real estate promotion, and that th ...Read More >
Kolkata: Ahead of the Assembly polls, Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Monday had questioned Trinamool Congress (TMC) MLA and candidate from the Rashbehari constituency in South Kolkata, Debasish Kumar in connection with a land-grabbing case. Kumar is also Mayor-in-Council at the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) and became MLA from Rashbehari seat in 2021 and this time he is again contesting from that seat against Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)'s Swapan Dasgupta who is a journalist and former R ...Read More >
Kolkata: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Monday questioned Debasish Kumar, Trinamool Congress MLA and candidate for the upcoming assembly poll from south Kolkata's high-profile Rashbehari assembly seat, in connection with alleged land deals in the city, an official from the federal agency said, requesting anonymity. Kumar, a member of the Mayor-in-Council at the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC), won the Rashbehari seat for the first time in 2021. In the coming two-phase Bengal polls, he ...Read More >
The draft electoral roll for West Bengal has been published, with 58,20,899 voter names deleted so far. According to available data, the deletions include: deceased voters: 24.16 lakh (3.15 per cent), shifted or absent voters: 32.65 lakh (4.26 per cent), and voters enrolled at multiple locations: 1.38 lakh (0.18 per cent). Most of these deletions relate to cases where verification forms were not returned, or where voters were reported to be deceased, shifted to another location, absent, or dupl ...Read More >
Kolkata: The Trinamool Congress leadership has decided to instruct its booth-level agents to carry out fresh, door-to-door scrutiny of deleted voters' names in Bhabanipur, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's assembly constituency, after nearly 45,000 electors were struck off from the draft rolls under the SIR exercise, party sources said. According to Election Commission data, Bhabanipur had 2,06,295 voters as of January 2025. The draft rolls now carry 1,61,509 names, indicating that 4 ...Read More >
After the announcement of SIR in Bengal on Monday by ECI, an all-party meeting has been called by the West Bengal Chief Electoral Officer's (WB- CEO) office on Tuesday at 4PM, where all national and state-level political parties will be participating. Meanwhile, Trinamool Congress leadership said that they will abide by the Constitution and there is no place for violence. However, they will not allow a single legal voter's name to be deleted from the electoral list and take the movement to Delh ...Read More >
Kolkata (PTI): The West Bengal government on Monday announced the transfer of over 500 bureaucrats amid the rollout of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in the state. In one of the largest reshuffles on a single day, 67 IAS and 460 West Bengal Civil Services (Executive) officers were transferred, according to a slew of notifications issued by the Personnel and Administrative Reforms (P&AR) Department. The transfer notifications were dated October 24, even as they were upl ...Read More >
Kolkata: Kolkata Municipal Corporation's solid waste management department has unveiled a plan to deploy battery-powered vehicles equipped with audio systems that will play popular songs to encourage citizens to segregate waste. This initiative will mark a shift from the existing practice of waste collectors using whistles to alert households.Initially, these vehicles will be deployed in neighbourhoods with low rates of waste segregation. Currently, KMC conservancy workers collect kitchen waste ...Read More >
Manipal: A comprehensive study, conducted by Kasturba Medical College (KMC), Manipal, has found no evidence of a decline in semen quality among Indian men from southern states over the past 17 years. The findings, published in the American Journal of Men's Health, challenge global concerns about a steady fall in sperm counts.The research analysed semen profiles of nearly 12,000 men who visited the University Andrology Laboratory for fertility evaluation between 2006 and 2022. Covering key parame ...Read More >
Kolkata: The Trinamool Congress leadership on Friday took a significant step towards politically rehabilitating former cabinet minister and Kolkata mayor Sovan Chatterjee, who quit the party in 2018 and joined BJP a year later, making him the chairperson of New Town Kolkata Development Authority (NKDA).Chatterjee, once considered close to Trinamool supremo Mamata Banerjee and is fondly called Kanan by her, is the first non-bureaucrat chairperson of NKDA since its inception in 2009.The Friday app ...Read More >
Kolkata: He may be the first "political appointee" as the New Town Kolkata Development Authority (NKDA) chairperson, but "work", not "politics", was on Sovan Chatterjee's mind on Saturday. Flooded with congratulatory messages by his former Trinamool colleagues and associates, Chatterjee said his primary responsibility is to "repose the faith CM Mamata Banerjee has put on him" and work to "develop New Town's civic infra, which has now become Kolkata's gateway.""Right after coming to know that I'l ...Read More >
Kolkata: The Trinamool Congress leadership on Friday took a significant step towards politically rehabilitating former cabinet minister and Kolkata mayor Sovan Chatterjee, who quit the party in 2018 and joined BJP a year later, making him the chairperson of New Town Kolkata Development Authority (NKDA).Chatterjee, once considered close to Trinamool supremo Mamata Banerjee and is fondly called Kanan by her, is the first non-bureaucrat chairperson of NKDA since its inception in 2009.The Friday app ...Read More >
Kolkata: Festivities at two of central Kolkata's prominent venues -- Md Ali Park and Santosh Mitra Square -- saw contrasting developments on Sunday, with the former settling a stand-off with cops while the latter plunging deeper into controversy.On Sunday afternoon, organisers of Md Ali Park puja declared there was no longer any dispute with cops. They clarified that Kolkata Police extended full cooperation, ensuring smooth arrangement for pandal-hoppers. On Panchami, tensions had flared, with o ...Read More >
Kolkata: In a rare instance, organizers of two prominent Durga Pujas in Kolkata have accused the city police of trying to curb their pujas on the pretext of crowd management to tackle the heavy footfall of visitors before the start of the festival from Sunday. One of them even stopped visitors' entry to the mandap from Saturday evening. These two are Santosh Mitra Square Durga Puja committee at Lebutala Park and Mohammad Ali Park Youth Association on CR Avenue in the central part of the city. ...Read More >
Kolkata: The night-long torrential downpour left hundreds of Durga Puja organisers grappling with unprecedented challenges and feverishly praying for divine intervention. The heavy rain resulted in widespread flooding, damaged pandals, and inundated streets, casting a cloud over the festivities. Though water receded in several areas in the afternoon, overcast skies and the forecast of more rain left everyone on tenterhooks."This is a calamity. Hundreds of Durga Pujas are impacted. We are overwhe ...Read More >
Kolkata: Union Home Minister Amit Shah will inaugurate the renowned Santosh Mitra Square Durga Puja pandal in the city on Friday morning. He has already arrived in the city last night and will also visit Kalighat temple to offer pujas. He will also visit a puja organized by BJP at EZCC, Saltlake. The pandal, one of the biggest in Kolkata, has been designed this year on the theme of 'Operation Sindoor', paying tribute to the Indian Army. Organised by BJP councillor Sajal Ghosh, the Santosh Mit ...Read More >
Kolkata: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday inaugurated the Durga Puja pandal at Santosh Mitra Square, Kolkata, designed around the theme of 'Operation Sindoor.' He was accompanied by BJP leaders, including Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari and state party president Shamik Bhattacharya. The pandal was organized by BJP councillor Sajal Ghosh of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation. Visits Kalighat Temple and Salt Lake After the pandal inauguration, Shah offered prayers at the iconic Kalig ...Read More >
Kolkata, Sep 26 (SocialNews.XYZ) Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday said that he had prayed to Goddess Durga for a new government in West Bengal after the Assembly elections in the state next year. HM Shah visited the Kalighat Temple in the morning and worshipped Goddess Kali. "I prayed to Maa Durga so that after the Assembly elections next year, the people of West Bengal get such a government which would lead the state towards prosperity. Let peace return in West Bengal. Let us create Be ...Read More >
Kolkata: The gigantic cloud mass that flooded Kolkata on Tuesday with the sixth-ever single-day rain recorded in the city was the most potent non-cyclonic weather system to strike the region in five decades. It moved in from the northeast Bay of Bengal and remained static vertically above the city for about seven to eight hours, bringing in relentless and heavy downpour. The deluge on Sept 28, 1978, still holds the highest rainfall record for Kolkata, but Tuesday's phenomenon was more potent tha ...Read More >
Kolkata: Trinamool Congress on Tuesday reacted sharply to BJP's attack on the Bengal govt over the deaths and widespread inundation following the overnight downpour."Yesterday, Kolkata faced the fury of a rare cloudburst. Nearly 300 mm of rain fell within hours, a scale that overwhelms any city, no matter its infrastructure. Scientists have said the same in Mumbai 2005, Chennai 2015, Delhi 2023, no city escapes when the skies open without pause," Bengal's finance minister Chandrima Bhattacharya ...Read More >
Announcing compensation of Rs 2 lakhs to the families of the deceased, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday said that Bnegal government will provide jobs to the next kin of the deceased persons who died due to electrocution yesterday, if CESC does not offer jobs to them. At least ten people have died in Bengal, with 8 in Kolkata, due to electrocution following torrential rains on Monday night to Tuesday morning. During a Durga Puja inauguration at her own Assembly constituenc ...Read More >
Heavy rains in Kolkata caused electrocution deaths. Mamata Banerjee visited waterlogged areas and promised jobs for victims' families. Many parts of the city are inundated, disrupting transport. Metro services were suspended. The weather office forecasts more rain. Kolkata Municipal Corporation teams are working to drain water. Train services are also affected. The IMD predicts more rainfall in several districts. At least seven to eight persons died due to electrocution as torrential rains hit ...Read More >
Kolkata (PTI): Torrential overnight rain left Kolkata paralysed on Tuesday, killing at least seven people due to electrocution and bringing life in the metropolis to a grinding halt as large swathes were submerged, transport services crippled, and traffic movement thrown out of gear. According to IMD data, with an average of 251.4 mm overnight downpour, this was the third-highest September month rainfall, which battered the city in nearly half a century, with some pockets receiving as high as 3 ...Read More >
Kolkata: All residential projects with built-up area of 5,000 sq m or a little over 53,000 sq ft in Kolkata will have to mandatorily provide parking for visitors, KMC has ruled. Earlier, projects twice the size, that is 10,000 sq m (1 lakh sq ft) were required to do so.To ensure it is cost-effective and viable for developers, KMC will provide additional floor area ratio (FAR) to develop the additional car park. At least 25% of the additional FAR has to be reserved for visitors' car park.A 50,000 ...Read More >
Kolkata, Sep 13 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC), on Saturday, issued instructions to Durga Puja committees to open parks, which will be used for puja mandap, for the people within 14 days after the idol immersion in the city. A KMC official has said that this condition was imposed from the time permission was given to Durga Puja committees to use parks for their puja mandaps. The decision to give a timeline to open such parks for public was taken after observing that m ...Read More >
Kolkata, Jul 4 (PTI) Questioning the delay in the completion of the investigation by the CBI in a 2021 post-poll murder of a man in Kolkata, a special court on Friday directed issuance of summons to 18 accused persons to be present before it on the next hearing on July 18. The special CBI court judge at Bichar Bhavan here directed that the 18 persons, including ruling Trinamool Congress MLA Paresh Pal and Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) councillor Swapan Samaddar be present before it on tha ...Read More >
Kolkata: The CBI on Wednesday filed a supplementary charge sheet in the 2021 murder case of BJP worker Abhijit Sarkar, who was killed during post-election violence in Kankurgachhi. The charge sheet names Beleghata MLA Paresh Pal, Kolkata Municipal Corporation councillors Swapan Samaddar and Papiya Ghosh, along with 15 others.In the FIR, Sarkar's mother Madhabi said that on May 2, 2021, eight persons barged into their house at Narkeldanga around 3 pm and started enquiring about her son. The miscr ...Read More >
Mumbai: Senior BJP leader Ravindra Chavan is all set to become the next Maharashtra BJP chief as he filed his nomination for the post of party's state president on Monday. Mr. Chavan presented the nomination forms to Union Minister Kiran Rijiju, who has been appointed as a central observer for the elections by the BJP. Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and outgoing party chief Chandrashekhar Bawankule were present on this occasion. With no other nomination being filed for the post, M ...Read More >
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