46 Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to West Bengal was briefly disrupted on Saturday due to dense fog that severely reduced visibility across parts of the state. The adverse weather conditions prevented the helicopter carrying the Prime Minister from landing, prompting pilots to abort the attempt and return to Kolkata airport as a safety precaution….
KOLKATA: PM Narendra Modi used a fog-forced virtual rally in Bengal Saturday to pursue two parallel damage-control efforts – shoring up support among Matua voters unsettled by an electoral roll revision and repairing political fallout from his recent “Bankim da” reference in Parliament.PM Modi was to address a public meeting at Taherpur in Nadia district…
NEW DELHI: The Trinamool Congress is miffed over the deletion of around 54 lakh names from electoral rolls during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise in West Bengal.The political climate is set to heat up in West Bengal as the All India Trinamool Congress has instructed party workers to carry out fresh door-to-door scrutiny of…
Argentine footballer Lionel Messi with West Bengal Sports Minister Aroop Biswas, right (PTI Photo/Swapan Mahapatra) An investigation has been ordered into the chaotic events during Lionel Messi’s GOAT Tour event at Kolkata’s Salt Lake Stadium, as announced by West Bengal Sports Minister Aroop Biswas.“The government has ordered to investigate this matter. An investigation is going…
NEW DELHI: Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Monday launched a sharp attack on the Prime Minister and claimed that the Centre wanted the discussion on Vande Mataram in the Lok Sabha to serve its poll prospects in the upcoming Assembly elections in West Bengal.During her address in the Lok Sabha, Priyanka said that there…
KOLKATA: The pre-hearing phase of Bengal’s SIR of electoral rolls is nearing completion with nearly 100% of 7.6 crore voters’ data having already been digitised. But, between 28 lakh and 30 lakh voters will, in all probability, have to attend poll officials’ hearings if they want to stay on the rolls as they remain unmapped…
KOLKATA/BEHRAMPORE: Calcutta HC directed the Bengal govt Friday to do whatever it takes to pre-empt communal disturbance in Murshidabad’s Beldanga ahead of suspended TMC MLA Humayun Kabir’s planned foundation-laying ceremony for a “Babri Masjid”, coinciding with the Dec 6 anniversary of the Ayodhya structure’s 1992 demolition.“The state must act per its stand… The law-and-order situation…
WBSSC updates list of ‘tainted’ teachers but their school names not disclosed. Image: IANS The West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) on Thursday released a freshly expanded list of 1,806 “tainted” candidates from the 2016 State Level Selection Test (SLST), marking another chapter in a recruitment catastrophe that has already triggered mass cancellations, arrests, CBI…
KOLKATA: Several hundred Bangladeshi nationals – men, women and children – were intercepted by BSF at Hakimpur check post near Swarupnagar, in North 24 Parganas, on Monday morning. They were allegedly attempting to cross the border to return home amid growing fears linked to the ongoing SIR of electoral rolls.Personnel of BSF’s 143rd Battalion detected…
KOLKATA: Kolkata-based industrialist Pawan Ruia, once known as the “turnaround tycoon” who would buy sick companies in a bid to make them profitable, has been named along with his kin in a cyber fraud case involving 148 shell companies that were allegedly used to park Rs 317 crore in illegal proceeds of online crime. Bengal…