Union minister of state and BJP candidate from Cooch Behar Nisith Pramanik. (File photo/PTI) The Trinamool Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party lodged around 100 and 50 complaints, respectively, related to poll violence, voter intimidation, and assaults on poll agents in the initial hours of voting, said sources from both parties. Most complaints originated from Cooch … Read more
The Cooch Behar Lok Sabha constituency will vote in the first phase of polling on April 19 and the counting of votes will be held on June 4. (Reresentational image/PTI) There are around 2,537 voting booths in the Cooch Behar constituency this time and more than 300 of these have been identified as ‘sensitive’. The … Read more
Kolkata: The TMC on Wednesday, April 17, unveiled its Lok Sabha election manifesto, promising an array of social welfare initiatives, revocation of the CAA, and stopping the NRC exercise if the INDIA bloc, their national-level ally, comes to power. Christened ‘Didir Shopoth’ (Didi’s pledges), the TMC promises to provide guaranteed employment, universal housing, free LPG … Read more
New Delhi: As a row erupted over the TMC’s claim of a “raid” by income tax officials targeting a helicopter used by party general secretary Abhishek Banerjee, I-T department sources claimed on Sunday that there was no enforcement action such as search or survey and the TMC leader wasn’t even present in the chopper. To … Read more
Against the backdrop of a nationwide debate on judicial probity, on March 7, Abhijit Ganguly sat beside Bengal’s leader of opposition Suvendu Adhikari and state BJP president Sukanta Majumdar.Only 48 hours ago, Ganguly had resigned as a Calcutta HC judge, having courted controversies. His penchant for ordering CBI and ED probes, dragging TMC and its … Read more
KOLKATA: The Calcutta High Court on Wednesday ordered the Bengal government not to arrest sleuths of the National Investigation Agency in an attempt to rape case registered at the Bhupatinagar police station. NIA had on Tuesday sought a stay on proceedings in the case registered against its personnel. HC, however, said the police was free … Read more
Several women in Sandeshkhali had accused Sheikh and his supporters of land-grab and sexually assaulting them under coercion. (PTI File) The Calcutta High Court on Wednesday ordered a CBI probe into the alleged crimes against women and forcible land-grab in Sandeshkhali. Sandeshkhali has become one of the biggest issues in West Bengal ahead of Lok … Read more
East Medinipur Police has registered FIRs against NIA and CRPF officials based on a complaint of the wife of arrested Trinamool leader Monobrata Jana. Jana’s wife has alleged that NIA officials tried to outrage her modesty after forcibly entering her residence in Bhupatinagar during the probe, a day after an NIA team was attacked following … Read more
Last Updated: April 06, 2024, 23:49 IST BJP MP Locket Chatterjee. (PTI file photo) Reacting to the incident, BJP IT cell head Amit Malviya remarked that the state police of West Bengal, under Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, would likely ‘remain a mute spectator’ BJP MP Locket Chatterjee on Saturday alleged that her vehicle was attacked … Read more
NEW DELHI: Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday launched a scathing attack on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) while addressing a public rally in Cooch Behar ahead of the Lok Sabha elections.In a no-holds-barred attack on the BJP, the Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo alleged that the central probe agencies, BSF, and CISF are working … Read more
