Suprotim Mukherjee

A day of embarrassments for Bengal govt

April 30, 2024

The Mamata Banerjee government on Monday suffered a double embarrassment before the Supreme Court in the Sandeshkhali and illegal appointments cases when it refused to grant relief to the government. The Supreme Court came down heavily on the State Government for coming before it with plea to quash the CBI...

CBI unearths arms cache in Sandeshkhali, calls in NSG

April 27, 2024

Hours after the West Bengal Government approached the Supreme Court against a Calcutta High Court order directing the CBI to probe allegations of extortion, land grab, and sexual assault from Sandeshkhali against suspended Trinamool Congress leader Sheikh Shahjahan and his associates, the CBI moved into the island and unearthed a...

Mamata calls HC verdict ‘illegal’, BJP demands her resignation

April 23, 2024

Faced by a damning High Court verdict indicting the Trinamool Congress Government for illegal appointments in Government-run schools and cancelling 26,000 such appointments, Mamata Banerjee put up a defiant face and called the High Court order “illegal”. She said that the High Court Bench was working at the behest of...

HC strikes down 26k appointments

April 23, 2024

In the midst of a high-decibel election campaign, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and her Trinamool Congress suffered a huge blow as Calcutta High Court ordered the termination of approximately 26,000 jobs for a scam in which the former State Education Minister and a host of party leaders are...

Parties fight as sporadic violence marks first phase of polls in Bengal

April 20, 2024

West Bengal witnessed a resurgence of political violence on Friday as Cooch Behar, Alipurduar, and Jalpaiguri constituencies in north Bengal went to polls in Phase 1 of the 2024 Lok Sabha Elections. Both the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Trinamool Congress accused each other of perpetrating violence, injuring their poll...

Election Commission red-flags 15% polling stations in North Bengal as ‘critical’

April 19, 2024

The Election Commission of India (ECI) has designated 837 polling stations (PS), constituting nearly 15 per cent of the total 5814 PSs as “critical” for the first phase of elections on April 19. Cooch Behar, Alipurduar and Jalpaiguri will go for polls on April 19 – in the first phase...

Mamata accuses BJP of fomenting violence during Ram Navami

April 19, 2024

A day after several people were injured in a clash during a Ram Navami procession in Murshidabad district’s Shaktipur town, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of instigating violence during Ram Navami celebrations on April 17. She also alleged that the Murshidabad...

BJP, TMC trade barbs over NIA arrests

April 13, 2024

The Bharatiya Janata Party and the Trinamool Congress today traded barbs as the National Investigation Agency (NIA) arrested two key accused, including the mastermind in Bengaluru’s Rameshwaram Cafe blast case, from West Bengal. Abdul Matheen Ahmed Taahaa and Mussavir Hussain Shazib were arrested from a hotel in New Digha, a...

Rs 100 crore sanctioned for surrendered militants in Tripura: CM Saha

April 9, 2024

Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha disclosed that the central government has sanctioned Rs 100 crore package for the surrendered militants of the Nationalist Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT), one of the proscribed outfits, reportedly operating from hideouts in hilly areas of Bangladesh. “Under the Special Economic Development Package for indigenous...

Let Central forces stay on in Bengal, BJP tells EC

April 9, 2024

Fearing post-poll violence in the state, BJP’s Suvendu Adhikari on Monday said the Central forces deployed in West Bengal for the Lok Sabha polls should be kept for three more months after the elections. The BJP leader met the Special Observer appointed by the Election Commission. Adhikari said the deployment...

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