The Calcutta High Court dismissed a contempt complaint against state Director General of Police (DGP) Manoj Malaviya on Monday. Suvendu Adhikari, the leader of the opposition in the West Bengal Assembly, had claimed that he had been denied permission to visit the Netai village in Paschim Medinipur district on January 7 despite providing an undertaking. The petition had previously been the subject of a rule of contempt from Justice Sabyasachi Bhattacharyya, who made the observation that it could not be conclusively established that the state had wilfully broken its commitment in the strictest sense. Justice Bhattacharyya dismissed the DGP’s contempt complaint, noting that he could not be held automatically accountable for the conduct of other accused contemnors on the field. Adhikari, however, said that he will move the Supreme Court to challenge the High...
In a cooperative election held on Monday in the Purba Medinipur district’s Nandakumar, THE TMC came in...
Punjab and West Bengal, according to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, were at the vanguard of India’s independence...
Suvendu Adhikari, the leader of the opposition in the West Bengal Assembly, sent a letter to Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Monday, pleading with him to send a team of medical professionals and public health specialists to help what he called a “inefficient state government” deal with the rise in dengue cases and alleviate people’s suffering. The BJP politician claimed in the letter, a copy of which he posted on Twitter, that the financial crisis facing the state government— which is occupied with concealing data on the vector-borne disease—is to blame for the situation’s deterioration. “The dengue situation in West Bengal has spiralled out of control due to an...
The Trinamool Congress, the party in power, has started the selection process for the panchayat elections, which...
Nizamuddin Mandal, an aide to TMC politician Anubrata Mandal, was detained by Birbhum Police on Saturday night...
On Saturday night, a Trinamool Congress (TMC) worker was fatally hacked at Banshjor village in the Suri...
A number of locations in West Bengal and Jharkhand were raided by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on...
Although no explanation was provided in the notification notifying his departure, sources claimed he reportedly accepted payments...
In connection with an inquiry into the Rs 1 crore lottery jackpot allegedly won by Trinamool Congress...
