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The decision by the school service commission to hire approximately 1,500 physical education and work education teachers in secondary schools by creating new positions was temporarily halted by Justice Biswajit Basu of the Calcutta High Court on Friday. The temporary ruling will stay in effect at least through December 1. The directive stated that the candidates who had received recommendation letters “shall not be offered appointments in the meantime .”The commission announced in a notification on May 19 that it will create openings to hire roughly 1,500 physical and work education teachers. The West Bengal School Service Commission has handed out recommendation letters for employment to over 1,250 individuals as part of the recruitment process. By November 30, the state education department must provide an affidavit declaring whether the positions will be filled from among applicants who were allegedly denied employment due to recruitment irregularities. On that day, the matter will be heard once more. According to a lawyer, the court requested information from the state regarding the recruitments prior to the appointments. “I am simply concerned about the fate of kids,” the judge declared when giving the ruling. “I want to know whether effective teachers are going to be recruited in the said posts.” Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya, an attorney for the petitioners,...
On Thursday, a fire started on the second story of a hospital building in Kolkata. To put out the fire at the SSKM hospital, nine fire trucks were dispatched. No patients were trapped, and as the fire is now under control, there have been no reports of injuries thus far. Around 10 o’clock in the evening, a fire broke out on the government hospital’s second level. Within minutes, it migrated from the CT scan room to the X-ray room. Police believe that an electrical short circuit caused the fire to start. On the scene are DCP (South) of Kolkata Police Akash Magharia and state ministers Firhad Hakim and Arup Biswas. The fire is under control, according to the fire department, and fire tenders are searching for any concealed pocket fires.
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Al-Qaeda agent detained in J&K; family of suspect in Howrah unaware of affiliation with terror group
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