West Bengal
NIA fuelling communal tension in state in some cases: Mamata Banerjee
Incidentally, on Thursday morning only, state Urban Development and Municipal Affairs minister and Kolkata Municipal Corporation Mayor, Firhad Hakim alleged that NIA is entering the scene in West Bengal even on the issue of burning firecrackers in any locality on the occasion of any festival.
CAA will be implemented in Bengal at any cost: Union minister Arjun Ram Meghwal
His comments came at a time when controversies are brewing in West Bengal over the fate of the Matua community in the state, a Scheduled Caste designated refugee community from Bangladesh, following the Union Home Ministry's recent announcement that Indian citizenship would be granted to Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Parsis and Christians coming from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh and currently living in Mehsana and Anand districts of Gujarat.
Crisis continues in Bengal unit of BJP, legal head to be shunted out
This move comes after the IT head of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) in the state lodged an FIR at the Posta police station in Kolkata, accusing him of both mental and physical torture.
'Protecting democracy doesn't mean guarding corruption', Opposition reminds CM Mamata
Reacting to Mamata Banerjee's remark that unnecessary harassment of people has increased manifold these days, CPI(M) Rajya Sabha member and senior advocate in the Calcutta High Court, Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya, said that he couldn't really understand what the Chief Minister wanted to say.
Reject Bengal govt's fresh loan plea, Suvendu Adhikari urges Sitharaman
Referring to a fresh application for Rs 10,000 crore of market borrowing made by the West Bengal government to the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), he said that since the state government has reached its borrowing limit under the Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management (FRBM) Act, all fresh borrowing applications should be rejected.
Mamata Banerjee's statements on Singur reveal that she is jittery: CPI(M)
According to her, she had only fought for unwilling farmers who were forced to part with land for the factory. "It was the CPI(M) that was responsible for the mess. We just wanted land acquired from unwilling farmers to be returned. There were other plots available nearby that could have been used for the factory," she has been saying.
Bengal BJP reshuffles core committee, Mithun Chakraborty included
A total of 24 leaders have been provided berths in the core committee, thus making it the biggest ever core committee of the party in the state. However, another actor-turned-politician and former Rajya Sabha member, Rupa Ganguly, has not found a place in the new core committee.
Make Sourav Ganguly Bengal's brand ambassador replacing SRK: Suvendu Adhikari to CM Mamata
Adhikari's advice on this count comes just within an hour after the Chief Minister on Monday lambasted Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) over the "unceremonious" exit of Ganguly as its President, saying that she would talk to Prime Minister Narendra Modi so that Ganguly can contest for the chairmanship of International Cricket Council (ICC) as the Indian representative.
WBSSC scam: Manik Bhattacharya remanded to 14-day ED custody
Former president of West Bengal Board of Primary Education (WBBPE), Manik Bhattacharya will now be presented at the same court on October 25. After arrest, ED officials took him to ESI Hospital at Joka on southern outskirts of Kolkata for medical check-up and from there he was presented at a lower court in Kolkata.
On 70th birthday, just solitude behind bars for Partha Chatterjee
State Prison Department sources said that throughout the day the former minister mostly confined himself within the cell, and avoided interaction with anybody by spending most of the time lying down and closing his eyes. There was no special menu on the occasion and whatever was served to him in breakfast and lunch, he consumed it silently, an official said.
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