Murshidabad district was on the boil earlier this month for a substantial period as communal violence broke out during the protests against the Waqf (Amendment Act).
The matter, as scheduled, came up for hearing at Calcutta High Court’s division bench of Justice Debangshu Basak and Justice Shabbar Rashidi on Monday afternoon.
The matter came up for a hearing at a special court in Kolkata on Monday afternoon, where the counsel of the victim’s parents submitted a written synopsis of his observations on the CBI probe into the matter so far and in that written submission, this particular allegation was made.
Ahead of the monsoon season, state authorities are aiming to complete refurbishment of the carriageway of the Durgapur Barrage.
Sanjay Jaiswal, chairperson, parliamentary committee on estimates and other members of the committee including 11 Members of Parliament have held a meeting with Eastern Railway, South Eastern Railway & Northeast Frontier Railway at Kolkata.
Taking a leaf out of the chief minister and the Trinamul Congress chairperson Mamata Banerjee’s book, her nephew and party’s national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee today held a virtual meet with party leaders on Saturday.
Indal Yadav, an accused in a shootout incident in Belgharia has been arrested from Asansol on Friday afternoon. He has been forwarded to Barrackpore Court and then taken on ten days police custody.
Today, the rebel MLA of Bharatpur in Murshidabad district, submitted a two-page reply to the committee chairman as well as parliamentary affairs minister Sobhandeb Chattopadhyay clarifying he won’t apologise because he did not violate any discipline by making statements against Mr Adhikari.
Following the 300-year-old tradition of the Burdwan Raj, the district town of Burdwan, unlike other places, observed Holi today, a day after the traditional Holi observed in the rest of India.
Cooch Behar and North Bengal have emerged as crucial political battlegrounds in West Bengal, with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the ruling Trinamul Congress (TMC) locked in a fierce struggle for dominance.
