Two cops removed, two TMC leaders arrested in West Burdwan
While in Birbhum district, police have conducted raids throughout the night and vehicle full of cattle, coal and stone have been seized from the highways and drivers arrested.
While in Birbhum district, police have conducted raids throughout the night and vehicle full of cattle, coal and stone have been seized from the highways and drivers arrested.
Senior BJP leader and Member of Parliament Jyotirmoy Singh Mahato, a member of the Parliamentary Committee for home affairs, has written today to West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, urging her to increase the monthly assistance under the Lakshmir Bhandar scheme to Rs 2,000.
Visibly upset, BJP’s Siliguri MLA Sankar Ghosh, who is also the chief whip of the Opposition in the state Assembly, expressed frustration over his inability to utilise the Bidhayak Fund (MLA fund) for local area development.
West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee today issued a stern warning against certain sections of the police and civil administration, saying that they are taking bribes and the blame is falling on Trinamul Congress leaders.
A lady sub-inspector, Nasrin Sultana, the officer in-charge of Rupnarayanpur police outpost has become the first woman to become the officer in-charge of a police station of Asansol Durgapur Police Commissionerate (ADPC) since its formation in September 2011.
Just hours after Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha member Jawhar Sircar announced to quit the party over the R. G. Kar issue, BJP's central observer for West Bengal Amit Malviya on Saturday said Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and the Kolkata Police Commissioner Vineet Kumar Goyal should follow suit.
According to sources, after Sircar's communique to the Chief Minister expressing his desire to resign from Rajya Sabha and quit politics as protest against the ghastly rape and murder of a junior doctor of R.G. Kar Medical College & Hospital, and the corruption in general governance surfaced on Sunday morning
Sircar has communicated this decision to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee through a letter dated September 8, where he has also said that he has decided to quit politics for good.
Chief minister Mamata Banerjee will hold the administrative review meeting on Monday. Chief secretary Manoj Pant, Home Secretary Nandini Chakraborty, all additional chief secretaries, principal secretaries and departmental secretaries are supposed to attend the meeting.
On the occasion of Teachers' Day, chief minister Mamata Banerjee paid rich tributes to Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan and respect to the teaching community.
