The West Bengal is bracing for intense rainfall and stormy conditions as the southwest monsoon inches closer to full arrival in the region.
A seven-member medical board has been constituted by the authorities of the private hospital in South Kolkata where the former Calcutta High Court judge and BJP MP from West Bengal’s Tamluk Constituency, Abhijit Gangopadhyay, was admitted late Saturday night with abdominal pain.
The counsels for both the petitioners and the state government submitted their closing remarks before the single-judge Bench of Justice Amrita Sinha, who then reserved the judgment.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday, urged the West Bengal State Election Commission to bar deployment of state police during the upcoming Kaliganj Assembly bypoll scheduled for 19 June, alleging political bias and voter intimidation by the forces.
P B Salim, chairman of the West Bengal Power Development Corporation Limited (WBPDCL), visited the Deucha Pachami coal mining project in Birbhum district on Wednesday to inspect the ongoing excavation work.
The mapping of wards is being done, keeping all 47 wards as vulnerable, as cases have been found in almost all the wards.
Chief minister Mamata Banerjee has often criticised the Centre for withholding funds that needed to be released for natural disasters.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Saturday had arrested Chatterjee in connection with the West Bengal School Service Commission and West Bengal Primary Education Board recruitment scam.
The Enforcement Directorate on Friday (July 23) recovered Rs 20 crore in cash from the house of an associate of West Bengal Minister Partha Chatterjee.
Teams of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) were also sent to West Bengal last year to review the complaints.
