Kolkata A 10-member Central Delimitation Committee (CDC) has been formed by Kolkata Municipal Corporation to create 56 additional civic wards, increasing the total from 144 to 200, officials said.The committee, tasked with ensuring a balanced distribution of voters across the 200 wards, has to submit its recommendations by July 27. The KMC elections are due…
The TMC office in the middle of controversy Kolkata: The rebel MLAs’ attempt to “take control” of the Trinamool party office at Metropolitan off the EM Bypass took a dramatic turn on Saturday, with rebel MLA Akhruzzaman claiming that former Kolkata mayor Firhad Hakim — now in the rebel camp — had signed the tenancy…
Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief Mamata Banerjee on Saturday defended her faction’s claim over Trinamool Bhavan, a day after the party headquarters in Kolkata was taken over by the rebel camp led by Leader of the Opposition Ritabrata Banerjee, intensifying the battle for control of the party’s organisation. Speaking during a Facebook Live session, Banerjee asserted…
Both TMC factions put up their banners outside the building Rebel TMC faction at TMC Bhawan on Friday Kolkata: A day after meeting Election Commission to stake claim to the party’s name and symbol, rebel Trinamool MLAs led by Ritabrata Banerjee, Firhad Hakim, Jawed Khan and Golam Rabbani on Friday evening “took control” of the…
Sixteen people died in the warehouse collapse in Taratala on June 24 Kolkata: Establishing the financial trail that facilitated the vetting of the Taratala warehouse project is the focus of the Lalbazar SIT probe into the collapse. The team is preparing to produce six arrested accused, including Kalicharan Banerjee, suspended officer on special duty (OSD)…
Kolkata: The toll in the Taratala warehouse collapse rose to 16 on Friday after three more bodies were pulled out of the debris, the last around 1.10 am, and two injured workers died at SSKM Hospital on Thursday night and Friday evening.One of the bodies recovered early on Friday was yet to be identified till…
Kolkata: CM Suvendu Adhikari on Thursday blamed the previous Trinamool Congress dispensation for the collapse of the under-construction warehouse in Taratala, telling off the party, “This is the result of the sins you committed.”Holding a copy of the sanctioned building plan of the structure, which bore the signatures of then Trinamool mayor of Kolkata Municipal…
Kolkata: Five people were killed and 20 others injured after a 32,000 sq ft under-construction warehouse at Taratala came crashing down around 11.30 am on Wednesday, burying around 40 labourers under tonnes of concrete slabs, mangled iron beams, steel and corrugated tin sheets.Nearly 400 personnel drawn from the Army, National Disaster Response Force, State Disaster…
Mamata Banerjee (File photo) KOLKATA: The rebel Trinamool bloc led by leader of opposition in the state assembly Ritabrata Banerjee on Monday removed Mamata Banerjee from the post of party’s chairperson and replaced her with former minister and four-time Howrah MLA Arup Roy.The meeting that decided the Trinamool founder’s removal lasted a little more than…
Kolkata: Veteran Trinamool MLA Sobhandeb Chattopadhyay on Saturday handed over a copy of the controversial resolution book to CID investigators as the agency intensified its probe into the Signgate case.The Ballygunge MLA said he himself called the CID to come over to his place and collect the copy of the May 19 resolution, for which…
