CM Suvendu Adhikari at an event to mark the 189th birth anniversary of Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay Kolkata: Bengal govt will not only implement Uniform Civil Code (UCC) but also bring tough laws on land jihad, love jihad and forcible conversions, chief minister Suvendu Adhikari said on Friday, adding, “Keep the faith. Please allow us some…
Officials will examine under-construction projects for major violations, recommend rejection where required or suggest rectification measures to protect sanctioned plans Kolkata: Bengal CM Suvendu Adhikari on Friday widened the ambit of the special audit of building plans and the construction pause at private high-rise and commercial projects to include more municipalities around Kolkata, but clarified…
Dwaipayan.GhoshKolkata: Former minister Aroop Biswas has been named in a fresh FIR over an alleged attempt on a lawyer’s life inside the Alipore court complex. The FIR was registered at Alipore Police Station under BNS sections 109 (attempt to murder) and 153 (wanton provocation with intent to cause a riot) following a violent altercation on…
Jaipur: The Central Bureau of Investigation said Thursday it carried out coordinated searches at over 80 locations, including in Rajasthan, as part of a nationwide crackdown on organised cybercrime networks behind digital arrest scams. The raids, conducted under Operation Chakra-VI, were aimed at dismantling infrastructure allegedly used to facilitate over 200 cases of cyber fraud…
Kolkata: Larsen & Toubro (L&T) plans to invest more than Rs 4,500 crore in Bengal over the next few years, with chairman S N Subrahmanyan expected to meet CM Suvendu Adhikari next month to discuss a series of investment proposals.Dip Kishore Sen, adviser to the L&T chairman and managing director, told TOI that Subrahmanyan is…
The four alleged ganja traffickers arrested by the STF in Bhubaneswar on Friday Bhubaneswar: Trailing a half-torn Rs 10 note used as a secret identifier in a drug trafficking syndicate, special task force (STF) on Friday busted a major interstate racket, arresting kingpin Durbasa Sahu (46), a primary school teacher from Boudh district, and his…
KPCC president BK Hariprasad inaugurates an SIR awarenessprogramme in Hubballi. Congress functionaries accompanied him Hubballi: KPCC president BK Hariprasad on Thursday alleged that genuine voters may be struck off the electoral rolls under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) and urged voters and party workers to stay alert. He was speaking at an SIR awareness programme…
The death toll in the Taratala warehouse collapse in West Bengal rose to 14 on Friday as search and rescue operations continued amid fears that more workers could still be trapped under the debris. In a related development, police arrested Kalicharan Banerjee, former officer on special duty (OSD) to ex-Kolkata mayor Firhad Hakim, in connection…
Kolkata: The Bengal govt is likely to introduce a bill on Uniform Civil Code (UCC) in the Assembly on Monday. The Assembly’s Business Advisory Committee, chaired by Speaker Rathindra Bose, decided to email the draft UCC Bill to all MLAs and then table it for discussion on Monday.If passed, Bengal will join states like Gujarat,…
Suvendu Adhikari and Samik Bhattacharya at the event on Thursday Kolkata: Autocracy and arrogance are not part of BJP’s ideology, and Bengal’s history has never accepted them, CM Suvendu Adhikari and Bengal BJP president Samik Bhattacharya said on Thursday.At an event to mark the day when Emergency was declared on June 25, 1975, the CM…
