A Central Study Team comprising five members of the team will visit Gosaba and Pathar Pratima today to asses the damage caused by the cyclone storm. The Central Study Team comprising 12 senior bureaucrats from various ministries arrived in Kolkata yesterday and later rushed to Darjeeling and North 24-Parganas to review the scale of devastation caused by cyclone Aila. The team members will be returning to Kolkata on Tuesday and will hold a meeting with state government officials at Writers’ Buildings. The Central team members will leave for Delhi on 9 June to submit their report to the Union government.
Mamata Banerjee may be giving the go by to the state government’s all-party meet on Aila relief but her ally Congress will take part in it because it doesn’t want to be seen “in poor light across the country”, a newspaper reported. The Trinamul Congress said it was the Congress’s “internal matter”. “Ours is an all-India party. The UPA government is providing all assistance to the state government to tackle the post-cyclone crisis. At this juncture, if we stay away from the meet, it would show us in poor light across the country,” state Congress working president Pradip Bhattacharya said.
Railway minister Mamata Banerjee will flag off the Howrah-Digha - Kandari Express - on 13 June. After assuming charge as Railway minister on 26 May, Banerjee announced the introduction of Howrah- Digha "Kandari Express ‘’ to mark the birth anniversary of poet Kazi Nazrul Islam. The train earlier used to run once a week only on Sundays from Howrah.
After a preliminary probe four Government Railway Police personnel have been suspended for allegedly robbing passengers of a Sealdah-bound train two days ago. The four were directly involved in robbing people in a general compartment of the Muzaffarpur-Sealdah fast passenger on the night of June 4.
Two persons were arrested on Friday in connection with the murder of Trinamul Congress leader Yudhisthir Dolui, at Jakri village, near Khanakul, in Hooghly, on Wednesday. The duo ~ Paresh Chandra Dolui and Raghunath Dolui ~ were among the 85 people, who had been named in the FIR lodged following the murder.
Trinamul Congress chief Mamata Banerjee has accused the CPI-M of unleashing a reign of terror to teach a lesson to people who had voted against it in the Lok Sabha election taking advantage of the absence of Trinamul Congress MPs, who were in Delhi attending the Parliament session.
The CPI-M has called a 12-hour Panskura bandh today to protest against the murder of a teacher committed allegedly by Trinamul Congress workers on Friday. In the past three days, it is the second successive bandh called by the CPI-M in Panskura, to protest against the ‘atrocities’ of the Trinamul Congress.
Prohibitory orders have been clamped under Section 144 Cr. PC, in Domkal and Jalangi police station areas of Murshidabad district. A political activist was murder here on Friday. Both Congress and CPI-M parties claimed that criminal attacks on party workers were the reason behind sporadic incidents of violence there.
Prohibitory orders have been clamped under Section 144 Cr. PC, in Domkal and Jalangi police station areas of Murshidabad district. A political activist was murder here on Friday. Both Congress and CPI-M parties claimed that criminal attacks on party workers were the reason behind sporadic incidents of violence there.
An IPS officer has been accused of torturing his eight-year-old domestic help, who tried to flee his Sankrail house in Howrah yesterday, newspaper reported. Basudeb Bag is a DIG posted at Writers. “We are conducting an inquiry,” said Surajit Kar Purakayastha, inspector-general, south Bengal.
A fundraiser to help the cyclone affected victims was held in Kolkata yesterday. An initiative by the private Bengali news channel (Chobbish Ghanta) in association with Ramakrishna Mission and Math, the event was inaugurated by renowned vocalist Nirmala Mishra.
Thousands of property tax payers have been inconvenienced after lawyers of the Municipal Assessment Tribunal (MAT) decided not to attend proceedings of the tribunal. The lawyers have not been attending the proceedings of the tribunal since 5 June.The lawyers, under the Calcutta Municipal Tribunals Bar Association (CMTBA), have demanded that a permanent service judge be appointed for overseeing proceedings of the MAT.
The Barasat Government College turned into a battle field yesterday, following a clash between SFI and Trinamul Congress Chattra Parishad supporters, over the admission of first year students in the college. At least four police personnel, including Paritosh Ghosh, the inspector-in-charge of Barasat police station and five students, were injured in the clash.
After a tripartite meeting yesterday authorities of the Damodar Valley Corporation owned Mejia Thermal Power Station in Burdwan district declared Rs 14 lakh as compensation to the relatives of the deceased and absorption of one of the dependents from each family into DVC.
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