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Kolkata, February 24 – A bomb threat was sent to seven courts in West Bengal, including the Calcutta High Court, via email, causing panic among judges and lawyers on Tuesday, police said.Following the bomb threat, the state administration hastily called a high-level meeting at the State...

Kolkata, February 24 The Calcutta High Court on Tuesday suspended the life imprisonment sentence of a man, convicted for the rape of a minor, stating that his appeal, which has been pending since 2019, is yet to be heard, and that prior appeals are also pending.Noting that it is uncertain when...

New Delhi, February 24 The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed the deployment of West Bengal civil judges, in addition to 250 district judges, and the requisitioning of judicial officers from Jharkhand and Odisha to handle the 80 lakh claims and objections related to deletion from the electoral...

Kolkata, February 24 Both the Trinamool Congress and the BJP hailed the Supreme Court's order on Tuesday, allowing the Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court to deploy judicial officers from neighboring Jharkhand and Odisha to deal with claims and objections in the ongoing Special Intensive...

Kolkata, February 24 Union minister Sukanta Majumdar on Tuesday alleged that a high-level meeting convened in West Bengal to further the SIR process, as mandated by the Supreme Court, was attended by unauthorized individuals, including former chief secretary Manoj Pant.The BJP leader demanded...

Kolkata, February 24 – The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has summoned Bibhas Adhikari in the primary school recruitment case in West Bengal, according to sources within the agency on Tuesday.Adhikari is a close associate of Trinamool Congress MLA Manik Bhattacharya, who was arrested by the ED...

The Supreme Court has allowed the Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court to deploy civil judges and requisition judicial officers from neighboring Jharkhand and Odisha to handle the 80 lakh claims and objections under the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls in West Bengal.A bench...

New Delhi, February 24 – The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed judicial officers from the neighboring High Courts of Jharkhand and Orissa to be deputed to West Bengal to expedite the resolution of voter claims and objections arising from the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral...

New Delhi, February 24 The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed the Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court to deploy civil judges and also to requisition judicial officers from neighboring Jharkhand and Odisha to deal with the 80 lakh claims and objections in the ongoing Special Intensive Revision...

Kolkata, February 24 – As the process of judicial review of voter documents identified under the "logical discrepancy" category in West Bengal, which is heading towards elections, began, the judicial officers appointed in four districts near the India-Bangladesh border have sought special...

Kolkata, February 23 Calcutta High Court Chief Justice Sujoy Paul held an internal coordination meeting with the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of West Bengal and senior administrative and police officials on Monday regarding the work assigned to judicial officers, officials said.The Chief...

Kolkata, February 23 Judicial officers appointed to adjudicate voter identification documents flagged under the "logical discrepancy" category by the Election Commission of India (ECI) will submit daily progress reports to the Calcutta High Court on the status of the adjudication process.The...

Kolkata, February 23 – The Calcutta High Court on Monday directed the West Bengal School Service Commission (SSC) to disclose, through an affidavit, the details of the money collected from candidates who sought review of allegedly incorrect questions in last year's recruitment examination...

Kolkata, February 23 Calcutta High Court Chief Justice Sujoy Paul held an internal coordination meeting with the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of West Bengal and senior administrative and police officials on Monday regarding the work assigned to judicial officers, officials said.The Chief...

Kolkata, February 23 – The Calcutta High Court ordered on Monday that the Union Ministry of Home Affairs be made a party in the case concerning illegal constructions in the East Kolkata Wetlands, according to court sources.Justice Amrita Sinha of the Calcutta High Court expressed...

Kolkata, February 23 Noting that the West Bengal government was unable to handle mass agitations that were obstructing the demolition of over 500 illegal constructions in the East Kolkata wetlands, the Calcutta High Court on Monday said it was considering deploying paramilitary forces to carry...

Kolkata, February 23 Mukul Roy, a key strategist once hailed as the "Chanakya" of West Bengal politics, defined an era of silent political coups and shifting loyalties as a master of defection, yet ironically, he came to embody the very politics he perfected.With the passing of the founding...

Kolkata, February 23 Mukul Roy, a key strategist who was once hailed as the "Chanakya of West Bengal politics," died early Monday after a prolonged illness, bringing to an end a career marked by both engineering and participating in defections.One of the founding members of the Trinamool...

Kolkata, February 23 – The adjudication of voter documents identified under the "logical discrepancy" category by judicial officers, as directed by the Supreme Court last week, will begin on Monday.The process is expected to start after 11 a.m., and according to the Supreme Court's directive...

Kolkata, February 23 – Senior politician Mukul Roy, a former Railway Minister from West Bengal, died early Monday morning at a private hospital in Kolkata, his family has confirmed. He was 73.Mukul Roy passed away shortly after 1:30 a.m. on Monday, according to his son, Subhranshu Roy. He had...