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Kolkata, March 31 – A division bench of the Calcutta High Court on Tuesday dismissed two public interest litigations (PILs) filed by a Trinamool Congress leader challenging the decisions of the Election Commission of India regarding the large-scale transfers of bureaucrats and police officers in...

Ranchi, March 30 The Jharkhand High Court took suo motu cognizance of the rape and brutal murder of a minor girl in the Vishnugarh area of Hazaribagh district on Monday and issued notices to the State Home Secretary and the Director General of Police (DGP), seeking their responses.The court...

Nagpur, March 22 Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said on Sunday that a high-level inquiry, led by the Director General of Police (DGP), is underway in the case involving Ashok Kharat, a self-proclaimed religious figure arrested for rape, and asserted that no one will be spared...

New Delhi, March 19 AAP convenor Arvind Kejriwal voiced his support for West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday, stating that she is fighting to protect democracy and accusing the BJP of using the Election Commission (EC) to win the upcoming state assembly elections.The former...

Kolkata, March 17 West Bengal Chief Minister and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday launched a sharp attack on the EC, alleging that senior administrative and police officers were being transferred ahead of the assembly polls at the behest of the BJP.She warned that the poll body and the...

Kolkata, March 16 West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee wrote to Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar on Monday night, expressing "deep concern and surprise" over the election panel's orders to transfer four top state officials shortly after the announcement of the assembly elections...

Kolkata/New Delhi, March 16 The Election Commission has removed the West Bengal Chief Secretary, Home Secretary, Director General of Police, and Kolkata police commissioner, among others, in an unprecedented administrative shake-up in the state ahead of the high-stakes assembly polls.The EC's...

Kolkata, March 16 – Several West Bengal Police and Kolkata Police officers who were transferred by the Election Commission of India (ECI) earlier in the day were given new postings by the state government on Monday.The Election Commission removed officers holding the posts of Director General...

Kolkata/New Delhi, March 16 In a move unprecedented in West Bengal's administrative history in terms of its scale, the Election Commission removed the state's bureaucratic and police top brass, including the chief secretary and the DGP, in the run-up to the next month's assembly polls.Although...

Kolkata, March 16 Hours after the Election Commission ordered the removal of DGP Peeyush Pandey and Kolkata Police Commissioner Supratim Sarkar, the West Bengal government on Monday issued a notification transferring and posting several senior IPS officers, including the two, with immediate...

Kolkata/New Delhi, March 16 In a move unprecedented in West Bengal's administrative history, the Election Commission removed the state's top bureaucrats and police officials, including the chief secretary and the DGP, in the run-up to the assembly polls.The decision for the shake-up was taken...

New Delhi, March 16 The Election Commission's decision to transfer West Bengal's chief secretary and DGP shortly after announcing the dates for the Assembly elections triggered a political uproar on Monday.While the opposition parties accused the poll panel of acting at the behest of the BJP...

Kolkata, March 16 A day after the announcement of the West Bengal assembly election schedule, the Election Commission on Monday removed DGP Peeyush Pandey and Kolkata Police Commissioner Supratim Sarkar, an official said.The EC appointed senior IPS officer Siddh Nath Gupta as the director...

Kolkata, March 16 – The Election Commission of India (ECI) announced on Monday the replacement of key police officers in West Bengal, including the acting Director General of Police (DGP) Peeyush Pandey and Kolkata Police Commissioner Supratim Sarkar.According to the Commission's order, Siddh...

Itanagar, March 16 The Arunachal Pradesh government has transferred and posted 27 senior police officers, including several from the IPS and state police service (APPS) cadres.The transfers were ordered by the governor following a Police Establishment Board (PEB) meeting held recently...

Patna, March 13 The Bihar Assembly received a bomb threat via email on Friday morning, which later turned out to be a hoax, officials said.The email threat was received at 11:11 am, prompting Secretary Khyati Singh to inform Speaker Prem Kumar, they added.Kumar took note of the threat and...

Leh, March 12 The newly appointed Lieutenant Governor of Ladakh, Vinai Kumar Saxena, received a warm welcome upon his arrival here on the eve of his oath-taking ceremony.Senior officials, representatives from political and religious organizations, and a large number of ordinary citizens...

Kolkata, March 10 The Election Commission (EC) on Tuesday asked the West Bengal government to provide a list of police officers, including station officers and their senior officials, who were on duty during the post-poll violence in 2021, officials said.A full bench of the EC held a meeting...

Mumbai, March 10 Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said on Tuesday that a committee headed by the Director General of Police (DGP) would be formed to curb attempts to defame individuals through social media.The CM made the statement in the legislative assembly while replying to a...

New Delhi, March 5 – The National Commission for Women (NCW) has taken cognizance of a media report that highlighted an alleged illegal racket involving the extraction and sale of eggs from financially vulnerable women in the Badlapur area of Maharashtra.Describing the report as "disturbing,"...