Kolkata, March 30 – The Enforcement Directorate (ED) issued summons to Trinamool Congress legislator Debasish Kumar, who represents the Rashbehari Assembly Constituency in South Kolkata, and a Member-Mayor-in-Council (MMIC) of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC), on Monday, in connection...
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Kolkata, March 23 Congress councillor Santosh Pathak joined the BJP on Monday, a significant boost for the party in central Kolkata ahead of the upcoming state assembly elections.Pathak, who represents Ward 45 of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC), was welcomed by the BJP's state...
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Kolkata, March 21 – Tension gripped Bhabanipur, the constituency of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, on Saturday over allegations that posters belonging to the Trinamool Congress had been torn down. The ruling party claimed that the BJP was responsible for the incident.However, the...
Kolkata, March 21 Since 2011, when the former minority-dominated Garden Reach assembly constituency on the southern outskirts of Kolkata was renamed Kolkata Port, voting has consistently favored the Trinamool Congress.In all three assembly elections since 2011, West Bengal Municipal Affairs &...
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Kolkata, March 18 The Election Commission intensified preparations for the West Bengal Assembly elections on Wednesday, ordering a fresh reshuffle of senior officers, assigning two secretaries to other states as observers, and deploying 13 IAS and five IPS officers in key poll management roles...
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Kolkata, March 18 The Election Commission ordered a fresh round of reshuffle of senior officers in the poll-bound state of West Bengal on Wednesday, appointing 13 IAS officers as District Magistrates-cum-District Election Officers (DMEs), and posting five IPS officers as Deputy Inspectors...
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Kolkata, March 18 – The Election Commission of India (ECI) has mandated the transfer of 13 Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers, all in the ranks of District Magistrates (DMs), who are also the District Electoral Officers (DEOs).According to a notification issued by the ECI in the...
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Kolkata, March 15 – The Election Commission has appointed the Municipal Commissioner as the District Election Officer (DEO) for North Kolkata, a senior government official said on Sunday.The name of the North Kolkata DEO was finalized before the announcement of the West Bengal Assembly...
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Kolkata, March 13 Government offices across West Bengal largely functioned normally on Friday despite a “strike” called by a forum of employees and teachers demanding payment of pending Dearness Allowance (DA).The agitation, called by the Sangrami Joutha Mancha, evoked a limited response in...
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Kolkata, March 7 – A day before the arrival of the full bench of the Election Commission of India (ECI) in Kolkata on Sunday night, posters mocking Chief Election Commissioner (CEC), Gyanesh Kumar, flooded the ward of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) which houses the residence of the West...
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Kolkata, March 3 – A portion of a 150-year-old house on Park Street in central Kolkata collapsed on Tuesday morning, causing alarm in the neighborhood.No injuries were reported as the building was unoccupied at the time of the incident.However, the collapse of the building has left local...
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Kolkata, March 1 – The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) aims to mount a strong challenge to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in her Assembly constituency, Bhabanipur, in the upcoming Assembly elections.The leader of the Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly and veteran BJP leader...
Kolkata, February 24 A fire broke out on the fourth floor of a high-rise building in South Kolkata on Tuesday, officials said.The blaze, believed to have been caused by an explosion involving a cylinder on the fourth floor of the building on Southern Avenue, was noticed around noon, they said...
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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...
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Kolkata, February 17 The Kolkata Municipal Corporation has signed an agreement with IT services major TCS for the modernization and upgrade of the city's public lighting infrastructure, an official of the KMC said on Tuesday.Under the agreement, the civic body will collaborate with Tata...
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Kolkata, February 16 – The Trinamool Congress issued a directive through WhatsApp on Monday, instructing its councillors in the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) to exclusively speak in Bengali during the ongoing budget session of the civic body.The TMC move aims to intensify the party's...
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west bengal
Kolkata, February 9 The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has received more than 19,000 applications for domicile certificates in the past one-and-a-half months, an unprecedented surge linked to the Election Commission's ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, officials...
Kolkata, February 9 The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has received thousands of applications for domicile certificates in the past one-and-a-half months, an unprecedented surge linked to the Election Commission's ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, officials said...
Kolkata, February 9 The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has received more than 18,600 applications for domicile certificates in the past one-and-a-half months, an unprecedented surge linked to the Election Commission's ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, officials...