KOLKATA: Bengal’s chief electoral officer (CEO) has directed ADG (legal) to submit a report on poll-related violence during the 2021 Bengal assembly election and the 2024 LS polls, reports Debashis Konar. In a letter dated March 15, CEO Manoj Agarwal sought a list of police station-level officers under whose jurisdiction violence occurred before, during and…
GUWAHATI: Trouble brewed again for Congress in Assam as Nagaon MP Pradyut Bordoloi said he feels sidelined and humiliated in the party, triggering speculation that he may follow former state PCC chief Bhupen Kumar Borah and others who quit before assembly polls were announced, reports Kangkan Kalita. Bordoloi, a three-time cabinet minister, has written to…
BHUBANESWAR/CUTTACK: An electrical fire originating at a trauma unit of SCB Medical College and Hospital in Odisha’s Cuttack killed 12 patients on Monday. Hospital source said the blaze followed a small fire from an electrical spark in the first-floor trauma ICU that had been quickly attended to and doused. Till late Monday, there was no…
ITANAGAR: Four people were killed and three others injured after a landslide triggered the collapse of a protection wall of a building at Niti Vihar in Arunachal Pradesh’s capital city at around 4pm on Monday, reports Joken Ete. Seven workers were buried under the debris after a wall of the building under construction collapsed, officials…
KOLKATA: Four prominent CPM functionaries who became faces of protests after the 2024 rape-murder of a resident doctor at Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College and Hospital will contest the West Bengal assembly elections in April. Outgoing Rajya Sabha MP Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya, student activist Dipsita Dhar, youth functionary Kalatan Dasgupta and rising Left face Minakshi…
KOLKATA: Bengal’s opposition leader Suvendu Adhikari had signalled his intent to challenge TMC chief Mamata Banerjee in Bhowanipore, the CM’s home turf that has sent her to the assembly three times since 2011. On Monday, BJP named him candidate from both Bhowanipore and Nandigram, where he defeated Banerjee by 1,956 votes in 2021 — a…
NEW DELHI: Amidst calls by the US for a multinational naval coalition to secure the Strait of Hormuz, India Monday backed its own direct engagement with Iran for safe passage of ships, with external affairs minister S Jaishankar saying these talks have yielded “some results”. The ministry of external affairs (MEA) said there had been…
NEW DELHI/KOLKATA: A day after it substituted Bengal chief secretary and principal secretary (home) with its own choices, EC Monday replaced the DGP and Kolkata Police commissioner, among others. Hours after announcing the assembly poll schedule for Bengal along with those of three other states and a UT, the poll panel late Sunday night shunted…
JAMMU: J&K deputy CM Surinder Choudhary has sought jammer and bulletproof vehicles to upgrade his security cover in the wake of an attempt on National Conference chief Farooq Abdullah’s life on March 11.Seeking an immediate review of Choudhary’s security cover, his OSD has written to SSP (security), demanding the restoration of a jammer vehicle that…
SRINAGAR: Thousands rallied Monday in Leh and Kargil on calls by Leh Apex Body (LAB) and Kargil Democratic Alliance (KDA) to press for statehood and Sixth Schedule status for the Union territory (UT) of Ladakh.The rallies came two days after the Centre revoked National Security Act (NSA) against climate activist and LAB member Sonam Wangchuk…