NEW DELHI: Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee accused functionaries within her party of “sabotage” in the recent assembly elections and announced multiple probes Wednesday, striking a defiant note as TMC grappled with a crushing defeat to BJP after 15 years in office. Seventy-one of 80 newly elected MLAs attended a meeting at her Kalighat residence…
KOLKATA: Bulldozers will not be allowed in victory processions and political rallies, Bengal DGP SN Gupta and Kolkata police commissioner Ajay Nand said Wednesday, after CEC Gyanesh Kumar directed authorities to arrest those involved in post-poll violence following two deaths and reports of widespread vandalism. If any cop is found to have “not acted enough”…
NEW DELHI: The Bar Council of India (BCI) and the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) on Wednesday have urged CJI Surya Kant to urgently intervene after an Andhra Pradesh HC judge decides to send a young lawyer to 24-hour judicial custody, despite his repeated pleas for mercy over a purported misdemeanour.BCI president Manan Kumar Mishra…
NEW DELHI: Murders in India dropped by 2.4% in 2024, the latest NCRB data says. Overall, 58.8 lakh cognisable crimes were registered in the country in 2024, a dip of 6% compared to 2023 in which 62.4 lakh cases were reported. Crimes against women declined by 1.5%, with 4.41 lakh cases reported in 2024 compared…
KOLKATA: PM Modi will return to Kolkata, as promised, to attend the swearing-in ceremony of the newly elected BJP govt at Brigade Parade Ground at 10 am on May 9, Rabindra Jayanti. Accompanying the PM on stage will be home minister Amit Shah, BJP national president Nitin Nabin and the chief ministers of all NDA-governed…
KOLKATA: Post-election flareups across Bengal triggered clashes, firing and vandalism from Kolkata to its northern fringes, prompting BJP brass to call for restraint and direct its cadre to restore calm on the ground. The most serious confrontation came from Sandeshkhali in North 24 Parganas district, roughly 75km northeast of Kolkata, where a clash between Trinamool…
KOLKATA: Life in minority pockets across Kolkata has changed overnight after the election results. With bikeborne miscreants riding through Muslim neighbourhoods chanting ‘Jai Shri Ram’, a sense of fear and unease has gripped residents. In the south Tangra neighbourhood, the situation turned volatile on Tuesday night when a mob chanting ‘Jai Shri Ram’ attacked a…
NEW DELHI: CEC Gyanesh Kumar Wednesday directed authorities to immediately arrest those involved in post-poll violence in West Bengal after two deaths and widespread vandalism raised concerns about law and order in the state. Officials said the CEC also instructed the state’s top administrative and police officers to take urgent measures to restore normalcy. They…
NEW DELHI: A nine-judge bench led by Chief Justice of India Surya Kant Wednesday cited caseload to ask if it is prudent for the court to spend enormous time to resolve religious right disputes. The poser came during the course of hearings on the challenge to the Supreme Court’s verdict allowing women of menstruating age…
NEW DELHI: President Droupadi Murmu does not appear to have accepted the resignation of Justice Yashwant Varma who, faced with a removal motion after discovery of wads of unaccounted money in his official residence in Delhi, had put in papers nearly amonth ago. His name figures at serial number four of the list of judges…