Kolkata, July 21 (UNI) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee along with Samajwadi Party supremo Akhilesh Yadav on Sunday vowed to end the BJP-led NDA government at the Centre and save the country from the clutches of alleged dictatorial and communal forces regime. Addressing a mammoth rally at Esplanade to mark Martyrs’ Day remembering the…
Kolkata, July 21 (UNI) The Indian Railways has cancelled two trains between India and Bangladesh in view of the ongoing violent protests in the neighbouring country, official sources said here on Sunday. The Kolkata-Dhaka Maitree Express on Saturday and the Bandhan Express between Kolkata and Khulna on Sunday have been cancelled because of “unavoidable circumstances.”….
Kolkata, July 12 (UNI) Opposition leader in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly Suvendu Adhikari has called on Union Home Minister Amit Shah and apprised him of the latest political situation, including that of “mob violence,” across the state. Adhikari said he met Shah at his residence in New Delhi on Thursday and narrated about the…
Kolkata, July 5 (UNI) West Bengal Legislative Assembly Speaker Biman Banerjee on Friday administered the oath of office to two newly-elected Trinamool Congress MLAs at a specially convened one-day session of the Assembly, ending a month-long deadlock created by the legislators’ refusal to take oath at Raj Bhawan. Since the bye-election results on June 4,…
Kolkata, July 4 (UNI) The Calcutta High Court will hear a defamation suit filed by West Bengal Governor C.V. Ananda Bose against Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on July 10, court sources said on Thursday. Bose filed the suit against Banerjee on June 28, a day after she said before the media that several women had…
Kolkata, June 29 (UNI) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday said that the judicial system should be independent and impartial, and it should not be politically biassed when administering a judgement. As a special guest at a ceremony to mark the Calcutta High Court Bar Library’s 200 years at the city National Judicial…
Kolkata, June 29 (UNI) Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud on Saturday opined that the judges are the servants of the Constitution and not masters as he batted for more empathy among the judges, who he said must do their service without being judgmental. “The judges are the servants of the Constitution and not a…
Siliguri, June 17 (UNI) Railways Minister Ashwini Vaishnav on Monday visited the accident site at Ranidanga and interacted with the injured in the hospital. As per the latest report, nine people were killed and 41 injured after a goods train hit the Sealdah bound Kanchanjunga Exp from Agartala (Tripura) at Ranidanga near Phansidewa in Darjeeling…
Kolkata, June 17 (UNI) Eastern Railway on Monday said an emergency passenger train from Sealdah will leave for the accident site at Rangapani in north Bengal to bring back stranded passengers, ER CPRO Kaushik Mitra said. Besides the train, the North Bengal State Transport (NBST) would run 10 maxi buses to get back the stranded…
Kolkata, June 17 (UNI) At least five people were killed, and some 35 others injured when a goods train hit the Sealdah-bound Kanchenjunga Express near Rangapani in northern West Bengal district of Jalpaiguri on Monday, a senior official confirmed. He said that around 8.30 am, the goods train hit the stationed Kanchanjunga Exp from the…
