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19 May

SSC Scam: Bengal Minister `DISAPPEARS` with daughter after the CBI summon

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The CBI has sent an email to Minister Paresh Adhikari asking him to appear by 8 pm on Tuesday as directed by the Calcutta High Court. But the Minister of State for Education did not come to the state. On the contrary, it was once revealed that she had left for Sealdah station in Padak Express with her daughter Ankita and 'disappeared' in the middle of the road. CBI officers on Tuesday named the minister after receiving the High Court's order. They contacted the minister three times but could not reach him as his smartphone was switched off. As a…

19 May

Protests at West Bengal Universities Demanding Online Exams

editor0 CommentsWest Bengal, Education

Demonstrations have been held by means of college students in exceptional universities across West Bengal on Tuesday, annoying on line examinations. At Rabindra Bharati University in Kolkata, the demonstrations grew to become violent as some college students kicked the door of the vice-chancellor’s office and manhandled a non-teaching staff amid a gherao that went on for hours, prompting the authorities to name in the police. The students, who had been demonstrating at the state-run varsity’s BT Road campus, claimed that as the syllabus should now not be executed in on line classes, they must be allowed to write the papers…

15 May

West Bengal: 2 arrested for hiring killer to murder brother over property dispute

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Two persons were arrested in West Bengal's Hooghly district on Saturday for hiring a hitman to kill a brother over a property dispute. The murderer strangled the brother and threw the body in the pond. The police recovered the useless body. A police announcement issued through the Srirampur police station said, “The Srirampur police station received a complaint filed on May 12 by Utpal Das that his brother Gautam Das was scheduled at a pond in Bhattacharya Garden. On receiving the information, the police went to the spot and recovered his body. He was sent to Srirampur Walsh (SD) Health…

14 May

SSC Recruitment Scam: Massive irregularities in Bengal school recruitment

editor0 CommentsWest Bengal, Education

A committee headed by a retired Calcutta High Court judge on Friday submitted a file in the High Court highlighting irregularities in the recruitment of Group C batch of school staff using the West Bengal School Service Commission.The document was submitted to the Calcutta High Court's division bench of Justice Subrata Talukder and Justice Anand Kumar Mukherjee. Justice (Retd.) R.K. Bag was asked to appear in court on charges of irregularities in the recruitment of C group workers by the commission. Arunava Bandyopadhyay, an attorney acting for the Justice Bagh Committee, said the investigation had found major irregularities where 381…

14 May

West Bengal teen dies in tiffin bomb explosion

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A 17-year-old boy died in a steel tiffin box explosion near Kolkata on Saturday. Sheikh Sahil was seriously injured in an explosion when he was trying to open a tiffin field that his grandfather, a rag-picker, had collected from Rahara police station area of North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal. He was taken to a government medical facility in Barrackpore, about 30 km from Kolkata. However, he died on impact. Abdul Hamid, Sahil's grandfather, said he picked up the metal tiffin pot and added it inside their house. He also proved that he informed his grandson Sahil to open…

13 May

West Bengal: Mamata Banerjee bats for creation of more districts in state

editor0 CommentsPolitical, West BengalMAMATA BANARJEE

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday stated there is a want to create more districts in the state for expediting development work, but it has been constrained by using lack of manpower and infrastructure. Speaking at a assembly with West Bengal Civil Service officers at the renovated Town Hall here, she said the area of the present 23 districts in the state is vast, so there is a need to divide them and amplify the number. The nation wants more manpower and infrastructure for this purpose. "We need to divide the districts as these are very large. The…

05 May

Seeds of depression over Bay of Bengal, cyclone blips on Bengal radar

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A cyclone that formed over the South Andaman Sea on Wednesday is set to turn into a depression this weekend. Met officials said it was too early to predict whether the gadget would become a cyclone. But May is a good time for a tropical cyclone and the chance cannot be ruled out now. If the device turns into a cyclone, it will be 0.33 in May for three consecutive years after Amphan in 2020 and Yas in 2021. “Wednesday's cyclone is likely to develop into a low pressure area. In the next 48 hours, it is likely to intensify…

04 May

About 25% of Government Schools in Bengal Do Not Have a Head Master

editor0 CommentsWest Bengal, Education

Of the total 9,990 authority faculties in West Bengal, about 2,130 faculties do not have a head teacher, according to the School Education Department. This means, 25 percent of faculties in the country do not have a head teacher. This is probably due to not hiring head teachers on a long-term basis. As per rules a head teacher can be appointed for seven years. According to sources in the faculty training department, the state authorities have to start a new recruitment process for the appointment of head teachers. The West Bengal Board of Secondary Education (WBBSE) had earlier requested the…

04 May

Amit Shah to embark on 3-day Bengal visit today amid efforts to strengthen BJP’s state unit

editor0 CommentsWest Bengal, PoliticalAmit Shah

Home Minister Amit Shah will contact down in West Bengal for a 3-day go to to the state today. The go to - his first to the kingdom after the outcomes of the 2021 West Bengal assembly elections poured in - come amid a slew of defections from the BJP's country unit. The battle between the historical shield and beginners from other parties has additionally intensified in current days. Shah is slated to attend party-related programs over the subsequent few days as nicely as meeting state and neighborhood leader. According to West Bengal Vice President Soumitra Khan, the Home Minister…

03 May

Mamata Banerjee joins Eid prayers at Red Road

editor0 CommentsWest BengalCM Mamata Banerjee, Eid

After a gap of two years, people offered namaz of Eid-ul-Fitr on Red Road in Calcutta and Eid prayers were conducted on Tuesday morning. As Covid cases have dipped across Bengal, the state government has allowed the offering of namaz on Red Road for Eid in 2022. Participating in the prayer for Eid-ul-Fitr held on a rain-drenched Red Road here, Banerjee urged the people gathered there not to be scared but to be united for a better future. Addressing a gathering of around 14,000 people for the Eid prayer on Red Road, Banerjee assured them that "neither I nor my party nor my…