On Monday, a single-judge bench of Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay ordered removal of Bhattacharya from his post in connection with alleged irregularities in the recruitment of teachers for government primary schools.

According to TMC sources, the Speaker’s order implies that Roy, who represents the Krishnanagar South Assembly constituency in Nadia district, remains a BJP MLA.

The CM was speaking to mediapersons after visiting the house of the slain couple, who hailed from Gujarat. Earlier in the day, she returned to Kolkata after her North Bengal visit.

The Chief Minister said, “The central government has stopped wheat supply to the state and has not been releasing money for the works done under the 100-day work scheme (MNREGA).”

Originally hailing from Rajkot in Gujarat, Ashok, a stock market businessman, and Rashmita, a housewife, used to stay on the first floor of 73-A Harish Mukherjee Road apartment near Mitra Institute in Bhabanipur with their youngest daughter, and two of their elder daughters were married.

He is scheduled to hold organisational meetings, besides chairing separate meetings with party MPs and MLAs. He will also preside over the first working committee meeting of the new state party unit in Bengal.

Chatterjee, who was the education minister when the alleged illegal appointments were made by the SSC, was questioned in three shifts at the CBI office in Kolkata, an official said.

The CM's comments came in the backdrop of the Calcutta High Court ordering CBI probes into various cases related to alleged recruitment scam between 2014 and 2017.

The 61-year-old was taken to state-run SSKM Hospital from where he was discharged later. The CBI officials said Mondal complained of chest pain and asked the investigators to allow him to visit a doctor. “He was allowed to go while interrogation was on. He will be called for questioning again," an official said.

Minister reaches central agency's office after Calcutta HC warns of strict action

KMRCL managing director (MD) Chandranath Jha said this after a meeting with officials of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC), and representatives of the ruling Trinamool Congress over the cracks in buildings and rehabilitation of the residents of Durga Pituri Lane in the area.

Himaghnaraj, who replaced Abhoy Mukhopadhyay, started with CPIM's student wing in South 24 Parganas.

This is the first time that the 61-year-old TMC strongman has agreed to face the agency sleuths who were informed through an email, it is learnt.

The CM appealed for considering the Bengali cinema as an industry and directed the top government officials to call film investors from across the country to the next edition of the Bengal Global Business Summit that concluded recently.

Searches were also conducted at their residences and “samples and evidences” were collected by the CBI along with a forensic team. Braj is the son of a local Trinamool Congress leader.

Amid growing outrage over the incident, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee, in her first term as CM, had termed it “doctored” and “minor”.

The father says he did not know of the birthday party that day. The 14-year-old left home on her cycle around 4 pm, promising her mother to return early. Around 7.30 pm, a woman dropped her back, on her own cycle. She was bleeding.

A FIERCE political battle is all set to unfold on Tuesday, when bypolls to Asansol Lok Sabha and Ballygunge Assembly constituencies will be held. For the BJP, it would be a challenge to retain the Asansol seat and spring a surprise in Ballygunge constituency, a TMC stronghold. For the ruling TMC, it is a litmus […]

“I don't feel respected or protected here. I want to return to my former institute Jadavpur University. I have sent a letter to (Vice-Chancellor of Jadavpur University) Suranjan Das in this regard. I think I have failed as a teacher," a teary-eyed Ali told mediapersons.

Police identified the suspect as Amit Pandit, of Haringhata in Nadia district. “He was wanted in an attempt to murder case that dates back to December last year,” Barrackpore Commissioner of Police Manoj Verma said.

In August last year, the court had directed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to investigate post-poll violence cases related to murder, rape and crime against women.

Officials said that the process of exhumation started around 12.30 pm. A team of three doctors will be performing the autopsy at the state-run SSKM Hospital. The second autopsy will help the SIT estimate the height and angle at which Anis fell, sources said.

As per a notification issued by the state government, all Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) centres will also reopen from Wednesday. "A separate standard operating procedure will be issued by the School Education Department in this regard," stated the notification.

CPI(M) student leader Srijan Bhattacharya said, “People have realised that the CPI(M) is the only force that can defeat the TMC. In the future, we will do that.”