Ravik Bhattacharya

Sarkar and Sinha allegedly “collected vacancies” in an unauthorised manner — gathered information about vacancies that opened up after the recruitment exams were held — and recommended unsuccessful candidates for those posts.

A Division Bench of Justices Harish Tandon and Rabindranath Samanta set up the Committee on February 22 to look into the alleged irregularities in the recruitment process.

In the civic body elections held in February, the ruling TMC had registered a landslide victory, winning 106 of 108 municipalities across the state. The CPI(M) won just one —Taherpur — while the fledgling Humro Party won Darjeeling.

The Krishak Bazars or farm mandis announced across the state were meant to burnish the Trinamool Congress government’s pro-farmer credentials.

Opposition claims it is because those killed in the factional feud were ruling party supporters

A sit-in against plans to mine the world’s second-largest coal block began on February 23 following incidents of alleged violence and intimidation by the police and the TMC

The surviving family members of the eight victims who were charred to death following a TMC leader’s murder at Bogtui village in Birbhum district last week are planning to return to their village to rebuild their lives and houses.

The officials, including the DIG and forensic experts, visited Bogtui village on Saturday, carried out 3D scanning of the area, and collected samples from the charred houses.

Police also arrested one person in connection with the murder of TMC Deputy Pradhan Bhadu Sheikh whose death set off the retaliatory killing in which eight were killed.

At its centre is Bhadu Sheikh, the 38-year-old TMC deputy pradhan of Barsal Gram Panchayat, a resident of Bagtui village, whose murder set off the retaliatory killing in which eight persons, including six women and a child, were charred to death, all relatives of one of his associates he had fallen out with.

The killings were triggered by the murder of Bhadu Sheikh, the deputy pradhan, in Rampurhat on Monday evening, leading to at least eight houses in the area being attacked and set on fire.

The murder of Bhadu Sheikh, the deputy pradhan, in Rampurhat on Monday evening sparked off a chain of events that led to at least eight houses in the area being attacked and set on fire, leading to the death of eight people, including women and children.

The state government has formed a Special Investigation Team headed by the additional director general of police (CID), Gyanwant Singh, to probe the incident

The party counts “like-minded people” from all walks of life — be it social workers, bakery owners, architects and businessmen — among its ranks.

In an interview with The Indian Express, Ajoy Edwards throws light on his party's formation and its stunning electoral debut.

The Hamro Party, launched 3 months ago by Ajoy Edwards, a former Gorkha National Liberation Front leader, has won the Darjeeling Municipality polls. A look at the formation of Hamro Party and the rise of Edwards.

According to the family, Anis was killed on the intervening night of Friday and Saturday after being allegedly thrown off the second floor of his residence by four unidentified persons in Howrah district’s Sarada Dakshin Khan Para village.

Bengal accounts for almost half of India’s hair exports, sustained by workshops run out of homes. Centre’s recent export curbs have come as a further blow to this cottage industry, struggling since lockdown.

With his five terms in power, between December 1994 and May 2019, making him the longest-serving CM of the country, Pawan Chamling was once the undisputed leader of Sikkim.

Union Minister Santanu Thakur and several BJP MLAs from the politically-influential Matua community have left various WhatsApp groups of West Bengal BJP in protest against non-inclusion of Matua leaders in newly-constituted state and district party committees.

While the cases stood at 382 on December 28, the number shot up to 540 on December 29, doubled to 1,090 on December 30 before touching 1,954 on New Year’s Eve.

The violence that trailed Sunday’s Kolkata Municipal Corporation polls, where the ruling TMC flexed its muscles to ensure a comprehensive win, has left several Opposition candidates and polling agents scarred — in mind and body.

A total of 40,48,357 voters were eligible to vote and elect 144 councillors out of 950 candidates in the fray. The counting of votes will take place on December 21.

🔴 The Indian Express crisscrossed the region to track the first key steps in the land acquisition process for the Deocha Pachami project that Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has estimated will supply coal for the next 100 years.