The national poll panel on Monday directed the state chief secretary (CS) B P Gopalika to remove Mr Kumar from the post by rehabilitating him in a ‘non-election related’ portfolio in the state police headquarters.
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday expressed apprehension of violence a day before the first phase of the Lok Sabha elections in North Bengal.
Cooch Bihar is going to vote on 19 April. Mr Banerjee was addressing a rally at Cooch Behar this afternoon.
The body of a 72-year-old local CPM leader in Haroa was recovered from his room on Tuesday ahead of Lok Sabha elections. He was found hanging from the ceiling in his room.
A small fire broke out at the railway hospital in Garden Reach in the southern fringes of the city, spreading panic among patients, relatives and hospital staff.
On Save the Elephant Day, Bankura, Jhargram and West Midnapore, the vulnerable elephant corridors in Bengal reserved any programme today due to the ensuing model code of conduct.
Intensifying its measures to check illegal constructions, the Kolkata Municipal Corporation has now sought help from the CESC to ‘curb the menace.’
After sizzling at the highest day temperatures today, citizens of south Bengal, including Kolkata could face harsher days with the probability of temperature going up in the next few days.
The BJP today fielded Abhijit Das (Bobby) against Abhishek Banerjee, national general secretary of Trinamul Congress in Diamond Harbour.
The state chief secretary BP Gopalika today held a virtual meeting at the state secretariat, Nabanna today with all the district magistrates, ahead of the Ram Navami celebrations tomorrow.
