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Bengal RS bypolls: BJP may field three former TMC MPs

The Election Commission of India’s recent announcement of by-elections to three Rajya Sabha seats from West Bengal, which fell vacant following the resignations of Sukhendu Sekhar Ray, Sushmita Dev and Prakash Chik Baraik — the three Trinamool Congress MPs who stepped down after the party’s debacle in the recent West Bengal Assembly elections — has brought the focus back on the former MPs and the BJP’s plans for them.

State ends controller’s tenure at Kanyashree University

Barely a month before the completion of his tenure, the former Controller of Examinations of Kanyashree University was removed from service ~ a move that has now snowballed into a serious controversy, with the ousted official levelling a barrage of allegations against the university’s present Vice-Chancellor.