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  • Mamata govt at hand out loans to 67 lakh girls SHGs forward of panchayat polls

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    KOLKATA:  Hoping to strike a twine with girls previous to the panchayat ballot subsequent yr, the state govt on Monday made up our minds to offer monetary help to 67 lakh girls by means of providing them mortgage by way of self-help teams.

    Ladies proved to be the Trinamool Congress’ sturdy vote-bank in remaining yr’s Meeting elections.

    As in keeping with plan, monetary support of Rs 17,000 crore can be given to six.69 lakh self-help teams. Within the earlier monetary yr, the quantity of monetary help was once Rs 13,000 crore.

    Previous to the 2021 elections, Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee had promised to provide per thirty days dole for ladies homemakers.  

    After TMC received for a 3rd immediately time period, she introduced the ‘Lakhir Bhandar’, which gives per thirty days help of Rs 1,000 for SC and ST girls, and Rs 500 for others.

    In line with a TMC chief, “The promise prior to the Meeting elections proved to be her masterstroke in consolidating girls votes in TMC’s favour. Now, the extra Rs 4,000 crore grant for self-help teams is aimed to retain this give a boost to for the panchayat polls.”

    The self-help teams in south Bengal districts can be given a goal of over Rs 1,000 crore every.

    “Those districts are thought to be our bastions,’’ stated the chief.

  • Prophet remarks row: Bengal’s violence-hit spaces non violent; political blame recreation continues

    Through PTI

    KOLKATA: The location in spaces of West Bengal which witnessed arson right through protests towards debatable remarks by way of suspended BJP leaders on Prophet Mohammad remained non violent on Tuesday as heavy police deployment to keep an eye on any untoward state of affairs persevered, police stated.

    Greater than 240 other folks had been arrested and over 42 circumstances registered in reference to the violence since June 9, the police stated.

    “The location in West Bengal is non violent and commonplace. There’s no knowledge of any untoward incident until 6 PM. We’re proceeding with the deployment of a excellent selection of policemen within the violence-hit spaces. Senior officials are there within the districts,” ADG (Legislation and Order) Javed Shamim instructed PTI.

    Raids and patrolling by way of policemen had been performed within the violence-hit spaces and a couple of arrests had been made on Monday evening.

    FIRs had been registered in Howrah, Murshidabad, Nadia and North and South 24 Parganas districts which witnessed violence since Thursday, he stated.

    Prohibitory orders below Segment 144 will stay in position in Howrah district, Beldanga in Murshidabad and Bethuadahari in Nadia until June 15, he stated.

    “Extensive seek operations for the culprits are on. They’re going to be booked below stricter IPC sections relying at the proof we’ve accumulated from other puts,” Shamim stated.

    Web products and services have resumed in Howrah from Monday however will remian suspended in Beldanga until June 15, he stated.

    The verdict on resumption of the products and services in Bethuadahari will likely be taken after reviewing the location there, a senior reputable of the state house division stated.

    In the meantime, RPF and GRP had been deployed at more than a few railway stations of the state to keep away from any untoward incidents and disruption of educate products and services.

    Kolkata Police made elaborate safety preparations right through the day for a programme by way of the minority neighborhood in Esplanade house of town which handed of peacefully.

    “There used to be no incident on the programme. We needed to divert the visitors,” a police officer stated.

    The state executive on Monday issued an advisory for all multiple-system operators (MSOs) and cable operators within the state to chorus from transmitting any delicate content material violative of Cable Tv Community Act, 1995.

    Reacting to the advisory, the opposition BJP alleged that the TMC executive is “looking to gag the media and conceal the reality”.

    “What do fascist governments do after they wish to cover their incompetence or premeditated acts of omission? They aim the media and clamp down on protection that exposes them. Mamata Banerjee’s management has achieved simply that – issued a draconian diktat caution the media of penalties,” BJP co-incharge of Bengal Amit Malviya tweeted.

    Bengal BJP president Sukanta Majumdar alleged, “The state executive did not keep an eye on the location by way of permitting the violence and arson to happen to assuage its vote financial institution politics. Now when all of the nation is witnessing lawless state of affairs, the state executive is making an attempt to stifle the voice of the media. That is an instantaneous assault on press freedom,” he stated.

    The TMC in its flip dubbed the allegations as “baseless”.

    “The TMC executive believes within the freedom of the click. BJP leaders will have to be the closing to lecture us on press freedom. The state executive has taken all steps to comprise the violence,” senior TMC chief Tapas Ray stated.

    In the meantime, Jagannath Sarkar, BJP MP from Ranaghat in Nadia district wrote to President Ram Nath Kovind, Top Minister Narendra Modi, Union House Minister Amit Shah and West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar inquiring for their “intervention” to keep an eye on the violent state of affairs within the state and apprehended that the location may flip worse within the days to return.

  • Vlogger Roddur Roy arrested in Goa for hurling abuses at Mamata, Abhishek over KK’s demise

    By way of PTI

    KOLKATA: A workforce of the Kolkata Police on Tuesday afternoon arrested vlogger Roddur Roy from Goa on fees of abusing Bengal Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee and her nephew, TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee, all the way through a Fb Are living consultation, a senior officer of the pressure stated.

    “He was once arrested this afternoon through our officials in Goa. He’ll be dropped at Kolkata on transit remand. Our officials will produce him at a neighborhood courtroom there for the remand,” the police officer stated.

    An FIR was once lodged beneath quite a lot of sections of the IPC towards the vlogger after a criticism was once filed through TMC spokesperson Riju Dutta at Chitpur police station on Saturday.

    Roy, who extensively makes use of expletives in his social media posts, continuously dating controversies, hurled a barrage of abuses on the leader minister and the Diamond Harbour MP, but even so different TMC leaders corresponding to Firhad Hakim and Madan Mitra, blaming the ruling birthday party for the alleged mismanagement at singer KK’s final live performance at Nazrul Mancha right here.

    The singer had collapsed, in a while after his efficiency on the auditorium, and was once declared ‘introduced useless’ through medical doctors when taken to a health center.

    Roy’s Fb Are living video has been got rid of from the social networking web site through government.

    In the meantime, BJP chief Anupam Hazra, reacting to the improvement, sought to understand why the police had taken no motion towards the vlogger when he used foul language for luminaries like Rabindranath Tagore.

    “Now that the executive minister and Abhishek Banerjee have been abused, the police swung into motion. Why will have to it’s so?” he maintained.

    By the way, in April 2012, the Kolkata Police had arrested Jadavpur College Chemistry Professor Ambikesh Mahapatra for allegedly forwarding an electronic mail containing a caricature of the executive minister.

  • KK’s death: BJP alleges lapses from Mamata govt; Trinamool hits again

    By means of PTI

    KOLKATA: The death of Bollywood singer Krishnakumar Kunnath, popularly referred to as KK, in Kolkata kicked off a political debate on Wednesday with the opposition BJP blaming the West Bengal management for lapses and critical an independent probe, drawing a pointy retort from the ruling TMC which requested the saffron camp to not politicise dying.

    KK carried out at a live performance organised by way of Gurudas Faculty at Nazrul Mancha in south Kolkata on Tuesday night.

    He used to be “feeling uneasy” after achieving his lodge and collapsed quickly after, officers mentioned.

    The singer used to be taken to a close-by non-public medical institution, the place medical doctors declared him introduced useless on Tuesday night time.

    “There must be an independent investigation into the incident as there used to be an entire lapse at the a part of the management to verify right kind safety preparations.”

    “Round 7,000 folks have been reportedly provide on the venue of the programme the place the seating capability used to be round 3,000 folks. He used to be mobbed there, which means that safety preparations weren’t in position for a VIP,” BJP state spokesperson Samik Bhattacharya mentioned.

    Reacting sharply to his feedback, TMC state normal secretary Kunal Ghosh mentioned the BJP must prevent its “vulture politics” and must no longer politicise an unlucky incident.

    “His dying is truly unlucky, and all folks are truly unhappy about it. However what the BJP is doing isn’t in any respect anticipated. The saffron camp must prevent its vulture emblem of politics. They must prevent politicising dying. We would possibly not be astonished if BJP begins claiming that KK used to be their celebration chief,” he mentioned.

    Ghosh mentioned the management is taking all measures and an investigation is underway.

    An preliminary probe has published that the 53-year-old singer, who used to be on a two-day excursion to Kolkata to accomplish at two faculty programmes, used to be “nearly mobbed” by way of fan fans on the lodge the place he had returned after functioning at Nazrul Mancha auditorium within the southern a part of the town, officers mentioned.

    A autopsy exam will probably be performed all through the day to establish the precise reason for his dying.

  • Excise responsibility minimize on Gasoline value: Trinamool says BJP seeking to idiot plenty

    By means of PTI

    KOLKATA: TMC on Saturday mentioned the Centre’s choice to slash gas costs is an try to “idiot the folk” because it had higher the costs through leaps and boundaries in the previous couple of months and mentioned West Bengal will practice swimsuit as soon as it lifts the “financial blockade” and releases the price range because of the state.

    TMC nationwide spokesperson Sukhendu Sekhar Ray mentioned the Centre has raised the costs of petrol and diesel no less than 14 instances up to now few months and through leaps and boundaries up to now three hundred and sixty five days.

    “Now it’s reducing the costs through Rs 8 and Rs 6 according to litre respectively. That is not anything however an try to idiot the overall humans. This minimize isn’t sufficient to convey down inflation”.

    To queries, he mentioned West Bengal will slash gas costs as soon as the Centre cleared its dues amounting to Rs 97,000 crore.

    TMC state basic secretary Kunal Ghosh mentioned BJP will have to prevent seeking to take credit score for reducing gas costs.

    “The gas costs had been cur because of immense opposition and public power,” he asserted.

    The Centre on Saturday minimize excise responsibility on petrol through a file Rs 8 according to litre and that on diesel through Rs 6 according to litre to present aid to customers battered through top gas costs which has driven up inflation to a multi-year top.

    It additionally introduced subsidy of Rs 200 according to cylinder to Ujjwala Yojana beneficiaries for 12 cylinders in a yr to assist ease one of the vital burden bobbing up from cooking fuel charges emerging to file ranges.

    Ghosh mentioned, “The BJP has been pronouncing for a very long time that it has no function to play in gas value hike. If it may possibly slash the costs lately, it will have accomplished it lengthy again. However it did not. So it will have to prevent seeking to take the credit score of it”.

    Ray mentioned the Centre is the use of financial blockade in opposition to West Bengal “out of vengeance to stifle the state”.

    “It (the Centre) will have to first raise this financial blockade,” he mentioned.

    Ultimate month, West Bengal Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee had mentioned that she is going to scale back the tax on petroleum merchandise within the state as soon as the central executive cleared all of the pending dues it owed to the state.

    State BJP president Sukanta Majumdar mentioned if the TMC executive is pro-people it will have to scale back gas costs within the state.

    “Ultimate time the Centre slashed costs gas costs, different BJP dominated states additionally adopted swimsuit through lowering taxes. The Mamata Banerjee executive did not anything with the exception of abuse the Centre,” Majumdar mentioned.

  • Livestock smuggling case: Trinamool chief Anubrata Mondal returns house after 45 days

    Through PTI

    KOLKATA: TMC chief Anubrata Mondal, returned to his place of abode in Birbhum district on Friday after just about a 45-day keep in Kolkata to seem earlier than CBI for wondering in a livestock smuggling case however needed to spend a big a part of the time in health center because of ache in his chest.

    As Mondal’s convoy entered Bolpur, the place his place of abode is, a lot of TMC supporters gave him a rousing welcome calling the TMC district president a mass chief.

    “I’m really not smartly. I wish to thank all of you to your unconditional improve. I request all of you to proceed to paintings for the hundreds. We must at all times stand via the folk,” the TMC Birbhum district president stated.

    Mondal had reached Kolkata on April 5 to seem earlier than the CBI in reference to a livestock smuggling case the next day to come.

    However on April 6, as a substitute of showing earlier than the investigating company, he were given admitted to a state-run health center following “chest ache”.

    He gave the impression earlier than CBI on Would possibly 19 for interrogation in reference to a livestock smuggling case in West Bengal.

    On the other hand, the investigating company needed to minimize brief its interrogation of Mondal after he complained of chest ache once more.

  • SSC rip-off: Trinamool, Opposition hit out at each and every different; activity aspirant makes an attempt suicide

    By way of PTI

    KOLKATA: An College Variety Fee activity aspirant who used to be amongst the ones collaborating in an indication close to Mayo Street tough jobs, attempted to devote suicide via placing herself from the department of a tree the use of her dupatta on Thursday.

    The incident took place after the scholars have been stopped from going to the Raj Bhawan to put up a deputation.

    The aspirant used to be rushed to a close-by medical institution the place she used to be discharged after preliminary remedy, police mentioned.

    The incident happened following a conflict between the police and the SSC activity aspirant once they attempted to march against Raj Bhawan to put up a deputation.

    Following the incident, a BJP delegation went to Raj Bhawan to satisfy Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar.

    Later, Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar tweeted a video appearing an unidentified lady seeking to hold herself within the presence of a senior police officer.

    The SSC activity aspirants were demonstrating tough speedy placements for round 145 days, 

    In the meantime, Opposition events of West Bengal on Thursday demanded the resignation of Schooling Minister Partha Chatterjee and his deputy Paresh Chandra Adhikari from their posts within the wake of the CBI investigation within the SSC rip-off, whilst Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee threatened to show “unlawful” recruitments made all through the erstwhile Left Entrance regime.

    Because the CBI puzzled the 2 ministers on consecutive days since Wednesday on Calcutta Top Court docket orders in reference to circumstances associated with the rip-off, Banerjee accused the BJP-led central authorities of unleashing a “Tughlaqi raj” within the nation and “misusing federal businesses to settle political ratings”.

    The company has been investigating numerous circumstances the place coaching and non-teaching personnel have been allegedly appointed illegally in faculties following suggestions via the West Bengal Central College Carrier Fee (SSC).

    BJP state president Sukanta Majumdar and senior CPI(M) chief Sujan Chakraborty demanded that each ministers will have to surrender for his or her alleged involvement within the rip-off.

    In an obvious connection with the CBI investigation into the SSC rip-off, Banerjee mentioned, “Numerous issues are being mentioned about discrepancies in recruitment. Individuals are neatly acutely aware of those that are thinking about corruption. They do not like such other people, nor do I. If anyone has dedicated any incorrect, the legislation will take its personal direction.

    “However this vilification marketing campaign will have to forestall. Throughout the Left Entrance regime, transfers have been made and jobs got via writing down names on (undeniable) paper. I can divulge the irregularities quickly.”

    Reacting to the allegation of the TMC supremo, CPI(M) chief Sujan Chakraborty claimed that Banerjee is attempting to divert consideration via blaming the Left Entrance authorities.

    “The allegations are baseless. If there used to be any wrongdoing in recruitments all through the Left rule, let the TMC end up it. We aren’t terrified of any investigation. Each the ministers will have to in an instant surrender from their posts,” Chakraborty mentioned.

    The Central Bureau of Investigation had on Wednesday quizzed senior TMC chief and Business Minister Partha Chatterjee because the alleged recruitment rip-off had taken position when he used to be the schooling minister.

    Adhikari who’s the minister of state for schooling used to be grilled on Thursday via CBI sleuths relating to a case of alleged unlawful appointment of his daughter as a instructor in a state government-aided college.

    BJP state president Sukanta Majumdar mocked Adhikari for disappearing rapidly as a substitute of showing prior to the CBI.

    “It sort of feels some magic used to be happening because the minister unexpectedly went lacking and once more reappeared. This handiest proves how the ones to blame are seeking to evade the investigating businesses. He will have to surrender as minister,” Majumdar mentioned.

    The court docket had directed Adhikari to seem prior to the CBI on Would possibly 17.

    He used to be observed to board the Kolkata-bound Padatik Specific teach at Jalpaiguri Street station in north Bengal along side his daughter on Would possibly 17 night time however had remained untraceable since then.

    Following contemporary prime court docket orders, he seemed prior to the CBI on Thursday night after to start with failing to satisfy the three pm time limit set via the court docket on Thursday.

    Senior TMC leaders maintained a stoic silence at the factor.

    “The legislation will take its personal direction. We do not need to remark in this factor as of now as it’s sub-judice. Those that were summoned are but to remark. So, it may not be proper to make any on behalf of the birthday celebration,” TMC spokesperson Kunal Ghosh mentioned.

    Senior chief and minister Shashi Panja additionally refused to remark announcing that the topic is sub-judice.

  • SSC recruitment rip-off: After Bengal minister’s interrogation, petitioner transfer HC

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    KOLKATA: In a while after CBI interrogated Trinamool Congress’s secretary common and previous schooling minister Partha Chatterjee for 4 hours in reference to the alleged irregularities in recruitment of academics and non-teaching staffs within the state-run faculties in the course of the College Provider Fee (SSC), the Kolkata Top Court docket on Wednesday made up our minds to open a overdue evening consultation after petitioners sought coverage of evidences through the CRPF which they imagine to be a very powerful.

    The petitioners stated the evidences are necessary because it satisfied the prime court docket to interact the CBI to habits a probe giving liberty the central company to interrogate the TMC heavyweight. In addition they stated of their petition that the evidences will have to be safe through the CRPF as there may well be makes an attempt to tamper it.

    Chatterjee became up on the CBI place of job in a while after the department bench upheld the single-bench pass judgement on’s order asking CBI to probe into the irregularities.

    Despite the fact that Chatterjee moved a department bench on Wednesday afternoon however his petition used to be no longer entertained.

    4 participants of the advice committee, which used to be shaped through Chatterjee to facilitate the alleged irregularities.

    On April 12 this yr, Justice Gangopadhyay had ordered Chatterjee to stand the CBI probe at the similar day however a department bench had put a keep on it.

    “The one bench discussed in its order gave liberty to the CBI to arrest Chatterjee, if wanted,” stated suggest Sudipta Sengupta.

    Upholding the former order, wherein a CBI probe used to be ordered within the elleged recruitment rip-off, the department bench comprising Justice Subrata Talukdar and Ananda Kumar Mukherjee stated on Wednesday that there used to be no infirmity within the orders of the one bench. The department bench stated in its order that the rip-off and the cash path concerned can be investigated consistent with the orders of the one bench.

    Previous the prime court docket had arrange a committee headed through retired HC justice Ranjit Kumar Bag to probe into the alleged irregularities. The committee discovered large discrepancies and beneficial felony court cases along side disciplinary court cases some former officers of the SSC.

    The committee beneficial felony court cases towards 4 former SSC officers and the incumbent president of the West Bengal Board of Secondary Schooling. It additionally sought disciplinary court cases towards six different former senior SSC officers. 

    Welcoming the court docket’s order, BJP’s state president Sukanta Majumdar alleged the federal government and its ministers are shameless. ‘’We all know there was massive corruption. If the CBI begins investigation, all the unlawful dealer floor,’’ he stated.

    “It is a court docket topic and the problem is subjudice. If somebody did the rest unsuitable, the birthday celebration is not going to take accountability,” stated TMC spokesperson Kunal Ghosh.

    Kolkata Top Court docket ordered nobody can be allowed to go into SSC place of job until 1 pm because the CRPF will guard the established order.The order based on petition to offer protection to paperwork associated with irregularities in recruitment in faculties via SSC.

  • HC directs CBI to interrogate Bengal minister over appointment of daughter as instructor

    Through PTI

    KOLKATA: The Calcutta Top Courtroom on Tuesday directed West Bengal Minister of State for Training Paresh Chandra Adhikari to seem earlier than the CBI right here over alleged appointment of his daughter as a instructor in a state government-aided college in Cooch Behar district.

    The order used to be handed on a petition through a candidate who claimed that she used to be disadvantaged of the process in spite of having secured upper marks than the minister’s daughter within the recruitment exam for academics.

    Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay directed the minister to seem earlier than the CBI government in Kolkata through Tuesday night.

    Adhikari, who used to be in Cooch Behar, instructed newshounds that he has left for Kolkata in conjunction with his daughter following the top court docket order.

    The minister is an MLA from Mekhliganj constituency in Cooch Behar.

    The court docket directed the CBI to document a record at the subject on Might 7, when it’ll be taken up for listening to once more.

    The petitioner’s attorney Firdous Shamim claimed that she had secured 77 marks within the exam whilst the minister’s daughter were given 61, and that her identify didn’t determine within the advantage record, however were given appointment as a instructor depriving the petitioner Babita Sarkar.

    Justice Gangopadhyay had previous on 4 events ordered CBI inquiry in reference to alleged irregularities in appointments of training and non-teaching personnel in state government-aided faculties.

  • The ones and not using a floor fact connection calling photographs: BJP MP hits out at birthday celebration’s Bengal unit

    Through PTI

    KOLKATA: BJP MP Arjun Singh, who had to this point been criticising the Centre’s jute insurance policies, on Sunday fired a recent salvo on the saffron camp most sensible brass, alleging that he “no longer being allowed to paintings” in West Bengal, regardless of being a state vice chairman of the birthday celebration.

    Singh, who has been known as to Delhi by means of the central management subsequent week, informed journalists at his place of abode in Bhatpara that grassroots-level participants had been additionally discovering it tough to hold out their daily actions as leaders helming the state unit of the BJP had been coming in the best way in their paintings.

    “Let’s be transparent. Through posting tweets on social media, we can’t dislodge the TMC from energy in West Bengal. The ones having no reference to the bottom fact are calling the photographs whilst confirmed warring parties having mass base are being not noted. How can the BJP succeed in its function then?” stated Singh, who had converted to the saffron camp from the Mamata Banerjee-led birthday celebration in 2019 The Barrackpore MP claimed that his palms, too, had been tied regardless of being the BJP state vice chairman.

    “It’s like I’ve been talented a fountain pen with out ink and paper,” he argued.

    Senior chief and BJP MLA from Asansol South Agnimitra Paul, when requested about Singh’s assertions, alternatively, stated that he have been given good enough area to paintings.

    “To this point I do know, Arjun Singh have been given good enough energy and area within the state group. Do not know why he’s levelling such fees,” she mentioned.

    In the meantime, TMC MLA from Jagatdal, Somenath Shyam, maintained that it “hardly ever mattered what Arjun says” as he’s nonetheless with the BJP.

    “Arjun isn’t devoted,” Shyam, who was once noticed sharing dais with Singh right through a contemporary programme, added.