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Bengal's new transfer policy limits tenure, home district postings

Kolkata, July 15 -- The state government has introduced a new transfer policy, making it clear that its field-level officers will ordinarily not be posted in their home districts. However, a humanita... Read More


Kamduni victim's family meets CM Suvendu at Janata Darbar

Kolkata, July 15 -- Days after state BJP president Samik Bhattacharya spoke about reopening the files of the crime committed in North 24-Parganas' Kamduni 13 years ago, the family members of the Kamdu... Read More


Bengal bars repeated contract awards without fresh tenders

Kolkata, July 15 -- The Bengal government has barred departments from repeatedly awarding contracts to the same agency without inviting fresh tenders. Departments must initiate the tendering process a... Read More


NCPI announces July 21 Martyrs' Day prog

Kolkata, July 15 -- Ahead of the July 21 programmes, NCPI MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar announced that the NCPI will also observe Martyrs' Day, saying martyrs cannot be divided on political lines. Recalli... Read More


High Court probes Speaker's reasoning in LoP appointment

Kolkata, July 15 -- The Calcutta High Court on Wednesday continued hearing an appeal filed by Trinamool Congress MLA Sovandeb Chattopadhyay challenging a single bench's refusal to grant interim relief... Read More


HC bars coercive action against Mahua Moitra

Kolkata, July 15 -- The Calcutta High Court on Wednesday barred any coercive action against TMC MP Mahua Moitra till the next hearing. The bench of Justice Saugata Bhattacharya court took up a petiti... Read More


Mamata vows to rebuild Trinamool 'from scratch', if needed

Kolkata, July 15 -- Ahead of the Trinamool Congress' July 21 Martyrs' Day programme, party chief Mamata Banerjee struck a defiant note during a Facebook Live on Wednesday, saying the party would conti... Read More


Abhishek submits voice sample, HC seeks pending cases report

Kolkata, July 15 -- Trinamool Congress national general secretary and Diamond Harbour MP Abhishek Banerjee on Wednesday appeared before the Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate's (ACJM) Court in Bidha... Read More


Kolkata flags off first jewellery export consignment to UK under CETA

KOLKATA, July 15 -- The City of Joy is one of India's leading centres for jewellery manufacturing and craftsmanship and on Wednesday, Kolkata celebrated a historic milestone with the flagging off of t... Read More


Teesta Barrage irrigation project all set for revival

Jalpaiguri, July 15 -- A long-pending irrigation project linked to the Teesta Barrage is set to be revived under the Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchai Yojana (PMKSY), with the West Bengal government propo... Read More