Kolkata: A child was seriously injured in a crude bomb explosion after he mistook it for a ball, said the police on Thursday. The incident occurred in the Basanti area in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district late Wednesday night. The child has been brought to Kolkata and admitted to a hospital where he is.
In a recent development, the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of West Bengal has raised concerns over the safety of officers and staff following a tense situation at the office during the Special Summary Revision (SIR) exercise. On November 24 and 25, a crowd of Booth Level Officers and workers from certain political parties reportedly surrounded.
Kolkata: The Border Security Force (BSF) has arrested two smugglers and seized gold biscuits valued at over Rs 67 lakh from their possession along the Indo-Bangladesh border in Nadia district of West Bengal, an official said on Thursday. Intelligence Input Leads to Arrest “Troops of the 32 Battalion BSF, posted at the Maluapara Border Outpost,.
Sources in the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) said that to begin with, the ECI will send notices to the “unmapped” voters, which means those voters who have no connection with the voters' list for 2002, either through “self-mapping” or through ”progeny mapping"
Kolkata: The West Bengal unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday approached a single-judge bench of the Calcutta High Court seeking the court’s intervention to restrict the use of Other Backward Class (OBC) certificates issued by the West Bengal government after 2010 — which were earlier scrapped by the High Court — as.
Kolkata: The committee constituted by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to investigate the serious lapses that occurred at the Salt Lake Stadium during Lionel Messi’s recent event said on Tuesday that a lack of proper supervision was the main reason for the entire incident. Committee’s Initial Finding: Lack of Supervision The inquiry committee, headed.
The CEO's office insider said that of the 43.30 lakh names found suitable for exclusion from the voters' list, the majority are dead voters at around 21.45 lakh.
The total seizure in the operations by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials at multiple locations in West Bengal and Jharkhand in the coal smuggling case
