CALCUTTA

The Calcutta High Court allowed Suvendu Adhikari to organize a peaceful protest outside Raj Bhavan for four hours. Adhikari, the Leader of Opposition, plans to sit with 300 post-poll violence victims.

West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose filed a defamation case against Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and certain TMC leaders at the Calcutta High Court. This action came in response to Banerjee's statement claiming that women had expressed fear about ...

Mayor-in-Council and MLA Debasish Kumar was in Gariahat on Friday, with Municipal officers and police personnel, to get on ground information about the hawkers through surveys. “We have created forms and we are jotting down details about the hawkers...

Bandhan Employees' Welfare Trust, managed independently by employees, faces baseless allegations. Trust members seek explanations on financial matters, with legal action initiated against disruptors. The Trust aims to resolve disputes through legal ...

Abhijeet Ganguly, a former Bengal High Court judge who turned to politics, took the oath as the BJP's Member of Parliament in the Lok Sabha on June 25, 2024.Abhijeet Ganguly, Bengal HC Judge-turned-politician, takes oath as Lok Sabha MP

The Calcutta High Court has directed the West Bengal government to ensure the safe return of displaced victims of alleged post-poll violence by Tuesday. A Division Bench, headed by Justice Harish Tandon, reviewed the situation and numerous petitions...

A division bench headed by Justice Harish Tandon reviewed the situation with numerous petitions being submitted in the court and ordered the police to be more active in helping the displaced. "There are certain locations where the houses were vandal...

BJP president J P Nadda formed a committee, including Biplab Kumar Deb, Ravi Shankar Prasad, Brij Lal, and Kavita Patidar, to investigate alleged political violence in West Bengal and accused Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee of inaction. The party con...

Coming down heavily on Kolkata Police, the HC. wondered whether the Governor was under "house arrest". "Is the Governor under house arrest? If not, why were these people not allowed to meet the Governor despite prior permission," the court questione...

Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari will appeal to Calcutta High Court after 200 BJP activists, led by him, were denied entry to Raj Bhavan to meet Governor CV Ananda Bose amid postpoll violence.

The Calcutta High Court has directed the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) to investigate whether CCTV cameras installed by West Bengal Police in front of former BJP MP Arjun Singh's house are infringing on his privacy. Singh alleged that the...

Suvendu Adhikari, the Leader of Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly, has approached the Calcutta High Court, alleging numerous incidents of post-poll violence in the state following the Lok Sabha elections. A division bench led by Chief Justice T...

The petition was dismissed as withdrawn as a bench of justices JK Maheshwari and KV Viswanathan said it was not inclined to interfere with the Calcutta High Court order. Significantly, the bench verbally observed that prima facie the advertisements ...

India’s oldest high court is a microcosm of Kolkata’s current state of affairs

BJP leader Shivraj Singh Chouhan accused Rahul Gandhi and Congress of being aligned against lower castes, emphasizing the need for change.

Chhattisgarh CM Vishnu Deo Sai praised Calcutta High Court's move to revoke OBC status of classes in West Bengal, criticizing 'religion-based' quotas as appeasement politics.

Detailing the process in which the West Bengal government acted while adding new classes of OBC, the court observed, "Records would reveal that on or about 8th February, 2010 it was published on all leading newspapers that the government has announc...

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday asserted that she “will not accept” the Calcutta High Court order scrapping the OBC status of several classes in the state. Addressing a poll rally at Khardah under the Dumdum Lok Sabha constit...

The Calcutta High Court granted bail to Piyali Das, a Sandeshkhali BJP worker, who surrendered three days ago due to a criminal case. Das was accused of obtaining a woman's signature, which was later used as a complaint of sexual assault against TMC...