Army, civilians spar over canteen
Sep 21, 2013The civilians who bought flats in the Army Welfare Society (AWS), which became Army Co-operative Housing Society (CHS) in April 2011, are engaged in a legal tussle with the army authorities over the canteen.
Factories, pvt schools take advance pay route to get rid of banned notes
Nov 21, 2016In an effort to dispose of old currency, labour-intensive small and mid-sized heavy metal units, a few private schools and some small medicare units are paying their staff months of salary in advance, in wads of now-scrapped Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes.
Left-era land expert called in for Singur
Sep 26, 2016The Mamata Banerjee government has brought a Left-era land department official, Ramapati Ghosh, back from retirement to tap into his experience in land acquisition-related payouts to untie knots in the handover of unclaimed compensation cheques in Singur.
West Bengal: Rishra tense, cops outnumber locals on streets a day after rail gate violence
Apr 5, 2023An uneasy calm prevailed in the area near Rail Gate 4 at Rishra on Tuesday. Shops downed shutters and empty roads bore telltale signs of Monday night's flare-up - stones, shreds of broken bottles and remains of a half-charred police van. Cops have by far outnumbered locals on the road, exercising Section 144 CrPC.
Modi should get a 'tight slap of democracy': Mamata Banerjee
May 8, 2019PM Narendra Modi's "Triple-T (Trinamool Tolabaji Tax)" barb at Trinamool Congress invited the strongest-yet response from CM Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday, who said the PM should get a "tight slap of democracy". "If Modi comes back to power, he will destroy democracy. He is changing history, geography and even the Constitution...," she said.
Trinamool minister faces ire of party workers
Mar 5, 2012After labour minister Purnendu Bose, it was industries minister Partha Chatterjee’s turn to face the ire of the grassroots-level Trinamool Congress workers.
Top babus face contempt for inaction on hoardings
Dec 15, 2010In a landmark development, the Nagpur bench of Bombay High Court has issued show cause notices to state chief secretary JP Dange, home secretary Praveen Dixit, Nagpur police commissioner Ankush Dhanvijay, collector Praveen Darade, municipal commissioner Sanjeev Jaiswal, all the deputy commissioners in the police department and assistant commissioners of wards of NMC under Contempt of Court Act 1971.
Elderly couple found hanging at home in West Bengal
Jan 11, 2021 A couple in their early 70s was found hanging from the ceiling fans in separate rooms of their two-storey house in Konnagar on Sunday morning. Dipak Sarkar and his wife were both retired state government officials and lived on SC Chatterjee Street with their only son Dibyendu. It was Dibyendu who found the bodies around 7am.
We only followed orders: Dr Rajan Pradhan
Apr 20, 2011For the first time since TOI highlighted various irregularities reported in the health department of the Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC), head of the department Dr Rajan Pradhan decided to break his silence.
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