Calcutta News

Kolkata: Questioning the maintainability of a PIL regarding TMC chief Mamata Banerjee's alleged comments on the murder of a Bangladesh activist, the Calcutta High Court on Tuesday observed that public interest litigations were being used as a special tool or w

Nihar Mukherjee is Mamata Banerjee s maternal cousin and a regional Trinamool leader. The body has been sent for an autopsy and an investigation into her death has begun

The Calcutta High Court recently directed the West Bengal government to disclose the whereabouts of 21 captive elephants that were transported out of the state, including two elephants that were earlier with the Famous Circus but whose status remains unknown a

The Calcutta High Court has asked the special intensive revision (SIR) appellate tribunal to decide within two weeks an appeal filed by a woman whose name was allegedly deleted from the voter list, after she told the court that the issue was preventing her son

The Calcutta High Court has granted anticipatory bail to a woman teacher accused of pushing a disabled child and allegedly assaulting the child s mother with a knife, noting that the accused was a working woman and directed her to cooperate with the investigat

In a setback to the Mamata Banerjee-led faction of the TMC, the Calcutta High Court on Tuesday refused to give interim relief in a petition against the Assembly Speaker s decision to appoint rival faction leader Ritabrata Banerjee as the Leader of Opposition (

Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Abhishek Banerjee approached the Calcutta High Court Monday, alleging that his bank accounts have been frozen without any valid reason, just as he prepares to travel abroad for medical treatment. Banerjee s counsel mentioned the mat

The national capital, like cities and towns across India, erupted in celebration on August 15, 1947. The day s first official ceremony was the swearing-in of Lord Louis Mountbatten as Governor-General, who until the previous night had served as the last Vicero

The investigation into the mysterious death of 30-year-old nurse at Nil Ratan Sircar (NRS) Medical College and Hospital, Rupali Barman, has taken a turn with preliminary post-mortem findings suggesting a possible drug overdose. Police, however, are awaiting de

Observing that even a trespasser is entitled to electricity , the Calcutta High Court set aside a trial court s order and directed the Calcutta Electricity Supply Corporation (CESC) Ltd to grant an electricity connection to a woman within three weeks. The cour

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The Supreme Court said Tuesday that it cannot fix a timeline for the tribunals formed to hear appeals against the exclusion of names from the voters list following the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in West Bengal but said it would look into the quantum of d

The Calcutta High Court on Monday allowed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) challenging the removal of loudspeakers from mosques across West Bengal. The PIL was mentioned before a Division Bench of Acting Chief Justice Tapabrata Chakraborty and Justice Atarup

The Supreme Court Monday allowed TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee to travel abroad for three weeks for eye treatment, overruling the Calcutta High Court s refusal, despite West Bengal s apprehension that he may not return amid multiple criminal cases. A three-judge be

Justice Ghuge and Tripathi will be elevated as Chief Justices of the Calcutta and Bombay High Courts, respectively, after the Central government clears their appointments and issues notifications. Justice Ghuge, who served on the Bombay High Court for nearly t

The Calcutta High Court has pulled up a section of travelling ticket examiners (TTEs) for allotting unoccupied berths to passengers for money, comparing the practice to selling vegetables in a market . The court's remarks came in a case where a theft victim di

Observing that a child s emotional and sentimental needs evolve with age, the Calcutta High Court recently held that visitation rights must be reviewed periodically to reflect changing circumstances. In a case concerning a father s plea for physical visitation

The Supreme Court Monday dismissed a clutch of petitions by teachers and non-teaching staff of madrasas in West Bengal seeking regularisation of their appointments and claims for salaries and allowances under the state government s grant-in-aid scheme. A bench

The Calcutta High Court has come down heavily on Travelling Ticket Examiners (TTEs) for allegedly allotting berths to unreserved passengers in exchange for money, observing that vacant berths were being sold like vegetables in a market. The court made the rema

Kolkata: Leading business associations in West Bengal on Sunday welcomed Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari's announcement that his government would directly purchase land and hand it over to investors, asserting that such an initiative would remove one of the bi

Since March end, when tribunals were set up in West Bengal to tackle cases of logical discrepancies after the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise by the Election Commission was concluded, and long after the Assembly polls which the SIR was timed with got

Kolkata: West Bengal Leader of Opposition Ritabrata Banerjee on Thursday said his faction would move to the Supreme Court against the Calcutta High Court order permitting the Trinamool Congress (TMC) to temporarily operate three of its frozen bank accounts. We

IIM Calcutta has invited applications for the 27th batch of its Senior Management Programme. The 12-month executive programme has been designed for working professionals who have at least 10 years of experience and wish to take on higher leadership roles in th

The Calcutta High Court has recently said that suicides stemming from torture for the demand of dowry are not very rare or uncommon and reduced the life imprisonment to 10 years for a man held guilty for the death of his wife and minor daughter. While hearing

Kolkata: Hearing a petition by the Mamata Banerjee-led faction of the Trinamool Congress challenging the debit freeze of the party's bank accounts, the Calcutta High Court on Thursday directed the private bank to disclose the corpus held in those accounts.Just

In the early hours of November 24, 1996, bulldozers overseen by officers of the Calcutta Municipal Corporation, cadres of the ruling CPI(M), and police moved through Calcutta s arterial streets from the north to the south, reducing to rubble thousands of makes

With Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Aroop Biswas asking a private bank to freeze the party s accounts amid a serious dispute going on within the organisation, the party on Thursday claimed he had been removed as its treasurer on June 5. The party s latest dis

In the months since the BJP s historic victory in West Bengal, an unsettling spectacle has become a recurring feature of public life. Arrested TMC leaders, including local strongmen such as Akash Singh and Jahangir Khan the latter known for his proximity to se

The Calcutta High Court on Friday (June 5) criticised the public parading of accused persons whose videos were circulated on social media, showing ropes tied around their waists as they were being...

The Calcutta High Court recently set aside the seven-year rigorous imprisonment sentence awarded to a man in a rape case, observing that the grave charge cannot be treated as a conditional grievance that is waived upon the execution of a marriage registration....