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Teachers Recruitment Scam: ED files complaint against 8 accused including Partha Chatterjee, Arpita Mukherjee

Directorate of Enforcement (ED) has filed a prosecution complaint against eight accused including Partha Chatterjee and Arpita Mukherjee in the Teachers Recruitment Scam in West Bengal before the PMLA Special Court, Calcutta. Read more on Dynamite News:

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Denying teacher job over disability regressive: Calcutta HC

KOLKATA: Calcutta High Court has ordered the governing body of a Kolkata college to reconsider its decision refusing appointment to an applicant to a professor's post on the grounds that he was an amputee. The court said the decision was "regressive" and went against principles of "empowering" persons with disabilities.

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Why should tax-payers suffer for tech snags, says Justice Md Nizamuddin

KOLKATA: The tax-payers should not face unnecessary harassment for technical snags, said Justice Md Nizamuddin of Calcutta high court while speaking at a seminar organized by the the Direct Tax Profesionals' Association on Saturday.

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Calcutta HC breather for 4 Rohingya women

KOLKATA: The Calcutta high court on Thursday asked the Centre not to deport four women Rohingya refugees back to Myanmar till it heard their pleas on August 10. The four women, now detained at Dum Dum Correctional Home after completion of their sentence in 2019, had moved court back in…

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Partha Chatterjee’s health stable, asked to get discharged from AIIMS Bhubaneswar

Calcutta High Court had ordered to shift the TMC leader to AIIMS-Bhubaneswar after the ED objected his admission in SSKM Hospital on July 23

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ED takes Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee to Bhubaneswar AIIMS for treatment after HC order

The minister who was arrested in connection with a teacher recruitment scam at government-sponsored and aided schools was accompanied by a doctor from SSKM Hospital and his advocate, as per Calcutta HC's order. Full story on Dynamite News:

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Bearsden couple win fight to chop trees after claiming it left home like 'Black Hole of Calcutta'

Nick and Morag Bishop said the row of leylandii belonging to David and June Turso were causing major issues in their home with their daughter saying her parent's bathroom resembled 'the Black Hole of Calcutta'.

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Scottish Government settle neighbours' row over hedge and trees that left home 'like Black Hole of Calcutta'

Nick and Morag Bishop, of Bearsden, insisted their lives were being ruined by foliage belonging to next door neighbours David and June Turso in leafy Bearsden.

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HC refuses to interfere with Gorkhaland Territorial Administration poll process

Kolkata/Darjeeling: Calcutta High Court on Friday refused a stay on the ensuing polls for the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) on June 26. It also didn’t pass any restraint order on the publication of the election results that the Gorkha National Liberation Front (GNLF) had prayed for.

The Times of India

Calcutta high court stays pay of state power companies’ trio over dearness allowance default

KOLKATA: Calcutta High Court stayed the payment of salaries to the CMD of state-owned electricity company WBSEB and the two general managers of WBSEDCL and WBSETCL till July 15 after the corporations failed to comply with the court directive of paying at least 20% of accumulated dearness allowance (DA) to…

The Times of India

Kolkata: Rail Vikas Nigam Limited starts restoring water body in Patuli after Metro construction

KOLKATA: A sprawling water body, over which the viaduct of the New Garia-Airport Metro has come up, is being restored as per Calcutta High Court order. With the Phase 1 of the New Garia-Airport corridor nearing completion, the implementing agency, Rail Vikas Nigam Limited (RVNL), has started restoring a 7-acre…

The Times of India

No illegality in West Bengal govt's Duare Ration scheme, rules Calcutta high court

KOLKATA: The Calcutta high court has held that there is no illegality in the West Bengal Duare Ration scheme, under which the Mamata Banerjee government delivers foodgrains through the public distribution system at the doorsteps of beneficiaries.

The Times of India

Joe Brolly doubles down after call to apologise for Clones 'Calcutta' comparison

Monaghan County Council passed a motion demanding an apology from the GAA pundit

Irish Mirror

Joe Brolly doubles down after call to apologise for Clones 'Calcutta' comparison

Monaghan County Council passed a motion demanding an apology from the GAA pundit

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New judges for Delhi, Calcutta High Courts

Nine additional judges of the Madras High Court have been elevated as permanent judges.

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CBI grills West Bengal Minister for third day over daughter’s ‘illegal’ appointment

Calcutta High Court had on Friday dismissed Ankita Adhikari from her job in a government-aided school

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Raid at Anish Khan’s house illegal, West Bengal govt. admits before Calcutta HC

Father of Anish Khan claims that the police personnel threw him off the second floor, leading to his death

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In Kolkata, history builds bridges between communities

Neighbourhood walks resume after pandemic to promote communal harmony

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Calcutta High Court orders forensic audit of CCTV footage of Contai municipal poll

The court was hearing a PIL plea by BJP’s Soumendu Adhikari alleging violence, malpractices in the election

The Times of India

No vicarious liability on state for judicial actions: Calcutta high court

KOLKATA: Calcutta High Court on Monday dismissed a Rs 100-crore compensation claim against the Bengal government for vicarious liability, holding it responsible in a case of alleged defamation against a high court judge. “There is no master-servant relationship between the State and a High Court Judge, and accordingly, there is…

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Birbhum violence | Calcutta HC directs CBI probe into TMC leader murder

The violence at Bogtui village on March 21 where nine people lost their lives was in retaliation to the murder, says the court

The Times of India

Calcutta HC orders CBI probe into murder of Congress councillor

KOLKATA: The Calcutta high court on Monday ordered a CBI investigation into the murder of Congress councillor Tapan Kandu of Jhalda Municipality in West Bengal's Purulia district. On a prayer by Purnima Kandu, the widow of the councillor, Justice Rajasekhar Mantha directed the central agency to submit a report on…

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Bogtui mass killing: Will hit streets if CBI investigates at behest of others, says West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee

SILIGURI: "Let CBI do their work, we will cooperate. But if CBI doesn’t do their work and at BJP, CPM and Congress’s behest do something else, we will hit the streets in protest" said West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee on Sunday referring to the ongoing Calcutta high court mandated CBI…

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West Bengal: Calcutta high court reserves order on Birbhum killings

KOLKATA: The Calcutta high court on Thursday reserved order in a suo motu petition, along with a bunch of PILs seeking a probe by CBI or NIA, in the death of eight people in West Bengal's Birbhum district.

The Times of India

Birbhum killings: Calcutta HC asks Delhi CFSL to collect samples from site of incident, orders govt to file report

KOLKATA: The Calcutta high court on Wednesday directed CFSL Delhi to immediately collect necessary materials for forensic examination at Bogtui village in Bengal's Birbhum district, where at least eight people were charred to death in the suspected fallout of a TMC panchayat official's murder. The court asked the state government…

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