Taking to the streets: Protesters take out a rally demanding justice for the victim in the R.G. Kar rape-murder case in Kolkata. | Photo Credit: File Photo The Calcutta High Court on Friday rejected an appeal filed by the West Bengal government seeking the enhancement of the life sentence to death penalty for Sanjay Roy, … Read more
A view of the Calcutta High Court. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu Observing that no differentiation is permissible between regular and contractual employees on the question of a woman’s right to childbirth and maternity leave, the Calcutta High Court has directed the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to compensate an executive intern. The petitioner, … Read more
A view of the Calcutta High Court. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu The Calcutta High Court on January 17 stayed proceedings before a trial court in the murder of two persons and abduction of another at Sandeshkhali in 2019, in which Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Shajahan Sheikh was named the main accused by the … Read more
Gaganyaan’s Flight Test Vehicle Abort Mission-1 (TV-D1) will take place between 7 a.m. and 9 a.m. on October 21, 2023, from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre. | Photo Credit: ANI Hamas releases two U.S. hostages as Israel readies Gaza invasion Gaza’s Hamas rulers released two Americans on Friday among some 200 hostages they abducted in October … Read more
A view of the Calcutta High Court in Kolkata. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu The Calcutta High Court’s strong rebuke of Visva-Bharati Vice-Chancellor Bidyut Chakrabarty, with the judge saying that he should be removed for getting his own professor out of an international science project last year, has given fodder to his detractors who … Read more
Police personnel stand guard at violence-hit areas ahead of the panchayat elections, in South 24 Parganas, Saturday, June 17, 2023. | Photo Credit: PTI The Calcutta High Court on June 21 directed the West Bengal State Election Commission (SEC) to deploy Central forces not less than the forces deployed in the 2013 panchayat elections in … Read more
The Calcutta High Court on Wednesday set up an independent investigation team to probe the unnatural death of IIT-Kharagpur student Faizan Ahmed. Justice Rajasekhar Mantha who is hearing the case set up the team after the second post-mortem of the third-year Mechanical Engineering student showed evidence of homicide. The court directed that charges under Section 302 of Indian … Read more
The Calcutta High Court asked the Central Government to declare what decision it had taken on the State’s latest action-taken report, dated February 2, 2023. File | Photo Credit: Sushanta Patronobish The Calcutta High Court on June 6 asked the Union Government and the West Bengal Government to submit reports on the non-payment of wages to … Read more
A fact-finding team of the BJP submitted its report on a recent case of violence in West Bengal‘s Birbhum district, in which nine people were burnt to death, to party president JP Nadda on Wednesday and demanded central intervention for the restoration of law and order in the state. The BJP had constituted the five-member … Read more
West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee on Thursday slammed the police ‘inaction’ in Bagtui village in Rampurhat and ordered a 10-day special clean-up drive to uncover illegal arms and ammunition across the state. During her visit to the village, she ordered strict action, immediate police picketing and punishment of the accused involved in the crime. Following … Read more