Income tax officials seize jewellery worth millions in JaipurSeptember 9th, 2009 JAIPUR - Income tax officials on late Tuesday seized jewellery worth Rs 93 lakhs during a raid on the office of a private locker agency in Ganpati Plaza complex in Jaipur. During the raid, IT officials found the jewellery, 1000 dollars in cash and some papers.
Antique idols worth Rs 5.3 million seized in West BengalAugust 13th, 2009 SILIGURI - Customs officials on Thursday recovered antique idols of Hindu gods and goddesses, worth Rs 5.3 million in the international market, from West Bengal's Uttar Dinajur district. "Last night, Siliguri customs team led by Siddharth Gupta, Superintendent, went to Uttar Dinajur district and near Raiganj there is a place called Bondhur.
West Bengal Transport Minister passes awayAugust 3rd, 2009 KOLKATA - West Bengal Minister for Transport, Sports and Youth Affairs Subhas Chakraborty passed away at a private hospital in Salt Lake on Monday. Sixty-eight-year-old Chakraborty is survived by his wife and a son.
Marijuana worth Rs 42 lakh seized in DarjeelingAugust 1st, 2009 Darjeeling (West Bengal), Aug. (ANI): Acting on a tip-off, officials detained an oil tanker in West Bengal's Darjeeling district on Saturday and seized marijuana worth Rs 42 lakh.
India losing revenue due to smuggling of betel nuts into W. BengalJuly 31st, 2009 SILIGURI - India is losing revenue worth millions of rupees every year due to smuggling of betel nuts into West Bengal from Nepal, said an custom official. "Revenue is affected because there is a 100 per cent duty on betel nuts if they import regularly into regular channels," said R Manga Babu, Additional Commissioner of Customs, North Bengal and Sikkim.
There is no question of any further division of Bengal: MukherjeeJuly 19th, 2009 KOLKATA - Union Finance Minister and West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee (WBPCC) President Pranab Mukherjee on Sunday ruled out any possibility of further division of West Bengal. Mukherjee said this while commenting on the indefinite bandh that has been called by Gorkha Janamukti Morcha(GJM) in the Darjeeling Hills, which has been demanding for creation of a separate state of Gorkhaland.
Central forces begin operation against Maoists in LalgarhJune 18th, 2009 LALGARH - The West Bengal Police, supported by central paramilitary forces, initiated the operation to flush out Maoist from Lalgarh in West Midnapore District of West Bengal. It was the forth day, since the red brigade captured nearly fifty villages in and around Lalgarh, which is nearly 150 Km from the state capital Kolkatta, and declared it as the liberated zone.
Trinamool demands president's rule in West BengalMay 21st, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Trinamool Congress Thursday demanded the imposition of president's rule in West Bengal, alleging there was complete breakdown of the constitutional machinery and people had lost confidence in the Left Front government there. 'The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M)-led Left Front government has to come to an end in West Bengal.
7 millionaires, four convicts among West Bengal candidatesApril 23rd, 2009 KOLKATA - There are seven millionaires as also 24 candidates with criminal records, four of them convicted, in West Bengal's first phase of the Lok Sabha polls to be held April 30. With 134 nominees in the race for 14 of the 42 Lok Sabha constituencies in the state, the percentage of candidates with criminal record is 18, higher than the national average of 17, according to National Election Watch (NEW) in West Bengal.
CPI-M confident of defeating Congress-Trinamool allianceApril 14th, 2009 KOLKATA - The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) faces a tough fight in the Lok Sabha elections but would get a majority of seats in West Bengal, the party's general secretary Prakash Karat said here Tuesday. 'We will have a tough battle in the elections, but we have faced situations in the past when the opposition had virtually come together without an alliance,' Karat told reporters in response to the Congress and Trinamool Congress joining hands in the state.
Prayers for success of Congress-Trinamool in West BengalMarch 18th, 2009 KOLKATA - Activists of Trinamool Congress and Congress party organised a yagna here for the success of the alliance of these two parties in the ensuing elections to the Lok Sabha. This was consequent to the finalisation of the tie-up and sharing of seats between the two parties in West Bengal.
Poll panel to review preparations in West Bengal, OrissaMarch 18th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Election commissioners are leaving for West Bengal and Orissa later Wednesday to review poll preparedness in the two states. The three members of the Election Commission (EC) - Chief Election Commissioner N.
Congress to contest 14 seats in West Bengal, enters into pact with TrinamoolMarch 13th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Congress Party will contest 14 out of 42 seats of West Bengal, where as its ally the Trinamool Congress (TC) will contest from 28 seats. Announcing the seat sharing agreement, AICC in-charge of West Bengal K Keshav Rao that they have entered into a seat sharing pact with the TC with the objective of ending the over 30 years of misrule of the CPI-M, which has shattered the economy of West Bengal.
Trinamool unhappy over West Bengal poll scheduleMarch 3rd, 2009 KOLKATA - West Bengal's main opposition party Trinamool Congress Monday expressed dissatisfaction with the state's voting schedule announced by the Election Commission. The poll panel Monday declared that the Lok Sabha election in northern Bengal will be held April 30.
SBI to expand branch network in Bengal CircleDecember 26th, 2008 KOLKATA - India's largest banker State Bank of India (SBI) will strengthen its network in the Bengal Circle by adding 142 branches by the next financial year, a senior bank official said here Saturday. 'We've set a target to add 142 branches in the Bengal Circle that includes West Bengal, neighbouring Sikkim and Andaman,' SBI chief general manager (Bengal Circle) Jayanta K.
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