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West Bengal State Election Commission moves SC challenging HC order for deployment of Central forces

The West Bengal State Election Commission moved Supreme Court challenging the Calcutta High Court order directing deployment of Central forces in State panchayat elections.

The Hindu

IIT-Kharagpur student death: Calcutta HC sets up new investigation team

Faizan Ahmed, a third-year Mechanical Engineering student at IIT-Kharagpur, was found dead at the institute’s hostel on October 14.

The Hindu

Calcutta HC reassigns two matters of school jobs scam to another Judge

Two matters — Soumen Nandy vs State of West Bengal and Ramesh Malik vs State of West Bengal — have been reassigned to the court of Justice Amrita Sinha.

The Hindu

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SC seeks report from Calcutta HC on judge giving TV interview about pending case

On April 17, the top court had stayed the Calcutta High Court’s April 13 order directing the CBI and the ED to interrogate TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee and Kuntal Ghosh, an accused in the case, and file a report based on that.

The Hindu

WB Panchayat Poll: SC junks Suvendu Adhikari's plea against Calcutta HC order

A bench of Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud and Justice J B Pardiwala said that they will not interfere with the Calcutta HC order. Read further on Dynamite News:

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Who Owns Your Media: The Indian Express empire and where it stands today

Twenty-three years ago, Robin Jeffrey, a professor of politics at Melbourne’s La Trobe University, had described Ramnath Goenka’s “Indian Express empire” as the “grandest version of newspapers with some link to the ‘freedom struggle’” in his book. When Goenka died in 1991, Jeffrey wrote in India’s Newspaper Revolution: Capitalism, Politics…

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March Madness: 5 bracket alternatives you need to try, from Calcuttas to confidence pools

From Calcuttas to box pools.

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Sports calendar of Great Britain and India unveiled

KOLKATA: In a unique collaboration, the British High Commission and the Calcutta Sports Journalist Club (CSJC) came out with a sports table calendar at a ceremony at the CSJC tent in Calcutta on Monday.

The Times of India

A city's hope, despair and anger on big screen

Mrinal Sen’s films on Kolkata are a nuanced reading of middle-class hopes and aspirations in post-colonial India.

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Sprawling Kolkata's tall order for a sustainable future

Colonial planning was about attracting people to Kolkata, post-colonial planning is more about crisis management.

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Nottingham path 'dark as Black Hole of Calcutta' due to overgrown trees

'Someone could get murdered mugged'

Nottingham Post

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.

The Times of India

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…

The Hindu

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.

The Times of India

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.

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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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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