Bengal BJP chief writes to governor amid violence over Waqf law NEW DELHI: West Bengal BJP chief Sukanta Majumdar on Monday wrote to governor CV Ananda Bose amid the cases of violence being reported in parts of the state on the back of anti-Waqf law protests.Expressing deep concern over the tense atmosphere in riot-hit Murshidabad,…
KOLKATA: West Bengal governor, CV Ananda Bose, submitted to the Supreme Court in a sealed cover his opposition to CM Mamata Banerjee‘s recommendations for vice-chancellors of 17 state-run universities, based on the shortlisted panel of the SC-nominated Justice UU Lalit committee.These universities include Calcutta University and Jadavpur University.A statement posted on X by Raj Bhavan’s…
NEW DELHI: After the Supreme Court rapped the West Bengal government over the way the Kolkata rape-murder case was handled, the state governor CV Ananda Bose termed the hearing a “great relief”.Taking a dig at Bengal chief minister, Bose said, “Remember, every saint has a past, every sinner has a future. Anyone listening?”“Will Mamata Banerjee…
KOLKATA: Trinamool Congress Saturday binned a “in-house judicial enquiry report” released by Raj Bhavan and termed the exoneration of Bengal governor C V Ananda Bose from molestation charges levelled by an ex-Raj Bhavan staff as “garbage”.Raj Bhavan released the report on X, incidentally a day after SC agreed to hear a plea by the survivor,…
KOLKATA: The Kolkata Police have lodged a zero FIR against Bengal governor C V Ananda Bose’s nephew linked to rape and criminal conspiracy allegations levelled against Bose and the nephew by an Odissi dancer, saying she was assaulted in a Delhi hotel in Jan 2023. The case, based on a complaint filed at Kolkata’s Hare…
KOLKATA: In the backdrop of a woman employee levelling molestation charge against West Bengal governor Dr CV Ananda Bose, the Raj Bhavan here on Wednesday said it would show the related CCTV footage to 100 people, except “politician” Mamata Banerjee and “her police”. Following the allegation, the police had requested the Raj Bhavan to share…
KOLKATA: A Raj Bhavan employee complained of molestation against state governor C V Ananda Bose on Thursday evening, introducing an element of the unprecedented in Bengal politics and pitting the Trinamool government and the governor’s office in direct conflict in the middle of a seven-phase election season.The woman, according to Raj Bhavan insiders, works in…
Bengal BJP’s Suvendu Adhikari urged EC on Saturday to act against state DGP, East Midnapore SP, and two more cops after angry villagers’ attack on NIA officers when they went to Bhupatinagar to arrest two 2022 blast suspects in a pre-dawn operation.“It is due to Mamata Banerjee’s repeated instigation that even after ED officials were…
KOLKATA: A day after directing the West Bengal govt to sack education minister Bratya Basu, governor C V Ananda Bose on Friday ordered a judicial inquiry into allegations of “corruption, violence and misuse of university campuses in West Bengal for electioneering and political purposes”.Raj Bhavan posted a statement on X announcing the ‘order’ that said…
