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Modi 'whisperer' in viral photo just wanted a selfie | Kolkata News

Zulfiqar Ali whispering his selfie wish to Narendra Modi at Sonarpur
KOLKATA: A photograph of a man in a skull cap whispering something into Narendra Modi’s ears recently went viral, triggering a flurry of memes on social media over the past week and even prompting AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi to mock the PM at a public meeting.
Who was this mystery man and what had he said? TOI tracked down 38-year-old BJP worker Zulfiqar Ali, a Garden Reach resident, busy with “booth duties” at Metiabruz on Saturday.
“I had only asked for Modiji’s permission for a selfie with him. He had gladly agreed. He rested his arm around my shoulder and asked a photographer accompanying him to click. I will cherish those 40 seconds spent with him forever,” said Ali, visibly basking in the glory the viral photograph had offered him.

Kolkata , West-bengal , India , Metiabruz , Sonarpur , Behala , Tollygunge , Kasba , Bihar , Garden-reach , Asaduddin-owaisi , Narendra-modi

CBI questions Lala in coal mining case | Kolkata News

T he CBI on Saturday questioned Anup Maji alias Lala for the third day in connection to the probe into the illegal coal mining case. An IPS officer was also questioned. The central investigating agency is looking at any probable involvement of officers across departments. The agency had earlier claimed that Lala greased the palms of several officials to run the operations. The agency has questioned a few police officers to figure out the steps taken by them to curb illegal coal mining. A former superintendent of Purulia was also questioned on Saturday. TNN
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Purulia , West-bengal , India , Anup-maji , Kolkata-news , Kolkata-latest-news , Kolkata-news-live , Kolkata-news-today , Today-news-kolkata , Illegal-coal-mining-case , புருளிய

CID makes arrest in coal mining scam | Kolkata News

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KOLKATA: CID, which had started a parallel investigation into the multi-crore coal scam, made its first arrest on Friday night. The state probe agency arrested businessman Randhir Singh from Andal in West Burdwan after questioning several ECL employees from Durgapur and Asansol-Raniganj coal belt through the week.
Confirming the arrest, DIC (operations) Ajoy Thakur said the complaint was filed by ECL authorities in 2020. He, however, refused to share more details saying the matter was under investigation. Sources said more arrests were likely.
Singh's arrest is being seen as important since he is considered a close aide of multi-crore coal scam prime accused Arup Majhi alias Lala, who has not responded to several CBI efforts to question him. A lookout notice has been issued against him. The enforcement directorate is also investigating the case.

Kolkata , West-bengal , India , Burdwan , Uttar-pradesh , Durgapur , Bihar , Mamata-banerjee , Arup-majhi , Randhir-singh , Abhishek-banerjee , Ajoy-thakur

CPM, Cong lose a leader each to BJP in N Bengal | Kolkata News

Siliguri/Chopra: CPM’s Sankar Ghosh, who left the party two days ago, has joined BJP. Congress’ Ashok Roy, from Chopra in Uttar Dinajpur, too took the BJP flag from Bengal BJP minder Kailash Vijayvargiya on Friday.
While Ghosh, once a confidante of Ashok Bhattacharya, was upset over selection of candidates, Roy was aggrieved with Congress’ decision to give the Chopra seat to the CPM.
The CPM-turned-BJP leader trained his guns on party veterans who had refused to bring about a change within. “One candidate is winning from Siliguri (Ashok Bhattacharya) while the other candidate (Dilip Singh) is losing from Dabgram-Fulbari. There has been no change in candidate list. How can there be development without change? No one is allowed to raise his voice,” Ghosh said while dumping CPM.

Delhi , India , Siliguri-chopra , Sankar-ghosh , Manmohan-singh , Siliguri-ashok-bhattacharya , Ashok-bhattacharya , Uttar-dinajpur , Congres-ashok-roy , Pabitra-chanda , Rahul-gandhi , Priyanka-gandhi

CBI quizzes cop related to coal accused | Kolkata News

Kolkata: The CBI on Thursday questioned a police officer, who was earlier posted in Bankura, in connection with the illegal coal mining case.

Kolkata , West-bengal , India , Bankura , Vinay-mishra , Nizam-palace , Kolkata-news , Kolkata-latest-news , Kolkata-news-live , Kolkata-news-today , Today-news-kolkata

TMC Protest in West Bengal: TMC holds silent protest rallies in West Bengal against attack on Mamata Banerjee | Kolkata News

In the city silent rallies led by senior state ministers were taken out in Khidderpore, Behala and Gariahat areas. While minister Firhad Hakim was

Nandigram , West-bengal , India , Mamata-banerjee , Kolkata-news , Kolkata-latest-news , Kolkata-news-live , Kolkata-news-today , Today-news-kolkata , West-bengal-elections-2021 , Trinamool-congress

Kolkata building fire: Chance visit that ended in tragedy | Kolkata News

Sanoj Sahani, brother of fire victim RPF jawan Sanjoy Sahani, at SSKM Hospital on Tuesday.
KOLKATA: Sanjay Sahani (36) from Railway Protection Force was not even slated to be in the fire- ravaged Strand Road building on Monday had his senior - Partha Sarathi Mondal, deputy chief commercial manager (database) of Eastern Railway - not come to the New Koilaghat Building from his Sealdah office around late afternoon.
But as fate would have it, both Sahani and Mondal suffered a horrific death inside a lift - asphyxiated and charred - after they had possibly reached the 13th floor accidentally while trying to go down from the second-floor office.

Kolkata , West-bengal , India , Bihar , Sealdah , Tanuj-sahani , Partha-sarathi-mondal , Sanjay-sahani , Railway-protection , Eastern-railway , Railway-protection-force , Strand-road

Kolkata building fire tragedy: A wedding plan that went up in smoke | Kolkata News

Colleagues of the deceased firemen at the fire brigade HQ
KOLKATA: Twenty three-year-old Biman Purkait had joined the fire services at the headquarters on Free School Street. A resident of the Dhakuria Panchanantala, he was merely 15-years-old when he joined his brother Suman Purkait as part of the local effort to stop the raging AMRI fire. Both of them had resolved to be firefighters.
"Suman had joined six-and-a-half years ago and Biman joined the fire services three years later in 2018 and got posted with the headquarters. This was supposed to be one of his last assignments before he took a break - he was set for a registry marriage next week with his school sweetheart. He had left home on Sunday evening saying he would be back after 24 hours. Instead, we found him in such a pitiable condition that his devastated father - who runs a tea stall nearby - had to even agree to undergo a DNA test if required," recalled his cousin Ravi Haldar.

Kolkata , West-bengal , India , Dhakuria-panchanantala , Suman-purkait , Ravi-haldar , Biman-purkait , Free-school , Kolkata-news , Kolkata-latest-news , Kolkata-news-live

Kolkata: One more arrested in Pamela Goswami drugs case | Kolkata News

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KOLKATA: Priyanka Singh, alias Sweety, has been arrested in connection with the drugs case in which Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Yuva Morcha leader Pamela Goswami was arrested in Kolkata earlier in February, the Kolkata Police informed on Tuesday.
"One Priyanka Singh (alias Sweety) was arrested yesterday in connection with New Alipore PS drug case (Pamela matter). She was engaged by Rakesh Singh to procure Cocaine from drug peddlers. She purchased cocaine Rs 9,500 per gram and handed it over to Rakesh Singh. She will be produced in court today," a statement from the police said.
This is the fifth arrest in the case.

Alipore , West-bengal , India , Kolkata , Priyanka-singh , Pamela-goswami , Somnath-chatterjee , Rakesh-singh , Kolkata-police , Bharatiya-janta-party , Alipore-court , Bharatiya-janata-party

Drug money: Rs 61L seized from N Kol | Kolkata News

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KOLKATA: Five days after the Special Task Force (STF) of the Kolkata Police arrested a East Burdwan resident and seized over 5 kg heroin worth Rs 25.1 crore in the international market, it has seized cash worth Rs 61 lakh that was used to procure drugs through hawala channels.
“We have questioned the accused Sunul Howlader and he led us to the office of a trader at Jorasanko from where we seized the huge amount of unaccounted cash. Howlader has accepted that this money was deposited by him in the recent past at Khan’s office as payment of the narcotic drug that he peddled,” said DC (STF) Aparajita Rai. The cops are ascertaining if the unaccounted cash was to be used for electoral purposes.

Burdwan , West-bengal , India , Kolkata , Aparajita-rai , Sunul-howlader , Task-force , Kolkata-police , Income-tax-department , Special-task-force , East-burdwan , Income-tax