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Tension in south Kolkata after stones hurled at BJP activists during roadshow | Kolkata News

Screengrab of a video showing unidentified miscreants carrying TMC flag, hurling bricks and stones at BJP activists during a mega roadshow in Kolkata.
KOLKATA: Tension prevailed in south Kolkata on Monday evening after unidentified miscreants, carrying TMC flags, hurled bricks and stones at BJP activists when they were conducting a mega roadshow near Rashbehari Avenue and Charu Market area.
The roadshow, which commenced at Tollygunge tram depot, was set to culminate at Rashbehari Avenue -- often referred to as the backyard of chief minister Mamata Banerjee.
#WATCH: Stones were pelted at BJP workers who were part of a rally attended by Union minister Debasree Chaudhuri, s… https://t.co/tAB138LJ8Y— TOI Kolkata (@TOIKolkata) 1610970026000

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Miffed TMC MP Satabdi Roy named West Bengal unit vice-president | Kolkata News

TMC MP Satabdi Roy. (ANI photo)
KOLKATA: Three time TMC MP Satabdi Roy, who has called a truce with the party after a brief rebellion that triggered speculations of her crossing over to the BJP, was on Sunday appointed vice-president of the West Bengal unit of the ruling Trinamool Congress.
Expressing happiness over the news, Roy told reporters, she will work as a dedicated worker of the party and ensure defeat of the BJP in the coming assembly polls.
"If you take up the matter concerning the party with the top leadership, it is addressed. This development proves that. "I welcome the decision", Roy said on her appointment as the state unit vice-president in the reshuffle.

Kolkata , West-bengal , India , Birbhum , Asansol , Nandigram , Mamata-banerjee , Apurba-mukhopadhyay , Shankar-chakraborty , Partha-chatterjee , Banerjee-singur , Lok-sabha

Police deploy pilot cars to escort new VIPs in town | Kolkata News

Kolkata: The Covid vaccine, believed to be the weapon against the novel coronavirus, matched the stature of VIPs as its cavalcade travelled across the city on Thursday.
Usually, 20 to 22 pilot cars are requisitioned from the police department for VIP movement in Kolkata. With the election ahead, the number at times climbs up to 30. But on Thursday, there was an additional request for seven more pilot cars, four of which were used to escort 93,500 doses of Covid-19 shots from Central Family Welfare Stores in Bagbazar to government hospitals—SSKM, NRS, MCH, RG Kar, CNMCH and Chittaranjan Seva Sadan —across the city. Senior cops, who relied on the pilot cars to execute the distribution seamlessly, said they could not remember another such instance, where escort vehicles were used for dissemination of vaccines. “Right now, the importance of the vaccine is no less than that of a VIP,” an IPS officer said.

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Bengal to get Muslim-Dalit-Adivasi party | Kolkata News

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KOLKATA: Abbas Siddiqui, a pirzada of Hooghly’s Furfura Sharif, is set to announce his new outfit of Muslims, Dalits and Adivasis on January 21, giving a new dimension to identity politics in West Bengal.
“I am going to launch the new outfit on January 21. This outfit will be a platform for Muslims, Dalits, Adivasis in Bengal. Many Adivasi and Dalit representatives came to me in the last few months. Leaders of mainstream political parties also came to me for talks. For the moment, we are aiming to contest 60-80 seats in the assembly elections,” Siddiqui said.
The Furfura cleric got a boost when All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi came to his place a fortnight ago and promised to work with him. Since then, Siddiqui had been floating the prospect of launching a new party at religious jalsas held in rural North and South 24 Parganas and East Midnapore.

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Iranian film shot during 2019's floods competes at KIFF | Kolkata News

A still from 'Bander Band'
Kolkata: Iranian film-maker Manijeh Hekmat has been in Kolkata and intends to make a film on India someday. She believes that "India is one of few countries where you can place your camera in every corner and you’ll have images and, ultimately, cinema".
Her personal film career is long and eventful. In 1995, she began working as a producer. In 2002, she directed her debut feature titled ‘Women’s Prison’ on the situation of Iranian women prisoners. The film was premiered at the Venice Film Festival. In 2007, her second film, ‘Three Women’, was shown in more than 80 international film festivals starting with Berlinale.

Kolkata , West-bengal , India , Mumbai , Maharashtra , Iran , Bandar , Yazd , Tehran , Iranian , Abbas-kiarostami , Bahram-beizai

I will remain with TMC; not going to Delhi tomorrow, says TMC MP Satabdi Roy | Kolkata News

Trinamool Congress Birbhum MP Satabdi Roy
KOLKATA/BOLPUR: Trinamool Congress Birbhum MP Satabdi Roy on Friday night said she will not be travelling to Delhi on Saturday after a meeting with party MP Abhishek Banerjee at his Camac Street office.
"I told Abhishek about my grievances. I am not going to Delhi tomorrow. I joined Trinamool because Mamata Banerjee wanted me in the party. This is the time to stay together and put up the fight,” Satabdi said, setting to rest speculation of her joining BJP.
There was a day-long drama since Friday morning, hours after the Trinamool MP addressed her Birbhum voters in a Facebook post on Thursday saying that she was unable to reach out to her voters despite her efforts to connect with them. Satabdi also said that some people in Trinamool didn’t inform her about the party programmes in Birbhum. The Trinamool MP in her post gave a date and time — January 16, 2pm — to make up her mind.

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Coal mining scam: CBI conducts raids in West Bengal | Kolkata News

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KOLKATA: The CBI, probing the illegal coal mining scam in West Bengal conducted raids in at least 10 locations across the state on Wednesday, two days after the Enforcement Directorate searched premises in connection to the case.
A team of 75 officials of the central investigating agency, searched premises including those belonging to Anup Maji alias Lala—the prime accused in the case.
Seven teams of the CBI on Wednesday conducted searches at Asansol, Raniganj, Jamuria and Durgapur. According to sources, the CBI is also planning to question Binay Mishra’s brother in connection to the case. Sources said that summons have already been issued asking him to appear at the agency’s office this week.

Kolkata , West-bengal , India , Asansol , Jamuria , Hooghly , Konnagar , Durgapur , Raniganj , Binay-mishra , Anup-maji ,

West Bengal polls may be brought forward to avoid exam clash | Kolkata News

The assembly elections in Bengal is likely to be brought forward by a couple of weeks to complete the entire process by April in order to avoid any cl

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ED conducts raids in West Bengal over illegal coal mining | Kolkata News

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KOLKATA: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Monday carried out extensive raids at 12 different locations across West Bengal in connection with illegal coal mining and theft from public sector coal firm Eastern Coalfields Limited (ECL).
According to sources, a large team of ED officials conducted the search operations at offices and residential addresses of businessman Ganesh Bagadia and Sanjay Singh.
The raids were conducted since Monday morning in Kolkata's Lake Town area, Garia, Konnagar's Kanaipur in Hooghly district and North 24 Parganas in connection with the illegal trading of coal.
The duo Bagadia and Singh are believed to be linked with illegal coal racket kingpin Anup Majhi, alias Lala, who is allegedly running the syndicate in connivance with Binay Mishra.

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9.5 lakh Covid vaccines to reach today, West Bengal keeps logistics ready | Kolkata News

CM Mamata Banerjee during a video conference with PM Modi on Monday
KOLKATA: The entire consignment of 9.5 lakh doses of Covid-19 vaccine will arrive in the city on Tuesday. A freighter will take off from Pune airport at 10.40am with 80 boxes of vaccines, each containing 12,000 doses in 1,200 vial. The flight is scheduled to touch down at Kolkata airport around 1.30pm, following which the consignment will be shuttled to two depots in the city.
The decision to charter a freighter to Kolkata was taken late on Monday evening to resolve the transportation issue in the absence of any passenger flight from Pune on Tuesday due to restrictions that limit operations between cities in Maharashtra and Bengal to three days a week. Flights operate from Pune, Mumbai and Nagpur on Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

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