Global News for You – Top News – Current News
New Delhi: Supreme Court on Thursday asked Calcutta high court not to proceed with the hearing of a PIL challenging West Bengal govt’s new list of OBC sub-groups, which includes 80 from the Muslim community and entitles them to reservation in public employment.Accepting the argument of senior advocate Kapil Sibal who pleaded for stay of…
Four weeks after Calcutta High Court directed the repatriation of six migrant workers pushed into Bangladesh, they continue to languish in the foreign country, including pregnant Sunali Bibi and five others. The Trinamool Congress leadership has once again blamed the Union government for the workers’ plight and failure to bring them back. Shashi Panja, the Minister of Women and Child Development and Social Welfare of West Bengal accused that the…
KOLKATA: Candidates specified as tainted in the 2016 Bengal’s School Service Commission (SSC) panel (hirings) will not be allowed to participate in a fresh school recruitment process for 35,726 vacancies, Calcutta high court held Monday and directed SSC to cancel applications by such candidates. SSC had earlier submitted a list of ‘tainted candidates’ before the…
The Calcutta high court on Thursday directed Bengal government to file affidavit on progress of probe in law college gang rape case.The division bench, led by Justice Soumen Sen, instructed the state authorities to submit the investigation’s case diary during the subsequent hearing scheduled for July 10.The high court received three Public Interest Litigations (PILs)…
Three PILs were filed in connection with the gang rape. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu The Calcutta High Court on Thursday (July 3, 2025) directed the West Bengal government to file a report on the progress of investigation into the law college gang rape case in the form of an affidavit. Also Read |…
A division bench had later stayed the single bench order terminating the jobs of around 32,000 teachers in West Bengal government-run and aided primary schools. | Photo Credit: Debasish Bhaduri The Calcutta High Court will on April 28 take up for hearing appeals challenging the termination of around 32,000 jobs of primary teachers. The matter…
Calcutta HC reserves order on central forces in violence-hit Murshidabad, TMC claims situation under control NEW DELHI: The Calcutta high court on Thursday reserved its order on the continuation of the deployment of central armed police forces (CAPF) in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district, which has recently seen violent clashes.The court also suggested forming a three-member…
Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court has held that there are sufficient checks and balances in the process adopted by the Election Commission of India while scrutinising the nomination of a parliamentary or assembly polls candidate. It also concurred with the ECI’s contention that if a complaint is received in proper form, it will obviously be…
Murshidabad violence (PTI photo) NEW DELHI: BJP leader of leader of opposition in West Bengal assembly, Suvendu Adhikari on Sunday claimed that more than 400 Hindus were forced to flee their homes in Dhulian, Murshidabad, following communal violence in the region.He alleged that that the violence was a result of the Trinamool Congress‘ “appeasement politics”…
Underlining that constitutional courts cannot be a mute spectator, the Calcutta High Court on Saturday ordered the deployment of Central forces in Bengal’s Murshidabad where anti-Waqf protests have resulted in the death of three people. Several vehicles, including police vans, were set on fire, stones were thrown at security forces, and roads were blocked as…
