Among the spots where raids were carried out on Tuesday are New Market
KOLKATA: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation and Kolkata Police on Tuesday jointly conducted a surprise raid in and around New Market, picked up hawkers who were illegally blocking streets and seized ‘dalas’ of a section of hawkers occupying car parking lots. Both KMC and police have indicated that the raids will persist till hawkers fall in line and adhere to rules.
The joint raid was conducted throughout the day in areas like Bertram Street, Humayun Place, J L Nehru Road, Lindsay Street, Corporation Street and Finwick Bazar Street.
Trinamool leader Derek O Brien (File photo)
KOLKATA: Trinamool Congress on Monday showcased eight central awards that Bengal had won from the BJP-ruled Centre to rebut Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s bad governance charge and called his “teleprompter performance. a bag of lies.”
Derek O’Brien, the party’s Rajya Sabha MP, in a statement questioned the Centre’s intent, alleging that Bengal had already sent details of 2.5 lakh beneficiaries under the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Sammann Nidhi to the Centre, but no one had received anything. On Modi’s charge that Bengal had not utilised Rs 1,700 crore that the Centre had provided for clean piped water, the party said: “Mamata Banerjee’s Jal Swapno scheme, which is being implemented, will provide piped water to two crore households, at a cost of Rs 58,000 crore 35 times the Centre’s claim of Rs 1,700 crore which is borne entirely by the state government.”
PM Narendra Modi (file picture)
KOLKATA: PM Narendra Modi will not inaugurate the Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee Institute of Medical Sciences and Research on the IIT-Kharagpur campus on Tuesday. The institute was earlier named after Dr B C Roy, but was renamed by the IIT board in December.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will not inaugurate Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, a new medical school that has come up on the IIT-Kharagpur campus on Tuesday. He was supposed to virtually inaugurate the superspeciality hospital as part of the 66th convocation of the institute. The previous invitation card of the convocation mentioned this but it has been changed by the institute now.
Kolkata: Bengal BJP on Sunday submitted a complaint to Union home minister Amit Shah alleging police inaction during Saturday’s attack on the ‘parivartan yatra’ at Minakhan in North 24 Parganas. The party has sent a similar complaint to the Election Commission of India.
In the letter, BJP alleged that Trinamool Congress supporters hurled bombs and pelted stones at a “peaceful rally” that was being conducted with necessary permission. The letter said police did not take any action to control the mob and the incident was captured by the media.
“A lot of vehicles” were damaged and several party workers injured, BJP said, adding that the condition of two persons Anitro Acharya and Pradip Das was critical.