Kolkata Municipal Corporation plans to declare certain neighbourhoods in Calcutta heritage precincts
Dhaval Jain, the municipal commissioner, highlights the need to strike a balance between 'community rights' of conserving heritage and the 'personal rights' of the owner of a building in a heritage pr ...
HC rejects Ghosh's plea for time: RG Kar ex-principal wanted charge-framing to be delayed
Turning down the former principal’s plea, Justice Tirthankar Ghosh said there had been a 'systematic delay' in hearing the case on alleged financial irregularities at RG Kar ...
CM Mamata Banerjee waits outside Raj Bhavan, ensures entry for Kolkata police band at Republic Day event
CM Mamata Banerjee and senior Bengal officials confronted the Raj Bhavan over the exclusion of Kolkata Police band from the ...
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Kolkata Police musical band allowed to perform at Governor's house after CM's intervention on Republic Day
A controversy erupted at the West Bengal Governor's house in Kolkata on Republic Day after Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee ...
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Why weren't banned IV fluid stocks withdrawn, Calcutta HC asks Bengal government
Calcutta high court questioned Bengal health department for not withdrawing Ringer's lactate intravenous fluid stocks from Paschim Banga Pharmaceutical after a stop-manufacture order due to the ...
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Court directs Bengal government to submit report in expired saline death case
The Calcutta High Court directed the state government to provide adequate compensation to the families of the victims and asked the centre to take action against the pharmaceutical company that ...
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Calcutta High Court directs Bengal government provide compensation to families of new mothers ‘administered expired saline’ in Midnapore hospital
The Calcutta High Court on Thursday ordered the West Bengal government to provide compensation to the families of the victims who were allegedly administered expired Ringer’s Lactate saline in the ...
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Midnapore saline issue: Calcutta HC orders government to submit report, compensate victim families
A division bench of the Calcutta High Court, led by Chief Justice T.S. Sivagnanam ... The division bench also instructed the state government to compensate the victim families. It also asked the ...
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Ex-minister Jyotipriya Mallick gets bail in ration scam after 14 months in jail
The former minister’s arrest had sparked political controversy, with the Trinamool Congress (TMC) accusing central agencies of targeting opposition leaders under the BJP-led central government ...
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Georgia: Government Creating Rights Crisis
(Brussels, January 16, 2025) – The Georgian government drove the country toward a human rights crisis in 2024, Human Rights Watch said today in releasing its World Report 2025. The government ...
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Bulgaria's parliament approves new government to end months of coalition talks
Zhelyazkov, proposed as PM-designate by the largest parliamentary GERB-SDS group, received a mandate from President Rumen Radev on Wednesday to form a government. Some 125 lawmakers at the 240 ...
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Feds waste $7 billion on office space, even though half of employees work from home, House GOP report says
The federal government is wasting $7 billion on leases ... according to a new report. The House Oversight Committee probed remote work policies in the Biden administration after pandemic restricti ...