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West Bengal State Election Commission moves SC challenging HC order for deployment of Central forces

The West Bengal State Election Commission moved Supreme Court challenging the Calcutta High Court order directing deployment of Central forces in State panchayat elections.

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IIT-Kharagpur student death: Calcutta HC sets up new investigation team

Faizan Ahmed, a third-year Mechanical Engineering student at IIT-Kharagpur, was found dead at the institute’s hostel on October 14.

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Calcutta HC reassigns two matters of school jobs scam to another Judge

Two matters — Soumen Nandy vs State of West Bengal and Ramesh Malik vs State of West Bengal — have been reassigned to the court of Justice Amrita Sinha.

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SC seeks report from Calcutta HC on judge giving TV interview about pending case

On April 17, the top court had stayed the Calcutta High Court’s April 13 order directing the CBI and the ED to interrogate TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee and Kuntal Ghosh, an accused in the case, and file a report based on that.

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WB Panchayat Poll: SC junks Suvendu Adhikari's plea against Calcutta HC order

A bench of Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud and Justice J B Pardiwala said that they will not interfere with the Calcutta HC order. Read further on Dynamite News:

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Who Owns Your Media: The Indian Express empire and where it stands today

Twenty-three years ago, Robin Jeffrey, a professor of politics at Melbourne’s La Trobe University, had described Ramnath Goenka’s “Indian Express empire” as the “grandest version of newspapers with some link to the ‘freedom struggle’” in his book. When Goenka died in 1991, Jeffrey wrote in India’s Newspaper Revolution: Capitalism, Politics…

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March Madness: 5 bracket alternatives you need to try, from Calcuttas to confidence pools

From Calcuttas to box pools.

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A city's hope, despair and anger on big screen

Mrinal Sen’s films on Kolkata are a nuanced reading of middle-class hopes and aspirations in post-colonial India.

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Sprawling Kolkata's tall order for a sustainable future

Colonial planning was about attracting people to Kolkata, post-colonial planning is more about crisis management.

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Nottingham path 'dark as Black Hole of Calcutta' due to overgrown trees

'Someone could get murdered mugged'

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Teachers Recruitment Scam: ED files complaint against 8 accused including Partha Chatterjee, Arpita Mukherjee

Directorate of Enforcement (ED) has filed a prosecution complaint against eight accused including Partha Chatterjee and Arpita Mukherjee in the Teachers Recruitment Scam in West Bengal before the PMLA Special Court, Calcutta. Read more on Dynamite News:

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Partha Chatterjee’s health stable, asked to get discharged from AIIMS Bhubaneswar

Calcutta High Court had ordered to shift the TMC leader to AIIMS-Bhubaneswar after the ED objected his admission in SSKM Hospital on July 23

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ED takes Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee to Bhubaneswar AIIMS for treatment after HC order

The minister who was arrested in connection with a teacher recruitment scam at government-sponsored and aided schools was accompanied by a doctor from SSKM Hospital and his advocate, as per Calcutta HC's order. Full story on Dynamite News:

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Bearsden couple win fight to chop trees after claiming it left home like 'Black Hole of Calcutta'

Nick and Morag Bishop said the row of leylandii belonging to David and June Turso were causing major issues in their home with their daughter saying her parent's bathroom resembled 'the Black Hole of Calcutta'.

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Scottish Government settle neighbours' row over hedge and trees that left home 'like Black Hole of Calcutta'

Nick and Morag Bishop, of Bearsden, insisted their lives were being ruined by foliage belonging to next door neighbours David and June Turso in leafy Bearsden.

Irish Mirror

Joe Brolly doubles down after call to apologise for Clones 'Calcutta' comparison

Monaghan County Council passed a motion demanding an apology from the GAA pundit

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Joe Brolly doubles down after call to apologise for Clones 'Calcutta' comparison

Monaghan County Council passed a motion demanding an apology from the GAA pundit

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New judges for Delhi, Calcutta High Courts

Nine additional judges of the Madras High Court have been elevated as permanent judges.

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CBI grills West Bengal Minister for third day over daughter’s ‘illegal’ appointment

Calcutta High Court had on Friday dismissed Ankita Adhikari from her job in a government-aided school

The Hindu

Raid at Anish Khan’s house illegal, West Bengal govt. admits before Calcutta HC

Father of Anish Khan claims that the police personnel threw him off the second floor, leading to his death

The Hindu

In Kolkata, history builds bridges between communities

Neighbourhood walks resume after pandemic to promote communal harmony

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Calcutta High Court orders forensic audit of CCTV footage of Contai municipal poll

The court was hearing a PIL plea by BJP’s Soumendu Adhikari alleging violence, malpractices in the election

The Hindu

Birbhum violence | Calcutta HC directs CBI probe into TMC leader murder

The violence at Bogtui village on March 21 where nine people lost their lives was in retaliation to the murder, says the court

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India’s fireworks capital losing its sparkle

Early in the 20 th century, young cousins A. Shanmuga Nadar and P. Ayya Nadar set off to Calcutta from their home town Sivakasi, an arid region in the present-day Virudhunagar district, to learn the know-how of the match work industry.

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14 of the deadliest natural disasters in history

The world's deadliest natural disasters span more than 2,500 years of human history and include earthquakes, tsunamis and cyclones.

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