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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.

The Hindu

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

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In Kolkata, history builds bridges between communities

Neighbourhood walks resume after pandemic to promote communal harmony

The Hindu

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

No vicarious liability on state for judicial actions: Calcutta high court

KOLKATA: Calcutta High Court on Monday dismissed a Rs 100-crore compensation claim against the Bengal government for vicarious liability, holding it responsible in a case of alleged defamation against a high court judge. “There is no master-servant relationship between the State and a High Court Judge, and accordingly, there is…

The Times of India

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

The Hindu

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Calcutta HC orders CBI probe into murder of Congress councillor

KOLKATA: The Calcutta high court on Monday ordered a CBI investigation into the murder of Congress councillor Tapan Kandu of Jhalda Municipality in West Bengal's Purulia district. On a prayer by Purnima Kandu, the widow of the councillor, Justice Rajasekhar Mantha directed the central agency to submit a report on…

The Times of India

Bogtui mass killing: Will hit streets if CBI investigates at behest of others, says West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee

SILIGURI: "Let CBI do their work, we will cooperate. But if CBI doesn’t do their work and at BJP, CPM and Congress’s behest do something else, we will hit the streets in protest" said West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee on Sunday referring to the ongoing Calcutta high court mandated CBI…

The Times of India

West Bengal: Calcutta high court reserves order on Birbhum killings

KOLKATA: The Calcutta high court on Thursday reserved order in a suo motu petition, along with a bunch of PILs seeking a probe by CBI or NIA, in the death of eight people in West Bengal's Birbhum district.

The Times of India

Birbhum killings: Calcutta HC asks Delhi CFSL to collect samples from site of incident, orders govt to file report

KOLKATA: The Calcutta high court on Wednesday directed CFSL Delhi to immediately collect necessary materials for forensic examination at Bogtui village in Bengal's Birbhum district, where at least eight people were charred to death in the suspected fallout of a TMC panchayat official's murder. The court asked the state government…

The Times of India

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.

The Hindu

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.

LiveScience

IIM-Calcutta registers 100% placement, average salary hits record ₹34 lakh

A total of 465 students took part in the final placement process, receiving 631 offers

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Calcutta High Court orders CBI probe in appointment of teachers in West Bengal government, aided schools

The Order follows from the discovery that some of those appointed were not either from the panel or the waiting list of candidates selected in 2016

The Times of India

Calcutta HC takes suo motu cognizance of student leader’s ‘unnatural death’

KOLKATA: Calcutta high court on Monday took suo motu cognizance of the unnatural death of 28 year-old student leader Anis Khan, who was allegedly pushed off the roof of his three-storied Amta house by a group of men. One of them was reportedly dressed in a police uniform.

The Times of India

Calcutta HC clears Maidan metro tunnel after Army nod

KOLKATA: The much-awaited green light has come for the Joka-Esplanade Metro corridor with the Army on Friday informing a Calcutta High Court division bench that it has no objection to tracks being laid below Maidan and underground tunnelling through its land.

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Delhi’s Central Vista: Why historians are against redeveloping it

Exactly 108 years ago, on December 12, 1911, at the coronation of King George V as Emperor of India, he declared, “We have decided upon the transfer of the seat of the Government of India from Calcutta to the ancient capital of Delhi”.

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