Kolkata Police has 25,000 personnel & 12,000 civic volunteers, but city has 3,000 Durga Puja pandals. Court said it isn’t enough despite ‘exemplary guidelines’.
For small pandals, barricades will have to be put up five metres from the entrance, while for bigger ones, the distance has to be 10 metres, the court said.
The petition stated that the state govt be prohibited from disbursing grants to community Durga Puja and direction to provide the same to CM's State Emergency Relief Fund.
Calcutta HC has initiated suo motu contempt proceeding against advocate Shiv Ratan Kakrania for sharing screenshot of an online hearing on LinkedIn on 5 June.
The court was hearing an appeal, challenging the conviction of a man and his parents for subjecting his 20-year-old wife to cruelty and murdering her subsequently.
There are 3,502 children in migrant labourers’ camps in Bengal, and court directed district magistrates to file a report on their mental & physical condition.
Calcutta HC allows live-streaming of a case in which a Parsi woman has challenged community's norms restricting children of those who married outside the community entry into the fire temple.
Amitesh Banerjee is the son of U.C. Banerjee, a former Supreme Court judge whose report on Godhra train fire, that killed 58 karsevaks, ruled out foul play.
Disenfranchisement by institutional fiat is profoundly undemocratic. The effect of the ECI's new documentary process in Bihar will tilt the scales in favour of the BJP.
Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.
India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.
Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.
Why not close all temples, mosques and churches too? Does West Bengal government has guts to do that?