-The Telegraph The CPM-backed Co-ordination Committee today instructed its members to challenge in the state administrative tribunal (SAT) or the high court the Bengal government’s decision to showcause those employees who remained absent on the day of the Citu-sponsored general strike on February 28. Ananta Banerjee, the general secretary of the Co-ordination Committee, instructed all district unit chiefs to take the officers who issue the show-cause notices to court. The government has decided...
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Blind Indore girl cleared UPSC, gets railways job at PM’s behest by Kundan Pandey
A visually challenged woman who cleared the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) with distinction in 2008 but was denied posting got justice after a four-year battle and the intervention of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Purnima Jain, with about 75% visual disability, has been offered an Indian Railway Personnel Services (IRPS) posting under Group B of Class I. Although Purnima is willing to take up the new job, she isn't satisfied with...
More »Once forbidden, always…by Pronab Mondal
Maoist leader Kishan is dead but he has left behind a “ghost village” that even the new Bengal government has been unable to breathe back to life. The story of Salpatra, a village of mostly Muslim families near Jhargram town, is not one of usual black-and-white administrative inaction but of how acts of unspeakable brutality and an element of political mistrust can keep empty an entire village not more than 150km...
More »Day before he was killed, CPM leader had complained to SP by Madhuparna Das
A day before he was killed in broad daylight on Wednesday, former CPI(M) MLA Pradip Tah had filed an official complaint with Superintendent of Police, Burdwan, S N Mirza stating that his life was under threat. He named 10 men, all reportedly Trinamool Congress members, of whom eight were later named in the murder complaint filed by Tah’s brother, Prabir Tah. In his complaint, a copy of which is with The...
More »CPM murders: Cops don’t seek custody of Didi men by Madhuparna Das
Raising questions of credibility and independence, the state police today did not seek custody of the four Trinamool Congress supporters named in the FIR for the murders of a former CPM MLA and a CPM district committee member. This despite the fact that they were booked under Sections 302 and 304 of IPC. The judge had to grant “judicial custody” to the four accused. Senior police officials said that the norm...
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