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Tension flares as BJP workers reach BLO workers protest site outside Bengal CEO's office
KOLKATA: High drama unfolded as a group of BJP workers came face to face with protesting members of a booth-level officers' forum in front of the West Bengal CEO's office here around midnight, while a police force stood as a barrier between the two groups, a senior officer said on Tuesday. Several members of the BLO Adhikar Raksha Committee were on a sit-in outside the CEO's office since the afternoon hours on Monday, alleging excessive work pressure and unmanageable workload during the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. Matters came to a head when around 50 BJP activists led by KMC Councillor Sajal Ghosh arrived at the spot at 11 pm, shouting slogans against TMC's alleged bid to stall the SIR exercise by intimidating the Election Commission officials who were confined in the CEO's office. The situation turned volatile when the protesting BLOs raised counter-slogans, accusing the BJP of working in collusion with the Election Commission to delete names of genuine voters in West Bengal. They also alleged that the BJP activists were rying to terrorise and provoke the peacefully demonstrating BLOs who only wanted an audience with the CEO. The protesters are not BLOs. They are leaders of TMC-backed organisations, Ghosh claimed. The BLO forum members dismissed the allegation. As the two groups traded barbs in front of mediapersons, a strong police force led by DC Central Indira Mukherjee stood between the warring sides to soothe frayed tempers. West Bengal Chief Electoral Officer Manoj Kumar Agarwal - who was confined due to the sit-in by the BLOs - left his office around 11.40 pm. He refused to comment on the late-night development, but tension subsided as he and other EC officials were escorted by the police to their residences. Ghosh and his party men announced that they would leave the place as the CEO and others boarded vehicles in the presence of the police. As asked by our top leadership, we are now leaving the area. Our immediate objective was to see that the CEO and other officials are not harassed by the Trinamool Congress. Since they have managed to leave, we don't wish to stay back here any more. The TMC got a befitting reply to its sinister campaign to harass the CEO, Ghosh said. Earlier, members of the booth-level officers' platform engaged in altercations with the police while attempting to enter the Chief Electoral Officer's (CEO) office here during a demonstration. The BLO protesters went on a march from College Square to the CEO's office in central Kolkata on Monday afternoon. At least three BLOs in West Bengal have died by suicide over alleged inhuman work pressure during the door-to-door enumeration form distribution and collection process.
La Nina and persistent dry spell trigger early freeze in Kashmir as Srinagar shivers at -3.1C
SRINAGAR: Winter has arrived early in Kashmir this year, with bone-chilling temperatures gripping the Valley weeks ahead of schedule. A prevailing dry spell combined with the La Nia effect has pushed night-time temperatures in Srinagar down to 3.1C, and forecasters warn of even colder nights ahead. Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu & Kashmir, recorded 3.1C on Sunday night, a sharp deviation from the seasonal norm of around 0.1C. This marks the second consecutive night that temperatures in the city have dipped below 3C. The cold was even more severe in other parts of the Valley. Shopian in South Kashmir recorded 5.4C, while temperatures fell to 4.4C in Pahalgam, 3.8C in Sonamarg, and 1.2C in the ski resort of Gulmarg. With clear skies and persistent dry weather, the cold wave has intensified across the region. Residents say that though November is usually cold, temperatures rarely fall below freezing. This year the winter has arrived early, and so has the bone-chilling cold, said Zahoor Ahmad, a Srinagar local. Normally in November, the temperature would stay above freezing point at night, but this time we are witnessing intense cold, with temperatures regularly dropping well below zero. He added that such extreme cold is typically associated with Chillai Kalan, the Valleys harsh 40-day winter period which begins on 21 December. This year, we are experiencing that level of cold much earlier. According to Dr Mukhtar Ahmad, Director of the Meteorological Department in Kashmir, the severe cold is largely due to the persistent dry spell and the influence of La Nia. He noted that the current temperatures are not unprecedented, recalling that Srinagar also recorded 3C in November 2020. Dr Ahmad predicted a further drop of one to two degrees in the coming week. Temperatures may touch 4C and even 5C in some places as cold and dry weather is likely to persist in the absence of any wet spell. With no precipitation expected, the MeT Department has also forecast shallow to moderate fog across Kashmir in the coming days, adding to the challenges posed by the unusually early onset of winter. In response to the freezing temperatures, the government has announced early winter vacations for kindergarten classes, while the winter break for Classes 1 to 8 will begin in the first week of December. Amid the harsh conditions, the Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS), Soura, has issued a public health advisory urging residents to wear layered clothing to retain body heat, limit outdoor exposure, cover their nose and mouth when stepping outside, stay hydrated, engage in indoor physical activity to support heart and lung health, and ensure vaccination against flu and pneumonia.
BHOPAL: An Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer Santosh Verma, having a controversial past, has kicked up a fresh row with an objectionable remark about Brahmin girls in Madhya Pradesh. Addressing the provincial meeting of the Anusuchit Jati Evam Janjati Adhikari Evam Karmachari Sangh (AJAKS), the associations newly elected provincial president Santosh Verma reportedly made an objectionable remark about Brahmin girls. Reservations will continue till a Brahmin donates his daughter to my son or allows her to have a relationship with him, Verma reportedly said at the event held in Bhopals Ambedkar Maidan on Sunday. As the video went viral across social media platforms on Monday, Brahmin organizations, while condemning the IAS officers remark as indecent, casteist and extremely insulting to Brahmin daughters, demanded strict action against the bureaucrat. We demand an immediate FIR against the officer for his highly indecent remarks about Brahmin daughters. If no FIR is registered against him, the entire Brahmin samaj will resort to state-wide protest, Pushpendra Mishra, the state president of All India Brahmin Samaj demanded. Mishra added that the remarks by the IAS officer violate the Civil Service (Conduct) Rules, due to which stern action against him becomes even more important. A leader of the MP Mantralaya Sewa Adhikari-Karamchari Sangh, Er Sudhir Nayak, while terming the remark by the IAS officer, as Highly objectionable and insulting for the general category people, demanded action against Verma under the Civil Service (Conduct) Rules. Controversies arent new to Verma, who was originally an MP State Administrative Service officer. He was in news in 2021-22, allegedly forging court orders and faking signatures of a special court judge, for falsely claiming relief in cases against him. He was arrested after the concerned judge filed a complaint against him for forging court orders, which pertained to alleged criminal intimidation of a woman. He had reportedly used the forged documents to secure promotion from the state administrative cadre to Indian Administrative Service (IAS)
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NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has held that there is no provision in law which bars an individual from filing a complaint related to damage to public property. The SC was hearing an appeal against a September 24, 2024 order of the Allahabad High Court that had stayed the summoning of accused persons in the case, saying that gram pradhan had no locus to lodge an FIR in the matter. While allowing the appeal, a bench of Justices Pankaj Mithal and Prasanna B Varale said on November 18 that there was no provision in the Code of Criminal Procedure, which bars a citizen from filing a complaint for prosecution of a public servant or any other person who has allegedly committed an offence. The bench said it was well recognised principle of criminal jurisprudence that anyone can set out or put the criminal law into motion, except where the statute enacting or creating an offence indicates to the contrary. In the case at hand, there is no specific provision in the 1984 Act (Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act) which limits the eligibility of the person making the complaint, the bench said. The prosecution had filed a charge sheet under various sections of the IPC, SC/ST Act and the Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act in a case in Uttar Pradesh. The trial court took cognisance of the charge sheet and summoned the accused, who challenged the order before the HC. The court said that the High Court manifestly erred in law in holding that since the Gram Pradhan was not the competent authority to lodge an FIR, the action of the Special Judge in taking cognisance and summoning the accused was bad in law.
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NEW DELHI: INDIA bloc constituents will not take part in the December 14 rally being organised by the Congress to protest against the Election Commission of India (ECI)s alleged vote theft. Party leaders insist that it will be a purely Congress affair and the decision to go solo was firmed up at the AICC review meeting early last week. A senior Congress leader told this newspaper that the rally at Ramlila Maidan would be completely a Congress show aimed at conveying that the party has consistently been at the forefront of exposing irregularities in the electoral process. We have been campaigning on this issue for months and has collected five crore signatures from across the country against vote chori. The party has invested its organisational strength on the matter. This protest is specifically our initiative, the leader said, adding that the party is expecting a huge turnout driven by state units that have been asked to mobilise workers from constituencies where alleged irregularities have surfaced. According to sources, the decision was finalised during the AICC review meeting chaired by Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge with key office-bearers from 12 states and Union Territories (UT), where the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of voter rolls is underway. The meeting was attended by former party president Rahul Gandhi, AICC general secretaries, state unit chiefs, Congress Legislature Party leaders and secretaries of 12 states and UTs where the SIR is underway. The states and UTs are Chhattisgarh, Goa, Gujarat, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Puducherry, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, and Lakshadweep. Among these, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, Kerala and West Bengal will go to polls in 2026. Phase 2 of the SIR exercise began on November 4 and will continue till December 4. The party has alleged that the EC is now a blatantly partisan player that is completely destroying the very concept of a level-playing field for all political parties. After the EC rolled out the second phase of the SIR on October 27, opposition-ruled states Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, and Kerala have escalated their objections to the ECs move by seeking legal options. Despite being a key constituent of the INDIA bloc and a primary opposition party, the Congress had not convened a joint meeting or crafted a coordinated strategy with its alliance partners on the SIR issue until now. On Sunday, Congress leader and Lok Sabha Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi launched a scathing attack on the EC, linking the ongoing SIR directly to the deaths of 16 Booth Level Officers (BLOs) over nearly three weeks. Gandhi alleged that the ECs rushed, paperwork-heavy process is a deliberate ploy to harass citizens and enable voter fraud. Decision finalised during AICC review meeting According to sources, the decision was finalised during the AICC review meeting chaired by Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge with key office-bearers from 12 states and Union Territories (UT). The meeting was attended by former party president Rahul Gandhi, AICC general secretaries, state unit chiefs, Congress Legislature Party leaders and secretaries of 12 states and UTs where the SIR is underway.
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Two apartment buildings, a private home, the Mechanical College building, two industrial enterprises, and Kindergarten No. 7 were damaged, says Mayor Svetlana Kambulova
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Emkay Global downgraded ACC to 'sell' citing weak margins and slow capex, slashing its target price. CLSA maintained an 'outperform' rating on Hindustan Aeronautics, while UBS initiated coverage of Shaily Engineering with a 'buy'. Jefferies recommended 'buy' on Shyam Metalics for its growth potential, and Nomura is bullish on IKS Health due to the US healthcare outsourcing market's growth.
Modi to kickstart Mission Bengal with public rally
NEW DELHI/KOLKATA : The BJP has shifted its attention from what its leaders are calling Fateh Bihar to an ambitious Mission Bengal, but insiders admit that West Bengal will be far more challenging than Bihar. Prime Minister Narendra Modi may kick off the poll campaign in the second week of December, followed by a strategy tour of RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat. Modi may address a rally in Hooghlys Arambag on December 13 or 14, followed by Bhagwats six-day tour beginning December 18. Hindu organisations will also hold a Panch Lokkho Konthe Gita Path at the Brigade Parade Ground on December 7 to consolidate Hindu voters. Party functionaries said the demographic mix in several Bengal districts, even after the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, remains formidable and favourable for the ruling Trinamool Congress. The BJP has drawn up a fresh strategy for the 2026 Assembly polls. Bengal might not go the way Bihar did because caste dynamics dont play the same role here, a senior functionary said. He added that the BJPs focus would be on consolidating Hindu voters who are less outspoken even after being subjected to exploitation by rowdy elements of a particular community enjoying government patronage. The state has been divided into 56 organisational zones, each monitored by senior leaders from outside Bengal. The party is spotlighting alleged law-and-order failures and Jungle-Raj under TMC, echoing its Bihar campaign. With women and youth, we will take the same approach that helped us in Bihar, a BJP leader said, citing the Prime Ministers recent assertion that Bengal bhi mukt hoga Jungle-raj se jald. As the SIR continues, the party expects large deletions of dead and bogus voters, which it claims will reduce the TMCs advantage. The BJP has set up more than 71,000 booth committees and brought in leaders such as Bhupender Yadav, Biplab Deb, Amit Malviya and Sunil Bansal to strengthen ground operations.
Decomposed Body Of A Woman Found Stuffed In A Suitcase Near Mumbai
The body appeared to have been disposed of in the creeks and drains along the flyover to conceal the crime.
Guwahati Diary | Promoting human-elephant coexistence
As part of efforts to strengthen conservation awareness and encourage peaceful co-existence between vulnerable communities and wild elephants, biodiversity conservation organisation Aaranyak, with support from the SBI Foundation, conducted two school outreach programmes in Udalguri and Tamulpur districts. These activities were also designed to highlight the importance of adopting simple, practical measures to reduce risks for both communities and wildlife. At one school, the team delivered Gajah Katha - Part I, the organisations signature educational module that introduces students to elephant behaviour. Police buildings turn blue on World Childrens Day On the World Childrens Day, all major infrastructure and buildings of the Assam Police across the state were illuminated in blue. DGP Harmeet Singh ceremonially illuminated the Assam Police Headquarters as a part of the worldwide Go Blue campaign, symbolising a commitment to upholding childrens rights. We observe Child Rights Week every year through a series of activities aimed at reinforcing our dedication to protecting and promoting childrens rights, Singh said. The Go Blue campaign encourages communities around the world to light up public spaces in blue on the World Childrens Day. Inland water transport network to get a boost Assams inland water transport network and industrial logistics are set to get a boost. The Inland Waterways Authority of India (IWAI) has signed two MoU to strengthen the states inland water transport network and industrial logistics. The agreementsone with Assam Petro-Chemicals Ltd and with the Government of Assamto promote movement of cargo and passengers through states extensive river systems, advancing goals of sustainable connectivity and regional growth. In view of multiple development projects in Northeast, Union Minister of Ports, Shipping Sarbananda Sonowal chaired a comprehensive review meet. Prasanta Mazumdar Our correspondent in Guwahati prasantamazumdar@newindianexpress.com
MP Farmers Hold Funeral For Onions As Prices Crash To 1 Per Kg
Farmers in Mandsaur held a symbolic funeral for onions as prices crashed to 1 per kg, blaming export duty and urging action from Shivraj Singh Chouhan and the government.
After performing the final rites of Dharmendra, Sunny Deol was spotted leaving in his car, and the visuals will break your heart.
Afghan minister: Envoy coming soon, medical visas to restart
Azizi also spoke about the idea of opening additional trade routes with India, possibly through Iran, Pakistan, or any other country
