Follow Us on Google News Kolkata, April 22 (IANS) A single-judge bench of the Calcutta High Court, on Tuesday, extended the interim bail period for Sujay Krishna Bhadra, one of the prime accused in the cash-for-school job case in West Bengal, by another two months. The previous interim bail granted to him on medical grounds … Read more
Follow Us on Google News Kolkata, April 19 (IANS) The joint platform of both ‘genuine’ teaching and non-teaching staff losing school jobs following the recent order of the Supreme Court earlier this month has called off its proposed “march to state secretariat” agitation which was scheduled on April 21. A letter has been forwarded both … Read more
Follow Us on Google News Aizawl, April 17 (IANS) Leaders of the agitating 15,000 workers employed under various Centrally Sponsored Schemes (CSS) in Mizoram, on Thursday met Lalmuanpuia Punte, Political Adviser to Mizoram Chief Minister Lalduhoma and discussed the demand to regularise their jobs under the state government. Officials said that the leaders of the … Read more
Follow Us on Google News Kolkata, April 14 (IANS) The parents of the junior woman doctor of state-run R.G. Kar Medical College & Hospital in Kolkata who was raped and murdered within the hospital premises in August last year announced on Monday that they will be joining the protest march by the “genuine” school job-losers … Read more
Follow Us on Google News Kolkata, April 14 (IANS) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) sleuths probing the multi-crore cash-for-school job case are now probing why the available infrastructure of West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) was not used in preserving the “scanned” or “mirror” images of the optimal mark recognition (OMR) sheets used in … Read more
Follow Us on Google News Kolkata, April 12 (IANS) A day after meeting the West Bengal Education Minister Bratya Basu, the losers of school jobs following an order of the Supreme Court last week, have intensified their protests on the streets of Kolkata from Saturday. On one hand, the relay hunger strike by a section … Read more
Follow Us on Google News Kolkata, April 11 (IANS) Just before the crucial meeting of state Education Minister Bratya Basu with the job-losers of West Bengal government schools on Friday afternoon, a decision of the Kolkata Police has left them fuming. A cop attached to Kasba Police Station, who was spotted in media footage kicking … Read more
Follow Us on Google News Kolkata, April 11 (IANS) West Bengal Education Minister Bratya Basu will meet the school job losers, whose relay hunger strike has entered the second day on Friday. The meeting will be held at Bikas Bhavan at 3 p.m. At the meeting, Minister Basu is expected to explain to the delegation … Read more
Follow Us on Google News Kolkata, April 10 (IANS) A hunger strike by a section of the job losers, including teaching and non-teaching staff, in state-run schools in West Bengal is underway in front of the West Bengal School Service Commission’s office at Salt Lake in Kolkata. The protesters are demanding that the state government … Read more