Follow Us on Google News Kolkata, April 7 (IANS) As West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee prepares to meet a group of job losers in state-run schools on Monday, following the Supreme Court’s order that annulled 25,753 teaching and non-teaching jobs last week, questions are arising about whether this is a political gimmick or a … Read more
Follow Us on Google News Kolkata, April 4 (IANS) A day after the Supreme Court upheld the cancellation of 25,753 school jobs in West Bengal, the West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) chairman Siddhartha Majumdar on Friday claimed that the completion of the process of filling up the vacant posts is not possible within the … Read more
Follow Us on Google News Kolkata, April 3 (IANS) It all started in July 2021, with the erstwhile Calcutta High Court’s single-judge bench of Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay, currently a BJP Sabha member, started hearing the first case about the multi-crore school job case in West Bengal. On November 22 of the same year, the Calcutta … Read more
Follow Us on Google News Kolkata, March 27 (IANS) The optical marks recognition (OMR) sheets used in examinations for recruitment of teachers in state-run schools were destroyed on the instructions of the former West Bengal Education Minister and Trinamool Congress Secretary General Partha Chatterjee with the clear intention to hide evidence in the multi-crore cash-for-school-job … Read more
Follow Us on Google News Kolkata, March 26 (IANS) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probing the cash-for-school job case in West Bengal has collected the handwriting specimen of an accused middleman and six of his sub-agents to carry forward the investigation. Sources said the handwriting specimens collected will be matched with the texts in … Read more
Follow Us on Google News Mumbai, March 24 (IANS) The Maharashtra government on Monday presented a bill to regulate private placement agencies engaged in the business of placement activities for job seekers and thereby ensure transparency, safeguard the interests of the job seekers and protect them from exploitation and fraudulent practices. The Act is called … Read more
Follow Us on Google News Kolkata, March 24 (IANS) A division bench of the Calcutta High Court, on Monday, extended the interim bail period for Sujay Krishna Bhadra, one of the prime accused in the cash-for-school job case in West Bengal, till April 22. On March 21, Bhadra approached the division bench of Justice Arjit … Read more
Follow Us on Google News Kolkata, March 21 (IANS) Sujay Krishna Bhadra, one of the prime accused in the cash-for-school job case in West Bengal, has approached a division bench of the Calcutta High Court for an extension of the interim bail period granted to him on medical grounds. The interim bail granted to Bhadra … Read more
Follow Us on Google News Kolkata, Mar 18 (IANS) The “confidential statement” by Partha Chatterjee’s son-in-law Kalyanmoy Bhattacharya, who has agreed to be an approver in the multi-crore cash-for-school-job case in West Bengal, will be recorded at a lower court in Kolkata on Tuesday. As per the schedule fixed, his statement will be recorded in … Read more