The Statesman Siliguri - December 21, 2024
The Statesman Siliguri - December 21, 2024
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In this issue
December 21, 2024
TMC to hold protest rallies on Monday against Shah's Ambedkar remarks: CM
Miss Banerjee, also the Trinamul chief, also accused the BJP of systematically demolishing the country's constitutional ethos and \"tearing apart the democratic values and the principles that bind the Indians as a nation\"
1 min
Speaker warns of action over protests in Parl premises
Bills relating to 'ONOE' were referred to a Joint Parliamentary Committee
2 mins
Aadhaar card selling: Two arrested in Purbasthali
Police sealed a Cyber Cafe on charges of selling Aadhaar cards for cash in Purbasthali in Kalna today.
1 min
SSB's role crucial in Darjeeling Hills, says MP Raju Bista
Highlighting the deep ties between India, Nepal, and Bhutan, Mr Bista said that the connection between their nations goes beyond political alliances
1 min
Siliguri Tourism Fair to be held till 22 December
The officials of Blue Eye India Pvt. Ltd. announced the commencement of the Siliguri Tourism Fair 2024 at City Centre, Siliguri, from 20 to 22 December.
1 min
Protest erupts in Siliguri against Amit Shah
As Union Home Minister Amit Shah visited Siliguri to attend the Sashastra Seema Bal's Raising Day celebrations, the CPI (ML) Liberation, Siliguri Local Committee, staged a protest at Hashmi Chowk demanding his resignation and an apology for allegedly disrespecting Babasaheb Ambedkar in Parliament.
1 min
Bengal CPI-M leader accused of sexual harassment suspended again
Just six days after it revoked the suspension of veteran leader and former party legislator Tanmoy Bhattacharya, accused of sexual harassment of a woman journalist, the CPI-M's West Bengal state Committee suspended him again and this time for six months.
2 mins
RKM spent ₹1,292 crore on social welfare in 2023-24
The Ramakrishna Mission spent Rs 1,292 crore on social welfare, education, and rural development in 2023-24.
1 min
Bengal passport racket: Cops trying to track PDS dealers acting as roots of creating fake documents
Officials of investigating agencies probing the rackets engaged in arranging fake Indian passports for illegal Bangladeshi immigrants, are now trying to track the roots of this menace in a section of public distribution system (PDS) dealers in West Bengal.
1 min
Fund utilisation: Minister scolds Kalna Pradhans
Minister Swapan Debnath pulled up the Pradhans and the Upa Pradhans of nine Panchayats in Kalna today for failing to spend development funds.
1 min
Body of maid found hanging in Durgapur village
The hanging body of a 24-year-old maid was recovered from the house of a retired school teacher, sparking a sensation in a village in Durgapur this morning.
1 min
Bengal school job case: CBI seeks Calcutta HC's permission to replace head of probe team
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday approached the Calcutta High Court seeking permission to replace the current head of its special investigation team (SIT) probing the multi-crore cash-for-school job case but was asked to move the apex court.
1 min
Metro Railway holds Inter Railway Cultural Competition (Music) 2024
The Metro Railway hosted the Inter Railway Cultural Competition (Music) 2024 between 17 and 18 December at the Belgachia Auditorium.
1 min
HC allows sit-in demonstration by doctors at Metro Channel on RG Kar issue
While issuing the formal order, the court imposed several conditions on the doctors' group for organising its protest programme in the heart of the city
2 mins
TMC MPs stage protest against HM Shah at Prerna Sthal, demand apology over his remarks
Trinamul Congress (TMC) MPs on Friday protested against the remarks of Union Home Minister Amit Shah's remarks on Ambedkar.
2 mins
ED gets clues on how scam proceeds were diverted as donations to trusts
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has identified a new angle of money laundering in the multi-crore cash-for-school job case in West Bengal where a major part of the proceeds was diverted and shown as donations to certain charitable trusts.
1 min
10 wheeler
At least twenty tourists were injured after a tourist bus collided with a paddy-loaded sixteen-wheeler truck near Shree Ramkrishna Ashrama in the Mallarpur Police Station area of Birbhum district in the early hours of today.
1 min
Inspection team visits sites of illegally filled ponds in Asansol
A joint inspection team comprising officials from the Asansol Municipal Corporation (AMC), the District Land and Land Reforms (DLLRO) office, and the Asansol North Police Station visited and inspected plots where water bodies have been illegally filled up by land mafias beside large housing areas on both sides of National Highway 19 in Asansol.
1 min
IISCO Steel Plant launches 'Arogya Mitra' free medical initiative, benefitting 72,000 villagers
IISCO Steel Plant (ISP), today launched \"Arogya Mitra,\" a significant Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiative bringing free basic medical treatment to approximately 72,000 residents across 49 peripheral villages.
1 min
Devastating fire engulfs Topsia slum, over 100 shanties destroyed
It is suspected that many people are still trapped in the slum, and efforts are ongoing by the fire brigade and police to rescue them
2 mins
Adani Group to invest ₹ 20,000 crore for thermal power plant in Bihar
The Adani Group has planned to invest Rs 20,000 crore in setting up a super critical thermal power plant in Bihar.
1 min
Eight burnt to death, 50 injured in LPG tanker truck explosion in Jaipur
At least eight people were killed and around 50 sustained serious burns when a LPG tanker exploded with a big bang after collision with a truck near Bhankrota on the outskirts of the city Friday morning.
1 min
Fadnavis faces opposition ire after Maharashtrian family gets assaulted
Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis announced in the Maharashtra Legislative Council on Friday that senior Maharashtra Tourism Development Corporation (MTDC) official Akhilkesh Shukla, whose goons allegedly assaulted his Maharashtrian neighbours with iron rods in a suburban Kalyan-based housing society, has been suspended from his job with immediate effect.
1 min
BJP MLC produced in court over derogatory remarks against Karnataka minister
BJP MLC C T Ravi was on Friday produced before a special court in Bengaluru over his alleged defamatory remarks against Karnataka minister Laxmi Hebbalkar in the state legislative council.
1 min
FIR against Rahul Gandhi diversion tactic of BJP
Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy on Friday termed the First Information Report (FIR) registered against Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi as a \"diversion tactic\" of the BJP.
1 min
SC seeks TN's response on plea for recall of bail order of Senthil Balaji
The bench posted the matter for further hearing on 15 January 2025
2 mins
KT Rama Rao gets relief from High Court till 30 December
In a relief to BRS working president KT Rama Rao Friday, the Telangana High Court passed an interim order protecting him from arrest till 30 December in the Formula E race scam after he filed a lunch motion petition to quash the proceedings against him following an FIR registered by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB).
1 min
Guv-DMK govt tussle leaves many TN varsities headless
Tamil Nadu governor RN Ravi has turned the domain of higher education in the state into a virtual turf war with the government of MK Stalin, leaving many state-run universities headless without a Vice-Chancellor.
1 min
Delhi Youth Cong stages protest over FIR against Rahul, Shah's remarks on Ambedkar
The Delhi Youth Congress staged a protest here on Friday over the FIR registered by the Delhi Police against Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi and remarks on Babasaheb Ambedkar passed by Union Home Minister Amit Shah while replying to the debate on the Constitution in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of Parliament.
1 min
'Nadda equating Purvanchalis with Rohingyas, Bangladeshis'
Kejriwal claimed that AAP has worked to honour and settle the Purvanchal society
2 mins
Shahdara police unites 311 missing children under Operation Milap
Under the operation 'Milap', an initiative of Delhi police to unite missing, kidnapped children, persons with their families, Anti Human Trafficking Unit (AHTU) of Shahdara District has united 311 missing children with their families and brought smiles to them this year.
1 min
BJP alleges AAP neglecting waste management network
The Delhi unit of BJP has criticized the AAP government in the civic house for paying no heed to the deteriorating sanitation network in the national capital.
1 min
Policy balance
The ethnic tensions in Manipur between the Kuki-Zo tribes and the Meitei community have brought the state's governance under intense scrutiny.
4 mins
How climate change has hit our kitchens
The optimism we've employed in every climate Conference of Parties (COP) over the last decade following the Paris Agreement to cut global carbon emissions by 45 percent from 2010 levels by 2030 has only dwindled and proven naive.
2 mins
People's needs drove me
ajendra Singh, fondly called \"Paani Baba\" (waterman), is an acclaimed water conservationist. He is credited with bringing back water adequacy to villages, apart from fighting against illegal mining and taking up the cause of clean Ganga and Yamuna rivers.
3 mins
Rebuilding pillars of a relationship
The newly elected Sri Lankan President, Anura Kumara Dissanayake (AKD), made his first official overseas visit to India.
4 mins
Russian missiles target Kyiv after Ukraine fires US-made missiles across the border
A Russian ballistic missile attack on Ukraine's capital Kyiv early Friday killed at least one person and injured nine others, officials said.
1 min
Canada's Justin Trudeau will shuffle his Cabinet as he faces calls to resign and rising discontent
Embattled Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will shuffle his Cabinet Friday.
1 min
International students urged to return to US campuses before Trump inauguration
A growing number of U.S. colleges and universities are advising international students to return to campus before President-elect Donald Trump is inaugurated, over concerns that he might impose travel bans like he did during his first administration.
1 min
House rejects Trump-backed plan on government shutdown, leaving next steps uncertain
A day before a potential government shutdown, the House resoundingly rejected President-elect Donald Trump's new plan Thursday to fund operations and suspend the debt ceiling, as Democrats and dozens of Republicans refused to accommodate his sudden demands.
1 min
US diplomats in Syria on first visit since Assad ouster
The team is also the first group of American diplomats to formally visit Syria in more than a decade
2 mins
Official says Wisconsin shooter was new student at Christian school where her victims had deep ties
The Wisconsin 15-year-old who shot and killed a teacher and a fellow student Monday was only in her first semester at the school but seemed to be settling in, a school official said Thursday as families of the victims remembered them as people of faith who had deep connections within the Christian school.
1 min
S. Korean investigators seek to question reluctant Yoon
The Corruption Investigation Office for High-Ranking Officials said it plans to question Yoon on charges of abuse of authority and orchestrating a rebellion
2 mins
Sri Lanka's navy rescues 102 Rohingya refugees found adrift aboard a fishing trawler
Sri Lanka's navy rescued more than 100 people believed to be Rohingya refugees who were found adrift aboard a fishing trawler off the island nation, a navy spokesman said Friday.
1 min
Malaysia agrees to resume 'no find, no fee' hunt for flight MH370, 10 years after plane disappeared
Malaysia's government has agreed in principle to accept a second \"no find, no fee\" proposal from a U.S. company to renew the hunt for flight MH370, which is believed to have crashed in the southern Indian Ocean more than 10 years ago, Transport Minister Anthony Loke said Friday.
1 min
Kenya announces plan to combat rising gender-based violence as 100 women are killed in four months
The Kenyan government on Thursday declared gender-based violence the nation's most pressing security threat, with 100 women killed in the past four months alone, most of them by men who were known to them, including intimate partners.
1 min
'Non-tariff barriers impeding trade': Piyush Goyal to EU Trade Commissioner
Union Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal, in a conversation with European Commissioner for Trade and Economic Security, underlined that non-tariff barriers were impeding trade and emphasized the need to address long pending issues as a confidence-building measure.
1 min
Market records steepest weekly declines in over two years
At close, Sensex ended near the 78,000 mark, shedding 1.5 pc from the previous session
1 min
Piyush Goyal calls for 100% integration onto govt platforms to improve logistics sector
Union Minister of Commerce & Industry, Piyush Goyal called for a 100% integration of industry stakeholders onto the Government platforms to improve the logistics sector.
1 min
Environmental protection during mining remains core focus area for PSUs: Coal Minister
Environmental protection during mining activities remains a core focus area for coal and lignite Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs), said Union Minister of Coal and Mines G. Kishan Reddy.
1 min
Urban sector investments in India surge 16-fold: Centre
The investments in the urban sector in India have increased 16-fold as the government aims to achieve the 'Viksit Bharat' goal by 2047, the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs said on Friday.
1 min
We have been empowering MSMEs by providing accessible, innovative and customized financial solution
Founded in 1911, Central Bank of India, the first Indian commercial bank, traversed a long way, to become what it is today - 'a great bank' with presence in Bengal, Sikkim, Port Blair with a wide network of 332 branches, 7 regional offices.
4 mins
India now has 25,202 public charging stations for EVs: Minister
As many as 25,202 public charging stations for electric vehicles (EVs) have been installed in the country to date, the government said on Friday.
1 min
Manipur CM Biren Singh highlights progress amid ethnic clashes, urges inclusive governance
Chief Minister of Manipur N. Biren Singh has asserted that the state, which has been reeling under ethnic clashes since May 2023, is witnessing signs of improvement.
1 min
Assam CM accuses Cong of inciting violence in Guwahati
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has accused Congress leaders of attempting to provoke unrest in Guwahati by orchestrating an incident to gain political mileage.
1 min
Himachal CM admits need to improve health services
Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu has admitted that the health services in Himachal Pradesh needs improvement.
2 mins
Haryana ex-CM Chautala dies at 89, PM condoles his death
The state government has declared three-days state mourning on 20, 21 and 22 December
3 mins
Indian peacekeepers promote sustainable farming in Abyei village
The Indian Battalion (IND-BATT), serving under the United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA), conducted an impactful agricultural workshop in Rumajak Village, Abyei, aimed at empowering local communities through sustainable farming practices.
1 min
Srijit Mukherji's Bhuswargo Bhoyonkawr is a cinematic reverie that pivots on razor's edge of morality
What do you get when the philosophical quagmire of capital punishment collides with the razor-sharp intellect of Bengal's most celebrated sleuth? Srijit Mukherji's Bhuswargo Bhoyonkawr- a tale that is equal parts cerebral and scintillating.
2 mins
A bolt from the blue
Tabla wizard ustad Zakir Hussain (9 March 1951–15 December 2024) left for his eternal journey at a time when he was supposed to be in Kolkata as a much-awaited participant in the Swara Samrat Music Festival.
3 mins
Kalinga Lancers defender Sanjay looking forward to HIL
India and Kalinga Lancers defender Sanjay Rana is excited to play for the defending champions in the upcoming Hockey India League (HIL) 2024-25 season, commencing on 28 December.
1 min
ISL: Jamshedpur eye league double against East Bengal
Jamshedpur FC will aim to register their first-ever league double over East Bengal FC when they face off in an Indian Super League (ISL) clash at the Vivekananda Yuba Bharati Krirangan in Kolkata on Saturday.
2 mins
Hockey India League to open with star-studded ceremony
The much-awaited Hockey India League (HIL) 2024-25 is set to return in grand style, beginning with an extravagant opening ceremony at the Birsa Munda International Hockey Stadium in Rourkela scheduled to take place ahead of the opening match on 28 December.
1 min
Mumbai host Chennaiyin, aim to jump to third spot
Mumbai City FC will aim to rise to the third spot in the Indian Super League (ISL) points table when they host Chennaiyin FC at the Mumbai Football Arena on Saturday.
1 min
Liverpool coach Slot is a 'fan' of Tottenham's Postecoglou
Tottenham Hotspur moved into the semifinals of the Carabao Cup with a 4-3 victory over Manchester United on Friday (IST) following which they were drawn to face Liverpool in the next stage, the side they face in the Premier League on Sunday.
1 min
Carabao Cup: Newcastle fancy their chances vs Arsenal, Reds face Spurs
Newcastle looking forward to 'difficult' semifinal against Arsenal, defending champions Liverpool eye 2nd consecutive title
2 mins
Rewind 2024: India's bittersweet campaign in Paris - Olympics and Paralympics
Last minute preparations, exposure camps abroad, TOPS funding, overlooking administrative mess-ups to pick the crème de la crème of Indian sports for the biggest show on earth that unfolded in Paris three years after Covid-19 pushed the Tokyo edition of the Olympics by a year.
1 min
What stands out was Ashwin wanting to evolve all the time, says Ravi Shastri
Former India head coach Ravi Shastri said that the recently retired Ravichandran Ashwin's constant drive to evolve was one of the reasons that made him stand out.
1 min
India to host Para Athletics World Championships 2025
The world's largest single Para sport event will take place from 26 September to 5 October 2025 at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in New Delhi, which will also host a World Para Athletics Grand Prix for the first time next March.
1 min
Oz replace McSweeney with Konstas, Richardson recalled
Australia make changes to squad for last two Tests of Border-Gavaskar Trophy against India
2 mins
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