Will move SC in Kolkata office billboard dispute case: Abhishek Banerjee

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Kolkata, Oct 14 (IANS) Trinamool Congress’ Diamond Harbour Lok Sabha member, Abhishek Banerjee, on Wednesday faced a marathon questioning for around six hours at the Shakespeare Sarani Police Station in Kolkata in connection with the August 27 scuffle involving party workers, police personnel and Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) officials at his Camac Street office.

After coming out from the police station on Wednesday evening, the Trinamool Lok Sabha MP said that, if necessary, he will go up to the level of the Supreme Court regarding the matter and fight the case legally.

“What happened on August 27 was on Facebook Live. Mere allegations do not mean anything. Now “I will file a complaint, and an investigation will be conducted based on that complaint. An investigation is going on and the police summoned me for interrogation. I have answered all the questions they have asked. The rest of the legal battle will be on. I will go to the Calcutta High Court and the Supreme Court in the matter,” said Abhishek Banerjee, the nephew of former West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.

Speaking on the occasion, he also strongly condemned the alleged attack on Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday evening by a woman who claimed herself as a niece of the former West Bengal Chief Minister.

“The incident was very unfortunate. After all she is the former Chief Minister of the state and more importantly a woman. The way the incident happened yesterday was most unfortunate. I was present at my Kalighat office when this incident happened. The manner in which she tried to attack the former Chief Minister with a knife was most unfortunate considering that Mamata Banerjee is supposed to be entitled for “Z Plus” security. If the former Chief Minister had to confront such an attack, the safety of the common people in the state is well imaginable,” Abhishek Banerjee said.

Tension erupted on August 27 when KMC officials, accompanied by police personnel, reached Abhishek Banerjee’s Camac Street office to remove a billboard.

The Kolkata civic officials and police personnel allegedly encountered resistance from Trinamool Congress workers led by party MP Abhishek Banerjee and other party leaders, resulting in scuffles at the site.

According to the three first information reports (FIRs) registered at Shakespeare Sarani Police Station, the police have accused Trinamool Congress activists of assaulting personnel on duty and attempting to outrage the modesty of a woman police officer.

Abhishek Banerjee, Rajya Sabha member and senior Trinamool Congress leader Derek O’Brien, and other party leaders, including Humayun Kabir and Baishwanar Chatterjee, have been named in two of the three FIRs registered in connection with the incident.

The police have arrested 14 people so far in connection with the August 27 clashes.

–IANS

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Kolkata, Aug 23 (IANS) Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) officers on Saturday raided the house of Trinamool Congress MLA Sudipto Roy in connection with the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital corruption case.

It is learnt that two officers of the central intelligence agency went to Sudipto Roy’s house in the Sinthee area on the northern outskirts of Kolkata in the afternoon. However, the Trinamool MLA was not at home the moment CBI officers went to his home.

It may be noted that the TMC MLA was the chairman of the RG Kar Patient Welfare Association. After the rape and murder of a female doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital last year, Sudipto was replaced by TMC leader Shantanu Sen.

Meanwhile, Sudipto Roy has been under the CBI’s scanner for a long time. A section of doctors had claimed that the female doctor’s death was an institutional murder. They even raised allegations about corruption at the government hospital. It was at that time that the TMC MLA came under the CBI radar.

In September last year, officers of the CBI’s Crime Suppression Wing searched his house in Sinthee.

At that time, the Leader of Opposition in the state Assembly, Shuvendu Adhikari, had alleged that Sudipto had taken the equipment of RG Kar Hospital to his nursing home, which is located adjacent to his house. In this context, the TMC MLA said that he had built the nursing home in 1984. He had built it bit by bit during the erstwhile Left Front regime.

On August 9 last year, the body of a post-graduate trainee was recovered from the seminar hall of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital.

The incident had sent shockwaves across the country and beyond, resulting in widespread sustained protest movements by doctors, the common men, and even women members of households.

While the sole convict in the case and civic volunteer Sanjay Roy had already been sentenced to life imprisonment by a trial court, even after a year, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had been unable to complete its investigation on the ‘larger conspiracy’ behind the crime.

–IANS

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Daily UPI transactions surge to 596 million in April, value touches Rs 24 lakh crore

New Delhi, May 1 (IANS) The number of daily Unified Payments Interface (UPI) transactions in the country rose to 596 million in April, up from 590 million in March, according to National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) figures released on Thursday.

Transactions worth Rs 24 lakh crore were carried out in April, down from Rs 24.8 lakh crore in the previous month. This is the 12th consecutive month to record payments above Rs 20 lakh crore.

The pace of growth remained healthy at 34.5 per cent, despite a 50.7 per cent annualised increase in volumes in April 2024. The value of transactions rose 21.9 per cent from the year-ago period.

Daily transaction volumes were also higher for FASTag payments, used for parking and toll collection, at 12.75 million compared with 12.2 million in the previous month, reflecting the growth in the economic activity of the country.

FASTag transactions jumped by a robust 17 per cent compared to 12 per cent in the previous month. The total value of these transactions rose to Rs 227 crore, up from Rs 219 crore in March.

Daily volumes for IMPS, another payment medium under the aegis of NPCI, which operates UPI, were also higher at 14.98 million compared to 14.89 million in March.

Meanwhile, the NPCI has tightened the response timelines for UPI transactions to enhance user experience and reduce delays. In a circular dated April 26, NPCI directed banks and payment apps to implement quicker processing standards across various UPI services with effect from June 16 this year.

The move aims to cut delays in payment processing, transaction verification, and reversals. NPCI has advised all participating entities to ensure that these faster timelines do not lead to an increase in technical declines or service disruptions.

For request pay and response pay (debit and credit), the revised response time will be 15 seconds instead of 30 seconds earlier, as per the NPCI circular.

For transaction reversal, the existing response time is 30 seconds, which will now be reduced to 10 seconds

In case a person wants to validate the address, the revised response time will be 10 seconds instead of 15 seconds.

–IANS

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Emotional reunion at Maha Kumbh: Daughters travel from US to fulfil father’s wish of ‘Sangam Snan’

Mahakumbh Nagar, Feb 9 (IANS) The grandeur and spiritual essence of Mahakumbh 2025 are beyond words.

Devotees from across the world are gathering at Prayagraj’s sacred Sangam, immersing themselves in the eternal traditions of Sanatan culture. While the event is a spectacle of faith, it is also witnessing deeply emotional moments that are leaving everyone moved.

One such heartfelt story emerged on social media platform X when two daughters traveled all the way from California to fulfill their 85-year-old father’s wish of taking a holy dip at the Sangam.

On his birthday, when asked about his wish, he simply said, “I have everything, but if you ask, I wish to bathe in the Ganga during Kumbh.”

Determined to make his dream come true, his daughters undertook the long journey to India, bringing him to Prayagraj.

Despite the exhaustion, their happiness knew no bounds upon seeing their father’s joy after the sacred dip.

As the daughters shared the emotional moment on social media, it received overwhelming support from the netizens. The social media applauded the daughters who travelled from the US to Prayagraj to fulfill their father’s wish of ‘Sangam Snan’.

A user commented, “Your father is truly fortunate to have such wonderful daughters. You traveled half the world to fulfill his wish — stay safe and embrace the divinity of Mahakumbh.”

Another shared a personal experience, saying, “Fulfilling our parents’ wishes is the greatest blessing. I felt the same when I took mine to Kashi and Ayodhya.”

A foreigner added, “Indian families are incredible. The world calls the West ‘developed’ and India ‘developing’, but I believe it’s the other way around.”

Mahakumbh 2025 continues to be a melting pot of faith and emotions, where devotion knows no boundaries and stories of love and sacrifice inspire millions.

–IANS

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