27 C kolkata / The New Indian Express
KOLKATA: Four BJP MLAs were suspended from the West Bengal Legislative Assembly for the current monsoon session for protesting the decision of Speaker Biman Banerjee to expunge BJP MLA from Balurghat Ashok Lahiri's speech from the records. The BJP MLAs--Chief Opposition Whip Sankar Ghosh, Agnimitra Paul, Sankar Oraon and Dilip Burman--staged a walkout from the House and held demonstrations outside the Assembly gate. The four were suspended for their alleged disrespect to the chair and unruly beh
KOLKATA: The Calcutta High Court on Friday directed protesting teachers and other staff of West Bengal government-run and -aided schools, who lost their jobs due to a Supreme Court ruling, to shift their protest venue in the interest of public convenience. The court also limited the number of participants to 200 at any given time. Hearing petitions filed by the Deserving Teachers Rights Forum, under whose banner the protest is being organised, and the state government, Justice Tirthankar Ghosh o