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EasternChroniWINDOW TO THE EAST cle WEATHERWATCH TALIBAN ANNOUNCE ‘amnesty’ NIA ARRESTS 2 KERALA BOWLERS SHINE WITH BAT Max 31°c across Afghanistan, urge women, one traveled to Tehran too as India beat England by 151 Min 27°c women to join govt P 6 to join IS in Syria P 2 runs P 12 Humidity 87% VOL II, ISSUE 265 PUBLISHED SIMULTANEOUSLY FROM SILCHAR GUWAHATI KOLKATA PAGES: 10 epaper at: www.easternchronicle.net PRICE `5 WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 18, 2021 BJP kicks off Shahid Samman BJP to move HC on appointment of Mukul as PAC chairman AGENCIES story. But that is not enough. Yatra in city; Union minister detained The speaker's office agreed to KOLKATA: BJP on Tuesday the request. We cannot wait for AGENCIES state president Dilip Ghosh has said said it will move Calcutta this to drag on indefinitely in that ‘Taliban Raj’ is going on in Bengal. High Court next week for this way. KOLKATA: BJP has started Shaheed National President JP Nadda has speedy disposal and time “We will move the high Samman Yatra in different parts also tweeted on this issue and said bound hearing by the speak- court next week urging the of the state on Tuesday. The party that the way Shantanu Thakur and er of BJP's objection to the court's direction in this matter. claimed that several of its workers other MLAs were arrested during appointment of its former na- We are consulting lawyers,” were arrested, including Union Min- the Shaheed SammanYatra is con- tional vice-president Mukul Adhikari said. ister of State for Shipping Shantanu demnable. This incident has insulted Roy as chairman of Public Referring to Roy's comment Thakur, who it claimed was illegally the Shahid families and the Muthua Accounts Committee (PAC). to the media in the Assembly detained. However, TMC dismissed community.” Leader of Opposition and fection law. premises that he was an MLA it as a publicity stunt. On the other hand, TMC spokesper- BJP leader SuvenduAdhikari Roy, who had been asked by of BJP but was ready to work Thakur along with BJP leaders son Kunal Ghosh has said, ‘I have no told reporters that Roy, who the speaker to reply to BJP's for TMC to increase the par- started the Shaheed SammanYatra information that Shantanu Thakur has had turned up at the Trinamool charges against him, Tuesday ty's base in Tripura, Adhikari at Gauripur in North 24 Parganas. been arrested. I saw an MLA jumped Congress office days after sent a letter to the speaker's said “I had commented on it on According to the police, the activists into the jail van. This is cheap promo- being elected as BJP MLA office requesting he be granted that day itself. TMC supremo did not have the necessary permission tion. They should remember what is from Krishnanagar North, a month's time to do so citing Mamata Banerjee is the only to hold the rally, so they were stopped Union Minister of State Shantanu Thakur and others were detained on Tuesday. Photo: Purbadri happening in Tripura. Is the disaster has now sought one month's poor health. He was granted the person to clarify which party and removed from the site in a jail van. Das. management law different for different time from Speaker Biman time, an assembly secretariat Mukul Roy belongs to. She and Police sources say that Shantanu over two hours and wrote a letter to do so.” states, I want to ask them.” Banerjee to reply to the charg- official said. her nephew Abhisek Banerjee Thakur along with other workers went the OC questioning his detention. His It is being told that he also had a In North Bengal too, the BJP claims es of the Saffron party that he “Roy's letter is faulty. He had embraced him with much to the police station and sat on a dhar- letter says: “I was forcibly placed in a heated argument with the police. that NarayaniSena was detained for has been illegally appointed as merely said he is unwell and fanfare at the Trinamool na. Later all were released. prison van and illegally detained by The BJP has taken up the issue meeting NishithPramanik. There too PAC chairman and should be needed time till the middle of Congress office only sometime The Union minister alleged that he the police. They could not show me the extensively and it is planning to there was a heated argument between disqualified under the anti-de- September to give his side of back,” Adhikari said. Pg 5 was illegally detained by the police for arrest warrant. They have no right to approach the Lok Sabha Speaker. BJP the BJP leaders and the police. SPOTLIGHT Proposal to rename CPM may suspend Ajanta for `1,300 crore package Taliban takeover: PM Aligarh city 'Harigarh' 320 Sikhs and for Northeast to tackle Hindus take refuge ALIGARH (UP): The city of famous writing in TMC mouthpiece Covid-19 chairs security meet Aligarh Muslim University, in Kabul Gurdwara Aligarh may soon have a new AGENCIES take the final call in its meeting GUWAHATI: The Centre will name Harigarh if a proposal CHANDIGARH: Amid the unrest on August 21. provide a financial pack- of the district panchayat is in Afghanistan, about 320 KOLKATA: The CPI(M)’s state A member of the district com- age of Rs 1,300 crore to the accepted by the Uttar Pradesh Sikhs and Hindus from Ka- unit is likely to suspend Ajan- mittee said that its members are Northeastern states to fight government. bul, Ghazni, and Jalalabad ta Biswas, daughter of the late almost unanimously agreed on the COVID-19 pandemic, A proposal for changing have taken refuge at Karte state secretary Anil Biswas, the decision of suspension but Union Health Minister Aligarh's name was unanimous- Parwan Gurdwara in Kabul. from the primary membership the period of it will be discussed Mansukh Mandaviya an- ly passed at a meeting of the Among the refugees is of the party, for writing an and finalised during the meeting nounced on Tuesday. newly elected district Panchayat Narinder Pal Singh, the only article in the Trinamool Con- Ajanta Biswas. on July 21. She is unlikely to be Reviewing the COVID-19 on Monday. PM Narendra Modi during the the Cabinet Committee meeting on Tuesday. Sikh Member of Parliament gress (TMC)’s mouthpiece, member of an area committee suspended for less than a month. situation with health minis- District panchayat chair- in Afghanistan. He is the son Jago Bangla. in the city. The area committee Jago Bangla, the mouthpiece ters of all the Northeastern AGENCIES against the backdrop of the man Vijay Singh told reporters of former MP Avtar Singh Biswas currently teaches has recently placed before the of Mamata Banerjee’s party, states in Guwahati, Taliban takeover of Afghani- on Tuesday that the district Khalsa, who was killed along history at the RabindraBharati Kolkata district committee their turned from a weekly to a daily Mandaviya said the fund is NEW DELHI: Prime Minister stan, news agency PTI report- panchayat's resolution to rename with other Afghan Sikh lead- University and is a member of recommendations to suspend on July 21, the day when the being provided to purchase Narendra Modi on Tuesday ed. Home Minister Amit Shah, Aligarh as Harigarh was for- ers in a suicide bomb attack the party’s teachers’ unit at the Biswas for three months. The party holds its annual flagship medicines, Pg 5 chaired a meeting of the Cab- Defence Minister Rajnath warded to the state government in 2018 in Jalalabad. Pg 5 varsity. She is also a primary Kolkata district committee will event in... Pg 5 inet Committee on Security Singh, Pg 5 for further action. Pg 5 Over 50% in 30 BJP workers arrested Assam has received BSF foils major India's new contacts with Taliban first shot of vaccine infiltration bid, nabs nine aid evacuation of Kabul embassy ahead of rally in Siliguri CHRONICLE NEWS SERVICE AGENCIES Begum (25), RoopKhatoon (22), AGENCIES erupted between the workers and PapriSekh (21). However, AGENCIES and police. GUWAHATI: Over 50 percent KOLKATA: The Border Securi- the children, travelling with SILIGURI: The West Bengal Po- In another incident, the police of the eligible population in ty Force (BSF) has thwarted them are named 4-year-old girl NEW DELHI: Amid high drama, lice on Tuesday arrested at arrested 35 NarayaniSena work- Assam has been inoculat- a major infiltration attempt Naima Akhtar and three-year- the Government on Tuesday least 30 Bharatiya Janata Par- ers from the Bagdogra airport ed, informed Assam health by apprehending nine Bang- old boy Saiful Islam, according airlifted its Ambassador to ty (BJP) workers, including when they assembled there to minister Keshab Mahanta ladeshi nationals in the bor- to the BSF. Kabul and rest of the diplo- Siliguri MLA Sankar Ghosh, receive John Barla, BJP MP on Tuesday. dering area of the North 24 BSF stated that reliable input matic staff to Delhi and plans in front of their party office from Alipurduar and Union On the other hand, around Parganas district in the state, was received from the Higher to shift several hundred loyal ahead of their "YuvaSankalp- Minister of State in the Ministry 11 per cent of the eligible pop- stated the BSF in a statement Headquarters and also the infor- Afghans some of whom are Yatra". of Minority Affairs. ulation in the state has been on Tuesday. mation was received from sourc- understood to have moved to The police said that they Speaking to a news agen- inoculated so far with both The BSF troops under es of the BSF Intelligence Branch neighbouring countries for hadn't sought permission to cy, Raju Bista, BJP MP from the doses.