BJP leader Nisith Pramanik on Friday welcomed the Supreme Court's directive to the West Bengal government to release the pending dearness allowance (DA) to state employees.
The Supreme Court has directed the West Bengal government to clear a 25% dearness allowance (DA) for state workers, teachers, and police officers. The Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M) State Secretary, Md Salim, welcomed the decision, calling it a "rightful entitlement" that the
In its judgment delivered today, a bench of Justices Sanjay Karol and Prashant Kumar Mishra ordered that DA arrears for the period from 2008 to 2019 must be paid to State employees and reiterated its interim order dated May 16, 2025, under which the State was required to release at least
Speaking to ANI, Awadhesh Prasad said the issue was not confined to West Bengal alone and had wider national implications, particularly for Dalits, backward classes, minorities and the PDA (Pichhda, Dalit, Alpsankhyak) sections.
A Bench of Justices Prashant Kumar Mishra and AG Masih noted that if issues involving larger constitutional questions are left undecided, it could lead to a situation of lawlessness in states governed by different political outfits.
A Bench of Justice Vikram Nath and Justice Sandeep Mehta, while hearing the Special Leave Petition Tarak Bag & Ors. vs. State of West Bengal & Ors., condoned the delay in filing and sought the State's response within four weeks.
Following Calcutta High Court's directive to the Centre to resume disbursal of MGNREGA funds in West Bengal from August 1, Union Minister Sukanta Majumdar said that it was too early to comment on this but the court has agreed that the evidence presented indicated corruption has occurred in d
BJP leader Amit Malviya on Friday termed the Supreme Court's order directing the West Bengal government to pay 25% DA (Dearness Allowance) to State government employees as "a major victory" for the employees and the state unit of his party.
A bench led by Justice Surya Kant also stated that the instant bail plea filed by Chatterjee be tagged along with other such pleas to be heard together on July 17, this year.
"In our opinion, this is a case wherein the entire selection process has been vitiated and tainted beyond resolution. Manipulations and frauds on a large scale, coupled with the attempted cover-up, have dented the selection process beyond repair and partial redemption. The credibility and le
The Court was dealing with a plea filed by the West Bengal government challenging a May last year Calcutta High Court order that had quashed the State government's decision to include 77 communities in the OBC category.