Filing its affidavit before the top court, the Mamata Banerjee government said that film can cause communal disharmony and a law and order situation, as has been gauged from various Intelligence inputs.
Days after Mamata Banerjee led West Bengal government imposed a ban on 'The Kerala Story' film, citing "peace and harmony", the Bharatiya Janata Party Mahila Morcha on Thursday staged protests outside Inox Multiplex here in the city.
In this regard, he took to Twitter and said, "Great news for India on the Jayanti of Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore Santiniketan, West Bengal has been recommended for inscription to the World Heritage List by ICOMOS, the advisory body to UNESCO World Heritage Centre".
The film depicts how thousands of young women were allegedly brainwashed into joining the Islamic State (IS) and headed off to countries like Syria and Afghanistan.
Bharatiya Janata Party state chief Sukanta Majumdar on Monday, hit out against the West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee over banning 'The Kerala Story' movie in the state and said that this shows the "hypocrisy" of the CM.
Union Minister Anurag Thakur on Monday, condemned the West Bengal government over its move of banning 'The Kerala Story' movie in the state, and accused the Opposition parties of doing "appeasement and vote bank politics".
Expressing concern over violence-hit Manipur, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah to restore peace there.
BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari on Monday wrote to West Bengal Director General of Police (DGP) Manoj Malviya seeking an inquiry on whether the ruling Trinamool Congress routed public funds for the deployment of police force at primaries to select the party's panchayat candidates in Cooch Beh
A day after the Supreme Court issued an order asking to reassign proceedings in the West Bengal teachers' recruitment 'scam' to another judge, Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay of the Calcutta High Court, who was heading a single-judge bench that was looking into these cases, said he will cont
The Supreme Court on Friday directed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and Enforcement Directorate to maintain the status quo for a week into its probe in a case relating to irregularities in recruitment in West Bengal.