CMYK MAY 3 FRIDAY 38 Precipition: 20% Humidity: 64% 38 29 Wind: 23 KM/H Rs. 3 KOLKATA SATURDAY, 21 MAY, 2022 PG-12, YEAR—8, ISSUE—356 (RNI NO.: WBENG / 2014 / 56803) Morning India Manas Bhunia releases ‘Upobhokta Samachar’ magazine for consumer awareness. Navjot Singh Sidhu taken to medical after surrendering in court. PG 3 PG 4 SSC server locked for CBI probe MI News Service, Kolkata: All the digital information is in the eyes of CBI officials this time as one of the main evidence in the mystery of SSC recruitment corruption. The CBI insisted that the information be fully preserved. Sources said that the server of SSC office Acharya Sadan has been locked. Alleged corruption in recruitment of SSC 9th-10th class, Group C, Group D. The CBI has started an investigation by filing an FIR on the instructions of the Calcutta High Court. The then Education Minister Perth Chatterjee has been questioned in the interest of investigation. The members of the advisory committee on this appointment have also been interrogated. One information after another is coming up. Central Investigation Agency is working on the mystery Calcutta HC directs dismissal of Bengal minister's daughter from teaching service Two children take a bath to beat the scorching heat in the city on Friday. PIC: PRABIR BHATTACHARYA MI News Service, Kolkata: Calcutta High Court's single-judge bench of Justice Avijit Gangopdhaya on Friday ordered the immediate dismissal of Anikta Adhikari, daughter of West Bengal Minister of Education Paresh Chandra Adhikari from her services as a teacher of political science in one of the state-run schools. Paresh Chandra Adhikari, as per the order of the Calcutta High Court, is already facing a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe in connection with the alleged illegal recruitment of his daughter in a government school even though her name did not appear in the merit list and she did not even appear for the personality test. Justice Gangopadhyay's bench also ordered Ankita Adhikari to re- turn to the state government the salary that she received till the time of her appointment in two phases. As per estimates she will have to return her salary of 43 months. The salary returned will have to be submitted to the registrar of the Calcutta High Court. Justice Gangopadhyay also or- dered that Ankita Adhikari would not be able to enter the school premises where she was employed till further orders. Meanwhile, after finally appearing at the CBI's Nizam Palace office in Central Kolkata on Thursday evening, Paresh Chandra Adhikari was grilled by the CBI sleuths for about three and half hours. He arrived at the CBI office again on Friday morning and his interrogation process was on. Paresh Chandra Adhikari was the acting food minister of West Bengal from 2006 to 2011 during the previous Left Front regime led by the-then chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee. In August 2018, he joined the Trinamool Congress leaving his earlier party of All India Forward Bloc and was greeted in the party by the- then state education minister and Trinamool Congress secretary general, Partha Chatterjee. Within 72 hours from his joining Trinamool Congress, his daughter's name figured in the merit list. After the 2021 West Bengal Assembly election, he was made the minister of state for education. Sri Lanka defaults on debt for first time in its history MI News Service, Colombo: Sri Lanka has defaulted on State Minister Paresh Adhikari at the CBI office at Nizam Palace, on Friday. its debt for the first time in its history as the country struggles with its worst financial crisis in more than 70 years, BBC reported. It comes after a 30-day grace period to come up with $78m of unpaid debt interest payments expired on Wednesday. The governor of the South Asian nation's central bank said the country was now in a "pre-emptive default". Later on Thursday, two of the world's biggest credit rating agencies also said Sri Lanka had defaulted. Defaults happen when governments are unable to meet some or all of their debt payments to creditors, BBC reported. It can damage a country's reputation with investors, K Continued PG 3 Taliban order Afghanistan's female TV presenters to cover their faces MI News Service, Kabul: The Tal- iban have ordered female Afghan TV presenters and other women on screen to cover their faces while on air, BBC reported. Media outlets were told of the decree on Wednesday, a religious police spokesman told BBC Pashto. The ruling comes two weeks after all women were ordered to wear a face veil in public, or risk CMYK punishment. Restrictions are being tightened on women -- they are banned from travelling without a male guardian and secondary schools are shut for girls, BBC reported. One female Afghan journalist working for a local TV station in Kabul, who did not want to be named, said she'd been shocked to hear the latest news. "They are putting indirect pressure on us to stop us presenting on TV," she told the BBC. "Based on information received by Tolo news, the order has been issued to all media outlets in Afghanistan," the news channel reported. The decision is being widely criticised on Twitter, with many calling it another step by the Taliban to promote extremism. "The world deploys masks to protect people from Covid. The Taliban deploys masks to protect people from seeing the faces of women journalists. For the Taliban, women are a disease," one activist tweeted, BBC reported. The private Shamshad news channel posted a photo of its news presenter wearing a mask, and other similar images are being shared on social media. of recruitment corruption. A large part of this corruption is hidden in digital information. Investigators believe that the information can open up an aspect of the investigation. The Central Forces are on high alert to ensure that no documents and information are stolen or stolen from the SSC office. The security has been beefed up since late Thursday night following a directive from the Calcutta High Court. The CBI has locked the server to keep the digital information safe. Important computers of SSC office were operated from that server. Where there is digital information regarding recruitment. Investigating officers of CBI will collect the information as required. The investigators have come to know that the signature K Continued PG 3 Flood gate of Tripura politics opens for TMC with distribution of relief materials MI News Service, Agartala: Northeast life disrupted by continuous floods and rains. In this situation, the Tripura Provincial Trinamool Congress came forward to stand by the people there. TMC leadership has given the message to the people to fight shoulder to shoulder with them in this difficult time. Local TMC leaders distributed food packets and umbrellas among the common people on Friday. In the state capital Agartala, Tripura Trinamool Congress (Tripura TMC) president Subal Bhowmik and state in-charge Rajib Banerjee conducted the food distribution drive. Subal Bhowmik said, “Waterlogging has caused disaster. In the last four years, the BJP-led state government has done nothing but address the issue by providing oral services. People have lost their homes and livelihoods. Instead of holding an ankle-water photo session, the BJP K Continued PG 3