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NEW DELHI: Kolkata Police on Thursday said that the prime accused Manujit Mishra in the rape of an law student inside college premises was former president of the college’s Trinamool Congress Chhatra Parishad unit and the organisational secretary of the south Kolkata wing of the TMC’s student body.Photographs of the key accused available in the public domain also showed him in close proximity to several leaders of the state’s ruling dispensation.According to college authorities, the main accused was also engaged as a temporary non-teaching staff at the institution for a renewable contractual period of 45 days. He was also a practising criminal lawyer at the Alipore Police and Sessions Court.Meanwhile, the vice principal of the college Dr Nayna Chatterji claimed that Mishra was appointed on a renewable contract on the basis of a resolution passed by the governing body (GB) of the institute.“I got the information from the security guard that the police have sealed two rooms of our college. I am trying to find out what has happened. This person was appointed by the GB on a purely temporary basis,” she said.

‘Accused had kept the mobile footage of the assault and threatened to release it’

According to Kolkata police, the alleged crime took place inside a guard’s room on the ground floor of the college, next to the students’ union office on June 25.“Initial investigations revealed that the victim had reached the college in the afternoon to fill up certain academic forms after she was called by some people,” officials told news agency PTI.“According to the complaint she filed at the Kasba police station on Thursday, she was asked by the miscreants to stay back. In the evening she was allegedly taken to the room on the ground floor of the college and raped by the accused till around 10 pm. We have sealed the room, and our forensic experts will soon be there to collect evidence,” the officer added.The victim also alleged that in her complaint that she was filmed while being gang-raped, PTI reported, citing sources.“She has alleged that the three accused had kept the mobile footage of the assault and threatened to release it on the internet if she talked to anybody about the incident,” the source told PTI.The mobile phone devices of the three accused have been seized and sent for forensic tests, the officer added.“We are trying to find out whether the video footage was forwarded to other numbers or not,” he said while adding that the mandatory medical tests on the victim were being conducted.

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is all set to marry his fiancée, Lauren Sánchez, in Venice this week, marking a new chapter in his personal life. The wedding, a high-profile event of 2025, has already seen a star-studded guest list arrive in the Italian city. Guests such as Kim Kardashian, Bill Gates, Leonardo DiCaprio, Orlando Bloom, and Oprah Winfrey have been spotted in the city amidst the celebrations. The couple’s wedding is scheduled to take place at a historic venue in Venice, with reports suggesting multiple events are planned over a three-day celebration.

Jeff Bezos – MacKenzie Scott’s marriage

Before his relationship with Sánchez, Jeff Bezos was married to MacKenzie Scott for 25 years. The two met in the early 1990s while working at an investment firm in New York. They married in 1993 and moved to Seattle, where they co-founded Amazon in 1994. MacKenzie played an early role in helping the company grow — from handling contracts to supporting logistics in its initial days, often working behind the scenes as Bezos built the business.Together the couple has four children – three sons and one daughter.

Bezos-Scott’s divorce after 25 years

In 2019, Bezos and Scott announced their divorce in a joint statement on social media. The separation gained widespread attention not just because of Bezos’s status as the world’s richest man at the time, but also because of the large financial settlement involved. As part of the divorce, MacKenzie Scott received 4% of Amazon’s stock, worth approximately $36 billion at the time. The divorce settlement made Scott one of the wealthiest women in the world then. According to Forbes, she now has a total net worth of $30.7 billion and is among top 10 World’s most powerful women.

MacKenzie Scott’s new role as a philanthropist

Since the divorce, Scott has become widely known for her philanthropic work. She pledged to give away most of her wealth and has already donated over $19 billion to various causes through her foundation, Yield Giving. Scott is also part of The Giving Pledge – co-founded by Warren Buffett, Melinda French Gates and Bill Gates.Her donations have gone to causes such as education, healthcare, racial equity, and poverty alleviation — often made without restrictions or publicity. Scott has kept a low public profile but has emerged as one of the most generous private donors in recent history.Bezos, meanwhile, has focused on his business ventures and personal life, including his relationship with Sánchez, which became public shortly after his divorce from Scott. The Venice wedding now signals a new beginning for the tech entrepreneur.

NEW DELHI: Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav on Friday slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Bihar CM Nitish Kumar, accusing them of trying to erase the names of poor and marginalised voters from the electoral rolls.“The Election Commission has suddenly announced a special intensive revision. This means that the voter list published in February, which had the latest additions and deletions, has now been set aside.”He said that the entire list of eight crore Bihari voters has been sidelined, and now a fresh voter list will be created from scratch.He raised doubts over why this process is being conducted with only two months left before the elections and the feasibility of completing it in time.“This clearly raises a question, why is this being done just two months before the elections? And is it even possible to prepare a fresh voter list of eight crore people within just 25 days?”“Not only that, documents demanded are what the poor simply don’t have,” the RJD leader said.Tejaswi added that his party will take up the issue with the election commission and send a delegation to present detailed objections in the coming days.He further accused PM Modi and Nitish Kumar of conspiring to erase the names of poor and marginalised voters from the electoral rolls under the guise of the EC’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) drive.“The matter is clear, Nitish Ji and Modi Ji are scared.Their intention is to get the names of poor people removed from the voter list. In a democracy, the most important right that the poor have is the right to vote. And now the BJP and Nitish Ji want to snatch that right away from the poor, the oppressed, and those on the margins of society, the backbenchers, those who stand at the end of the social ladder.”Earlier this week, the election commission issued a notification clarifying that the SIR in Bihar aims to ensure inclusion of all eligible voters, eliminate ineligible names, and improve transparency. It said that factors like rapid urbanisation, migration, deaths, and the risk of illegal foreign entrants are a major reason for the revision. The last such revision in the state took place in 2003.Meanwhile, Congress has also objected to the exercise. Party spokesperson Pawan Khera accused the EC of acting as a “puppet” of Prime Minister Modi. “For a long time, we have been pressuring the Election Commission and saying their process is not transparent. With this new conspiracy, lakhs of people in Bihar and across India will be deprived of their right to vote,” Khera said during a visit to the state.