KOLKATA: Marking World Elder Abuse Awareness Day, HelpAge India launched its first-of-its-kind landmark study, ‘Climate Resilient Ageing – Ensuring Care, Dignity & Agency’ on Monday. The report presents urgent evidence on how climate change is reshaping ageing in rural India.The national study covered 2,224 older persons across 20 districts in 10 states—Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Gujarat,…
s Calcutta University (CU) has raised concerns over academic quality following its decision to allow students to progress into the fourth year of their degree programme after securing a minimum of just 30% marks in all papers across the first six semesters. Previously, a minimum of 40% was required to earn an honours degree, failing…
Rebel Trinamool Congress MP Arup Chakraborty alleged Mamata Banerjee faces “family pressure” and cannot function freely, fueling a deepening party rift KOLKATA: The ongoing rift within the Trinamool Congress escalated further on Monday morning after rebel MP Arup Chakraborty made explosive claims about the circumstances surrounding party chief Mamata Banerjee’s leadership and the role of…
TMC’s Abhishek Banerjee appears before ED in Bengal school jobs scam probe KOLKATA: TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee reached the Enforcement Directorate‘s CGO Complex office in Kolkata around 11 am on Monday in response to a summons issued in connection with the money laundering probe into the alleged school jobs scam, officials said.Investigators are set to…
Kolkata: Between hope and despair, missed passes and messy moves that produced nothing, Brazil fans had a moment of redemption on Sunday morning — a spectacular solo effort by Vinicius Junior that helped the five-time champions salvage a 1-1 draw in their World Cup opener.The Selecaos failed to make a winning start to their campaign…
Kolkata: A meeting held on Saturday has resolved the ongoing clay supply crisis. Supplies are expected to resume by the middle of next week. It was decided that before extracting soil, the supplier must obtain an NOC from the landowner along with a copy of their Aadhaar card. Furthermore, the exact amount of the soil…
Kolkata: CM Suvendu Adhikari on Sunday announced an infrastructure and security overhaul and upgrade blueprint for the coastal areas of Digha, Mandarmani, Tajpur, Shankarpur and Udaypur.Adhikari said that the existing Rs 10 tourist subscription fee will be withdrawn from July 1. “I feel that taking Rs 10 from those who are paying income-tax and GST…
Agartala: The only Bengal link of the Nationalist Citizens’ Party of India (NCPI), oddly, is its Howrah address. Interestingly enough, the six-year-old Tripura-based party, registered in Howrah’s Sankrail, is now tipped to be BJP‘s biggest coalition partner with 20 MPs.TDP has 16 MPs in Lok Sabha and JD(U) 12.Formed in 2023, the party’s election symbol…
Kolkata: With Trinamool’s rebel MPs announcing that their bloc would merge with the Tripura-based Nationalist Citizens’ Party of India (NCPI), BJP on Sunday said the decision would put all speculation to rest.While unease was brewing in BJP over the fate of the rebels, Bengal BJP president Samik Bhattacharya and Union minister and Bongaon MP Shantanu…
New Delhi/Kolkata: Twenty rebel Trinamool MPs informed Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Sunday that they will merge with a relatively unknown party from Tripura— Nationalist Citizens’ Party of India (NCPI) — and urged him to allot them a separate sitting block in Lok Sabha along with the NDA parties.The merger will make NCPI, whose…
