Kolkata: A gold jewellery manufacturing company registered a criminal complaint with Girish Park Police Station.In its complaint, the firm has alleged that two freelance artisans misappropriated gold bullion worth around Rs 3.5 crore.According to the complaint,the company employs freelance artisans and contractors to make ornaments on a returnable job-work basis.A manufacturing agreement was signed in…
Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Tuesday acquitted two men convicted of the murder of a 16-year-old girl in East Midnapore while observing that ‘extrajudicial confession by a co-accused alone cannot be the basis for convicting a person’.Sk Rafijul alias Tutul and Ukil Ali alias Akil Ali were convicted on Jan 24 and 25, 2024, by…
Police posting outside TMC party office on Sadananda Road Kolkata: Trinamool Congress alleged “political high-handedness” after a former councillor’s office on Sadananda Road in ward 83, Kalighat, was ransacked. On Tuesday night, Trinamool MLA Kunal Ghosh claimed on Facebook that BJP-backed miscreants had attacked and vandalised the office of former councillor Prabir Kumar Mukhopadhyay in…
Kolkata: Around 30,000 people from across Bengal gathered at Rani Rashmoni Avenue in Kolkata on Wednesday to mark the 51st death anniversary of Comrade Shibdas Ghosh, founding general secretary of the SUCI (Communist). Addressing the rally, general secretary Provash Ghosh praised recent student and youth movements in Delhi and accused BJP of promising a “Sonar…
Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Wednesday dismissed Trinamool MP Abhishek Banerjee’s plea to travel abroad for his eye treatment, remarking, “India is not lagging in medical science, even Supreme Court judges get treated here.”Following Supreme Court’s order on Monday to hear Banerjee’s application within seven days, the matter was taken up for hearing by Justice…
Minister Agnimitra Paul at Birendra Krishna Bhadra’s house in Shyambazar on his birth anniversary on Tuesday Kolkata: The house of Birendra Krishna Bhadra may be declared a heritage site to preserve his legacy while Shyambazar Metro Station could be named after him. There may also be a bust or statue of Bhadra on or just…
Kolkata: The state higher education department is scrapping PhD entrance test conducted by respective universities and made the National Eligibility Test (NET) mandatory for admission to PhD programmes in state and private universities, as well as aided institutions. The department issued an order to this effect on Monday.Higher education department officials said the state govt…
The building from where the man fell and died Kolkata: A 39-year-old man died after allegedly falling from a seven-storey residential building located in Kankurgachhi on Tuesday, triggering an investigation whether he has died by suicide or an accidental fall.The deceased has been identified as Birendra Bahety (39), a trader, was a resident of Narkeldanga…
BY: Oishi GooptuKOLKATA: St. Xavier’s University inaugurated its first BTech batch under the Xavier School of Engineering and Technology (XSET) on Tuesday, at the Fr. Albert Huart Hall, Arrupe Building. The inaugural batch has filled all 240 seats across four programmes offered by XSET — Computer Science and Engineering, Artificial Intelligence and Machine learning, Electronics…
Kolkata: A day after the Indian Statistical Institute Bill, 2026 was tabled in the Parliament and opposition MPs filed notice to oppose, a section of ISI faculty members started getting in touch with the Congress and Trinamool MPs to raise voice inside the Parliament against the bill.They met Congress leaders like Jairam Ramesh and Manish…
