Howrah: A private tutor in Howrah helped police arrest her husband after allegedly catching him raping a 14-year-old Class 7 student inside their home on Monday morning.The accused, Sk Hafizul (40), was arrested from Munshirhat in Jagatballavpur under the POCSO Act after his wife, Chandana Bibi, witnessed the alleged assault and raised an alarm. Neighbours…
The heavy rainfall inundated several parts of south Kolkata Kolkata: Heavy rains lashed parts of south and central Kolkata leading to waterlogging in areas like Chetla, Kalighat, Alipore, New Alipore, Park Circus, Jadavpur and Southern Avenue on Monday. The rain, triggered by ‘local factors’, was accompanied by frequent lightning strikes.Kolkata recorded 86.2 mm of rain…
Waterlogging at Sarat Bose Road Kolkata: The city has received 5% excess rain this monsoon, while south Bengal recorded an excess of 2%. The city, however, had a deficit of 12% in July while south Bengal received an excess of 14%. The July deficit in Kolkata has been attributed to more localized showers which were…
Kolkata: A day after Bengal BJP president Samik Bhattacharya warned partymen against any demand for cut money or extortion, state ministers Dilip Ghosh and Agnimitra Paul said on Monday such people would not be allowed to continue in the party. There were also “a number of people trying to contact us with crores of rupees”…
This year, none of the leading hospitals has seen dengue admissions and no death has been reported so far Kolkata: While multiple viral infections have seen long and severe spurt in Kolkata over the last one month, dengue cases are yet to be reported.A possible reason behind this could be the predominance of other viruses…
Boost for medical tourism Kolkata: The overwhelming response to the resumption of India’s tourist visas for Bangladeshis after two years has been accompanied by a surge in medical visa approvals, giving a fresh boost to Kolkata’s medical tourism.Over the past three weeks, most private hospitals in Kolkata have witnessed the biggest spurt in the arrival…
Kolkata/Burdwan/Howrah: The Bengal Special Task Force (STF) on Monday arrested a 21-year-old college student in Howrah for allegedly being involved in a plot hatched by suspected Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) operative Hamim Mondal to abduct junior state minister Umesh Rai’s son.STF officers said Aditya Singh, alias Raj, a second-year BCom student at Umesh Chandra College in Kolkata,…
Kolkata: Even as all coercive action against NEET protesters has been suspended following the recent Supreme Court order, Kolkata Police has lodged two more FIRs against actor Sreelekha Mitra on July 30 and Aug 2 in connection with the controversial poster on PM Narendra Modi that she had displayed at the protest on July 24.An…
Malda: In an ongoing probe into cough syrup smuggling, police recovered Rs 2.4 crore in cash, 20 gms of gold and 9,000 bottles of a banned drug worth nearly Rs 90 lakh from a trader’s rented room in Malda late on Sunday.While three accused arrested a month ago were present during the operation, carried out…
A policeman speaks to Aditya Singh’s grandmother at their Howrah home Howrah: Posing as a committed BJP supporter, Aditya Singh, a second-year BCom student at Umesh Chandra College in Kolkata and an alleged associate of suspected militant Hamim Mondal, had reportedly been gathering information on minister of state Umesh Rai and his family, according to…
