Law student Debabrata Adhikari during the protest on Friday Debabrata Adhikari, member of Calcutta Cockroach Movement Kolkata: The cockroach controversy pinched an actor, a life science student, a law student and a businessman to come together as ‘fellow cockroaches’ to protest against the NEET exam paper leak and seek resignation of Union minister Dharmendra Pradhan.The…
Family memmbers of the 14 vandals produced to the Bankshal Court inconnection CPJ Student Protest chaos… Sukhomoy Sen Kolkata: There is no place for vandalism and attack on cops and journalists, said the kin of the arrested who gathered at the Bankshall Court on Sunday and insisted that they will stop providing any support to…
Dwaipayan.GhoshKOLKATA: The Bidhannagar Police has registered a case of abetment to suicide against a Baguiati resident, following the death of his wife in Krishnapur Purbapara on Wednesday.Victim’s daughter, Baishaki Ghosh of Nimta, has lodged the complaint, alleging domestic violence over the years.The deceased, Bharati Ghosh, was found hanging inside a locked room by her daughter.After…
Howrah: A 36-year-old pharmacist, Hasanur Mir, who was working at a private hospital in Andul, was murdered on Sunday in the Bankra Rasikpur area under Domjur police station of Howrah City Police.His brothers, Najimul Mir, 32, and Najrul Mir, 27, sustained critical wounds in a knife attack. They are undergoing treatment at Howrah District Hospital….
Kolkata: NRS Medical College has taken the lead in introducing CAR T-Cell (Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-cell) therapy, an advanced form of cancer treatment, among govt hospitals in eastern India. This therapy is meant for specific blood cancers that have either relapsed or are not responding to standard chemotherapy. In fact the haematology unit at the…
Kolkata: A 26-year-old KMC contractual driver was hospitalized with serious head injuries following a violent assault triggered by a minor parking dispute near an eye clinic in East Santoshpur on Wednesday afternoon. One person has been arrested so far.The victim, Subrata Mandal, was accompanying Subrata Mazumdar (30), a resident of Nadia district, and Sujan Sarkar,…
Kolkata: The state govt has planned to develop the Sundarbans as the second global eco-adventure and wellness tourism destination after Darjeeling, said tourism minister Shankar Ghosh.He made the announcement at an event on the occasion of World Mangrove Day.The minister said it had been mentioned in the state Budget that Darjeeling would come under the…
A potholed stretch of VIP Road Kolkata: Spells of rain have damaged stretches of city roads so much that Kolkata Traffic Police has asked civic agencies — especially Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) and the state PWD — to repair them. Cops have sent an initial list of battered stretches to KMC. Cops said these stretches…
Satellite image of the cloud band Kolkata: A massive 7,000 km-10,000-km-long ‘rain belt’ stretching from northern India across the Himalayas, China and into South Korea — which has contributed to the current rainy spell in Kolkata and east India — is about to get fragmented into smaller low-pressure zones by July 31. Also called a…
Kolkata: Services on metro’s Blue and Green lines as well as operation hours will be increased from Monday, on an experimental basis. Blue Line will have 272 trains on weekdays and 158 on Sundays. Green Line will have 236 services on weekdays and 111 on Sundays.On weekdays, the first services will be at 6 am…
