Kolkata: Around 5 lakh passengers rode Kolkata Metro’s Blue Line (Dakshineswar to New Garia) every day in FY 25-26 against the Green Line’s (Howrah Maidan-Sector V) 1.5 lakh per day. Among the shorter corridors, the Purple Line (Joka-Majerhat) saw about 5,000 commuters daily, the Yellow Line (Noapara-Airport) around 3,000 and the Orange Line (New Garia-Metropoliton)…
Kolkata: A fresh complaint was lodged at the Kalighat PS against Trinamool national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee for allegedly violating the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988. The traffic wing of Kolkata police is probing this incident.According to the complaint, security personnel assigned to Banerjee were seen standing on an SUV’s footboards on either side with their…
Kolkata: The Calcutta HC on Thursday adjourned Satadru Dutta’s appeal, challenging the interim protection granted to former minister Aroop Biswas till July 29. The division bench of ACJ Tapabrata Chakraborty and Justice Partha Sarathi Chatterjee adjourned the matter as one of the legal points in discussion of Dutta’s case was pending consideration before a special…
Kolkata: The Bengal cabinet on Thursday cleared the formation of an expert committee, headed by retired Supreme Court judge Ranjana Prakash Desai, to examine the draft Uniform Civil Code (UCC) Bill for West Bengal and set a four-week time frame to submit its recommendations.Urban development and municipal affairs minister Agnimitra Paul said the panel has…
Kolkata: Mystery shrouds the death of a 22-year-old bride-to-be whose body was found floating in a pond at Habra on Thursday evening just 10 days before her wedding. The body of the deceased, Mridula Saha, was found floating in a pond at Joygachhi Srinagar area in Habra. The incident has sparked widespread speculation over whether…
Kolkata: Election Commission has written to both the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress and the rebel faction headed by Ritabrata Banerjee, seeking their responses to rival claims over the party’s organisational elections and authorised signatories. Both camps have been asked to submit their replies by 5.30pm on July 6.The development comes hours after the Ritabrata Banerjee-led…
Kolkata: A video of two traffic officials, including a sergeant, has gone viral after an alleged incident near Narkeldanga bridge on Wednesday morning.Locals claimed that a young biker was injured after a traffic sergeant allegedly kicked him while he was riding. They said the rider lost balance, fell on the road, and was taken to…
Kolkata: City-based Jupiter Wagons is setting up a new manufacturing plant in Hooghly district dedicated to producing Vande Bharat and Metro coaches, making it Bengal’s second facility for railway rolling stock after Titagarh Rail Systems’ plant at Uttarpara, which began production last year in a joint venture with BHEL.“The new plant where we are going…
Kolkata: Bengal Gas Co Ltd (BGCL) is set to submit a detailed plan to KMC, seeking permission to lay piped natural gas (PNG) pipelines across nine stretches in the city in the first phase, following an assurance from the civic body that the application would be processed expeditiously.BGCL, a joint venture of GAIL and the…
KOLKATA: West Bengal has emerged as a critical industrial hotspot for black carbon emissions, discharging a staggering 95,901 tonnes annually into the atmosphere. A pioneering study by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) reveals that the state is the second-largest emitter in the Indo-Gangetic Plains (IGP), a region that collectively generates roughly 4.5 lakh…
