Kolkata: Amid a row over the party symbol, the Mamata Banerjee-loyalist bloc of Trinamool has named grassroots worker and schoolteacher Sanchita Pradhan (Dey) as its Nandigram bypoll candidate, while picking veteran Rabiul Alam Chowdhury for the Rejinagar bypoll. The party has also fielded Abdul Salam, a former college vice-principal, as its candidate for the Nagaon…
Kolkata: Barely two days after the first arrest in the case, senior state Congress functionaries Ashutosh Chatterjee and Pradip Prasad were summoned to Bhowanipore PS on Sunday to be questioned over a demonstration where posters bearing photographs of Bageshwar Dham chief priest Dhirendra Krishna Shastri, popularly known as Bageswar Baba, were allegedly kicked and burnt.Chatterjee…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi Kolkata: With Bengal set to celebrate Durga Puja in Oct, state govt has decided to curtail the ‘Seva Sankalp Abhiyan’ – marking PM Narendra Modi completing 25 years in public service – by a week. The series of programmes, earlier scheduled to go on for a month, will now be observed…
According to BSF, troops of 71 Battalion, Malda Sector, carried out the rescue operation after noticing several people struggling in the river on the evening of September 12. MALDA: The Border Security Force (BSF) rescued 10 alleged Bangladeshi nationals, including three children, three women and four men, after their boat capsized in the strong currents…
Kolkata: Writer, novelist, playwright, translator and critic Ketaki Kushari Dyson, 86, who played a significant role in taking Tagore’s works to a wider audience through her research and translations, passed away at Oxford on Saturday.Suffering from age-related ailments for a long time, she breathed her last at her home in an Oxford suburb. She is…
An inundated street near Kalighat after high tide in the Hooghly Kolkata: Kolkata remained partly cloudy and humid with one or two light spells of rain on Saturday.With no major system in the region, it will continue to be humid and cloudy for the next three to four days, said the Met office. Kolkata recorded…
The meet is organised by Directorate of Resettlement Zone (East) at the Army Officers Institute in Vijay Durg Kolkata: The Directorate General Resettlement (DGR) on Friday brought together HR representatives of around 40 corporate houses and industry bodies in Kolkata to explore employment opportunities for ex-servicemen and strengthen their transition to second careers after leaving…
Kolkata: The approach of Ranna Puja, observed on Vishwakarma Puja, has set off the season’s sharpest rush for hilsa, but a weak catch of bigger sized fish and weather-related disruptions at sea have pushed up prices sharply across city markets.Traders said demand traditionally rose ahead of Ranna Puja, when many households cooked and stored food…
KOLKATA: A renewed demand for dissolving the West Bengal Medical Council (WBMC) has surfaced after Association of Private Hospital and Nursing Home (APHNH) alleged the council of providing license to doctors who obtained fake degrees. Various doctor oganisations have also demanded a thorough probe into the issue.One of them is allegedly working as a gynaecologist…
Kolkata: Several hospitals in Kolkata have witnessed a spike in the number of patients suffering from viral diarrhoea, dehydration-induced fatigue and exhaustion due to a sudden increase in heat and humidity in the past few days.The number of such patients walking into the outdoor patient departments (OPDs) to seek treatment for such ailments has risen….
