Kolkata: In a cyber fraud case involving artificial intelligence (AI), an 81-year-old senior citizen from north Kolkata was swindled of Rs 17.8 lakh. The fraud was triggered after the elderly resident clicked on a link embedded in a YouTube video that featured a fake, AI-generated likeness of union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman promoting an investment…
Kolkata: The state school education department will assess how many schools have rooftop solar systems and identify gap areas. A meeting was held with the central govt regarding the installation of rooftop solar power on Tuesday. A meeting was held for implementing ‘PM Surya Ghar: Muft Bijli Yojana in Govt Schools’, where representatives from the…
Kolkata: Three men, Gopal Dhara (42), Dipankar Mondal (25), and Shankar Bhuiyan (55), have been arrested by Anandapur Police for their involvement in an illegal soil smuggling racket operating on govt land near Ruby Crossing. Acting on a complaint by Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority, officers raided the vacant plot and arrested them for excavating soil…
Kolkata: Five people were killed and 20 others injured after a 32,000 sq ft under-construction warehouse at Taratala came crashing down around 11.30 am on Wednesday, burying around 40 labourers under tonnes of concrete slabs, mangled iron beams, steel and corrugated tin sheets.Nearly 400 personnel drawn from the Army, National Disaster Response Force, State Disaster…
The plot on which the building stands is one of the three properties allegedly usurped Kolkata: A woman battling cancer complained to CM Suvendu Adhikari at his Janata Darbar on Wednesday that former CM Mamata Banerjee’s elder brother Ajit Banerjee had usurped three plots owned by her family — the first in 1999 and the…
Kolkata: Durga Puja theme artistes have decided to make a ‘no objection certificate’ mandatory for organisers from next year in an effort to curb the widespread practice of partial or withheld payments. The NOC will be issued by an artist only after a puja committee clears all dues. Artistes taking up work for a pandal…
Following a fatal warehouse collapse, West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari has halted all under-construction commercial projects approved by the previous government until July 31 KOLKATA: West Bengal chief minister Suvendu Adhikari on Wednesday suspended work on all under-construction commercial projects approved by the previous TMC government till July 31.The CM ordered a comprehensive audit…
Kolkata: Jadavpur University’s anti-ragging committee has imposed varying punishments on 8 students accused of threatening and harassing a third-year engineering student after details of his RTI seeking placement-related data were leaked from the placement officer’s office. VC Chiranjib Bhattacharjee said, “The anti-ragging committee has submitted the report and the punishments have been communicated to the…
File photo of KMC workers and Kolkata Police trying to clear the road at Bidhan Market on Tuesday Kolkata: The city remained cloudy and received occasional drizzles on Wednesday (June 24) even as the maximum temperature clocked 30.8°C.Several areas across south Bengal continued to be lashed by severe thunderstorms.A seasonal trough and cyclonic circulations over…
stethoscope on stack of medical text book on doctor desk at room in hospital. Agartala: To enhance public healthcare in Tripura, the state government has prohibited doctors at GBP Hospital & Agartala Government Medical College (AGMC) from participating in private medical practices.The Cabinet spokesperson, Sushanta Chowdhury said that physicians at the leading government facilities will…
