Complaints after Bageshwar Baba’s remarks Kolkata: Breaking his silence on the controversy around Dhirendra Krishna Garg alias Bageshwar Baba and the consequent protests across the state, chief minister Suvendu Adhikari on Thursday directed Kolkata Police commissioner Ajay Nand to identify and arrest those who burnt the godman’s photographs outside Bhowanipore Police Station.“I saw a number…
Kolkata: Police on Tuesday night arrested two youths, whose car reportedly attempted to breach the chief minister’s security convoy on the New Town-bound flank of VIP Road near Haldiram. The car came at a high speed and ignored traffic lights, said a Baguiati PS officer.Officers intercepted the car soon after. The occupants of the car,…
Bengal CM prays at Kalighat temple, has fish-basanti pulao prasad Kolkata: Chief minister Suvendu Adhikari visited Kalighat temple on the occasion of Kaushiki Amavasya on Thursday evening and had the prasad – comprising fried fish, fish head and basanti pulao (yellow rice) – after praying to Goddess Kali.The visit to the temple on the auspicious…
The area was then a low-lying expanse of saltwater lakes, marshes and fishing grounds. The West Bengal government began pumping material dredged from the Hooghly into the Salt Water Lakes east of Kolkata to create land for a new township. The area was then a low-lying expanse of saltwater lakes, marshes and fishing grounds, while…
The legal tussle beween two factions of the committee has led to a delay in starting the preparations for Bagbazar Durga Puja Kolkata: With Durga Puja just over a month away, Baghbazar Sarbojanin Durgotsav, the oldest community Durga Puja in Kolkata, is still embroiled in a legal battle. Contenders to various posts at Bagbazar Sarbojanin…
Howrah/Kolkata: A joint team of Howrah Rural Police and Central division of Kolkata Police have rescued a 17-year-old schoolgirl from a hotel in New Market, foiling human trafficking, orchestrated by overseas cyber fraudsters, who offered the girl a job abroad.The girl on Tuesday left her home at Sankarhati in Jagatballavpur, saying she was going to…
Kolkata: A trader from the port area was reportedly duped of over Rs 1.4 lakh by a gang of cyber crooks, who posed as Maharashtra Police officers and put him under “digital arrest” for posting his nude photos online. This very gang had conned the trader into posting those nude photos moments earlier, said police….
The incident occurred in Ballygunge around 2 am on Thursday Kolkata: A young woman and her male companion were reportedly assaulted outside an upscale residential complex in Ballygunge around 2 am on Thursday after they allegedly dared to protest against reckless driving in the neighborhood. The incident occurred when the victims, after their car broke…
Kolkata: Flight connections to Shanghai and Siam Reap, the temple town famous for Angkor Wat, will be reinstated from Oct ahead of the Durga Puja holidays. The city will also get another flight to Singapore from next month. At present, Singapore Airlines operates daily flights between Kolkata and Singapore City.IndiGo Airlines that operates over 100…
Kolkata: The Bengal assembly on Thursday passed a bill that would allow the state administration to transfer teaching and non-teaching staff across all 31 state universities.A special session of the assembly passed by a 171-15 majority the West Bengal Universities and Colleges (Administration and Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2026, ending the previous regime that recruited teaching…
