KOLKATA: A police complaint has been filed by a woman Booth Level Officer (BLO) against BJP supporters, allegedly led by Suvendu Adhikari, in connection with an incident of assault, criminal intimidation, and outraging of modesty. An FIR has been registered in the matter, according to news agency ANI. According to the complaint letter, the incident…
Kolkata: City-based real estate developer Srijan Group has forayed into the fashion retail segment under a new brand, ‘Srijan Style’, with an initial investment of Rs 500 crore.The company has decided to come up with about 10 stores in Kolkata in the first quarter, according to Keshav Agarwal, director of Srijan Realty Pvt Ltd. “Our…
Kolkata: More than 1,200 listeners sat spellbound as Sangeetacharya Amiya Ranjan Bandyopdhyay stepped onstage on Feb 21 — his 100th birthday — and reiterated that age is just a number. The hall filled beyond capacity, and another 200 people turned back, shut out not by lack of devotion, but by lack of space. In a…
Kolkata: A honey badger, rarely sighted in India, has been spotted in the forests of Jhargram, a senior official said on Monday. The animal was photographed by a trap camera installed by the forest department during a recent survey.Earlier, a honey badger was captured on camera in Purulia.Chief conservator of forest S Kulandaivel said the…
KOLKATA: An elderly woman who got lost more than two decades ago, and has been staying at a south Kolkata shelter home, was finally linked to her family at a village in Jharkhand. But her son refused to take her back because she is a Christian.Madan Besra, who lives in the same house from where…
Kolkata: Bengal govt has included stepchildren as well as widowed and divorced daughters as beneficiaries of death gratuity. A new notification issued on Monday amended the state’s death-cum-retirement benefit rules to expand the scope.The new rules state that in the event of an employee’s death, if no valid nomination for the gratuity exists, the funds…
Bengal-speaking Malda man stabbed in Madhya Pradesh (Representative image) MALDA: A Malda man was stabbed in Madhya Pradesh, with his family alleging he was targeted for speaking Bengali. Syed Sk (37), a resident of Paharpur village , had been working as a cloth vendor in MP’s Sagar for nine years. On Feb 19, he was…
Kolkata: “Joy Maa Kali” —Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s letter sent out to Bengal voters ahead of assembly polls begins with this greeting, marking a deliberate shift in BJP’s political messaging as the party attempts to shed its “outsider” tag in the state.Until recently, BJP’s Bengal campaigns maintained “Jai Shree Ram” chants popular in northern and…
KOLKATA: A 20-year-old woman was allegedly forced into a car by a friend, molested, assaulted, and then kicked out of the moving vehicle on Diamond Harbour Road in Behala on Saturday night.The 18-year-old friend initially fled the spot after throwing the woman out but was intercepted by a team of cops who chased the car…
Bengal’s trial courts are now grappling with adjudicating 45 lakh disputed SIR cases (File Photo) KOLKATA: It is now the turn of the state’s trial courts to face the challenges that Bengal’s schools have navigated over the past three months.Across the state on Sunday, judges in district courts held a series of meetings with district…
