A still from ‘Aajo Ardhangini’ (L); a still from ‘Bonolata Sen’ (R) KOLKATA: Jaya Ahsaan’s “Aajo Ardhangini” (AA) marks a significant moment in cross-border cinema, serving as a major collaboration featuring a Bangladeshi star following the July 2024 uprising.While eased visa norms have allowed artistic movement between Kolkata and Dhaka to resume, the nature of…
Kolkata: Lok Bhavan, Bengal, has issued an advisory, warning people against a fraudster allegedly impersonating the governor as well senior officials, and calling dignitaries, govt officials and citizens from a mobile number, +91 98365 40163.The governor’s office has urged people to be vigilant and refrain from responding to unsolicited or suspicious calls, messages or communications,…
Some hawkers in the Burrabazar area started removing plastic sheets and umbrellas while the police team was still around Kolkata: Cops from the Jorasanko Police Station visited several parts of Burrabazar on Friday evening and instructed traders, shopkeepers and hawkers to immediately remove plastic sheets used to cover their goods, clear encroachments from pavements and…
Kolkata: The National Council of Science Museums (NCSM) has adopted advanced technologies like radio frequency identification (RFID) devices, sensors capable of reading hand gestures, acoustically designed hallways and sound concentrators to make the Museum of Word.Also known as Shabdalok, the facility will be inaugurated at the National Library by Union home minister, Amit Shah, on…
The dog is under routine post-operative observation Kolkata: A three-and-half-a-year-old female Beagle, Khushi, who swallowed an earbud and suffered immense abdominal pain for about a week, underwent a 20-minute surgery to remove the foreign object lodged in its stomach. Veterinary doctors stated that the canineis stable and under routine post-surgical observation. The lodging of a…
NIA team at the blast site Kolkata: A powerful explosion ripped through the ground floor of a four-storey residential building in Narayanpur near Kolkata airport on Friday evening after a crude bomb exploded.Police later recovered two more bombs from a room in the building. Preliminary investigation revealed that Md Shamim, a criminal from Sodepur, had…
The exercise is designed to map owl diversity, abundance and distribution across both protected forests and human-dominated landscapes Kolkata: West Bengal’s first comprehensive statewide owl survey — the first initiative of its kind in India — has documented 11 owl species during the first four months of fieldwork, providing the most extensive baseline yet on…
Union home minister Amit Shah at BSF’s Jumagach Border Outpost in Siliguri corridor on Saturday Kolkata/Siliguri: Union home minister Amit Shah on Saturday said the govt is committed to making the country’s borders impregnable through the concept of “smart borders” and announced that the project to fortify India’s borders with a quadrangular security grid will…
Kolkata: Eastern India is poised to become the next major growth centre for India’s city gas distribution (CGD) sector, industry leaders said at the 14th City Gas Distribution Conference-cum-Exhibition in Kolkata.Addressing the conference, Jayant Narayan Das, member of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board (PNGRB), highlighted the regulator’s efforts to expand the country’s gas…
Kolkata: Forty-nine of 66 Kolkata Police personnel, transferred to Bengal Police in 2016 in what many described as a “punishment posting”, would return to their parent cadre after nearly 10 years, stated an order issued from Nabanna on Friday.Those repatriated include an assistant commissioner, six inspectors, four sub-inspectors, four assistant sub-inspectors, one sergeant and several…
