Status: Not ApprovedHEAD: 24_Kol_SS_Dipawali JU Byline: Saibal SenDipawali MitraKolkata: Jadavpur University on Tuesday debarred 3 students for 2 weeks from accessing campus premises, attending classes and appearing for examinations for being involved in the campus violence that led to the assault of 2 professors. The university also prohibited entry of an ex-student into the campus…
Status: Not ApprovedHEAD: 24_Kol_DG_Dwaipayan 2 arrested for stealing more than Rs 1 crore cableByline: Dwaipayan GhoshDwaipayan.GhoshKolkata: The Kolkata Police Anti Burglary Squad, has arrested two men on February 23 in connection with the alleged theft of high-tension power cables and related materials worth about Rs 1.4 crore from CESC’s New Cossipore Generating Station, police said.The…
KC Das popularised canned rasogolla Kolkata/Bengaluru: K C Das Pvt Ltd, the Kolkata sweets brand known for helping popularise canned rasogolla, is facing operational difficulties in Bengaluru at a time when a family and corporate governance dispute involving the company is pending before National Company Law Tribunal’s Kolkata Bench.The situation appears most visible in Bengaluru,…
Kolkata: After a sharp dip in medical tourism, spooked hospitals have decided to send teams to Bangladesh over the next few weeks to meet patients and their families and guide them on booking hotels, ensuring that they check into facilities that have all necessary safety clearances. Many of them are also tying up with hotels…
KMC receives 300 suggestions, objections Kolkata: The KMC has received nearly 300 claims and objections from citizens and political parties over the proposed revision of ward boundaries, most objections being related to the shifting of parts or booths from one ward to another, or queries on why a part was split.A part or booth is…
A waterlogged Thanthania on Saturday…. photo by Sayantan Chakraborty Kolkata: A spell of intense rain, accompanied by thunderstorm and lightning strikes lashed the northern parts of Kolkata, North 24 Parganas, Howrah and Hooghly on Saturday evening. The rain lasted for close to an hour-and-half and was accompanied by a wind speed of 30-40 km/hour. While…
Firefighters battle the blaze at the hospital Siliguri: A fire broke out at a prominent private hospital in Siliguri on Saturday evening, sending thick black smoke through a section of the facility and triggering panic among patients, their relatives and hospital staff. There were no casualties.As the smoke spread, several patients admitted in the affected…
Malda: The health department has removed Prasenjit Bar as medical superintendent-cum-vice principal of Malda Medical College & Hospital after 89 infant and neonatal deaths were recorded at the facility in Aug. Ganesh Chandra Gayen, head of ENT department at the college, will replace Bar.Paediatrics department head Sushma Sau has also been replaced by Biswanath Basu…
A family takes a dinghy ride home in Ghatal on Saturday Burdwan/Kharagpur/Tarakeswar/Siliguri: With rainfall easing in the upper catchment areas, Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) on Saturday reduced the volume of water discharge from Maithon and Panchet reservoirs, improving the flood situation in East and West Burdwan and Ghatal in West Midnapore. However, many villages in…
Agartala: A BSF woman constable missed her flight to Karnataka after she was allegedly stopped at a road bloackade in Tripura while trying to reach her critically ill father, sources said.The jawan, posted along the Indo-Bangladesh border in Dhalai district, was granted leave after receiving news of her father’s critical condition in a village in…
