Kolkata: Police on Wednesday busted a fake call centre in Kasba and arrested 40 people for defrauding people on the pretext of installing 5G mobile towers and also using reputable firms’ names to convince people to invest in fake insurance policies and taking personal loans. Among the arrested was Sandip Banerjee, the owner, who ran…
Kolkata: Cases of swine flu (H1N1) have seen a sharp spurt in Kolkata over the last week, with symptoms often getting severe. Several private city hospitals have many swine patients admitted.Scores have tested positive for the virus. Swine flu cases had been reported since July. Now, there has been a further spurt and numbers have…
CCTV footage of the vandalism Kolkata: Fourteen masked men stormed the seventh-floor Trinamool Congress office at 9 Camac Street at 4.30 am on Thursday, vandalising computers, CCTV monitors and glass panels before fleeing with files containing documents.Six men, all residents of Howrah, have been arrested in connection with the office attack. Police said they are…
Kolkata: Every district, municipality and panchayat in the state should host a school by Vidya Bharati, the education wing of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), CM Suvendu Adhikari said on Thursday and set a target of establishing at least 1,000 such institutions in Bengal within the next year.The CM invited the Vidya Bharati leadership to meet…
Eden Gardens, with a seating capacity of 68,000, will host the Mahalaya event, which the Bengal govt hopes will set a world record Kolkata: The Bengal govt will invite PM Narendra Modi and Union home minister Amit Shah to attend a mega event at Eden Gardens on Mahalaya (Oct 10), which will ring in Durga…
Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief Mamata Banerjee (file photo) Kolkata: Trinamool chairperson and ex-CM Mamata Banerjee on Thursday condemned the alleged vandalism at the party’s Camac Street office and warned of staging a dharna outside residences of BJP netas in Delhi if such “atrocities” continued in Bengal.“Even though we believe that the election was looted and…
Jadavpur University will hold its executive council meeting virtually on Friday to select nominees for appointing a new registrar and finance officer. The VC had sought the higher education minister and chancellor’s advice on holding the meeting. ABRSM called it “illegal”, while JUTA members said the state govt’s approval proves otherwise. Source link
Kolkata: Police have registered an FIR against Trinamool MP Mahua Moitra under non-bailable sections for allegedly inciting communal discord and summoned her to appear before the Diamond Harbour Cyber Crime Police Station at 11:00 am on Saturday.The FIR was lodged following a complaint by a local, Sonu Bera. Cops invoked sections 196, 197, 299, and…
Kolkata: Calcutta High Court granted actor Sreelekha Mitra interim protection till Dec 24, provided she cooperates with the probe, after observing that a cartoon on Prime Minister Narendra Modi carried by her during Gen-Z protests in Kolkata “shocks the conscience of the court”.Sixteen FIRs have been filed against Mitra over a post allegedly showing Modi…
The subsidence occurred between Tildanga and New Farakka stations early Thursday, damaging the up line and bringing northbound train movement to a halt. Malda: Hundreds of passengers were left stranded as north Bengal-bound trains were delayed for hours or cancelled on Thursday following track subsidence near Farakka in Murshidabad.The subsidence occurred between Tildanga and New…
