Kolkata: A retail company in Kolkata lost Rs 1.5 crore in a digital impersonation scam.An accounts employee received a WhatsApp message from an unknown number that used the photo of the company’s managing director. The sender pretended to be the managing director and asked for an urgent fund transfer.Believing the message was real, the employee…
Kolkata: A 26-year-old woman hailing from Manipur and working at a private sector bank in Kolkata was found dead on Tuesday morning at her rented accommodation in central Kolkata’s Taltala area.Police rushed to the spot after being alerted by the landlord and recovered the body. Investigators suspect that the woman may have died by suicide…
An East-West Metro train under the river Hooghly Kolkata: If all goes well, the city’s first driverless metro rake may zip with passengers under the Hooghly within a month, sources said. A driver will remain on board the rake to reassure commuters, but its movement will be controlled from Operations Control Centre at the maintenance…
Kolkata: Bengal govt has decided to strip elected panchayat pradhans of their financial powers and transfer them to govt officials through a bill to be introduced in the assembly, panchayat and rural development minister Dilip Ghosh said on Tuesday.The move is aimed at improving financial oversight, transparency and accountability in the execution of development projects.“The…
Kolkata: Eighteen years and eight months after being forced to leave Kolkata amid violent protests, Bangladesh-born author-in-exile Taslima Nasrin is set to return to the city she calls home to attend a literary meet at Rabindra Sadan on Aug 1.The organisers said Nasrin, who will arrive on July 31, is likely to be felicitated by…
The Southeast Traffic Guard has launched a drive to remove illegal parking from one side of Purna Das Road Kolkata: Police on Tuesday removed all illegal parking from one side of Purna Das Road following complaints from residents, many of whom took to social media and tagged the state administration to their posts.Residents, such as…
Rebel TMC MPs Sudip Bandyopadhyay, Satabdi Roy, Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar and Mala Roy during their meeting with Lok Sabha speaker Om Birla last month Kolkata: The Nationalist Citizens Party of India (NCPI) is set to debut as the second biggest partner of the NDA in the upcoming monsoon session of Parliament.Twenty rebel Trinamool Congress MP…
Behrampore: Nowda MLA Humayun Kabir was interrogated by Rejinagar police for the second time on Tuesday over the AJUP chief’s alleged provocative speech at a public rally. He was earlier questioned for four hours on July 4.On Tuesday, Kabir reached the AJUP district office at Rejinagar about an hour before the interrogation. After a short…
Kolkata: CBI on Tuesday arrested Shibu Kumar Singh, a proclaimed offender wanted in the 2007 murder of Barrackpore gold merchant Sukanta Ghosh.Singh had been on the run for 19 years and was found in Gorakhpur, UP. He was living under the fake name Akhilesh Kumar Shahi, said cops.Ghosh was murdered on July 6, 2007, in…
CM Suvendu Adhikari at Nabanna on Monday CM Suvendu Adhikari distributing Rs. 5 lac aid for Ratha Yatra committees at Nabanna on Monday —– TOI Kolkata: In a first-of-its-kind initiative, chief minister Suvendu Adhikari on Monday handed over grants of Rs 5 lakh each to 60 Rathayatra committees across the state. The CM also announced…
