Kolkata: Trinamool candidate Bratya Basu watch Sofia Coppola’s ‘Lost in Translation’ on Thursday while BJP’s Agnimitra Paul watched ‘Assi’ on an OTT platform on Wednesday, right after polling for Bengal’s two-phase elections got over. With the hectic poll schedule over, many candidates from Tollywood have found time to catch a film or two before the…
Kolkata: The frenetic pace of campaigning may have concluded on polling day, but for candidates, the day after offered little scope for pause. Ac-ross constituencies, MLA-hopefuls slipped into a different rhythm on Thursday, marked by review meetings, damage assessment and anticipation.Senior functionary Aroop Biswas, who contested from Tollygunge, headed to the party office at Bijoygarh…
KOLKATA: After a relatively peaceful day of voting, Kolkata and its northern industrial fringe witnessed incidents of violence with TMC and BJP trading allegations of attacks, firing and reprisals.In Bhatpara, TMC functionary Tapas Das was shot twice and critically injured late Wednesday. No arrest has been made. Former Jagaddal MLA and TMC candidate Somnath Shyam…
Kolkata: The Society for the Preservation of Satyajit Ray Archives will screen the restored print of ‘Pratidwandi’ at Nandan on May 1, a day before the maestro’s birth anniversary. The cult film, restored in 4K by the National Film Archive of India, was showcased in the Cannes Classics section in 2022. The screening, courtesy producer…
Kolkata: Seven youngsters from Bengal secured a perfect score—400 out of 400—in ISC as CISCE announced class 12 board exam results on Thursday. Besides the ‘Super Seven’, 4,237 out of the 28,791 students, who appeared for the test from Bengal, scored between 90% and 95% and 2,718 scored above 95%. The exam recorded a pass…
Kolkata: Flag any academic or non-academic issue within 48 hours through a special email response window so that an action plan can be created within seven days to address the problem as much as possible: this was the advice from IIT Kharagpur for students after many of them pointed at grievances against faculty members at…
KOLKATA: Ahead of Ray’s 105th birth anniversary, some of his actors and crew recalled their experience of working with the legend at an event on Monday, organised by the British Deputy High Commission and the UK’s Bengali diaspora. “It’s a belated celebration of the Bengali New Year. Since we are closer to Ray’s birthday (May…
Kolkata: An NIA court in Kolkata on Thursday rejected the bail pleas of 52 accused in Malda’s Mothabari case and ordered that all of them, including main accused Mofakkarul Islam, remain in judicial custody till May 13.The case relates to the alleged confinement and harassment of officials engaged in Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of poll…
KOLKATA: Bengal’s battle for ballots progressed into a war of nerves over EVM safety late on Thursday as CM Mamata Banerjee camped at Sakhawat Memorial High School, where EVMs from her constituency, Bhowanipore, are being stored.A few kilometres away, an eyeball-to-eyeball confrontation broke out between Trinamool and BJP workers at Khudiram Anushilan Kendra, the designated…
Kolkata: Bengal BJP has launched back-to-back workshops to train party workers ahead of counting day on May 4, with Union home minister Amit Shah calling state netas to assess preparedness and Bengal BJP minder Sunil Bansal holding meetings with specialised functional units on Thursday.Bansal, widely credited with building the party’s present organisational network, told workers…
