Kolkata: McLeod Russel India, one of the country’s largest bulk tea producers, is selling three tea estates — Nya Gogra, Rupajuli and Boroi — to repay part of its debt. The total proceeds are expected to be around Rs 88 crore.In 2024-25, Nya Gogra Tea Estate contributed Rs 30 crore, or 3% of the company’s…
Kolkata: UCO Bank reported a 22.6% rise in net profit for the quarter ended March 31, 2026, at Rs 801 crore, up from Rs 653 crore a year earlier. The city-based lender said its cost of funds improved 31 basis points year-on-year to 4.5% during the quarter.UCO Bank’s performance is among the best by PSU…
Kolkata: The Kolkata Metropolitan Area (KMA) recorded 5,075 residential property registrations in March 2026, a 10% year-on-year decline from 5,609 units in March 2025, according to Knight Frank India.The dip was largely attributed to a high base effect, as March 2025 saw exceptionally strong performance. Despite the annual slide, March 2026 emerged as the second-highest…
Kolkata: Apologising for any personal attack or lack of decency by a BJP neta, the party’s state president Samik Bhattacharya said on Monday: “If anyone was hurt by any BJP neta’s words during the campaign, I apologise to him. I apologise if there was any statement which was not decent, or below the belt.”At a…
Kolkata: While the probe is still ongoing in the Garia murder case, investigators have stated that they are almost certain that it was a murder, and the prime suspect is the victim’s husband, Soumik Das. A 40-year-old woman, Enakshi Das, was found dead in her Garia apartment on Sunday morning. Police said that nearly 90%…
Kolkata: Jadavpur University held Internal Complaints Committee elections to choose undergraduate and postgraduate student representatives from the Arts, Science and Engineering faculties. In the Arts faculty, SFI won both seats, securing 850 votes in the UG category and 641 in PG. In Engineering, DSF emerged victorious in both categories with 1,776 votes for UG and…
Kolkata: No MLA has been able to win the Jadavpur seat in two consecutive rows since 2011. Getting a second term in the 2026 Assembly election will be the test for Trinamool’s Debabrata Majumdar, who won the seat in 2021.While Trinamool chose Majumdar, also a KMC MMiC, as its MLA candidate, CPM has placed its…
Kolkata: The SIR slash notwithstanding, woman voters have outnumbered men in 23 out of the 142 Assembly segments going to polls on Wednesday.Topping the list is Jadavpur, which now has 11,759 more women voters than men. Panihati, where the BJP has fielded the RG Kar victim’s mother as its candidate — also has more women…
Kolkata: Upscale Ballygunge in south Kolkata, a Trinamool bastion for over 25 years, is a curious mix of cultures and people from various economic strata. Here, high-rises and affluent neighbourhoods sit alongside expansive slums. SIR deletions have somewhat wiped out the vast differences between the electorate, with all sections being affected.A staggering 71,000 names were…
Kolkata: A man, accused of sexually assaulting and murdering his live-in partner’s 3-year-old daughter near Maidan on March 21, has been arrested from Babughat on Friday morning. He had initially fled to Ayodhya to evade arrest.Police said the child’s mother was in a relationship with the man from Rabindranagar. Investigators alleged that both were addicted…
