A two-day workshop on the care model for children with diabetes is being held in the city Kolkata: Health representatives from all the states in the country visited Kolkata on Thursday to learn about Bengal’s Type 1 Diabetes Model, a project on childhood diabetes care, to replicate it in their regions.A two-day workshop in the…
KOLKATA: Heavy rain lashed parts of West Bengal on Friday as IMD has forecast more showers across the state over the next few days.Cooch Behar recorded the state’s highest rainfall at 143 mm in the 24 hours ending Friday morning.Commuters in Kolkata, including schoolchildren and office-goers, struggled to navigate rain-soaked roads as showers continued through…
Kolkata: A 14-year-old class-8 student from a school in Habra was allegedly subjected to repeated sexual abuse for nearly a year by her 38-year-old stepfather and 56-year-old grandfather at her home. The girl’s teachers learnt of her ordeal and informed cops about the abuse. Based on the complaint, both men were arrested on Thursday. The…
CM Suvendu Adhikari at Swasthya Bhawan on Thursday Kolkata: The state-run SSKM Hospital is expected to get more beds, some of them even before Durga Puja, to tackle the patient rush. Chief minister Suvendu Adhikari also indicated at increasing the capacity at the state-run hospital’s Trauma Care Centre, apart from adding facilities, including beds, to…
Taratala warehouse collapse Kolkata: The mandatory pre-construction soil tests were not carried out at the Taratala site, revealed an internal KMC investigation into the collapse of a warehouse being built there.A team from the structural engineering department at Jadavpur University will carry out soil tests once the steel and concrete debris is removed from the…
Kolkata: Akhil Bharatiya Rashtriya Shaikshik Mahasangh (ABRSM), an RSS-linked unit at Jadavpur University, held a meeting at Aurobindo Bhavan on Thursday, alleging they had not been provided with an office on the campus for the functioning of the organisation.Buddhadeb Sau, spokesperson for the ABRSM, JU unit, said, “The room at Teqip Building that was provided…
Health minister Sharadwat Mukherjee on Thursday issued a warning to Barasat Medical College as he reportedly found lapses in patient care and administration during a visit on Thursday. The ward master and other staff members were served show-cause notices, asking them to reply within 24 hours. Source link
Kolkata: The governor has sought a status report from vice-chancellors and registrars of state universities on the chancellor’s nominees in the university court and executive council. The governor is the chancellor of state-run universities.The letter from the governor’s secretariat, Lok Bhavan, requested the VCs and registrars to provide the approved strength of the chancellor’s nominees…
Kolkata: The Mamata Banerjee faction of Trinamool Congress can withdraw money from its three frozen bank accounts for its day-to-day expenses under the supervision of retired judge Subrata Talukdar, Calcutta High Court ruled on Thursday.The bench of Justice Saugata Bhattacharyya described the police’s debit-freeze order on the three accounts at HDFC Bank’s Central Plaza branch…
Police presence has been stepped up in Surjapur following the minor girl’s rape-murder and lynching of a man suspected to be an accused Dwaipayan Ghosh & Sarthak GangulyKolkata/Baruipur: Baruipur rape-murder accused Prabash Mondal, 38, was shot twice from close range while fleeing, with both bullets entering through the back and exiting the body, his autopsy…
