A bulletin issued by the Regional Meteorological Centre on Saturday said a low-pressure area has formed over northwest Bay of Bengal and adjoining Bengal-north Odisha coasts on Saturday morning Kolkata: Light to moderate rain is likely across south Bengal with possibility of heavy rain at one or two places in South 24 Parganas on Sunday…
General maintenance building at Jadavpur University campus Kolkata: A little-known but one of the important administrative sections of Jadavpur University (JU), the general maintenance office, shot into prominence after being given the charge of whitewashing the graffiti from the walls of the campus. The office with seven permanent staff and around 35 contractual workers operates…
Malda: A 60-year-old man was found dead at his home in Englishbazar, allegedly killed by a relative and his friend after he refused to give them money for online gaming.Arnab Sen’s throat was slit and his body wrapped in a bedsheet when family members found him dead on Friday morning.Police found no major signs of…
West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari Rampurhat and Kolkata: The state govt will unveil a roadmap for the proposed Deocha-Pachami coal mining project by the last week of Sept, CM Suvendu Adhikari said on Saturday. Even while doing so, the CM alleged that pattas for the tribal land in the area had been allotted, in…
You were associated with the Panna tiger reintroduction programme. What are the biggest lessons that you believe are applicable to Buxa?It is important to create inviolate space to recover and sustain tigers. Panna had lost tigers largely due to poaching, whereas in Buxa, the tiger population was also lost to poaching of prey and habitat…
Kolkata: A 35-year-old man, Sumit Maity from Gosaba, was found dead inside a Jharkhand-Kolkata bus, parked at the Babughat terminus, early on Friday. He was taken to SSKM Hospital, where he was declared dead on arrival. The body has been sent for post-mortem and cops are checking the bus’s passenger log. Source link
Protest against new WBJEE decision on engineering admission Kolkata: Jadavpur University (JU) VC Chiranjib Bhattacharjee, officials of Calcutta University (CU), along with teachers, students and their guardians, raised objections to the notice from the West Bengal Joint Entrance Exam Board that candidates, who accepted seats and took admission after participating in centralised counselling rounds, could…
A case has been filed against Mamata Banerjee and Trinamool Chhatra Parishad organisers KOLKATA: Kolkata Police on Saturday registered a suo motu FIR against former West Bengal chief minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee for allegedly violating conditions imposed by the Calcutta high court for a Trinamool Chhatra Parishad (TMCP) foundation day event.The FIR…
Kolkata: A drop in water distribution from the Tallah treatment plant has disrupted supply to different blocks in Salt Lake, forcing residents to buy water from tankers.BMC officials claimed the problem was not on the part of the civic body but that the supply from the Tallah treatment plant was low. An official said they…
Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Friday set a three-week deadline for the CBI to complete the probe in the RG Kar rape-and-murder case. The HC gave the directive during an in-camera hearing.“We wish to reach a conclusion at the end of this investigation. No further background details or additional evidence is required,” said special…
