Kolkata: A severe teacher shortage has forced Bidhannagar Govt High School’s morning section to make a roster for an extra off-day, for primary students alongside Sundays.A notice by the school’s teacher-in charge (TIC) implemented the roster on Wednesday for pre-primary to class 5. The decision mentioned an acute staff deficit, with one official saying, “We…
Kolkata: Ramakrishna Mission (Narendrapur) school authorities, including the Secretary Maharaj, were not present at a meeting between members of the Ramakrishna Mission Vidyalaya Praktani and recent passouts on Sunday, the secretary of the alumni association has said.The meeting was held to listen to the concerns and grievances of recent passouts that surfaced after a class-11…
PIL on Iskcon proposal for school midday meals Kolkata: Only an offer came, nothing further, the state govt told the Calcutta High Court in a PIL, challenging the proposal to entrust Iskcon with preparing and supplying cooked meals under PM-POSHAN to KMC schools.Though it called the PIL “premature”, the division bench of Acting Chief Justice…
Man kills wife on busy road in Sodepur, attempts suicide KOLKATA: A man, Subhas Das, murdered his wife, Geeta, by slitting her throat with a sharp weapon near Rathindra Cinema Hall in Sodepur on Wednesday morning. The accused then attempted suicide by stabbing himself in the abdomen and was admitted to a hospital in critical…
MALDA/KOLKATA: Birbhum resident Danish Sheikh and three others from his village – a mother and her two sons – crossed back into India through the Mahadipur border in Bengal’s Malda Wednesday, ending a 13-month ordeal that began when Delhi Police deported them as illegal Bangladeshi immigrants without a tribunal hearing.Waiting for Danish at home in…
Naxal movement to current times Kolkata: The recent history of encounter deaths in Bengal stretches back almost six decades but several factors have made these episodes stand out from each other across the different regimes that have governed Bengal since the 1960s. During the Naxal movement, encounters became a prominent fixture in Bengal with many…
Kolkata: A 61-year-old man, Judhajit Ghosh alias Yudhajit, has been arrested from Deshapriya Park on Tuesday evening for allegedly pretending to be an Enforcement Directorate official and trying to extort money from a former Kolkata Municipal Corporation councillor.The accused is from Kailash Ghosh Road in Haridevpur and was living at Regent Park Govt Colony. Police…
A still from ‘Ab Tak Chhappan’ that glorifiesextrajudicial murder as a heroic necessity but Diljit Doshanj’s ‘Satluj’and Jhumpa Lahiri’s ‘The Lowland’ criticise such attempts Kolkata: The police “encounter” killing of a prime accused in the Baruipur rape-and-murder case has brought the reality of extrajudicial justice to the fore, reigniting a discourse of Bengal for long…
Kolkata: With football fever soaring in the city, several schools are embracing their students’ sporting spirit by making adjustments to their academic schedules.South Point School issued a notice to parents and students of classes 6-12 announcing the postponement of periodic assessment I, pre-midterm tests and unit test I, which were scheduled for July 20 and…
Kolkata: It was a mighty scare that left Argentina fans with their hearts in their mouths on Tuesday night. It ended in fairy-tale fashion, though, with the God of football coming to the rescue when it mattered the most – scoring the equalizer himself to make it 2-2 after trailing Egypt 0-2 for 67 minutes….
