Kolkata: Surgeries halted midway and patients inside operation theatres and wards were wheeled out on stretchers and wheelchairs after a fire broke out inside the second-floor cathlab of Anandalok Hospital on Tuesday morning, triggering panic and an emergency evacuation in the middle of critical procedures.The blaze, reported started around 10 am at the hospital near…
Kolkata: A fresh wave of confusion swept through several housing complexes on Tuesday after the EC barred “outsiders” from staying on the premises that will host polling booths during the mandatory silence period.The restriction, announced by Bengal CEO Manoj Agarwal, will be in force from 6 pm on April 27 till the end of polling….
Kolkata: The anti-ragging committee of Jadavpur University has decided to issue a show-cause notice to the placement officer from whose office sensitive information of an RTI was leaked to some engineering students, who harassed another third-year engineering student. The third-year engineering student filed an RTI to know about the data related to the placement cell.“The…
Kolkata: Barely a week before polling day in Kolkata, voter slips have started reaching electors’ homes. Booth-Level Officers (BLOs) have started the final round of field visits since SIR amid confusion over mandatory presence electors at home during handover of the slips. The process started on Monday and is expected to be completed within a…
Kolkata: India got its newest Grandmaster as Bengal boy Aronyak Ghosh earned his third and final GM norm in the Bangkok Open meet that concluded in Thailand on Sunday.It had been a long wait for the 22-year-old Kolkata boy who crossed the 2500 Elo rating in mid-2022, but was left waiting for his final norm…
Kolkata/Jhargram: Calling PM Narendra Modi‘s “jhalmuri break” all part of a “drama”, Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee on Monday pointed out that the shop already had a camera fitted inside, all too ready for the PM’s arrival. This comes a day after Modi stopped at Vikram Sahoo’s jhalmuri shop in Jhargram.“A microphone fitted, the SPG around…
KOLKATA: “I have the list,” CM Mamata Banerjee said on Monday, referring to a list of Trinamool Congress workers to be “arrested ahead of the assembly elections”, and vowed to “fight every such case in court”.Speaking at a poll rally at Murarai in Birbhum, Banerjee said the “list” was circulating in the market, highlighting how…
Malda: Six people died in three accidents on the national highway in North Dinajpur’s Itahar on Monday. At Mahadevpur, about 5 km from Itahar, a stone-chip laden dumper collided with a truck. The driver of the dumper was declared dead at Raiganj Medical College.An ambulance that was to ferry Islam arrived after he had been…
KOLKATA: Supreme Court said on Monday a report would be sought from the chief justice of Calcutta High Court “by today” on the functioning of the tribunals set up to hear appeals against exclusion of names from the electoral roll during the SIR after a lawyer flagged their “non-functioning” status.Bengal’s assembly polls are scheduled for…
KOLKATA: BJP MLA Maithili Thakur, who is campaigning in the state for the upcoming assembly elections, commented on the law and order situation in West Bengal.Maithili Thakur expressed her views on the political atmosphere, stating that the ruling party can make any claims, while the role of the opposition is to speak out, and their…
