Kolkata: The fourth edition of Poila Baisakh Bird Count ended on Sunday with participants, according to preliminary reports, recording 400+ species during the three-day exercise that started on April 17. In 2024 and 2025, the species count stood at 544 and 523, respectively.The 410 initial checklists are also fewer compared to 775 recorded last year,…
Kolkata: Participation of women candidates in the Bengal assembly election has risen, with 385 women in the fray this time against 240 in 2021, according to reports compiled by the Association for Democratic Rights (ADR) and West Bengal Election Watch (WBEW). Trinamool led among major parties with 55 woman candidates, followed by Congress with 44.The…
Kolkata: On the eve of its first anniversary, Jagannath Dham, Digha, has crossed a remarkable milestone, welcoming over 1.3 crore pilgrims since its inauguration last year. The landmark comes just ahead of Akshaya Tritiya, when the temple will complete one year of operations.Inaugurated on April 30, 2025, the seaside shrine in Digha has rapidly evolved…
Kolkata: The Jalpaiguri Circuit Bench of Calcutta High Court has allowed the surrogacy option for a Darjeeling couple in their 50s, taking into account the pain undergone by the couple to become parents and successful cryopreservation of embryos, which may result in successful pregnancy.What started as a quest to become biological parents in March 2019…
Kolkata: The EC on Sunday removed the SDPOs of Haldia and Contai in East Midnapur district, just four days before the first phase of assembly elections on April 23.East Midnapur, Suvendu Adhikari’s turf, will go to the polls in the first phase.Atanu Ghoshal, a WBPS officer, currently attached to the state police’s special task force…
Kolkata: Several hospitals are apprehending a staff shortage as hundreds of employees plan to leave for their home towns for the first-phase elections on April 23. At many facilities, OPD appointments and planned surgeries are being deferred or scheduled earlier while election rosters have been created to serve patients and keep operations running with local…
Kolkata: Different pay scales for posts with the same degree of responsibility, reliability and confidentiality are invalid, Calcutta High Court held on April 17 while rejecting Visva-Bharati’s appeal against paying assistant professors of a school under the university the same as the university’s assistant professors.The varsity filed an appeal before the division bench of Justices…
Kolkata: Scorching westerly and northwesterly winds kept Kolkata hot and humid on Sunday even as the maximum temperature slid marginally to 33.8°C. The Met office warned that warm and humid conditions will continue to prevail across most of south Bengal and Kolkata for the next five days, at least. Some places in the western districts…
Once a Congress bastion for nearly 70 years, Behrampore has undergone a steady political churn. BEHRAMPORE: For the past five years, Behrampore, a historic town, has largely witnessed a bipolar fight between the Trinamool Congress (TMC) and the BJP, with the latter registering a dramatic 35% surge in vote share in the 2021 assembly poll…
Durgapur East TMC candidate Pradip Mazumdar; Durgapur West BJP candidate Lakshman Chandra Ghorui DURGAPUR: From revival of industry, local employment based on service sector growth – medical and education hubs – to changing skyline, with high-rises and malls, contestants for forthcoming assembly election in Durgapur are trying to score on development. Regarded as a cornerstone…
