Cops want to be ready with data before the Durga Puja Coordination meet set up by chief minister Suvendu Adhikari for Sept 7 Kolkata: The Kolkata Traffic Police have sent SOS letters to different agencies like KMC, PWD and KMDA for infrastructure development before the onset of the festive season. It has listed a total…
CM Suvendu Adhikari with Sita Mullick on Tuesday Kolkata: “The chief minister has promised me a roof over my head,” Sita Mullick, a 60-year-old Free School Street pavement dweller, said on Tuesday morning after meeting CM Suvendu Adhikari at a BJP office in Salt Lake.Mullick had unwittingly triggered a political row on Saturday following a…
Cops in mufti at JU on Tuesday Kolkata: Another member of the inquiry committee set up by Jadavpur University to probe last Thursday’s campus violence has expressed his unwillingness to be part of the investigation. Arunasis Goswami, vice-chancellor of Baba Saheb Ambedkar Education University, has stepped down citing ongoing admission and convocation preparations at his…
Kolkata: The ‘Biswa Bangla’ imprint is set to disappear from yet another prominent public landscape in Bengal, with a state govt panel proposing to rechristen Biswa Bangla Sarani as Shri Krishna Chaitanya Avenue as part of an ongoing exercise to change the names of institutions and infrastructure associated with the erstwhile Trinamool regime.The 33.5km thoroughfare…
Household kitchen budgets have gone haywire as prices of one essential after another climb steadily Kolkata: After sugar and onions, vegetables are beginning to squeeze household budgets, with prices of several everyday kitchen staples rising by 50% to 100% in just 10 days as incessant rain inundates farmland, damages crops and disrupts supply to city…
Traders at Maidan Market say they will take some time to pack their wares and shift A hawker, whose name is not registered with Metro, packs his goods, ready to move Traders at Maidan Market say they will take some time to pack their wares and shift A hawker, whose name is not registered with…
CCTV footage showing ‘outsiders’ on campus Kolkata: Jadavpur University students from both sides of the political and ideological divide have started lodging their complaints along with video and CCTV footage as evidence at the designated email address ahead of the inquiry committee’s first meeting on Thursday. The probe panel has been constituted to investigate the…
Tarakeswar: BJP’s Arambagh vice-president Ganesh Chakraborty was allegedly assaulted by workers of his own party on Tuesday.According to sources, Chakraborty had raised his voice against activities of Uttam Kundu, Arambagh president of the Ritabrata faction of Trinamool Congress and former Tarakeswar municipality chairperson, leading to the alleged assault.Chakraborty alleged: “Some followers of the former chairperson…
Bapi Pramanik, a long-time BJP worker, was attacked in North Tangarberia on Sunday night Kolkata: Police have arrested four BJP members in connection with the murder of party worker Bapi Pramanik in Baruipur, with investigators identifying Sujan Mondal as the alleged mastermind. Local BJP functionaries, however, claimed Mondal had already been expelled from the party.The…
The order said that decision was taken in the interest of better patient care Kolkata: The state health department has decided to debar faculty members and other govt doctors from private practice for 72 hours from the admission day.Admission day is when a faculty member or a doctor attends to patients in OPD, admits patients,…
