Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief Mamata Banerjee shares a video message, in Kolkata on Monday. (TMC/ANI Video Grab) Kolkata: Questioning how a CM sworn to uphold the Constitution could threaten to curtail the freedom of the chief of the principal opposition party, former Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee on Monday sought the intervention of President and Chief…
Union Minister of State for Education and Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER) Sukanta Majumdar Kolkata: A day after Bengal BJP president Samik Bhattacharya cautioned his party colleagues against new “overenthusiastic” inductees who joined after the assembly poll results were out, Union minister Sukanta Majumdar said that errant members would be driven out of the…
Howrah: Two men were arrested from the India-Nepal border in Siliguri’s Kharibari, on suspicion of carrying out terrorist activities, by Bengal STF, with help from Howrah City Police. Police suspect the two were planning to escape to Thailand via Nepal.The arrested duo, who were living in Howrah and worked as moneylenders, have been identified as…
Kolkata: National Real Estate Development Council (NAREDCO), an autonomous self-regulatory body under the Union ministry of housing and urban affairs, is in talks with Bengal govt to introduce an AI-powered building plan approval system in Kolkata and other urban areas. A similar system is being tried in Mumbai.The council, which acts as a bridge between…
Some boarders of Free School Street hotels that have been shut since the fire have shifted to similar guest houses in the Mukundapur area Hotels on Free School Street that have been shut since the fire Hotels on Free School Street that have been shut since the fire Some boarders of Free School Street hotels…
Bireswar Mitra being produced in court Kolkata: The owner of the fire-ravaged Free School Street hotel on Sunday told police that he had shelled out Rs 1 lakh-Rs 1.5 lakh to touts and local syndicates to get neccessary permission to run the hotel.Bireswar Mitra (46), the owner of Shikha Inn, had converted a two BHK…
Construction materials to be used in the ongoing repair of Vidyasagar Setu Kolkata: The Hastings Police has started a probe after the project manager of a French firm that has been currently entrusted with the repair work of Vidyasagar Setu lodged a theft complaint. He has alleged the theft of heavy steel structural components, valued…
KOLKATA: The Mamata Banerjee-led faction of the Trinamool Congress Chhatra Parishad (TMCP) moved the Calcutta high court on Monday, seeking an urgent hearing over Kolkata Police allegedly failing to respond to its request to hold the TMCP foundation day event on August 28 at the Gandhi Statue on Mayo Road.TMCP counsel Arka Kumar Nag mentioned…
Kolkata: Ahead of the Monday (Aug 31) deadline, Bengal has achieved an estimated 87% compliance in Aadhaar-based biometric e-KYC for domestic LPG connections. The LPG dealers said the final figure was likely to be available on Monday only after the oil marketing companies (OMCs) complete the tabulation process.The state has around 2.7 crore domestic LPG…
Kolkata: Two separate road accidents in the Beniapukur police station area have claimed the lives of two pedestrians within 24 hours.In the first incident, an auto driver who was on his first trip out in the city after arriving from Delhi, hit a 60-year-old unidentified woman with his vehicle on Friday near the main gate…
