Kolkata: A city court sentenced a 56-year-old man to rigorous life imprisonment for murdering his wife in 2022. He was also fined Rs 10,000 under section 302 of the Indian Penal Code.The murder happened on July 5, 2022, around 8.15 pm on Kankurgachhi Road. Uttam Bakuli, an unemployed driver, stopped his 50-year-old wife Babi on…
Kolkata: A video clip featuring an interview of Martin Scorsese on Jean Renoir’s film ‘The River’ has gone viral among film enthusiasts in the city. In the clip, Scorsese discusses the profound impact the film set in Kolkata had on him, describing it as a “formative movie experience”. Jean Renoir’s film, shot along the banks…
Kolkata: In a first for West Bengal, the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) on Thursday deployed three advanced Truck Mounted Attenuators (TMAs) on the accident-prone Dhankuni-Kharagpur stretch of NH-16, introducing globally used crash-protection technology to improve the safety of highway workers and motorists.The TMAs were inaugurated on the high-speed corridor, one of eastern India’s…
The Bantala leather complex is around 10 km from the city—- Suparna Goswami Kolkata: Representatives of the Calcutta Leather Complex Tanners’ Association (CLCTA) have urged West Bengal minister of state for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) Ashok Dinda to intervene on issues related to water supply, roads, the treatment plant and drainage, and to…
Road repairing work at road to airport Kolkata: With rain forecast ahead, Metro has started urgent road repair work outside Kolkata airport to address concerns over waterlogging on the approach road. Airport officials had cited the issue at a meeting on Wednesday after passengers complained of waterlogging as they take the right side to get…
Debraj Chakrabarty being escorted out of the Baguiati PS for Barasat court on Wednesday Kolkata: Former Bidhannagar councillor Debraj Chakraborty’s three-week attempt to stay off the police radar by criss-crossing north Bengal and north India on public transport, paying only in cash and avoiding regular calls came to an end after investigators traced the mobile…
Kolkata: Less than 24 hours after former Bidhannagar councillor Debraj Chakraborty’s dramatic arrest in Purulia on Wednesday in an extortion case, more complaints piled up against him.Anandapur resident Sekhar Kanti Basu, a retired deputy SP, accused him of using his clout to stop police action in a cheating complaint in 2023 against two directors of…
Kolkata: Belgachhia-Kashipur MLA Ritesh Tiwari on Thursday registered a case against Dhrubajyoti Basu who was associated with the Tala Prattoy Durga Puja Committee for allegedly occupying a public ground illegally.Tiwari alleged Tala Park Prattoy had been occupying almost 2 bigha of Tala Gymkhana ground—a govt property—since 2018. He claimed Tala Park Prattoy had also secured…
Kolkata: Two bikers snatched a high-end smartphone from a young woman standing in front of the University of Calcutta’s College Street campus. The bike they were on reportedly had no numberplate on it, CCTV footage revealed.The woman claimed ever since, she had been receiving obscene messages, linking it with the snatching. The incident took place…
Kolkata: A widowed senior citizen, living alone at Banerjepara in Sarsuna, alleged police inaction against a forged tenancy agreement and her tenant running a sex trade out of the ground floor of her house. She now plans to go to the Calcutta HC.The tenant had entered the house over four years ago as a caregiver…
