Scores have sought treatment with heat exhaustion, dizziness, nausea and blackouts which are unusual during monsoon Kolkata: The late monsoon warm spell has led to a spate of heat-induced diseases which are rare at this time of the year. Scores have sought treatment with heat exhaustion, dizziness, nausea and blackouts which are unusual during monsoon,…
Kolkata: The new-age schools that are being developed on the wetlands are giving additional focus to undertaking safety audits to eradicate snakes, especially during the monsoon season. The school where the class 3 student was bitten by a snake is organising a special session with a herpetologist to explain standard operating procedure and emergency respond…
Sita Mullick with her grandson Kolkata: A 60-year-old Free School Street pavement dweller on Saturday unknowingly triggered a political row when asked to move off the pavement by state urban development minister Agnimitra Paul during an anti-encroachment drive, to which she replied she was boiling milk for her grandson.Videos widely circulated on social media showed…
Kolkata: Police have questioned 16 persons, including Sealdah court public prosecutor Dilip Kumar Ram, over allegedly locking the Entally PS during a protest in the wee hours of Independence Day.Those questioned include Ram’s brother Sudeep Ram and several BJP workers. “We have sent them notices and asked them to join the probe. We have collected…
JU Campus…..Debobrata Shome Kolkata: The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) on Sunday demanded an impartial inquiry by the state higher education dept into the JU vandalism. They also demanded an NIA probe into alleged anti-national activities on the campus.Following a press meet, they questioned administrative lapses concerning campus safety, political influence, and the cancellation of…
Security check at a Jadavpur University gate on Saturday …..Debobrata Shome Kolkata: Jadavpur University plans to appoint additional ex-servicemen on the campus and equip them with body cameras in a bid to beef up their security arrangements after the midnight violence and vandalism by a right-wing mob in the early hours of Thursday and again…
Kolkata: The festive variety of sweet and confectionery items may shrink this Durga Puja if sugar prices do not cool down. With the festive season less than two months away, the rise in sugar price has left the traders in the lurch as many of them are retreating from their plans of elaborate puja-special sweet…
Kolkata: Even as Ayushman Bharat patient count has started rising across private hospitals in Kolkata, the first high-end procedure under the scheme was performed on Saturday. A 34-year-old Kolkata resident, admitted on Friday, underwent an aortic valve replacement — an expensive, life-saving and high-end cardiac procedure — at Charnock Hospital.Patient Dipankar Singh, admitted under cardiothoracic…
Entrance to the Shreeram Arcade was freed of encroachment on Saturday Kolkata: The entrance to Shreeram Arcade at Humayun Place was freed of encroachment on Friday evening after police stepped in and launched a pushback drive to end a tense stand-off between shopkeepers and hawkers.According to Shreeram Arcade president, Jacky Samtani, tension had been brewing…
CCTV footage shows ABVP members and outsiders entering the university premises KOLKATA: More than 24 hours after Jadavpur University vice-chancellor Chiranjib Bhattacharjee filed an FIR against “unknown outsiders/persons” for the violence and vandalism on campus, police on Saturday claimed they have identified some of those involved in the disturbance.They are, however, yet to make any…
