CCTV footage showed a former vice-chancellor near the gate as a mob entered the campus KOLKATA: Students and faculty members at Jadavpur University (JU) pointed fingers at their ‘own’ who helped ‘outsiders’ to enter the campus and unleash violence and vandalism in the early hours of Thursday and demanded to bring them under the investigation…
Kolkata: Akhil Bharatiya Rashtriya Shaikshik Mahasangh (ABRSM), JU unit, has written a letter to vice-chancellor Chiranjib Bhattacharjee, raising strong objections regarding the neutrality of the investigation committee that was formed to probe the incident on Aug 19 and 20.ABRSM raised objections against the committee’s chairman, Professor Subha Shankar Sarkar, and presenting officer Abul Hasnat. They…
Kolkata: A 60-year-old woman, Meena Devi Thakur, sustained injuries after being allegedly assaulted by her domestic help, who fled with gold jewellery and cash worth lakhs from her central Kolkata residence. She is undergoing treatment at a nursing home.It had been alleged that she was held hostage by the accused, Sanjay Ghosh, on Friday afternoon….
Coffins being put in an ambulance Kolkata: Coffins containing bodies of six of the seven Bangladeshi nationals killed in the Free School Street lodge fire crossed the border and reached the neighbouring country on Saturday evening.The bodies of five victims — Babu Ahmed (37), a cosmetics trader from Savar; and four others from a same…
Tourists in search of hotels in the New Market-Marquis Street-Free School Street area Kolkata: Hundreds of tourists from Bangladesh and Nepal, as well as travellers from Assam, Nagaland and other parts of India, were left virtually homeless on Saturday, spending hours hunting for rooms after several budget hotels and guest houses in the New Market-Marquis…
Kolkata: Bireshwar Mitra, owner of Shikha Inn, the lodge at Florence Mansion on Free School Street, where nine people died following a fire early on Wednesday, was arrested from the home of one of his employees in Behala on Saturday.Mitra, who owns two hotels on Free School Street and one each in Digha and Mandarmani,…
Fire At Free School Street Lodge Kolkata: More than 100 hotels and guest houses across Kolkata stared at closure as civic and fire officials on Saturday continued the inspection of safety compliance and statutory clearances at these establishments. The city’s hotel room inventory was estimated to have shrunk by around 1,500 in just three days.The…
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 arrest.Cops said they will speak to students, teachers and security…
Kolkata: A male tiger, Sundar, approximately 16 years old, died at the Sundarban Wild Animal Park in Jharkhali on Saturday morning. He had been undergoing treatment for an infection for the past 12 days.With Sundar’s death, the Jharkhali rescue centre is now left without a tiger. Sundar had been rescued from the tiger reserve area…
Kolkata: An MBBS aspirant whose mother’s name was deleted from the electoral roll during the SIR and two men working in West Asia who were also disenfranchised during the revision have moved Calcutta High Court seeking directions for the issuance and renewal of their passports.Justice Krishna Rao on Thursday requested the SIR Appellate Tribunal to…
