Kolkata: Mehebub Zahedi (24) from Malda’s Chanchal has cleared NEET UG 2026 and qualified for Bachelor of Dental Surgery, but the lack of a domicile certificate is obstructing her admission to a Chhattisgarh college. She does not have a domicile certificate since her name was deleted in the SIR. Calcutta High Court’s single judge Justice…
The Nandalal Bose-designed JU emblem that was damaged by ABVP workers was repaired and reinstalled on Friday Kolkata: Thirty-seven hours after unprecedented violence rocked Jadavpur University, vice-chancellor Chiranjib Bhattacharjee on Friday filed a complaint against “unknown outsiders/persons” who “unauthorisedly entered the campus” around 12.37 am on Thursday and indulged in vandalism and destruction of property.Based…
Dozens of Kolkata hotels and guest houses have been forced to close. KOLKATA: At least 52 hotels in central Kolkata and several more in clusters elsewhere in the city were forced to down shutters, citing non-compliance of fire safety measures as the crackdown on hotels in the wake of the nine deaths in the fire…
Budget hotel closures leave Bangladeshi tourists stranded, room rates soar in Kolkata KOLKATA: As one budget hotel after another was served closure notices and forced to down shutters on Friday, tourists — a majority of them from Bangladesh — found themselves caught in a double jeopardy: asked to vacate rooms booked weeks in advance at…
Kolkata: At the entrance to the sealed five-storey building at 15G, Mirza Ghalib Street, eight hoardings advertise eight different hotels and guest houses. Apart from Shikha Inn, where nine people died of asphyxiation after a fire early on Wednesday, the premises also carried signs for Hotel Taiba, Hotel Demattrie, Mariam Hotel, Hotel Royco Guest House,…
IIT Kharagpur’s Houston Centre Kolkata: IIT Kharagpur is expanding its academic footprint to the global stage with the launch of a two-day in-person Artificial Intelligence (AI) programme for engineers and scientists at its Houston outreach centre.As the institute celebrates its platinum jubilee, the initiative signals a transition from 75 years of nation-building to a new…
Kolkata: The liver and two kidneys of a 34-year-old fisherman from the Sundarbans, who was declared brain dead after an accident earlier this month, have saved the lives of three patients. Organs from deceased donor, Subodh Das of Kakdwip, were transplanted into the patients after consent received from his family. With this, IPGMER-SSKM opened its…
Mursida Ali with her child Kolkata: In a bustling, overcrowded compartment of the Canning local train on Wednesday morning, what began as an ordinary daily commute quickly transformed into an extraordinary story of quick thinking, courage, and unexpected new life.Aarti Bain, a compassionate counsellor with NGO Cankids for children with leukemia at the haematology department…
The VC reportedly monitored the situation from Technology Bhavan. pciture by Debobrata Shome Kolkata: The students and professors of Jadavpur University protested against the ‘missing VC’ on Thursday though he was very much on campus monitoring the situation from the Technology Bhavan.VC Chiranjib Bhattacharjee said: “I was present at the university from 10:15 am to…
ABVP activists outside Presidency University gate on Friday. photo by Sayantan Chakraborty Kolkata: A day after the JU incident, tensions escalated on College Street as ABVP supporters staged protests outside Presidency and Calcutta Universities on Friday.Around 4 pm, ABVP activists staged a protest outside the locked main gate of Presidency University, triggering tension in the…
