Kolkata: In an unusual development, Calcutta High Court judge Suvra Ghosh on Wednesday recused herself from delivering the verdict on the bail plea of jailed former Bengal minister Sujit Bose after alleging that Bose’s lawyer and her private secretary had entered her chamber and sought access to case-related records.Justice Ghosh said she had already reported…
Amit Shah’s visit comes against the backdrop of Siliguri’s location near international borders with Nepal and Bhutan. SSB guards both frontiers, making the region vital to border-security operations. Siliguri: Union home minister Amit Shah will begin a three-day visit to Siliguri on Thursday, focusing on the strategic Siliguri Corridor — the narrow land link to…
Kolkata: Strict enforcement of teachers’ attendance at state-aided colleges was a crucial step to restore the academic environment at institutes before bringing students back to campuses, state higher education minister Jagannath Chattopadhyay said on Tuesday.Chattopadhyay was speaking at a two-day workshop, held to discuss the rollout of the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, where he…
A devastating fire in a Kolkata hotel claimed nine lives early Wednesday morning KOLKATA: Horrified guests of a Kolkata hotel, who were rescued from a devastating blaze that claimed nine lives in the early hours of Wednesday, recounted a night of terror.Dark smoke engulfed the second and third floors of the dilapidated building, leaving those…
Kolkata: Jadavpur University Teachers’ Association has written to higher education minister Jagannath Chattopadhyay, expressing concerns over the retrospective implementation of the new Career Advancement Scheme (CAS) rules. JUTA said the order on promotions for university teachers, librarians and physical education directors at state-aided institutes was issued on July 15 but its provisions took effect retrospectively…
The state would introduce the Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana scheme for mothers from Oct, said CM Suvendu Adhikari. He also announced that in the police force, two new woman police battalions, named after Matangini Hazra and Rani Rashmani, were coming up. “The women’s emergency helpline (112) will start on Mahalaya,” he said. Source link
Three fire tenders took over two hours to douse the flames Kolkata: A fire broke out on the extended open terrace area of the second floor of the Air Traffic Control (ATC) building at Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport in Kolkata around 4 am on Tuesday. Flight operations remained unaffected.Airport officials said that the…
The drive was conducted to clear roads around Lansdowne Market Kolkata: A pushback drive to clear the roads around Lansdowne Market triggered frantic activity on Tuesday, with hawkers pulling down bamboo frames, removing plastic sheets and trimming stall extensions two days after urban development and municipal affairs minister Agnimitra Paul inspected the area.On Monday evening,…
A senior official said around 80 people were rescued from the five-storey building. KOLKATA: At least nine people, including a four-year-old child, were killed and six others injured after a fire broke out early Wednesday at a cramped five-storey building on Mirza Ghalib Street in central Kolkata, which housed several hotels, police said.The blaze erupted…
Kolkata: An assistant sub-inspector (ASI) of Nalhati police station in Birbhum was arrested for allegedly kidnapping and raping a young woman at a guest house in Salt Lake CL block for two days two months ago.The 37-year-old ASI was arrested by Bidhannagar East police station from a hideout in Mumbai and was produced before a…
