Kolkata: Baguiati PS cops on Thursday arrested Bikash Naskar, husband of former Trinamool BMC councillor Purnima Naskar, on the charges of extortion and assault. Naskar became the sixth political representative from the BMC area to be arrested over the past one-and-a-half months.The complaint was lodged recently though the incident dates back to 2020.So far, 10…
Kolkata: A criminal case has been registered against former councillor Shantiranjan Kundu, based on a complaint by a homemaker, over five years after an alleged attack on her. The woman alleged post-poll violence, physical assault and outrage of modesty by Kundu and his aides on May 3, 2021, a day after the Assembly election results…
Kolkata: A 19-year-old worker, who called his family for help while he was trapped under the debris of the collapsed warehouse in Taratala, has died. The death toll in the accident has now risen to 16.Mannu Kumar, a migrant worker from Munger in Bihar, died late on Thursday night at SSKM Hospital. He had been…
Kolkata: Citing the Garden Reach and Taratala disasters, former KMC councillor of ward 48 Biswarup Dey quits Trinamool Congress, hours after attending the workers’ conference, organised for the North Kolkata party workers, under the banner “we are not traitors” on Thursday.Dey was among the eight councillors who were present at the Rammohun Hall and was…
Train services resumed across the full stretch of the Blue Line within about 25 minutes of the incident. (File photo used for representational purpose) KOLKATA: Metro services on Kolkata’s Blue Line were briefly disrupted on Saturday morning after a person allegedly attempted suicide by jumping onto the tracks at Kalighat station, news agency PTI reported.The…
Kolkata: A partly sliced off left thumb and a copper bracelet helped families identify two workers who died in the Taratala warehouse collapse. Their bodies were kept at SSKM Hospital’s morgue on Friday.The two workers were Suman Karmakar (37) of Shyamnagar and Swapan Mondal (56) of Jagaddal. They were brought to the hospital between Thursday…
Kolkata: A family disagreement turned into a life-saving decision for 35-year-old metal casting worker Dharmendra Chowdhury of Jagaddal in North 24-Parganas, who narrowly escaped becoming a victim of the Taratala warehouse roof collapse after deciding not to take up a week-long assignment at the site.Chowdhury had initially agreed to work at the under-construction warehouse, where…
Plan to revive Kolkata’s tram network Kolkata: In a push for clean urban mobility, the state has engaged RITES (Rail India Technical and Economic Service) to prepare a blueprint for the revival of trams in the city. The initiative aims at modernising and restoring Asia-Pacific’s oldest surviving tram network, integrating it into Kolkata’s rapidly expanding…
Kolkata: Chandan Sarker, owner of a construction firm, has lodged a complaint at the Survey Park PS against Tarak Chakraborty, former councillor and a former KMC borough chairman, accusing him of Rs 1 crore extortion, death threats and property damage. Sarker claimed Chakraborty used his political clout and local thugs to disrupt his projects as…
CM Suvendu Adhikari at an event to mark the 189th birth anniversary of Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay Kolkata: Bengal govt will not only implement Uniform Civil Code (UCC) but also bring tough laws on land jihad, love jihad and forcible conversions, chief minister Suvendu Adhikari said on Friday, adding, “Keep the faith. Please allow us some…
