The Iskcon kitchen where school meals will be cooked Kolkata: Govt schools in Kolkata Municipal Corporation area will continue to serve boiled eggs with midday meals even after Iskcon takes over the programme and starts supplying vegetarian food from Saturday, chief minister Suvendu Adhikari said at Nabanna on Wednesday.The handover of the midday meal programme…
Gold bars found in Minar Mondal’s house on Wednesday Suri: Birbhum police on Wednesday raided the house of a retired govt bus driver in Deucha village and seized gold bars and biscuits worth around Rs 21.5 crore, along with two trunkloads of cash. The cash haul had crossed Rs 28.5 crore by late evening, with…
Khuti Puja at Tridhara Akalbodhan Khuti Puja at Ultadanga Bidhan Sangha Khuti Puja at Tridhara Akalbodhan Khuti Puja at Ultadanga Bidhan Sangha Khuti Puja at Tridhara Akalbodhan Kolkata: Most big ticket Durga Pujas in the city have passed the khuti puja test on the Ulto Rath weekend with only a few, like Tala Prattay, yet…
Sahidullah Gazi was arrested on Tuesday Kolkata: TMC Hingalganj panchayat samiti president Sahidullah Gazi was arrested on Tuesday, a day after an angry mob dragged him out of the block development office and assaulted him over allegations of taking commissions for releasing welfare scheme funds and extortion.Gazi had to stay confined inside Hingalganj BDO office…
Kolkata: With the Supreme Court restraining states from taking coercive action against NEET protesters, a city court on Tuesday reversed within three hours its jail custody order for all 16 persons arrested for the ruckus at Esplanade during last Friday’s protest march in Kolkata and granted them bail. The contrasting orders by the same court…
Kolkata: Neither one’s voter card nor Aadhaar nor bank account is conclusive proof of Indian citizenship, the Calcutta High Court has said, refusing to interfere in the state’s proceedings regarding a “Murshidabad man” held in a detention centre for being a “Bangladeshi” because of obvious discrepancies.Nasir and his cousin, Suman Molla, were given repeated chances…
He was sent home after about 10 days Kolkata: An eight-year-old boy from south Kolkata was admitted to the ICU at Peerless Hospital with life-threatening neurological illness from a seemingly harmless scratch by a cat. All diagnostic tests failed to nail the cause of the repeated seizures for which the boy needed ventilation support.It was…
A tiger with its cubs clicked during the latest exercise Kolkata: The latest camera-trap survey in the Sundarbans has offered an encouraging sign for tiger conservation, with the Bengal forest dept recording images of at least 12 female tigers with cubs and sub-adults. The sightings, as per officials, have raised hopes that the mangrove landscape…
Driveway below the arrival level carriageway at the basement level of the parking lot from where a dedicated app cab exit has been proposed Kolkata: The airport authorities are working on a major traffic circulation revamp to ease congestion on the arrival-level driveway. A key proposal is to shift the app-cab boarding area to the…
Families and supporters frequently gather outside the Bankshall Court in Kolkata to celebrate bails or releases after hearings for arrested protesters or defendants. Pix:- Biplab Bhattacharjee Kolkata: Flower petals rained down and emotional embraces marked the release of 16 accused outside Bankshall Court on Tuesday evening after they were granted bail in connection with Friday’s…
