Kolkata boosts I-Day security as HC voids certain OBC certificates (Image used for representational purpose only) KOLKATA: Kolkata is preparing for Independence Day under heightened security, while a major Calcutta High Court ruling and a dispute involving a prominent Durga Puja committee are also drawing attention.Kolkata Police has deployed around 6,000 personnel and installed hundreds…
The final design of the Tricolour rakhi Kolkata:In a first, Kolkata Police had floated a Rs 5.5 lakh worth tender to procure 50,000 rakhis and one lakh toffees for Rakshabandhan celebrations. The hands used to nabbing criminals will tie the Tricolour rakhis, complete with a KP emblem, on the wrists of people.An exercise that was…
Kolkata: Security has been tightened across Kolkata for Independence Day, with police stepping up surveillance amid cracking of JeM-Shahzad Bhatti and ISI-backed terror and spying modules in the city in the past month.According to sources at Lalbazar, 6,000 police personnel will be deployed across the city on Friday for the occasion.The security has been planned…
Kolkata: Pakistani national Rana Rouf Khalid (36), who was arrested by Bengal STF on Wednesday for his alleged links with Pakistan’s ISI, had visited Kolkata at least six times since 2014-15, having spent between one and two months each at Topsia. His last visit was in Jan, said an officer.Rouf, who was introduced by his…
Nalanda Complex in IIT-Kharagpur —— Santanu Mondal Kolkata/Kharagpur: A second-year IIT Kharagpur engineering student died after reportedly falling from the third floor of the Nalanda classroom complex. Ankit Sharma (18), who hailed from Rajasthan, was pursuing mechanical engineering. He joined the institution in July 2025 and was a boarder of Gokhale Hall.According to police, he…
Kolkata/Balasore: Veteran Trinamool Congress functionary Nirmal Ghosh, a five-time former MLA from Panihati, was arrested from Odisha’s Balasore on Thursday, barely 72 hours after CM Suvendu Adhikari publicly asked Barrackpore police commissioner Amit Kumar Singh to probe his role in the irregularities surrounding the cremation of the RG Kar rape-murder victim in Aug 2024.Ghosh (80)…
Kolkata: The Suvendu Adhikari administration on Thursday stripped BJP MP and Rajbangshi leader Ananta Maharaj of Banga Bibhushan, Bengal’s highest civilian honour, for his comments denigrating national icon Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose and his Indian National Army.The Mamata Banerjee administration had conferred the award on the controversy-prone BJP Rajya Sabha MP in the run-up to…
Deshapriya Park Durga Puja Kolkata: A dispute over the management of Deshapriya Park Durga Puja has brought the preparations for the 89th edition of the south Kolkata puja to a halt, with the existing organising committee alleging that a group of 40-50 people vandalised its under-construction pandal and threatened members.The committee, in which former Rashbehari…
Kolkata: The Association of Hospitals of Eastern India (AHEI) has asked CM Suvendu Adhikari to allow Tier 1 rates for Ayushman Bharat in Bengal. The state has been allotted Tier 3 rates that are significantly lower than the two higher tiers and may not be sustainable for hospitals, the latter feared. Hospitals had raised objections…
Bengal assembly speaker Rathindranath Bose visits the Netaji museum in Kurseong Darjeeling: Amid controversy over BJP Rajya Sabha MP Nagendra Roy, known as Ananta Maharaj, questioning the roles of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose and the Azad Hind Fauj in India’s freedom struggle, Bengal assembly speaker Rathindranath Bose on Thursday visited the Netaji Institute For Asian…
