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Agartala: Tripura hosted its first stakeholders’ meeting on carbon sequestration and climate finance on Tuesday, bringing together 25 govt departments, academic institutions, NABARD and civil society to map opportunities and strategies.Department of good governance, with ARPAN Society, directorate of biotechnology, IGDC Tripura project and JICA organised the meeting. Experts from Climate Action Network of South…

Sourav Ganguly and Stve Waugh in Wankhede Stadium Kolkata: Former India cricket captain Sourav Ganguly and his wife Dona have received death threats, following which the Kolkata Police STF and the directorate of security have started a probe. STF has zeroed in on a location 32km from the Gangulys’ Behala house, from where threat letters…

Kolkata: Two Ekbalpore youths fell prey to a fake placement agency, one of them getting arrested in Uzbekistan for entering the country illegally. They finally managed to return through Kazakhstan after being released but were shocked after their return when both men, including their family members, were threatened by the office bearers of the fake…

Hooghly district police arrested Delhi Capitals batter Abhishek Porel late Monday night. KOLKATA: Delhi Capitals player Abhishek Porel was arrested by Mogra police in Hooghly late Monday night after the Calcutta high court directed police to arrest him in connection with a rape case filed by a third-year medical student.Porel was produced before the Chief…

The Calcutta high court extended interim protection for Aroop Biswas until November 30 KOLKATA: The Calcutta high court on Tuesday extended the interim protection from coercive action granted to former West Bengal sports minister Aroop Biswas till November 30.The protection was granted in connection with the chaos surrounding Lionel Messi’s event at Salt Lake Stadium…

Kolkata: More than 90% of the highrise projects that underwent safety audit in the past month and a half were found to be structurally sound with no major deviations from plans sanctioned by the respective civic body, officials of Credai, the developers’ umbrella body, said on Monday.They said about half the audited projects already received…

A group of doctors visited the housing complex to treat the ill residents Kolkata: More residents of Siddha Happyville in Rajarhat reported vomiting, diarrhoea and stomach pain on Monday even as the Public Health Engineering (PHE) dept collected water samples from the housing complex on Monday to ascertain the source of suspected contamination and complex…

Agartala: Ahead of elections for village committees of the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (ADC), the CPM staged a protest in Tripura on Monday, accusing the BJP-led govt of undemocratic and authoritarian conduct.A few hundred supporters were detained in Agartala, with party officials asserting that comparable civil disobedience actions occurred at 21 additional sites…

In photo: Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief Mamata Banerjee, TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee KOLKATA: The fallout from the death of a Trinamool Congress worker in police custody, the confrontation during Mamata Banerjee’s visit to his family and a key court hearing involving TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee are among the developments dominating Kolkata’s political news cycle. The…

An artefact that will be on display Kolkata: Ahead of the country’s 80th Independence Day, two of Kolkata’s premier museums are opening their collections to tell two distinct but interconnected stories of India. The Indian Museum and Victoria Memorial Hall (VMH) have unveiled special exhibitions that journey through India’s civilisational and national history.Some of the…