Ashoke Sen being felicitated by IACS director Kalobaron Maiti with a portrait of Sen drawn by a student Kolkata: Theoretical physicist Ashoke Sen, the first Indian to win the Oskar Klein Medal for his research in string theory, delivered the Mahendra Lal Sircar Memorial Lecture on “Gravity from Strings and Strings from Gravity” on Friday…
A video grab of the incident KOLKATA: A 17-year-old boy was allegedly assaulted, doused with petrol, and set on fire near a pond in Nelinnagar in Garfa by a group of acquaintances, two of them minors and the rest under 21. Cops said the incident was partly triggered by an old grudge and an attempt…
Kolkata: Around 20 stray dogs in New Alipore and adjoining Chetla are set to be moved to animal shelters to protect them from the loud noise of crackers that has been rampant in these neighbourhoods over the last three nights. A group of locals, who regularly feed strays, have taken the initiative to move the…
Rain has washed away road markings on Rani Rashmoni Avenue Kolkata: Facing repeated requests from motorists over faded lane markers — and even complaints where they claim they are being fined due to invisible road boundaries — Kolkata Traffic Police has issued a tender worth nearly Rs 2 crore to overhaul road markings across the…
Road repair underway inside a Salt Lake block Kolkata: Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has started conducting thorough repairs of damaged stretches inside blocks in Salt Lake, peeling off the damaged bituminous layer and resurfacing with mastic and bitumen asphalt. In the last couple of days, repairs have been carried out inside AE Block, mostly at…
The participants on a study tour of the Santiniketan Unesco World Heritage Site Kolkata: Eleven participants from Maldives, Sri Lanka, Equatorial Guinea, Russia, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Djibouti, Tanzania, Mauritania, Egypt, and Liberia are attending a three-week ITEC programme on “Producing Broadcast News for Development Communications” at SRFTI from Oct 26 to Nov 13. Held under the…
Adhikari said his govt would offer the land, which the previous govt had earmarked for the Durga Angan project, at a reasonable price, rather than its commercial value Kolkata: A 17-acre plot in New Town, where then CM Mamata Banerjee laid the foundation stone for a ‘Durga Angan’ in Dec 2025, will instead house a…
Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Friday restrained the state election commission from announcing the Kolkata Municipal Corporation elections till a single-judge bench disposes of a petition challenging the rise in the number of wards in the city from 144 to 209 following delimitation.The five-year term of the now-defunct board of KMC, which is run by…
CM Suvendu Adhikari inaugurates Amherst Street Yuvasree Kali Puja on Friday evening Kolkata: After Durga Puja, Kali Puja, too, goes saffron.The organisers of several prominent Kali Pujas in the city, following in the footsteps of crowd-puller Durga Pujas, have invited CM Suvendu Adhikari to unveil the pandals or at least visit them at a convenient…
CM Suvendu Adhikari and state industry minister Tapas Roy during a Kali Puja inauguration on Amherst Street on Friday Kolkata: Tearing into the opposition for “stalling the KMC polls”, a combative CM Suvendu Adhikari on Friday said “do not mess with me, I have passed many exams”.Stating that govt would appoint coordinators in all 209…
