Kolkata Police has intensified neighbourhood-level patrolling and public announcements, urging residents to refrain from bursting banned firecrackers following reports of loud explosions in different parts of the city over the past week.Announcements could be heard from a patrol van making the rounds of SN Banerjee Road, Smith Lane and Taltala Lane on Thursday evening. In…
Kolkata: Three BJP workers were arrested on Friday for allegedly vandalising a restaurant-cum-guest house at Deganga in North 24-Parganas, looting cash and assaulting employees over a refusal to pay extortion money. The accused, however, claimed they had raided the establishment to shut down an alleged prostitution racket.The arrested persons — Ankush Kahar, Subrata Ghosh and…
Kolkata: Political parties were not consulted while redrawing the boundaries of KMC wards and delimitation was an “unscientific” exercise, the opposition said on Friday while governing BJP said it had little to worry about whether the polls were held now or later.A BJP neta said Calcutta High Court’s order restraining the KMC polls till a…
About 6.8 lakh candidates appeared in the Group-C written exam on March 1, while 8 lakh took the Group-D written test on March 8 Kolkata: After waiting for more than three and a half years hoping to return to their workplaces, about 1,000 staffers from the 2016 recruitment panel who lost their jobs after a…
West Bengal CM Suvendu Adhikari Kolkata: The state govt has doubled the financial approval powers of administrative departments, raising the sanction ceiling for key infrastructure-related departments from Rs 3 crore to Rs 6 crore to speed up the execution of govt schemes and development projects.Under an order issued by the finance department on Wednesday, the…
RSS eastern India Prachar Pramukh Jisnu Basu at an ABVP event at Presidency University on Thursday Kolkata: Presidency College, a cradle of nationalism, played a huge role in the evolution of ‘Vande Mataram’, from being a song to turning into a mantra to a battle cry to a victory slogan for the motherland, said RSS…
Kolkata: The West Bengal state election commission (SEC) on Thursday deferred the publication of the final electoral rolls for seven civic bodies, including Kolkata Municipal Corporation, which were scheduled to be put up on Nov 12. The SEC did not announce the revised date for the final lists.Officials said it was now practically impossible for…
A teenage boy was brutally attacked by three individuals (Representative image generated using AI) KOLKATA: A teenage boy was allegedly blindfolded, doused in petrol and set ablaze in southern Kolkata, with the accused purportedly recording the attack for a social media reel, police said on Friday.So far, three persons have been arrested and two minors…
Bipin Chandra Pal’s great-granddaughters will be part of the freedom fighter’s 168th birth anniversary celebration Kolkata: A programme to remember Bipin Chandra Pal on his 168th birth anniversary would help showcase the freedom fighter’s “inclusive, constructive and forward-looking” vision that would encourage the youth to “put the nation first”, said his great-granddaughters. Rastrakabi Ramdhari Singh…
Santiniketan: Like last year, this year, too, Visva-Bharati will hold Poush Mela on the Purba Palli grounds in Santiniketan. The decision was finalised after a two-hour meeting between Visva-Bharati and the district administration on Wednesday night.The district authorities promised full support in organising the fair, which will be held from Dec 23 to Dec 29….
