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…
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…
