Kolkata: The dip in gold and silver prices has come as a welcome relief for buyers just ahead of Dhanteras and Diwali, bringing festive cheer to Kolkata’s jewellery market. With precious metal prices retreating significantly from their record highs, jewellers are already witnessing increased footfall and a pick-up in sales, as customers make the most…
Police and fire officers suspect a short circuit could have started the fire at Dalhousie Kolkata: The Grade I heritage building at Lyon Range, located behind Writers’ Buildings and beside Calcutta Stock Exchange, remained shut for the second day after a blaze broke out in the multi-storey commercial building late on Sunday.Owners and employees of…
Kolkata: The Calcutta HC asked the fire department to decide within two weeks whether or not to allow nine business establishments to return to their Free School Street address, where a fire on Aug 19 claimed nine lives. The HC on Nov 2 allowed the establishments, along with police and fire officers, to enter the…
Kolkata: Anuparna Roy, who won Best Director in the Venice Film Festival’s Orizzonti section last year, backed the SRFTI student resistance in a Tuesday video message, demanding that rustication orders for six students be revoked. She also called for VC Santosh Ajmera’s resignation.Roy said that a film school must be a place, where students were…
CISCE has planned on conducting a national study with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), using student performance data on CISCE SHINE 2026 and PISA for Schools Kolkata: The Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) has urged all affiliated schools to participate in the SHINE, 2026 student performance assessment tests to…
Kolkata: The CCTV footage of a burglary that took place in a house at Fartabad, Garia has sent a wave of panic through the neighbourhood. The audacity of the burglars as seen in the footage raised concerns of security among locals, especially elderly residents of the Rajpur-Sonarpur area as they feared that the accused could…
Trucks stranded at Petrapole land port on Tuesday Kolkata: Alleged infighting within BJP-affiliated Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS) at the India-Bangladesh international Petrapole land port has brought cargo loading and unloading operations to a standstill for the past 48 hours, disrupting cross-border trade.Land Port Authority of India (LPAI) authorities claimed that the problem has till now…
Kolkata: In the lanes around Hedua, where old north Kolkata houses still hold festival memories in courtyards and on terraces, Kali Puja has long meant the sight of giant handmade phanush rising into the night sky. This year, the century-old spectacle may be missing.At Bholanath Dham near Scottish Church College, the Dutta family has been…
Kolkata: Bengal health minister Sharadwat Mukherjee said on Tuesday a report has been prepared on what he termed was “rampant corruption” in the Swasthya Sathi scheme.Indicating the need to investigate the “scam” by an independent agency, Mukherjee said the report would be submitted to CM Suvendu Adhikari. There was the possibility of some health department…
CM Suvendu Adhikari and Union minister Sukanta Majumdar at a rally in Siliguri on Tuesday Siliguri/Kolkata: CM Suvendu Adhikari on Tuesday launched a blistering attack on Trinamool and Left and accused opposition parties of joining hands to destabilise the country and conspiring to spread anarchy in India, alleging that they wanted to turn India into…
