Kolkata: After Durga Puja stampede this year, Chorbagan residents faced another major scare on Kali Puja-Diwali night (Sunday).A cracker-induced fire broke out at a makeshift shop around midnight. The residents themselves put out the fire in about 10 minutes. The fire fighters were not called in.The Girish Park police said the fire began close to…
West Bengal Pollution Control Board received 84 noise-related complaints by 1 am, while Kolkata Police’s control room recorded a staggering 434 complaints Kolkata: Kolkata’s Kali Puja-Diwali celebrations descended into an unprecedented noise frenzy on Sunday night, with banned high-decibel firecrackers exploding across the city well beyond the permitted two-hour window, triggering record complaints to the…
Dilip Roy, a mason, had gone missing after the mutilated body of a 13-year-old was recovered on Nov 5 in Kulik forest Malda: A rape-murder accused in Raiganj, North Dinajpur, was on Monday shot dead by police while trying to escape, marking the fourth encounter death in Bengal since BJP came to office.Dilip Roy, a…
Kolkata: Festive celebrations turned chaotic in some parts of the city on Kali Puja night (Sunday) after 12 incidents of fire were reported, including from Beleghata and at Nil Ratan Sircar (NRS) Medical College and Hospital hostel.In Beleghata, a blaze engulfed an abandoned and dilapidated house located along the densely-populated Beleghata Main Road, opposite Alochhaya…
The Nagerbazar hostel where the NRS junior doctor’s body was found hanging Kolkata: Mystery surrounds the death of Abhijit Sarkar, a 32-year-old junior doctor of NRS Medical College and Hospital, whose body was found hanging in his Nagerbazar hostel room on Sunday. Hours before his death, he had allegedly sent WhatsApp messages to family members…
The case relates to a 2013 FIR registered after a group of SFI activists allegedly gheraoed and heckled her on Parliament Street in Delhi (file picture) New Delhi/Kolkata: Delhi Police has asked former Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee to join an investigation into a 13-year-old case of alleged assault on public servants, as a witness. A…
The cash was recovered last Thursday, when police seized Rs 1,02,79,000. Additional superintendent of police (Diamond Harbour Police District) Abhishek Majumdar had claimed that the money was recovered based on statements made by Sumit Roy during custodial interrogation Kolkata: Sushmita Roy, wife of Sumit Roy, personal assistant to Trinamool MP Abhishek Banerjee, has moved the…
Poor AQI in Kolkata the day after Kali Puja Kolkata: Blaming communists for complaints about excessive firecracker noise during Kali Puja and Diwali, chief minister Suvendu Adhikari on Monday defended the govt’s handling of noise pollution, claiming it was largely under control.“The communists are doing it,” Adhikari said about allegations of widespread violations. He maintained…
CM Suvendu Adhikari in Nandigram on Monday Kolkata: CM Suvendu Adhikari on Monday said police were identifying and arresting those involved in the violence outside Trinamool national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee’s Kalighat residence on Friday night from video footage. Three people have been arrested so far, and Abhishek’s name figures in one of the four…
Planters with maroon and green sticker Kolkata: The state forest department has started reverting to its century-old green-and-maroon colour scheme, replacing the green-and-blue combination that was introduced in Aug, 2018 when Trinamool Congress-led govt was in office.Though there has been no official communication whether the change will also be extended to signages across its field…
