Taslima Nasrin will make her comeback to Kolkata on August 1 KOLKATA: Nearly 19 years after she was forced to leave Kolkata amid violent protests, Bangladesh-born author Taslima Nasrin is set to return to the city on August 1 for a literary event at Rabindra Sadan.For Nasrin, who has repeatedly described Kolkata as her ‘home’,…
The Southeast Traffic Guard has launched a drive to remove illegal parking from one side of Purna Das Road Kolkata: Police on Tuesday removed all illegal parking from one side of Purna Das Road following complaints from residents, many of whom took to social media and tagged the state administration to their posts.Residents, such as…
Kolkata: Ramakrishna Mission Vidyalaya, Narendrapur, will resume classes for standards 5-12 from July 24. The notice, which was issued on Monday and signed by headmaster Swami Ishteshananda and secretary Swami Shastrajnananda, stated, “Students are required to return to the Vidyalaya and re-join their respective Bhavans by 5 pm on July 23. Regular classes for students…
. overnight eviction drive around 200 illegal structures beneath in Dakshineswar ————–Amar Kar Kolkata: In an overnight drive, a large contingent of the Barrackpore Police Commissionerate, the National Highways Authority and PWD pulled down around 200 illegal structures—shops, bus kiosks serving several Kolkata and suburban bus routes, accommodation for bus drivers and conductors, toilets, eateries…
Kolkata: Brace for heavy downpour on Thursday as an impending low-pressure area is set to enhance the rainfall in Kolkata and the rest of South Bengal districts. While it is too early for Met officials to forecast if the system will intensify, they expect the system to be potent enough to trigger heavy rain on…
Kolkata: Cash worth more than Rs 2.3 crore, around 50 grams of gold, four cars and other valuables were seized from a G plus 3 building in New Town during a nearly 12-hour overnight raid by Bidhannagar Police, leading to the arrest of seven people, including a woman, in a case investigators suspect could be…
Kolkata: Kolkata Police have busted a fake call centre operating a fraudulent online dating club out of Kasba. Detectives are now probing the interstate link between the eight persons arrested during Monday’s raid, with a pan-India cyber syndicate recently dismantled by the Delhi Police, where the accused also ran fake spiritual gangs.The crackdown follows a…
Kolkata: A retail company in Kolkata lost Rs 1.5 crore in a digital impersonation scam.An accounts employee received a WhatsApp message from an unknown number that used the photo of the company’s managing director. The sender pretended to be the managing director and asked for an urgent fund transfer.Believing the message was real, the employee…
Kolkata: Eighteen years and eight months after being forced to leave Kolkata amid violent protests, Bangladesh-born author-in-exile Taslima Nasrin is set to return to the city she calls home to attend a literary meet at Rabindra Sadan on Aug 1.The organisers said Nasrin, who will arrive on July 31, is likely to be felicitated by…
Kolkata: Bengal govt has decided to strip elected panchayat pradhans of their financial powers and transfer them to govt officials through a bill to be introduced in the assembly, panchayat and rural development minister Dilip Ghosh said on Tuesday.The move is aimed at improving financial oversight, transparency and accountability in the execution of development projects.“The…
