CM Suvendu Adhikari at an organisational meeting in East Midnapore on Sunday Kolkata/Mecheda: After Bengal BJP president Samik Bhattacharya described the party’s induction of three ex-Trinamool MPs into BJP “an exception”, CM Suvendu Adhikari described it as a “necessity” while addressing party members and supporters at a meeting in East Midnapore on Sunday.According to sources,…
The investigating officer (IO) in the rape-murder of the 12-year-old girl at Baruipur’s Surjapur was changed again on Sunday — third time in the past 8 days. The probe has now been handed over to Shantanu Mukhopadhyay, DSP (detective branch), Baruipur Police District in what the administration claims will expedite the process. The case was…
Surjapur outpost cops speak to locals A team of police officers from Suryapur outpost are taking to the streets to talk to people in the area —— TOI Baruipur: Hours after chief minister Suvendu Adhikari called the death of 35-year-old Indrajit Mondal as pre-meditated murder, Baruipur cops have intensified their probe into the lynching incident…
Kolkata: Bengal National Chamber of Commerce & Industry president Ashok Kumar Banik was removed from the post on Saturday after he was arrested on Friday on charges of extortion, criminal intimidation and cheating. Produced before a Barasat court, Banik was remanded to five days of police custody.Banik was arrested by cops in connection with the…
Kolkata: The structural engineer who signed the plan of the ill-fated under-construction warehouse that collapsed, killing 16 workers, on June 24 was on Saturday summoned to the Kolkata Municipal Corporation headquarters for questioning.The engineer, who retired recently, was empanelled as a structural engineer with the civic body. He was grilled by the civic brass on…
Kolkata: Torrential rain has exposed the battered state of VIP Road, where fresh craters and loose gravel have reduced traffic to a crawl, triggering extremely slow traffic movement and leaving airport-bound commuters under stress.The worst-hit stretch lies between Haldiram’s crossing and Kaikhali, where large swathes of the bituminous surface were ripped apart after days of…
A still from ‘All That Matters to Them’ Kolkata: Lives of climate refugees on Ghoramara island in the Sunderbans have been brought to the forefront in Mrinmoy Sarkar’s ‘All That Matters to Them’, which received the Satyajit Ray Golden Award at the 9th South Asian Short Film Festival. Organized by the Federation of Film Societies…
Kolkata: Three officials from the I&C department met nine technicians on Friday evening. The technicians described the meeting as “positive” and “fruitful”, which led to a pause in the protest march that members of the Federation of Cine Technicians and Workers of Eastern India had scheduled for Sunday. The protest was initially called to address…
Apart from a 3-cottah land in Hatiara, Rajarshi Bhattacharya’s parentsdonated Rs 6.8 lakh for a smart classroom in the organic chemistrydepartment at Rajabazar Science College Kolkata: The parents of Rajarshi Bhattacharya, a Presidency University and Calcutta University alumnus, who died during his research days at IISc in Bangalore, gifted three cottahs of land at Hatiara…
Kolkata: The historic Belvedere House at the National Library is set to open a new chapter in India’s cultural landscape with the inauguration of the first-of-its kind museum on Indian languages — Museum of Word — also known as Shabdalok, on July 19. Home minister Amit Shah is scheduled to inaugurate the museum as the…
