Kolkata: A 24-year-old woman was allegedly abused, threatened and forced to apologise to the driver and helper of a goods vehicle in Behala’s Parnasree after she protested against their alleged negligent driving that nearly caused an accident on Friday afternoon.According to the complaint, the woman, a television actor, was travelling on a motorcycle with a…
Mukhyamantri Swasthya Bima Yojana Kolkata: Private hospitals across Kolkata were left enthused by the chief minister’s announcement on Friday that health insurance will be provided to those who do not qualify for Ayushman Bharat under the ‘Mukhyamantri Swasthya Bima Yojana’. Even as they waited for final instructions on the rollout of Ayushman, the new scheme,…
Kolkata: The rebel faction of Trinamool MLAs led by Ritabrata Banerjee on Saturday made Mamata Banerjee loyalists Anubrata Mondal, Jyotipriya Mullick and Debasish Kumar office-bearers of the state committee, sealing their defections. Mondal was appointed president of the Birbhum unit.With its ranks swelling, the dissident camp also drew the battle lines, announcing its first public…
Kolkata: Sinthi PS officer-in-charge Chameli Mukherjee was removed from the post within 48 hours of her appointment, with Kolkata Police replacing her with Shrinkhala Sharma, the OC of Amherst Street Women’s PS. Mukherjee will now be the Amherst Street Women’s PS OC. This comes barely two days after KP commissioner Ajay Nanda issued transfer orders…
Kolkata: A Salt Lake court on Saturday remanded a 27-year-old man to six days of police custody, a day after his arrest for allegedly raping his six-year-old cousin for nearly a year at their Lake Town residence.The horrific ordeal came to light during a medical check-up at RG Kar Medical College, where the class 2…
Durgapur: A 26-year-old contractual worker died in an accident at Durgapur Steel Plant’s blast furnace department on Friday night during maintenance work.West Burdwan’s Sk Sahidul was working alone on Friday night when an accident took place around 11pm. Workers suspect a guardrail broke while he was working, causing Sahidul to fall into a ladle of…
Shantanu Sinha Biwsas’s house at Fern Road Kolkata: The Enforcement Directorate on Friday filed a chargesheet against former Kolkata Police DC Shantanu Sinha Biswas in a land-grabbing case. The agency alleged that the former Kalighat police station OC had embezzled Rs 3 crore in the scam.Sinha Biswas’s name surfaced in the land-grabbing case after the…
Kolkata: Birbhum strongman Anubrata Mondal, one of Mamata Banerjee’s close confidants, may join the Ritabrata Banerjee-led rebel camp, MLAs of the camp indicated on Friday.“I have spoken to Mondal at least 30 times since May 4,” Ritabrata said while speaking to reporters on day one of the bloc’s national working committee meeting at a private…
Kolkata: A routine medical check-up at RG Kar Medical College blew the lid off a horrific year-long ordeal for a six-year-old girl in Lake Town, triggering a swift cross-jurisdictional police operation that ended with the arrest of her cousin brother on charges of rape on Friday afternoon.The breakthrough came when the minor, suffering from acute…
Kolkata: Brazil’s round-of-16 exit from the Fifa World Cup after defeat to Norway left supporters crestfallen, but in Kolkata’s football-mad neighbourhoods, mourning did not last long. The city’s Brazil faithful have found new teams to back — or, more precisely, teams to cheer for against Argentina.The shift was clear during Tuesday’s Argentina-Egypt thriller in Kalighat’s…
