Kolkata: Calcutta HC on Friday extended the interim protection granted to Trinamool general secretary Abhishek Banerjee in the alleged MLA signature forgery case till July 17.A special bench of Justice Suvra Ghosh heard the forgery case and noted that Justice Kaushik Chanda had heard the matter in detail earlier.As Justice Chanda is currently sitting on…
Kolkata: The low-pressure area predicted by IMD formed over the northwest Bay of Bengal and adjoining north Odisha-West Bengal coast on Thursday. While this system already started bringing showers in the city and other parts of south Bengal from Thursday itself, the Met said there is possibility for heavy rain for the city and other…
Tourists at a Marquis Street foreign exchange centre Kolkata: Traders across Kolkata’s ‘Mini Bangladesh’ have decided to keep prices reasonable for Bangladeshi visitors once tourism resumes, believing that rebuilding trust is more important than recovering two years of losses through steep tariff hikes.The decision follows Indian envoy to Bangladesh Dinesh Trivedi’s announcement that tourist visas…
Hawkers under Sealdah flyover on Thursday Kolkata: The state on Thursday assured the Calcutta High Court of no eviction of occupiers under Sealdah flyover till July 9. In case of removal of vagabonds from under Hastings flyover, the HC has granted an interim stay till July 15. On June 29, a ‘public notice’ was pasted…
Kolkata: A city court sentenced a 56-year-old man to rigorous life imprisonment for murdering his wife in 2022. He was also fined Rs 10,000 under section 302 of the Indian Penal Code.The murder happened on July 5, 2022, around 8.15 pm on Kankurgachhi Road. Uttam Bakuli, an unemployed driver, stopped his 50-year-old wife Babi on…
Kolkata: A video clip featuring an interview of Martin Scorsese on Jean Renoir’s film ‘The River’ has gone viral among film enthusiasts in the city. In the clip, Scorsese discusses the profound impact the film set in Kolkata had on him, describing it as a “formative movie experience”. Jean Renoir’s film, shot along the banks…
Kolkata: In a first for West Bengal, the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) on Thursday deployed three advanced Truck Mounted Attenuators (TMAs) on the accident-prone Dhankuni-Kharagpur stretch of NH-16, introducing globally used crash-protection technology to improve the safety of highway workers and motorists.The TMAs were inaugurated on the high-speed corridor, one of eastern India’s…
The Bantala leather complex is around 10 km from the city—- Suparna Goswami Kolkata: Representatives of the Calcutta Leather Complex Tanners’ Association (CLCTA) have urged West Bengal minister of state for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) Ashok Dinda to intervene on issues related to water supply, roads, the treatment plant and drainage, and to…
Debraj Chakrabarty being escorted out of the Baguiati PS for Barasat court on Wednesday Kolkata: Former Bidhannagar councillor Debraj Chakraborty’s three-week attempt to stay off the police radar by criss-crossing north Bengal and north India on public transport, paying only in cash and avoiding regular calls came to an end after investigators traced the mobile…
Kolkata: Less than 24 hours after former Bidhannagar councillor Debraj Chakraborty’s dramatic arrest in Purulia on Wednesday in an extortion case, more complaints piled up against him.Anandapur resident Sekhar Kanti Basu, a retired deputy SP, accused him of using his clout to stop police action in a cheating complaint in 2023 against two directors of…
