Waterlogging at Sarat Bose Road Kolkata: The city has received 5% excess rain this monsoon, while south Bengal recorded an excess of 2%. The city, however, had a deficit of 12% in July while south Bengal received an excess of 14%. The July deficit in Kolkata has been attributed to more localized showers which were…
Kolkata: A day after Bengal BJP president Samik Bhattacharya warned partymen against any demand for cut money or extortion, state ministers Dilip Ghosh and Agnimitra Paul said on Monday such people would not be allowed to continue in the party. There were also “a number of people trying to contact us with crores of rupees”…
Kolkata/Burdwan/Howrah: The Bengal Special Task Force (STF) on Monday arrested a 21-year-old college student in Howrah for allegedly being involved in a plot hatched by suspected Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) operative Hamim Mondal to abduct junior state minister Umesh Rai’s son.STF officers said Aditya Singh, alias Raj, a second-year BCom student at Umesh Chandra College in Kolkata,…
Boost for medical tourism Kolkata: The overwhelming response to the resumption of India’s tourist visas for Bangladeshis after two years has been accompanied by a surge in medical visa approvals, giving a fresh boost to Kolkata’s medical tourism.Over the past three weeks, most private hospitals in Kolkata have witnessed the biggest spurt in the arrival…
This year, none of the leading hospitals has seen dengue admissions and no death has been reported so far Kolkata: While multiple viral infections have seen long and severe spurt in Kolkata over the last one month, dengue cases are yet to be reported.A possible reason behind this could be the predominance of other viruses…
Author Taslima Nasrin visits the iconic Indian Coffee House amid heavy police protection. pic by Biplab Bhattacharjee Author Taslima Nasrin visits the iconic Indian Coffee House amid heavy police protection. pic by Biplab Bhattacharjee Author Taslima Nasrin visits the iconic Indian Coffee House amid heavy police protection. pic by Biplab Bhattacharjee Author Taslima Nasrin visits…
A policeman speaks to Aditya Singh’s grandmother at their Howrah home Howrah: Posing as a committed BJP supporter, Aditya Singh, a second-year BCom student at Umesh Chandra College in Kolkata and an alleged associate of suspected militant Hamim Mondal, had reportedly been gathering information on minister of state Umesh Rai and his family, according to…
Malda: In an ongoing probe into cough syrup smuggling, police recovered Rs 2.4 crore in cash, 20 gms of gold and 9,000 bottles of a banned drug worth nearly Rs 90 lakh from a trader’s rented room in Malda late on Sunday.While three accused arrested a month ago were present during the operation, carried out…
Jalpaiguri: BJP supporters allegedly hurled eggs at their own party functionaries, including a mandal president, during a clash over attempts to bring Trinamool panchayat members to the Chhoto Salbari gram panchayat office in Cooch Behar’s Sitalkuchi on Monday evening.The office had remained largely non-functional after the BJP came to govt in the state. Party seniors,…
Three people were arrested following the raid at a flat in Mangalbari area of Malda district, officials said. KOLKATA: Around Rs 2.5 crore in cash, thousands of bottles of banned cough syrup and a small quantity of gold were seized during an overnight raid in West Bengal’s Malda district as part of a probe into…
