Former Kolkata mayor Firhad Hakim Kolkata: Fifty-one former Trinamool councillors met at a hotel in east Kolkata on Saturday to chalk out their future strategy amid mounting pressure on former mayor Firhad Hakim following the Taratala building collapse.Hakim skipped the meeting, which was chaired by MLAs Jawed Khan and Sandipan Saha.Addressing the gathering, Saha said,…
Kolkata: Trinamool Congress on Saturday wrote to Kolkata Police seeking permission for its July 21 Martyrs’ Day programme at Esplanade, prompting the Ritabrata Banerjee camp to also claim that they too intend to hold their July 21 rally at the same venue.Speaking to reporters after a party meeting at Kalighat, TMC MP Mahua Moitra said:…
Kolkata: CM Suvendu Adhikari on Saturday said “justice for Tamanna Khatun is our priority” and praised the swift police action that led to the arrest of 12 persons in the case in just three days.The class 4 student was killed in a crude bomb blast at Nadia’s Kaliganj during a Trinamool victory procession after its…
CM Suvendu Adhikari at slain BJP worker Prasanta Dey’s residence on Saturday Howrah: CM Suvendu Adhikari on Saturday visited the residence of slain BJP worker Prasanta Dey in Howrah’s Bagnan and assured the bereaved family that police were working to solve the case at the earliest. Adhikari also assured that one family member would get…
Kolkata: After 72 hours of digging through concrete and mangled steel to retrieve trapped labourers at the collapsed Taratala warehouse, focus shifted from search-and-rescue to investigation on Saturday.The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) withdrew from the site, and the Army scaled down its operation even as investigators prepared to take control of the site.“We were…
Kolkata: A 39-year-old resident of Hooghly’s Rishra allegedly killed his 31-year-old wife at their rented home on Saturday morning, travelled 20km to Kolkata, and died by suicide hours later by jumping in front of a metro train at Belgachhia station around 3pm. The suicide disrupted services on the Blue Line for 50 minutes.Late on Friday,…
Kolkata: Nearly a year after Rs 56 lakh was siphoned off from Trinamool MP Kalyan Banerjee’s bank account, Kolkata Police’s cybercrime wing has arrested the alleged mastermind from Assam. Accused Mukuleswar Reza was arrested from Rangapaniand produced before a court on Saturday. The fraud came to light in Nov 2025. The account, opened at a…
Ramprasad Chowdhury, who was injured construction workers of the Taratala warehouse collapse in Kolkata at SSKM hospital. Kolkata: For nearly five agonising hours, 22-year-old Ramprasad Chowdhury lay trapped under tonnes of concrete and steel, fearing each moment could be his last.A massive reinforced concrete beam fell on his right leg and crushed it. But rescuers…
Kolkata: The high level inquiry committee set up by the state govt is finalising a standard operating procedure based on which audit of high-rises and commercial buildings in 12 civic body areas, including Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC), will be conducted.Officials said the audit will be conducted according to a two-layer system. The first layer will…
Kolkata: A new wasp (‘bolta’) species discovered in Rajarhat by a team of Kalyani University and Cairo University scientists and research scholars has been named after award-winning cartoonist and creator of ‘Batul’ and ‘Nonte-Phonte’, Narayan Debnath.The new species of parasitoid wasp, Tetrastichus narayandebnathi, is associated with a tortoise beetle. A parasitoid is an organism that…
