Kolkata: Bidhannagar cyber crime police have arrested three people in connection with two separate investment fraud cases involving a total of nearly Rs 90 lakh, officials said on Saturday.Two of the accused were arrested in a case involving a Baguiati resident who was allegedly duped of Rs 58.5 lakh, while the third was held for…
Kolkata: Bengal’s newly elected BJP govt is planning to hold its first industry conclave in the next three to four months, possibly in Sept, according to officials, who said the govt was focused on projects that can be implemented quickly following announcements.“We plan to hold an industry conclave before or soon after Durga Puja. The…
Kolkata: Temperature fluctuations triggered by rains since last Thursday have unleashed the first spate of monsoon viruses. Hundreds across Kolkata have been laid low with fever, severe cough and body ache since last week. With maximum temperature plunging sharply from 35.5°C last Thursday to 29°C on Friday, the conditions started turning ideal for viruses to…
Kolkata: CBSE-affiliated schools in and around the city that offer foreign languages to the students heaved a sigh of relief after a clarification on the circular on its foreign language policy was issued.The Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Thursday clarified that those students in classes 7, 8 and 9, who have been already studying…
Kolkata: A 39-year-old central government employee, Emon Roy, died after falling from the balcony-cum-refuge area of a commercial building in DJ Block, Salt Lake, on Friday evening.Police said Roy, a resident of Graham Road in Regent Park, fell from the balcony of her workplace around 5 pm. She was taken to Bidhannagar Sub-Divisional Hospital, where…
Empty stalls on the pavement outside FD Block park in Salt Lake after the civic administration asked vendors to shift out Kolkata: Illegal stalls, occupying road space and pavements in Salt Lake, have started moving out after instructions from the civic administration. So far, encroachments had reportedly been cleared of two stretches, one of them…
Encroachments along Kestopur canal Kolkata: The state govt would prepare an SOP to clear encroachments from both sides of an 8-km-long stretch of the Kestopur canal, Bidhannagar MLA Sharadwat Mukherjee said after a meeting at Poura Bhavan on Thursday.Pointing out that over 70% of the stretch was encroached upon, Mukherjee said, “An SOP on how…
Kolkata: Baguiati PS cops on Thursday arrested Bikash Naskar, husband of former Trinamool BMC councillor Purnima Naskar, on the charges of extortion and assault. Naskar became the sixth political representative from the BMC area to be arrested over the past one-and-a-half months.The complaint was lodged recently though the incident dates back to 2020.So far, 10…
Kolkata: A criminal case has been registered against former councillor Shantiranjan Kundu, based on a complaint by a homemaker, over five years after an alleged attack on her. The woman alleged post-poll violence, physical assault and outrage of modesty by Kundu and his aides on May 3, 2021, a day after the Assembly election results…
The Taki Municipality has issued demolition notices to two multi-storey guest houses, Taki City Guest House and Disha Riverside Hotel, built illegally on the banks of the Ichhamati, directing the facilities to complying with a directive from the Calcutta High Court. The civic body has set July 1 as the deadline for demolition. The HC…
