Kolkata: Bengal’s stringent, new anti-gang law made its debut on Saturday, with the administration using it to register seven FIRs at Hare Street and Entally Police Stations as it doubled down on Friday’s protest march in the city against the Centre for repeated paper leaks and other grievances.Seventy people — none of them students —…
Kolkata received light to moderate rainfall on Thursday Kolkata: The low-pressure area that intensified into a depression grazed the city, with Kolkata escaping with spells of light to moderate rain on Thursday. With this system moving towards Jharkhand, the Met office said the city will continue to get more rain but the possibility of intense…
Road opened for cars at Mechhua market Kolkata: In a city where bulldozers have become synonymous with drive against encroachments since the new govt assumed office in May, clearance of roads and pavements at Mechhua fruit market has taken a different route.Govt has cleared decades-old encroachments from one of central Kolkata’s busiest commercial pockets without…
Last year’s anointed coconut being immersed in the Arabian Sea at Khariawada, Vasco Vasco: The annual 127th Shree Damodar Bhajani Saptah concluded on Wednesday afternoon with the immersion of last year’s anointed srifal (coconut) in the Arabian Sea at Khariawada, Vasco.Hundreds of youths in the Gopal Kala procession carried the sacred coconut in a vibrant…
(In photo:Tarun Tejpal) Cara Tejpal stands firmly by her father, Tarun Tejpal, following his rape conviction, asserting his innocence after meticulously reviewing the evidence for thirteen years PANAJI: Former Tehelka editor-in-chief Tarun Tejpal’s daughter Cara Tejpal has defended her father after the Bombay high court convicted him in a 2013 rape case, saying she had…
Vadodara/Ahmedabad: After making global headlines for slowing ships in the Persian Gulf during the Strait of Hormuz crisis, barnacles—tiny shell-covered marine creatures that cling to rocks and ship hulls—are now exposing alarming levels of microplastic pollution along Gujarat’s coastline.A study by researchers from Hemchandracharya North Gujarat University (HNGU) and the Maharaja Sayajirao University (MSU) has…
A man was killed and three others were injured after the parapet fell on a passing auto and a car Mumbai: The police chargesheet filed over the Feb 14 fatal parapet slab crash at an under-construction Metro-4 site in Mulund said a welder’s warning before the tragedy was ignored. The welder had warned that the…
Zhu is credited with supplying the tenacity to push through changes such as China’s WTO membership, which helped transform China into the world’s biggest exporter BEIJING: Former Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji, the impatient, sharp-tongued reformer who helped ignite China’s explosive economic boom by forcing wrenching change on state industry in the 1990s and leading the…
Jupiter’s auspicious transit in Pushya nakshatra on August 3, 2026, can offer relief for those who have been waiting for financial stability, career growth, family support or job security. In Vedic astrology, Jupiter is the planet of wisdom, blessings, expansion, teachers, wealth and guidance. Pushya Nakshatra is associated with slow growth, patience, duty and nourishment….
Rejinagar: Skipping Shaktipur police’s summons for questioning over his provocative public speeches, Nowda MLA and AJUP chairman Humayun Kabir attended jumma namaz at the proposed ‘Babri Masjid’ near Maradighi on Friday.Kabir followed it up with a threat to gherao Shaktipur PS and called its OC a “goon” in police uniform.On June 30, a day after…
