The Buxa tigress has been spotted in Assam’s Raimona Kolkata: The tigress recently released in north Bengal’s Buxa Tiger Reserve has been spotted roaming in a village in the western range of Assam’s Raimona National Park. The tigress, brought from Bihar’s Valmiki Tiger Reserve, killed a domestic pig in Rajendrapur village on Sunday night, said…
KOLKATA: A corporate social responsibility programme has strengthened independent mobility for persons with disabilities in West Bengal by providing personalised mobility devices to 60 wheelchair users across Kolkata and Siliguri. The Kolkata phase saw 32 beneficiaries receive customised assistive devices from Mobis India Foundation, the CSR arm of Hyundai Mobis in India, following support extended…
Sahabuddin’s parents Alamgir Seikh and Kohinoor Bibi Behrampore/Kolkata: Kohinoor Bibi has been worried sick ever since news of two Bangladeshi nationals being executed in Saudi Arabia reached her in Balarampur village, Murshidabad. Her son, 29-year-old Sahabuddin Sheikh, has been languishing in a prison in Mecca for the past three years and four months over a…
Bengal CM Suvendu Adhikari Kolkata: Chief minister Suvendu Adhikari on Monday urged BJP workers to give him all 30 seats of Haldia municipality in the upcoming civic polls and ensure that former CM Mamata Banerjee returns empty-handed.Addressing party workers at the foundation-laying ceremony for a new BJP office in Tamluk, Adhikari called on workers at…
Police personnel conduct a route march along the Akhara route on Monday Raniganj: After a gap of eight years, Raniganj’s Mahavir Jhanda Akhara procession returned to its traditional route in West Burdwan on Monday.The procession had been diverted after communal violence during Ram Navami celebrations in 2018. This year, the administration has granted permission for…
Kolkata: A factional feud erupted in BJP’s Barrackpore unit on Monday with party MLA Kaustav Bagchi threatening self-immolation if former Trinamool functionaries Uttam Das and Prashanta Chowdhury were inducted into the saffron camp.Bagchi attacked party colleague and state transport minister Arjun Singh, accusing him of trying to bring the two former civic body chairmen into…
An 18-year-old boy, along with his father and friend, faced a shocking assault in Kolkata after he was caught kissing his underage girlfriend KOLKATA: An 18-year-old youth, his father and his 19-year-old friend were allegedly severely assaulted, threatened at gunpoint and forced to parade naked for more than 50 metres through a congested street in…
For over a month, trucks laden with raw petroleum coke have been trapped at the Assam-Bengal border, hindering interstate trade KOLKATA: An official of an Indian Oil Corporation Ltd refinery in Assam has listed the trucks that held up at the Assam-Bengal border with consignments despatched from its refineries for over a month. The reason…
Kolkata: The online single-click permission system, Sahaj, a platform to apply for puja permissions, this time for Kali Puja, will be launched on Monday, a day after Lakshmi Puja.While last year, the portal was opened on the day of Lakhsmi Puja, an official said the day’s delay could be due to firming up of additional…
Kolkata: To avoid a Chorbagan-like incident, transport minister Arjun Singh has instructed Naihati’s Boro Maa temple, which attracts a huge crowd on Kali Puja, not to set up a ‘VIP’ gate. Singh, who visited the Boro Maa temple and the immersion ghat in Naihati on Sunday morning, said barricades would be set up in advance…
