The police camp at Gwalior Ghat that was vandalised by a mob during immersion Kolkata: Seven persons were arrested following a wave of assaults on on-duty police personnel, sexual harassment, and armed intimidation that marred Durga Puja immersion proceedings across Kolkata over the past 72 hours. Incidents were reported from Gwalior Ghat, Shib Krishna Daw…
‘Appears to be mechanical exercise of authority’ Kolkata: Around 50 hotels and guest houses in the New Market-Free School Street area reopened after court orders issued just before Durga Puja set aside KMC’s closure and trade-licence suspension notices, offering relief to establishments that had been shut since Aug.Among the 40-odd establishments that received the latest…
Kolkata: Calcutta High Court recently directed for provisional appointment and training of four successful West Bengal Police constable candidates–whose names, either own or parents, were deleted in SIR and appeal is pending, with a rider that authorities can cancel their appointments if either they or their parents are not included in the voter list after…
Kolkata: Fraudsters allegedly targeted two citizens through online impersonation schemes, collectively siphoning off over Rs 55 lakh.In the first case, a 48-year-old city resident fell prey to an elaborate stock trading scam orchestrated through social media platforms. The victim was initially lured via an Instagram advertisement into joining a WhatsApp investment group. Fraudsters posing as…
Kolkata: A passenger was reportedly kidnapped and assaulted with iron rods and bamboo sticks by an app-cab driver and his associates in eastern Kolkata on Friday afternoon over a fare dispute.The ordeal began when a resident of Panchannagram, returning home from Howrah Railway Station with three friends, booked a four-wheeler through a popular app cab…
Kolkata: Customs sleuths at Kolkata airport have seized 220 plants, weighing around 17kg from a passenger arriving from Bangkok at Kolkata airport on Saturday.The plants were seized as the passenger didn’t have mandatory import documents, including phytosanitary certificate and a valid permit, for bringing those to India. Besides, the import duty for the plants was…
Kolkata: A late-season spurt in dengue cases has taken Kolkata by surprise, with hospitals reporting a sudden surge in dengue patients. While cases remained lower than average during the early monsoon months, numbers began surging significantly from late Sept through Oct. It has now reached a seasonal peak. Over 5,500 new cases were reported in…
Kolkata: The system over Bay of Bengal, which has turned into a deep depression on Sunday, will intensify into a cyclonic storm, ‘Arnab’, on Monday.It will further intensify into a very severe cyclonic storm on Oct 27 (Tuesday) and reach the Andhra Pradesh coast on the morning of Oct 28 (Wednesday).The cyclone is likely to…
Kolkata: The travel trade community is set to place Artificial Intelligence at the centre of industry deliberations at the three-day convention of Travel Agents Association of India, which commenced on Sunday. The 69th edition of the convention coincides with the organisation’s 75th year.“This is also the first time in a decade that the convention is…
CM Suvendu Adhikari in East Midnapore’s Ramnagar Kolkata: CM Suvendu Adhikari said on Sunday he personally favoured restoring the pass-fail system in state schools, but clarified that any decision would be guided by National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 and the recommendations of Bengal’s syllabus committee.The syllabus committee, which was reconstituted after BJP came to office…
