Kolkata: In the lanes around Hedua, where old north Kolkata houses still hold festival memories in courtyards and on terraces, Kali Puja has long meant the sight of giant handmade phanush rising into the night sky. This year, the century-old spectacle may be missing.At Bholanath Dham near Scottish Church College, the Dutta family has been…

The suspect, Rahul Soni, was intercepted on platform 7 after alighting from the Tatanagar-Howrah Janashatabdi Express Kolkata: Government Railway Police on Wednesday seized Rs 1.4 crore unaccounted cash from a passenger at Kharagpur railway station on Wednesday morning.The suspect, identified as Rahul Soni (36), a resident of GT Road in Howrah, was intercepted on platform…

BJP leaders, however, denied that the accused were party workers and claimed the incident was linked to a different dispute (AI Image) KOLKATA: An eight-month-pregnant woman delivered a stillborn baby after she was allegedly assaulted by suspected BJP workers during an attack on her husband in West Bengal’s Cooch Behar district, police said on Saturday.Police…

Kolkata: A day after CM Suvendu Adhikari set a Dec 31 deadline for granting citizenship under the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) to 2.5 lakh Matua and refugee applicants, Nabanna on Monday deployed 12 IAS probationers to North 24 Parganas and Nadia to expedite the process.The personnel and administrative reforms department issued an order assigning the…