Kolkata: Jadavpur University (JU) has managed to attract students, who are among the top-50 WBJEE rank-holders under the general category, for admissions into some of its BTech engineering programmes. Last year, none of the students, who ranked in the top 50 had opted for any engineering department at JU. The best WBJEE-ranked among the JU…

Kolkata: Election Commission of India (ECI) is likely to tweak its portal to allow Special Intensive Revision (SIR) tribunal judges to consider documents beyond the 13 currently being accepted by EC’s portal and let them record their observations while disposing of appeals, tribunal sources said.Judges had earlier contended that they should be free to consider…

The tigress’s last known location was near National Highway 31, around 5-6km from Raimona National Park Kolkata: A GPS-collared tigress released in north Bengal’s Buxa Tiger Reserve, which later moved into villages near Assam’s Raimona National Park, has gone untraceable after its radio collar stopped transmitting signals in the early hours of Thursday, prompting a…

One of the hotels that reopened after two months since the fire Kolkata: Calcutta High Court set aside Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) closure notices to six more lodgings in Free School Street area calling the ‘abrupt’ closure as ‘colourable exercise of power’ and noted the missing municipal commissioner signature in these notices.The businesses included Travelodge,…