Bengal CM prays at Kalighat temple, has fish-basanti pulao prasad Kolkata: Chief minister Suvendu Adhikari visited Kalighat temple on the occasion of Kaushiki Amavasya on Thursday evening and had the prasad – comprising fried fish, fish head and basanti pulao (yellow rice) – after praying to Goddess Kali.The visit to the temple on the auspicious…
The area was then a low-lying expanse of saltwater lakes, marshes and fishing grounds. The West Bengal government began pumping material dredged from the Hooghly into the Salt Water Lakes east of Kolkata to create land for a new township. The area was then a low-lying expanse of saltwater lakes, marshes and fishing grounds, while…
Kolkata: Controversy erupted over allegations that BJP’s North Dum Dum Yuva Morcha president Debjit Dutta has threatened a businessman for allegedly refusing to pay Rs 30,000 sought for a party training camp. A video purportedly related to the incident has already gone viral on social media. TOI, however, couldn’t verify the authenticity of the video.The…
Kolkata: The state govt has sanctioned Rs 38.8 crore to pay dues to booth-level officers (BLOs) who worked in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. The allocation comes about four months after the assembly election results were declared.The disbursement of the remuneration would start soon through district election officers in 22 districts. The…
Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Thursday said that a bank cannot freeze accounts merely on allegations that they are being used to receive, move and launder illegally acquired money — known as “mule accounts” in banking parlance — without filing a ‘Suspicious Transaction Report’ (STR). Banks file STRs with Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU).HC also directed…
Rain in Kolkata on Thursday photo by Sayantan Chakraborty Kolkata: Another low-pressure area formed over Bay of Bengal triggered scattered rain in the city on Thursday. The Met office, however, has allayed the fear of this system bringing widespread rain to Kolkata. While the city is likely to continue to get light to moderate rain,…
A still from ‘Nadharer Bhela’ Pradipta Bhattacharya and Amit Saha at the 1st International Film Festival of Jammu Kashmir A still from ‘Nadharer Bhela’ Pradipta Bhattacharya and Amit Saha at the 1st International Film Festival of Jammu Kashmir A still from ‘Nadharer Bhela’ Kolkata: Following decades of militancy that forced most local cinemas to close…
Kolkata: Pests on the kitchen floor and wrong packaging or unlabelled food can’t be grounds to close down a restaurant, National Restaurants’ Association of India (NRAI) — an umbrella organisation of 5 lakh restaurants, eateries and brand chains around India — has pointed out to state govt. While these are unacceptable, an unclean kitchen does…
Kolkata: Bengal BJP has sent a show-cause notice to South 24 Parganas organisational district president Soma Ghosh on the grounds of “indiscipline”, seeking an explanation from her within seven days. The notice was issued on Wednesday by Pratap Banerjee, chairman of the party’s disciplinary committee.In the letter, Banerjee mentioned a decision taken by Ghosh bypassing…
Complaints after Bageshwar Baba’s remarks Kolkata: Breaking his silence on the controversy around Dhirendra Krishna Garg alias Bageshwar Baba and the consequent protests across the state, chief minister Suvendu Adhikari on Thursday directed Kolkata Police commissioner Ajay Nand to identify and arrest those who burnt the godman’s photographs outside Bhowanipore Police Station.“I saw a number…
