Agartala: Police arrested three men on suspicion of extorting money from a motorist and assaulting an on-duty woman police sub-inspector near a cafeteria in Baramura hill range in Teliamura, Khowai district.Police identified the accused as Druba Saha (21), Sudip Chakraborty (25) and Uttam Deb (28), all residents of Shantinagar in Teliamura police station area. They…
Kolkata: Saroj Poddar Group and Keventer Group have joined hands to launch a Rs 400 crore Category II real estate debt alternative investment fund (AIF) — the first such fund from eastern India.Poddar Keventer Capital Advisors, the investment management platform backed by both groups, targets a corpus of Rs 400 crore, expandable to Rs 600…
Touring with his New York Cosmos team, Pele played a match against Mohun Bagan in Kolkata in 1977 From Argentine greats Diego Maradona and Lionel Messi to Germany’s Oliver Kahn, Kolkata has hosted some of football’s greatest icons down the years. Yet, the city holds a special place for Brazil, a love affair that began…
Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Thursday transferred the investigation of the RG Kar rape-murder victim’s cremation dispute from the Khardah PS cops to CBI, after cautioning the Khardah PS inspector-in-charge and case investigating officer for stepping into an ongoing HC-monitored CBI special investigation team (SIT) probe.The HC asked the officers, who were told to…
Kolkata: Nine months after Lionel Messi’s fleeting appearance at the Salt Lake stadium ended in a crowd-control nightmare, police are leaving little to chance as the venue prepares for its first international football event since the fiasco — this time with three layers of frisking, nearly 2,000 police personnel, block-wise security strengthened several-fold and a…
Roads in Salt Lake went under water for a brief period on Thursday. photo by Mayukh Sengupta Kolkata: After four days of mostly clear and sunny skies, intense rain pounded parts of the city on Thursday. Met officials have not ruled out such localised parting showers before the monsoon bids adieu by the second week…
Kolkata: KMC should have heard out New Market’s Hotel Emirates before ordering its closure on Aug 31, Calcutta High Court observed, setting aside KMC order suspending the hotel’s trade licence, calling it “colourable exercise of power and violative of principles of natural justice and fair play.”The hotel was among nearly 1,000 hotels, guest houses, lodges…
Kolkata: Calcutta High Court will hear the public interest litigation (PIL) clubbing multiple cases of egg pelting on individuals or public figures on Nov 27.Chief Justice Ravindra Vithalrao Ghuge on Sept 23 directed the registry to “search out” petitions involving the same cause taken up and ordered them to be listed along with the PIL….
Calcutta High Court has rejected a woman’s request concerning her husband’s potential deportation over absent identification documents KOLKATA: Calcutta HC Thursday dismissed the plea of a Murshidabad woman seeking to restrain authorities from deporting her husband whose name was allegedly deleted in SIR. “Prove that you (the husband) are an Indian,” the HC said, adding…
Pacemaker under health schemes Kolkata: Within one and a half months of Ayushman Bharat PM-JAY (ABPMJAY) roll-out in Bengal, pacemaker surgery under the health scheme has hit a roadblock, with most private hospitals asking for a revised rate for the device and procedure.Cardiologists across various private hospitals in Kolkata have approached the state health department…
