KOLKATA: Bengal’s new BJP govt has slashed a two-day holiday for Eid-ud-Zoha or Bakrid announced by the previous TMC administration to one day. In a notification issued Saturday, the BJP govt announced the Bakrid holiday would be observed on May 28. Earlier, the official holiday calendar announced at the beginning of the year by the…
Kolkata: Four bikers were injured in two separate accidents in the city between Friday night and Saturday morning. All of them wore helmets and escaped fatal injuries. Rajesh Jindal (55) of Golabari in Howrah was hit by a mini truck near Rabindra Sadan around 6.30 am on Saturday and is still admitted at SSKM hospital….
Bengal CM Suvendu Adhikari KOLKATA: Chief minister Suvendu Adhikari on Saturday announced the rollout of Centre’s flagship health insurance scheme Ayushman Bharat in Bengal from July with more than 6 crore residents who were previously enrolled in the state’s Swasthya Sathi programme within its ambit. Enrolment under Ayushman Bharat has already begun and beneficiaries will…
Kolkata: An allegedly illegal car rental kiosk, operating outside the Kolkata airport for years under the label of ‘Prepaid Cab-City & Outstation’, was finally headed for a shutdown after the Trinamool-controlled union, which ran it, agreed to vacate the premises. The move came within three weeks of the change in govt.Airport officials declared the outlet…
KOLKATA: Cops on Saturday recovered the body of South Dum Dum Municipality Trinamool councillor Sanjay Das (49) from his home, with preliminary probe pointing to suicide.It was not immediately known whether the death was in any way linked to the ongoing probes into civic corruption and extortion allegations and the arrests of several Trinamool councillors…
Kolkata: A Trinamool party office, which was allegedly painted saffron after the BJP’s win in the Assembly election, was demolished with a payloader on Debendra Chandra Dey Street near Tangra on Saturday. The demolition came after the owner of the land reportedly told a BJP functionary that Trinamool had forcibly set up the office on…
Kolkata: With the new state health department deciding to investigate the birth certificates issued during SIR exercise, officials at the KMC birth certificate wing are working overtime to scrutinise all the documents that applicants had submitted to obtain birth certificates they submitted as proof. The civic authorities have temporarily suspended the chatbot service, through which…
Kolkata: The state govt has dissolved the Contai Municipality board to end a prolonged administrative stalemate and ensure uninterrupted civic services. Contai SDO Pratik Ashok Dumal has been appointed administrator until a new board is formed. The notification reached his office on Friday. Source link
Kolkata: CM Suvendu Adhikari on Saturday announced four new medical colleges for Bengal, taking the state’s total to around 30. The new colleges will come up in Alipurduar, Kalimpong, South Dinajpur and West Burdwan. Bengal currently has 26 state-run medical colleges, five of them in Kolkata.Adhikari also said the proposed AIIMS for north Bengal would…
Nandigram: Pabitra Kar, the Trinamool candidate from Nandigram who had switched from BJP to contest against Suvendu Adhikari, has announced his exit from active politics following his defeat in the assembly elections.Kar and his wife, Shiuli Kar, on Friday submitted their resignations from local body posts to the Nandigram Block II BDO, citing ill health….
