Bireswar Mitra being produced in court Kolkata: The owner of the fire-ravaged Free School Street hotel on Sunday told police that he had shelled out Rs 1 lakh-Rs 1.5 lakh to touts and local syndicates to get neccessary permission to run the hotel.Bireswar Mitra (46), the owner of Shikha Inn, had converted a two BHK…
Kolkata: Police have questioned 16 persons, including Sealdah court public prosecutor Dilip Kumar Ram, over allegedly locking the Entally PS during a protest in the wee hours of Independence Day.Those questioned include Ram’s brother Sudeep Ram and several BJP workers. “We have sent them notices and asked them to join the probe. We have collected…
32-year-old Anita Khatun allegedly died by suicide on Saturday Malda: A day after 32-year-old Anita Khatun allegedly died by suicide at her home in Malda’s Bachahar village, police arrested her husband Inzamamul Haque on Sunday following a complaint by her father, Anisur Alam, who alleged his daughter had faced physical and mental abuse from her…
JU Campus…..Debobrata Shome Kolkata: The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) on Sunday demanded an impartial inquiry by the state higher education dept into the JU vandalism. They also demanded an NIA probe into alleged anti-national activities on the campus.Following a press meet, they questioned administrative lapses concerning campus safety, political influence, and the cancellation of…
Kolkata: Bengal BJP president Samik Bhattacharya on Sunday said the party was not averse to inducting members but sounded a word of caution against those who suddenly became overenthusiastic about the saffron party’s ideology following the assembly poll verdict.BJP does not need any ally in Bengal and will fight the forthcoming municipal polls alone, he…
JU Campus…..Debobrata Shome Kolkata: Discussion on security lapses, suspension of ‘insiders’ who assisted the ‘outsiders’ to enter and attack Jadavpur University (JU) in the early hours on Thursday till the probe is complete, protecting autonomy and resisting saffronisation will be some of the demands from students and teachers that will be placed at the stakeholders’…
CCTV footage shows ABVP members and outsiders entering the university premises KOLKATA: More than 24 hours after Jadavpur University vice-chancellor Chiranjib Bhattacharjee filed an FIR against “unknown outsiders/persons” for the violence and vandalism on campus, police on Saturday claimed they have identified some of those involved in the disturbance.They are, however, yet to make any…
CCTV footage showed a former vice-chancellor near the gate as a mob entered the campus KOLKATA: Students and faculty members at Jadavpur University (JU) pointed fingers at their ‘own’ who helped ‘outsiders’ to enter the campus and unleash violence and vandalism in the early hours of Thursday and demanded to bring them under the investigation…
Kolkata: Teachers of Presidency University issued a statement on Saturday, expressing their solidarity with Jadavpur University students and faculty over ABVP’s storming of the campus on Thursday.“As members of Presidency University, we are shocked and dismayed by the recent destruction of the institutional emblem of Jadavpur University, and the attack on the institution by outsiders,”…
Kids in Entally got access to the park back on Saturday. photo by Sayantan Chakraborty Kolkata: KMC officials on Saturday broke open the lock on the main gate of Padmapukur Park in Entally, restoring public access to the neighbourhood ground that had been shut since Aug 14 following a dispute between two local BJP factions…
