Kolkata: The state higher education department has begun restructuring college governing bodies across the state-aided colleges by appointing local BJP MPs and MLAs as the presidents.The initiative follows an official directive issued on Saturday and covers an initial phase of 247 state-aided colleges. State higher education minister Jagannath Chattopadhyay said: “Graduate MPs and MLAs have…
Security check at a Jadavpur University gate on Saturday …..Debobrata Shome Kolkata: Jadavpur University plans to appoint additional ex-servicemen on the campus and equip them with body cameras in a bid to beef up their security arrangements after the midnight violence and vandalism by a right-wing mob in the early hours of Thursday and again…
Kolkata: The festive variety of sweet and confectionery items may shrink this Durga Puja if sugar prices do not cool down. With the festive season less than two months away, the rise in sugar price has left the traders in the lurch as many of them are retreating from their plans of elaborate puja-special sweet…
Kolkata: Even as Ayushman Bharat patient count has started rising across private hospitals in Kolkata, the first high-end procedure under the scheme was performed on Saturday. A 34-year-old Kolkata resident, admitted on Friday, underwent an aortic valve replacement — an expensive, life-saving and high-end cardiac procedure — at Charnock Hospital.Patient Dipankar Singh, admitted under cardiothoracic…
Entrance to the Shreeram Arcade was freed of encroachment on Saturday Kolkata: The entrance to Shreeram Arcade at Humayun Place was freed of encroachment on Friday evening after police stepped in and launched a pushback drive to end a tense stand-off between shopkeepers and hawkers.According to Shreeram Arcade president, Jacky Samtani, tension had been brewing…
Kolkata: Akhil Bharatiya Rashtriya Shaikshik Mahasangh (ABRSM), JU unit, has written a letter to vice-chancellor Chiranjib Bhattacharjee, raising strong objections regarding the neutrality of the investigation committee that was formed to probe the incident on Aug 19 and 20.ABRSM raised objections against the committee’s chairman, Professor Subha Shankar Sarkar, and presenting officer Abul Hasnat. They…
Kolkata: A 60-year-old woman, Meena Devi Thakur, sustained injuries after being allegedly assaulted by her domestic help, who fled with gold jewellery and cash worth lakhs from her central Kolkata residence. She is undergoing treatment at a nursing home.It had been alleged that she was held hostage by the accused, Sanjay Ghosh, on Friday afternoon….
Coffins being put in an ambulance Kolkata: Coffins containing bodies of six of the seven Bangladeshi nationals killed in the Free School Street lodge fire crossed the border and reached the neighbouring country on Saturday evening.The bodies of five victims — Babu Ahmed (37), a cosmetics trader from Savar; and four others from a same…
Tourists in search of hotels in the New Market-Marquis Street-Free School Street area Kolkata: Hundreds of tourists from Bangladesh and Nepal, as well as travellers from Assam, Nagaland and other parts of India, were left virtually homeless on Saturday, spending hours hunting for rooms after several budget hotels and guest houses in the New Market-Marquis…
Union home minister Amit Shah at the meeting in Siliguri on Saturday Kolkata: Union home minister Amit Shah on Saturday asked central and state agencies to keep the strategically sensitive Siliguri Corridor or ‘Chicken’s Neck’ free from encroachments and directed them to curb illegal immigration in the zone.Shah undertook a review of security of Siliguri…
