Kolkata: Bireshwar Mitra, owner of Shikha Inn, the lodge at Florence Mansion on Free School Street, where nine people died following a fire early on Wednesday, was arrested from the home of one of his employees in Behala on Saturday.Mitra, who owns two hotels on Free School Street and one each in Digha and Mandarmani,…
Kolkata: Two teachers — Shantanu Patra, a geography teacher at Government Model School in Jhargram, and Palash Chowdhury, headmaster of Sree Ramkrishna Sarada Vidyapith Primary School in Burdwan — have been selected from Bengal for National Teachers’ Award. They will receive the award from President Droupadi Murmu on Sept 5 in New Delhi.Patra, who has…
West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari Kolkata: CM Suvendu Adhikari on Saturday said all eligible women financially dependent on monthly assistance would be covered under the Annapurna Yojana, even if the number of beneficiaries rises by 20-30 lakh.He also announced that Sept 17, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s birthday, would be observed across Bengal as ‘Annapurna…
Union home minister Amit Shah, CM Suvendu Adhikari and others at Saturday’s meeting on Gorkhaland Siliguri: Union home minister Amit Shah on Saturday chaired a tripartite meeting with Bengal CM Suvendu Adhikari, Centre-appointed interlocutor and former deputy NSA Pankaj Kumar Singh and political parties of the region and decided that Singh would steer the move…
Former Panihati MLA Nirmal Ghosh is produced at Barrackpore court on Saturday Kolkata: Former Trinamool MLA Nirmal Ghosh was produced before a Barrackpore court on Saturday in connection with an extortion case and remanded in police custody for seven days.Ghosh is already in police custody in a Rs 1-crore lottery ticket snatching case. The 78-year-old…
Kolkata: A 32-year-old woman allegedly died by suicide at Bachahar village under Karkach gram panchayat in Malda’s Gazole on Saturday, with her family alleging that financial distress over irregular payments under the state govt’s Annapurna Yojana contributed to her death.Anita Khatun lived with her husband, Inzamamul Haque, a daily-wage worker, and their two children, aged…
Sources said a case was registered on Aug 21, 2026, against six Kanwariyas under Sections 141, 145, 146 and 174 of Railways Act for pulling the emergency chain, causing an unscheduled stoppage and obstructing railway staff from doing their duty Kulti: A group of Kanwariyas travelling on 17008 Down Darbhanga-Charlapalli Express allegedly stopped the train…
Agartala: The Tripura High Court held that Child Care Leave (CCL) for female govt employees was not an unconditional legal right, but authorities had to genuinely assess the necessity behind each request and not reject it without valid reasons.Justice Biswajit Palit directed the state to grant 365 days’ CCL to Tapasi Roy, a PG mathematics…
Suvendu Adhikari, the CM of West Bengal, has made a strong statement insisting that singing ‘Vande Mataram’ should be a mandate for all residents KOLKATA: West Bengal chief minister Suvendu Adhikari on Saturday said there would be “no compromise” on nationalism and patriotism in the state, asserting that anyone living in West Bengal must sing…
TC dispute at West Bengal school escalates into alleged assault on staffer KOLKATA: A scuffle broke out between a school student and a female non-teaching staff member over the issuance of a transfer certificate (TC) at Jagdala High School in Bamangola, Malda.The staff member, who joined the school a year and a half ago, said…
