Kolkata: A day after the emblem of Jadavpur University was vandalised by ABVP supporters while they were attempting to storm the campus by scaling gate 4, the university repaired and restored it with vice-chancellor Chiranjib Bhattacharjee re-installing it. But scars of vandalism were still visible on the campus with torn flexes and half-erased graffiti on…
The school reopened on Friday after remaining shut on Wednesday and Thursday Kolkata: The class 3 student who had been bitten by a snake in the school washroom has been back home from the hospital for a day but is yet to overcome the trauma. Speaking to TOI, her mother said, “She is absolutely fine…
Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Friday held that teachers do not have to work beyond school hours for census duty but those deputed for census duty cannot deny performing the work assigned to them and will be treated as “on-duty”.The judgment came in the backdrop of the Bengal govt informing the court that it has…
Kolkata: Sugar has turned dramatically dear just as Bengal is about to enter its peak festival season, with retail prices in Kolkata shooting up from around Rs 48 a kg a fortnight ago to Rs 70 now — a rise of nearly 46% within two weeks. While a section of the industry has blamed low…
Durga Puja security check Kolkata: Lalbazar has instructed all police stations under Kolkata Police to initiate an advance security audit for this year’s Durga Puja, mandating field officers to immediately identify controversial pandal themes and monitor internal committee rivalries that could possibly trigger law-and-order disruptions. Officers said this is probably the first time that cops…
Kolkata: Mehebub Zahedi (24) from Malda’s Chanchal has cleared NEET UG 2026 and qualified for Bachelor of Dental Surgery, but the lack of a domicile certificate is obstructing her admission to a Chhattisgarh college. She does not have a domicile certificate since her name was deleted in the SIR. Calcutta High Court’s single judge Justice…
The Nandalal Bose-designed JU emblem that was damaged by ABVP workers was repaired and reinstalled on Friday Kolkata: Thirty-seven hours after unprecedented violence rocked Jadavpur University, vice-chancellor Chiranjib Bhattacharjee on Friday filed a complaint against “unknown outsiders/persons” who “unauthorisedly entered the campus” around 12.37 am on Thursday and indulged in vandalism and destruction of property.Based…
Free School Street Lodge Fire Aftermath Kolkata: At least 52 hotels in central Kolkata and several more in clusters elsewhere in the city were forced to down shutters, citing non-compliance of fire safety measures as the crackdown on hotels in the wake of the nine deaths in the fire at a Free School Street hotel…
Guests are forced to vacate their rooms immediately as hotels shut Kolkata: As one budget hotel after another was served closure notices and forced to down shutters on Friday, tourists — a majority of them from Bangladesh — found themselves caught in a double jeopardy: asked to vacate rooms booked weeks in advance at short…
Kolkata: At the entrance to the sealed five-storey building at 15G, Mirza Ghalib Street, eight hoardings advertise eight different hotels and guest houses. Apart from Shikha Inn, where nine people died of asphyxiation after a fire early on Wednesday, the premises also carried signs for Hotel Taiba, Hotel Demattrie, Mariam Hotel, Hotel Royco Guest House,…
