Kolkata: The city’s retail leasing touched a quarterly record high in Q3, with volumes reaching 1 lakh sq ft. This marked more than a twofold rise on a quarterly basis and a 69% rise compared with the same period last year. The previous high was recorded before the pandemic, in 2020.A study released by real…
Kolkata: Private hospitals in Kolkata are wary of the state plan of referral of emergency patients from govt hospitals, which, they apprehend, could lead to a bed scarcity and non-payment of bills. While emergency patients were never refused, the extra load from govt hospitals could put a strain on their arrangements and resources, some feared.A…
Kolkata: The Jadavpur University estate section on Wednesday started an audit of its staff quarters following complaints that a few quarters, allocated to staffers, are being rented to outsiders. There have also been complaints about allotment irregularities, such as more than one accommodation being allotted to one person.“The estate section is conducting the audit. The…
Kolkata: Doctors in the city turned out to be saviours for a newborn, who was diagnosed with a critical condition in the mother’s womb.At Narayana Hospital Howrah, they performed a life-saving procedure that was rare as well as challenging to let the infant see the light of the world.The foetus was suffering from a medical…
Kolkata: Srishti Garg, a 17th-batch student of SRFTI, brought laurels to the film school as she won a special jury mention for her film, ‘Lunar Birds’, at the 18th International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala (IDSFFK) on Wednesday. The film is inspired by the ‘Reclaim the Night’ movement.Made with a crew, comprising Sneha…
Kolkata: In a first-of-its-kind surgery performed in eastern India recently, doctors removed a blood clot (thrombus) that had travelled from a tumour in the uterus to the heart of a 38-year-old woman from North 24 Parganas. The surgery was undertaken at a city hospital.The woman was suffering from a rare condition, termed ‘uterine sarcoma extending…
The mosque on the Kolkata airport premises Kolkata: A Calcutta High Court judge cited Wednesday’s stabbing of a flydubai pilot by his co-pilot while hearing a case on Thursday on denial of “regulated access” to Bankra mosque, located near the runway on the Kolkata airport premises.Justice Krishna Rao made the reference after additional solicitor general…
Kolkata: Congress veteran Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Thursday made a direct pitch to Mamata Banerjee to rejoin Congress along with her MLAs and MPs, saying there would be no objection to her leading the party’s Bengal unit.Chowdhury also appealed to the Congress high command to facilitate her return and said Banerjee should, as a gesture…
Kolkata: More than 12,000 in Rejinagar and over 6,000 in Nandigram: these are not victory margins of winning candidates in the 2026 assembly polls but the number of SIR appeals pending before tribunals from the two seats before the Oct 6 bypolls, the first since this summer’s election brought BJP to office.Only 93 appeals —…
Kolkata: A record label and recording studio run by singer and former state minister Indranil Sen paid Rs 30 lakh to former Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee, Enforcement Directorate alleged on Thursday.The ED — now questioning Sen as part of its probe into a Rs 60 crore Durga Puja pass scam — said the money went…
