Kolkata: Bengal BJP has launched back-to-back workshops to train party workers ahead of counting day on May 4, with Union home minister Amit Shah calling state netas to assess preparedness and Bengal BJP minder Sunil Bansal holding meetings with specialised functional units on Thursday.Bansal, widely credited with building the party’s present organisational network, told workers…
Kolkata: An NIA court in Kolkata on Thursday rejected the bail pleas of 52 accused in Malda’s Mothabari case and ordered that all of them, including main accused Mofakkarul Islam, remain in judicial custody till May 13.The case relates to the alleged confinement and harassment of officials engaged in Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of poll…
Kolkata: Flag any academic or non-academic issue within 48 hours through a special email response window so that an action plan can be created within seven days to address the problem as much as possible: this was the advice from IIT Kharagpur for students after many of them pointed at grievances against faculty members at…
Kolkata: Writing to-the-point answers and becoming accustomed to application-based, critical-thinking questions reflected in ICSE results, highlighted several school heads after CISCE declared its class 10 boards results on Thursday. This year, the pass percentage stood at 99.18, a 0.04% rise from last year’s. In Bengal, 44,410 students took the exam, out of whom 43,897 passed….
Kolkata: Poverty to severe health issues, no challenge could deter these students who overcame all hurdles to score well in ICSE and ISC exams, turning their results into tales of grit and determination.Uday Vir Yaduka of DPS Newtown School, who scored 86.2% in ISC, with 93 in physics and 97 in computer science, has spasticity…
Kolkata: Sixty uniformed men, drawn from CAPF and Kolkata Police, are doing the rounds of each of the 22 strong rooms in Kolkata across the seven counting centres in the city. In all, the city’s strong rooms will see 1,500 CAPF and Kolkata Police personnel on rounds in each shift. Three sections, or one platoon,…
Kolkata: The Society for the Preservation of Satyajit Ray Archives will screen the restored print of ‘Pratidwandi’ at Nandan on May 1, a day before the maestro’s birth anniversary. The cult film, restored in 4K by the National Film Archive of India, was showcased in the Cannes Classics section in 2022. The screening, courtesy producer…
Kolkata: Metro will operate 244 services (122 Up + 122 Dn) instead of the usual 272 services on Blue Line on May Day on Friday. Timings of the first and last services of all lines will remain unchanged.Green Line will run 204 services (102 Up + 102 Down) instead of 228. Yellow Line will run…
Kolkata: A series of nor’westers through Wednesday night gave the city its second wettest April day in around 15 years. While the Met office did not rule out a few more spells of thundershower, albeit of less intensity, in the next few days, a special IMD bulletin issued an orange alert for thunderstorm in the…
Kolkata: Thunderstorms that raged across south and north Bengal on Wednesday evening forced the diversion of a domestic flight to an international airport. This was an unusual move as domestic flights were usually diverted to another Indian airport in an emergency.Air India Express flight IX 1179 from Delhi to Bagdogra took off from Delhi with…
