Kolkata: Police on Wednesday evening arrested Vivek Tripathi, a local BJP Youth Morcha functionary, in connection with a multi-lakh cheating and forgery case registered against him, according to ACP (crime) Kunal Agarwal.Tripathi, who was earlier accused of assaulting workers and a manager at a sweet shop because he “disliked” the items at their Karaya outlet,…
Anxious residents who were unable to access their apartments as the fire-ravaged building has been sealed… Sukhomoy Sen Kolkata: Meera Nandwani (50) was fast asleep in her first-floor flat when frantic knocks on her door jolted her awake.A neighbour told her a fire had broken out on the floor above. Still in her nightgown, Nandwani…
The cafe inaugurated on Thursday Kolkata: ‘Rakhal Da’s cafe’ on the College Street campus of Calcutta University—a whiff of nostalgia—kicked off its second innings on Thursday. This time, it has been reopened not just to satiate the hunger pangs between lectures, but to support a social cause. Staffed by young adults with intellectual disabilities, the…
Abu Jafar, who took Shikha Inn on lease from owner Bireswar Mitrafive months ago, was sent to police custody till Sept 2 Kolkata: Abu Jafar (32), leaseholder of Shikha Inn on Free School Street, where nine people died in a fire early on Wednesday, was arrested from the Entally area by a special investigation team…
Interior of a hotel on Mirza Ghalib Street — Photo by Biplab Bhattacharjee Kolkata: An informal assessment by hotel and lodge operators in central Kolkata’s hospitality hub of Free School Street, Marquis Street and Sudder Street has indicated that nearly 90% of hotels, guest houses and lodges in the cluster may be operating without mandatory…
TTE Prashanta Nath was arrested by Bongaon GRP for allegedly harassing two dance students Kolkata: A railway travelling ticket examiner (TTE) in his early 40s was arrested from Sonarpur on Thursday morning, days after two students of a dance school accused him of subjecting them to severe harassment after they mistakenly boarded a vendor compartment…
Kolkata: Three armed robbers allegedly entered a businessman’s office on Cotton Street in the Posta area on Wednesday evening and fled after looting Rs 1.3 crore. According to sources, the accused had information of a large amount of cash being present in the office. “The accused did not wear masks. They allegedly came on bikes,…
Kolkata: The state health department has summoned the authorities of all 73 private blood banks in the state to submit a signed declaration stating they would follow all blood-safety norms set up by the National Blood Transfusion Council (NBTC) and the State BTC. The move comes in the wake of the department finding 12 private…
Bengal CM Suvendu Adhikari (file photo) Kolkata: Bengal cabinet has approved the creation of an Anti-Terrorist Squad and an Anti-Narcotics Task Force, in what officials describe as a structural overhaul of the state’s internal security apparatus to combat cross-border terrorism and drug networks.The ATS — a first of its kind in Bengal — is modelled…
State health minister Sharadwat Mukherjee visits Mongal Mondal at the hospital on Wednesday Kolkata: A 31-year-old youth, who has returned from Ludhiana, has complained that one of his kidneys was extracted without his consent at a hospital there. Mongal Mondal is admitted to Dr Bidhan Chandra Roy Multispecialty Hospital (DBCRMH) in Salt Lake, where state…
