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…
Free School Street a day after a fire ravaged a building where 9 people died… Sukhomoy Sen Kolkata: A 71-year-old retired banker from Bangladesh had a narrow escape from the Shikha Inn fire after the regular at the lodge opted to stay at another hotel during his latest Kolkata visit.Md Nurul Islam Khan, a resident…
Kolkata: The school education department has served a show-cause notice to the private school near Ruby Hospital where a class 3 student was bitten by a snake. The notice highlights serious lapses in handling the incident and questions why the school’s no-objection certificate (NOC), granted by the state, should not be revoked. The school has…
Kolkata: The two remaining bodies from Shikha Inn has been identified as those of S M Alimuzzaman (48) and Rebati Sarkar (35), both residents of Satkhira district in Bangladesh, who had come to India for medical check-up.According to officials at the Kolkata Police Morgue, the identities were established late on Wednesday.Of the nine people killed…
Kolkata: A 51-year-old patient who went missing from RG Kar Medical College and Hospital shortly after being admitted on Aug 6 was found dead 10 days later at the Kolkata Police morgue, triggering allegations of severe negligence and lack of coordination between police stations and state-run medical facilities.Bimal Ghosh from Baranagar went missing from the…
The Nehru Children’s Museum in Kolkata Kolkata: Nehru Children’s Museum will resume its dance, painting and recitation classes at the ground floor, starting from Saturday after the state govt pledged support to upgrade fire safety. The museum had decided to shut its classes, keeping in mind the safety of the students. In a meeting on…
Wreaths on the pavement outside the building on Free School Street where a fire claimed nine lives on Wednesday Kolkata: A day after a fire at a Free School Street lodge killed nine boarders, including seven Bangladeshi nationals, Kolkata Municipal Corporation on Thursday raided several hotels and guest houses in the area and closed down…
Kolkata: Waves of violence and vandalism rocked Jadavpur University from late evening on Wednesday as right-wing supporters entered the campus and went on a rampage for nearly three hours past midnight and then did a repeat on Thursday afternoon outside the campus.The attackers broke into the university through Gate No. 4 on Wednesday night and…
Kolkata: On World Mosquito Day, observed on Thursday, virologists and infectious diseases experts warned against mosquito-borne diseases. According to them, these diseases have claimed over 400 lives in the state in the last decade. Kolkata accounted for 20%-30% of the casualties. Over a lakh were infected by dengue, malaria and chikungunya during the period in…
