Florence Mansion on Free School Street Kolkata: Florence Mansion at 15G, Mirza Ghalib Street used to be a residential building with 24-25 flats, many of them occupied by Sindhis. Over the years, as residents sold off their properties amid the commercialisation of the neighbourhood, the new owners made a series of changes and the building…
Kolkata: The battle on the Jadavpur University (JU) campus on Thursday was fought on several fronts — including over a political emblem and the university’s own emblem, designed by one of the pioneers of modern Indian art — Nandalal Bose.On Thursday afternoon, when ABVP supporters climbed atop gate 4 to enter the campus and tried…
Kolkata: Sixty security personnel operational in three shifts, including 15 at night, stay on guard on the sprawling 58-acre Jadavpur University campus protecting around 15,000 students, teachers and staffers. The events in the early hours of Thursday showed that it’s practically impossible for 15 personnel, including ex-servicemen, to resist a violent mob from barging into…
Kolkata’Jalpaiguri: Bengal Police’s Special Task Force (STF) has arrested another man from the Dinhata module for his alleged link with ISI-sponsored FICN network. Pradipta Basu (35) was picked up from Delhi and brought to Cooch Behar on transit remand. A Dinhata court on Thursday sent Basu to STF custody for eight days.STF sources said Basu,…
Hundreds of residents in Malda’s Harishchandrapur staged protests demanding the immediate arrest of those responsible Malda: A woman was allegedly gang-raped and killed while another was severely injured in an attack near the Bengal-Bihar border on Wednesday afternoon.The two women, residents of Doulatnagar village under Harishchandrapur Police Station in Malda, had gone to collect grass…
Hindu Jagran Manch functionary Sanjib Mahato defended the move, saying, “There has been a political change, but Hindus have not achieved social victory. The hall has been renamed Syama Prasad Bhavan with the resolve of building an Akhand Bharat (undivided India).” Kolkata: Renaming North 24-Parganas zilla parishad’s ‘Titumir Sabhagriha’ (Titumir Auditorium Hall) as ‘Syama Prasad…
The injured were identified as Jharna Naskar and another worker. Jharna, wife of the unit owner, suffered burns on her hands, legs, face and body Kolkata: Two people, including a woman, were injured in an explosion at an illegal firecracker manufacturing unit in Champahati on Thursday morning. Both suffered burns and were admitted to a…
Purbasthali (East Burdwan): A six-month-old infant who mysteriously vanished from a locked AC coach of the Kamrup Express while the train was on the move was found alive hours later lying between active railway tracks in East Burdwan.Rahul Kumar, an electronics store owner from Bihar, was travelling with his wife and daughter from Tinsukia to…
Chandernagore: Hooghly Rural District Police arrested Uttam Kundu, former chairperson of Tarakeswar municipality and current Arambagh organisational district president of the Ritabrata Banerjee faction of Trinamool Congress (TMC), from a hideout in Kolkata late Wednesday night.He was produced before the Chandernagore Subdivisional Court on Thursday and was granted bail.Kundu was absconding since June 25, when…
Kolkata: Bengal recorded 2,059 human-elephant conflict cases between 2000 and 2025, resulting in 1,761 human deaths and 298 human injuries. Also, 753 elephants died during the same period, according to a Wildlife Institute of India-Project Elephant study.As per the data, north Bengal’s Dooars remains the principal conflict belt, with Jalpaiguri division recording the highest number…
