Flower-seller Bela Behera from Orissa Ganjam is set to return home after a decade after HAM Radio enthusiasts traced her family Kolkata: A 60-year-old flower seller from Odisha, Bela Behera, is set to reunite with her family nearly 10 years after she went missing while travelling to Kolkata to buy flowers before Rath Yatra.After she…
Kolkata: Kolkata Metropolitan Area recorded a moderation in home registration activity in June 2026 and across the first half of the year, with real estate consultancy firm Knight Frank India attributing the slowdown partly to cautious market behaviour during the West Bengal Assembly election period and the high base of last year.According to Knight Frank…
Cloud cover over Dharmatala on Wednesday Kolkata: A low pressure area has formed over the Bay of Bengal on Wednesday morning, as predicted by the Met office. This system is likely to become well marked and move north-westwards across north Odisha and adjoining Gangetic West Bengal.Met officials in Bengal said the system will impact south…
Bar on high-rise constructions Kolkata: KMC has turned down a request from developers to give a provisional go-ahead to resume work on under-construction projects, where the audit team has not detected any safety-related issues but have found non-compliance in matters of labour and water.Representatives of Credai, an umbrella organisation of leading developers in Kolkata and…
Kolkata: IIT Kharagpur associate professor of computer science and technology Saptarshi Ghosh has donated Rs 5 lakh to IIEST, Shibpur, to establish a lecture in memory of his late father, Saibal Kumar Ghosh, a civil engineering professor at the institute.The fund is aimed at enriching the research ecosystem and academic environment of IIEST and honour…
Kolkata: Jadavpur University vice-chancellor Chiranjib Bhattacharjee has written to KMC commissioner Smita Pandey, seeking for exemption or reduction of deployment of university non-teaching employees as enumerators for Census 2027 so that the essential functioning of the university could continue without disruption.More than 200 non-teaching staff from JU have been entrusted with the census duty.“The university…
Healthy pupil-teacher ratio at state schools Kolkata: The state school education department is set to launch a drive to rationalise the pupil-teacher ratio (PTR) at state-run schools to ensure balanced classroom teaching and learning. The department has prepared an SOP for the transfer of teaching and non-teaching staff from zero-enrolment schools as well as teachers…
Audit at private institutes Kolkata: The state higher education department on Wednesday formed teams to visit private institutes, including BEd colleges, primary teachers training institutes and degree colleges, and evaluate classroom teaching, student enrolment and attendance. The inspection is meant to verify if private college students, who first pay high admission fees and then hefty…
The stretch where the Mamata Banerjee faction of Trinamool Congress has been allowed to hold its July 21 rally Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Wednesday ordered that the venue for the July 21 ‘Martyrs’ Day’ rally of Trinamool Congress, which was held in front of Victoria House every year since 2012, be shifted to the…
Sleep loss for warm nights Kolkata: Kolkata: Rising nighttime temperatures are robbing Kolkatans of sleep, with the city ranking as India’s third most sleep-deprived megacity, according to a new global study by Climate Central.The study found that the average Kolkatan loses 80 hours of sleep a year because of warm nights, compared with 93 hours…
