Kolkata: A 93-year-old retired central government official, Nanigopal Das, and his 86-year-old wife, Tripti Rani, were charred to death in a fire at their two-storey house in Nimta, north Dum Dum, early on Thursday.Police said the fire completely destroyed the couple’s first-floor bedroom and two other rooms. Three fire engines were deployed and firefighters broke…
Kolkata: The Bengal assembly on Thursday passed a bill that would allow the state administration to transfer teaching and non-teaching staff across all 31 state universities.A special session of the assembly passed by a 171-15 majority the West Bengal Universities and Colleges (Administration and Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2026, ending the previous regime that recruited teaching…
Sumit Roy being escorted to Bhavani Bhawan by CID officers Kolkata: Sumit Roy, personal assistant to Trinamool Congress national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee, was arrested from Banerjee’s Kalighat residence on Thursday, less than 90 minutes after Supreme Court dismissed Roy’s anticipatory bail plea in the Salboni land-grab case.This was the second time that cops were…
CM Suvendu Adhikari tucks into fish-and-pulao bhog at Kalighat temple on the occasion of Kaushiki Amavasya on Thursday Kolkata: Chief minister Suvendu Adhikari visited Kalighat temple on the occasion of Kaushiki Amavasya on Thursday evening and had the prasad — comprising fried fish, fish head and basanti pulao (yellow rice) — after praying to Goddess…
Kolkata: Flight connections to Shanghai and Siam Reap, the temple town famous for Angkor Wat, will be reinstated from Oct ahead of the Durga Puja holidays. The city will also get another flight to Singapore from next month. At present, Singapore Airlines operates daily flights between Kolkata and Singapore City.IndiGo Airlines that operates over 100…
Vehicles stuck in congestion on VIP Road Kolkata: An unexpected gesture from the airline carrier saved the day for Tollygunge resident, Rashmi Kothari. She was scheduled to fly from Kolkata to Bengaluru on an 8.25 pm Akasa flight on Wednesday. She had left home around 5.40 pm, expecting the journey to take about an hour….
Kolkata: Police on Tuesday night arrested two youths, whose car reportedly attempted to breach the chief minister’s security convoy on the New Town-bound flank of VIP Road near Haldiram. The car came at a high speed and ignored traffic lights, said a Baguiati PS officer.Officers intercepted the car soon after. The occupants of the car,…
Kolkata: CM Suvendu Adhikari on Thursday asked Durga Puja committees across Bengal not to allow CPM book stalls outside pandals if they use the term ‘Sharodotsav’ instead of ‘Durga Puja’, accusing the Left of attempting to dilute the festival’s religious identity.Speaking in the assembly, he alleged that sections of the Left were selectively targeting Sanatan…
The bottle of unidentified liquid Kolkata: Two men died after consuming an unidentified liquid during a drinking bout in South 24 Parganas’ Joynagar on Thursday evening. Cops said there was no evidence so far to establish that the deaths were linked to spurious or illicit liquor.Three men were taken to Padmerhat Hospital after they fell…
Rally participants outside JU gates on Wednesday Kolkata: During the Left Front era, the state govt frequently exercised its power to routinely transfer professors between Presidency College and other govt colleges across Bengal. Critics and academics often accused the Left Front of using these transfers politically—either to deploy loyal cadre-aligned teachers or to penalise outspoken,…
