Kolkata: Jadavpur University (JU) has written to Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) to immediately capture all stray dogs from the campus, including areas near the quarters, and ensure their vaccination and sterilisation following multiple dog-bite cases on campus. Meanwhile, a letter with over 580 signatures from animal lovers, including teachers and students, was submitted to the…
Kolkata: Council for Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) chairman G Immanuel, who is also the president of Council of Boards of School Education (COBSE), hinted that he will discuss the issue of an increasing number of dummy schools at the higher secondary level at an upcoming meeting in June to find a solution to this…
Kolkata: The health and wellness centres in Bengal that were named ‘Suswasthya Kendra’ are set to be branded as ‘Ayushman Arogya Mandir’ (AAM). The brand transition will come with a colour change as the health facilities will be painted in metallic yellow and ethnic brown, as mandated by the National Health Mission. The chief municipal…
Kolkata: There could be different funding and coverage for Ayushman Bharat beneficiaries in Bengal — one for those who qualify under the existing criteria and the other for the rest, a large number of whom belong to the middle- and lower-income groups and are now covered under Swasthya Sathi, said a source close to the…
Kolkata: Neighbours of Sandip Ghosh, former RG Kar principal, await a payloader to arrive at Beleghata’s Badan Roy Lane and pull down “unauthorised constructions” at his house, Balaji Nivas. Ghosh is now in judicial custody following his arrest on charges related to the “larger conspiracy” behind the rape and murder of the junior PGT doctor…
Kolkata: The KMC crisis deepened on Friday even as the civic body chairperson, Mala Roy, led a team of Trinamool councillors to conduct the KMC monthly meeting at the councillors’ club room, giving a thumbs down to a notice on the postponement of the KMC House, issued by the outgoing municipal secretary, Swapan Kumar Kundu….
Howrah: Three Trinamool functionaries, including party’s Shibpur strongman Shamim Ahmed alias “Gabbar”, were arrested in separate cases linked to violence, intimidation and fraud on Thursday.Gabbar, president of Trinamool ward 36, was arrested from a rented flat in Chembur, Mumbai, on Thursday night. His wife, Shamima Bano, a former councillor of ward 36, is on the…
Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Friday verbally requested the state not to take any action against former Trinamool MLA of Rajarhat-Gopalpur Aditi Munshi and her husband and BMC councillor Debraj Chakraborty in an assets case till June 19. The HC also ordered interim protection to BMC mayor-in-council Tulsi Sinha Roy till June 22 in a…
Kolkata: Trinamool Congress national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee, whose properties are under the Kolkata Municipal Corporation scanner, reacted sharply to the developments and threw an open challenge for anyone to prove that he had violated the civic body’s building rules.Abhishek on Friday was reacting to queries from journalists on the slapping of notices on properties…
Kolkata: Kolkata will host a US secretary of state for the first time in 14 years on Saturday as Marco Rubio arrives in the city for an eight-hour stopover.Rubio, one of US President Donald Trump’s closest foreign policy aides who also serves as the acting National Security Advisor, is expected to visit the Missionaries of…
