One accused was arrested by STF from this house in Bhangar’s Panapukur Kolkata: Bengal STF has uncovered four separate modules allegedly linked to Pakistan’s ISI, each using a different method to operate in the state through handlers in Bangladesh and Nepal.One group, involving Hamim Mondal, Arpita Sarkar and Aditya Singh, allegedly planned gangster-style activities combined…
The Orange Line’s persistent efforts have paid off as the Chingrighata bottleneck is now a thing of the past, following the installation of the final concrete slab KOLKATA: The Orange Line has finally cleared the long-standing Chingrighata bottleneck, more than six years after construction at the key intersection first ran into hurdles. The last 31-metre…
Kolkata Customs seized 160 kg of illegally imported plants, plants material and seeds from a Bangkok flight on Monday Kolkata: Customs officials at Kolkata airport seized around 160 kg of live plants and seeds worth several crores allegedly brought illegally from Bangkok by two Indian passengers. The seized material was examined by a plant quarantine…
Rescue teams continued operations at the site to ensure that no one remained trapped under the debris. KOLKATA: One person was killed and 19 others were injured after a building collapsed in Kolkata’s Jorabagan area, officials said on Tuesday.The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and Disaster Management Group (DMG) teams launched rescue operations following the…
A fire broke out on the second-floor terrace of the Air Traffic Control (ATC) building at Kolkata airport KOLKATA: A fire broke out on the extended open terrace area of the second floor of the Air Traffic Control (ATC) building at Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport in Kolkata around 4am on Tuesday, triggering a…
Kolkata: A predawn rampage by a local gang left residents of a south Kolkata neighbourhood in a state of terror after miscreants forced their way into a community facility, vandalized property, stole valuables, and directed verbal threats and abuse at local women and inhabitants on Aug 8.The police, however, had initially dragged its feet and…
Kolkata: City private hospitals saw a minor surge as patients started trickling in to seek treatment under Ayushman Bharat a day after the scheme was rolled out in the state on Sunday, even as technical glitches and online verification slowed down their admission process. Insurance and help desks set up to assist patients had a…
Kolkata: Amid protests by a section of schoolteachers demanding that Census work be treated as official “on-duty” assignment, the Census authorities on Monday clarified that the exercise is an honorarium-based engagement and would largely have to be carried out beyond school hours. However, officials said district magistrates and municipal commissioners would have the discretion to…
Kolkata: In the Census exercise, a single house is not always a single household — and an address is certainly not a household number. What matters in Census is not simply who lives under the same roof but who eats from the same kitchen.As enumerators started the door-to-door verification for the house-listing process, Bengal Census…
Kolkata: The hotel fire at Tarapith can impact a mutiple-crore religion-tourist circuit weeks before Kaushiki Amavasya, when the pilgrim economy, centred around Tarapith and extending to Nalhati, Bakreswar and Kankalitala, is expected to enter its peak season.The state, which has already ordered a safety audit, plans to complete the safety checks of hotels, guest houses…
