Kolkata: The 32nd Kolkata International Film Festival will be held from Dec 16 to 23, 2026. Prosenjit Chatterjee, executive chairman of a special high-level advisory committee to oversee year-long celebrations marking the birth centenary of Uttam Kumar, announced it on Thursday, adding that the state was planning to set up an Uttam Kumar Film Centre,…
Kolkata received light to moderate rainfall on Thursday Kolkata: The low-pressure area that intensified into a depression grazed the city, with Kolkata escaping with spells of light to moderate rain on Thursday. With this system moving towards Jharkhand, the Met office said the city will continue to get more rain but the possibility of intense…
Kolkata: A pedestrian in her 40s was critically injured after being hit by a car that was being driven by another woman, who was reportedly learning to drive in Salt Lake on Thursday evening.The accident took place between Shrabani Housing and FC Block. According to the preliminary information, the woman was learning to drive the…
Academy of Fine Arts ticket counter colour change Kolkata: From “childish” to “ugly”—theatre activists reacted strongly to the colour of the ticket counter at Academy of Fine Arts being changed thrice in a month. But the BJP camp called the move a “reaction”.The political tug-of-war began in early July when the ticket counter next to…
Kunal Ghosh party office vandalized last night atRaja Dinendra street in kolkata —— Suparna Goswami Kolkata: Beleghata Trinamool MLA Kunal Ghosh’s residence, local club, and party office in the city’s Garpar area in ward 28 of north Kolkata was attacked by a group of unidentified miscreants attacked and vandalised on Wednesday evening.Ghosh, who was not…
Kolkata: An FIR has been lodged over an alleged 2021 post-poll attack on a woman and her family, as well as vandalism at their residence in Duttabad, following the declaration of the 2021 assembly election results. The complaint was lodged against 13 persons, including a former TMC councillor (Nirmal Dutta), on Wednesday — more than…
The broken CCTV camera of the building in Dumdum Cantonment where the woman’s body was found on Thursday Kolkata: A homemaker in her early 30s was found brutally murdered at her rented accommodation in Dum Dum on Thursday morning, with several deep stab injuries on her body. Police said the body had been wrapped in…
The final design of the Tricolour rakhi Kolkata:In a first, Kolkata Police had floated a Rs 5.5 lakh worth tender to procure 50,000 rakhis and one lakh toffees for Rakshabandhan celebrations. The hands used to nabbing criminals will tie the Tricolour rakhis, complete with a KP emblem, on the wrists of people.An exercise that was…
Kolkata: Security has been tightened across Kolkata for Independence Day, with police stepping up surveillance amid cracking of JeM-Shahzad Bhatti and ISI-backed terror and spying modules in the city in the past month.According to sources at Lalbazar, 6,000 police personnel will be deployed across the city on Friday for the occasion.The security has been planned…
Kolkata: Pakistani national Rana Rouf Khalid (36), who was arrested by Bengal STF on Wednesday for his alleged links with Pakistan’s ISI, had visited Kolkata at least six times since 2014-15, having spent between one and two months each at Topsia. His last visit was in Jan, said an officer.Rouf, who was introduced by his…
